Vlad Tepes Dracula (
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genessia2018-04-02 02:06 pm
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- anastasia leonheart,
- liora,
- sakuya izayoi,
- soma cruz,
- ★ alessia,
- ★ chaos,
- ★ evangeline a.k. mcdowell,
- ★ flandre scarlet,
- ★ kazuya,
- ★ konoka konoe,
- ★ olivier d'athos de la fère,
- ★ regis lucis caelum cxiii,
- ★ remilia scarlet,
- ★ umika hayami/lupin yellow,
- ★ vlad iii tepes/dracula,
- ★ weiss schnee,
- ★ yang xiao long
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[When the feed clicks on, it does so mid-bounce as if the device had been tossed aside with little in the way of regard for what happened to it. Those watching it was spared most of the camera shaking if only because the room in which the broadcast originates is pitch black save for three points of illumination. The first two show the shadow-cloaked face of Vlad as his eyes appear to burn with a hellish flame. The third seems to be a small crimson stone, glowing in the darkness, pulsing softly almost as if mimicking a heart beat. When Vlad speaks, his voice is restrained, but the fury is more than evident.]
I have spent quite some time in this place, and during that time I have learned quite a bit of the nature of the realm. Those of us chosen to be ripped from our own worlds seem to have been plucked from them to serve as protectors of the realm, to keep the barriers around the cities in place so that what lies beyond at bay.
It is because of this that I was willing to accept the peace offering that was returning my wife to my side. However, she is no longer here. Sent back to the fate that awaited her in our world; to be tortured and burnt at the stake for the crime of showing compassion. What this realm seems to have forgotten is that I am not as forgiving as Lisa.
[He pauses, clenching his fist around the stone, dimming the lights further but allowing the shifting shadows that fill the room behind him to become a bit more visible.]
Perhaps it is time I remind Genessia why I am called Vlad the Impaler...
I have spent quite some time in this place, and during that time I have learned quite a bit of the nature of the realm. Those of us chosen to be ripped from our own worlds seem to have been plucked from them to serve as protectors of the realm, to keep the barriers around the cities in place so that what lies beyond at bay.
It is because of this that I was willing to accept the peace offering that was returning my wife to my side. However, she is no longer here. Sent back to the fate that awaited her in our world; to be tortured and burnt at the stake for the crime of showing compassion. What this realm seems to have forgotten is that I am not as forgiving as Lisa.
[He pauses, clenching his fist around the stone, dimming the lights further but allowing the shifting shadows that fill the room behind him to become a bit more visible.]
Perhaps it is time I remind Genessia why I am called Vlad the Impaler...
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You've got grief with the spirits? Talk to them about it. But I don't want to hear about innocent people getting impaled.
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When she walks in, gone is her normal hiding behind the door and wings tucked tightly against her back. She stands tall and her wings held out in a manner of confidence. It's everything she can do to not just hide away at the moment but now was the time to be brave and try everything she could before any more fighting or violence breaks out. Slowly walking forward for the moment, trying to figure out how exactly to do this, she speaks.]
What good would all of that do in the long run? It would only hurt those who are still here for you.
[Going to keep a bit of her hand hidden for now.}
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I have no intention of hurting you or your sister, Flandre. All within my realm are safe from my wrath, however I do not intend to allow this to go unanswered.
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She really hates this feeling sometimes...Her fear is obvious enough with the way she's practically shaking as she responds.]Don't...don't do it! It won't do any good, least of all for you!
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Don't. Nobody here did anything to your lover.
[Naoki is stating to get tired of all these people causing and wanting to cause chaos.]
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[Not the best time to be pedantic but...]
Nobody did anything to protect her either. That in itself is sin enough.
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...and how dost thou hope to identify an individual to exact thy revenge upon? Surely thou art not seeking to destroy all in this realm when the blame dost not lie with them?
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That was 400 years ago and age has done little to improve my patience.
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You speak as though you're the only one here who ever lost something or someone important. Be thankful you ever saw your wife again. Many of us here will never have that kind of luxury.
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[ Weiss is fairly certain every time something bad happens, people go and scream don't do it and they do it anyway. It's useless, and futile, and Dracula is in pain. It's a pain she knows pretty well, considering how many people she's lost here- including friends who died before their time. ]
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Lisa was the first human to approach me in several centuries. I had isolated myself within my castle because of what I am. Lisa was also the first to come to me not looking for power or dominion. She came to learn. She had heard rumors of my castle that said it held knowledge beyond any library in the world, and she came to learn how to be what you would call a doctor.
She was brave, selfless to a fault, and even the horrors that she had to travel through to get to my castle did little to phase her. She was... unique. I granted her access to my library and with the information within she learned how to make the lives of those around her better. She cured the sick, eased the pain of the injured, and asked nothing in return. Over the years we became inseparable, and eventually married, and she gave me a son. Adrian.
However, I was still very much a recluse, and after Adrian turned five, she convinced me to travel the world, not as some monster to be feared... but as a man. ...When I returned, I found our house in ruins. The Church had deemed her methods 'witchcraft' and she was sentenced to execution by burning. By the time I learned of all this, her ashes had already been scattered to the winds.
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...I'm sorry. I'd spoken to her, she'd mentioned-.. well, what I suppose she'd heard from you.
[He pauses a moment, peering into the video attentively.
