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linkingup2024-09-07 01:46 am
beathollow) wrote in linkingup2024-09-07 01:46 am
post palace takeout! [week 5]
( at some point a bedraggled lot in yukatas manage to make their way to the dorm, shower and patch themselves up. and then mafuyu makes a very earnest request that they all go out for dinner, and, well, apparently many struggle to refuse her.
this is how they find themselves in something akin to a denny's or an ihop at like, midnight.
as one does. )
this is how they find themselves in something akin to a denny's or an ihop at like, midnight.
as one does. )
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(Bonus trauma related-trivia since fire came up in the palace: Yi Sang cannot feel burns or recognize them as such. Your welcome.) ]
I'm glad, then. For your considerate nature regarding self-restraint and that this matter is handled as well as it can be by you and others.
...If you intend to use it as a tool of persuasion... Knowing that is not as harmful as I've known it to be keeps me at some ease, actually.
[ Celeste: a good guy! He already knew that though. Also, now Yi Sang knows the threat so maybe it is less effective... Until he drops like drained twig after a chomp. ]
...Where I'm from, the current, unwritten rules of "nature" that preside over entities that subsist on blood, as well as those who were fed upon are... Rather unfortunate.
[ Project Mooniverse is fucked up. ]
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(Protect him from the fire, Yi Sang, as it's one of the only things that can kill him for real...)]
I will only use it as a tool of persuasion if we are truly in need of it, but... it is certainly a tool I have at my disposal, yes, and as I would also benefit from its use, I cannot say I'm at all opposed to using it.
[He gets a snack, a friend gets some much needed rest - even if it's forced - and all is well.
Though as he alludes to the state of things where he's from, Celeste's expression drops, somewhat.]
Unfortunately... I am also familiar with certain "rules" that I suspect are strongly akin to what you're alluding to. [The details, as ever, will be different, but...] While many of my kind - most, I'd even dare to wager - try not to kill those they feed off of - and whether that's out of genuine care and altruism, or simply an effort to continue to conceal our presence from the world varies from individual to individual and court to court - there is a particular sect which thinks... differently.
[He thinks of himself as something other, in his own way. Something... above and a little to the left of humanity as a concept. Not a monster, per se, but a creature that has little needs for the trappings of life, after being granted an ascension in death...
But he's young, relatively, and not very good at keeping any sort of distance, yet, especially considering his own peculiar fixations.
But these...]
Ultimately, a vampire is a predator to a human. [We're being frank here, now.] Those who ask permission to feed are usually ostracized for breaking the Masquerade - for letting mortals know we exist. There are those who resent this, passionately, and believe that we should act as predators do, should hunt and maim and instill fear everywhere we go because we're a higher being than a human. Stronger, faster, smarter... we were once human, yes, but are now something more...
We all have something Elders have called a beast inside of us. They've given themselves over to it and embraced their basest natures. I suspect, they'd find your world's "rules" appealing.
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That's gonna happen in October when the new story chapter is released! But neither here nor there. ]
Ah. I will admit, most of what we know of Bloodfiends is based on those who defy the original lineage and their grievances that lead them to leave. It is rather strict, hence the possibility of stray paths: A solitary existence away from humans, control of their populations to not run out of sustenance, as well as minimizing unneeded bloodshed. It's rather similar in the conduct to what you describe... perhaps those are what I should define as the "rules" instead. For what is what I describe as unfortunate... is perhaps just nature.
[ The next part admittedly sounds like a story told to children so that they behave... But when given an explanation by Celeste of how his kind work, and how they too can deviate from the original ideals... This would at least make sense to a vampire. ]
The nature of Bloodfiends... There was an infamous serial killer known as the Blood-red Night. She not only embraced that predator nature, but made full use of an innate ability that would bring their society to ruin... controlling blood in itself, and using it to reanimate the blood-drained corpses of her victims. She saw humans as food to sate an unnatural thirst even for Bloodfiends, and her bodycount was was made the story widespread... I wonder if an "Elder" had made contact with the City to explain such an anomaly in their kind, to prevent any possible conflict.
[ They are considered a Distortion of humanity, and the oldest known in fact. Before what caused the Distortion Phenomenon in the City. As for his feelings on it... he is actually working on expressing how he feels. ]
...Complexities seem to come with the desire to hold onto what remains of humanity. I... prefer that it's rather simplified with just the presence of one, far away from any of that right now.