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[ssleeping-in-a-coffin]

Vampire Math: How Many Bats Can Fit in Dracula?

We’ve all seen Dracula pull his epic "poof into bats" move. But let’s get real: how many bats would that actually take? Time to crunch the numbers, vampire-style!

The Data:

Dracula’s Stats: Bat Stats (folded):

Height: 1.93 m Size: 5 cm × 3 cm × 3 cm

Weight: 90 kg. Weight: 30 grams

I don't know Dracula's exact height or weight. But I found this exact information somewhere on the internet. I apologize if it's incorrect

Part 1: Volume Calculation

1. Dracula’s Volume = Weight / Density

V= 90kg/1000kg/m³ =0.09m³

2. One Bat’s Volume = Length × Width × Height

Vbat = 0,05×0,03×0,03 = 0.000045m³

3. Number of Bats = Dracula’s Volume / Bat’s Volume

0,09/0.000045 = 2000 bats

Verdict: Dracula turns into 2,000 bats, enough to have a hell of a flash mob in your living room.

P.S. Density is the bridge between “how heavy” and “how much space”. If Dracula were made of air, he’d fill a whole room. If he were gold? He’d fit in a backpack. But since he’s human-like (and humans ≈ water), we use water’s density (1000 kg/m³). It makes calculations easier and doesn't make physicists cry

Part 2: Weight Calculation

If Dracula’s weight stays the same (90 kg), bats gotta add up!

Number of Bats = Dracula’s Weight / Bat’s Weight

90kg/0,03kg = 3000 bats

Oops! 3000 bats would need 3000×0.000045=0.135m³ — 1.5x Dracula’s volume!

Verdict: Dracula would have to break the laws of physics to hold so many mice. Or... they have to be super dense.

Part 3: How do you combine volume and weight?

To match both weight and volume, bats need Dracula’s density (1000 kg/m³).

1. Bat’s Volume = Bat’s Weight / Density

Vmagic bat = 0,03/1000 = 0.00003m³

2. Number of Bats = Dracula’s Volume / Bat’s Volume

0,09/0.00003 = 3000 bats

Verdict: If the bats are 5cm x 2cm x 3cm in size, they will fill both volume and weight perfectly. But these mice will look like mini bricks - not great for vampire transformation.

Final Showdown

According to science: Dracula can become 2,000 mice, but their weight will only be 60 kg (where did the other 30 kg go? Maybe it's a raincoat?)

Magically, 3,000 brick mice that will keep weight but raise questions among physicists

Moral of the Story: Vampires better not turn into mice in front of witnesses, or they'll have to explain where a third of their mass has gone

[za1ka]

oh no would you look at the time i can't believe Crowley's a chronic valentine's day misser! but thankfully it's never too late for amore so let's get sappyyyyyyyyyyyyy 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[humming-fly]

Delighted to discover that the way shadow unlocks new abilities in sxsg is a perfect parallel of the pringles iron maiden

[codacheetah]

Tell me your opinions on the stuff. Any stuff.

Grins. Smiles, even

I'm using you as an excuse to infodump my theory about the Island because I've had no in to do that, and my theory is pure opinion. Anyways:

THE ISLAND IS STUCK IN THE FUCKING FUTURE

(SCARE CHORD)

Hi so you might ask me. What the fuck do you mean by that. Well. Let's start with what we know about the Island, the King, and Wish Craft. (long ass post under cut. sorry)

The Island was redacted from the perception of outside world, via Wish Craft.

Wish Craft has the power to enable Time Craft. We see this primarily through Siffrin's timeloops, but also through the King's powers.

One of the King's powers is to show the saviors a "vision of the future."

...And this same attack is deflected back at the King by Mirabelle in ACT 5, in which the King is able to see the Island before being frozen in time.

...So. The King's "vision of the future." We're never told explicitly what this vision is. All we know is that it's apparently powerful enough to wipe the party in one hit, hearing it from a distance hurts your head, and that whatever Siffrin (and Loop) saw, they don't seem to actually be able to describe it. Even the King himself doesn't know what his vision entails.

We don't know whether the party all sees the same thing when struck by the vision, and Adrienne's answer to the question about it in the Reddit AMA is. vague? It's not a "no," and the specific wording makes me think the answer might be yes. But that's me reading into it.

Now. What do we know about the Island's redaction? The Island was affected by the wish recently, as in "like a decade ago" recently. We know that nobody in Vaugarde or the rest of the world is capable of thinking about the Island, anything closely tied to the Island's culture, or people on the Island for very long. When they do recall these things, they slip right out of reach. Particularly, the consequence for trying to think about the Island (or, more specifically, break the wish that forces the Island out of perception) is significant pain, localized in the head.

And that said pain is enough to become lethal, if pressed hard enough.

From here forward I'm running with the assumption that the King's "vision of the future" is not personalized to any individual, and is unchanging throughout the course of the whole story. Now. Remember the end of ACT 5, where the King gets hit with the deflected "vision of the future", and instead of dying, he recalls the Island and gets frozen in time? Very odd, yeah? Why wouldn't the King just die like everyone else does? He even does take 9999 damage when trying to say its name, like Siffrin does, and like the party does when they're hit by the attack.

Well. We know that he has a "true wish" that the ability to freeze Vaugarde in time grants. I don't think it's at all a stretch to guess that the King's "true wish" is to be able to remember the Island. My personal guess is that the King (and Siffrin) brought this "true wish" into effect via the "SAY ITS NAME" sequence- he even tries three times, a significant number in wishing.

