༒︎ "Faith, 'that faculty which enables us to believe things
which we know to be untrue.'" - Bram Stoker's Dracula
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This roleplay blog and, by extension, the Vampires AU made in collaboration with a few friends in the community—and it is open invite to anyone who wants to contribute—is set primarily in 1870s Gotham where the supernatural powers of the world run rampant beneath its dark shadows.
Within this AU Bruce was turned into a vampire by Carmine Falcone, who has been a long-term family friend of the Wayne's for a few generations. As well as this familial connection, Bruce spent his early childhood as friends with Falcone's daughter Sophia, though Bruce kept his distance from her, her brothers, and her father into his early adulthood at Alfred's suggestion. After repeated attempts at business and some sort of connection, Bruce finally agrees to one meeting with Falcone that leads to another, and then eventually to Bruce being turned shortly after meeting a man named John Constantine.
Lore aside: you have full permission to interact with my Bruce implying other ships, strange scenarios and anything else you may want outside of AU canon; bare in mind, though, I'm not big on fankids, or oc roleplay personally—outside of my friend's character Voids—so I may not reply to certain things!
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Others Involved in the AU
༒︎⊰ @deepestmagic - Lady Zatanna Zatara - Vampire Hunter
༒︎⊰ N/A - John Constantine - Vampire Hunter
༒︎⊰ @greencladstranger - Oliver Queen
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Content Warnings for this Account Below the Cut
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Gothic horror is my favorite genre next to dark romance, so bare in mind this blog may contain themes of either or both at any time. Specific warnings include:
༒︎⊰ Blood mention and descriptive detail
༒︎⊰ Death mention and descriptive detail
༒︎⊰ Themes of derealization and depersonalization
༒︎⊰ Alcohol mention
༒︎⊰ Drug mention
༒︎⊰ Themes of suicidal ideation and past attempt mention
༒︎⊰ Themes of depression
༒︎⊰ Childhood abuse mention
༒︎⊰ Self harm mention
Subject to change and update at any times based on necessity
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Muse and Mun Information
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༒︎⊰ Bruce Thomas Wayne • He / Him
༒︎⊰ 6’0”
༒︎⊰ Trans Male / Bisexual
༒︎⊰ Ethnically Italian(Father's side) and Jewish(Mother's side)
༒︎⊰ He's currently in his mid 20s but was turned specifically at 21
༒︎⊰ He is very introverted and a bit awkward; he's not fond of too many questions at once and tends to avoid reporters and journalists if he can
༒︎⊰ This is currently a no-cape AU to suit the needs of the story
༒︎⊰ He has not taken Dick Grayson as a ward nor has he adopted any other children at the current point in the story as a direct result of the vampirism— I am open to exploration within and outside of lore canon though.
༒︎⊰ The specific vampire lore I am going by is based off of Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice, though there are a few differences for personal preference as well as inclusions from other vampire lore. Notably: Wooden stakes are effective, daylight rings (adopted from The Vampire Diaries) exist within the world — though Bruce does not currently have one — and vampires cannot read minds.
The vampire lore section will be updated with a hyperlink once I finish the detailed breakdown.
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About Me the Writer
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Hello hello! My name is Simon and here's some information about me and my boundaries!
My main is @theflyingcosmos and I don't mind being tagged either here or on there.
My asks are open and will remain that way for the foreseeable future.
If you want to do a long-form roleplay with me or want to be involved in the AU lore, please feel free to reach out! I am more than happy to plan or work with new folks wanting to join the AU!
I am a semi-literate to full literate(I hit novella sometimes!) roleplayer, but I also dabble from time to time with short-form responses depending on the context.
I am a professional artist and while I do take commissions, I also may draw scenes from or something inspired by an active or past roleplay just for fun. If I do I will tag anyone involved in the roleplay it's for!
I am in the EST time zone and also a full time college student so please bare that in mind when waiting for a reply to something. That being said, feel free to remind me if it's been a week with no reply.
I am an adult 20+ who handles in his writing a lot of mature topics from sexual exploration to graphic violence, so I ask that no one under the age of 18 interact with this account. If an age is not listed on your profile when you interact then I will use my judgement on whether or not I feel comfortable replying.
hey mun? you've talked a few times about "fuck spotify" because of the ai (based). but do you have better alternatives that aren't apple/itunes or iheartradio? i'm not an apple user and iheart is, imo, NOT comparable to spotify. so it's hard to find a replacement
// Hello! So this sat in there a while I think? Sorry for that! I fear I don't exactly have an answer?
