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cxffncase · 2 years ago

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Do the funky cult guys have, like, a hobby besides... Y'know... Absorbing people's life energy

they’re all nerds in secret the lot of them

Damien, Dru, Lemora, and Armand are not their real names. they stole them from watching vampire shit. generally psychic vampires aren’t taken seriously by other monsters (they’re closer to lower level witches than vampires, but drain humans’ lifeforce and transfigure into false vampire bats. yet both witches and vampires think they’re a joke). so to compensate they lean really heavily into vampiric stereotypes and the cult is no exception

i think all of them are obsessed with interior decorating and shopping to some degree. Damien the most so but Armand is a close second. there’s a reason why they want world domination and it’s because of that shopping bill they keep racking up and if you rule the world or at least a city or two you probably don’t have to keep paying taxes or something (their line of logic)

Dru keeps small animals like mice and rats and stuff. Lemora’s hobbies change because she gets pissed if she isn’t good at it immediately. she’s knitted and baked and once tried modeling but the agent got back too late and she called it quits. the only thing she consistently does is gossip and bitch with Armand (who supports their partner venting as much as they love hearing the juicy deets).

#technically they’re just a coven with a really dedicated bit #tho the whole ‘world domination’/‘draining people of their life force’ is the reason why they arent I think #ask #damien #dru #lemora #armand

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vampyrasa · 3 years ago

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i don’t think i’ve ever taken the time to really talk about the events of the lesser-known prequel that sto/ker wrote called drac/ula’s guest, which details how the count haunted jonathan’s journey through styria to protect him from other vampires and in sto/ker’s notes we see also his own wives. apparently there was a specific vampiress (countess dolingen) that decided to defy his order to leave the solicitor alone and tried to attack/kill him on the road. i personally believe this was to prevent him from leaving transylvania, and was done to actually save the people of london from his revenge. either way, he defends harker in wolf-form and kills the vampiress who rises to try and eat jonathan/lights her on fire with magick, later licking the wound she’d inflicted on his throat until healed and laying his body atop harker’s own to protect him from the cold/until he could be found by civilians.

As the thunder broke overhead, I was grasped as by the hand of a giant and hurled out into the storm. / Just then there came another blinding flash, which seemed to strike the iron stake that surmounted the tomb and to pour through to the earth, blasting and crumbling the marble, as in a burst of flame. / The dead woman rose for a moment of agony, while she was lapped in the flame, and her bitter scream of pain was drowned in the thundercrash. / The last thing I heard was this mingling of dreadful sound, as again I was seized in the giant-grasp and dragged away, while the hailstones beat on me, and the air around seemed reverberant with the howling of wolves.

besides lemora, (what i have named this vampiress based on his known brides) the count and the brides that side with him - the usual three we see in pop culture - do not tolerate any form of treason against their cause, let alone in favor of humanity. we see this both in sto/ker’s writing and in media like van he/lsing and cas//tlev*nia. being that the count knew where she would be on the road and that she would attack, i assume that she spoke out against his desire to take his war to england on several occasions, and that he set out to protect harker on his trip knowing full-well that she would try and intervene. thus, comes the irony: that the count would put himself between another vampire and a human to protect him, while she would attack that human to try and save several others.

on one hand, i do believe that the count feels remorse in the moment for killing her, though he acts too quickly to really glimpse into anything. but there’s something more interesting in sto/ker’s writing that leads me to believe he has other reasons to feel guilt:

this prequel was actually written before his final draft of the original drac*la, and therefor can be used to piece together some strange happenings in the first few chapters. first and foremost, how jonathan says that he remembers her face, but was certain that they had never met before. “ a beautiful woman, with rounded cheeks and red lips” is how he referred to the countess, which is the general description for this, but i assume that the countess could have been related to, if not the sister of, the count’s eldest bride. it was absolutely done out of both spite and to protect harker, yes, but also to make sure his plans were protected, as well as his deadline. after-all, he was expecting hawkins, not harker, and had already memorized the roads that he was supposed to draw upon.

the letter at the end of the story says also: [... Be careful of my guest—his safety is most precious to me. Should aught happen to him, or if he be missed, spare nothing to find him and ensure his safety. He is English and therefore adventurous. There are often dangers from snow and wolves and night. Lose not a moment if you suspect harm to him. I answer your zeal with my fortune ... ] ... that we are meant to understand that the count knew of these dangers, and clearly did not trust these humans to protect him from the supernatural, thus he did so himself.

either way, the way that he dispatches her both suggests that he was already familiar with her method of operations and that he was also distant from her, for he acted with haste and apparently had little feeling for how he killed her. he just did.

#death tw #mutilation tw #♔. ˋ like a drowning in the heart like falling endlessly from the skin to the soul . ˊ character study.

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