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queenconsortvampire the masquerade commission. this one gave me a lot of trouble but i do think it eventually came together in a way i can appreciate. the character is a dark ages malkavian.
#art #vampire-the-masquerade #vtm #malkavian #queenconsort
Murdoc Addams 🧛🏻
🇨🇦@marionline
Tl; dr: There is a fictional clan of vampires that I believe represent neurodiversity.
In the #ttrpg Vampire: The Masquerade, vampires are divided into clans, each with its own traits, powers, weakness, and culture. For example, the Brujah clan are known as rebels, and are great fighters, while the Ventrue clan are mostly politicians and business leaders, and are masters at manipulating people.
One clan is called Malkavian, and the only thing that they all have in common is that they are all insane, suffering from any kind of mental illness. Other than that, they are all different, in appearance, outlook, goals, etc. Because of this, they are generally distrusted, because you can't as easily stereotype them like you can the other clans. Also, many find Malkavians hard to understand, and even when they feel that they do, they likely don't in reality.
One thing that some Malkavians are known for is a certain, uncanny insight. In ancient times they were sometimes regarded as oracles or mad prophets. Even today a select few are trusted enough as advisors. They just seem to see things and know things that others don't, but just as often they see things that aren't there, or 'know' things that aren't true. The trouble is figuring out which is which in each case. Most of the time they are just discounted, ignored, or even ridiculed.
But a lot of the writing about Malkavians makes me think that they were never intended to be representatives of mental illness, but instead of neurodiversity, that the writers of the time simply didn't have the language to express that. They also may have been content to use the issue of mental illness as a metaphor, because of how often neurodiverse people get labeled as such, and are thus ignored, discounted, even abused.
Every vampire clan in the game has a "curse" that they can never be rid of. The Brujah for example are cursed to be easily enraged, representing their continued frustration over abuses of the system. The Ventrue are cursed to only be able to drink the blood of a particular type of person (e.g. virgins), because of how refined their tastes are due to a culture of entitlement. Likewise, the Malkavian "curse" of insanity can never be cured. But is this not a metaphor for how some types of neurodiversity such as autism also cannot be "cured", because they are inherent, just a different way of being? There are some Malkavians who believe that their insanity isn't even a curse at all, but instead their strength. Some others believe that it is merely another way of being, that everyone is "insane" just in different ways. (One book lists a couple dozen different such 'outlooks' that a Malkavian can have, ranging from detailed cosmologies to simply "BLEH!")
I was a fan of this clan from the moment I first heard them described to me. I always thought that it was because they represented a chance to play silly or really strange characters. Yet I always felt a strong identification with them, as have other people that I've known. And this identification mysteriously produced an inclusive kind of camaraderie among us that I have similarly found among my fellow neurodivergents. So the more I think about it, and the more I learn about neurodiversity, the more convinced I become that Malkavians are representatives of neurodiversity; our diversity, our difference from typical society, and our struggles, social, mental and emotional. There is a lot written about them that supports this, but I think that this introduction to the idea is long enough now.
As one Malkavian said, "Remember: 'curse' is 'cures' spelled sideways!"
GMRaphiDa hatte ich doch mal was dazu gemacht! #animation #liveWallpaper #lwp #Android #custom #Malkavian #vtm #v5 #symbol #pnpde #ttrpg #vamily
rollspelosofenNu har jag fått ihop både en bakgrund och en synopsis för min #Malkavian-metaplot. Det blev bra till slut och jag är nöjd. Så nöjd att jag känner ett visst obehag över vad jag skrivet.
GrizgutsA gift for my VtM Coterie, of our characters we play in our 'Fall of London' Chronical that we'll be ending soon and picking up our sequel second game with new characters, which follows the aftermath of what these goobers - sorry "Heralds of the Sun" got up to.