I use Apple Music because I do have an iPhone and it allegedly is one of the apps that remunerates artists the best per stream. And yes, there is a sound quality difference, ngl. But I know Apple is still not great, right?
What I heard from my friends when we were looking for alternatives was Qobuz? But apparently the catalogue is a bit restricted so worth looking into maybe?
I think Youtube Music is also one I personally considered. Because, Youtube is in many ways where we all first got our music right? And artists still do release on there. The thing that stopped me was: 1. Youtube is free. 2. If I were to buy a subscription for such a platform, as in long(er) form content, I would want it to be Nebula.
Tidal was considered too by some. Apparently it's less pricey now? Because I was for sure certain I didn't have Tidal money personally but... *shrugs*
And then if we being frfr, downloading Youtube vids into MP3 format content and then adding it to my phone was a main way for me for yeaaaarrrsss, then I got eSound, and it made the process faster? Grey area on the legality of it all...
Of course, Soundcloud is also out there.
Deezer is just another demon, who penny pinches who pays artists and literally lets AI generates music, like 44% of its newly uploaded catalogue is now AI? 🤡
But I really want to say, like, for all that I rant about me not liking Spotify and their push for AI to justify their investment in it, I understand that it has a level of monopoly, that it is one the less expensive platforms out there, that is widely available with a great catalogue and has a free version that many benefit from. I have used free Spotify and paid Spotify too. So, really, I really hope that my ranting against Spotify is not interpreted as pointing fingers at individuals for their use or claiming I am any better for not using it anymore. It was a personal choice heavily motivated by an Apple offer of several free months and liking it, right? We all participate in capitalism. There's no gotcha. And, just like capitalism, it is not hypocritical to be part of a system/make use of a platform and criticize it. It's actually healthy. That's how you better things right? Loud criticism and rebellion rather than quiet acceptance. Let's all keep raging against the machine.
((I use Youtube music and have been for years at this point and, personally, I prefer it over Spotify because I feel like there's more on it and I see a lot less AI generated music on there. From what I've heard artists are better compensated on YT? I've heard that about a few different areas, actually, such as YT streaming paying better than Twitch streaming, but that's a different topic.
I will likely always recommend Youtube in terms of quality, quantity, and ability to support artists / how artists are compensated, but there's definitely a lot to say about the fact Youtube is owned by Google, which is largely owned by the collective that is Alphabet (1, 2). Google is a known AI supporter and pusher with a few issues surrounding it including alleged 'AI Weapons' and a few controversies surrounding potentially dangerous misinformation (3, 4, 5). But, we can't exactly completely avoid Google. In today's society it is near integral to many aspects of our lives whether personal or professional. Like Spotify, Google has a damn near monopoly as well. What's important is not staying complacent in the systems we're forced to live in. Be loud, find alternatives if you can, and if you can't then you can't and we find other ways to stand up and push back against the powers that keep trying to push us down.
I want to add, second hand stores like thrift stores (a lot of folks don't like the church, but church thrifts tend to be a lot more affordable and accessible to a lot of folks!) and online second hand stores like Ebay, Craigslist, and Facebook Marketplace can all be really, really good and sometimes really affordable ways to get CDs, CD players, and sometimes even burners, radios (I listen to the radio in my car instead of music streaming!), among other things!
If you don't have the means of transport to get to thrift stores or the funds to buy physical media, then honestly, as frustrating as it all is and how stuck it feels sometimes, it really is okay to use things like Spotify and Youtube and all of the other different apps that have their free versions or inexpensive paid versions. We do what we can where we can, we can't do everything everywhere.
Saw a couple absolute saints do this for the Ghost RP fandom, an honestly, tis genius, every RP community should have one these
This blog is a organised collection of RP blogs within the DC fandom. I'll try keep it up to date as best I can, but as of rn, I'm the only one runnin this show
If you know of any blogs not added, please send in an ask or a DM an I'll get right on addin 'em where they should be!
Harassment, bullying, or intentional boundary crossing will not be tolerated here. Any problems should be handled privately, and while we understand the urge to call people out publically, callout posts or indirects should not be posted in RP tags. It's a lot easier to inform people without risk of widespread misinterpretation in DMs, asks, or comments on a post.
