SS Bloodsport : The Mingle Edition

[bb_wolf]

Who: Anyone!
Broadcast: NO!
Action: The Bloodsport
When: Now! Soon! Whenever!

[The pilot isn't living on the ship, the Captain is still a weirdo and civilians nearly outnumber other augments. Welcome to the Bloodsport mingle!]

Comments

[pneumo]

[ It's not a pitying response, which is actually kind of nice. Bigby just accepts and rolls with it, and that actually makes Sascha rather happy as he takes another eager bite of what's left. ]

Humans are lucky...they don't have to do that at all.

[bb_wolf]

When humans die, it's game over. No coming back.

[They die and don't get up. He watched a lot of people die during all those wars.]

[pneumo]

No, I know...just. It's nice to have all those memories and stuff.

[bb_wolf]

Sometimes, yeah.

Sometimes, being able to forget would be good. Not everything. Just some of it.

[pneumo]

Aren't the bad and good both supposed to be important?

[bb_wolf]

Yes. Incredibly.

That doesn't mean you always want to remember. They might be the things that helped shape you, but that doesn't make them hurt less.

[pneumo]

I guess I'm not old enough to have anything like that yet...

[bb_wolf]

Not since you lost your memory.

How do you know you're a young vampire?

[pneumo]

Well... I can still eat meat and stuff. And I didn't wake up that long ago! [ ...Comparatively. ] If I was Mature then I'd be waaaay different.

[bb_wolf]

[Bigby leaves it at that. He trusts his gut instinct, but it can be wrong.]

What are the mature ones like?

[pneumo]

Mature Vampires are like...I mean. They look human but they don't really look human, you know? They don't feel things like other people, all they care about is what makes sense and stuff. And they're waaaay harder to kill. Sunlight still works, but even if you stake them it does nothing 'cause their heart is totally stopped.

They're kind of scary, actually...they're crazy strong.

[bb_wolf]

They're human in shape, but there's nothing human behind that.

[He had to learn how to put that mask on right. How the face moved, what was good and bad with movements. Other humans find that he tends to be too still, not always show emotions on his face.]

What about ripping their heads off?

[pneumo]

That works☆ It's actually the only way to kill us once we're mature! You're good at this.

[bb_wolf]

I'm good at hunting and killing things. There's very little I haven't hunted for food.

Or fun. But that was mostly the Adversary's troops.

[pneumo]

Who's that? [ One more bite to go here, and then his meat's all gone♥ Absolutely delicious. ]

[bb_wolf]

[Bigby thinks about how to describe it.]

We don't know who or what it is. It started invading different worlds of the Homelands, slaughtering people into submission. The soldiers were all... tainted. They tasted bad, like they were infected with something. However many you kill, there's always more. I hunted them for a couple of hundreds years, I suppose, until they forced me to retreat through the ways between, to the Mundane world.

If you fought, you were killed, or enslaved.

That was actually how I met Snow and her sister, Rose. I freed them.

[pneumo]

That sounds like something a good guy would do you know~

[bb_wolf]

I didn't help people for them.

I freed slaves because it pissed off the Adversary. For every piece of prey he drove off with his tainted soldiers, I'd kill three of his troops. He wanted slaves, I wanted to hurt him, so I took those slaves away from him. I showed them the way the witch had fled, how to get to the Mundane world.

[He keeps picking at his food, cutting it up and eating it.]

I did something people called good. I didn't think in terms of good or bad. He was on my territory. In my lands. I was going to make him pay. And I did. His soldiers still fear to say my name, in case the Wolf comes to get them.

[pneumo]

[ Well put like that it certainly sounds a great deal less noble, yes. Sascha can't relate to or understand the want or drive to hold territory and protect it, although he's seen other vampires act in such a manner over their 'hunting grounds.' It's just not the same for him. ]

Did you beat him?

[bb_wolf]

No.

He still holds the Homelands. All of them, as far as I know. We'll make a push to retake them, one day. I don't know when.

[He smiles, mostly to himself. It's not a nice smile, too many teeth and his eyes are alive like his other self's.]

And they'll remember why they fear the Wolf.

[pneumo]

[ That glint certainly reminds Sascha why he does, even though at the moment he's just stretching his arms over the island and leaning on the counter top lazily for a moment until he folds his arms under his chin. ]

What're you gonna do once you take it all back though?

[bb_wolf]

I don't know.

[He can't go back to just being a wolf. None of them can really go back to how they were.]

We're going to need to rebuild. Ourselves, and how we interact and function. I don't think any of them have considered how hard it's going to be to transition back.

[pneumo]

What about the forest you talked about before? [ Would he try to return to it, or has Bigby given up on the home he'd once had there? ]

[bb_wolf]

I don't know if the forest is even still standing.

[pneumo]

Oh... Well, even if it isn't you could always find another one right?