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I’m sure I have, but the tag system on mobile is a bitch. ✊😔

I never quite know how to answer these, because I include so much of my thoughts when I write already. Hard to think of things not already covered. Uhhh. I think he goes on to be a successful author, and truly enjoys it. Enjoys speaking at conferences, and giving advice to young writers too.

I think he’s very socially adept and gets along easily, and keeps a cool head more easily than most of the other survivors. Good at rolling with the punches.

I think he’s much funnier than people expect or give him credit for.

Has good fashion sense, but sometimes completely ignores it and looks ridiculous on purpose, especially if going somewhere with Ace (solidarity).

Jake (and quickly, Dwight) are first to pick up on a specific part of his sense of humor being that he acts straight laced but would do all kinds of goofy things with the squad ‘for the bit’ and can be prompted to with a quiet (‘…for the bit’.) Jake and he do this to each other in secret because if Meg found out it’s a thing it would never end.

Not great in a fist fight, but amazing aim (obviously) and one of the more proficient with blunt melee weapons.

Thinks it’s funny Ace calls him ‘Professor’ not because he actually was one, but bc when they met the way he was dressed looked to Ace like the Professor from Gilligan’s Island, and likes to tell that story (and is the kind of person who really enjoys that kind of story).

Knocked a man out with his laptop once and the laptop made it.

Some kind of demi-grey but potentially likes all kinds if they register high enough on the amazing scale. Definitely has had an interest at least 3 survivors at some point. It’s just usually not the focus amidst. Well. Everything but also him as a person.

The kind of person who has a huge collection of teas and can actually tell them apart by taste without looking and gets really excited and enthusiastic about different ways of brewing and new teapots. Collects mugs so everyone gets to go wild picking out some of the coolest ones you ever saw for him.

Gets people to start a book club with him post-realm, but instead of reading the same book, everyone reads a different one and then meets up to one at a time go bonkers (positive or negative) about the book they’re reading to everyone else. No firm rules. Meg Thomas showed up week 1 with a Silver Age Spider-Man compendium. Jane brought her own book as a joke and got trapped having to actually comment on it because everyone Yes, And’d her joke so hard. They all really enjoy it, but the meetings last longer than a d&d meet.

Also have this gif I made as a joke about him misusing his rock ability to throw rocks at killers like a god years ago for free as a bonus:

OOF, you be diggingggggg. I post a lot of nonsense. 😂🥰 

I’m going to be That ™️ Brujah ™️ Bitch ™️  here and say my main goal would be to make Vampire: the Masquerade not just disapproving of players being racist, homophobic, ableist etc, but have the lore be actively hostile to it. Grimedark stories are not for me, but some people like them. I’d want to erase elements that make tabletop campaigns needlessly harmful to the players and Storyteller. As a white woman, I think my biggest goal with re-tooling the lore would be to hire black, indigenous, and other people of color to re-tool it.

For example, the Gehenna Crusade in the Middle East. My God, those v5 lore bits were painful to read and I’m not even Asian or Muslim. I’d hire a group of people from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan--heck, Iranian, Israeli, and Palestinian writers would be amazing--to formulate the undead view on the atrocity that is the War on Terror. I thought Night Road touched on a interesting point with the concentration camp and Catholic hospital chapter: the horrors humanity creates are far, far worse than any Elder could do. Humans are set to destroy the world, more so than any magical creature. The question is not “will bad things happen?” so much as “how will I react to the bad things around me?”

Other ideas:

Moving the v5 section on content warnings and respectful playing to the front of the book. Read about how every fascist character MUST die or be reformed. That’s literally a rule.

A more careful analysis/explanation of NPC motivation. Let there be specific reasons Kindred do to not band together. It’s not arbitrary Backstabby Disease. There’s a reason why such-and-such hates so-and-so. “Power” is too nebulous a motivation and used too often to pit Kindred against each other. What type of power do they want and why? If they got it, what would they do with it? What is preventing 90% of Kindred getting along and hosting Neftlix parties, is what I’m saying.

handing over the Ravnos lore to writers and game devs who are Roma and/or Travelers, and putting in huge ass, lime green letters that “If you have the Ravnos be Roma or Travelers, you are playing the game incorrectly!” Because, my goodest dudes, I am le tired. Even though the Ravnos have been soft-revamped a couple times now, fans are still using their super harmful origin.

More environmentalism and combating climate change, with crossover to Werewolf: the Apocalypse. This ties in with the “humans are causing an apocalypse better than vampires ever do/did” theme.

In general, more of the different magic species interacting. They all inhabit one world, one globe! They all have a vested interest in protecting the earth!

It’s been beaten to death on here, but divorcing the concept of liking sex and/or having sex etc with the Humanity mechanic

In general, just let the vampires be sexy

Hire indigenous writers to write their own vampires (if that’s the term they’d want to use) for their tribe. The whole narrative that the Americas were empty of supernatural beings is like. No.

Shift to a more international focus with the “By Night” books. The USA, unfortunately, exists, and I think we’ve heard enough about it. What about By Night books set in South America? Written by indigenous folks there? And other folks of color? I’d love Cassandra Khaw and a team of Chinese writers to be hired to re-do the Kuei-jin, and for the many, many talented African fantasy writers to re-do the Laibon. Lagos by Night anyone?

Give the Anarch cause more specificity. You’re telling me that the Anarchs don’t have a constitution? In the year of our Lord 2021??? No Bill of Rights? No judicial system? No social programs or schools?? No democracy?? Like!!!! Have them keep up with the progressiveness of the time we’re living in. It’s been proven over and over and over that true anarchy is not sustainable.

Midnight Ride Theo Bell x Jan Pieterzoon

I was actually writing a post on this and was about to make it its proper post, lol.

So, I’ll give you the involvement of my former Sabbat vamps (+ Millicent Rue)!

-A very refined and dignified robot, despite the fact he looks like a cheesy Halloween decoration. Course he takes pride in his look, but he can also have a little sense of humor about it- a little, gets old quick. 

-Has a coffin shaped bed, it’s gaudy and ornate. Skull Man finds it gross, keep the coffin beds simplistic. 

-He cares for organic and robot bats, they’re wonderful creatures, very cute

-Loud noises bother him a lot, those big ears are sensitive to sounds normal humans can’t hear

-He likes taking long flights on clear nights, it helps him clear his head. He’ll go on flights with some of the other robot masters capable of flight, he enjoys the company. 

-Shade puts value on robots under him, those who aren’t robot masters with varying degrees of self awareness. He considers them individuals who he enjoys the company of. Shade just doesn’t like being lonely. 

-Definitely uses his wings as a blanket like bats, or to use to hug others.

Spoilers for current Flash comics in this post!