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Natalie Waters ([personal profile] spitefulvitae) wrote in [community profile] wethecrack2014-01-09 01:10 am

By popular demand... the World of Darkness meme!


It's a Dark, Dark World.

Mostly old World of Darkness based, but if you like the New WoD, go for it!

The world is filled with cruelty, corruption, and despair. Lurking in the darkness... monsters. Of all kinds, origins, and forms. Creatures of evil and destruction, only marginally more familiar than the unknown terrors.

And now you're one of them.


This is a World of Darknessā„¢ inspired meme! Your character transforms into one of the following monstrous creatures listed below, and suffers the plight one faces as a result.

Since we like to play it fast and loose here at We the Lost, feel free to brainstorm what your characters would be, speculate how you'd interact with each other, and maybe even thread out a thing or two, if that's to your fancy!


1. Vampire: Whether you were Embraced by another Vampire in violence or in seduction, your transformation is powerful and traumatizing. Your body craves the blood, and the blood gives you eerie supernatural powers. Powers to control the mind, to enslave men, and the immortality to set any plans into motion you so deem... how do you spend eternity in your fight against boredom?
2. Werewolf: You lived for some time with no knowledge of your lineage, of the blood in your veins. A great power awakens in you, and in a moment of unfathomable anger you white out. And when you wake, you awaken to a shower of gore, your hands shrinking from giant clawed paws to what you recognize as fingers. Now there is that ever-present primal rage, simmering below the surface and urging you towards great and righteous battle against evils and against monstrous spirits...
3. Mage: Humans have long since been known to be wise and enlightened... but when your Avatar appears in your mind and your soul, you see the face of true enlightenment. You have the powers to shape and mold reality to be as you perceive it. Do you see the world as a canvas to paint upon? Do you see it as a weaving, with threads of fate that you can remove and displace? What is your reality, and how do you influence it?
4. Changeling: The world is dark, bleak, and worst of all it is simply banal. But deep inside was something hidden, that awakens from the dream. And now, with the powers of the Fae, you have the ability to inspire and combat banality with inspiration and imagination. But is the fight against the darkness and cruelty of the world a losing battle?
5. Hunter: With all of these monsters roaming the world, what is a human to do? They're powerless to protect themselves... or so it seems. You find yourself granted the power to see these monsters, to try and hold them in place and to be resourceful enough to destroy them. If you can manage the voices in your head or the madness of seeing the supernatural, be careful to not forget that you are just as painfully mortal as you were before...
6. Demon: At your lowest moment, when you lost yourself and your soul died, your body welcomed into it a new force. Deep inside nestled a new consciousness, which absorbed everything you were. You are now that Being, and that being is You. And You recall, faintly, a great war. You remember being an angel, a very being of creation, a very concept of reality such as the Breath of Life or the Illumination of Fire. And You remember what Hell was... it was not fire and brimstone. That would have been nice. It was a void of nothingness, where You could not even sense Yourself, since the fall of reality. And you have every reason to be resentful.
7. Other: Know how the Hengeyokai work? Want to be one of the Changing Breeds? Or maybe represent for Mummy, Wraith, Geist, Promethean, or another World of Darkness title? Do whatever you like! Have a blast!


(Base meme credit to [personal profile] tribeofmoro)
brokenallthelaws: (just your friendly average dude)

/sneaks in here

[personal profile] brokenallthelaws 2014-01-09 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Xigbar is a were! Most specifically, he's a Corax, or were-raven. Whether he was hatched or born is a fact that he doesn't much talk about, but he is absolutely the best person to go to if you want information - especially if it happens to be information about someone else.

However, he is no less irritating than his canon self. Part of this is because he always knows everything (and tends to the trickster besides) but also because the Corax are one of the very few shifters to not be affected by silver, and so he has something of a habit of wearing silver.

He is also excessively fond of shiny things and may or may not have stolen anything that catches his eye regardless of who it might have belonged to.
ignes_fatui: (could you repeat that)

[personal profile] ignes_fatui 2014-01-09 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
After the local Garou pack sorts out Not Getting Ienzo Arrested by the human police and making sure to uphold the veil, they probably just dump him on their friendly neighborhood Corax informant. You're not a wolf, he's not a wolf, maybe you can figure out how to make sure he doesn't die or frenzy or anything.

