Beckett's Blog

I have precisely as much idea of what I am doing here as I have of where "here" is at all, which is to say, rather distressingly little. Good evening. My name is Beckett. // Pokeblog RP, Faller from Vampire: The Masquerade

[archaeologist-beckett]

OOC: So, because Beckett here is utter shit at using technology, he's highly unlikely to have an in-character pinned post unless/until someone walks him through how to do that. He is so bad at this. He's worse than your grandparents.

For more information on him, though, and the rest of my out-of-character pinned post, see below the cut.

Hi! I'm @ofstormsandfire (you may be familiar with me from a few other mildly to very dead rotomblr blogs) and this guy is a signature NPC character from Vampire: The Masquerade/VTM. He is an incorrigible snoop, as stated above it's a small miracle he made it onto Rotomblr after Falling at all, and I am generally up for interactions with anyone! I don't bite (and Beckett doesn't over Rotomblr.)

Some important things to note, though:

Beckett is a 300 year old vampire. He will be hiding that, because a big part of the VTM setting is the Masquerade, aka hiding the fact that you drink people's blood to survive from the general public, but please don't have your characters interact with him if you're uncomfortable with that fact!

Despite this he is actually a very nice guy. And a slut for knowledge, occasionally in a very literal sense. If this man senses a secret he will absolutely try prying into it unless given very compelling reasoning to Not. Threats to his physical person are likely to be laughed off. (If y'all would like him to not pry into something, just let me know, I can easily leverage his Bad With Computers against him.)

Despite being a nice guy, he can very easily come across as condescending, arrogant, sarcastic, et cetera, you name it. Anon hate and/or just generally being mean to him is encouraged!

With that said, I have some boundaries of my own, because I'm playing him. Main one is to not send in asks (anonymous or otherwise) with information that no one could conceivably know. If you happen to have another VTM or other World of Darkness character handy, who knows, maybe they've heard things about Beckett they can menace him with! But another vampire would not break the Masquerade publicly on Rotomblr Dot Com, if that makes sense. I'd also prefer to avoid any overtly sexual content. Jokes about things to that effect are fine, I'm an adult, but let's not get into detail. (So, for instance, joking about the fact that Beckett canonically slept with Dracula is fine, going into details about that is not.)

For people who know what this stuff means: I'm basing my characterization of him and other VTM shit on V20/20th Anniversary Edition as well as his in-universe diary. The Time of Judgment stuff does not apply here.

If other stuff from my end becomes relevant, I'll bring it up.

ANYWAY the really important stuff. Pelipper Mail, Magic Anons, all that is currently OFF. That could change but you'll need to talk Beckett into any of it, and I'm warning you now that he's stubborn and highly unlikely to turn things on if he doesn't know what they do.

[archaeologist-beckett]

Does anybody more familiar with this site than I happen to be know how one might go about messaging another user directly? Other means of communication are not proving functional, and the user in question is being precisely as unhelpful as I expected them to be.

[misplaced-arbiter]

Touch their little face on their post and then look for a bubble with a plus in it to message them privately.

[archaeologist-beckett]

I'm not quite sure what you mean by a bubble...

[misplaced-arbiter]

[shitty digital finger drawing of the tumblr message bubble]

Bubble. If you can navigate settings the ability to be messaged can be turned off though so they might not have it. It could also be in the three dot menu.

[archaeologist-beckett]

How can I be certain I am messaging the correct person?

[archaeologist-beckett]

you suck so bad at this. I’ve decided I need you. Not in a sexual way I just think you’re a weird pathetic little man and I’ve gotta add you to my inventory like a wonky plushie.

What

[scholar-sascha]

I can guarantee you do not want him.

[archaeologist-beckett]

And how would you know?

[scholar-sascha]

I have had the misfortune of knowing you for longer than either of us would care to admit.

[archaeologist-beckett]

Precisely. They might not know better.

Wait. No. Delete message. Delete post. Delete

[archaeologist-beckett]

you suck so bad at this. I’ve decided I need you. Not in a sexual way I just think you’re a weird pathetic little man and I’ve gotta add you to my inventory like a wonky plushie.

