#faust route spoilers

[solomons-poison]

He's so pretty, it's so unfair 😩

So like Napoleon, Faust is not an early riser whatsoever and is actually the most difficult to wake of the castle residents. However, in terms of big-cat-sleeping levels of danger, he seems to rival Chevalier of IkePri in that regard. Sleepy Faust really gives me life

[ohnoohnoohnonotagain]

👀

Same Faust. Same. 💦💦

...

More context, but still Vlad being Vlad

DO YOU WANT A CHERRY, VLAD? 🍒🍓🙈

[redheadkittys]

FAUST VS THEO

ME:

[mythicamagic]

I friggin love sleepy Faust ❤️

[dear-mrs-otome]

This POV, and that unspoken line of his, never fails to wreck me.

[the-bird-and-the-flute]

plsss I can't use Faust first name. He is not Johann, just Faust.

I think Johann is a lovely name, but I'm used to call him Faust. Just like Comte is Comte and Dazai is Dazai XDDD

[ambrosiallkiss]

A Comte interlude 😭

[lucyw260]

Had a pretty good laugh over this mistake in Faust's route😂😂 I'm pretty sure they meant to say 'shot'😂

[ike-garden2024]

Jude being Jude

Screenshots I took of Jude’s route from the wedding event

I ask myself the same thing sometimes 😬🙂‍↕️😮‍💨

Hmmm 🤔 If I like being ignored then you must like me bothering you for attention riiiiight? 😂

I really do 🙈 only for you though 😌

(… you and Faust, Comte, Silvio, Sariel, Chevalier, and the Keiths…)

Seriously though, Jude is a very entertaining character 😂 I’ve been reading some spoilers here and there because I need to find out more about this man

[solomons-poison]

Sorry but I just found it so funny about MC using the word "shit" for some reason. Faust was really rubbing off on her 😂

[namine-somebodies-nobody]

So, I had actually planned on doing this for everyone's routes and just never got around to it. XD So no better character to start with than Faust, right?

I'mma post my thoughts on the chapters as I read through them. Obviously there will be spoilers, but I will do my best to remember to put everything under the cut.

Faust chapter 1

Woah!!! That's all I can say for this first chapter. However I will say more than that.

This chapter honestly has me a bit worried for the others. It moved soooo fast. It of course started like the last few chapters did, with MC already have been at the mansion for the month and preparing to return home. The men give their good byes, only to find out that instead of a working door with a hallway full of junk antiques, there is a swirling mass of nothingness. Comte being the gracious host he is asks us to stay until it is fixed.

In other routes the first chapter just focus' on our feelings about not being able to return.... but we only get about 2-3 lines about how much MC is struggling with this and then once she meets this random priest, she's almost over it.

MC already feels too trusting and upbeat to be relatable. She saw one good deed... did one herself.... got some decent advice from a random, handsome priest and now she's all better. Hmmm....

As I stated, this makes me a little nervous for all of Faust's route to go by very quickly with little to no character development.

And speaking of quick.....

Only one chapter in and we already have a bite!

Now, yes I know this is not the first this has happened (Jean's route) but I do feel this is much different than that situation. Not only that (and maybe I wasn't paying that close attention... hey I was a bit shocked) but the biggest part of a vampire biting you.... oh yea.... the pleasurable part.... where was that!? She mentions fangs, sharpness and I'm pretty sure pain, but I did not perceive that she was getting any "enjoyment" from this.

Oh well, we'll see how this continues in Chapter 2.

Here we go!

[ohnoohnoohnonotagain]

Yo these three. Up for a polyamory? 👀

[mythicamagic]

[dear-mrs-otome]

Hello friends. Would you like to meet the antagonist of Faust's route? The dastardly entity responsible for untold pain and misery, for putting our intrepid couple through the metaphorical wringer? The arch-enemy of mankind for centuries??

(spoilers behind the cut)

Here you go! Yersinia pestis, or Y. pestis to its friends, in all its gram-negative, electron scanned, color enhanced glory.

Aww, but Mrs O, you say, it's so cute! Look at its widdle fimbriae waving hewwo! Its pastel pink Lisa Frank inspired palette!

But don't be fooled! This tiny cold-blooded killer is responsible for more deaths than possibly any other infectious agent in the history of humankind - we all know it as the bubonic plague. The Black Death. It's cut down hundreds of millions of people over the course of human history, and it is still a threat today.