This is probably how he winds up meeting the rest of shitty science family here.
brokenallthelaws: (just your friendly average dude)

[personal profile] brokenallthelaws 2014-01-09 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that seems entirely reasonable. Plus the Corax probably don't have the Bastet as thoroughly figured out as they do the Garou, so it's probably a rare treat for him too.

(He manages to figure out the not dying or frenzying thing well enough, fortunately, but still has a habit of wearing Too Much Silver.)
ignes_fatui: (...)

[personal profile] ignes_fatui 2014-01-10 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Bagheera have the lowest or second lowest base rage of any of the cats so at least they have an easier time of getting that under control than the could have otherwise.

Xigbar is still the fucking worst uncle though and Ienzo is perpetually really mad about the silver thing.
brokenallthelaws: (just your friendly average dude)

[personal profile] brokenallthelaws 2014-01-10 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Wiki suggests that Corax are not really big on rage either (they have it, but apparently don't usually develop it much), so at least that is relatively easy to deal with, plus... he knows werewolves rrrrreally well.


No lie, that is probably part of the reason he wears it.
psycheslantern: (Facepalm)

Re: /sneaks in here

[personal profile] psycheslantern 2014-01-09 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Ok so one of the things about Sin-Eaters is that they can get power from "mementos" or artifacts imbued with death energy, and when the mementos are small enough they really like to incorporate them into clothing and jewelry and generally just bling themselves out with morbid crap.

And also between Ammond's personal tastes and the interests of her Geist, a disproportionate amount of the mementos she carries are the result of traffic accidents and therefore tend toward being like hood ornaments and tail-light bulbs and other assorted bits of shiny metal or glass.

So what I'm saying is how long before this kinda-mostly-human girl hanging around your weird Bagheera friend starts noticing that her mystical charms are going missing.
brokenallthelaws: (starting the day off right)

[personal profile] brokenallthelaws 2014-01-10 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Prrrrrobably not very long, unless he's using the thing that makes people forget they ever had the thing in the first place. But he probably mostly doesn't, so... yeah, sooner or later some of them are going to go missing.


Not all of them, but some.
psycheslantern: (Explaining)

[personal profile] psycheslantern 2014-01-10 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Well, he can't steal her keystone, that's mystically cued to her and doesn't even physically exist most of the time. And if she's got a vanitas she'd keep it safe at home. I doubt she'd have any deathmasks or memorabilia - those are more powerful and harder to get - but she's got some charms and c'mon, dude, that's a fetter, that's got a ghost in it. What do you want a ghost for, you're a bird.
brokenallthelaws: (just your friendly average dude)

[personal profile] brokenallthelaws 2014-01-10 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
He doesn't. It's just that well... corvids. Also because maybe he wants to figure it out, but mostly, no, corvids.
psycheslantern: (Facepalm)

[personal profile] psycheslantern 2014-01-10 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Man Xigbraig what even is your problem



This is what she gets for hanging out with weres instead of finding a proper krewe.
brokenallthelaws: (just your friendly average dude)

[personal profile] brokenallthelaws 2014-01-10 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Xigbraig is terrible, always. It's just a fact of life.
defrostedpride: (i was denied! tenure!!)

Re: /sneaks in here

[personal profile] defrostedpride 2014-01-09 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Even is not bothered by the silver. On the other hand, he finds Xigbar on his own plenty bothersome, so it balances out. (This may be because Xigbar keeps stealing his projects, sometimes before they're even finished.)
brokenallthelaws: (surely you can't mean me?)

[personal profile] brokenallthelaws 2014-01-10 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Clearly Even should stop a) being easy to rile and b) making his projects shiny.
defrostedpride: (Default)

[personal profile] defrostedpride 2014-01-10 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
If he ever finds out Xigbraig's weakness, he's going to coat everything he owns with a molecule-thin layer of gold.
brokenallthelaws: (one last chance to come away with us)

[personal profile] brokenallthelaws 2014-01-10 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
And this is why no one is ever going to know about that.