#it's just sick and cool. blood. and castles. and turning into a bat or wolf. and drinking blood

[gigantomachylesbian]

Tbh I'm at a point in my life when I'm thinking about vampires with like. 10% of my brain at any given moment

[bl597]

Can I have one of the reader being a muggle born Gryffindor and is friends with the trio. She has the same potions class with them and everyday, she along with the trio, had suffer the crap Snape would throw at them. So she decides to give him a taste of his own medicine, and be very disruptive during class. Every time after he says, Turn to page 394” she chimes in with “Like a boss” and kept on doing that. The whole class was laughing and Snape gave her detention for her class clown moment.

of course you can, love! i'm so so sorry you had to wait so long, i really hope you enjoy it! if you don't like it, please let me know so i can rewrite it for you!!

warnings: the word "bullshit", reader is the same age as the golden trio and they're in 3rd year, Snape is an idiot in this one, it got a little long yay, english is not my first language, so i'm sorry for any mistakes!

golden trio x muggleborn!gryffindor!reader

my masterlist ♡

When you went to the train station, looking for platform 9¾, there was nothing between the platforms 9 and 10, just a wall. Then you and your parents saw a family of redheads and a dark haired boy in front of the wall between the two platforms, and they had the same things as you next to their suitcases.

“Hm, excuse me, ma'am?” your mother asked the redhead woman next to a little girl. “Is there any possibility that you know how to go to the platform 9¾?”

The woman smiled sweetly at your mother “Of course, dear! You just have to go straight through the wall!” she said as if it was nothing, and your eyes widened.

“What?”

“Oh, it's okay, honey!” the woman said, calming you down “Fred, you next!” she said to one of the twins, gesturing to the wall with her head after the boy with glasses crossed it.

“He's not Fred, I am!” the other twin exclaimed and you giggled.

“Honestly woman, you call yourself our mother!” the one who wasn't Fred said.

“Oh, sorry George!” she said. “Come on.”

“Actually, we were just joking, I'm Fred!” 'George' said before going through the wall, his brother following after, both chuckling.

“See? It's easy!” she said, looking with a big smile at you and at the dark haired boy, who looked just as nervous as you. “Now, go you three, come on.”

You, the dark haired boy and the other redhead boy around your age went through the wall, one behind each other. When you realised you hadn't crashed into the wall, you finally opened your eyes and saw the beautiful train in front of you. You smiled brightly, and so did the other boys.

Soon, the woman, the little girl and your parents appeared, leading you three to the train. You saw Mrs Weasley - as your parents told you was her name - hug the boys and say goodbye to both of them. Your parents did the same, hugging you and making you promise you would write them everyday. You bid your goodbye to all of them before entering the train and starting to look for an empty place.

After walking for one minute or two, you found one compartment with only a boy holding a little toad and a girl with messy brown hair. “Excuse me,” you said and they turned their heads to you “may I sit here? Everywhere else is full.” they nodded and you smiled thankfully at them, sitting down. “I'm (Y/n) (Y/l/n), by the way."

“I'm Hermione Granger.” the girl said, giving you a smile. “And this is Neville Longbottom.” she pointed to the boy.

“Hello.” he shyly waved at you and you waved back at him.

You spent half of the ride talking about your lives and how excited you were to finally meet Hogwarts, and you found out Hermione was a muggleborn as well. You guys were talking so excitedly Neville almost didn't even notice the little toad escaping his hands.

“Trevor!” he exclaimed, looking around the compartment, trying to find his pet.

“Do you want us to help you find him, Neville?” you asked him and he nodded, not wanting to lose his pet. “Okay, let's look in the corridors and in the compartments.”

You three left your compartment, entering others and asking people if they had seen a toad, which they unfortunately didn't. You and Hermione knocked in the door of one compartment, the same redhead boy you've seen earlier opened it and looked at you two curiously.

“Have any of you seen a toad?” Hermione asked and the two boys shook their heads. “Ok then, thank y- Holy cricket! You're Harry Potter!” she gasped, looking at the dark haired boy that now you knew the name.

“Hm, yeah, I guess I am.” he said shyly, rubbing the back of his neck.

“I'm Hermione Granger.” she said. “This is my friend (Y/n) (Y/l/n).” you nodded and waved at them.

“You're the girl from earlier!” the redhead exclaimed, and you nodded and smiled.

“And you are..?” Hermione asked.

The boy swallowed the rest of the candy and tried to clean his mouth with the sleeve of his shirt. “Ron Weasley.”

“Pleasure.” Hermione said with a little disgusted expression seeing the boy's mouth dirty with chocolate. “Well, you two better change your clothes, we're almost there. Come on, (Y/n).” you said a little 'bye' before Hermione pulled you with her towards your compartment.

~

It was already night when you arrived at the castle with the rest of the first years and Hagrid, the giant hairy man. A tall old woman appeared, thanking Hagrid and leading the children inside. When the doors finally opened, you couldn't stop smiling. It was as if you were in your own fairytale, like the ones you always read when you were younger.

The same woman, who introduced herself as Professor McGonagall, said everything about the houses, the sorting hat and the sorting ceremony. You all then entered the Great Hall in a line, like professor McGonagall told so.

