Would you ever make a ‘which Vanserra bro is your mate’ quiz because like… I want to know lol
THANK YOU, Anon, for the beautiful brilliant idea! The quiz is now live below — please please please show me your results if you want to play! The details of the quiz are below, but if you're impatient like me:
→ 🍂 TAKE THE QUIZ HERE 🍂 ←
The quiz includes my Vanserra OCs: Sylas, Marcel, Vermilion, Perses, and Ulric, as well as canon brothers Eris and Lucien!
Reblog this post with your results or tag me! I hope you have fun and enjoy yourself as much as I did making this quiz. Special thank you to @damedechance and @shardminds for helping me brainstorm the questions and being my musical muses <3
Note: Sylas, Marcel, Vermilion, Perses and Ulric are my OCs; please do not use them in any works, thank you!
A couple of notes on the quiz!
There are 27 questions in total. The quiz is designed to take 10-15 minutes, but it can be shorter/longer than that!
Some answers have multiple brothers assigned to them, so you don't have to worry about always choosing an option dedicated to just one result!
Some of the questions have implied NSFW content. Please be mindful upon entering the quiz!
No time to draw means I get to release all my WIPs. Today we remember Ulric Vanserra, fifth son of Autumn + Tamlin's ex, pre fire accident that left him blind.
I was just scrolling through your Marcel tag and something caught my attention! He always holds something in his left hand, is Marcel left-handed? And what are the other brothers?
AMAZING question!! In order:
Eris: left handed, but made himself ambidextrous over the years to eliminate any potential vulnerability. At dinner parties, or formal gatherings where signing documents is required, he will switch his dominant hand from event to event so that no one can ever be sure which one he favors.
Sylas: born left handed, but after his accident left him with severe burns across his left arm, his scar has enough of a painful pull that using his dominant hand would only slow him down. Sylas taught himself how to eat, fight, and everything in between using his right hand instead.
Marcel: left handed
Perses: left handed
Ulric: right handed
Vermilion: ambidextrous, but favors his right hand
I thought it would be fun to do little art pieces on their birthdays to celebrate!
Also 👀 I know Lucien having a summer birthday is controversial but there’s just something to me about his birthday being on the longest day of the year; and similarly, Eris’s birthday taking place at the very end of Autumn, symbolizing the imminent end of Beron’s reign 🍂
AMAZING question, I'm so sorry I'm getting to it so late! I don't talk about Perses and Ulric enough. Ok so let's go in no particular order:
Vermilion did not mourn. The whole situation gave him mixed feelings, especially with Perses. A small reminder on their history: when Lucien was a kid, Perses took him out on a hunt with the intention to kill him, but the two were followed by Vermilion, suspicious of Peres's sudden interest in Lucien. Vermilion attacked, then, his whip earning Perses the scars wrapping across his arms. Perses wanted to kill Lucien from the moment he learned about his parentage, seeing it as a dishonor to Beron.
So yes — Vermilion was glad to see Perses go. The only sadness he felt was that it was Lucien who took part in killing his brothers. Vermilion never wanted that for Lucien — to carry that sort of burden. As with anything concerning his little brother, Vermilion feels that it should have been him carrying that guilt instead. He hates that Lucien has his brother's blood on his hands, no matter how cruel of a person Perses had been. As for Ulric, I think Vermilion feels some sort of regret. He doesn't mourn the Ulric that died, but he mourns the person Ulric used to be before his accident. Ulric and Perses became a lot closer after The Big Break-up (LOL) of Tamlin x Ulric, and Perses's values rubbed off on Ulric a lot, so naturally, Vermilion was not happy about that at all.
Sylas and Marcel, genuinely, could not care less. To Sylas, if the two got killed by Lucien (who Sylas and Marcel alike pretend doesn't exist), they probably weren't long for this world, anyway. There was a big enough age gap between Sylas and the twins that they had little in common, and while Sylas had spent some time training them in their youth, he never thought they had as much power/potential as himself. Marcel, honestly, barely noticed their presence anyway, so having the two of them gone didn't exactly change anything in his life, anyway. He learned about their deaths and went on about his day immediately.
For Lucien, I don't think he needs much explanation — Perses and Ulric were the ones who'd chased him out of Autumn, who were active participants in Jesminda's execution. Perses was the one who’d found out about Lucien and Jesminda’s relationship and passed the information to Beron, and Ulric tracked her whereabouts. Together, they coordinated her capture. They were dead to Lucien long before they truly died.
