PLOT POST.

[vendor]

you are the blood flowing through my fingers, and up in those trees. fuck profiles because i know i'm lazy; instead, leave their descriptions here, and we can plot around and so on and so forth. it would be helpful to write about exactly what kind of role(s)/connections you're looking for, so we can treat this as like a vague character requests page too!

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[proportional]

MR BOUDREAU | proportional

Leader of The Never Were, a group comprised of vampires who were turned at a very young age. They pick up and accept only those who were still children when they turned. They trade a number of things in the market, namely vampire blood. Mr Boudreau is always looking to buy privileged human blood (which is basically blood that tastes really really really ridiculously good looking). A nice guy, considering, who will always appreciate a good conversation.

CRANE BECK | recompose

Is undead! Sort of a zombie, only not. The undead are fully functional human beings who can work and feel and have the exact same rational thoughts as everyone else - the only difference being that, in a technical sense, they're already dead. It is only possible to become undead through infection; whereabouts of patient zero are unknown. They eat fresh meat and require constant care, seeing as they are incapable of healing themselves. They are allowed to have jobs, but they don't have the same rights. They keep their intelligence and emotions, but aren't allowed to form a family. Even the slightest misdemeanor is punished with beheading, and they are all marked clearly on their neck to warn others of their status. Crane could have a really menial job and / or know someone in the market who has some use for him (or vice-versa)!

MS ROBIN | crooks

If you're looking for happiness, she will gladly provide. Obviously doing do requires a little sacrifice from unsuspecting victims, but it's not like they were doing anything lucrative with their own, right? Ms Robin's little potions don't come cheap, but she'll gladly put it on your tab - just don't wait too too long to pay her back. Looking for business and someone(s) who will bring her blissful sacrifices for extraction.

SULET | corruptions

A very lucrative buyer who could've been brilliant with his gift if he hadn't gotten himself addicted to privileged blood. Looking around to find all kinds of trinkets and aids, most likely getting himself in all kinds of trouble along the way. He probably owes you a lot of money (and other things).

[worsen]

atticus (worsen); is kind of a douchebag? he is, technically, an occultist who specializes in 'memory working'. it's basically memory manipulation, but through magic and lots of ritualistic mumbo-jumbo. he used to have a stall in the market to sell his services, whether it was for you to forget a painful memory or your wife to forget your fight from the morning before, or even something like making you remember a family holiday where you were the happiest you'd ever been except that it never happened.

he was really successful, but that was all before he'd gotten addicted to magic. (the raw stuff, mind; not the actual act. like, "innate talent", i guess?) nowadays he's kind of... at the bottom of the barrel and well on his way to hitting rock bottom, since his previous memory workings actually rely on him keeping his, like, general being intact, and with being so addicted to magic it kind of short-circuits his own. that doesn't mean he's quite so defenseless, though. he can still rip your consciousness to shreds. which is, essentially, the only reason why he's not dead. so. angry people? or. angry customers? or sad customers?? idk. come at me?

[teethfed]

rosehill(teethfed); is an au of rosella! some do call her rosella or rose, but most know her as rosehill. she's technically dead; so, a zombie, not unlike crane, but a different kind as she's stitched together and kept alive by magic, not disease. because of this, she needs to eat flesh that's been tainted by the blood of her maker (aka her boyfriend, yves.) she was born a natural, in that rosella is someone who can eat negative emotions, but at consequence to herself. her ability is carried on into her death, in that she can do it now, but she's pretty unable to process everything which is why she's so blankfaced and expressionless. too many emotions for one head = total shutdown!

she kind of gets pimped out for like, an hour at a time? so customers, certainly. or other dead people? necromancers might be a cool cr thing to explore.

[bloat]

cordelia (bloat); is an irl galatea figure! she was made of magic and so she reeks of it; she's the wife to her creator, but she also kind of. despises him? he made her with the distinct purpose of being like, the literal woman of his dreams, but he never mentioned personality so she eventually grew to loathe him and loathe herself. it's all very self-hating and sad and the supernatural equivalent of a loveless marriage, but she can't not love him because she literally just. can't? so she hangs out aroud the market a lot to try and find a loophole and will do almost anything to get it. so.

if you need customers this girl will probably scratch your back if you (attempt to) scratch hers! and cry a lot. she cries. a lot.

