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TEST DRIVE: NOVEMBER
Welcome to
empatheias' test drive meme. This test drive is to help interested players test their characters in the game's environment. We've included a few prompts that incorporate specific elements of the game, though you'll find all of them have a lot of leeway for players to get as creative as necessary. Before diving in, here are a few things we'd like to remind everyone about the game in general:- Date reminders. Reserves open Tuesday, October 25 and Applications (Canon | OC) open Tuesday, November 1st.
- OC Reminder! Just a quick reminder that original characters are allowed. Those interested can also use the test drive. OCs do not need to be reserved.
- Emotions are key! Empatheias' premise focuses on how anyone's emotions can affect their environment, be it big or small. While not every emotion will cause a reaction, significant ones definitely will. How much effect a character will have will ultimately be up to you, the player. Also, while we're giving a lot of leeway for the test drive, keep in mind that there will be some limits in the actual game.
- Everyone has an amulet. All characters have a unique amulet that is specialized for them. It will contain all of their emotion drops and it serves as the network device. Remember, communication is telepathic. Otherwise, it works basically the same.
- Assume the character is already in the game. Because "OMG WHERE AM I IS THIS REAL LIFE" threads aren't going to be very helpful in this test drive! Plus those are going to happen in-game, anyway. So to make things easier, just assume that they've been around at least a week or so. Still learning the ropes, but not a complete "first day" experience.
- First or third person allowed. Your threads can be in either first or third, but we'd advise being flexible about it. Remember, these threads can also be used in your application for samples! Reminder: We only require one sample and it can be done in either format. We have also made a change to our sample requirements, so look over the Applications page!
Now with that out of the way, here are some prompts you guys can work from!
• Prompt A: How about giving the emotions a try?
• Prompt B: Refer to the Task Board and choose a task your character may be interested in taking up. For this prompt, you could have your character ask for help, already be in the middle of the job, or react to it in some way. Perhaps they were an unfortunate victim or want to create a job countering an existing one. You could even have a prompt making a job request. Creating jobs for the purpose of the test drive is absolutely doable.
• Prompt C: How about giving the amulets a go? Start a telepathic conversation and see how it works. Remember, the amulets are sending out the owner's thoughts so might want to be careful about how the stream of consciousness goes...
• Prompt D: The Boreas Harvest Festival is fast approaching, and the farmers are trying hard to work through the bleak weather conditions to get their crops in before they go bad from all the apathy. All hands on deck—but there may be too many unwanted hands roaming around.
• Prompt E: Aiada, the Arehtei of appreciation and jealousy, has sent a personal request for those who are interested. There is a small island just beneath Empatheias that she has been cultivating over the many centuries. She wishes to contribute to the Harvest Festival with some seeds and spores. However, the recent atmosphere has also reached down there, and now it's all a mess! Giant mushrooms replaced the trees and there's slime and mold everywhere. The cure? Aside from getting a lot of heavy duty cleaners and pushing it off, appreciation will go a long way to help.
• Prompt F: Various parties are interested in the emotion shards scattered all over Thera. But this time around, the focus is on the medical laboratory as the equipment and potential research there is also of interest. For three days those who volunteer are sent back to try and gather as much as possible—but of course this won't be easy.
• Prompt G: Make your own! It could include feathers and/or confetti.
• Prompt B: Refer to the Task Board and choose a task your character may be interested in taking up. For this prompt, you could have your character ask for help, already be in the middle of the job, or react to it in some way. Perhaps they were an unfortunate victim or want to create a job countering an existing one. You could even have a prompt making a job request. Creating jobs for the purpose of the test drive is absolutely doable.
• Prompt C: How about giving the amulets a go? Start a telepathic conversation and see how it works. Remember, the amulets are sending out the owner's thoughts so might want to be careful about how the stream of consciousness goes...
• Prompt D: The Boreas Harvest Festival is fast approaching, and the farmers are trying hard to work through the bleak weather conditions to get their crops in before they go bad from all the apathy. All hands on deck—but there may be too many unwanted hands roaming around.
