@Everyone

[thegreatexperiment]

[Sam's put a lot of debate into this text. Like, a lot a lot. To the point of obsession, really. And there are a lot of ways she could go about doing this. But with only 140 characters and about thirty eight rewrites, she finally settles on blunt. It's her brand. Not like it ultimately matters, right? She's coming to terms with that.]

Fuck it. Hi. I'm a vampire.

Yes I drink blood.

No I don't want yours.

Yes I'm probably gonna starve to death soon.

No I don't sparkle.

Comments

[enterprisingheart]

Is there nothing that can be done to prevent you from starving?

[thegreatexperiment]

[She's genuinely surprised by the reply. And takes a few seconds before responding.]

That would be blood

Are vampires like not a thing in the future?

[enterprisingheart]

There are stories. But to the best of my knowledge they've never existed on Earth. And you sounded... committed the fact.

[thegreatexperiment]

Kind of a worldwide epidemic in my universe

We're not good people as a whole

[enterprisingheart]

Neither are most races, taken as a whole. And even beyond that, what you are needn't define who you are.

[thegreatexperiment]

Just your unsavory diet

[living_proof]

girlfriend we definitely need to talk

kinda disappointed about the lack of sparkling ngl

[private to Sam]

i too have unique dietary needs, we can figure something out

[/private]

[thegreatexperiment]

[Of course, her immediate assumption is another vampire. Which is...not good. Decidedly not good.]

Who dis?

[living_proof]

my name is liv moore, i'm still kind of new

do you know ravi chakrabarti? tall & british?

1/2

[thegreatexperiment]

Major's husband? Yeah, I know him

2/2

[thegreatexperiment]

Wait, you're LIV

They told me about you

[living_proof]

oh god i don't even want to know

and legit they should get get married already

[Except for how Major is gone now, and we don't even know if he's gone-gone or dead in ditch somewhere, and even though I know better, I can't help feeling it's somehow my fault. Like the universe had to trade one of us for the other.]

but seriously, we're not going to let you starve

[thegreatexperiment]

Oh, dude

We SO need to meet

I have, like, legit ten million questions

[freightcars]

Guess that explains your genetic splicing interest.

[thegreatexperiment]

[Oh, crap. Sam forgot that she'd almost gotten along with someone. Well. There goes that.]

I'm not sure I follow...

[freightcars]

Part human. Part bat. It's a joke, I'm not very good at those.
I'm not exactly a vampire expert, but don't you kind of need blood in order to prevent the whole starvation thing?

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[thegreatexperiment]

That is a very, very lame joke

2/2

[thegreatexperiment]

And I'd rather starve than accidentally hurt someone

1/2

[freightcars]

I haven't exactly been honest with you.
Where I'm from, I'm not exactly all the way normal either. I had sort of an experimental thing done to my blood. It's

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[freightcars]

Different. Stronger.
Maybe it's worth checking out. If nothing else, I can handle a lot more than a normal human can. If you need volunteers. A LOT more.

/late to this party

[warriorborn]

Forgive me, but may I ask why one would assume you would sparkle?

[ You can take the boy out of his excessively formal upbringing, but you can't take the upbringing out of the boy, it seems. ]

[thegreatexperiment]

If you don't know the story, believe me, you're better off without it

[warriorborn]

No, my interest has been piqued now, I must know.

[thegreatexperiment]

Well. There are stories. Really popular stories. Really shitty stories. And the vampires in these stories sparkle.

For some reason...

[warriorborn]

Oh, it is a reference to literature. It is too bad we do not have access to any here, I would be glad to read even the worst stories about sparkling vampires at this point.

To risk further displaying my ignorance... what exactly is a vampire?