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the kiss - bites and feeding

"It is an extremely intimate experience, perhaps the most intimate experience either participant will ever experience. For the victim, a vampire's bite brings exquisite bodily pleasure, comparable to or even greater than the height of sexual release."

Birdie is a vampire, and with that comes the requisite blood drinking. Vampire: The Masquerade canon puts it down as being a pleasant and nearly sexual sensation for those being bitten. It does not have to be! I will always go with personal preference, from the full orgasmic euphoria from canon to vague 'doesn't hurt and kinda feels nice.' The wounds will be healed after, though that does involve licking.

disciplines - presence and melpominee

—• Presence: Awe allows her to grab the attention of those near her, making them suddenly desire to be closer to her and more receptive to her directions. Dread Gaze allows her to strike fear into someone by showing her supernatural nature (baring fangs, a malevolent glare, etc.), potentially to the point that they flee her presence. Entrancement allows her to bend someone's emotional desire to her own, so that the person will become obedient and fawning for some amount of time anywhere between an hour or so to months.

Typically, she uses Awe when on stage or finding someone to feed from, and Dread Gaze or Entrancement are reserved for when she feels threatened.

—• Melpominee: The Missing Voice allows her to throw her voice to anyone in sight or even duet herself while singing. Phantom Speaker allows her to throw her voice to anyone she is familiar with regardless of distance, as long as it's night wherever the other person is at the time of using it. Toreador's Bane allows her to entrance someone with her singing voice and keep them in that state as long as she keeps singing. Finally, Madrigal allows her to manipulate the emotions of her audience with her singing, though it does not influence what they do about those feelings.

While Toreador's Bane and Madrigal are pretty performance-specific (they only work when she is singing, and do not translate through recordings or broadcasts), throwing her voice with Missing Voice or Phantom Speaker are reserved for providing distractions or communicating with people she trusts and already know she's a vampire.

blood - ghouls and bonds

Ghouls are what happens when a living human drinks vampire blood. A ghoul will stop aging from the time they begin drinking vampire blood, gain a single dot of one discipline of the vamprie that ghouled them, and be a little quicker to heal. To maintain being a ghoul, the human has to drink blood regularly, at least once a month. If they don't they will age to their true chronological age (which, depending on how long they've been a ghoul, can lead to death).

Blood bonds are what happens when anyone drinks a vampire's blood more than three times. This includes ghouls. Canon states that there's a loss of personal willpower involved, with the victim (thrall) doing whatever it takes to make the vampire in question (regnant) happy and fear angering them, usually manifested as infatuation or obsession, but I'm flexible on how it can work depending on what others want to play with.

Birdie has never done either before, though she has fed the ghouls of others when they were too far from their regnant to get their 'dose' in time, and she's generally uncomfortable with the idea of bonding people to her. Doing either would need some build up and clear necessity to justify going through with that level of commitment. (Same goes for the potential of her siring another vampire -- she is not ready for that level of responsibility!)

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