I think the only one who'd genuinely allowed himself to mourn them was Eris. It was brief a moment of solitude in a deep, dark corner of the Forest House, when he let his mind slip to the past. To when the twins were born and he held them for the first time, full of hope for their futures. Eris fell for hope's cruel trap each time a brother of his was born; each time, he promised the babe in his arms that things would be different for them, that they would be different. And each time, he failed. This time around, his failure led his brothers to their deaths. And it was all Eris's fault. Had he tried harder, opposed his father more openly, spoken up and taken the consequences for it more often... He was a coward. He would always be a coward.
SINCE YOU SAID TO DROP IT IN HERE HAVE THE VANBROS AS DND CLASSES EXCLUDING LUCIEN AND ERIS BC I ALREADY DID THEM
All brothers base - https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/sorcerer:draconic-bloodline Gold dragon ancestry
Sylas - Hear me out - elements of wild magic (https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/sorcerer:wild-magic) specifically relating to fire outbursts. On top of that, a very warped Oath of Vengeance Paladin (https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/paladin:vengeance). With his vengeance, though, it’s not at actual wrongdoers, it’s people who have wronged him (Eris). BUT I could also make points for this monk (https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/monk:ascendant-dragon) without the best control over the fire
Perses - Blood hunter, https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/blood-hunter Specifically profane soul (https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/blood-hunter:profane-soul) with rite of the flame. Used to deal with the creatures in the Autumn Forest, probably has the fiend as the patron for the fire stuff and the warlock spells. Also gets scorching ray which is the most Vanserra spell ever.
Ulric - I swear to god I’m not trying to be funny but I did make myself laugh so I get it if you don’t believe me (https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/ranger:beast-master). It just makes sense to me, he doesn’t necessarily have to have the animal companion but clearly he has a proclivity for it
Marcel - You already know (https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/fighter:echo-knight) give my boy his tricky smoky mirror bullshit and smoke that sometimes listens to him but sometimes doesn’t. Swapping places with the smoke and it acting when he does and all that is too good
Chartreuse - Okay he’s the hardest and I’m not entirely sold bc it’s relying a lot on flavoring but (https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/rogue:arcane-trickster). I kind of envision the mage hand being his fire bc you said he’s the one that can really shape and bed the fire and it’s a fun little twist on it. I’m not fully sold but it also explains him getting the jump on Perses in the woods when Perses is a revered hunter
I feel like I gotta ask especially after the quiz. Can you match a sleep token song to each Vanbro?
Anon I am so DELIGHTED you asked because now I get to praise the brilliant geniuses that are tumblr users @shardminds and @damedechance who get ALL the credit for the sleep token & taylor swift questions, respectively, on the quiz. They put the songs together for me WITH the most fitting lyrics (!! 🥹) I was genuinely screaming cause they all fit so perfectly WELL
Now behold — my favorite band x my favorite characters, courtesy of beautiful perfect beloved @shardminds who has never once had a bad take in their whole entire life:
Lucien
the night does not belong to god (and you remember everything / only 'til the sun recedes once again / and the night comes down like heaven)
granite (you gave me nothing whatsoever but a reason to leave / you say you want me but you know i'm not what you need / but i am)
Eris
higher ('cause you can remember / only when you're alone / i am granting you more / than the debt that i owe)
caramel (up on the dice, but low on the cards, i try not to talk about how it's harder now)
look to windward (you pray for sound and i pray for silence / damn right faithless, I can't deny / you'll find me with half a mind to get violent)
Marcel
hypnosis (you know you hypnotise me always)
nazareth (dripping from the open mouth i'll show you/what you look like from the inside)
vore (your flesh and bone welcome me in / are you in pain like i am?)
like that (fall into your eyes like a grave / bury me to the sound of your name)
Vermilion
gethsemane (what might be good for your heart / might not be good for your head)
atlantic (so flood me like atlantic, weather me to nothing / wash away the blood on my hands)
when the party's over (i've learned to lose, you can't afford to)
the offering (but i know you've got a taste / so just take a bite of me)
Sylas
even in arcadia (no matter how we feel / we've got a taste for one another and a few good years to kill)
ascentionism (you're gonna watch me ascend)
Perses
chokehold (i come as a blade / a sacred guardian / so you keep me sharp and test my worth in blood)
infinite baths (well i have fought so long to be here / i am never going back)
Ulric
descending (you come crawling back to me / but i'm already on the ground)
jaws (show me those pretty white jaws, show me where the delicate stops / show me what you've lost, and why you're always taking it slow / show me what wounds you've got, and show me love)
