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Deep Sea Research Center

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y’know, i like to think that there’s a small group of chao who live by the lake and are immortal, and darkflow takes care of them along with all the plants and trees

knowing her, she’s also probably named them all, too

also, speaking of the lake, if you click on the image credit link for the photograph that i put in the half-circle background, you’ll see that the lake has a dirt path lined with rocks that looks really pretty

thats how i imagine the lakes edge looks like, and theres a slight ledge that may prove difficult to climb out of in some places. 

she probably maintains it and keeps it nice and just works tirelessly at all this landscaping in between her treks to other zones 

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Awesome commission done by @sarcasticasides I forgot to post until just now.

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Misc. Rambling about the organization I had in a message directed to somebody else.

Sam kind of technically has a boss, they all kind of technically do. If you want to make it the same organization [because they both are already called the Hunter Organization so they can be same or different] just keep in mind my stuff about the HO. I've already had mentions of wooden and metal cards- wooden cards are given to some hunters, but metal cards are given to those who have achieved something that greatly benefited hunters or the world in general. All of them have wooden cards except for Balder and Sam. Balder has contributed a lot of research and the events between Sam and Vincent have led to her getting a metal card in this universe. Metal cards hold higher rank of course, and virtually wooden cards will always let a metal card take charge. There are rules about what metal cards can do, but Sam's group usually avoids any power situations since Balder and Sam are already metal cards. --- I didn't rely or plan much for how the founders and the board worked, but wooden cards can be given at any HO station. There is a system of rank for the higher ups that I never really went into so you can do whatever you want with that. They can't imprison or kill a human no matter what they've done, but if they've done something really horrible (say kill 10 humans on purpose) the board or whatever will agree to either give the police enough stuff so that they can get a heavy sentence or frame them for something equally terrible. Otherwise, if you really screw up or go against rank repeatedly (or once where it caused a lot of death/damage) then you get booted out of the HO and they take all but 1 or 2 of your weapons(or you pay a certain amount) and the card of course. The HO isn't any of the group's life though so losing membership isn't going to be important to them when push comes to shove. OH! This is important, REALLY important. (My) Vince is essentially a dependent of the HO, meaning they're his legal guardians. Stuff happened with his parents then his uncle and he basically ended up with HO. He was an instructor/head of a station up until Danny came around and got the gang together. He is over 18, but he does hold a bit of a higher regard for the HO than anyone else. And oh gosh, ahhh, I'm so happy- I wasn't sure if I could include this in the mainverse, but I'm totally doing it here. Basically, the HO knows a lot about my Vince and I'm not going to ruin any surprises so I'll be bringing in another character (maybe 2 or 3) from the HO who will be very high rank. Oh, uh for the higher ranks, how about something on the back of the card- Like a sort of symbol that will have a number in it and the higher the number the higher the rank with 1 being the lowest metal card rank and 10 being quite impressive, and nothing higher than a 20 I think. So I'll have HO people at 11 or 12, which will be access to about 85% of the HO's secrets. Sam will be a rank 1, and Balder a rank 3.

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The Concept of Potential Relationships Between Vampires and Humans

Because I just queued a post that made me think about it, the whole “gender neutral terms” twitter post. 

So, there’s nothing outright stopping a vampire and human from forming any relationship... but there’s a lot of unlikely stuff. Actual romantic relationships is one example.

So, quick mention on vampire’s brain functions/morality. The most inactive parts of the brain are “killed” when a vampire is turned. So, however the person is in their last moments has an effect on what they’ll be like as a vampire.

However, the parts of the brain that were “killed” can have low-functioning ability with enough time and as long as the vampire stays healthy.

Now, provided that the vampire is not thirsty this means that vampires are not complete monsters and thus relationships could potentially form with humans. The issue comes with the stigma AGAINST vampires as well as a few other issues.

There are a very small percentage of humans that are open to vampires, and a small percentage of vampires that try to talk with humans outside of peace agreements or feedings. 

So, there CAN be good friendships or romantic relationships between vampires, but there are very few that actually exist because of circumstances.

The most common sort of relationship comes from vampires feeding on humans and there being a sort of prey/hunter relationship with the human fearing/hating the vampire. Then there’s the typical relationships vampires have with hunters.

After that there is a good subset of relationships that is neither completely positive or negative. Such as the benefits relationship, where a vampire feeds little bits off of a human in exchange for something or without their knowledge. There’s a subset where the vampires and humans get it on. Then a subset where the two know each other, but like how you know a neighbor sort of deal, usually with the human being unaware the other is a vampire.

After that comes the few good relationships.

Now of course these are all just generalizations and the relationships can be complex depending on who is with who and everything, but this is just a general rule of thumb for the society as a whole. 

Like none of these directly applies to Erik(a)’s relationship with Sam- which is creepy. Yes, Sam hates Erika. However, Erika has this almost obsession with Sam which actually lends to some unknowing protection for Sam. Of course Erika also wants to kill Sam so I mean, that little protection isn’t that great, but hey it is what it is.

There are a very few and rare vampires that have managed to integrate themselves into human society while staying undercover. Put some plugs on their teeth, get a job where they can stay away from the sunlight or heat, find a way to keep feedings discrete- and they’re fine. In those cases they are fully able to have the full range of relationships (considering they won’t have their cover blown and are in human society because they WANT to be).

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Vamp Names

Some explanations, such as why Alistair has such a ridiculously dramatic name. 

I think it’s such a testament to how much of a show-off drama king that Alistair is that he has such a name, because he DID pick it out for himself.

For the most part, vampires don’t keep their human names, and they pick their new names which usually just consists of a first name.

Throughout this, I’ll use the vampires I have on my minor-characters page to help explain. So, Alistair, Erik(a), Tabitha, and Henry.