- Scarecrows. The scarecrows that have been set up as a festive reminder of the time of year have unfortunately come under the influence of some errant strong emotions from the farm hands that work in the fields. Unfortunately that includes trying to ward off anyone who enters the fields with pitchforks and is one of them carrying a torch? Maybe if they can be convinced that you are trustworthy they will calm down.
- Invading rabbits. There are ton of rabbits ravaging the carrot patches. They're easily frightened, but some are more tenacious than others. Beware of the white rabbit with red eyes.
- Save the crops! Several batches are already starting to spoil! The only thing that can save them is dumping as much positive emotions into them. Joy of good food, hope for a bountiful meal, love of eating—whatever will work. Just be careful. Too much and those things might grow and explode…
• Prompt E: Aiada, the Arehtei of appreciation and jealousy, has sent a personal request for those who are interested. There is a small island just beneath Empatheias that she has been cultivating over the many centuries. She wishes to contribute to the Harvest Festival with some seeds and spores. However, the recent atmosphere has also reached down there, and now it's all a mess! Giant mushrooms replaced the trees and there's slime and mold everywhere. The cure? Aside from getting a lot of heavy duty cleaners and pushing it off, appreciation will go a long way to help.
- Goop brigade. Grab that bucket and shovel and clear the goop out! Just be careful not to have too much get on you—jealousy might take over.
- Appreciation balls. To help hasten the effort, Aiada has given several tubs filled with light, green orbs. Once channeled with enough appreciation, they can be used as mini-grenades to help explode and wash the area with more positive energy. Those caught in the blast won't be harmed. If anything, they'll just be very thankful.
- Watch the ledges. Careful, it's a fairly small island and the goop and slime has made things slick. If you fall… That's not a good way to go, let's just say that.
• Prompt F: Various parties are interested in the emotion shards scattered all over Thera. But this time around, the focus is on the medical laboratory as the equipment and potential research there is also of interest. For three days those who volunteer are sent back to try and gather as much as possible—but of course this won't be easy.
- Skeletal Scientists. The remains of the scientists who once worked in these rooms are still lurking, ready to protect their work. Fortunately they're relatively weak nerds, so not too difficult to dispatch. Just be careful.
- Flying equipment. The various medical equipment has also taken life, scalpels and needles flying everywhere and stethoscopes ready to strangle.
- Questionable liquid. Most of the easy shards have already been taken, leaving the more difficult to retrieve ones left. In particular they're found in strange, dark pink liquid. It's mostly harmless—except that upon contact intense waves of grief and suffering will course through. The longer the exposure, the worse it is. So hopefully a bucket full of it doesn't fall on you…
• Prompt G: Make your own! It could include feathers and/or confetti.
For your threads, put the Character Name and the Canon in the subject line to help readily identify them. You're also welcome to use more than one prompt for respondents to choose from. If you have any questions or want to brush up on the game information, refer to the Game Information entry. Otherwise, tag around and have fun!
krul tepes | owari no seraph
[ She's been what some might call "people watching" for awhile now from her spot on the stone ledge of a water fountain. She sits with legs crossed, one over the other, long strands of pink cascading down her shoulders and painted nails of pink tapping rhythmically at the stone beneath her. Her thoughts she's kept mostly to herself, having not exactly dabbled much in the way of the amulet and the strange sort of telepathy that comes with it.
However, today she can't help but wonder and so asks, voice calm yet disappointed at the same time. ]
Are there so few vampires here?
[D-1] if he only had a brain
[ Krul watches while others gather what they can of the crops. It's strange to her to think that this is what humans survive off of. Things that can die so easily be it from weather, animals, or humans themselves with chemicals and pollution and a plethora of other things that often leave their resources dwindling. It amazes her sometimes that they've survived as long as they have and she decides that, no, they don't require her help for survival and that can be left up to them.
Turning to leave, she's stopped by a rather tall scarecrow. To be fair, practically everyone and everything for that matter is taller than her. Still, she's far from helpless when approached with a situation and she's never one to be afraid of others.
She's calm but firm with her words, an unamused expression on her face when she mutters to the scarecrow: ]
Move, straw bag.
