VTM Fangfest 2026 is complete! This was a bit of a challenging year with the subjects but I'm glad to have finished this completely for the fourth year in a row! Wow! Thank you @fuckyeahlabynight!!
The characters are mine and @thesixthplaneteer's!
Original Posts:
Catchphrase - Carmichael Lee the Toreador
It seemed like a good idea at the time - Noa the Giovanni
Even evil has loved ones - Harrakhty, Kahanni, Parvati the Followers of Set
Cool shades - Daimund the Malkavian
Accidental murder - Nyth the Thinblood and Sebastian the Tremere
I hate you, Vampire Dad! - Ralph the Nosferatu Thinblood
Destination defenestration - Xandy the Banu Haqim
We ARE struggling together - The ATL Camarilla - Carver the Lasombra, Erin the Tzimisce, Godwynn the Ventrue
Elaborate underground base - Sydney the Thinblood
Screw the rules, I'm beautiful! - Lyre the Salubri and Blaire the Silverfang
This year’s prompt theme is TV Tropes! Specifically, there are all tropes that have been featured in LA by Night, NY by Night, or Project Ghostlight.
This is a super low-key fandom event fuckyeahlabynight hosts each year. The point is to have fun and make something creative to fill the prompts.
Each day, starting on June 20 and finishing on June 30, post whatever fan work you've made inspired by the TV Tropes prompt (eg. art, fic, gifs, poetry, music playlists, mood boards, whatever). I am giving you several weeks heads up to aid your creative process. You do not need to focus on LA by Night, NY by Night, or Project Ghostlight. Feel free to use your vampire OCs if it pleases you to do so!
When you post your creations, please include the hashtag #fangfest26 so they can all be collected here. If you can't think of anything for a particular prompt, or are otherwise unable to finish, it's perfectly fine to skip it. It's also fine to post your creations late. So long as you use the hashtag and I'm able to find it, it will be reblogged here regardless.
As always, those who are not taking part in making fan works are encouraged to like, comment on, give kudos, and share their favourites! Part of the fun is seeing what everyone else has made. Collaboration is also encouraged, so reach out to your fellow Kindred and see what you can come up with!
More info on each of the prompts will be below the cut, as quoted from the TV Tropes website. See you in June!
Catchphrase
“An expression used by a character or group numerous times in a work. Merely uttering this phrase in the office will clue others in to the character(s) you're referring to.
Eg. “The Undisputed Baron of the Valley” or “Victor, my boy!”
It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time
“Someone does something that puts them, or the people around them in a bad or unpleasant situation. Hindsight reveals that although they had good intentions, their actions were not in their best interests. If questioned about why they did it, they'll often respond with the reason for everything that has ever been done by anyone at any time and any place: ‘It seemed like a good idea at the time!’”
A common trope for badly planned adventures.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones
“Being evil doesn't always mean hatred and negativity 24/7. Even evil characters (and real people) can find someone to love. Often, that love is twisted, a cause for villainy, or an act, but sometimes a work can show an evil character's love is genuine and deep. This serves to humanize the character, to give the hero doubts about fighting them, or to provide a weakness for the hero to exploit. At an extreme end, it can provoke Mama Bear or Papa Wolf reactions if they are threatened (or turning into a Tragic Monster at worst), or prompt the loved ones to Avenge The Villain. It also marks the villain as hypocritical and shows their twisted worldview by treating everyone else as insects but excluding the few ones they have feelings of affection for. Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas, Villainous Parental Instinct, and Unholy Matrimony are subtropes.”
Eg. Vennevar Thomas and Suzanne Rochelle
Cool Shades
“Wearing dark glasses or mirrorshades is long-standing visual shorthand for badassitude. The act of putting them on means that it's time to kick ass, take names or do both. The act of taking them off is a sign that somebody's about to get scrutinised by the badass, usually just prior to an asskicking.”
Eg: Strauss, Nelli G, or Chaz.
Accidental Murder
“Accidental Murder occurs when a situation that wasn't intended to be lethal ends with the death of someone anyway. Occasionally, this happens because a fight just goes too far (Bob and Alice start fighting, and the fight gets more heated than anyone expects, and Alice ends up braining Bob with a heavy object or accidentally knocking him onto something sharp... and she doesn't realize he's dead until it's over). Other times, this happens when innocent bystanders are caught up in someone else's fight and are dead before anyone else realizes they are there (Bob and Alice are fighting; Carol, a friend to both, tries to break it up and gets accidentally shot while Bob and Alice are wrestling for a gun). And sometimes there's no fighting involved at all; the person who dies is killed because the unintentional killer does something stupid.