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((Now that I'm back from my little break I was going through my threads and stuff to make sure I had nothing left to reply to and this is how I find out the Constantine account I'd been roleplaying with for the my little AU lore isn't here anymore it looks like it was deleted ):
Bruce was sat on the sofa in the manor's family room when the door burst open. He let out a small sound of surprise and jumped a bit -- though only a bit -- as he turned his head to look over at Voids unexpected arrival.
"Have you considered perhaps knocking next time?" He softly asked, sliding his bookmark into place and he closed the book he was reading, setting it aside on the coffee table. He considered her question a moment, though, despite the initial surprise.
"I don't feel any particular way towards it, in all honesty? I've only seen a few people in theatre pretending to be vampires before, but in a way it makes it easier to blend in for me if my fangs are out; normally they aren't though, so it doesn't make much of a difference to me and I don't feel any kind of offense at humans pretending to be vampires. Some others do, but I don't."
Voids opened her mouth and closed it again, realizing that, oh yes, knocking is a thing that exists, before grinning mischievous and clasping her hands behind her back and swaying back and forth on her feet.
"But it's funnier this way!" She replies, giggling to herself, though she gets quiet when Bruce was answering to her question.
"Soooo. You wouldn't get mad if I tried to match with you, right?"
Bruce's expression softened a bit as he watched her, shaking his head slightly in amusement and he didn't argue with the notion of it being more fun. He supposed it probably was.
"I wouldn't, no," he confirmed with a hum, "I have no reason to get mad about that, really. Though I'm curious as to why you would want to pretend to be a vampire of all things just to match with me?" He raised a somewhat amused brow.
"Fair enough, I suppose," Bruce mused, "do you have the fangs with you now or do you still need to get them?" He decided to ask as he leaned comfortably back in the armchair and crossed one leg neatly over the other. He tipped his head slightly at her.
"I'd love to see the costume," he stated simply, a faint smile tugging at his lips. In a way, the lightheartedness of it all made him feel a little bit less weird about being what he was.
Voids opens her mouth to answer, but ends up hesitating a little.
"I do have some fake ones, yes. But-" She digs around in one of her pockets before pulling out some very obviously fake looking teeth, not to mention the faint green tint they have. "I don't think those are all that great, to be honest. Not to mention the terrible fit."
Voids looks him up and down a few times before smiling widely at him.
"You know what! I could do that, too! Watch me!" There is a small pause. "Though, I would first have to get it before I can. You know. But that's an amazing idea!"
Bruce paused to watch her take out the fake teeth, raising a brow and focusing his eyes to see a little more clearly. At the sight of so very clearly fake teeth he let out a soft, breathy laugh and gave a shake of his head.
"They do look quite... interesting," he politely mused, his shoulders easing as he spoke. He welcomed the light amusement of the exchange; his week had been less than great so this was something he'd needed a lot more than he'd ever admit out loud.
"I only meant costume as in the teeth," he gently elaborated, but hummed in thought and glanced around the room for a moment before focusing his eyes back on her again, "though, if you do go more elaborate with it I would certainly like to see. I have seen some children and performers put together quite the get-ups," he nodded his head as if confirming his own words after he spoke them.
"They do indeed!" Voids agrees with a nod, while climbing onto the sofa next to Bruce. "Oh, oh! You wanna know the best about them though?" She leans closer smiling widely.
"Ah. Well... l don't think just the teeth make for that fun of a costume. Especially if I want to match with you! So. I probably will work on something that matches closer to you! Especially since I got some time at my disposal."
Bruce shifted slightly to the side to allow Voids more room onto the sofa, listening to the soft squeak of the frame shifting against the wooden floors. Even with the carpet beneath the front two legs of the sofa, those back two still made a noise every single time without fail whenever anyone sat down. He made a mental note to himself to see what he could do about that on a later date, for now turning his attention fully back to his friend to listen to her question and the subsequent note about the costume teeth.
With a soft hum, Bruce nodded his head and leaned closer with a turn of his body to face Voids, mimicking her movement, though not out of any intent to mock. "Yes, tell me," he hummed simply, resting a hand against the cushion of the couch between them to prop himself slightly as he leaned forwards intent to listen. He'd never really known anyone who wanted to match with him before; he and John had very different styles of dress and favored different colors so they almost never matched in anything but the length of their coats; he knew very few other vampires and those that he did know, he barely got along with for disagreement on moral standing. It was nice, in a way, having a friend seemingly so fascinated and open to his affliction as to want to match.