[freely]

daniel (freely); is like, a hippie occultist? he can funnel magic but he can't actively, like, 'create' it? so in that sense he's more "lower-tier" occultist than high-tier. his specialty is selling tiny little bonsai trees in the shape of x or y that can be used as like a "bank" for YOUR and YOUR MAGIC only, where if you give it like a tiny drop of your own magic a day it'll store it and amplify it and make it stronger, until the day you decide you want to tap a little bit of it (like a well!) and need it. he has a stall at the market that sells basically his tiny plants, herbs in tiny pots and, um. organic vegetables. orz. he's a gardner, he likes growing things!

he's also part of a coven named amyranth. daniel's capable of shifting into an animal but not in a traditional magick-y way; it's like a "cheapskate", short-cut through magic, so it's kind of seen as very much like cheating and also abomination-like because he's fucking with the balance of nature (which doesn't make much sense for a green man, but.) anyway, he's a nice dude so idk let him give you tomatoes for free because you look sad!!

[animatus]

no. Seven | animatus

the seventh-made in a series of successively better and more reliably-made gollems, no. Seven's original master was a quiet, dithering sort of occultist who'd dedicated the entirety of his life to uncovering the secrets of the philosopher's stone. upon his death, she was collected — along with the rest of her 'siblings' and her master's estate — by the vendor as payment for outstanding debts. she was then sold on the market to the market-goer with the highest bid: another alchemsist by the name of ebrahim.

she serves ebrahim by providing muscle and mettle to his operations — and, more often the not, is in charge with 'acquiring' the entrails that he eventually reads his divinations from. though small in stature, no. Seven is one of the strongest of the twelve gollems, since she was fashioned out of both flesh and stone, rather than mud or brick or metal or air. the first six gollems no longer exist, making no. Seven the oldest of the remaining six. her 'siblings' (aka other gollems, either sold to other masters or still held by the market waiting to be sold) would be great! other alchemists or even people who just periodically do business with ebrahim would work too. also somebody who can help a line-faced gollem find people nobody would miss.

[twelver]

ebrahim (twelver); is an occultist who is, technically, more of an alchemist! he, like every other alchemist on the planet, is looking for youth. he's kind of like, weirdly fixated on life and the promise of it, since his kind of MAIN thing is to siphon life from people (the younger they are, the better; the more magick-y the person is, the more difficult it is to use their 'lifeforce' as a tether to reach into the future). by, um, reading their entrails, but whatever man, fuck you. don't hate the player hate the game!! (no but, he's kind of a dick. and dresses really sloppily. whatever, whatever.)

he has also acquired a gollem by the name of no. Seven (as above!) he makes her do all his dirty work ha ha ha, so he basically walks around with a clear conscience re: killing kids and like hums while he does magicky alchemical science. give me customers! give me fellow occultists! give me people he can show off his lady to. well, you know. "lady." he's also a merchant, so like. hey-o, homie's got clout?

[cocoons]

charlene | cocoons

charlene does not play well with others and any occultist who has hung around the market for any prolonged amount of time over the past ten years has probably heard her name crop up at least once in conversation, filed under people you should steer clear of or otherwise not show off the full extent of your power in front of. also a member of amyranth, which is the coven that daniel of the magical bonsai trees is also a part of, charlene is a witch that feeds off other witches, using her own magic to leech their power to make it her own. although she never has and never will engaged in less-than-neutral activity on market grounds, she actively uses her time amongst the stalls scoping for the next well of power to suck dry.

like daniel, she can also take the shape of an animal and all of her magic is of the dark, destructive and leeching variety. charlene is also a natural dreamwalker, an ability she uses to her advantage when penetrating the defenses of another witch. rumor has it (former patrons anyone?) that charlene will ruin your enemy for you for the right price (money is not an object to her; she only deals in exchanges of power). oddly enough, she spends a lot of her time scowling at people from behind the counter of daniel's bonsai stall. she, like many of her amyranth covenmates, is considered to be an abomination by many witches' standards.

[excisions]

LET'S MAKE OUT

i mean um

[redmeat]

ishtar | redmeat

like any thriving economic system, the market has its own underbelly, complete with sex trade. ishtar — known to many as the mother monster — is a figurehead in the market's red light district and provides the very specialzed service of a monster harem (populated solely by her own children). offering the services of half-breeds and hybrids and monsters alike, part of the payment for laying with one of ishtar's children is laying with ishtar herself. she uses each client as an opportunity gather enough seed to keep her garden 'flush' with new creepy crawlies (variety is the spice of life!).

although isthar's services tend to appeal to the fetishistic, bizarre and slightly off-kilter, more traditional brothel services are available (and, on the flip side, more extreme). in ishtar's house, nothing is considered taboo, only more expensive. most of her children render services obediently, happy to placate their doting mother. there are a few here and there, however, that have tried to bribe their way out of the market and out of ishtar's grasp. i will be rolling a couple of ishtar's children but i'd love it if anyone else would roll more! their services run the gambit from hardcore snuff to more cultured companionship (like geisha). clients, happy or unhappy, also welcome!

of extra note: ishtar is of the merchant class. unlike other merchants who are descendants of some of the market's original founders, rumor has it that ishtar helped found the market way back when herself. (she neither confirms nor denies this.) members of the original founding merchant houses would also be great cr for her to have.