In front of you all there was an old hat, which could only be the sorting hat. After the sorting hat sang a little song about the houses, Professor McGonagall started calling the students and they went to where the hat and the professor were, and after one minute or two, the hat exclaimed which house the person was in.

“Susan Bones!”

“HUFFLEPUFF!”

“Justin Finch-Fletchley!”

“HUFFLEPUFF!”

“Padma Patil!”

“RAVENCLAW!”

“(Y/n) (Y/l/n)!”

You nervously walked towards the hat, sitting down while professor McGonagall carefully put it on your head.

“I can see you're really brave and really like some adventure, huh?” the hat said and your eyes widened in surprise. “Open minded and also really smart, would be fine in Ravenclaw. But I can feel it, the loyalty to your friends, the nobility. I know exactly what to do with you.” After a few seconds, the hat exclaimed: “GRYFFINDOR!”

The Gryffindor students clapped, congratulating you when you sat down. After a few minutes the table was getting fuller. Neville Longbottom, the boy from the train sat next to you, smiling shyly. Then Seamus Finnigan, Parvati Patil, Dean Thomas, Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, Hermione Granger and a lot more. You and Hermione hugged each other, happy that you were in the same house. After that, you were inseparable.

~

Over the years, you, Hermione, Harry and Ron became best friends and were always seen together. Everything was amazing, all the classes were interesting and funny and all the students and professors were cool. Well, almost all of them. Professor Snape was your - a lot of other people's - least favorite professor. He had always made your life a living hell, especially because you were a Gryffindor and a muggleborn. He always did everything he could to take points from your house everytime you did something he said was unacceptable - mostly it was just doing something wrong unintentionally in Potions, like failing with your potions.

In your third year, professor Lupin became the DADA professor - the best one you ever had -, but once a month he would miss the class because he was sick. You were happy to see that he was fine the other day, but the worst part was: Snape replaced him when he was sick.

You were laughing about something with Harry when out of nowhere Snape entered the classroom, closing all the windows like the drama queen he was. You rolled your eyes, and so did half of the class.

“Turn to page 394.” he said, looking at the class.

“Like a boss.” you said in a failed attempt to imitate his stupid deep voice. The whole class laughed, even some Slytherins on the other side of the room.

“Quiet, Mr/Miss (Y/l/n).” he hissed.

“Quiet, Mr/Miss (Y/l/n).” you said in a mocking tone and the class laughed again.

Professor Snape looked at you with a expression that said i-would-kill-you-if-it-wasn't-illegal and you just smirked. You were tired of dealing with bullshit and he treating you like nothing just because of your house of bloodstatus.

“Page 394, I'm not going to repeat it.” Snape said with an annoyed voice.

“But, professor" Hermione started “we haven't studied about werewolves yet.”

Snape ignored her, making a movement with his wand. In front of the class, photos of werewolves appeared out of nowhere. “Can anyone tell me what's the difference between a werewolf and a real wolf?” he said.

Hermione lifted her hand, but Snape ignored her once again. “No one? What a shame.”

“Professor, please!” said Hermione, hand still lifted. “The werewolf differs from the real wolf by small details. The werewolf's snout...”

“Quiet, Miss Granger!” Snape harshly said. “5 points from Gryffindor.”

Hermione lowered her hand, face red like her tie. You felt your blood boil.

“You asked us something and only Hermione knows the answer! Why did you ask us if you didn't want any of us to answer?” Ron hissed, looking at the professor. The whole class gasped, looking between Ron and Snape with wide eyes.

“Yeah, professor. You always asks us something and never lets us answer and then you punish us for it!” you said loudly, ignoring the deathly glare Snape gave you two.

“50 points from Gryffindor and detention for one week, Mr Weasley and Mr/Miss (Y/l/n)!”

“Are you crazy?!” Hermione and Harry whisper-yelled to you and Ron, who just shrugged.

“The old bat deserved it.” you said through your teeth. “Besides, it's detention with professor Lupin, he's cool and he always gives us chocolate.”

You four laughed quietly. Let's just say that Snape hated you four even more, but you could live with it, you've been doing fine for the last 3 years. And you had you friends with you, so it was worth it all the detentions with Snape.

[apothe-scary]

LEVI GOLDSTEIN THE VAMPIRE, FACTS MASTERPOST

Any time i have new facts ill add them here!!!

Levis physical facts

Levi is two thousand years and some change old!

He ages EXTREMELY slowly. Though bitten at age 19, he now looks 21-23 years of age at this point in his life.

Levi is six feet tall

As cute as levi is, he makes the most HORRIFIC facial expressions sometimes. Eyes a little too wide, smile too big, showing too many teeth and too much gum. Creepy smiles Bug eyed looks and wrinkled noses. He doesnt mean too, but he forgets what he looks like sometimes.

Levi is blind in one eye if you haven’t noticed! He lost it in a fight! A sword fight!

Has a really fucking weird accent i wont even attempt to write but will try to at least describe

Personal facts about levi

No one believes hes a real vampire

Loves bloody steak

Loves animals

Loves kids

Loves all things occult

Levis is old, very very old, he’s two-thousand and some change. So he can bypass some of the things younger vampires cant. He can daywalk for a few hours without protection BUT all day with protection ie: sun hat or umbrella. He can turn into mist and bats and a wolf creature. He can have his head cut off and still live. He can regenerate limbs. But things that still get him are the laws of hospitality. He must be invited, he must treat his guests with respect and feed them, water them, ya know treat them well.

