the rescue meme.

[khaleesock]

the rescue meme

'Cause sometimes you just can’t save yourself.

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1. BAD DATE - You get a text, a phone call, or maybe you can just see the other person floundering on what clearly must be the worst date of their life. Time to step in and save the day.

2. PRISON - Maybe they've been wrongly convicted, or maybe you're an accomplice. Either way, it's jailbreak time. Maybe the guards will fall for the old 'wounded prisoner' technique.

3. TAKEN HOSTAGE - They're being held at gunpoint, either for money or for fun. Maybe you can talk down their captors — or maybe you are a captor, secretly working to help them.

4. UNWELL - Your body is damaged, your suffering taken its toll. You can't save yourself anymore. You're wounded, you're starving, maybe even dying. Someone, help!

5. YOURSELF - One bad choice after another, your self-destructive tendencies are going to get the best of you unless someone steps in to save the day.

6. BIG DAMN RESCUE - You're hovering over an active volcano, a pit of sharks, about to fall off a cliff. Whatever it is, you've only got precious seconds of life left.

7. LONELINESS - You've been secluded, locked away, and the emptiness is overwhelming. You need company, or you might just drown.

8. UNWANTED SOCIAL FUNCTION - A family reunion, your three o'clock board meeting, whatever it is, you desperately don't want to go. Hopefully your good buddy can come up with a distraction.

9. BAD ROMANCE - You're trapped in a relationship that's headed south. Maybe it's an arranged marriage, or maybe it's just someone who won't take no for an answer. You need a helping hand, maybe even a Prince(ss) Charming.

10. WILDCARD - Any kind of rescue will do! Spread your creative wings and go for it.

Comments

[verunandesu]

[Her eyes widen a bit before she catches herself, and tries to cover her shock. That... is not at all what Sypha expects to hear, though in retrospect it makes a lot of sense. She had never really thought about where night creatures came from, other than that Dracula and other vampires summoned them probably, somehow. Speakers had no knowledge whatsoever of these beasts' origins.

But now, here is this man who does. Curiosity wins out over the already quickly subsiding shock of Hector's admission.]

How?

[petcromancer]

[Oh Sypha, you've just opened a floodgate. It's been so long since Hector's had anyone interested in hearing about his work.]

Well, it's actually what I'd classify as a form of biological alchemy. The term 'necromancer' is reductive of the cra-

[His hand convulses, and he doubles over in pain. Welp, ring's still active, those floodgates are crashing closed as quickly as they opened.]

Fuck!

[verunandesu]

[Sypha is saved from having to maintain the expression of polite interest that she has donned to mask her horror at the word "necromancy" by the ring activating.]

Are you okay?

[There is nothing false about the genuine concern in her tone, but her horror only grows at the realization that not only is the ring controlling Hector's loyalty, but also dictating what he can and cannot speak about to the point where it bars him from discussing the magical part of his own soul.

That has been taken from him: Sypha feels that horror at a very visceral level, and when she speaks, though she tries to rein her tone back to that of a gentle mage, her voice is far colder than she intends.]

You can tell me of it after we have destroyed that ring and its magics.

[petcromancer]

[Hector squeezes his watering eyes shut and nods. Fuck, but he'd hoped the magic binding would fade.]

D'you think you can?

[If Sypha can't do it, he's going to end up cutting off his own finger, his whole damned hand if that's what it takes, like a wild animal caught in a trap, gnawing its way free.]

[verunandesu]

I will. We will.

[Sypha has never overpromised. Plus, she has faith that Alucard and Trevor will help her with tracking down and ending the last Sister, and they tend to work well as a team. Or, they did. They have Issues to work through, but there is nothing quite so helpful to one's mental health than setting terrible creatures on fire. Hector may be a necromancer but he is human, and he helped her when she needed it: he deserves to be free. The vampires that did this to him are not people.]

Tell me how you came to Dracula's court.

[Hopefully he can articulate that safely enough. She is starting to feel tired again.]

[petcromancer]

He asked me to come.

[This, at least, he can talk about. And maybe he's ready to talk about it, too. To look back on his choices and reevaluate them.]

His wife had died, and he needed an army. He wasn't going to be swayed, and I thought it would be more... humane... if we could see his war done quickly. But his ends were not what I was led to believe.

[It had taken longer than it should have for Hector to realize that when Dracula said he wanted to kill everyone, he wasn't being hyperbolic. It had just been too horrible, too counterproductive for him to accept.]