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Canon Promo
I made a canon promo post about the canons I'm currently requesting for F5K, IPQ and Auctions As Threatened. I included length/availability, some info on what they're about and why I like them, some details on what I'm requesting, and a content warning.
These canons are completely independent from each other, but they're all set in the world of the roleplaying game Vampire: The Masquerade. While that setting has lots of confusing lore, you absolutely don't need to know any of it to get into these canons. All three of them do a good job introducing the setting, explaining what you need to know, and making sure they're perfectly understandable even if all you know about Vampire is that it's about vampires. So if any of these sound interesting to you, but you're not at all familiar with VtM? Just go for it! :D
If you have any questions about these canons you'd like answered before you give them a try, I'd be happy to help! If you do give them a try and want to discuss them, I'm also always very happy to do that!
Fandom: Vampire: The Masquerade - Port Saga
Media type: scripted audio drama
Length: ~8 hours (two seasons with ten ~20-minute-episodes each)
Price: free
You can find it on:
Spotify, Youtube, various podcasting sites
What is this about?
A murder mystery set in the world of Vampire: The Masquerade.
Titus Reed, a young-ish vampire with some anger issues, returns to his home town after the murder of his estranged, but still beloved sire and ex-lover. An old friend of his has confessed to the murder, but Titus is convinced that there's more to it and starts investigating, which sees him pulled into the vampire politics of the city and forces him to deal with his own issues with his sire, his past, and his existence as a vampire.
What's so good about it?
- great voice actors, tight plotting and writing
- Titus is a great character: he's a Malkavian, but his "insanity" is both convincing and heartbreaking rather than quirky and silly; he has believable moral quandaries he deals with; he's tough in a fight, but hilariously bad at politics and scheming; he's also a musician and the podcast does really cool things with his psychic ability to "hear music" in certain situations that tells him something about what's going on
- a big, varied cast of side characters who all have their own agenda and moral complexities, whether you love them or love to hate them
- lots of shipping potential: several characters (including the main character) are canonically bi or gay, and while romance isn't a central theme, there are some background relationships and some flirting and many characters have shippy interactions you could build on in fic
Any content warnings?
In addition to the usual vampire stuff (murder, blood drinking, violence), Titus' background story involves (non-sexual) child abuse (he was abducted and locked in a basement for years as a kid), and he has some harrowing mental breakdowns.
What am I requesting?
Titus/Glass. Glass is an influential vampire in Port Saga whom Titus initially suspects of being involved in his sire's murder. He's a very cheerful, smug asshole who enjoys politically outmanoeuvring Titus, teasing him for getting outmanoeuvred, and putting him in uncomfortable situations. Their dynamic is tense and antagonistic, but not always outright hostile. I'm requesting this as anything from noncon to dubcon to consensual (but probably a bad idea).
Fandom: Vampire: The Masquerade - Parliament of Knives
Media type: visual novel
Length: 6-9 hours
Price: ~12€/12$/10£ (cheaper on sale)
Note: The length is for one playthrough, but the game has many different paths and great replayability. If you play on Steam, you can manually save the game for easier replaying (normally the game has one save per playthrough).
You can find it on:
Steam, Android/iOS, Choice of Games website
The first three (out of ten) chapters are available for free.
What is this about?
A "choose your own adventure" type of story set in the world of Vampire: The Masquerade.
The vampire ruler/Prince of Ottawa has mysteriously disappeared and every vampire in the city is plotting to take advantage of his absence, at the same time as a group of Anarch vampires comes to the city and causes trouble.
You play the childe and assistant of the Prince's ambitious second-in-command. Your character has the option to investigate what happened to the Prince, to support or fight the Anarchs, to ally with or betray various people, to be loyal to their sire or work against her, and to romance different characters (m/m, f/f and m/f options; romances aren't genderlocked).
What's so good about it?