He's confident Dracula isn't an idiot. Even without knowing him, having only known Lisa briefly, that seems like a safe assumption. So if the threat bears any seriousness at all (and he gathers it very well may), he knows perfectly well that there are innocents who stand to suffer--arguably nothing but innocents. And really, he knows all too well that anger can outshine compassion, even in someone known for the latter, which may not be the case, here, so much. So he takes a different approach entirely.]
Just so happens I know a thing or two about loss, myself. ...more than a little older than I look at a glance, been around a bit, and the way I see it, when you've lost someone you cared for, there's just one question: what would they want to be remembered by? Sometimes all we can do for them's to build a monument they'd be proud of.
[He pauses a second, briefly troubled by the intrusion of another, obviously distressing train of thought.]
...not sure I'll always live up to that. But it's something to aim for. For their sakes.
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So. You want to build a monument, good, but, well, she's your wife, you tell me, what's the sort of monument she'd be proud of?
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[There's an unamused huff from the shadows.]
Any monument that bears the name Tepes would be sought out and erased simply by virtue of my existence. Before she was murdered, the Catholic church called her "the Devil's bride." There is no monument to her genius there, and anything created here is temporal at best.
If you've 'been around a bit' I have a question for you. When you die, what is waiting for you?
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As much as Regis hopes not to entangle himself in such affairs, the former King of Lucis refuses to stay silent. Tyranny and injustice must be met with force but Regis hopes to appeal to this alleged lord with words alone. Therefore, he speaks. Let there be dialogue between two ailing souls, one entrenched in darkness and the other blessed by light.]
Grief often breeds wrath but you mustn't allow it to corrupt.
[His tone is gentle but stern. Regis means not to offend a grieving man.]
Your wife, Lisa, tell me about her. Would she wish for you to shed blood over her loss? No spouse would want to see their beloved suffer.
This is a fact known to me,
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All carried out under the veil of secrecy while I was away.
She burned, suffered, and died... and they celebrated. And this place plucked her from the flames, only to allow her to heal and be sent back to them. I cannot and will not allow that to go unanswered.
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[ Konoka knew that name. Lisa visited her store, and Konoka even sent her a gift. But she's gone now. At the very least, unlike before, she understands Dracula's pain.
That doesn't mean she'll step down lightly though. ]
Listen to me. This pain sucks. I know it does. But don't go acting out on it, okay? Please.
[ She's not the first to plead, and she won't be the last, but maybe all these others will convince Dracula not to be a jerk. ]
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I'm sorry... that she was lost to you, sent back to... that. And you're right, it's not right or fair. But everyone here, none of them could have been responsible for it!
[ If what Dracula says is true, that they are meant to be protectors, then surely they must protect the people here too? Izuku would try to save people either way, because that's what heroes do, but still... ]
It's not fair to take it out on the people here. That's why... [ He clenches his fist, adopting a determined stare. ] I have to stop you.
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Whoever do this to wife deserve be punished. But if they not here then lesson will not be learned. War between tribes should not start from anger. Survival always fight fiercer than hate.
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I wish to extend my utmost sympathies to you, but I do not imagine sympathy is what you wish to hear.
[He has no strong attachment to the residents of this world, so he has no intention of playing the hero card like many already have.]
A crime of compassion... What could your wife possibly have been accused of?
[Mayhaps it wasn't his business, but he'd like to understand the reason for the man's rage. It sounds as though that this woman was falsely accused, going by Dracula's words. Given his own world's history, Kazuya can't even begin to recall a single time that the punishment of burning at the stake was even remotely justifiable.]
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[That's all you're getting out of him, sorry.]
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If she comes back here, by a cruel twist of this place's fate bending powers, is she going to be happy to see what you do for her? Or are you about to cause the woman you love even more pain?
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This is a message to the realm itself as well as any that would entertain the thought of harming them.
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Whoever killed your wife, if they're not here, you can't take it out on anyone else.
[Besides, she'd totally try to stop you if you did, don't tempt her.]
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If you would turn your back to the beings that did this to those close to you, then you are no better than it.
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Would a flower help?
[Here Vlad, here is the image of a girl around 4 years old holding up a flower with a hopeful look on her face.]
I can get one for your wife as well.
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I have plenty of my own flowers.
[And they eat people, so that's a plus.]
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The loss of a loved one is a terrible thing, no matter how it happens. To have that loss not once, but twice... is enough to drive any man to madness. Howl your anger to the world, Impaler. Shed tears of blood for the lost. But do not make this world a grave for her. It is already graveyard enough without making these cities another mausoleum. And... if it's not seeing her again that pains you so, come to me. I may be able to help you. What use is the power to burn the cosmos if you cannot use it to save one soul?
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None survived that celebration. And that was when I had nothing to protect.
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...You must really love her, huh. Ozher vise you vouldn't vant to destroy everyzhing else.
[It made sense to the little twelve year old. She was..definitely off for a human.]
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She was what justified humanity's continued existence. She held closed the gates of Hell, and without her, those gates have been flung open.
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And that was when I had nothing I wished to protect.
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Violence only begets more violence. Do you think this is what your wife would have wanted?
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All that is left is the filth passing as humans.
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...So what will you do, monsieur?
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Woops fashionably late
I thought that someone as old as you would be beyond this kind of childish acts. Guess I was wrong.
You know Genessia could still bring her back, right?
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Though I suppose a golem such as yourself would not understand such notions.
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