[D-2] here comes peter cottontail
[ She's never seen so many rabbits before in her 2000 years of existing. They're tiny and fluffy and cute and she can't help but stare at them as they nibble and munch on the carrots in the carrot patch. At this rate, all that will be left will be green leaves and paw prints in the dirt.
She looks down when she feels a tug and catches sight of a rabbit nibbling on the end of her long, flowing skirt. A tilt of her head, she smiles albeit halfheartedly. ]
Somehow I doubt that tastes good.
[ Crouching down, she picks the nibbling rabbit up in her hands and stares at it with crimson eyes; it's strange how innocent such a creature can appear. ] This is what you want. [ Reaching towards the ground, she plucks a carrot from the dirt and holds it up to the rabbit's mouth, watching as it begins to furiously nibble again. ]
Much better, right?
[ Feeding the rabbit like this is somehow... calming to her and she finds herself sitting in the carrot patch with the nibbling rabbit in her lap, guiding the carrot towards its mouth. So much for trying to chase them out? Painted nails of pink gently caress over the top of the rabbit's head and she feels a bubble of contentment rise up within her...
...along with actual bubbles suddenly drifting around which, of course, she stares at in confusion with those crimson eyes of hers. Since when did carrot patches have bubbles appear like this? ]
[F] she had a cocktail in her hand and confetti in her hair
( warning: blood )
[ It's not the usual way she's drank blood before but with being here now and away from "home", it seems like blood bags are the only means of satisfying her hunger for blood. There's always of course the more common known way her kind indulges in their thirst with a sharp bite to the neck of a human but considering where she is now and the fact that blood was to only be drank in such a way on the battlefield (should you follow certain laws that is), she settles for the blood bag, likening it to the livestock they held within the vampire city of Sanguiem.
She walks down the streets, blood bag in her small hands and stops when she feels that burn in her throat; the thirst for blood.
Never one to be shy about what she is, she tears into the plastic with sharp fangs and sucks on the blood that jostles around in the plastic between her fingers. It's only after a moment of drinking that her brows furrow and she tears the bag away from her mouth, spitting out the blood onto the concrete around her. What she also spits from her mouth and sticks to her lips is confetti. Glittery red confetti. She squeezes the bag, blood pouring out along with a neverending glittering mess of red confetti. She can feel her anger boiling - cracks beginning to bleed in the concrete around her - as she squeezes every last drop of blood and confetti out of the bag, trickling down her arm and onto the concrete in splashes of thick red crimson. ]
What the hell is this?!
WILDCARD
( Don't like any of the prompts? Feel free to throw something else my way. )
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Before he'd even turned the corner, the first thing Mika was able to pick up on was the palpable anger coming from nearby; the sound of cracking concrete familiar and mirroring his very first time in arriving in Verens. It could have been ignored if it wasn't for a painfully familiar voice following those words, making his crimson hues widen a touch. There was absolutely NO way of mistaking who that voice could belong to, causing Mika to hurry his steps as he rounded the corner and the sight that met him was indeed as he should have expected.
Hadn't Ferid attacked her back home during Nagoya?
No other person he'd seen here had that exact outfit, or the flash of bright, pink hair and that was enough to tell him he wasn't imagining it. When Mika stopped to consider that the look he could read on her face was far from happy, it was almost enough to make him hesitate somewhat as he approached. Once he was a couple of feet away from her, he'd noted this was where the scent of blood had come from only a few moments prior but why would she be upset over that? He hadn't caught sight of the glittery confetti just yet, expression calm with a touch of a frown creasing his brow slightly. ]
Krul?
[ While others may be put off by her anger and the effect it had on the environment, he remained unafraid and still willing to be this close. After Ferid's arrival last month, it was strangely relieving to see her here if he was completely honest. ]
Please calm down. [ She didn't like being told what to do, no, but it was more of an attempt at him just trying to minimize the damage on the environment over anything else. ] ...Did something happen?
[ Since he had noted that there was something plastic in her hand and it matched the general size of the blood bags he picked up from the hospital, it made him curious. The blood he received here never bothered him so what had made her so angry? ]
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But when she saw who it was, saw those strands of blond and crimson red eyes that were once blue for years, she stopped, nails barely touching Mika's throat. ]
Mika.
