MISANTHROPE HQ

{VSMP STARTER SWAP AU BLOG} au by @yoiurboi

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WELCOME TO OAKHURST

"In the year 1926, fourteen strangers converged in the town of Oakhurst. Two of them are vampires. But not the ones you think."

This is the blog for Starter Swap, a Vampires SMP AU! 

Fangs are still bared within the woods of Oakhurst, but they don't belong to an ancient nobleman or human-hating lumberjack! Instead, our lovely townsfolk will have to deal with the combined might (and struggle) of an ex-vampire hunter and a doctor with some rather odd beliefs about death…

I'm going to use this as an archive for past and future content of the AU. For those of you who have been following this little project of mine since the beginning; all content posted previously will be treated as “soft-canon”, as in, it's part of the AU until a newer post contradicts it. 

Feel free to send asks directed at the characters or the creator when the askbox is open! Just keep in mind that I'm only one person, and art takes time! Especially when you're in school like I am!

***DISCLAIMER: Being an AU of VSMP, the art in this blog will of course feature vampires - which means blood! So a general TW regarding that and injuries applies here. Nothing too gorey, but better safe than sorry.

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Art and AU created by @yoiurboi

Vampires SMP created by POWcreations

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STARTER SWAP AU REFERENCES

Sorry for the wait y'all! I promise we're working on the next ask. In the meanwhile, here's some references I made for the AU. These took me damn near a month, which is partially why the ask is taking forever. Also because it as whopping SIX pages long.

It's not everybody, but I do plan to add others. I'll probably do another post when I have enough of the others. Feel free to draw the designs as long as you leave credit!

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the first starter swap ask is now also on AO3! I might adjust it later to actually include the asks and my comments, but for now its just the comic.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82019226/chapters/215817146

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How was the first day in Oakhurst for these two vampires ?

It was... Interesting. To say the least.

Oakhurst has been abandoned for about a century now. Buuuttt it looks like there's a bunch of new people here! Some of which were already there. Others had their reasons for coming. I'm sure they'll all get along just fine though.

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So the Tumblr update is being rolled back! Which is great, so Starter Swap will be on Tumblr primarily. However on request, I'm probably still gonna be posting it on AO3. Updates on here will prioritized but any other site I used will probably not see that much of a delay. The first ask is almost finished. Sorry it's taken me so long! See y'all soon. :)

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Tumblr update fucked shit up bad apparently, so if that doesn't get fixed, I might start uploading starter swap onto AO3 (still in comic format). We'll see.

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Early 2000s emos would've loved them.

(Starter Swap Ref Sheet)

Out of all the ref sheets I thought I would've done second, Sausage and Abolish were not on my top ten list of possiblities. But oh well. Here's them. They don't look super different from how I think they look in canon, but they still turned out good.

Also this is how I learned that Abolish's earring is *alledgedly* on the wrong side in official art. Whoop.

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Men of Science

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Something for y'all to peep at while I work on the first ask! Sorry it's taking a bit, I think the senioritis is getting to me lol.

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Last Chance for Asks!

The ask box will be closed in the next few hours, so if you want to send anything in, make sure to do that before it shuts down!

Thanks to everyone whose shown interest in this AU. Its really exciting to get to share my silly ideas with the world, even if its not my original characters!

I'll try to get some stuff out quickly, but as I've been saying over and over again: art takes time.

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Ask Box is officially closed! Thanks you to everyone who sent something in!

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Last Chance for Asks!

The ask box will be closed in the next few hours, so if you want to send anything in, make sure to do that before it shuts down!

Thanks to everyone whose shown interest in this AU. Its really exciting to get to share my silly ideas with the world, even if its not my original characters!

I'll try to get some stuff out quickly, but as I've been saying over and over again: art takes time.

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Busts into your ask box as soon as it's open.

I've been thinking about the powerscaling and varied strengths and weaknesses of all the canon vampires, and I've done it for MY AU's, but your AU is the first I thought of when I started considering what other characters I'd like to see.

I'd send a link to the stat builder but tumblr might shoot me in the street, but a good one I've used is "circle journey star diagram".

Can't wait to see these freaks stats, and the rest of the AU.

Thank you!

This is about where'd I'd put their stats "generally". Obviously it's going to vary from stage to stage. Right now they're both pretty weak in terms of vampires, for reason I'll get into once other asks start rolling out.

In terms of the chosen stats; charisma, intelligence, strength, and fortitude are all what they say on the tin.

The other two are kind of difficult to explain because they delve into my personal vampire clan lore. I don't wanna just rant about it here since I'd love explore it in comics. But basically...

Magicial affinity refers to how easy it is for them to do magic. In this AU, pretty much all vampires are able to cast spells, but only certain types are especially good at it.

Bane resistance is how much they resist "folkloric banes". Basically, the stuff that repels vampires ala garlic and silver. This varies a great deal across different vampiric clans, but also sometimes it's more of personal thing. Sometimes your the magical equivalent of lactose intolerant.

Avid is a blood mage and is very, very good at magic! But he's also really fragile when it comes to holy spells and banes. Legundo is a damage sponge who hits hard, but if he tried to cast a spell it'd probably just... fizzle out. And then he'd try to explain that magic isn't real and that vampirism is actually a scientific phenomenon and it's just not been studied enough so basically-

(Bonus Elle Under the Cut)

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Art and AU created by @yoiurboi

Vampires SMP created by POWcreations

I'm not gonna explain this one. :)

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CHECKPOINT #1: ASK BOX IS OPEN!

The townsfolk have just arrived in the ruined town of Oakhurst! As of right now, only our beloved doctor and town lunatic are vampires. And both of them think they're the only one around.

Feel free to send asks directed at any of the characters! Keep in mind I can't answer everything, and art takes time!

***Any time the ask box reopens, I'll be posting these little checkpoints to catch everyone up on how things are going down on Oakhurst. This is mostly just to keep this AU relatively chronological!

(Townsfolk Status Below the Cut)

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Art and AU created by @yoiurboi

Vampires SMP created by POWcreations

Legundo: VAMPIRE (STAGE ONE) Avid: VAMPIRE (STAGE ONE) Scott: HUMAN (HEALTHY) Owen: HUMAN (HEALTHY) Shelby: HUMAN (HEALTHY) Pyro: HUMAN (HEALTHY) Apo: HUMAN (HEALTHY) Cleo: HUMAN (HEALTHY) Drift: HUMAN (HEALTHY) Mr. M: HUMAN (HEALTHY) Abolish: HUMAN (HEALTHY) Martyn: HUMAN (HEALTHY) Renhardt: HUMAN (HEALTHY) Pearl: HUMAN (HEALTHY)