The King (and Siffrin's) wish breaks, because it can't be fulfilled in this moment without breaking the wish to prevent the Island from being thought about. However. Consider the conditions at the end of ACT 5- the King sees the vision of the future reflected back to him, and what he sees is the Island. He remembers the Island, fulfilling his own wish, and is frozen in time. I consider this a compromise between his wish and the one binding the Island- the King gets to remember the Island, but nobody alive is able to think about it, because he's frozen in time; it's like the Universe is correcting itself (I WILL GET BACK TO THIS). The wish of all of Vaugarde to defeat the King is fulfilled, since he is no longer a threat, and Siffrin's wish wraps itself up soon after.

MY POINT BEING. The King's attack is a vision of the future. This "future" is of the Island, in some uncorrupted state. The saviors see it when he attacks them, and he sees it when it is deflected back to him.

The logical next question is "okay, so the Island exists in the future, but how do you know time shenanigans are even related to the Island?"

Recall a very odd series of interactions throughout the game, in which you try to interact with a piece of equipment that you already own.

The game rewinds slightly, before the item disappears, as the Universe corrects itself.

This is awfully similar to two particular events: looping back without seeing the death screen, and talking to the Daydreaming One about her sister. The latter is more interesting to me for the purposes of this theory.

In both instances, something is misaligned within the Universe (an item existing in two places, someone remembering something they're not supposed to) and it is corrected through some sort of rewind. Also compare the dialogue above to when you try to give Mirabelle the Stylish Bow when you already own it.

The world glitches, but Siffrin defuses the situation before the Universe has to intervene. Omitted from the screenshot is the fact that Mirabelle's portraits switch to happy from "catastrophically anxious" with no transition after Siffrin shows her where the bow is. Important to note is that when Mirabelle tries to recall receiving the bow, her head hurts, much like how trying to break the Island wish causes a headache.

The Universe leads you away from perception, and you can only follow.

My theory that I keep circling around is that through Wish Craft, the Island has been displaced temporally. The denizens of the Island, as well as the Island itself, still exist, but they are in the future. The Island is still loaded into the world, like how equipment is before you try to interact with it, and the Island cannot leave this quantum state, because it never actually went anywhere. The magnitude of the redaction event is so severe with the Island, because it is so much larger as an entity than a sword or a bow. There are of course things I don't really have pieced together, like why somebody would wish the Island into the future, how far into the future it is, or why equipment behaves this way. But it's the only Island theory I've seen that I have some level of confidence in, so I might as well lay out my cards for it.

[welcometogrouchland]

(ID in alt) I literally said I was gonna post this month's ago and then never had the wherewithal to describe it and so I didn't Lmao (said with pain). But since I'm thinking of opening my commissions I figured I should remind ppl that I. Yknow. Can draw.

Lots of Steph here (I had major art block making all of these and my brain worms for her kept me going) + some sprinkles of stephcass for Cass nation to enjoy!

[kumaronoa]

studie with Lighter ~

[mttcafe]

puts this on your doorstep and scrambles away. those wacky skeletons that i hate

[dennisboobs]

i really do believe a huge part of why jbolle89's Summer Gods gets rec'd so fucking consistently as Thee charden fic is because every other goddamn fic is charlie whump where dennis is a cartoon villain who does evil things for the sake of being evil perhaps (!) the underlying appeal of charden is the fact that dennis deeply cares for charlie and doesn't want to hurt him just for the sake of it. maybe dennis is naïve and trusting and charlie takes advantage of that, yet it never makes dennis underestimate him any less. maybe this makes him even more fond of charlie, because he isn't willing to roll over and do tricks; he's willing to challenge him, expose dennis' farce of "control", because charlie only lets him believe he's in charge as long as it's mutually beneficial. maybe charlie doesn't need a father, but he wants to feel safe, knowing that someone's looking out for him. maybe den's relationship with charlie humanizes him, and maybe charlie's relationship with dennis demonstrates he's not as stupid as everyone seems to believe. maybe they're just a couple of lost boys out of time, and the thing they both look for in each other is deeply Weird to everyone else but them (maybe it's also Weird to them, but they'll never delve into that). maybe the knowledge that they will always be there for the other to run back to is the most important element of their relationship. because what could be more terrifying to a child trapped in an adult's body than change?

[blue-jos10]

i wonder how kevin's fitness-obsessed mind justifies his alcohol addiction

[tblsomedoodles]

Work's been weird.

[princessofbookaholics]

currently reading ✨

[possessable]

silly Rough MS Paint Comic to get this idea down, World's Most Well Adjusted And Normal Sisters

bonus. get emotionally attached to your sister's clone

[dee-daa]

zagan's thighs

that's it, that's the post

[dawnthefluffyduck]

Statement of intent

(Stranger!Noelle is from Looking Glasses by @ferronickel - check it out if you haven't already!)

[mandareeboo]

I very much recommend watching Epic the Musical on Youtube.

I know a little about it! Mostly through animatics. I've heard all of "The Horse and the Infant" from ROTTMNT but all I really recall of it is the infant section I heard more recently in a LMK one. I've also seen "Get in the Water", male and female version, but I heard the female version first for an animatic of Hama that's now on Youtube (First link is tumblr, second is youtube).

Everything I've heard so far is a bang-up job! I just keep forgetting to actually check it out.

[cup-noodle]

oh my god this feels like waking up to see that your dog chewed through every pair of underwear in the house while you slept but much much worse. what the fuck did y'all do