[ It took her a moment to have that rage fizzle out and remove the fog that had cast itself over her logical mind and she pulled back then, gaze softening as much as it could with her.
So he was here. Mika was here. He was alive.
His question caused her to laugh under her breath as she glanced away from and off to the torn bag of plastic that lay on the concrete amidst a pool of blood and red confetti. ]
I don't know what they consider to be blood here but I don't find it amusing.
[ It's only after a sharp fang grazed over her lip that she discovered the red confetti to have stuck itself to her lips. Fingers brushed the glittery red nuisance away and flicked some off each finger one at a time. It seemed as though once this sea of sparkling red attached itself to you, it was difficult to get off. ]
But you. [ She looked him over quickly, assessing him and taking in anything that might possibly be different about him; he didn't seem to be injured to her. ] What are you doing here? I thought I told you to get away with Yuu.
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Raising a hand to touch where she'd had her hand along his neck, his attention was drawn briefly to the fallen plastic Krul had tossed onto the ground prior and that was when he noted the subtle shimmer that didn't quite belong to blood itself. That... wasn't what normally happened to be in the blood packs like that; as far as he'd experienced here, at least. ]
Ah... I can attest that not all of the blood is like that. [ Then, for clarification, he continues after a moment. ] I haven't had any problems with that until now.
[ With how odd the fluctuations in emotions are around here, it wouldn't be too far-fetched to assume that maybe someone'd been feeling perhaps a little too cheerful when handling that blood pack and resulted in that weird glittery stuff being a part of it. Something which seemed to still cling to her lips stubbornly, which he surmised probably wasn't the most pleasing and likely part of just what had earned her ire previously.
Yet she took no time in focusing back on him afterward, drawing attention to words he'd been completely unable to forget as they were essentially the last thing she'd ever really said to him back home. ]
I did. Yuu is here with me... we escaped Nagoya together.
[ Mostly a truth since they ended up here at different times, but they were both doing well now that they'd been here in Verens together. Granted there was that problem of Yuu's that still needed to be dealt with. Not that he's just going to bring that up easily, however. ]
...or we would have if I hadn't arrived here. Yuu showed up a month after I did and he's been living with me since, though neither of us know just what it is that brought us to this place.
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I see. [ She turned after and glanced to her hand, the stubborn red confetti still stuck to the tips of fingers. ] Then I suppose you don't need me, do you?
[ It was a trick question almost considering Krul was never one to openly admit much to anyone. Crumbs here and there as though feeding pigeons in a park, it was typically the extent of what she gave most.
But she smiled soon after, eyes closed and an almost soft laugh deep within the back of her throat. There was something different about Mika now that she had properly seen him. Something she had noticed back in Nagoya but hadn't a chance to really mention with the chaos that had gone on due to the humans and their lust for power and attempts to harness the power of God. ]
But you finally gave in, didn't you? After all these years you finally did what I told you to do.
[ At that, she turned to face him again, her face soft yet amused and she couldn't help the grin that tugged at the corners of her lips. ]
You drank human blood.
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The idea that once he got Yuu and got away from both humans and vampires, if he would ever need Krul. A part of him argued that he didn't want anything else to do with the vampires from home anymore, though another stubbornly clung onto that ridiculous sense of loyalty that had been brought about by serving under Krul herself for those four years. He remembered just how initially he'd intended to help her when Crowley and Ferid sprung that attack without warning during that last battle, only following her orders to leave her and escape with Yuu with a small level of reluctance.
If he didn't remotely care about her or need her, why did he even feel concerned when she'd been in danger? ]
If I outright said I didn't, it would be a lie.
[ To a fault, Mika had always been painfully honest and it showed here, unable to hide the truth of the matter here. Yuu would always be his number one person in his life but maybe there was something like gratitude he felt now, as if she hadn't turned him four years ago? He wouldn't have lived long enough to reunite with Yuu again and be able to see that bright, vibrant smile of his.
He'd hated that part of him but was slowly coming to accept it.
