[It's approximately three in the morning. Lunatia, in its residential districts, is quiet and pleasantly dark. The bustle of downtown and its nightlife is visible on the horizon, certainly, but here, the shadows are long and the air is cool.
It's peaceful. It's brisk. It's almost nothing like Cairo, even in January.
[It isn't that he can't sleep in a normal bed, but it's not the same as going into a coffin for a deep, undisturbed sleep. Something he'll have to remedy in the future. Otherwise, he does make an attempt to keep to himself.
Yet, he hears his phone go off, alerting him of a message. Then he raises a brow.]
Are you concerned that I'm going to drink poor hapless victims?
There's a button that looks like an arrow pointing to the left. It can delete what you originally typed.
In any case yes. Animal blood does taste different. Really, it mostly just staves off the hunger than it does offer any real nutritional value, but it works.
it doesn't really make sense for vampires to not have to eat anything everything has to eat things it's like the oldest biological imperative or something i think
but you seemed pretty confident that you could get away with not eating humans i typed people at first but i got rid of it so ha
anyway i was just trying to figure out why you were so sure
[Despite being quick to anger and ready to fight, this man seems to be actually quite remarkably smart. Well, that puts him a peg above Belmont. Not hard to pull off, admittedly.]
Vampires are like any predator. We need to eat to survive. Without food, we will die, like any other creature. No matter how powerful we are. Perhaps it would be a long, painful death, but nonetheless.
However, an indefinite sleep is something we can also do to prolong the inevitable. A bit like a hibernation. So, if I must, I can do that instead.
[Honestly, he fully intends on getting a coffin made just so he can go away for however long. There is no castle, no Belmont hold for him to guard.
There is nothing but this alien world. Nothing he is bound by oath or promise to stay for.]
[No, he thinks vehemently, before he really has the chance to realize where that particular emotion comes from, and it takes him a minute while he's reading back through the sharp and softly glowing words in the darkness of his city-gifted bedroom before it starts to sink in, that the feeling has its roots in phrases like a long, painful death and visions like a blond woman lying on the floor trembling while her own nature kills her, while time passes and her life siphons away.
No.]
you can't do that
[Stupid. Now he's going to say something like of course I can or who's going to stop me, and he's right. So what if that's what the vampire wants to do with his existence? Isn't it better that he's not feeding on defenseless people? Why should he even care whether he dies or not?
Because that's the question, isn't it. Whether he dies or not. He's talking about dying.
He's so sick of people dying.]
that's stupid and it doesn't make any sense
weren't you the one lecturing me about needing to get chroma or whatever to survive so how is starving yourself of something you need any different
How strange of you to be so sympathetic with a vampire, young slayer.
I lectured you out of your own ignorance, not because it was an active choice you made. That is the difference. I would not be so concerned; none shall mourn me.
In any case, a deep sleep would take years to kill me without blood. Centuries, really. I imagine it may be similar with lack of chroma. If I die, it would be well outside of your lifetime.
More or less. It's always been my plan anyway, if only slightly delayed and the location wrong. Not that there is much I can do the remedy the latter.
Of course I do. All of my family is dead.
[As far as Trevor and Sypha go-- they have each other. Clearly off for their inevitable romantic entanglements. They deserve a happy ending and none of his misery.]
That doesn't seem right. Having a family makes them seem...like people. Dio never seemed like a person so much as an idea, a thing. A force of nature, or something like that. Evil. Not evil like Kakyoin had described it back at the school, winners and losers and who tells the story. Just evil, objectively, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Alucard doesn't seem evil. Maybe he's not good — he doesn't know enough yet. But honor is the boundary line between good and evil, most of the time, and he clearly has that.
Family, too. He had a family, apparently. People like him. People who cared about him, maybe — isn't that what family means?]
It is hard to say if I'm more upset about one over the other. Perhaps I am, because all she ever wanted to do was help people and was punished for it.
Naturally, I do hate the Church more than the monster. Rather, the men who came into power at the Church. If one were to truly follow their savior's path, they would be far more merciful than what is actually executed. Yet, the Church became an excuse to gain control over people, to put fear into their hearts. I'm not certain what perspective you have on that. Christians are not very popular in Japan, last I heard.
uh i guess they're like i mean do you know what a play is, like at a theater a movie is like a recording of that
so like somebody tells a story and you write it down in a book to read again somebody acts out a play, you film a movie of it to watch again visual recording
anyway i just figured with your mom you said "the church killed" but with your dad you said "was killed by a monster"
you blame the church but not the monster because you only sound like you're accusing when you talk about the church
anyway i don't know if i really have an opinion on the church but i hate people who think they're better than people weaker than them and i hate people who drag defenseless women into their bullshit
so if that's how it is then i guess the perspective i have on the church you're talking about is they can go fuck themselves and if they tried to hurt someone around me i would stop them
Recording and filming. A bit like through these devices, then? That's quite fascinating.
You have an introspective assessment, hunter. More than I expected, admittedly. And a courageous approach in regard to the Church. Not many would be quick to fight back against them, at least not mortals.
In my defense, you never gave me your name. But I could not begrudge you for killing someone who deserved it. I've no doubt about it, with the way you reacted to me.
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plants my flag here also: tdm-adjacent
It's peaceful. It's brisk. It's almost nothing like Cairo, even in January.
But still, someone can't sleep.]
so what are you going to eat
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Yet, he hears his phone go off, alerting him of a message. Then he raises a brow.]