- the complex plot with intrigues and scheming, which makes for great replayability because it's impossible to find out about every character's goals in one playthrough - every playthrough is basically a new story
- the background story of the Ventrue Prince and the Brujah leader of the Anarchs, who used to be lovers, broke up because of political disagreements, but are not even remotely over each other - part of the plot turns out to be driven by their relationship and other characters' reactions to it; they say things to each other like "you asked me to be your lifeline so you wouldn't lose yourself"
- so many fascinating NPCs you can get to know, and the amount of freedom you have in whose schemes you investigate and support or foil; and at least the m/m romance I played through (with Qui, the Prince's loyal Sheriff) is wonderful
- playing a vampire with cool supernatural abilities (depending on which clan you pick) is a ton of fun and gives you many different options to solve problems – you don't really fail in this game, no matter what you do, the story just develops in very different ways depending on what you achieve, what you find out, how you deal with various situations
Any content warnings?
Vampires, so murder, violence, blood drinking, torture, betrayal, mindfucking, manipulation ... IIRC no sexual violence, though.
What am I requesting?
- Arundel/Ward (the canonical Prince/Anarch "opposites attract" ship I waxed lyrical about above)
- Arundel/Qui (loyalty kink of the king/knight variety – in a setting in which everyone only seems interested in their own advancement, Qui is utterly devoted to his Prince)
- Ward/Qui (they hate each other and it'd be hot)
- Arundel/Ward/Qui
Fandom: Path of Night
Media type: actual play podcast (audio only)
Length: 100+ hours (finished campaign of 100 episodes, most of them ~1 hour long, but season finales etc. can be longer)
Price: free
You can find it on:
Spotify, Youtube, other podcasting sites
What is this about?
A Vampire: The Masquerade actual play set in 1999 in New Haven that's going for a classic 90s Vampire vibe.
It focuses on a group (or coterie) of vampires who have to deal with a variety of problems ranging from political intrigue, hiding their dangerous secrets, fleshcrafting horrors, protecting ghost friends from necromancers, revenge plans of people they pissed off, and possibly the end of the world as they know it. And also the fact that they're bloodsuckers who are always at risk of losing what humanity they have left and who cling to the people they are/were/want to be. The story is a mix of political plotting, supernatural elements and complex character development and interactions.
What's so good about it?
- excellent storytelling, roleplaying and voice acting; it's well edited and focuses on telling a cohesive story rather than on lots of table banter/jokes
- emotional depth: these characters are repeatedly put through the wringer and you get great depictions of all their anguish and grief and pain (and hope and love and ambition); all the emotional details that so many canons gloss over get explored in detail here
- really great explorations of what it means to be a vampire, all the moral dilemmas they're stuck in, the awful things they need to do to survive, the lines they are (or aren't) willing to cross
- the coterie members genuinely love and support each other, and all the dynamics within the group are convincing and intense; lots of loyalty and affection and self-sacrificing, but they also get to have serious conflicts and disagree and argue
- the player characters are: an uncharacteristically chill but still ambitious Ventrue who's willing to do horrible things to protect his people, a gruff Brujah ex-shovelhead with a not very secret protective soft spot, a tough, horny, unapologetic Gangrel mama bear, one of the most heartwrenching, sensitive depictions of a Malkavian ever, and an amnesiac Toreador trying to figure out who she is
- it's so fucking cool: the world they live in is dangerous and they get in plenty of trouble, but they also get to be badass and use cool powers to solve their problems in creative ways, and listening to them fight and plot and plan is just as much fun as listening to them talk about their feelings
Any content warnings?
Typical vampire things (murder, blood drinking, violence, manipulation), and also a fair amount of body horror due to the aforementioned fleshcrafting horrors. Every episode has more specific content warnings.
What am I requesting?
Miles/Johnny: the emotionally stunted leader who's great at pretending he's well-adjusted and totally fine (he's not), and his rough-but-caring, loyal right-hand man who supports all the ruthless life decisions he makes. They're a badass battle couple with insane amounts of loyalty kink. They have interesting contrasts going on – the laid back rich guy who loves being a vampire and the angry working class guy who just wanted to have a normal life with his family – but they also have a lot in common, like being very protective of their coterie and also always ready to fucking fight someone together.
I love everyone in the cast, though, and while I'm currently not requesting any other / and & ships, I would gladly read about pretty much anyone making an appearance.