Something that she pointed out, bringing to light that indeed he really had given in to what she'd been trying to push him into doing. Telling him he needed to do it but he'd refused to do so before he reunited with Yuu in the fear that he'd just see him as nothing more than a monster; like all the other vampires out there. ]
I... wasn't given much of a choice.
[ Which was entirely true. The person in question whom he'd drank from had ensured that much, using convincing words and actions to break what was left of his resolve on the matter. It hurt so bad to keep fighting at that point that he'd given in, to do something he never thought he'd be able to force himself to do.
Explaining why there was a small smile on his face now along with an almost gentle look in his eyes. Something that had only begun to appear more recently where Yuu was involved. ]
Fighting it anymore wasn't something I had in me. Yuu... he convinced me to give in and I ended up drinking from him.
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His explanation, however, caused those crimson red eyes of hers flick their gaze back over to him. So it was Yuu's blood he drank. Somehow, she's not all that surprised given his overwhelming determination to find and protect him at whatever the cost. If there was anyone Mika would please, regardless of consequences to himself, it would be Yuu. ]
So you'll listen to him but not to me? You really are difficult, aren't you?
[ Her words are meant to tease though the truth isn't all that far from them and she knows he knows that. But she understands his desire to be with Yuu, to protect him and never let him out of his sight. She felt the same regarding her brother once upon a time and she's yet to actually find him after all these years...
...how lucky for Mika to still have his family with him.
Those thoughts are pushed away for the moment, not needed what with red confetti stuck to her fingers and lips and having found the blond again. Roughly, the back of her hand wiped across her mouth in an attempt to rid herself of the bloody confetti that had caused her temper to flare in the first place. ]
So he's here with you then. You're both safe?
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For years, he'd been told his life would be made much easier if he just gave in and each time he would resist with the words saying he didn't want to become a monster before he was able to reunite with Yuu. It had been impossibly painful but he'd been driven by pure stubborn will to not give in, though he'd come SO painfully close a couple of times that it had scared him. How his body had been taken over with instinct and the desire to drink human blood to the point of physically hurting him, and he never wanted to go through something like that again. ]
...I suppose I am.
[ It's somewhat of a simple admittance but who is he to shy from that truth, mutely watching her as she attempted to fully get rid of the confetti that had caused her ire to start with.
Not the best impression he would have wished for her to have to this place. Verens was undeniably not the worst place they could end up, the worst being the backlash from their emotional effects and the little-known arehtei that seemed to run this land or something to that effect. That was all something he figured he would have to explain to her in time once they could sit down; he did owe her that much. ]
Yeah. We haven't had any problems since his arrival. He adjusted quite well.
[ Which was no surprise to anyone. Yuu was the kind of person who adapted well to his surroundings and rolled with it, especially since he'd arrived here in chains and hadn't really figured out much of the emotional aspect here. Well, he'd tried to explain it some but part of it had likely gone over his head so he couldn't exactly be sure of how much of it'd sunk in.
It was with his gaze on her that he glimpsed a small spot she hadn't gotten with her hand before, hesitating for just a second before moving to kneel down and reaching a hand up to carefully wipe away the last little bit of bloody confetti that'd been left behind. ]
...Are you going to be alright now, Krul?
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Fingers slowly combed through blond strands of hair and rested at the back of his head after a moment. It was then that, gently, she pulled him towards her and embraced him on his knees just like that. There were no words whispered, no heart beats quickening, no flush of colour to cheeks. All there was in the moment was silence and a gentle caress of fingers through his hair.
Moments like these were often kept between the two of them but with how empty the street seemed to be at the moment, it was almost as if they were within the confines of her room and she can't help but recall those earlier days for a second. This difficult "child" of hers who struggled against his acceptance of her ultimately saving his life and granting him immortality had finally become a full-blooded vampire and while she hadn't been there when the transformation had finally been complete, she felt a sort of relief that he had accepted his fate (regardless of the circumstances) and chose the life of a vampire rather than waste away to a mindless, crazed demon.
She had already lost her brother that way, to think that Mika had been close to doing the same...
Flecks of glitter fall around them from the sky, causing her to glance up and fingers to still in his hair. Was this a result of what she was feeling with having Mika here like this? ]
How annoying.