[twelver]

hey boo let's make a deal :* merchants got to stick together and also ebrahim probably understands the whole seed-for-life deal better than most orz sorry (not sorry)

[excisions]

hey boo let's make a deal 2.0?

/BATS LASHES

[tendrils]

ulé | tendrils

ulé is one of ishtar's younger daughters and, when she is not working, is often left in charge of whatever siblings are unable to take care of themselves (babies, hatchlings and the like). this, coupled with the fact that ulé has been just recently been put into 'circulation' means that she remains less jaded and much softer than her older siblings (and, in many ways, still retains the naiveté that has long since disappeared in the others).

a half-bred from a monster that comes from a dark world between worlds, ulé is chtuluesque in nature. prolonged exposure to her causes paranoia and madness and in her huge mass of curly hair and under the frilly skirts of her dress, she has more than a few tentacles hidden. she is notoriously difficult to kill (something which makes her very popular with a particular crowd), though press ulé's buttons wrong and you may find yourself throttled and strung up by your neck by one of her numerous apendages. looking for just general acquaintances in the market (you'd' see her running around with small monster children or pushing around a basinette with an unnervingly shadowed basket), clients of either her or her siblings, and specifically someone who works security detail for ishtar's various establishments (ESSENTIALLY A BODYGUARD TYPE).

[contrick]

can q and her be fraaaands? he can show her card-tricks and teach her sleight of hand (which she will no doubt be excellent at because appendages?) it might need a lot of manipulation, but i imagine because of his probability deal he could maybe make it so that the paranoia + madness side-effect of her company is less, for him?

also, vartan says hi.

[contrick]

q (contrick); is a market-goer who disguises himself as a natural! he has an enchanted coin that allows him to manipulate probability, but he's also a very good liar, and there's substantially less risk involved when you can pass yourself off as a natural who literally doesn't know that they can do the thing you're accusing them of doing. he (mostly) targets and swindles people outta cash, not magical items, so he's more like a mundane person with supernatural means rather than a supernatural person with mundane needs! he calls himself "Q" (no james bond association there) and hangs out at the market just kind of window-shopping, since his main "prey" is like, witless normal people. orz. sometimes he also runs a high-stakes poker game for various merchants and stall-owners, but he never, ever participates, just moderates and makes sure everybody pays up.

he needs fraaands. (maybe a crew he rolls with? a fine lady partner he rolls with for the long-cons, but not one who he like 'travels' together with?) and associates. the whole shebang!

[excisions]

ardia (excisions); is l-lol what you'd expect every marion pb to be? the victim of spousal abuse + rape, ardia took to the market after her husband cursed her before he died. (it's unclear as to whether she killed him or he just bit off more than he could chew, magically speaking.) as a result, ardia is a market-goer who is also kind-of not really a natural, in that whatever she touches feels overwhelming pain (and, vice-versa, she can't be touched). unfortunately, over the years (she's not quite as young as she looks) this has taken to a very strange sexual appetite. she's essentially a black widow-esque (esque!) trophy wife!

needs: suitors (or current main squeeze, har har?) and idk sexual devaints, i guess. monsters too! she's a small-time bloodworker type occultist, so if you're a weirdo... let's hang out?

[paraphilia]

vartan (paraphilia); is another jackass! he comes from a family who used to be part of the merchant ring, but was kicked out some forty odd years ago for doing something terrible which i have not fully decided yet, but no doubt got all the other merchants + the vendor himself pissed off. the story as his family tells it, however, is a different one that's spun to put them into a good light, which means that vartan's grown up with not only an extremely powerful stream of magic in his blood and just at his fingertips, he's also grown up with a sense of superiority. intense superiority. "i should be merchant-class" type superiority.

he's very much into buying fancy shit i.e. collector's items and visiting ishtar's place, so if you want like. ....jamie lannister but, like, not, then... sign right up! or if you're into necrophilia. ...or just general sexual deviance, really.