And that's it! Thanks for reading - and if any of these sound like your kind of thing, I look forward to sharing a tiny fandom with you! :)
These canons are completely independent from each other, but they're all set in the world of the roleplaying game Vampire: The Masquerade. While that setting has lots of confusing lore, you absolutely don't need to know any of it to get into these canons. All three of them do a good job introducing the setting, explaining what you need to know, and making sure they're perfectly understandable even if all you know about Vampire is that it's about vampires. So if any of these sound interesting to you, but you're not at all familiar with VtM? Just go for it! :D
If you have any questions about these canons you'd like answered before you give them a try, I'd be happy to help! If you do give them a try and want to discuss them, I'm also always very happy to do that!
Fandom: Vampire: The Masquerade - Port Saga
Media type: scripted audio drama
Length: ~8 hours (two seasons with ten ~20-minute-episodes each)
Price: free
You can find it on:
Spotify, Youtube, various podcasting sites
What is this about?
A murder mystery set in the world of Vampire: The Masquerade.
Titus Reed, a young-ish vampire with some anger issues, returns to his home town after the murder of his estranged, but still beloved sire and ex-lover. An old friend of his has confessed to the murder, but Titus is convinced that there's more to it and starts investigating, which sees him pulled into the vampire politics of the city and forces him to deal with his own issues with his sire, his past, and his existence as a vampire.
What's so good about it?
- great voice actors, tight plotting and writing
- Titus is a great character: he's a Malkavian, but his "insanity" is both convincing and heartbreaking rather than quirky and silly; he has believable moral quandaries he deals with; he's tough in a fight, but hilariously bad at politics and scheming; he's also a musician and the podcast does really cool things with his psychic ability to "hear music" in certain situations that tells him something about what's going on
- a big, varied cast of side characters who all have their own agenda and moral complexities, whether you love them or love to hate them
- lots of shipping potential: several characters (including the main character) are canonically bi or gay, and while romance isn't a central theme, there are some background relationships and some flirting and many characters have shippy interactions you could build on in fic
Any content warnings?
In addition to the usual vampire stuff (murder, blood drinking, violence), Titus' background story involves (non-sexual) child abuse (he was abducted and locked in a basement for years as a kid), and he has some harrowing mental breakdowns.
What am I requesting?
Titus/Glass. Glass is an influential vampire in Port Saga whom Titus initially suspects of being involved in his sire's murder. He's a very cheerful, smug asshole who enjoys politically outmanoeuvring Titus, teasing him for getting outmanoeuvred, and putting him in uncomfortable situations. Their dynamic is tense and antagonistic, but not always outright hostile. I'm requesting this as anything from noncon to dubcon to consensual (but probably a bad idea).
Fandom: Vampire: The Masquerade - Parliament of Knives
Media type: visual novel
Length: 6-9 hours
Price: ~12€/12$/10£ (cheaper on sale)
Note: The length is for one playthrough, but the game has many different paths and great replayability. If you play on Steam, you can manually save the game for easier replaying (normally the game has one save per playthrough).
You can find it on:
Steam, Android/iOS, Choice of Games website
The first three (out of ten) chapters are available for free.
What is this about?
A "choose your own adventure" type of story set in the world of Vampire: The Masquerade.
The vampire ruler/Prince of Ottawa has mysteriously disappeared and every vampire in the city is plotting to take advantage of his absence, at the same time as a group of Anarch vampires comes to the city and causes trouble.
You play the childe and assistant of the Prince's ambitious second-in-command. Your character has the option to investigate what happened to the Prince, to support or fight the Anarchs, to ally with or betray various people, to be loyal to their sire or work against her, and to romance different characters (m/m, f/f and m/f options; romances aren't genderlocked).
What's so good about it?
