You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. You lost life's secret.
— Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
I found a lot of awesome old-timey cc recently! When I stumbled across @lamuguetterie's phenomenal 1890s dresses, I knew I had to break out my favorite wasp-waisted amnesiac for a little photo shoot. Not that I have any other wasp-waisted amnesiacs, but Inna's still my favorite.
Hey sorry i’ve been gone for like, 1,000 years lmao. Anyway, i’ll be on more even though this place is dying
Also I do like, Homestuck frame requests? Yeah. For now, all i’m doing is coloring (With the Jade and Roxy frame shown), and dead edits that I call Deadits (With the Nepeta frame)... so if you request one, I could probably do it. Also maybe humanstuck if you want :D
left to right: Philip Vatore, Lila Vatore, Leila Zhu, Charles Zhu
Hey look it's Caleb/Lily/Lilth's parents!
I tried to capture the look of old Kodachrome/Kodacolor cameras from the 1930s-1940s. I really wasn't all that successful, but eh, good enough to throw into a picture frame to hang up in Wolfsbane Manor when I'm feeling a little less lazy!
I spent a really long time fleshing out the Zhu-Vatores before EA updated the canon, and I'm just... not willing to change shit. My entire justification for why sisters ended up with similarly-aged daughters named Lilith and Lily was that they named their babies after each other, but their names were really similar. As a compromise I changed their middle names, so we've got Lila Gioia and Leila Fiorenza.
sidenote - for whatever reason, Philip's mouth often looks kind of weird when he smiles. I couldn't figure out what was going on in Blender, so I've decided that he was just one of those guys who can't smile like a normal human being in photographs.
I was supposed to be making embarrassing old-timey pictures of the DeVampiros for the Vatores to make fun of, I got distracted, and now it's a whole thing. here's some lore!
operation high fang
After the end of Operation Eternal Flame, a group of Vampires came out of hiding to start the initiative. Through a successful propaganda campaign, they branded Vampires as refined and classy, boasting of what they offer through their historical knowledge and charismatic ways. At the same time, they smeared Werewolves as dirty and dangerous monsters, lacking in control. The results were catastrophic for the new Werewolf communities who were still maturing as an occult.
(i compiled all game quotes about the century conflict/surrounding events here - the high fang stuff is at the very bottom, my headcaons are below the cut. also if you don't recognize the guy, he's the vampire Elle bat- and coffin-fucked in the trailers/the guy from the painting over Vlad's fireplace)
My hc is that Elle is originally from Aria, the coven of the arts. Aria had very pointedly decided not to get involved with the Century Conflict - they were artists, not combatants, and few made it past the rank of Prime (which is largely why Elle left - she was hungry for prestige and wanted to grow her power). The result was that the overwhelming majority of the coven, including Elle's parents, were slaughtered by werewolves and spellcasters.
After the war, vampires found themselves in a weakened state and with no allies to speak of, and were terrified of the day when spellcasters and werewolves would rebuild their numbers. To secure their futures, they needed to break the alliance between spellcasters and werewolves. Vlad's conquest of Forgotten Hollow showed how easily humans could be manipulated to be used against their enemies, so they decided to utilize his old techniques to wage a propaganda campaign known as Operation High Fang.
Elle rallied the surviving members of her coven of origin to join High Fang. With their cultured upbringings and familiarity with human art, they were uniquely well-suited to promote this new, classy image of vampires. They were also pretty mad about spellcasters and werewolves slaughtering their kin, and were determined to take their revenge. Also, they were a bunch of classy snobs who did just like going to fancy parties, eating fancy foods, and talking about fancy things.
The first part of this plan required that they infiltrate mundane high society. In the beginning, they mostly played human, gathering information and forming strategies. By the time they started revealing their true natures to humans, they'd built up the social skills and relationships to ensure that they were well-received.
Once they'd rehabilitated the image of vampires in mundane society, they were able to move onto the most vital part of their plan: convincing spellcasters that they're better than werewolves, but that is a subject for another render.
As I've mentioned more than a few times, I really hate making faces in CAS. Since most of the faces in this scene were either not visible or out of focus, I got REALLY lazy about making background sims for this one, with this result:
what makes this even worse is Caleb/Lilith/Lily's moms are identical twins because I couldn't be bothered to make 2 sisters...
1920s clothes by @happylifesims
ferronnière and flower hair ornament by @the-melancholy-maiden
