| fearne
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| don quixote
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armand
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| astarion
interests: fine wine, fine tailoring, poetry | specialties: history (of his own realm), the arts, high society | qualities: beautiful, passionate, intuitive | favored gifts: books, curios (of any kind) • request | © ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small} monarchy |
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| General Manager, Tired Wine Aunt: | Kaveh (fussiest) |
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| Bartenders: | Midnight (unreserving) Reno ( astraphilia)Junpei Tenmyouji (apprenticing) ( coolerjunpei) |
| Live Musicians & Performers: | Onni Hotakainen (scowlish) Midnight ( unreserving) |
| Security: | Ethan Chandler (lupusintus) |
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goldenet! for the city and general rp, please go here. thank you!| aventurine
interests: good food, good wine, good company; specialties: business, pleasure, and if you'd like to test your luck 😉; qualities: always ready to have a good time; gifts: books, interesting new food, nice cookware • request | netzach
interests: drinking, naps, art; specialties: see above; qualities: make your own decisions about my good qualities; gifts: good alcohol, art supplies, books • request |
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| Co-founder, Tired Wine Aunt: | Kaveh of The City (fussiest) |
| Hosts/Hostesses: | Aventurine (fafo) Netzach ( unsafety) |
| Bartenders: | Midnight (unreserving) Reno ( astraphilia)Lycaon ( dignifido)Yesod ( wordchain) |
| Live Musicians & Performers: | Midnight (unreserving) |
| Security: | Tav (wanderment) Lappland ( reietta)Karlach ( carebarian)Laurentina ( unchainedawakening) |
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>\\ MIDNIGHT'S FAMILY IS EITHER HISTORICALLY MADE OF WAR CRIMINALS OR HEAVILY INVOLVED IN THE WAR INDUSTRY. THIS IS THE FUTURE THAT WAS BOUND FOR MIDNIGHT. HE DID NOT WANT THIS.
>\\ HE DOES HAVE A NATURAL TALENT FOR THE SWORD. HIS PARENTS KNEW THIS. HIS DAD WANTED HIM TO EXPLOIT IT IN SOME WAY. MIDNIGHT DID NOT WANT THIS FOR HIMSELF. THIS IS WHAT HIS MOTHER APOLOGIZED FOR. IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE FOR HER TO APOLOGIZE FOR BOTH OF THEM OTHERWISE.
>\\ HE WAS ALMOST CERTAINLY POISONED THROUGH SOMETHING HE ATE OR DRANK. NOTE THAT MOST ORIGINIUM INFECTIONS HAPPEN THROUGH DIRECT CONTACT AND MANIFEST CRYSTALS WHERE THE VICTIM WAS TOUCHED. ALL OF HIS SYMPTOMS AND MANIFESTATIONS ARE INTERNAL. IF IT WAS LONG-TERM RADIATION/EXPOSURE POISONING, HIS AGENT WOULD MOST LIKELY BE SICK AS WELL. IT WAS PROBABLY NOT THAT. DIRECT POISON IS FAST, SIMPLE, AND HAS THE LOWEST PROBABILITY OF FAILURE.
>\\ THE COUGHING AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS OPERATOR RECORD WAS UNINTENTIONAL. SPOT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND HIGASHINESE AND DID NOT NEED TO BE DISTRACTED. MIDNIGHT'S JUST SICK.
>\\ EATING CAUSES HIM DISCOMFORT. I AM NOT SURE HOW MUCH, OR IN WHAT WAY. IN CONTRAST, LIQUIDS ARE EASIER FOR HIM TO INGEST. THIS IS WHY HE DRINKS.
>\\ SPOT IS THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING SURE MIDNIGHT EATS. (BECAUSE HE'S THE TEAM MEDIC. OF COURSE.) NO ONE ELSE ON THE TEAM GETS NAGGED IN THE SAME WAY MIDNIGHT DOES. IT IS LITERALLY JUST MIDNIGHT. HE IS SICK PHYSICALLY AND ALSO PROBABLY DEPRESSED. HE DOESN'T EAT WELL.
>\\ HE IS ACTUALLY VERY STRESSED OUT. HE JUST PROCESSES IT ON HIS OWN. THIS IS ONE OF SEVERAL REASONS WHY HE WORKS SO MUCH AND ENDS UP PASSED OUT IN WEIRD PLACES. HE IS NOT USED TO ASKING FOR HELP. THIS ONE ISN'T TOO DEEP, HE'S JUST A GUY.
>\\ THE THING HE FEARS AT THE END OF HIS OPERATOR RECORD COULD BE ONE OF SEVERAL THINGS. MY MOST COGENT GUESS IS THAT HE FEARS A LACK OF CLOSURE. (NOT HER). (OKAY MAYBE ALSO HER). HE IS RUNNING OUT OF TIME.
