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Maybe you've considered appping a new character but you're not sure how well they would adjust to the in-game scenario? Well, here's a chance to give it a try!

• Post with a character journal you'd like to voicetest or you've considered apping to Ruby City. Feel free to play them as newcomers or as if they've been here for a while - the setting is your own choice.

•Respond to other threads with new characters or with characters who are already in the game.

• Explore different interactions, find castmates, develop possible CR - anything you want, as long as you have fun!

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[Mavis has to do a double take for a second before she takes a step back. Her previous run in with humans hadn't been a good one, not in the least, and while she would've once been excited to actually meet one in person, the memory of the village makes her cringe a little bit.]

Uh...yeah. Um, you're not going to attack me are you?

Unless you're planning to attack me.

[Not that she has any weapons. But if she thinks of what North would do, she's sure she'll come out of this fine.]

I don't know who you are, but I'll have you know that the Bandit King has been teaching me. But, I'd very much like to make an amiable meeting instead.

[Grey eyes fixed on Mavis, Katherine folds her arms, trying to stand tall.]

[She gives a small wince, wondering who this Bandit King human was. He had to be impressive if he had the title of a king after all. Still, she can understand that and she smiles a little sheepishly.]

Sorry, it's just...my first time meeting humans didn't go so well. My name's Mavis.

[...Human?]

My name's Katherine. But... If you aren't human, then what are you? Are you from the moon? Or perhaps from where Nightlight is from, from the palaces of the Golden Age or are you perhaps like the spirit that guards our woods?

[With a bit of a frown, Katherine inspects Mavis-- who to her, looks human enough.]

You don't look very much like our spirit, though.

[Well, Katherine looked like a nice enough girl. Much nicer than the humans in the village, though she raised an eyebrow. From the moon? That was certainly an odd question, even to give a monster.]

Actually, I'm a vampire.

[A vampire? Not even Nicholas had spoken of meeting such a creature and Katherine wasn't even sure they were real, though the word seemed familiar. Perhaps in one of Ombric's old books she'd seen the word-- but even then, such a word had a more... frightening connotation to it.

Mavis didn't seem too frightening at all.]

Is that... so?

[Well, she'd simply have to learn about Mavis, and that would answer all her questions. Another story to tell, just waiting to happen. Perhaps she'd done very right by staying at the station after all.]

Then, I'm sorry if I had frightened you very much.

Oh no, it's okay. You don't seem like the humans in the village near my home so it was my fault for drawing on my first impression of them.

[It probably hadn't been fair on her, and if anything, her dad had always taught her to be polite, neurotic tendencies that he had. She had no idea about the way humans saw vampires, just that they found them to be menacing beasts when really they were just like everyone else. She shuffled a little awkwardly, rubbing at her arm before going back to the earlier question.]

So I guess that means that this place isn't the castle after all. No human has ever set foot inside our hotel, so you're new here too?

Castle?

[With a bit of a sigh, Katherine looks around and pushes the hair out of her hood.]

I don't understand where I am at all. I was with my friend-- the bandit King-- but then I woke up on that contraption, and this place is nothing like anything I've ever imagined.

[Katherine can't help but spin around slowly as she looks again, bewildered.]

Ombric had imagined and made most everything in our village but I have never seen a place like this. I'm afraid that if you were looking for information, I can't help very much at all.

[Mavis follows her gaze as she looks around, taking in the sights. She'd never set foot outside the castle grounds until last night, so it wasn't like she could offer much help either. She gave Katherine a smile, one fang poking out between her lips.]

Then I guess that means we'll have to stick together. We're both in the same boat, so we might as well keep each other company.

[A smile like that was at least very charming. Mavis wasn't very frightening at all, and as soon as Katherine had a lump of charcoal and paper to her name, she was very inclined to draw this vampire.]

It's best not to travel alone. There can be fearlings, perhaps, but I haven't seen any.

[And she was very glad for that. Perhaps this was a world Pitch had not dared enter.

She offers her hand to Mavis, smiling herself.]

Someone has to be around who knows what this place is.

Fearlings huh? I've never heard of monsters like that before and I've met just about every monster that comes to the hotel.

[She takes the offered hand with a small curtsey, tilting her head. It was nice to know she at least had a friend in this new place. Not that she'd had a friend before that wasn't one of her numerous uncles. Still, it'd be nice to have someone her own age...or, at least close to her maturity.]

You've never heard of fearlings?

[Katherine seems quite surprised.]

They and the Nightmare Knights are the warriors of the Nightmare King Pitch. I was helping North-- that's why I have to get back home, because if I don't, then I can't make sure that Pitch doesn't... well, win.

No, never.

[The Nightmare King? Mavis raised an eyebrow, looking a little bewildered and confused. She knew one of her dad's nicknames in the old days was the King of the Night, but that didn't sound right.]

Wow. So does that mean you get to travel?

Sort of.

[Katherine sighs, pouting just a little.]

They were going to go without me. But they got in trouble, because the mechanical Djinni Nicholas had made-- well, Pitch had slipped inside of it and possessed it, so that he could walk in the light without harm! And when Ombric had led them to the place he wanted Pitch to believe the Moon Clipper's ruins were, Pitch cast spells of servitude on them.

--But I shouldn't keep you here with a story if we're looking for information, I'm sorry.

No, no it sounds really interesting!

[Just like a novel! A dashing hero, a villain, mysteries! Mavis tucked her arms behind her back, smiling a little.]

It's more than I'd ever get to do at least. My dad's...a little overprotective.

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