Pouts when he cant go outside to look at the pretty flowers because he forgot/got it stollen his hat/umbrella.

Levi LOVES dogs! He gets one any chance he has and has an extensive record of every dog hes ever owned. When levi and svetza go out, levi is the buffer for dogs. Dogs seem to dislike svetza on some level she can not fathom. (Or some dogs at least) Dogs however flock to levi in droves and become instant babies in his presence.

Levi sleeps in a large four poster coffin bed. Its a queen sized bed shaped like a coffin with four posters, heavy light blocking curtains, and its very cozy!

Levi has family. Lots and lots of family. Hes kept a record of his entire family. He knows everyone and sends them letters and gifts on hollidays. Everyone in the family knows about levi but not exactly who and what he is and what hes about. Hes just that one really weirdly supportive uncle /cousin that shows up to familyreunions. Like the family isnt even sure how they are related but they know they are. He keeps track of marriages and births and deaths. Anytime anyone if the family needs to know their genealogy they ask weird cousin/uncle levi. Only a few memebers of the family know what he is really. Others know but dont believe. Some suspect and the others joke about it. Levis home (an old castle) is filled with family photos and such. It just fills me with joy to imagine that instead of mourning the fact that everyone you love dies while you live on as a vampire, he just sees it as an opportunity to keep track of his family and history! He even takes in family memebers when they need a place to stay. So its not uncommon for him to have random members of his super extended family living with him.

Garlic also isnt a deterrent. Garlic is just...stinky. Really really stinky. But he likes the stinky.

hes always cool to the touch so he LOVES warm stuff. Hand warmers, sunny days, warm rocks, warm people, hot drinks or foods.

But his favorite days are sunless because then he can go out without a hat and umbrella!

Levi is extra about his fashion! He wears all sorts of fashion, the man is two thousand years old and has CHOICES! Levi really loves the grungy garage punk and jock with crop top n booty shorts looks. At home he wears booty shorts and crop tops to lounge in. Sleeps in a night shirt thats really just an oversized tshirt dress he got at a thrift shop. He will wear a dress. He gives zero fucks.

Levi loves kitchy vampire shit! Novels, Movies, games, costume, Decorations, ect! He ADORES THEM! He thinks its fun and creative and likes all the lore people come up with! They even get facts right sometimes!

Levi is a dinosaur. Hes only just now gotten used to using a dial phone. Let alone a cellphone. Help him. He still uses a rotary phone for gods sake

Levi owns several properties he rents out to people. Its where he makes most of his money.

Levis birth certificate year has to be refreshed every thirty years to stay current. But all the other facts stay the same. Parents, where he was born etc. He knows people who can make him new proper legal documents so he can fly under the radar.

Levis Religious facts

Holy items dont work on him at all! Especially crosses because “Oh yes, a jewish man hung on a torture device would be PLEASED to see them used to symbolize peace and love. And then bless it as a holy item.” Like get real, its a torture device, a symbol of death and malicious intent and not a holy symbol. (To him)

He doesn’t consider himself evil or unholy. So that has some impact on why the items don’t work.

The boy sports a star of david all the time because...jewish.

He also reads his torah and other holy books like a good boy.

Levis professional medical facts

He drinks peoples blood to find out what ails them! Then perscribes them the proper medicine!

being a medical professional he convinces people to donate blood! He uses half of them for his patients.

Levi is able to smell girls on their periods but politely says NOTHING

Levi runs several small medical clinics/apothecary shops where he hires local medical practitioners as employees. (They deal with all the new fangled fancy equipment)

Levis personal medical facts

Levi is two thousand years and some change old!

Also as he is a medical professional he knows hes being rediculous but he doesn’t care. Levi takes iron pills because of his iron deficiency from his vampirism. But he hates taking the horse pills so he Makes bloodshakes with red fruits or veggies to hide the fact hes drinking blood and everyone just assumes its red for the ✨ aesthetic ✨

Direct sunlight after a few hours gives him a WICKED sunburn

Blood transfusions work as well. He actually keeps half of all blood transfusions for himself!

Levi is blind in one eye! He lost it in a sword-fight! Why it hasn’t regenerated is beyond him.

Levi au facts

Ouran highschool Host club

Ok but levi being in the host club would be kinda perfect for him. Hes a goofy, sweet, caring, drama loving, tall (six feet is tallish) pretty, twink boy. Hed fit right in.

People refer to levi as the vampire prince. He isnt sure why but it seems to make them happy so he just lets it be.

Loves occult stuff

Loves kids

Levi is on iron pills for his iron deficiency. But Levi refusing to take his iron pills because they are HORSE PILLS (aka huge af) He hates taking the horse pills so his friend crush them up and put them in his bloodshakes, blood pudding and sausage for him to eat/drink.

His friends know damn well he can swallow his pills (though he insists he can not) because they have seen him jokingly deep throat bananas and swallow hotdogs whole. But they just roll with it and crush them into his food and drink.

Levi Makes bloodshakes with red fruits or veggies to hide the fact hes drinking blood and everyone just assumes its red for the ✨ aesthetic ✨

Blood transfusions are also be a thing he does in rare extreme cases

Levi is a dinosaur. Despite only being 19. Hes only just now gotten used to using a dial phone. Let alone a cellphone. Help him. He still uses a rotary phone for gods sake

Levi sleeps in a large four poster coffin bed. Its a queen sized bed shaped like a coffin with four posters, heavy light blocking curtains, and its very cozy!

