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[lowlaw]

texting meme

You’ve got your TFLN, you’ve got your sexting, now here’s the meme for all those gen texts, phone calls, voicemails, pictures of your cats, and whatever else your little heart can come up with, because who doesn't like a little old fashioned friendly texting. (Or enemy texting, if that's more your bag.)

instructions: What it says on the tin! Leave a comment with your character, include preferences, a start, absolutely nothing or whatever you want. Run around and reply to others. Lather, rinse, repeat.

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[razbuna]

By throwing them to the night creatures? It makes quick enough work of those that do not warrant my particular time and attention.

I reserve my creativity for the deserving.

[cruciform]

And what is it that warrants being deserving in your opinion?

[razbuna]

Heaven would not open its gates for the Bishop of Gresit. Do you care to know what I have done with him?

[cruciform]

( he shouldn't. he really, really shouldn't. AND YET )

Yes.

[razbuna]

I left him his lungs until the very last, that he might cry out to his indifferent god for salvation.

In three pieces he rots, crucified to the dead soil by his own bones, his wasting muscle left bare as a feast for the scavengers. I made parchment of his skin and lettered it with ink of his blood, and drew out his spine to make a signpost. "Here rests a righteous man", it proclaims.

His rest is equal to his righteousness.

[cruciform]

( oof. yeah, he definitely shouldn't have asked. )

Did it help, doing that?

( or does that crushing feeling just stay forever? )

[razbuna]

It brought a measure of satisfaction.

It did not bring happiness. Little can do that for me, anymore.

[cruciform]

Unfortunately, I'm beginning to understand what that means and feels like.

[razbuna]

You should not have been forced to carry the burden of my misery upon your shoulders. I do regret the unhappiness I have caused you.

I would not suffer those who would add to my son's unhappiness.

[cruciform]

I do not blame you. It is the nature of the beast, is it not? Humans fear, there is little that can be done to change that.

[razbuna]

I could not have done other than the choices I made. I knew what end I sought. And I am...not displeased, that you prevented me.

There is little I can do for you anymore, my son. But I can still punish those who would do you harm. You need only ask.

[cruciform]

How can you not be displeased? With what happened, with me? How can you give such an offer after everything?

[razbuna]

Twice you confronted me, and twice I came close to taking your life. It is the nature of a vampire to kill that which threatens him, or offends him, or merely stands in his way.

I am your father, and I am vampire. Just as you are vampire, and you are human. We are as we are. To deny it is to embrace folly.

Grief drove your father to madness, and the king of vampires took his revenge on a world he found wanting. But your father would have despaired to have been the hand that snuffed out your life.

It pleases me that some part of Lisa still lives. You with your tender heart, your love of the world of men, your drive to stand up for them and better them. She was right to raise you to be your own man, and to stand outside the long shadow of your father.

My little boy. You used to pester me to help you count every star in the sky. Now I would tear every last one of them down for you, if it were within my power to grasp.

dang u just came right for my throat with that 😭

[cruciform]

( he doesn't expect this, not even a little bit. in spite of their differences over the years, alucard has looked up to his father. he's intelligent and driven, and now alucard understands him much more than he ever did before. he isn't sure yet if that's a good or bad thing.

alucard is the way he is because he is a product of both of his parents. even the dreaded king of vampires showed alucard how to love. )

There is much I didn't understand before now and I can't help but wonder if that care and love has been misplaced. I am too much a vampire for humans to trust and too human for vampires. A part of me has begun to wonder if you were right all along.

sometimes dads just have a lot of feelings

[razbuna]

You should not measure your worth by the opinions of others.

What has driven you to change your mind about my position?

pls 🥺 it's too much for alucard

[cruciform]

Because humans will never change. Even when they are given everything, they still wish for more. It is greed that pushes them, not the pursuit of knowledge.

don't cry son it ok

[razbuna]

And so they deserve nothing, and should be given nothing. Let them keep their squalid, pathetic lives. They are determined to never better themselves, so what could possibly inspire me to try to change their minds from the course they have already set for themselves?

You have lost your faith in them, as I did.

is it tho :(

[cruciform]

I know they are not all like that, just like all are not like Mother. But it is so few, it seems, like her. It is a struggle, for me, to know how to move forward.

look we may both be in hell but at least it's only literal for one of us

[razbuna]

You only find it a struggle because it is your unspoken wish to remain connected to them.

Understand that I do not begrudge you that wish. But you will not delude yourself with pretenses and seek to convince yourself — or me — otherwise. You say you are not enough for the vampires, but the truth is that you have no desire to be true vampire. Perhaps you have more desire to be fully human, though I think you would not reject your connection to the night so hastily, if ever you were given the choice.

You don't hate the humans for their greed or their ignorance or their unchanging ways. You hate a few particular humans that have wronged you, and now hold the whole race accountable for their sins.

Is this not the same argument you presented to me, back then? Seek those responsible, but not the lot of them as a whole. Place accountability where it is due, but expand it no further beyond.

I did hear you that day, for all that my grief and rage could not allow me to accept it. Perhaps it is grief and rage of your own, that makes your own decisions so difficult now.

ouch 😔 that burns in a whole new way

[cruciform]

But is it not the majority that are this way? Humanity is full of ire and greed with few exceptions. Even those pious are not pure and are, perhaps, some of the worst humanity has to offer. The vampires fare no better; they are cruel and unjust. It makes things difficult for someone like me who has no true peers and cannot reconcile the differences within myself.

I understand your decision much better now, though would I be given the choice all over again, I would still make every attempt to dissuade you even knowing it would be in vain. Vlad the Impaler though you may be, Father, you still once opened your heart. There is a part of me that believes you could have ruled both vampires and humans together. I did not get my warm heart from just Mother. Were you not capable of caring, your grief would not run so deeply.

why is this so sad

[razbuna]

Yes. They are cruel, stupid, miserable creatures ruled by fear and self-importance. Even your mother acknowledged that fact, to some degree. She never tried to convince me that they were not; only that, with time and intervention, they could be changed. Bettered.

I don't know that I ever truly believed she was right. I would not have sought to better the lives of the Wallachians for their own sake. They were never deserving of such intervention. But it was your mother's wish. And so, for love, I tried.

Your mother showed me that being different is not a barrier to love. Yours is a hard lot, my son — harder than most. But I would not have you change what you are for the sake of being loved. Your mother's love was never conditioned upon change; it only inspired it.

bc it's not actually called castlevania, it's depression: the saddening

[cruciform]

I have not tried to change who I am, just find some sort of level ground to walk on to be who I am. I cannot change certain things about myself, so I have always tried to find peace within the warring sides of my being. It is not easy.

You could have gone anywhere you wished. Why did you stay in Wallachia? You and Mother could have started over somewhere else. Perhaps things would not have turned out the way they have.

netflix castle-PAIN-ia

[razbuna]

She would not leave Lupu. And the interplay of politics necessitated that I remain in what was known to be the seat of my power.

You have seen firsthand, I believe, the vacuum of power that has resulted without me. So too it would have been, had we abandoned Wallachia.

ah. u win. that is perfect

[cruciform]

I suppose I'm just giving in to selfish flights of fancy and focusing too much on the what-ifs. It's much too late to change anything now.

/bows

[razbuna]

Indeed. The past is the past, for better or for worse.

Your future, however, still lies uncharted.