Transmitted to humans primarily by the bite of fleas, Y. pestis is a nasty character - without treatment, mortality rates upon infection are 30% - 90%. It sets up shop in a nearby lymph node, gets busy, and the resulting damage causes tissues to die. Victims tend to develop large, swollen, and painful lymph nodes called buboes, which is where the illness gets the name 'bubonic plague'.

One thing to note though, for Faust's route, is that while we generally think of this type of plague as THE plague...there are two other forms an infection with Y. pestis can take. A septicemic infection, where the bacteria enter the blood stream rather than the lymph nodes and which is almost always fatal, and a pneumonic version. This one here is the stuff of epidemiology nightmares. It often is the result of inhaling airborne droplets from another infected individual, and it can spread from person to person very easily unlike the usual bubonic form which requires bodily contact or a bite from an infected flea. It causes fevers, weakness, and violently severe coughing, and without antibiotics is nearly 100% fatal in a frighteningly short period of time - most victims are dead within mere days. Sometimes hours.

The first major recorded outbreak of the bubonic plague was the Plague of Justinian, which began about 1,500 years ago in 541 CE and ravaged the Sasanian and Byzantine empires. It's estimated that the plague resulted in anywhere from 15 to 100 million deaths, up to 40% of the population of Constantinople at the time, and some historians believe people were dying at a rate of 5,000 per day in the capital city.

The second plague epidemic, the one many people are more familiar with, was the one we refer to as the Black Death. This epidemic began raging across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia in the late 1330s, with Europe being hit particularly hard. By the time it was over Europe would see its population cut between 30% and 60%, and the Middle East losing about a third of its people as well. Numbers are difficult to estimate but they range from 75 -200 million dead.

There is, however, a third plague epidemic, although not as well known. In the 18th century the plague made a resurgence in SW China, remaining somewhat localized until the mid 19th century when it spread to Hong Kong and from there globally. There were outbreaks in the United States, India, many African countries, SE Asian countries, Russia, South America, the Caribbean, and most importantly for our story purposes - Europe. The largest outbreak was in Lisbon, but there were many smaller pockets of infection in various cities across the continent.

This was around the time the plague bacterium got its scientific name, Yersinia pestis, because of this man - a secondary character in our vampire love story, albeit with a slightly different name:

Say hello to Alexandre Yersin, a Swiss-French doctor and scientist.

Keenly interested in bacteriology, in 1886 he studied in Paris where Louis Pasteur was doing work in microbiology and worked on antiserum for rabies and antitoxin for diphtheria, two other famous scourges. (Antiserum, in the briefest of explanations, is basically a way to transfer antibodies from someone/something exposed to an infectious agent to a different person, thereby triggering the recipients immune system earlier and more vigorously EDITED TO ADD: this also applies to venom and this is actually how antivenom is made as well!)

In 1894, he was sent to Hong Kong to investigate the plague outbreak and it was here that he identified the bacteria responsible, the one that now bears his name, along with confirmation of its transmission route via rodents. (A Japanese scientist in Hong Kong at the same time, Kitasato Shibasaburou, independently identified the bacterium almost simultaneously as well, but because his documentations were not as clear it is Yersin who is generally credited with the initial find)

Yersin spent the next few years continuing his studies of the plague, traveling back to Paris in 1895 to develop the first anti-plague serum. It was the work of scientists like him, and so many others at this time, that paved the way for modern medicine and a path towards eradicating the diseases that have held us in their skeletal grip for so much of mankind's history.

...And perhaps, in the world of Ikevamp, that path owes just a little bit to a certain bespectacled German priest.

[the-bird-and-the-flute]

Ikevamp - Faust's route - random spoilers 3

chapter 25

pls these boys are so crazy hahahah. I just wanted some nasty villain but these vampires are all so friendly AHAHAH

vincent just offered pancakes for some vampires he has never seen before and who kidnapped MC 🙃🙃🙃

Plus they are all okay with the fact MC fall in love with the kidnapper. They are so silly XDDD

Comte even invited Faust to drink some tea. And shakespeare was also there lol. What do I do with them? 😂😂

[lucyw260]

Umm... excuse me. WHAT!?

This line is deeply disturbing and unexpected