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[sunlessea]

interacting with the ma.sters is genuinely such a terrifying thing for most of london that i rly can't stress enough the level of insane the human public thinks someone is whenever they get into their good graces or, THROUGH SOME FREAKISH HAPPENSTANCE, happen to end up in romantic or even just friendly correspondence with them. shipping with a ma.ster / cu.rator is so wildly dangerous to one's reputation in the city bc first of all no one is actually going to believe a master has taken on a normal londoner as a lover [no matter how powerful or popular that londoner may be] and second of all no one is going to believe they'd SURVIVE being with a master until that master itself + time proves the public otherwise.

keeping in mind the ma.sters are like. i cannot stress this enough, giant space bats who are actually larger than planets and could actually just insta-kill ... like ... anyone. even london's gods don't rly stand any REAL chance up against them, the only beings that are of any concern to them are the jud.gements as the creators of the universe and even THEN, v.eils and s.tones [for example] still want to KILL THEM / surpass the judg.ements so like >??

my rambling point is the masters are absolutely the most terrifying denizens of the neath and there's a reason they're basically puppeteering london uncontested while treating humans [+ kindred-from-kine] like slaves. they don't have empathy for the human race, they don't UNDERSTAND the human race, they also just like do not care 💀 so when someone DOES make them care enough to befriend them or, god help u, LOVE them it's such a wildly huge deal it's like actually heaven-shattering to have one of the m.asters of the baz.aar at your beck and call as friend or lover bc it more or less raises you above the entirety of not just the city but also tbh the entirety of human and kindred kind.

london will burn one day when paris falls on top of it and kills everyone, and another city after that, and then [if ve.ils has its way] the heavens after that, so in the end imagine being like idk just some guy and u survive the dystopian apocalypse bc some random space bat decided u were like pretty or some shit 😭

they are aliens tho it rly does take a very special kind of person to be able to put up w the m.asters bc they just straight up do not hold themselves to the same standards as humans / normal kindred do.

anw i think a lot abt the fact u can canonically pursue some of the masters romantically and even marry them [p.ages, w.ines] i just think marrying a giant space bat who could crush ur planet between their thighs is a hot way to make urself a social pariah u know