#poor julian really got the short end of the stick with amicia

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Julian and Amicia's relationship is so damn weird because Amicia just... does not care for him at all. At best, she pretty much used him as a sort of guide for how to be a Camarilla Kindred rather than a Sabbat Cainite, how she would (generally) be expected to behave, and to learn what non-Sabbat vampires believed about being undead. She didn't care for him back then and those feelings never changed. She was still indifferent to him, his plans, his very existence, and only put up with him because she had something to gain from helping him from time to time.

Julian knew how she felt about him back when they first met, but he also knows how she thinks, what makes her tick. He knows that she's a survivor, interested in persisting above all else, and he figures that that makes her easy to predict and manipulate. He thinks he knows what moves she'll make before she makes them, and that if he can keep dangling the carrot in her face, he'll get what he needs from her.

But he never anticipated her using the SI as a weapon. He knew there was a possibility of her taking his formula for herself and leaving with it, but he really believed he could win her over with the promise that she would be shaping the world as she saw fit. He believed that he could finally break that apathy she held for him and get her on side, only for her to betray and destroy him without a second thought.