What

[scholar-sascha]

I can guarantee you do not want him.

[archaeologist-beckett]

And how would you know?

[archaeologist-beckett]

you suck so bad at this. I’ve decided I need you. Not in a sexual way I just think you’re a weird pathetic little man and I’ve gotta add you to my inventory like a wonky plushie.

What

[archaeologist-beckett]

dude you're so bad at this

Why, thank you for that stunning flash of insight. I'm certain I never would have figured that out on my own. No, I'm sure I would have simply gone on with my life believing I was good at this were it not for you pointing that out.

A round of applause for you, good sir.

[archaeologist-beckett]

Does anybody more familiar with this site than I happen to be know how one might go about messaging another user directly? Other means of communication are not proving functional, and the user in question is being precisely as unhelpful as I expected them to be.

[misplaced-arbiter]

Touch their little face on their post and then look for a bubble with a plus in it to message them privately.

[archaeologist-beckett]

I'm not quite sure what you mean by a bubble...

[archaeologist-beckett]

Does anybody more familiar with this site than I happen to be know how one might go about messaging another user directly? Other means of communication are not proving functional, and the user in question is being precisely as unhelpful as I expected them to be.

[scholar-sascha]

I do not know precisely where I am.

I have not gone far from the area I found myself in when I wound up here, wherever "here" is.

I have seen very little in the way of living creatures, other than that odd purple cat the first night. I am unaccustomed to being so alone with my own thoughts.

Perhaps that is why I am writing this at all. I hardly know.

[archaeologist-beckett]

Does anybody more familiar with this site than I happen to be know how one might go about messaging another user directly? Other means of communication are not proving functional.

[scholar-sascha]

...I would ask "why are you like this?" but I don't believe I will get a satisfactory answer.

[archaeologist-beckett]

Like what? By all means, do enlighten the populace. Or perhaps, horror of horrors, you could consider answering my question!

Since you have decided to invade my "post" to begin with.

[scholar-sascha]

This is my post, you imbecile.

[archaeologist-beckett]

Prove it.

[scholar-sascha]

I do not know precisely where I am.

I have not gone far from the area I found myself in when I wound up here, wherever "here" is.

I have seen very little in the way of living creatures, other than that odd purple cat the first night. I am unaccustomed to being so alone with my own thoughts.

Perhaps that is why I am writing this at all. I hardly know.

[archaeologist-beckett]

Does anybody more familiar with this site than I happen to be know how one might go about messaging another user directly? Other means of communication are not proving functional.

[scholar-sascha]

...I would ask "why are you like this?" but I don't believe I will get a satisfactory answer.

[archaeologist-beckett]

Like what? By all means, do enlighten the populace. Or perhaps, horror of horrors, you could consider answering my question!

Since you have decided to invade my "post" to begin with.

[scholar-sascha]

I do not know precisely where I am.

I have not gone far from the area I found myself in when I wound up here, wherever "here" is.

I have seen very little in the way of living creatures, other than that odd purple cat the first night. I am unaccustomed to being so alone with my own thoughts.

Perhaps that is why I am writing this at all. I hardly know.

[archaeologist-beckett]

Does anybody more familiar with this site than I happen to be know how one might go about messaging another user directly? Other means of communication are not proving functional.

[archaeologist-beckett]

so hows the adapting to another world thing going for you mr. archaeologist beckett? -⚰

Pokémon are strange, strange creatures. Fascinating! But deeply strange. Apart from that rather... important caveat... this world isn't too terribly different from the one I am more used to.

Water is, for instance, still generally described as wet.

[archaeologist-beckett]

Ah, good evening. Unfortunately, I had to resort to requesting external assistance in order to restore this device to working order, and I will be avoiding that particular button in future.

Quite the annoyance, especially when it seems that someone I do recognize has found themself here as well.

(The dog... or, Pokémon, as the case may be... has not ceased its laughing at me. I would have almost preferred it being hostile toward me instead.)