Levi lives with family friends who live in a castle!

Loves bloody steaks

Also cant be in direct sunlight for long due to also having sun sickness, so he wears a big hat and carries an umbrella all the time.

Pouts when he cant go outside to look at the pretty flowers because he forgot/got it stollen his hat/umbrella.

No one believes hes a real vampire

[chiiquititamoved]

ep 1 of bbc dracula - observations

beginning looks very creepy. am i down? not sure. 

there’s a cool nun! i’m getting some very good badass vibes 

wHEw, okay, i was expecting some queerbait-y type stuff from this show but literally before even the intro, this (AMAZING) nun just goes “mr harker. have you had sexual intercourse with dracula?” 

just. right out of the gate

we’ve established that this nun doesn’t have any faith in god

okay now we’re getting into the castle stuff. (this is right after the intro) 

aw mina (from her letter) seems like a sweetheart so far 

this is very beauty and the beast so far. like when belle’s dad goes into the castle and there’s no one there 

oooh we just met dracula. he’s very wrinkly and old 

“they [people of transylvania] are without... flavour.” “perhaps you mean character?” “ahahahaa.”

i feel like i should clarify that harker is staying in a convent, being cared for by nuns while he’s sick. he’s telling his story to badass nun and this other nun and the viewer is seeing what happened through cuts or whatever 

okay you know just some book stuff is happening - dracula’s being a weirdo, johnny harker notices some odd goings on, etc.

so, this has always struck me - in the book as well - why is dracula always climbing up walls like a fucking lizard? why? first of all, he can turn in to a bat, so if he needs to get OVER the wall then he can fucking FLY. if he doesn’t need to get over the wall then wtf is he doing? harker is going to see or hear him - i mean, god knows he’s acted weirdly/suspiciously enough for harker to be scared/nervous around him - like??? dracula really is an idiot psychopath bisexual  

harker’s having an *ehem* mildly i n n a p r o p r i a t e dream. he and mina are having sex but then mina turns into wrinkly old dracula. yucky yuck. 

now harker sees ‘help us’ written on his window

it’s in english! very convenient for mr harker - so our wonderful nun points out: “you are an englishman: a combination of presumptions beyond compare.” (no hate to englishmen)

harker starts to explore the castle. uh oh. 

he gets lost + dracula finds him

our man dracula is wining and dining johnny!

Dracula looks younger now. :| this is suspicious

dracula is EVEN YOUNGER! glow up!!!!

harker is starting notice there’s NO STAFF IN THE CASTLE... and his health is deteriorating 

wow johnny is actually being very brave!! i must say i am proud

johnny is finding a bunch of old pictures in a wooden bin somewhere in the castle. are these dracula’s previous victims?? WHO KNOWS

FUCK there’s a fucking dead lady in the wooden bin. yuckkk i do not approve 

she just chased him down this tunnel, and now dracula’s there and harker passes out

badass nun (agatha) is telling us about the UNDEAD. explains a lot

drac says he found johnny asleep on the floor in the basement, all the while looking SUSPICIOUSLY young. 

HEY drac is calling him johnny! that’s my thing >:(

now johnny doesn’t recognize mina’s picture! what’s going on?

he’s making johnny write three letters to mina: one saying he’s almost leaving the castle, one saying he’s leaving the next day, and one saying he’s left safely, etc. 

john’s hallucinating that a baby’s crying in the distance. OR IS HE?

harker is willing to sacrifice himself for a baby he doesn’t even know exists. i’m actually proud of how brave he is :’(

AGATHA!! i love her

so harker is starting to plot an escape - he looks for a map to the castle. he knows that drac said that it doesn’t exist but his reasoning is that the architect was an artist and would have wanted his art preserved. he finds the map in a painting of the architect’s dead wife (because she’s the sunlight of his life and he built this place to escape the actual sunlight when she died?? i think?? Sorry that was confusing)

so, the architect made hidden passages through the maze of the castle 

harker finds a passage! yay

okay the passage led to a room, and in the room there’s a lady in a wooden box thing eating rats. she comes out of the box, she’s a vampire, and johnny’s talking to her. she left the message on the window earlier? maybe? this is unclear. 

she bites john

harker askes nun agatha why she’s got no “faith” and she says “I have looked for god everywhere in this world and never found him.” “Then why are you here?” “Well, like many women of my age, I am trapped in a loveless marriage, maintaining appearances for the sake of a roof over my head.” GOD I LOVE THIS WOMAN

eww there’s a deadish baby in the box thing

drac kills the lady in the castle

harker: “you’re a monster!” drac: “and you’re a lawyer. nobody’s perfect.”

okay drac and harker have a suspenseful chat, bla bla bla. drac is trying to REPRODUCE? 

