[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.
I assure you that if I think you're an arrogant piece of shit I will tell you a bit more clearly than vague implications.
But that is the convenience of this text, isn't it? No such thing exists where I'm from. When you write, you can cross out your words or hide them, but never remove them. Quite the invention.
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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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But that is the convenience of this text, isn't it? No such thing exists where I'm from. When you write, you can cross out your words or hide them, but never remove them. Quite the invention.
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which i guess is pretty arrogant of me in and of itself huh
anyway
you've heard of japan and you figured out i'm from there
where are you from that you don't have movies
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The country of Wallachia.
From what I understand, I'm from a different time than most people. A few centuries in the past.
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[In his head, he's sounding it out as "wah-lah-CHEE-ah" and that's not helping.]
what body of water is it close to
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you're a vampire from transylvania and people call you the opposite of dracula
are you shitting me
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In any case, worry not about Dracula. He is dead.
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ok i'm not being sarcastic this is a real question
i mean it so don't give me shit about it
is dracula real
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Foolishly, there were even humans in our country that doubted his existence.
But yes. He was. I can confirm that as true.
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