[archaeologist-beckett]

I see you are as utterly hopeless with technology as ever.

As ever? Excuse you, I have learned much tonight. More to the point, I don't know you, grey sphere with dark glasses. You must be thinking of another Beckett.

[scholar-sascha]

Ah. My mistake.

Surely there are not two annoyingly loud-mouthed, sunglasses-wearing Becketts that I would have the unfortunate luck to encounter.

[archaeologist-beckett]

Ah. You.

Excuse me

[archaeologist-beckett]

I see you are as utterly hopeless with technology as ever.

As ever? Excuse you, I have learned much tonight. More to the point, I don't know you, grey sphere with dark glasses. You must be thinking of another Beckett.

[scholar-sascha]

I cannot say that I intended to land here, wherever "here" may be. I imagine I will figure it out in time.

In the meantime, it seems to be the custom to introduce oneself on this website. You may call me Sascha.

hello! I am @gaydragonwizards and I'm once again following my partner into pokeblogging! this time, as a partner blog to @archaeologist-beckett, because Beckett does have a canonical rival and that is Sascha Vykos!

much like Beckett, Vykos is a signature character in Vampire: The Masquerade, although not from the same clan as him.

things to note:

Sascha Vykos is considerably older than Beckett, coming in at about 1000 years old. and yet they are much better with technology than him, which is endlessly hilarious.

that said they are a vampire and they drink blood to live, so don't interact with them if that makes you uncomfortable!

Vykos is considerably less nice than Beckett, though they are not going to go out of their way to hurt anyone who does not earn their ire first. (they would have once. I am running them post-character development to avoid exactly that.) creative threats may still be uttered.

the signature Discipline of Vykos's clan is something known as Vicissitude. it is affectionately known as the Meat Crime Discipline. body horror abound. I will tag for it if and when it happens, but be aware that that's something that you may trip into on this blog.

I'm going to borrow from Hope's boundaries for Beckett's blog for this: please do not send in asks (anonymous or otherwise) with information that no one could conceivably know. if you're running another VTM character, feel free to talk around the Masquerade, as best you can, but don't break it directly! I'm also going to discard any overtly sexual asks

in the event that Pelipper Mail is enabled, I will delete any that involve sending in hormones or otherwise attempting to get Sascha to trans their gender. just don't, guys.

Sascha's characterization is more going to be based on a fic series that more or less rewrote my brain chemistry (and every skyline was like a kiss on the lips) than on the canon 20th Anniversary materials. that said please mind the tags if you choose to check out this fic yourself! Sascha's backstory is basically trigger city, so things might get a bit heavy from time to time

Pelliper Mail and Magic Anons are currently TURNED OFF! Sascha may turn them on if they are sufficiently persuaded, but that persuasion will certainly take a bit of doing.

[archaeologist-beckett]

so what way are you weird. werewolf? ex-cultist? funny magic man? compulsive parkourist?

I am not a werewolf, thank you very much. Honestly, what on earth gave you that ide

[skyfire-the-watcher]

If not werewolf then perhaps vampire (at least vampire enjoyer) for you to have singled out werewolves.

[archaeologist-beckett]

Don't be ridiculous. Vampires don't exist.

...Unless you mean to say that they do in this... strange new world?

[skyfire-the-watcher]

There's ghosts, pokemon that feed on souls passed on, pokemon that control some of the very fabric of existence, and psychics. Vampires would not be a surprise at this point.

If they do lots of people would be very happy.

[archaeologist-beckett]

Well, of course, everyone knows that ghosts and mages exist. Those don't surprise me. Though I was under the impression that Pokémon were more like strange animals than either of those things?

[skyfire-the-watcher]

While most pokemon are more on that side, there's some that aren't some that are really powerful.

I'm a pokemon that naturally collects souls(not from living things) to add to my flames by just walking around. Which then helps my attacks. But I also think I may be heading towards the fabric of reality type which is kinda scary.

[archaeologist-beckett]

My... condolences?