If this turns into some fucking mpreg fanfiction bullshit i’m suing 

drac goes outside onto a balcony thing in the castle w/ johnny and they lay down (drac in the shade and harker in the sun) and drac asks johnny to describe the sun to him?? cool i guess??

drac, about the sun: “But that’ll burn me to dust.” my man john harker: “Good.” “fair enough.” 

i LOVE how johnny is literally on death’s door, and still manages to snark at the man who put him there

okay so john’s still outside w/ drac, it’s established that he’s either going to die (fully) or be stuck in the castle for the rest of his “life”. harker is shaking, bla bla, and he goes “drac! spare me!” and drac’s like “how, dude?” and then we cut to agatha and harker in the convent and it turns out that harker just wrote pages of shit like “dracula is my master!” “dracula will be obeyed!” “dracula is god!” when he got to the convent and it’s like... whew

turns out he thought he was writing an account of his stay at the castle but he really just wrote like 100 pages of that 

oooookay - now, johnny’s begging drac to let him go and drac’s like “how?” and john says he won’t tell anyone about drac’s plans to move to england and kill everybody so drac’s like “sure,” and harker’s like “wait really,” and drac’s like “oooh i’m going to destroy everyone you love bla bla bla but if you swear you won’t try to stop me i’ll let you go.” UM. 

but now harker gives this impressive last hurrah thing where he kinda like... climbs up dracula’s body? like drac pulls him? and he goes “i swear that if you let me out here alive... I’LL DO EVERYTHING IN MY POWER TO STOP YOU!” psych 

and then drac kills him and he falls down 

“SO HOW IS HE ALIVE?”, you ask

“HE’S A VAMPIRE,” i say

oh no! he’s not! my lovely agatha reveals that he’s “undead, but not a vampire,”

aggie: “it’s not something that one anticipates asking: but, what happened after you were murdered?”

okay so now johnny becomes undead and he still has a spirit! johnathan harker has a will, etc and he tries to jump off of the balcony thing. drac’s like hey you should stay w/ me! ur kinda like me u kno and john’s like NOPE

then the sun hits drac’s face and johnny falls from the balcony

now aggie reveals that a river, which john fell into, bore him out to sea and a fisherman found him caught in his net. he was brought to the convent/agatha 

agatha: “i am known to have some expertise in the realm of witchcraft and the occult.” johnny: “You’re a nun.” ag: “We can discuss my imperfectly suppressed fascination with everything dark and evil another time.”

oh!!!!!! so - the sun reflected the cross that harker was wearing onto drac!!!! and that’s why drac fell/was hurt whatever 

so basically like minor vampires and shit don’t fear the cross??? but big guy (drac) does?

agatha’s like “i looked everywhere and finally i found god!!!! yay” and she’s happy 

OH FUCK!!! THE SECOND NUN IN THE ROOM IS MINA!!!

basically aggie found out who he was, traced him back to london, and found mina (she mentions a detective acquaintance - sherlock crossover, anyone?) 

mina: “we are to be married, so who you are will always be my decision.”

they have a really touching “i still love u!!” type scene and then a bunch of fucking bats fly in

turns out drac’s at the convent now

mina got bitten (on her face) by a bat and she’s kinda bloody and harker’s like woooh take this stake so you can stab me if i try to drink that

god agatha has SO MANY good lines!!!

now dracula has turned into a wolf and he’s outside the gates of the convent 

mina hugs johnathan and he licks her blood :(

now he backs her into a corner and tries to drink her blood, but then he stops and tries TO IMPALE HIMSELF ON THE WOODEN STAKE

the wolf has this really gross transformation scene and he turns into dracula as a human

OOKAY so a bunch of nuns come to the gates (i should clarify that that’s where dracula is) and they pull out wooden stakes and agatha’s like drac you’re going down. 

agatha opens the gates of the convent!!! and tells dracula he’s not invited in and he can’t come in

agatha to drac: “I expect a beast to follow rules, I don’t expect it to understand them.”

agatha cuts her hand open and like taunts him w/ the blood 

SHE’S AGATHA VAN HELSING OH MY GOD

THEY REALLY TURNED VAN HELSING INTO A WOMAN!!!!!

drac: “who are you?” agatha: “your every nightmare at once. an educated woman in a crucifix.” !!!!!!!!

OH FUCK!!!! johnathan really is dead!!!!! :((( i thought he wouldn’t be but nvm i guess

mina and aggie have a talk and mina says she’ll never love anybody else :’(

oh shit!!! i was right he isn’t dead! drac does that weird lizard wall climbing thing again and goes into his window and tells johnny that “suicide doesn’t work.” great. 

dracula’s like hey bud i can kill you properly! since it needs another person! all you’ve gotta do is invite me in! :))))))

we cut to the mother superior and she’s giving a nice little lecture about god 

and then dracula comes in and cuts her head off

the nuns are obviously terrified BUT they’ve got their crosses and they push him away, whatever, but then drac calls a bunch of wolves 

“I’m undead, I’m not unreasonable.”

the nuns get attacked by the wolves EXCEPT for agatha and mina, who went to agatha’s workshop to escape

harker comes down to the workshop! (which they surrounded by sacramental bread or something) and they’re arguing over whether they should let him in and mina’s like i’m gonna do it! and she almost does but she sees that harker’s eyes aren’t blue anymore, so she’s like hey what’s up with that and then harker starts PEELING HIS FACE OFF and it’s dracula

THE END OF EPISODE ONE 

phewwwwwww. So this is almost 2000 words? And very incoherent. If you’ve had the courage to read this far, thank you. 

