sixthiterationtexts | UN: Twilight Sparkles

[It's video for a change, although all that's on camera is the ceiling of Sam's room at the Inn. She's been working on a mural actually. It's the underbelly of a dragon, wings outstretched as it lifts up into the sky. Still little more than a pencil outline at this point. And it's missing both a head and a finished tail. But there's an enormous amount of detailing in the scales. It's no Sistine Chapel. But then again, it's not trying to be.

The camera moves as Sam speaks, as if she's gesturing with her hand. Her face never appears, but the disaster zone that is her room appears in flashes.]

Can someone tell me what the fucking point of turning twenty two is?

I mean, seriously. Bar or Bat Mitzvah at thirteen. Quinceañera at fifteen. Super sweet sixteen, whatever the hell that is. Donate blood at seventeen. Vote at eighteen. Drink at twenty one. All the good milestones are gone. Twenty two is a filler year. And don't say you can rent a car at twenty five. My world is literally flame and rubble. I'm never renting a damn car.

[She sighs.]

Anyone still alive after that party?

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Uh, yeah. It's a little weird. Has to do with the people who took me in back home. They call themselves the "Ordo Dracul."

What's that mean?

For lack of an easier explanation, the "Order of the Dragon."

Although some people think of us as the "followers of Dracula."

That's a cool name. Knights? Sounds like knights. If it isn't knights it should have been.

What's a Dracula? Is that some kind of monster? Is it a bigger dragon?

Knights after a fashion.

And Dracula was actually a dude. As much of a monster as I am, I guess. Maybe a little more.

Do you come from the moon?

Uh, no.

Although, like I told Nida, my last name was sometimes "Moon."

Well, since you don't come from the moon and I can clearly see you don't have any claws or horns I can comfortably confirm you're definitely not a monster.

Surname's a surname no big deal about that.

I mean...

I do have fangs.

Do you wildly eat everything in your path without remorse or reason?

Not so much. No.

[Except when she's in Frenzy. But she's not sure she can Frenzy here.]

Then, without question, even with the fangs: Not a monster.

Out of curiosity why do you have fangs?

[That might be very damaging for their tiny town but the ability to Frenzy? Probably forgivable.]

...because I'm kind of a monster.

I'm a vampire. Basically a fucking parasite living in a dead body. I have to drink blood to survive.

[She pauses.]

To clarify, I don't want yours. Or any other prisoner's blood. Also, I don't fucking sparkle.

Why would you sparkle?

You're thinking, so I'm still not gonna call you a monster. Even if you do gotta drink blood.

Do you have to do that here or has it gone away? Heard people lose powers and stuff when they come here.

You really are a lot like Nida.

[There's a smile in her voice.]

No, still gotta do it here. But fortunately, there are animals and they work just fine.

[They have a very specific classification for monsters. Besides, Sorceresses can be infinitely worse than someone who needs blood to survive. He'd place her strangeness in the same category as a medical condition at worst.]

We eat animals, little difference. Nothing goes to waste. Better that way isn't it?

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That's one of the nicest ways of thinking about it I've ever heard.

Glad to help.

You're really forward about the vampire thing. I'm impressed. I'd have expected someone to be more sketchy about it.

I was. For about a year. Then I figured...fuck it. Either people will be cool with it, or they won't.

And everyone's weirdly cool with it.

Not a bad way to look at it.

Yeah it sounds like everyone here has their own story. Most would be hypocrites to give you shit over this.

Yeah, well. Don't underestimate hypocrisy. Like. Ever.

Oh, trust me. I won't.

[Being both guilty of, and the victim of on numerous occasions he is well acquainted. Galbadia teams up with a Sorceress and starts a war, blames the guy who also got roped in.]

People suck.

People outside, anyway.

Eh, I'm sure we suck sometimes too. Smaller groups easier to get along in. Less strangers. Forces cooperation.

Guess so.

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