[ Fingers slipped out of his hair and she glanced off to the side, gaze falling to the empty packet of blood that she had discarded after the confetti disaster. ]
Keep an eye on him. Trouble seems to enjoy following him.
touches ur face gently. hi. (also, C)
Yeah it's mostly humans, but I've met an Elf, too.
[Just one elf, and it's pretty obvious she wasn't human just by looking at her, even before he knew what she was exactly. He doesn't have much of a problem with the general lach of vampires if he's honest, though He hasn't too much of a clue who it is he's talking to right now either.
is touched. hello.
So this place must be Hell then.
[ Because with the amount of humans that are supposedly here, it would only make sense with all the crimes they've comitted as a whole. ]
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No way! It's great!
...Wait, you're not a vampire are you?
[Outside, he's stopped in his tracks, suddenly paying a bit more attention to his surroundings. His gaze meets the eyes of several people milling about before he moves on to the next person, slowly but surely making his way towards the fountain Krul just so happens to be perched upon.]
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What if I am?
[ It's when she spots him strolling nearby that she slides herself off the ledge of the fountain and stands in all her tiny glory.
She knows him.
Her seraph. ]
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There's no option but to go out on her own now. There's no one that she knows from home, and she's only been here a day or two. But if she wants to get something to eat, then she has to leave. So as she wanders down the street she reminds herself over and over again that it's nothing to be afraid of.
An angry voice up ahead jolts her attention and she glances up in surprise. Large, brown eyes lift to the pretty pink haired girl. And then widen in shock at what she sees. Blood, pooled upon the ground, and dripping down her arm. Frozen, the air cools as she visibly freezes, and she can only stare a moment. What... happened...?
Swallowing thickly, she doesn't notice anyone else around. So it... must be her own blood? Struggling to find words, her young voice carries over to her as she speaks in apprehensive concern.]
A-Are you okay?
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If not for the sheer anger that she feels regarding this tomfoolery, she would have easily picked up on the girl approaching her but instead, she finds herself glancing over her shoulder when she hears the voice. Rather than strike out at her, she turns, just enough to really look at her and crimson eyes narrow for a moment. It's not because she believes this girl to be responsible for the confetti in the bloodbag, it's more that since coming here, she's felt the need to be on her guard, especially considering where she had previously been. ]
Does it look like I'm ok?
[ Words harsh almost, she turns to fully look to the girl then, blood slowly dripping down her arm while confetti remains stuck to her fingers. ]
What do you want?
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I-I thought you might be hurt. [So she... had come forward.] I wanted to help [Her eyes glance down at the blood steadily dripping down her arm.] If you were hurt...
[ Her heart thunders so loudly that it pounds within her ears. ]
Are you hurt...?
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And yet, she doesn't seem repulsed by the scene given the fact that she hasn't run or shied away from her. Yet. ]
I'm more annoyed than hurt.
[ She tosses the empty bag aside, confetti spitting out from it as a blob of what's left of red blood oozes out onto the concrete. Her attention doesn't even fall on the bag, annoyed with the contents and instead, seems to fall on this girl who seems close in her own age... at least physically. Krul hasn't been anywhere near this age in over 2000 years.
So of course, with the mess dripping both off and around her, she feels the need to ask. ]
Are you scared?
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A little. [It's better to be honest she thinks, than to lie. She hopes so. The large amount of blood is only too much of a reminder of a terrifying part of her past.] You're a vampire, right...? [Just to be one hundred percent sure. The existence is supposed to be a secret. But this girl... she isn't hiding what she is at all. It's right here in the open.]
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But her question makes Krul laugh a little, amused by her honesty accompanied along with it, glancing off to the side. ]
And a Queen at that.
[ Because regardless of how certain thorns in her side meddle in her affairs and dare to even take her down, she will always be Queen.
Though her attention drifts back to the girl in front of her, wondering if she's simply frozen in fear or just that curious about who- what she happens to be. ]
What does that make you then? Human?
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After a moment she nods her head.]
