stardust_rifle

> The reason all vampires are kind of insane are because they're all basically trying to run the software for Asocial Apex Carnivore on the hardware of Highly Social Omnivore, with all the problems that entails.

> Vampires don't just get a human---->vampire transformation. The "virus" just focuses on twisting their bodily functions so that they get (most of) the physical stuff they need to hunt and kill people, and then it works on doing the mental and remaining physical stuff in the background. Consequences of this:

> The whole "vampires get stronger with age" thing is a result of the "virus" adapting their body to be actually capable of handling more and more insane feats of power (there's only so much you can do with the limit of human flesh and blood)

> The amount of blood they need also goes up as they age. At the start, they're limited by the carrying capacity of the human stomach, but as their digestive system slowly atrophies and gets replaced with something weirder, their carrying capacity goes up. A vampire at Maximum Internal Weirdness (around 1,500 years or so) can basically drink as much as they want.

> The older a vampire gets, the more Uncanny Valley they appear to people. They go from "human" to "probably human, but with a weird pallor and an unusually piercing gaze" to "this guy is Weird but we can't put our finger onto why" to "the Not-Deer but human" to "so strangely captivating in their weirdness so as to be incredibly captivating"

Some vampires have special powers (no we're not ripping off Twilight, they said). The most basic way to get a special power as a vampire is to be some kind of brainweird, with your powers an elaborate metaphor for your specific brainweird. Most vampire powers only work on the mental plane (with very rare exceptions).

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guess i'm just gonna port the vampire lore i made up for my jrock vampire au into my a3 one b/c my dhampir ideas (they're all developmentally disabled, have one enhanced physical ability/sense each, and have Big Cryptid Energy, sound like anyone in a3?) just make a lot of sense for this world, and combining it with my Headcanon Misumi Backstory That I Frequently Forget Isn't Canon (TL;DR- in between running away and winding up at mankai, misumi spent some time in a psych ward)

spoilers for splintered silver below the cut if anyone cares lol
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Fun Fact That Nobody Probably Cares About: the Splintered Silver AU was originally intended to be a Yoshiki/hide Vampire: The Masquerade AU, but progress was stalled when the author could not decide which vampire clans our heroes should be.

(If I* recall correctly, the dispute between hide was Malkavian vs. Daughter of Cacophony, and for Yoshiki it was Ventrue vs. Toreador)

*Or rather, M + me recall correctly, multiplicity is weird

after the Absolute Hell that has been trying to wrangle the splintered silver timeline into shape i have decided that so beautiful and so stubbornly alive (the hayashi hitomiverse has a name now!) will take place unmoored in natural time. i will not waste myself worrying about years and ages other than "there is some age-related fuckery going on with the main characters" and "this work does not take place in CURRENT_YEAR"

i am Tired piglet, i am Tired. I have had to wrangle a timeline taking place over 4,000/1,000 years of Earth's history (depending on how you count) and i have dyscalculia, i deserve a Break.

that awkward feeling when you plot out two stories that both feature t4t gay triads and then you realize that they're basically the same relationship

you have it being a triad between two binary trans people of the same gender with at third nb member who has the same ASAB as their partners

you have person a- a gay trans person who has a very masculine gender presentation who's the most outwardly normal of the group

you have person b- a loud flamboyant m-spec genderqueer person with dyed hair who uses humor as a coping mechanism to distract from their many Issues and they also came to trans identity with much less fuss than their partners

and you have person c- a very femme blond(e) who wears their Issues on their sleeve, chief among these Issues being a deep-seated sense of self-loathing over their transness

trying to think about the inciting incident for vamp!kaoru getting turned.

rational writer brain: it was probably something serious, like a diagnosis of terminal illness or a car crash that caused die to turn kaoru, maybe an attack by some other vamps that had beef with die?

silly nonsense clown brain: no, he slipped in the shower and hit his head. die was doing something in the other room and heard kaoru scream OW FUCK and ran to check, there was a truly obscene amount of blood, everyone was freaking out. neither one will ever let the other one live it down.

Sugizo refuses to ride in a car that either of his partners are driving. With Yoshiki, it's more of the principle of the thing- his main concern with driving is getting from Point A to Point B as fast as possible with "arriving there in one piece" as a distant second and "obeying traffic laws" as an even more distant third.

hide.

hide, however, drives like an immortal who does not recognize the authority of Man, God, or Traffic Laws and it frequently slips their mind that Sugizo is not, in fact, immortal, and does, in fact, see his life flashing before his eyes every time hide whips around a turn going 80 in a 40.

I have two scenes that I really wanted to put into the GazettE Vampire Hunters thing I'm working on but it doesn't fit the Oh The Loss Of My Humanity tone that I want.

The first scene is one at Uruha's funeral. His father gives a long, drawn-out eulogy that somehow manages to only refer to Uruha as "my child" throughout the whole thing. Ruki winds up getting into a shouting match with some of Uruha's shittier relatives that ends with Kai and Reita having to physically pull him away from the fight. Aoi records the whole thing and shows it to Uruha when he comes back from the dead.

Uruha laughs, but secretly he's kind of touched.

The second scene involves Uruha and Kai infiltrating a vampire club post-Uruha's-turning (with Kai playing the role of Uruha's human pet). Uruha lures and kills their target by getting the target in bed and then snapping their neck with his legs.

Kai has never been more attracted to his boyfriend than he is at that exact moment.