#agent 64

Harriet - she wants people to think she's ice cold with no flaws and a calculating mind. She is mostly successful to this end, except to Matt and Victor who know her to be deeply anxious and craving physical intimacy.

Victor - he wants to be seen as a friendly happy-go-lucky guy. He is, however, a six-foot-ten clammy skeleton with a face like a bear trap and the voice of an ancient chain smoker. He looks like slenderman with teeth. He looks like a wet zombie. He looks like a ghoul. He sniffs people. He comes off as a creep. He is, in fact, a bit of a creep, but he is friendly and happy-go-lucky about it!

Trixie - she wants to be perceived as the most beautiful woman you have ever met and - oh! - a little sprinkle of fairy dust means she has the PERFECT glamour for this <3 she is seen EXACTLY how she wants to be seen. This is magic.

Agent 64 - would rather not be perceived and does, in fact, have the ability to disappear (it's an agent thing). However people DO notice him, and they notice how kind he is, and feel like he is a rock that can support them. Which he is!

Before either of them could reply, they heard someone in the corridor clear their throat. They turned, and saw an Institute Agent. Well… not quite an Institute Agent. The Agents tended to be all the same height and build, with little in the way of hair, and an inhuman quality about their movements. This person stood nervously, almost sheepishly. He wore the sharp black suit, yes, and the dark sunglasses, yes, but he looked more like a man dressed as an Agent than an actual Agent. “I’m uh, here for the, uh…” “Oh god!” said Trixie covering her mouth. “Ugh I’m so sorry Hugh, I completely forgot we had an appointment!” “Oh it’s fine Trixie, I know we’re understaffed…” She smiled gratefully. “Thanks. Here are your assignments,” she said, gesturing at the other two people in the corridor. “I’ll leave you to guess which one is an undead creature of the night and which one is the scientist.” “Uh,” She pointed at Victor and mouthed ‘vampire’. “Ah, yes. Sorry. Hi guys, I’m Agent 64.” “Uh, hi,” said Harriet. “I’m a Secret Agent in Training!” said Agent 64 proudly. “Once he masters not yelling out his profession to the public, we’ll get around to making sure he doesn’t crack under torture.” Said Trixie with a wink. Agent 64 blushed with embarrassment. “He’s here to help you two with your main job of trying to get all the vampires rounded up. He has a van-driver’s license so you can kidnap people to your heart’s content in an unmarked van. We are a secret government organisation after all.”

Agent 64 is an Agent working for the Institute. Most Agents are clones (which is why they look similar) all raised on the secret base on the moon, while Agent 64 was born a normal human baby and grew up like the rest of us. When an alien spacecraft crashed into his street as a child, he saw the Institute Agents talk to all the grown-ups in his life and assure them it was a gas explosion. He was AWED by the way they seemed to just take their sunglasses off, look someone in the eye and say "that is not a giant spaceship" and they just BELIEVED whatever the agents said.

From then on, he made it his lifelong goal to become an agent. He has now been an agent for over 20 years. He has gone non-contact with his family as they didn't accept him coming out as gay as a teenager, but he lives happily with his husband Fred and is involved in Fred's extended family, learning British Sign Language to help communicate with Fred's deaf niece.

NONE OF THIS actually comes into the story. In Bloodmood he's one of the main 4 but as he's not done heinous amoral things (looking at Harriet and Victor...) or huge morally questionable things (looking at Trixie) and he's just a happy little fellow that loves his job, he provides a nice contrast. Everyone is having 8 types of drama at a time and Agent 64 is just in the background pottering about.

I like to drop references to his outside life: he mentions Fred now and then, and Trixie knows him as 'Hugh' and sometimes lets slip this name instead of 'Agent 64'.

Day 13: Treat

Confessions Part 1

grab any number of OCs by the scruff and throw them into a karaoke, they have to sing a song. what are they singing? it has to be a song that fits them but also that they would choose to sing

THIS IS A HUGE CHALLENGE

So. Harriet canonically only knows Abba's greatest hits and has refused to listen to any other music. If she had to sing karyoke she ONLY has Abba's Greatest Hits to fall back on, and idk if you're familiar with swedish pop sensation Abba but they do NOT make songs about self destructive sadistic mad scientists. They do however have Gimme, Gimme, Gimme;

Victor's a bit easier because he listens to a lot of music (...after the story of Bloodmood. Before Bloodmood he lives in a lab with no music, during the plot he's too busy having adventures, but afterwards...) and I think this would suit him. He says this while sweating and hoping Harriet isn't reading into these lyrics. Also his voice is NOT smooth enough for singing so imagine this with a lot more coughing, hacking and rasping.

Agent 64 is confident enough in his masculinity to sing girly pop songs. He is a Carley Rae Jepsen fan and he loves his husband; he has sung this song in his kitchen so he is well practiced to sing this out loud at karyoke.

Trixie knows a lot of music and she's a party girl so for her I will pick... Bubblegum Bitch by Marina and the Diamonds, because her ability to look like anyone's perfect girl, the way she flirts with people, she has a lot of quick fast-burning relationships similar to this chaotic tune;

And this beautiful song for Matt who loves his girlfriend so much - let's not worry about the part where he comes out of the grave again, this is a poetic and romantic song...

Also Matt would have an INCREDIBLE singing voice and it would be epic to hear him sing Hozier.

Writing something from book 2 (!!!!) so it may not be canon...

 Two hours into her vigil, she texted Agent 64.

“Want to make a bet? x”

She waited for his response. He only took two minutes to respond.

“No. I do not think that is professional. How is it going?”

“I bet £50 that they will bang tonight x”

“It used to be £10 :( “

“Haha, scared you’ll lose the bet? ;) x”

“Are they okay?”

“They are quiet right now. Bored as fuck. Can I ask a HUGE FAVOUR? xxxx”

“Anything bestie.”

“Can you grab me a Chinese? Please? xxxxxxxxx”

“Of course. The usual? Beef chow mein?”

“Thank you, LIFESAVER <3 <3 <3 “ She then clarified; “I do not want to wake them up, could you text me just before you get here rather than knock on the door? I am trying to be QUIET xxx”

“Absolutely, ETA 30mins”

So with this answer you are going to get some LORE!!!

Most secret agents are in fact from a cloning base on the moon. Aliens from space want to remain hidden from humanity, so they make their own agents (human DNA with a few organic alien implants) and literally have a hiring agency where you can contract a number of agents to your Institute. This is possibly my wildest snippet of lore and it is never mentioned in Bloodmood because it's a vampire story, not an alien one. A sequel can be about aliens, maybe (Alienmood?).

Agent 64 was born and raised on Earth, his DNA is a mix of his mother's and his father's. However, he met some agents who tried to wipe his memory of a spacecraft crash and he fell in love with the idea of becoming a secret agent. He was like 8 years old at the time and made it his life mission to become an agent (most children when encountering the agents are Very Scared).

After a considerable amount of his time spent stalking and researching them, he was eventually allowed to join their ranks. He had to have some of the implants inserted (most notably the eyes: the hypnotic gaze of agent eyes allow you to alter memories - sunglasses are worn to avoid this happening on accident) (also he has true sight, he can see fairies) but is the most 'human' of all agents as he grew up on Earth and not the cloning base on the moon.

To say he is a misfit is an understatement.

Trixie on the other hand, grew up in the underworld, because she is a fairy. She was captured by humans, taken to the institute, tortured for decades then eventually was advocated for and given a job at the institute instead.

The only fairy staff member in a human team obviously becomes friends with the only human staff member in an alien clone team. They are both out of place but glad to be there.