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[nobloody]

VOICETESTING

You know how it goes, sometimes you've just gotta make a post for voicetesting. So here we are!! I have never actually played OCs in DWRP and so now I'm weirdly nervous about it so I could use some assistance in ironing some things out! I made this OC with Sable (who plays Blanche) and I'm looking to get a feel for him while I work out some details about his history/etc! Because I'm a simple person, you get murdergame prompts. I'm open to other sorts of prompts or generic jamjars/etc if you'd prefer to do that too! This is just what I could come up with off the top of my head, lmao.

ALARIC THURN

Personal knight of Queen Blanche of the Kingdom of Lamarre, and one half of the duo responsible for a bloody coup that recently put the Queen on the throne. While Alaric looks the part of a royal knight and has the skills to back it up, he's more like a wild dog barely being held back by the leash that is Queen Blanche's morality. He cares about exactly two people besides himself and otherwise would let the world burn if it meant their safety. He really, really, really hates nobles and was all too glad to kill Blanche's siblings!! Cares more about his clothes and his appearance than almost anything else. Well, maybe except for fighting. Remarkably laidback almost all the time, but is he really just that "no thoughts, head empty" or is there more to him...?

Alaric Thurn | Fixated
Occupation: Queen Blanche's personal knight
Age: 26 | Height: 6'1" | Weight: (idk i'm so bad at this section he's not super buff??)
Likes: Queen Blanche, his mom, fighting, fashion, power, money
Dislikes: Nobles, those who misuse their power, ruining his clothes, boredom
Trivia: On average, Alaric ruins three outfits a week!

Prompts will be posted below! Feel free to respond to whichever one(s) interest you or hit me up on plurk to figure out something else! I'm definitely fine with wildcards or just throwing something random out there, so it doesn't have to be murdergame based!

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[nobloody]

[Surely not, who would kill someone in the kitchen?? Would they really desecrate such a sacred place??]

Kinda surprised to see you up this early, but that'd explain it.

[Not that Alaric knows Linhardt well, but he's definitely gotten the sense that the guy would rather sleep his way through this murdergame. Which would be a mood except Alaric doesn't sleep much to begin with.]

Curiosity. You don't mind if I join, yeah?

[Maybe he's on edge for no reason, but better to be safe than sorry. Note that before Linhardt has even answered, Alaric's already heading off in the direction of the kitchen, sorry not sorry.]

[hefring]

[ Rip the kitchen, we knew ye well...meanwhile, Linhardt doesn't bother suppressing another yawn. If not for the small inconvenience, he'd definitely be counting sheep by now. He absolutely doesn't think he's about to regret a small and quick trip to the kitchen for a glass of water. ]

No—and look at that, you've already decided you were going to come along, weren't you?

[ He says with a bit of small amusement. But he doesn't mind all that much, he supposes. It'll be a quick trip.

But, something will be evidently amiss with the kitchen, given that someone has moved, let us say...a table and a stack of chairs atop it in order to block entrance into said area. How rude. ]

Really...don't people have better things to do other than be an awful nuisance early in the morning?

[nobloody]

[Alaric just glances over his shoulder with a grin at that; yep. He's coming along and Linhardt's just gonna have to accept it.

Of course, they've got bigger things to worry about right now, and Alaric inclines his head a bit at the strange blockade to entering the kitchen.]

Seems like someone really doesn't want you getting that glass of water.

[Dumb jokes aside, it really is odd... Sure, some of the people here have messed around, but not usually like this. It's not quite enough to get his mind to jump to "murder" immediately, but it's weird. Alaric takes a step back and then rams the door with his shoulder... but nope.]

Not gonna brute force this one open. C'mon, let's try the other door.

[It involves going the long way around through the other side of the dining room, but hopefully that one will be open! If we've got a locked room murder for week 1 that will be hilarious terrible.]

[hefring]

Yes, it appears so.

[ Though because he can't at the moment with this one entranceway being blocked, Linhardt is admittedly now...curious at what's going on here. Now for better or worse he decides not to turn around and head on back. He has to see what's in the kitchen.

So he is waiting, hoping the blond can brute force his way in, but that doesn't appear to be going all that well. Curiouser and curiouser... ]

If someone managed to block the other entrance I might be a little impressed. Mostly annoyed, but a bit impressed nonetheless at the dedication.

[ Lindy goes in a bit of a speedwalk to the other door, which doesn't have an obvious blockade in front of it. But when he tries to turn the doorknob, and push the door open...it only budges a smidgen and it is not nearly enough to open properly to even just a crack. He sighs and stands back from it. ]

There's something mostly keeping this door shut. Maybe you'll have better luck with this one?

[ As a terrible note, what is lying against this door is somebody's dead body. So yes, it appears it will be a 'locked room' murder. ]

[nobloody]

[We have the best luck, don't we??

Anyway, Alaric follows Linhardt when he moves to try the other door, and after watching that attempt, he nods.]

Yeah, I should be able to get this one open. Stand back.

[Alaric's built more like the speedy swordsmaster type, so while he's not very physically bulky, he definitely does have some strength to put to good use. And in this case "good use" is brute forcing that door open and pushing that poor corpse out of the way. There's probably a smear of blood on the floor as he gets it open, sorry, Linhardt...

And what's within is even more of an "I'm sorry, Linhardt". There's a trail of blood leading over to this door (before Alaric brute forced it open which has definitely contaminated the crime scene, whoops) as well as the aforementioned body. The poor guy looks like he was done in by a lot of injuries - most seemingly made with a blade of some sort.

Of course, all of that is a bit secondary to the fact that there's a dead guy in here and Alaric winces.]

Yikes.

[Thanks, Alaric.]

[hefring]

[ At the very least standing back is easy so he does that as Alaric goes at it! Once he brute forces the door open and pushes the corpse out of the way, there is...a smear of blood, oh. ]

What—

[ Linhardt's gaze flickers on past that smear of blood after feeling a brief nasty shock to—all of that. ]

...oh no.

[ He's suddenly very, very awake and hates everything right now because of all the blood. Why is there a trail of blood (definitely a bit messy by now)?? Why is there also a bloody dead body right then and there?

He makes a movement to immediately back up even further. Like a lot. He might be practically a dot in the distance by now (okay not really but he's getting there...)

It'd be one thing if he had his healing magic, but he's never been good with this sort of thing. ]