Either way, it's simply bad luck for the dead guy, and for his killer. No one was meant to die, but someone died anyway.”
A common trope for vampire stories, either due to violence or feeding.
I Hate You, Vampire Dad
A vampire embraces another as an act of love, but the new vampire hates their sire post-embrace, and blames them for everything terrible that has happened to them since. This can happen even if the young vampire wants to be embraced, and then regrets it later. It more often happens if the young vampire was embraced to save them from the True Death.
“Maybe the change made the loved one (new vampire) into someone, or some thing that the sire no longer recognizes or loves. Maybe the loved one can't handle the stress of being a vampire, or once fully immersed in the life realizes their sire lied about not being Blessed with Suck, and if the loved one is a biological child of theirs, they'll never grow up.”
Eg. Annabelle and Carver
Destination Defenestration
“A sufficiently badass character punches, throws, or in any other way applies the force necessary in order to toss someone else through a window.”
Eg. Rey in NY by Night
We ARE Struggling Together
“The government is evil, decadent, corrupt, or all three and it's time for a revolution. Only one thing stands in the way: your fellow revolutionaries. All of you can agree on only one thing: The government must go. Beyond that, you and your fellow revolutionaries couldn't decide on pizza toppings, let alone the shape of the world to come (or how to get it there). This can lead to squabbling that prevents any coordinated action from taking place...or it can escalate to the point where the different revolutionary factions are spending as much time and energy shooting at each other as they are shooting at the ones in power.”
A common downfall for Anarch coteries, but can also happen to Camarilla ones too, such as in NY by Night.
Elaborate Underground Base
To maintain Plausible Deniability and hide from magical TV Spy Satellites, any sufficiently powerful or advanced covert organization of heroes, villains, conspirators, or military personnel needs an Elaborate Underground Base to use as their headquarters... And it's a good location for a Supervillain Lair.”
Any large, underground vampire haven. Consider, from LA by Night, the Nosferatu Warrens or the Labyrinth.
Screw the Rules, I’m Beautiful!
“A conventionally attractive character gets away with morally ambiguous things, despite how similar actions usually get questioned when committed by characters that are considered ugly. The attractive character is almost always forgiven or doesn’t even get called out for their questionable choices from within the plot. Sometimes, their actions even get painted in a good light, and the plot rewards them for them. Meanwhile, the ugly character gets shamed and villainized for doing similar things.”
Not just for Toreador! Any character with the “Beautiful” or “Stunning” advantage will likely use this trope.
"I didn't ask for this. I didn't ask to be made into a monster. I just wanted to help."
Day 2: It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time
Warnings: Depiction and description of animal death, blood
Sorry that I got this is late, I was busy.
Beck was out one night, celebrating the news that he was accepted into art-school by getting himself a cake, when he saw a cat get run over. He picked her up and carried her into a nearby alleyway to try and resuscitate her, but she died in his arms. A Salubri was lurking in the alley, and, seeing his empathy for the animal, approaches him to suggest taking her to the park to bury her. Upon her grave behind a bush, the Salubri turns him into a vampire, and disappears before he wakes.
His Beast manifests as the cat that he tried to save, but with three red eyes.
“A young Follower of Set has a role in a murder, that they had never intended.
But it happened all the same - and this is the fall out of that.”
In which I have ended up instead of writing multiple things for multiple days, getting carried away and writing one very long Day 4 “Accidental Murder” prompt for Fangfest.
A credit and thanks to @fuckyeahlabynight for the cool event. I will paste the days details below.
A warning that this is a very dark story, but I hope people enjoy it the same! As always any comments, likes, anything like that are always massively appreciated if so.
The liar soothsayer is on the prowl, hidden in the light of a smokey dive bar. A gluttonous devil, a dangling hanged man. Daimund the Malkavian wears his sunglasses at night...
Day four of VTM Fangfest!! Thank you @fuckyeahlabynight for hosting it. This is @thesixthplaneteer's oldest VTM character, I LOVE YOU DAIMUND...
VTM Fangfest 2026 - Day Three - "Even evil has loved ones."
"Praise be, for He is reborn in She."
The Followers of Set may be a controversial clan amongst the Kindred, but no doubt it's due to their unity that their fellows find them so terrifying. Harrakhty Hamdi and her eminence Parvati are ancient vampires who have done practically all evil possible beneath the moonlight, but they are upheld in love - both from their followers and from each other. Bore from their unbreakable unity is their child Kahanni, who will no doubt follow in their footsteps - embraced completely in the adorations of her parents and all who believe in them.
Day three of VTM Fangfest!! Thank you @fuckyeahlabynight for hosting it. I LOVE THE FOLLOWERS OF SET.......