From left to right;
Mila, of clan Ravnos ( @diablerie.doll )
Mr. Bertram Davenport, of clan Ventrue ( Nathan - Mr.EnthralledYet )
Gwen, of clan Gangrel ( myself )
Dizzy, of clan Malkavian ( @enthralledyet )
Not gonna lie, I think I'm going to really miss my Gwen, my traumatised lil' feral fighter lol. If you'd like to know more about her, you can read the backstory I gave her here;
#VtM #Vampire #Masquerade #VampireTheMasquerade #Kindred #Human #Male #Female #Vamily #Coterie #Clan #Ravnos #Ventrue #Gangrel #Malkavian #HeraldsOfTheSun #Heralds #FoL #FallOfLondon #Mila #BertramDavenport #Gwen #Dizzy #DiablerieDoll #EnthralledYet
Gwen History.doc
Gwenyth Hunter Gwenyth Hunter was born April 7th 1900, on her family's farm on the northern outskirts of London. Her father Arthur and mother Judy ran a small sheep farm, with the help of Gwen's older brother Jimmy, and eventually Gwen too as soon as she was big enough to help. They also had a s...
EllyawnTW : Toxic Relationship
ENG:
In last night's game, during a party while Iris was with her sweetheart Vanessa, she saw a beautiful woman come join them and sit down at the table. When Iris started talking to her, her friends asked her what's going on because no one else saw her.
Vanessa then understood that it was the derangement Iris was developing with her clan's blood, and when Iris described the woman, she had a panic attack.
The woman Iris saw was Vanessa former love and Sire, who died around thirty years earlier. After calming her down in a more private room, Vanessa apologized to Iris, she think it's her fault if Iris going through this, before revealing her secret to Iris.
Since Iris has known Vanessa, she has always seen her with an earpiece that she never took off and that everyone advised Iris to not touch. That evening, Vanessa handed her the other so that she could hear what was there: the voice of Vanessa former love and Sire, whom her own derangement condemns to listen.
Iris doesn't intend to let go of Vanessa, even if this ghost comes between the two.
And Vanessa won't let Iris go anyway, she love her to much.
FR :
Dans la partie d'hier soir, lors d'une soirée tandis qu'Iris était avec sa chérie Vanessa, elle a vu une magnifique femme venir les rejoindre et s'installer avec elles à table. Quand Iris a commencé à lui parler, ses amis lui ont demandé ce qu'il se passait car personne d'autre ne la voyait.
Vanessa a compris alors que c'était le dérangement que je développai avec le sang de son clan, et quand j'ai décris la femme, elle a fait une crise de panique.
La femme que je vois est son ancien amour et Sire, morte une trentaine d'année plus tôt. Après l'avoir calmé dans une pièce plus privée, Vanessa s'est excusée auprès d'Iris, pour elle c'est de sa faute si elle subit ça, avant de lui révéler son secret.
Depuis que Iris connait Vanessa, elle l'a toujours vu avec une oreillette qu'elle ne retirait jamais et que tout le monde lui a déconseillé de toucher. Ce soir là, Vanessa lui a tendu l'autre pour qu'elle puisse entendre ce qu'il y avait : la voix de son ancien amour et Sire, que son propre dérangement condamne à écouter.
Iris ne compte pas lâcher Vanessa, même si ce fantôme se met entre les deux. Et Vanessa ne compte pas laisser partir Iris de toute façon, elle l'aime trop.
#wod #vampire #vampirethemasquerade #vampirelamascarade #worldofdarkness #mondedestenebres #MdT #rpg #ttrpg #jdr #drama #Malkavian
New solo game with my malkavian ghoul Iris ^^
She met the Toreador Primogen who want to hire her for concert in her restaurant for some events from time to time. The Prince Ghoul was here too, to prevent anything since I'm under his protection for now.
After some time of reflexion, Iris know and accept the fact she will be Embrace, but she wants to enjoy life as much as possible before that. And she only accept that Vanessa (Domitor and Lover) do it.
The difficulty for Iris is knowing that she will have to change her relationships with the members of her group unless she makes them ghouls.
And she want to do a road trip to the USA with Vanessa and Victoria, but it's not possible, Victoria don't know anything about vampires and it will be difficult to eplain to her why Vanessa don't go out when the sun rise. >_<
#vampire #wod #worldofdarkness #vampirev20 #vampirethemasquerade #LyonByNight #ttrpg #oc #jdr #mondedestenebres #malkavian
JeffersonHarris"Devil Doll" This character is certainly inspired by Clan Malkavian from Vampire: The Masquerade. #art #mastoart #horror #horrorart #vampire #vampireart #halloween #VampiretheMasquerade #malkavian #CharacterDesign #OriginalCharacter #digitalart #digitalillustration