Are you concerned that I'm going to drink poor hapless victims?
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you said you weren't going to
and you said you weren't going to hurt me either and you didn't
so i figure you're not a liar
but that's what you eat, right
blood
so if you're not going to drink people then what are you going to eat
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Animals, maybe. If they even have blood.
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does animal blood taste different than people blood
human blood
how do you delete that i meant human blood
delete that
delete that too
this is stupid
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There's a button that looks like an arrow pointing to the left. It can delete what you originally typed.
In any case yes. Animal blood does taste different. Really, it mostly just staves off the hunger than it does offer any real nutritional value, but it works.
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so doesn't that mean eventually you'll get sick
if you're eating something with no nutritional value
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Why are you so interested?
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it doesn't really make sense for vampires to not have to eat anything
everything has to eat things
it's like the oldest biological imperative or something i think
but you seemed pretty confident that you could get away with not eating humans
i typed people at first but i got rid of it so ha
anyway
i was just trying to figure out why you were so sure
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Vampires are like any predator. We need to eat to survive.
Without food, we will die, like any other creature. No matter how powerful we are. Perhaps it would be a long, painful death, but nonetheless.
However, an indefinite sleep is something we can also do to prolong the inevitable. A bit like a hibernation. So, if I must, I can do that instead.
[Honestly, he fully intends on getting a coffin made just so he can go away for however long. There is no castle, no Belmont hold for him to guard.
There is nothing but this alien world. Nothing he is bound by oath or promise to stay for.]
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No.]
you can't do that
[Stupid. Now he's going to say something like of course I can or who's going to stop me, and he's right. So what if that's what the vampire wants to do with his existence? Isn't it better that he's not feeding on defenseless people? Why should he even care whether he dies or not?
Because that's the question, isn't it. Whether he dies or not. He's talking about dying.
He's so sick of people dying.]
that's stupid and it doesn't make any sense
weren't you the one lecturing me about needing to get chroma or whatever to survive
so how is starving yourself of something you need any different
don't be a hypocrite
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I lectured you out of your own ignorance, not because it was an active choice you made. That is the difference. I would not be so concerned; none shall mourn me.
In any case, a deep sleep would take years to kill me without blood. Centuries, really. I imagine it may be similar with lack of chroma. If I die, it would be well outside of your lifetime.
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just gonna go to sleep for a thousand years and never wake up or some shit
what do you mean no one will mourn you
how can you possibly know that
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Of course I do.
All of my family is dead.
[As far as Trevor and Sypha go-- they have each other. Clearly off for their inevitable romantic entanglements. They deserve a happy ending and none of his misery.]
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Vampires have families?
That doesn't seem right. Having a family makes them seem...like people. Dio never seemed like a person so much as an idea, a thing. A force of nature, or something like that. Evil. Not evil like Kakyoin had described it back at the school, winners and losers and who tells the story. Just evil, objectively, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Alucard doesn't seem evil. Maybe he's not good — he doesn't know enough yet. But honor is the boundary line between good and evil, most of the time, and he clearly has that.
Family, too. He had a family, apparently. People like him. People who cared about him, maybe — isn't that what family means?]
i didn't know vampires had families
did a vampire hunter kill them
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Perhaps not all people have loved ones, but I had a family once.
The Church killed my mother.
My father was slain by a monster, even if it was a deed that had to happen.
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[Says the guy who recently killed a vampire and it was literally nothing like The Movies™.]
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you're more upset about your mom
you hate the church more than you hate the monster
right
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It is hard to say if I'm more upset about one over the other.
Perhaps I am, because all she ever wanted to do was help people and was punished for it.
Naturally, I do hate the Church more than the monster. Rather, the men who came into power at the Church. If one were to truly follow their savior's path, they would be far more merciful than what is actually executed. Yet, the Church became an excuse to gain control over people, to put fear into their hearts.
I'm not certain what perspective you have on that. Christians are not very popular in Japan, last I heard.
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i guess they're like
i mean do you know what a play is, like at a theater
a movie is like a recording of that
so like
somebody tells a story and you write it down in a book to read again
somebody acts out a play, you film a movie of it to watch again
visual recording
anyway i just figured
with your mom you said "the church killed"
but with your dad you said "was killed by a monster"
you blame the church but not the monster
because you only sound like you're accusing when you talk about the church
anyway
i don't know if i really have an opinion on the church
but i hate people who think they're better than people weaker than them
and i hate people who drag defenseless women into their bullshit
so if that's how it is then i guess the perspective i have on the church you're talking about is they can go fuck themselves
and if they tried to hurt someone around me i would stop them
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You have an introspective assessment, hunter. More than I expected, admittedly.
And a courageous approach in regard to the Church. Not many would be quick to fight back against them, at least not mortals.
In any case, my story does not change.
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more special effects and sometimes background music
you keep calling me hunter
i'm not though
i only ever killed one vampire and it wasn't my idea
and he deserved it
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In my defense, you never gave me your name.
But I could not begrudge you for killing someone who deserved it. I've no doubt about it, with the way you reacted to me.
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I suppose that's difficult to determine through text.
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oh that's something i didn't know and now it makes sense why you did that
or if it was like
ohhhhh well if he DESERVED it then no WONDER you arrogant human piece of shit
even that was hard to do
describing the difference just with words i mean
i guess talking would be easier probably
but text is easier in other ways
like how you can just delete things if they come out stupid
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