- the complex plot with intrigues and scheming, which makes for great replayability because it's impossible to find out about every character's goals in one playthrough - every playthrough is basically a new story
- the background story of the Ventrue Prince and the Brujah leader of the Anarchs, who used to be lovers, broke up because of political disagreements, but are not even remotely over each other - part of the plot turns out to be driven by their relationship and other characters' reactions to it; they say things to each other like "you asked me to be your lifeline so you wouldn't lose yourself"
- so many fascinating NPCs you can get to know, and the amount of freedom you have in whose schemes you investigate and support or foil; and at least the m/m romance I played through (with Qui, the Prince's loyal Sheriff) is wonderful
- playing a vampire with cool supernatural abilities (depending on which clan you pick) is a ton of fun and gives you many different options to solve problems – you don't really fail in this game, no matter what you do, the story just develops in very different ways depending on what you achieve, what you find out, how you deal with various situations
Any content warnings?
Vampires, so murder, violence, blood drinking, torture, betrayal, mindfucking, manipulation ... IIRC no sexual violence, though.
What am I requesting?
- Arundel/Ward (the canonical Prince/Anarch "opposites attract" ship I waxed lyrical about above)
- Arundel/Qui (loyalty kink of the king/knight variety – in a setting in which everyone only seems interested in their own advancement, Qui is utterly devoted to his Prince)
- Ward/Qui (they hate each other and it'd be hot)
- Arundel/Ward/Qui
Fandom: Path of Night
Media type: actual play podcast (audio only)
Length: 100+ hours (finished campaign of 100 episodes, most of them ~1 hour long, but season finales etc. can be longer)
Price: free
You can find it on:
Spotify, Youtube, other podcasting sites
What is this about?
A Vampire: The Masquerade actual play set in 1999 in New Haven that's going for a classic 90s Vampire vibe.
It focuses on a group (or coterie) of vampires who have to deal with a variety of problems ranging from political intrigue, hiding their dangerous secrets, fleshcrafting horrors, protecting ghost friends from necromancers, revenge plans of people they pissed off, and possibly the end of the world as they know it. And also the fact that they're bloodsuckers who are always at risk of losing what humanity they have left and who cling to the people they are/were/want to be. The story is a mix of political plotting, supernatural elements and complex character development and interactions.
What's so good about it?
- excellent storytelling, roleplaying and voice acting; it's well edited and focuses on telling a cohesive story rather than on lots of table banter/jokes
- emotional depth: these characters are repeatedly put through the wringer and you get great depictions of all their anguish and grief and pain (and hope and love and ambition); all the emotional details that so many canons gloss over get explored in detail here
- really great explorations of what it means to be a vampire, all the moral dilemmas they're stuck in, the awful things they need to do to survive, the lines they are (or aren't) willing to cross
- the coterie members genuinely love and support each other, and all the dynamics within the group are convincing and intense; lots of loyalty and affection and self-sacrificing, but they also get to have serious conflicts and disagree and argue
- the player characters are: an uncharacteristically chill but still ambitious Ventrue who's willing to do horrible things to protect his people, a gruff Brujah ex-shovelhead with a not very secret protective soft spot, a tough, horny, unapologetic Gangrel mama bear, one of the most heartwrenching, sensitive depictions of a Malkavian ever, and an amnesiac Toreador trying to figure out who she is
- it's so fucking cool: the world they live in is dangerous and they get in plenty of trouble, but they also get to be badass and use cool powers to solve their problems in creative ways, and listening to them fight and plot and plan is just as much fun as listening to them talk about their feelings
Any content warnings?
Typical vampire things (murder, blood drinking, violence, manipulation), and also a fair amount of body horror due to the aforementioned fleshcrafting horrors. Every episode has more specific content warnings.
What am I requesting?
Miles/Johnny: the emotionally stunted leader who's great at pretending he's well-adjusted and totally fine (he's not), and his rough-but-caring, loyal right-hand man who supports all the ruthless life decisions he makes. They're a badass battle couple with insane amounts of loyalty kink. They have interesting contrasts going on – the laid back rich guy who loves being a vampire and the angry working class guy who just wanted to have a normal life with his family – but they also have a lot in common, like being very protective of their coterie and also always ready to fucking fight someone together.
I love everyone in the cast, though, and while I'm currently not requesting any other / and & ships, I would gladly read about pretty much anyone making an appearance.
And that's it! Thanks for reading - and if any of these sound like your kind of thing, I look forward to sharing a tiny fandom with you! :)