IN CONCLUSION: will i keep watching this show? yes. i’m very squeamish so i’ll probably skip some of the gory stuff later on but other than that i will definitely continue.

did i like this show? YES. i honestly started it with very low expectations but so far it’s really good. to be fair, though, i found that in the book the beginning was the best part and i didn’t love it after, so i guess we’ll see. 

did i like it better than the book? so far, yeah. The book was full of bullshit like “ooh you have a man’s brain and a woman’s heart,” to mina, which :/. (obviously it’s not like i could have expected much better from a male victorian author but still.) i love how they made van helsing a woman! I know agatha is going to be wonderful.

[yoekko-novels]

To Touch The Sky - Sprites & Fairires - (#006)

The bitter cold sweeping over Hubrid is alleviated by the warmth of the cloak. He felt a warm presence inside of it and a yellow hue began to glow from the darkness inside of his cloak. He heard voices speaking to one another in a hush.

"That old man finally croaked huh?" A miniature voice says as if it were a mouse speaking.

"Yeah, I feel like we were just getting to him too!" Another higher-pitched voice says as they continue to bicker with one another.

"It sucks right? But we got some new food faster than usual so I can't complain, but... this guy doesn't have nearly as much magic as he did though." The voice says as Hubrid shivers at the coldness he was enduring.

"Maybe we should just leave and go back to the king, I'm getting sick of staring at those stupid faces of theirs." The voice says in contempt as it scoffs.

The tiny creatures in his cloak were a subspecies of fairies, sprites. The tiny fairy-like people had wings that resembled a butterfly and looked very similar to a human despite their sizes. Sprites are known as magic drainers, they existed purely to steal aura from magical entities. Fairies and Sprites are natural enemies in this world. Fairies give magic and help people while sprites steal and destroy from them.

During the war of The Strong Holders and Magic-Users, the fairies refused to stand side by side with people who'd use the method of the Sprites. Repulsed by the Kingdom of Arupio, they left the land and began to live in a forest far away from all humans. Scholars had thought that they'd left this world completely, that they left to a place far above even the heavens so that they'd never have to see a human face again.

Why would these born destroyers ever help humans? The sprites were promised human sacrifice, they sucked out the energy and life essence of people and brought it back to their king. The Arupians took most of the aura but left enough so that the sprites would be satisfied and continue helping them.

The Sprites acted as scouts and siphoners for the Magic-Users of Arupio. They flew across the world searching for any Strong Holders who might've escaped from the fray of battle. Whenever they found a human, they latched themselves onto them and drained their life essence away slowly. The humans would freeze up and wither away, unable to fight back until they eventually became as shriveled up like a raisin.

When a Sprite steals the life essence of a human their life spans increase. The oldest sprite was named Marlo. He existed before the first waves of water splashed and before even the tallest mountains were even pebbles. He is on a level equal to that of the Creator, however, he preferred to keep his existence to be hidden.

The robe Hubrid wore had a catch to it. In order for the knowledge the sprites possess, the wearer of the robe must give their magic energy to them for each book they withdraw from their library along with small bits of their life span. Every time the magic is used, they also take something that's important to the wearer, physical or mental. They enjoy watching people suffer because of their naivety, they were similar to Imps in this manner.

Fairies were not nearly as malicious as the Sprites. They formed a long-lasting relationship with all humans before the war of Heaven and Earth began. Long ago, a lone fairy wandered the land, its wings were broken and it was unable to return to its home as it continued to limp towards the forest of Ambigua, fairies moved faster than the human eye could follow, but on their feet, they were slower than slugs.

They were usually the same size as Sprites, albeit a little bigger in most cases and they would leave Ambigua to scout on the outside world, that is until they met humans for the first time. The friendship between humans and fairies began when the fairy with a broken wing wandered the lands.

A young man named Hmrid found the fairy wandering on the grass by chance as she sparkled across the field. She was nearly eaten alive by a wolf that'd wandered out of the forest and smelt her essence. Her broken wing weakened her magic and she couldn't hold it off. She used the magic she could and shot a yellow beam of light at it, it missed and the shot went into the sky as the wolf began to gnaw at her.

The wolf drooled and slobbered while it eyed her down while it shook her around viciously with her in its mouth as if she were a chew toy. Unable to fight back, she accepted her fate, as the wolf began to bite down with even more pressure, blood leaked from her body as if it were being wrung out. Her arm severed and her life fading quickly, she'd have bled out if not for the help of a certain man.

Horse gallops were heard and as the fairy began to fade away into the darkness she saw the face of a giant creature, a human. He slew the wolf with a single swing of his sword and a war cry, discovering the first fairy in humanity's history.

He picked her up gently, holding her in his palms as her blonde hair laid out across the crevices of his hands. The strangely colored clothing she wore was something he'd never seen before, it looked rugged, plastered with the slime of the wolf, and torn nearly to shreds with her cleavage nearly visible. The man known as Hmrid took her back to his castle and helped the fairy what had blood leaking and tooth marks ridden over her body out of the kindness of his heart.

The day she finally awoke once again, she had been put into different clothing, her hair redone as bangs fell down to her eyes.

She'd grown a bit from the methods the humans used to feed her and became bigger from their nutrition, her wings were healed, and she was nearly the size of a baby bat. She fled from the castle she had awoken in and went back to her forest.

