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Blame Discord people for this one

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rereading dracula after reading carmilla for the first time really makes me appreciate carmilla's efficiency in securing a place. dracula had to deal with all the logistics of the housing market meanwhile carmilla just crashed her car on someone's lawn and she got a cushy guest room and a girlfriend out of it. carmilla the woman you are

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Bloody phone charm :] 🩸🅾️💉

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Quick vampire tip:

"Look into my eyes": nobody says that. If they're a hunter they immediately know you're a vampire and that you're trying to hypnotize them.

"My eyes are up here": excellent. Actually gets people, frequently even hunters, to look into your eyes long enough for you to enthrall them. Powered by shame.

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You have lived for months as a “pet” to a cruel vampire, and it has been miserable. You’ve nearly resigned to your fate when two new vampires show up to the residence claiming to be from VETH (Vampires for the Ethical Treatment of Humans).

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If you are a vampire NEVER feed from someone named Richard. 400 fucking years and everyone still calls me Dick Sucker

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chat am I cooked

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How many vampires do you think have been hit by a car backing up in a parking lot because the driver couldn't see their reflection

I’ve never considered it but you’re really shining light on what’s probably a very serious issue

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Vampyr is very underrated. What a gem. I'll never get tired of it. This is a super old drawing but I still like it.

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This is such a weird thought so please don’t judge me. I know these characters are fictional.

Jonathan Reid is like 38 years old in game. And sometimes I wonder to myself while playing the game… is this motherfucka a virgin? then I look at Geoffrey McCullum’s fine ass and wonder who’s shared this Irishman’s bed?

not weird enough because I've wondered about this myself!

I feel like.... okay, listen. I don't. I have absolutely no idea for Jonathan. my instinct is to say no, he's not a virgin because why even live in France if you're not gonna hoe it up a little but honestly I don't really have any real reasons for saying so. except like. you know. Jonathan as an extremely eligible bachelor living in France probably did not lack opportunities and.... well, why not? socially, he'd get away with it, and any (female) partner could probably as well. sure, he's very reserved and gentlemanly at 38, but was he always like that?

now Geoffrey. Geoffrey. THIS bitch is a virgin. I mean, he could be a virgin, could not be, either sounds totally plausible, but the idea of him being a virgin simply vibes with me.

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tbh the biggest thing that makes Vampyr's lore and worldbuilding so damn hard to understand is the amount of inconsistencies with the dialogue and... everything else.

so far the worst example is when Jonathan picks up William Marshal's memoirs regarding his attempt to create the Tear of Angels, which Marshal says cures the blood of hate (which is NOT what Myrddin implies at the end though???). but anyway. the memoir specifically and explicitly has Marshal saying that he defeated the Disaster before he started searching for a cure to the Blood of Hate and certainly before his meeting with the Brotherhood about said cure and their answer of the Tear of Angels. right? says multiple times that he defeated the Disaster before he contacted the Brotherhood of St. Paul's Stole.

so.... why the fuck does Jonathan, after reading the memoir and telling Elisabeth about Edgar using her blood- why does Jonathan say "Now would be a good time to blend the recipe Marshal used when he fought the Disaster."

do you. do you see the problem. walk with me here.

in Marshal's memoir that Jonathan finds with McCullum's report, Marshal says

They proposed to meet inside the new cathedral of Saint Paul. [...] What a symbol, to choose the place where I defeated this Disaster, but also the place where I fell. [...] Since they acknowledged my will to save London in 1666, they heard my request, my burning desire to stop the blood of hate. [...] The Primate of Saint Paul wrote back to me with just a name, the Tear of Angels. According to him, this ancient artefact could heal anything. Cleanse any blackened soul and purify my blood. Blessed be the Lord, it took me more than a hundred years to find a cure for the blood of hate, but I may finally have found it. Soon, the rage shall end. Soon, I may repair the wrong I did and cleanse my failures. Now all I need to do is retrieve the necessary ingredients to create the artefact. ...

okay. "new cathedral of Saint Paul" implies this meeting occurred sometime around either 1687 (the date of consecration) or 1711 (date of formal completion) when the new building replaced the one Marshal burned down. and obviously he notes that he defeated the Disaster in 1666.

so why the fuck does Jonathan seem to think William Marshal created the antidote before fighting the Disaster in 1666?

that's just one example of the lore inconsistencies. everything about the Blood of Hate and Disasters is extremely confusing because different characters use the terms differently or interchangeably and sometimes one character's explanation completely contradicts another's and I'm just. I don't fucking know anymore.

I'm pretty sure that the Blood of Hate is something in all vampires, and that it's basically their addiction to blood; the Disaster is both the disease vampires can carry - dormant or not - and the metamorphosized form of the vessel/vector that the Red Queen uses. an Ichor seems to be an immature Disaster. I don't think we ever actually see an Ekon becoming a Disaster, and there's at least one line saying that the Brotherhood believes that Ichors are not Skal, so my assumption is that Ichors are created when Ekons carrying the Disaster then infect humans, or at least human women since idk what's up with Jacob Blackwood and if he's Elisabeth's progeny or not.

anyway my theory is that Jonathan Reid is either illiterate or doesn't understand how linear time works.

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Jonathan Reid is a doctor first, a good person second, and a vampire as far down the list as he can manage to place it.

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Jonathan: His blood was not tainted... The blood Lord Redgrave possessed... That which I used in the serum... But what if it had been? Myrddin: Then you would have failed, I suppose, for the blood of hate would have corrupted you, too. Jonathan:

Do you think Jonathan ever thinks about just how close he could have been to accidentally infecting himself with the Blood of Hate without realizing it? Because I do.

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confession: I have a stupid hetalia blog and also a stupid little Hetalia/Vampyr crossover because it really does just work entirely too well and I'm getting back into Vampyr again so you know what that means.

like the lore of Vampyr is so deeply rooted in Celtic (mostly Brythonic) tradition and is so much fun to crossover with hetalia. Myrddin says shit like “I am the land” and “I am the protector of this land” “the land calls for a champion” “for I rarely feel the urge to protect this land anymore” and all I can imagine is ‘the land’ just like

Arthur has been calling his former nanny non-stop since the first Battle of the Somme because his life’s a fucking nightmare as it is and now there’s a goddamn PLAGUE are you SERIOUS MYRDDIN SEND SOMEONE THE FUCK OVER