>\\ A LIST OF REASONS WHY MIDNIGHT SLEEPS 4-5 HOURS A NIGHT: NIGHTMARES. STRESS. ANXIETY. BAD DRINKING HABITS. WORK. PTSD. HE'S SICK, DAWG.
>\\ MIDNIGHT IS NOT ACTUALLY AN ALCOHOLIC. THAT WOULD MAKE HIM USELESS. HE DOES NOT HAVE TIME TO BE USELESS.
>\\ HIS FAVORITE BOOKS TEND TO BE THE ONES THAT MIX SCIENCE WITH POETRY. HE'S NOT ACTUALLY THAT BIG OF A FAN OF PHILOSOPHY/PSYCHOLOGY, BUT HE KNOWS THE BASICS. EITHER WAY, HE READS BAD ROMANCE NOVELS BECAUSE HE THINKS THEY'RE FUNNY.
>\\ YOSTAR WHY THE FUCK IS IT SO IMPORTANT FOR HIM TO BE GOOD AT THE GUITAR? THIS ONE IS ACTUALLY A MYSTERY TO ME. HE COULD HAVE BEEN GOOD AT DRINKING GAMES OR SOME SHIT. I UNDERSTAND WHY HE HAS THE ABILITY IN-UNIVERSE, BUT WHAT NARRATIVE WEIGHT DOES THAT CARRY? FUCKING ANSWER ME, YOSTAR. PICK UP THE GOD DAMN PHONE.
>\\ THE FACT THAT HE GOT HIS ASS BEAT WITH, SPECIFICALLY, THE FAMILY HEIRLOOM SWORD IS IMPORTANT, EVEN OUTSIDE OF MY THEORY THAT HIS FAMILY GOT IT FROM BEING WAR CRIMINALS. IT COULD HAVE JUST BEEN, LIKE, A STICK? A FUCKIN', I DON'T KNOW, BROOM? HE WAS A CHILD, DAD COULD HAVE JUST USED HIS HANDS. WHY THE FUCK DID IT HAVE TO BE A SWORD? WHY? A? SWORD????? (I LOOKED UP A FEW THINGS ABOUT HEIRLOOM SWORDS IN JAPAN TO CONFIRM A FEW SUSPICIONS I HAD. BOY WERE THEY FUCKING CONFIRMED.)
>\\ HE DIDN'T FIGHT BACK AGAINST HIS DAD. THIS IS WHY HE KILLED THE YOUNG HOST. HE KNOWS BY THEN THAT WALKING AWAY DOES ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL.
>\\ PROBABLY RELATED TO THE FAMILY IS WAR CRIMINALS THING: THE FACT THAT HE IS, AS OF MARCH 2023, THE ONLY PLAYABLE SARKAZ FROM HIGASHI IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT
>\\ SO WHY ARE HE AND HIBISCUS THE ONLY TWO SARKAZ WHO ARE RELENTLESSLY HAPPY? OH NO HIBISCUS GREW UP AS THE PURIFIER. IF THEY MAKE MIDNIGHT LESS OF A MANBABY IN THE FUTURE I'LL ACTUALLY GET SAD. PLEASE JUST LET HIM BE A WEIRD GOTHJOCK. IT'S FOR THE GREATER GOOD.
>\\ LIKE, WE'RE ALL AWARE HE WEARS A STYLIZED SARKAZ INSIGNIA AS A PENDANT, RIGHT? WHAT'S THAT ABOUT? LIKE, IS IT JUST LIKE A JESUS FISH THING? IS MIDNIGHT BEING EDGY? HE WEARS THE INSIGNIA UPSIDE FUCKING DOWN AND IS RIPPING IT OFF HIMSELF CHUUNI-FULLY IN HIS BLOODLINE OF COMBAT SKIN. WHAT THE FUCK DOES IT MEAN HYPERGRYPH?
