@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

[enterprisingheart]

If that's what you need to survive, I wouldn't call it unsavory. It's certainly hardly the strangest dietary requirement I've come across.

[thegreatexperiment]

Other creatures run the risk of murder every time they eat?

[enterprisingheart]

I'm not an expert on every sentient species. That said many Klingon dishes are served live, while Horta eat rocks. Can the risk be minimized?

[thegreatexperiment]

Normally, yeah

But I'm not sure I trust our Overlords

I'm deeply not-normal, whatever else they made me

[enterprisingheart]

Does it need to be specifically human blood?

[thegreatexperiment]

No

I tried to catch a badger

It didn't end well

[enterprisingheart]

I seem to recall that badgers could be fairly aggressive. It might be better to try with something else, instead.

[thegreatexperiment]

I think the moral of the story is that I can't really catch animals

[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

[living_proof]

oh good, it seems the burden of my own secret has been lifted for me

why am i not surprised

[thegreatexperiment]

Because Major and Ravi gossip more than real housewives?

[living_proof]

i see you know them well

[thegreatexperiment]

Major was cool

He was my guinea pig