You may notice that Alistair is the only pompous name there- that’s because Alistair is really fricking pompous. I can’t emphasize that enough. I really can’t. This was not a choice on my part, once I made him the way he is it was going to be some ridiculously dramatic name. 

Anyways, once vampires change from human then they usually end up killing someone by sucking them dry and it takes a while before they have a good enough handle on their mental state to think about their identity. By this point, all their previous human friends/lovers have since shunned them and it’s very common for someone to say “That’s not Edward anymore- that’s a monster.” As well, there’s also sometimes a part of the vampire that does want to believe that it’s not them anymore (That’s not me anymore, they died, they didn’t kill their friend, they didn’t do this, they didn’t do that. This is me.).

So, vampires usually end up picking new names. Some stick nameless because they either don’t care or they don’t think monsters should have names. However, generally a vampire will pick out a name for themselves, and because of the limited number of vampires it’s usually just a first name. 

There are some vampires that also make themselves last names and form families- some even going so far as to give a name to a vamp they turn instead of letting them choose their own name. Such as TABITHA. There was a small group of vamps that turned her, they were one of these families. They gave her the name Tabitha along with their Last name as they toted her around, using her as bait and to get what they wanted. However, once they abandoned her Tabitha dropped the last name. She kept the first name given to her because it did still feel like that’s who she was, but since she wasn’t part of the family anymore she didn’t feel the last name belonged to her. 

Now, ALISTAIR is one of the vamps that just picked a first name. However, he picked a really regal name because he wanted it to be like a title. Also, he didn’t think any other vampire would come up with the name, so that’s what he picked. As with all names, once he found the society of vampires and told anybody his name- it stuck. 

There are some vampires, that do remain nameless for a while, but once they interact with the rest of the vampires they almost always pick a name otherwise one is given to them eventually. This is what happened with ERIK(A). Erika is gender-fluid, so that’s what’s up with that by the way. For about fifteen years they didn’t have a name, but they also stayed away from the vampire society. They were ignorant about it entirely for about ten years because they didn’t try to find other vampires or talk with other vampires. Basically, all Erika did for those fifteen years was go around just slaughtering for fun- humans, other vampires, it didn’t matter. They were having a blast, but after the 14th year they got bored. Which after that 15th year they did end up going to the vampire society and they took about six months to pick their name. They probably would have taken longer, but another vamp had declared Erika’s name for them and it was going to stick if they didn’t pick something fast and declare it themselves. They actually went around for fun to ask other vampires what name they thought fit them- and humans too, Erika would actually asked humans which was a fun game for Erika.

See, there’s no stigma against not having a last name, but if you don’t pick a first name then you are considered the lowest form of vampire. Last names are pretty good for the usual reasons, but since they’re optional it’s also a good indicator of what you’re getting into. If the vampire has a last name, and you piss them off then you have their whole family pissed off at you. However, sometimes vampires end up having the same first name and no last name so they’ll get- jeez what do you call them? Ugh, I can’t remember what they’re called, but her are some examples “Henry the humanskin” – “Darrel of Brickens” – “Jessy from North” and so on.

In fact, if a vampire picks a common name that another vampire shares then the next step of hierarchy is to have something like that. These sort of titles are given based on some reputation of yours or some trait you have. If you haven’t done anything remarkable you may get such a generic title as to do with where you go or where you came from. It’s not something you can control, its’ just what the vampires know you by and will start calling you. If more than one title arises then it just becomes whatever name is more indicative or agreeable to the public vampires that ends up becoming your title. Although, some vampires do manage to have multiple titles, but that’s another step up on the hierarchy. If a vampire already has an established title, and THEN they do something remarkable then they’ll gain something indicative of that as a new title. Erika is one of the few vampires to have a title before a name.

Now, if you happen to still identify with your old human name or for whatever reason just stick with your human name then well you get made fun of for it. ESPECIALLY, if you keep your human last name as well. (And if you keep any middle names then oh boy you’ll just make anyone that hears you laugh.) This is the case of HENRY. To be specific his name is Henry Duff, and to be even more specific he has kept his middle initial- so it’s Henry D. Duff. However, he doesn’t tell vampires his middle name, and only his friends really know about his middle initial. Now, Henry is a pretty rare vampire, and the reason he keeps so much of his human name is that he still identifies as human. He’s vampire, but he also considers himself human. He empathizes with humans and as such he not only gets made fun of for keeping his human name, but for also still having such ties to humanity. Which is why his title (Which I may change a bit) is Henry the Humanskin. Henry not only keeps ties to his humanity, but also doesn’t back down from the taunting and still stands behind it.

Vampires don’t think much of humanity as a general consensus. Humans are their food, but they’re tricky at times and they have weapons and hunters and there’s so many of them that vampires are the ones that hide and make these base covens. There’s a lot of politics regarding humans, but as a general rule of thumb- vampires don’t think humans are respectable.

So, there’s a lot to push vampires to pick a new name for themselves. Humans have stopped accepting them and vampire society looks down on vampires without names or worse, who keep their human names. 

I should do a post about vampire politics next, man. Or their hierarchy- there’s so much to them that never gets on here because I have the default rp set before any of the team realizes that vampires even have a society.

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//yammers about the upper and lower astral planes tbh. mobile so no readmore but i'll try to be brief between the over and underworlds, there are two twin planes. often these two planes act as a net to catch the overflow from the overworld. you'll find spirits there, essentially. just spirits. generally when you're using a ouija board, for example, what you're talking to is gonna be contacting you from one of these planes as they're more closely connected to the overworld. which means you absolutely should be wary. demons can get into the lower astral plane from the underworld, its just a matter of finding a good "bridge". tween places are good for this.