>\\ HEY MISTER HYPERGRYPH HEY WAIT CAN YOU EXPLAIN SOMETHING IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT UM SO WHY DO THE SANGUINARCH AND MIDNIGHT HAVE THE SAME EYE COLOR LIKE IT'S NOT A MISTAKE THAT THE SARKAZ COURT REFER TO HIM AS "PINK EYED" AND IF THAT'S A SPECIFIC INDICATOR THEN WHAT DOES THAT MAKE MIDNIGHT WHO IS THE ONLY OTHER PINK-EYED VAMPIRE IN THE GAME HEY HYPERGRYPH I AM BEING REALLY NORMAL ABOUT THIS BUT I AM ALSO OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE PLEASE RESPOND
"It's complicated. I think when bad things happen - whether someone dies or people argue or split up - you get to a point where it's just too hard to go back. There's so much lost. So many versions of the truth. So many versions of how things might've turned out differently. We all long for what could have been. For some people, it's just easier to move forward and try to forget." - Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah (x)
"Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again that tear you apart. - Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys (x)
"Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off." - Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance (x)
"This was the history of the world. Recovery and collapse, despair and relief. The dialectic of clean and dirty. Every time is worse than the time before. The bad thing comes, days and nights and days and nights get so unbelievably fucked up, unbelievably fast, but in the end - if there is an end - everybody's best self just slogs forward, one stagger, one fall, one day, one What the fuck just happened? moment of oblivion and soul-broken joy at a time. All we have to do is not die." - Jerry Stahl, Pain Killers (x)
"Just know, darling girl, that if I could, I would call you every day of your life just to say 'I love you,' with nothing else attached to those words. No criticism. No advice. No requests. Just to say I love you. - Diane Chamberlain, The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes (x)
"This was very pleasant: there is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort." - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (x)
"I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world. We are read by others or put away by them. We wait to be seen, sitting quietly on shelves for someone to bother having a look inside us." - Ari Berk, Death Watch (x)
"... I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put it into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling." - Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (x)
"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it." - Jacques Prévert (x)
"I thought about when colors had been outrageously bright and the air had smelled incredibly good and when I had forgotten how it felt to be sad." - Lorraine Zago Rosenthal, Other Words for Love (x)
"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit." - Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (x)
"It's all these choices that we could have made, the things we might have done. We see them with perfect clarity only long after the moment has passed." - Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies (x)
"Things hurt, and don't hurt, and hurt again." - Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily (x)
"'You've a good heart,' she told him. 'Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go.' Then she shook her head. 'But mostly, it's not.'" - Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (x)
"But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown." - Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles (x)
"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between." - Sylvia Plath (x)
"But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands." - Daphne du Maurier, The Lover (x)
"Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?" - Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star (x)
"That's the trouble with a brain - it thinks more than you sometimes want it to." - Tom Perrotta, Little Children (x)
"I'll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear." - Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer (x)
"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair." - Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven (x)
"To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom." - Leah Stewart, The Myth of You and Me (x)
"You can never totally hate someone who sang you to sleep like that, can you? Who calmed you down and eased your fears. You can feel angry and betrayed, but some part of you will always love them for being there on those scary nights, for giving you a place to run to where your nightmares couldn't follow, the one place where you could descend finally into slumber knowing, at least for the time being, that you were completely safe. " - Jonathan Tropper, Everything Changes (x)
Prostitution, Sex work: Midnight mentions that his line of work puts him extremely close to the underbelly of the sex work business, and he's implied that he's seen a lot more than he's willing to share. He won't make direct mention of this in casual or even deeper conversation unless it's in service of helping someone else, so this is more of a blanket warning in case it does come up.
Homicide: Midnight's murdered at least one person and up to ten people in self defense, but refuses to be specific about it because the one guy was definitely enough for him. He's had more than one attempt on his life before. He'll only share this particular story if the timing is appropriate and he feels like it's important for other people to know where he's coming from.
Betrayal, Trust issues: The guy who tried to murder Midnight bribed his manager to infect him with Oripathy (i.e. magic rock cancer). Due to the way his Oripathy manifests - a blood condition similar to leukemia - and the symptoms mentioned in his docket, it's safe to say that he was poisoned through something he ate or drank. He tries not to let it get to him because he believes in human relationships, but he's always had underlying trust issues and this exacerbated them.
Abuse of power, bullying: For everything that went wrong in his life, he's very quick to point out what he could have been better about. Which was, at the time, reaching out to a younger host to help rather than doing what he did. Which was, at best, ignoring him. At worst, he actively made the poor guy's life go from miserable to fatally unsalvagable - effectively, he bullied a younger man to death. It was, in all ways, structurally permissible bullying, and he almost got away with it. He'll be very frank about this if he needs to be.
Terminal illness: Yes, magic rock cancer. Although vampires are very long lived, Midnight is terminally ill and has a limited amount of time left alive (headcanon: will usually have him say around 10 more years with proper medical attention). He's very factual about his disease since Oripathy is highly contagious and he needs to be honest with others about that. That said, he very rarely talks about his views on his mortality, mostly because he doesn't want to.
Parental estrangement, violence: When Midnight left his family to take up escorting, his father beat the ever loving shit out of him with the family sword. The implication is that he didn't want to take up the family legacy in some way and couldn't convince his father to see eye to eye with him. He is more than adequate with the blade, so the implication is that he didn't fight back. Like the story of how his infection occurred, he will only share this story if it seems as though someone else needs to hear it, and even then, he won't go into detail unless strictly necessary.
Self-neglect, possible PTSD: He canonically sleeps very little (4-6 hours seems average) and works to the point of exhaustion. His docket advises that people check on whether he's had rest every now and then, and in the context of the story, his team's medic does remind him to eat, implying that he wouldn't on his own. It's only a minorly an image issue and more of a manifestation of his symptoms, but the strain he puts his body through is often unhealthy and will be obvious if one spends enough time with him.