When she went back to the forest she was frowned upon for leaving. Fairies lived and died in the forest, those were the rules. They were allowed to leave under special conditions but not for something as foolish as what she did. She was brought before the king for a report of what happened and her punishment. The king nearly broke down in tears as he saw his own daughter with such a wound, her arm missing, scars surrounding her body. The king was distraught and nearly fainted on his well-made throne of twigs and feathers as he trembled with tears leaking from his eyes.

The king's voice faltered as shook at her sight, "How did this happen to you, Alendria?"

"I left the forest," she says pitifully as the expression of the king begins to tort from worry to dread.

"You what?" His melancholy turns to anger as his face blushes from the amount of blood rushing to his face.

He felt light-headed, wavering like paper in the wind as he stared at her.

"Tell me what happened now!"

"I only wanted to leave for-."

"I want a straight answer! No excuses!"

"I left the forest to explore the outer edges of it but I ran into a group of sprites. They broke my right-wing and left me for dead on the grass near Ambigua. I began making my way back and then a wolf attacked me. I would have been dead if not for the help of a giant. He killed the wolf with a sharp tool and picked me up, I can't remember anything after that," Alendria says as she bows to the king with her left arm.

The king tried to calm himself as his breathing became heavy and his voice weary. "We'll have to silence those who've seen us, we'll send out the Leavers and have them sort this out. I'll try to be lenient with your punishment, but it is my job as King to handle this matter. Go to the dungeons and await for us to handle this."

"Yes."

The Leavers were a special task force that specialized in dealing with threats outside of the forest. They deployed mirages and led humans away from Ambigua through the use of their magic. They were hated by the townspeople for leaving the forest, despite their duty and stayed out of sight from all eyes.

There were several members of the Leavers.

Lintel, Arry, Bezmic, Mwop, Flook, Mljord, and Barry.

Each of them trained themselves to be top tier in their class of magics.

Lintel was the leader of The Leavers because of his smarts. He was a seer, able to extract information from the future by listening to the wind itself. A cool and collected strong warrior is what he was known as across Ambigua.

Arry specialized in Fire magic, the only fairy in Ambigua to do so. Fairies with fire magic would usually be exiled or executed depending on their attitude, the fairies feared anything that could destroy their homes. Arry completely submitted to the king by giving him his heart, if he broke and crime or oaths it would be crushed by the king himself.

Bezmic, a stoic warrior who used body-enhancing magic to make himself stronger physically. Both his mind and body were strong enough to brute force their way through any obstacle laid in his path. He was respected among the people while also being part of The Leavers, an admirable feat for someone like him.

Mwop used water magic to bring rain to and outside of the forest. Mwop became a Leaver so that she could bring down water to any animals that suffered from droughts and lack of vegetation. She was nearly the benefactor of all water in the forest though it could survive without her when she went on her expeditions.

Flook used wind magic in a special way, instead of using it to attack or defend, he used his wind magic to speed himself up. Imbued into his wings he could escape any danger and save lives faster than even the greatest elixirs and healers in the kingdom. He was a chipper and fun fairy always yearning for adventure.

Mljord brought down lightning, one of the strongest of The Leavers, she could control lightning freely and used her magic to guard the forest from any animals and intruders. If a creature crossed a certain line without fairy magic, they'd be smitten down in an instant by the barrier that surrounded the forest. She was a protector, always looking out for her fellow people.

Lastly was Barry, The name Barry was abnormal for fairies, causing him to be an outcast in the picky forest of Ambigua. The lonely pariah decided to hone his skills so that he'd never be meddled with again, he used wind magic to cloak himself from other people, making him the greatest scout the Ambigua could ask for.

As Alendria left the room, The Leavers entered.

"Follow the trail she made from when she came back to the forest." The king says as The Leavers kneel before him.

"Yes sir!" The seven of them say in unison as they march out of the room.

Little did The Leavers know, the sprites waited outside of the forest to ambush the forest of Ambigua.

Lintel heard the wind whisper into his ears as the seven of them left the forest.

"Turn back."

"Run."

"Death awaits you all."

The whispering grew louder as Lintel ignored their cries while he continued with his men to the outer edges of the forest. The voices that'd spoken to him sometimes told lies, he believed this was one of those cases.

As they flew into the open with the first of Ambigua behind them with Flook taking the lead, a spear stabbed through his chest as thunder crackled and rain poured. Flook coughed up blood as he sat on the spear lifeless, his eyes rolled behind his skull and blood poured from the crevices of his mouth as the smile he once wore ceased.