"Wait, wait, wait, I think it's actually better if I show it! Uhhmmm-" she looks around a bit to look for something to covering the two of them, before just taking off her jacket and using it to cover both their heads with. She then shows off the fake teeth, which now more clearly have a faint green glow.
"Taa-daah! They can glow! One of the few good things about those specific ones, in my opinion, but, you know."
Bruce fell quiet to watch as she bounced around, perfectly still and outwardly patient, lifting a brow as she looked around and he couldn't help but to let his eyes follow hers to look around as well.
"Are you looking for something?" He asked, focusing his gaze back on her in time to see Voids take off her jacket and, next thing he knew, it was over both of their heads. For a brief moment as he processed the action he was confused, blinking twice and his pale eyes sharpened and focused in the newfound darkness.
"What are—" he cut himself off to listen as she spoke up, letting his eyes drift downwards to look at the fake teeth when her mouth opened, the soft green glow illuminating them both. To his eyes which were adapted to the darkness as a consequence of his species being a hunting one, it wasn't necessarily as dark as it might be for someone who wasn't a vampire; still, he could see the shift in the colors from the glow of the teeth and that area was much clearer in his vision. "—Ahh I see," he finished in a near mumble, his tone blunt as he resisted the urge to reach out and touch the fake teeth.
"How do they work?" He inquired, keeping his intense gaze fixated in the fake vampire teeth in her mouth, "is it a sort of phosphorescence?"
((I'm back from FPG and finished with finals so I'm trying to think of a good starter (or if anyone wants to continue something we've got going we can chat about that, too)
I want to write more story for this AU I know that much, though as far as I'm aware the Constantine I usually rp with for the actual storyline of this is on a hiatus for the foreseeable future so I'm not quite sure what to do there LOL
// hellurrrr!!! I wanted to say! sorry for not replying sooner to our thread? I like to sit down with it and have a think usually, so I kept it for last in my task-list as a treat and then stuff kept happenin' and time passed and I didn't want you to think I forgot! Because I didn't!
But also, you raised fair questions about where this was headed and where to end it and I have to admit, I'm scratching my head a bit over those... So it gives me pause on the reply as well. Maybe we could have a chat about it?
— @the-last-laughing-magician 😁
((Definitely works for me! And yeah no worries, I figured you were either mulling it over or done 🙂↕️
Reblogs, comments or DMs(Tumblr or Discord I don't mind either way!) I'm definitely down to chat about where to go from here!
Apologies ahead of time though if I take a bit for responses, it's finals week 😭🙏
((I snorted so hard when I saw the images and your response that I started DYING (coughing) I wish I liked oranges as much as you and this funky alien dude I'm clearly missing out smh
// aidbdjzkzjds glad I gave you a good giggle. Honestly, it might just be about finding the right one? I like them more fragrant and not so sweet they're tart. I also like them firm enough that I can bite and tear at the flesh and still have juice as I chew. Idk. I think they're just neat. Plus it's one of those fruits where it's hard to get a really bad one. Even if the really good ones do stand out.
(( That makes sense 🤔 see I'm a lemons guy, I love a good lemon. Anytime I go to a restaurant I get a bowl of sliced lemons if they let me, I keep lemons at the house to cut up and eat or juice into my tea and stuff; I LOVE LEMONS
((I snorted so hard when I saw the images and your response that I started DYING (coughing) I wish I liked oranges as much as you and this funky alien dude I'm clearly missing out smh
// aidbdjzkzjds glad I gave you a good giggle. Honestly, it might just be about finding the right one? I like them more fragrant and not so sweet they're tart. I also like them firm enough that I can bite and tear at the flesh and still have juice as I chew. Idk. I think they're just neat. Plus it's one of those fruits where it's hard to get a really bad one. Even if the really good ones do stand out.
(( That makes sense 🤔 see I'm a lemons guy, I love a good lemon. Anytime I go to a restaurant I get a bowl of sliced lemons if they let me, I keep lemons at the house to cut up and eat or juice into my tea and stuff; I LOVE LEMONS