My name is Yuuki. I'm thirteen years old. But even though it's a secret at home, I know a little about vampires. [Not very much she can admit.] My adoptive father is setting up a night class so that vampires and humans can attend the same school together.
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[ There's a touch of mischief in her voice as she smiles, crimson red eyes shining bright at the girl. Though when she mentions this school where vampires and humans can attend together, her smile fades and she simply stares to Yuuki, less than impressed by such a notion.
Humans in her world are nothing more than greedy, corrupt, selfish things that are good for nothing other than being livestock to vampires. To think it was their own foolishness that caused the apocalypse to start in her world... she's honestly not surprised.
However, she laughs after a moment, blood still dripping from her finger tips and onto the concrete. ]
Humans and vampires alongside each other like that? [ There's a soft "tch" under her breath. ] Humans are greedy and selfish and will stop at nothing to achieve what they want which half the time is power. They'll even kill their own kind for it. [ She pauses for a moment, staring to the girl. ] Would you really trust yourself around things like them?
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That isn't true. [She refuses to believe it, no matter what anyone says.] There are good humans and bad humans. Just like there are good vampires and bad vampires.
[There's no difference. Only the species itself.]
If everyone can work together, then I'm sure everyone could be happy. [The same as the pacifism her father hopes for. For her last question, she isn't sure if she means humans or vampires.] I like humans and vampires both. [She's never thought about not liking humans. Whereas with vampires, there's fear. But also... admiration, too. At least of one person in particular.]
When I was little a scary vampire attacked me. But a kind vampire saved me after. He brought me to the chairman who then adopted me. Sometimes he even comes to visit on special occasions. Kaname-sama is a gentle vampire. So I know that there are other vampires just like him, too.
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The mention of this "kind vampire" causes her to laugh a little and she tilts her head. ]
And what makes you so sure he won't end up drinking your blood? [ She asks the question as she lifts her hand, showing the blood that has slowed its dripping down her arm. ] This is what we live off of. Only this. Try as you might to ignore the thirst, the worse it gets and the more desperate you become for it.
[ She's thinking of someone in particular, a certain blond haired vampire she turned in order to save his life and how stubborn he had been with drinking human blood. Over and over again would he cry that he didn't want to be a monster, that he'd rather die and in a way, she understood; there are times when even she hates herself for being an immortal bloodsucking vampire. But it's simply what they are and so drinking blood is just a part of who they are.
Her eyes darken then and slowly, she smiles. ]
What makes you think I'm a vampire like him and won't break your neck and suck you dry right here?
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She can only assume he picked her up and brought her there. She had awoken with his coat upon her. But after sneaking to the door and peeking out in the hopes of finding him to talk- what she had seen had driven home the very basic difference between them. Unable to even stand, Ruka had slumped forward in his arms, and his eyes glowed red as blood trickled down her neck, and coated his lips.
It was the first time she truly realized that he was a vampire...a being that consumed living blood. And it was the first time she began to fear him a little. Even if, at the same time, she loved him too.
Her eyes lift back up to hers though, and widen in nervous shock. Unconsciously she takes a step back, suddenly becoming accurately aware of her hunter weapon, hidden upon her thigh. Not that she's very good at using it yet though. She only just began training before she disappeared here.]
We're the same age though... [Or close to it she thinks. She... she doesn't really mean that, does she? Even still, she can't calm her nerves down.]
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There's something about this girl- Yuuki, that she finds she takes an interest in and for a moment, she figures it might be due to the so-called innocence she seems to carry with her regarding so many things that she can't help but find the girl almost pitiful. At least she wasn't selfish and greedy like every other human she encountered.
Or was she?
She laughs a little then at her statement regarding their ages and brushes strands of pink coloured hair over her shoulder. ]
I haven't been your age in over two thousand years.
[ With being so old and seeing so much - losing her brother who she still searches for - it's natural almost to simply lose ones humanity and form certain opinions on specific things... humans namely.
Stepping forward, heels clack against the concrete as she slowly, very slowly, begins to make her way towards Yuuki. ]
Tell me something [ and she smiles as she speaks ] if your dear vampire friend required your blood for his survival, would you give it to him? Or would you let him die?
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