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Buffy vs. Dracula

So… my viewing order recommendation tells me to go with the first episode of Angel season 2 before moving on to this. But I really, really want to see this episode tonight, so I’m doing it first. Let’s go! 1. Opening on Buffy in bed. I think that’s Riley selbow… yep. He changed positions between shots, though. And now Buffy’s outside running. Someone’s running from her. It’s probably a vampire. Yep. She staked him. Now she’s back in bed with Riley. Opening credits. Emma Caulfield is in them, but Amber Benson isn’t. 2. Buffy and Riley are at the beach. They’re tossing a football. Buffy knocked Riely down. Xander, Anya, Willow, and Tara are sitting. Xander is cooking bugers. Failing to cook burgers. Willow tried to start a fire, but now there’s a huge storm. Willow says she didn’t do it. Apparently, she’s right. Why is there a castle? 3. People are at the castle getting a giant box full of dirt. And someone came out of the box and killed the movers. 4. Giles has Willow archiving his ancient texts to digital. He’s been doing projects all summer. Giles wants to tell Willow something in confidence. He’s going back to England. Willow doesn’t want him to leave. 5. Buffy is having dinner with Joyce. Buffy is going on patrol, and she found a vampire, which she’s slaying. And someone's forming out of fog. The vampire she’s fighting just hit a press slam, but she did a hurricarana and staked him. Now the guy from the mist is stapping out of the shadows. He says they’re not going fight. He’s Dracula. Buffy is delighted. 6. Willow is talking to Xander. Buffy has fought a few Lestats. Dracula says Buffy is famous. She tried to stake him, but he misted out of the way. That’s new. Xander and Willow arrived. Xander is very funny. He turned into a bat. Dracula did, I mean. Not Xander. 7. They’re at Giles’s place, fangirling out about Dracula. Anya has hung out with Dracula. She thinks he’s cool. Giles doesn’t know how Dracula gets his powers. Riley and Xander want to fight Dracula now, while Giles checks the library. Buffy is going to bed. Or to sleep with Riley. Riley wants her to actually sleep. 8. Anya and Xander are being stalked by a wolf. Anya isn’t going back to Xander’s basement. Xander is, though, except he just ran into Dracula. Xander is offering to box, but Dracula hypnotized him to be his emissary. Dracula finds Xander strange and off-putting. 9. Riley is at Spike’s crypt. Looking for information. Dracula owes Spike 11 pounds. Spike thinks Dracula’s done more harm to vampires than any Slayer by publicizing their weaknesses. His powers are just show. Riley wants to kill Spike. 10. Buffy’s at Joyce’s house, asleep. Dracula’s coming in the window as mist. Is he immune to the invitation taboo? Buffy woke up. But he’s using his hypno-eyes on her. He is going to bite her. And did. 11. She’s waking up in her bed again. How did Dracula bypass the invitation taboo? Is mist immune to it? It wasn’t a dream, apparently. 12. Giles’s house. Buffy does not one a jelly donut, but Xander does. Xander is helping them research his dark master. Bator. Buffy is out of it. Willow is still trying to talk Giles out of leaving. Xander’s about to eat a bug. Buffy’s going to fight Dracula. Riley goes after her and makes her take the scarf off. So now everyone knows she’s under the thrall of the Dark Prince. Xander is arguing that Buffy isn’t under Dracula’s thrall and eating bugs. Now Buffy is going to stay in Xander’s basement while Willow and Tara do a protection spell on Joyce’s house and Riley and Giles hunt Dracula. 13. Turns out Joyce invited Dracula in. 14. Xander just locked Anya in the closet. “I’m supposed to deliver you to the master now. There’s this whole deal where I get to be immortal. You cool with that?” So now Buffy’s going to Dracula’s castle. 15. Xander delivered the Slayer to Dracula, and is leaving them because they must not be interrupted. Buffy brought a stake, but Dracula made her put it down. She needs to rethink that thrall thing. Giles and Riley found the castle, though, so they’re coming in through the front door. One of Dracula’s brides is following Giles. Dracula says that they are alone, and there is much he has to teach her. He’s offering her a taste of his blood. 16. Riley just found Xander. Riley just knocked out Xander. Yay Riley! Meanwhile, Giles just fell in a hole. He didn’t get knocked out, though. He found Dracula’s brides. They seem very interested in him. Dracula is still talking Buffy into drinking. Which… she’s doing. And his thrall is broken. “Wow. That was gross.” “You know, I really think the thrall has come out of our relationship.” His blood helped her find her true nature… and that’s the Slayer. She’s kicking Dracula around now. They’re having quite the fight. Riley found Giles, though. And got him away from Dracula’s brides. “No more chick pit for you.” Dracula and Buffy are still fighting. She has a torch, but he went mist, and she staked him as he resolidified. He fell, dusted. “Where’s the creep that turned me into a spider-eating man-bitch. You know what? I’m sick of this crap. I’m sick of the guy who eats bugs and gets the funny syphillis. As of this moment, it’s over. I’m sick of being everybody’s butt monkey.” “Check. No more butt monkey.” They’re leaving, but Dracula starts to re-form. And Buffy stakes him again. He starts to reform. “I’m standing right here.” He gave up. 17. Giles’s house. Giles is talking to Buffy. She’s talking about her nightly attempts to kill things. Dracula’s understanding of her power. She says she needs to know more about what it is to be the Slayer. She’s scared, though. And she needs Giles to be her Watcher again. He seems to agree with her. Though he’s also oddly down about it. 18. There’s a girl in Buffy’s room at Joyce’s house. Joyce says she should take her sister if she’s going out. So now… sister? Overall: That was fun. Bizarre and disturbing - Dracula overrides free will, and that’s creepy as hell when he does it to Buffy in spite of being very funny on Xander - but a lot of fun. Dracula was something unique among vampires, with interesting motivations and fun powers, and the whole story was just… fun. The episode didn’t have a lot to say. There was character development, with the thing with Giles thinking about leaving and Buffy wanting to learn more about her powers, but the core of the episode was fun Dracula stuff. I’m good with that. After the trudge that was Season 4, opening the fifth season on epic silliness was the way to go.