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draculabutbackwards) wrote2021-11-03 04:24 pm
draculabutbackwards) wrote2021-11-03 04:24 pm
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I have no idea if there's some future etiquette for this. Leave whatever message you choose?
Hi… Mr. Adrian?
My name is Zack, and I’ve been assigned to your father as his permanent Warden.
He mentioned you were here when I talked to him so I thought it might be good for us to talk too? If you don’t mind.
Just let me know if you want to and where you’d like to meet, if so.
My name is Zack, and I’ve been assigned to your father as his permanent Warden.
He mentioned you were here when I talked to him so I thought it might be good for us to talk too? If you don’t mind.
Just let me know if you want to and where you’d like to meet, if so.
It would be Mr. Tepes, but Adrian is fine.
[He needs to sort out a few things with Father himself, but he did see that announcement, and he's all for contributing what he can.]
Wherever's convenient. There are seats in the tavern, but if you'd rather not, I'll come anywhere.
[He needs to sort out a few things with Father himself, but he did see that announcement, and he's all for contributing what he can.]
Wherever's convenient. There are seats in the tavern, but if you'd rather not, I'll come anywhere.
Adrian it is, then.
And I can meet you there! How about in an hour?
And I can meet you there! How about in an hour?
An hour's fine. I'll be waiting.
[Given his comatose inmate and the fact that anything to do with his father has his instant attention, he is in fact there well before an hour's passed.]
[Given his comatose inmate and the fact that anything to do with his father has his instant attention, he is in fact there well before an hour's passed.]
[ And Zack will be there an hour later, as promised. He's young, barely into his twenties at a glance. There's a scar on his cheek, though, and clear blue eyes that are unusually bright.
He gives a little wave when he sees Adrian and walks over to meet him. ]
Hey. Adrian, right?
He gives a little wave when he sees Adrian and walks over to meet him. ]
Hey. Adrian, right?
[And Adrian is, in fact, younger than that, though he works fairly hard to give an impression of unreadable maturity and depends a bit on people assuming vampire=old. He looks not at all unlike his father, though rendered in a frosty blond palate. And not so tall.]
Guilty. So. Father's your assignment?
Guilty. So. Father's your assignment?
[ Zack sits down and offers a faint smile. ]
Yeah. Kinda surprised both of us since we hadn't even talked before the announcement went up.
I think we got off on the right foot, though, so I'm not too worried about that.
Yeah. Kinda surprised both of us since we hadn't even talked before the announcement went up.
I think we got off on the right foot, though, so I'm not too worried about that.
He's quite capable of being agreeable when he wants to. That he wanted to is a compliment.
I did get that impression.
[ Dracula doesn't seem the sort to suffer the presence of people he dislikes very well so he is glad they're getting along well to start. ]
I will say, though, of all the people I've been paired with, he's the only one who really seems...to want to graduate? Or more like, he was worried about the possibility I might not think he could because of the things he's done.
I cleared that up for him - I definitely think he can - and I've read over his file since we talked. Some of it was a little over my head, I won't lie, but I did want to hear from you just in terms of like...where you think he's at now, as opposed to where he was back home, and where you might like to see him end up.
[ Dracula doesn't seem the sort to suffer the presence of people he dislikes very well so he is glad they're getting along well to start. ]
I will say, though, of all the people I've been paired with, he's the only one who really seems...to want to graduate? Or more like, he was worried about the possibility I might not think he could because of the things he's done.
I cleared that up for him - I definitely think he can - and I've read over his file since we talked. Some of it was a little over my head, I won't lie, but I did want to hear from you just in terms of like...where you think he's at now, as opposed to where he was back home, and where you might like to see him end up.
He's made strides in the months I've been here. And before that. He was here long before I was.
[He frowns, looking for terms that would make sense to someone outside the family.]
He's moved beyond whatever it was that gripped him when my mother died. I've called it madness, but his senses were about him, even if he wasn't quite bowing to them. It was, in some ways, a natural conclusion of being what he is. As old, as powerful, as unused to helplessness as him. And he's conceded that it was... not wrong, exactly, but unproductive, cruel, not what she'd have wanted.
[He frowns, looking for terms that would make sense to someone outside the family.]
He's moved beyond whatever it was that gripped him when my mother died. I've called it madness, but his senses were about him, even if he wasn't quite bowing to them. It was, in some ways, a natural conclusion of being what he is. As old, as powerful, as unused to helplessness as him. And he's conceded that it was... not wrong, exactly, but unproductive, cruel, not what she'd have wanted.
...I hope you've collected your Belmont. I left when I saw him on the deck. Not that he made that easy.
Stowed him with the infirmary so they can restore him to sufficient bodily integrity for me to deal with him without worrying things are breakable.
He's also welcome to keep mention of your mother out of his rotting pig trough of a mouth.
That, I will feel quite free to enforce. Honestly, without Sypha around to give him boundaries and direction, he's probably quite incapable of much beyond random flailing for now.
I've told the other vampires on board about his presence and recommended avoidance. So far, all of them have listened.
Probably for the best, though he'll be laid up for at least a little while. Apparently he's already tangled with Godric a bit.
I'm sorry I missed it. But. He's mortal, whether he likes it or not, and he's had Death's own boot up his ass. We have at least a little while to get the word out before he's up to a great deal of damage. He doesn't have that stupid whip, either.
Oh, that windbag? Well. I suppose I'll give him some time before I take the wind out of his sails about it and thank him for me.
We didn't exactly have a long chat, but one would expect an elemental parasite on all the history of life to be less of an irksome cock.
You would be very surprised. He's always been that way. The sort of person who assumes 'work acquaintance' means more than that.
Well, I think Belmont somehow stabbed him to... whatever happens if Death dies? If that improves your mood any.
It does, actually. Not sure what that says about me but all the same.
[Trevor's first night on the Barge is...rough. He's in his actual bedroom. In a bed he hasn't seen or slept in for about ten years. He's alone, which didn't used to bother him before he and Sypha started to share the same bed, and he keeps waking up expecting to feel her next to him.
Now he's plagued by nightmares that all faintly smell like ash.
Cranky and overtired after the fifth time of waking up from a dead sleep, he rolls out of bed. Grabs a pillow and his cloak. And heads upstairs to knock on Adrian's door]
Now he's plagued by nightmares that all faintly smell like ash.
Cranky and overtired after the fifth time of waking up from a dead sleep, he rolls out of bed. Grabs a pillow and his cloak. And heads upstairs to knock on Adrian's door]
[Lucky for Trevor, Adrian doesn't sleep very much. It's only a short silence before the door opens. He looks no more or less disheveled than usual.]
The medics already sprung you?
The medics already sprung you?
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