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[ananym]

[ there's a pretty vampire, looking into the camera curiously before speaking. ]

I have been meaning to ask. Is there anything that you have learned here that has changed your lives?

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[ananym]

I feel like food isn't the best descriptor for a person.

[ also alucard is a vampire and generally doesn't need to eat that much .... but details ....... ]

[abracafcku]

Oh but there are so many? Tall drink of water, juicy peach of an ass - fucking... [He snorts inelegantly as he thinks of another.] Grade A beefcake. Buns to make a hamburger jealous.

[ananym]

Water?

[ really? ]

[abracafcku]

People of your time must be damn starved for poetic language.

Yes, water. Quenches your thirst for a hottie, yanno?

[ananym]

They usually have other things on their mind.

[ alucard never really bothered with this kind of literature. he's not a romantic for obvious reasons. That and — ]

And I never knew enough people to be acquainted.

[abracafcku]

Okay, see? Yet another reason why I think your opinion needs to be tempered here, my fella. You can't fully understand how great Taako is if you haven't seen how many plebs there are in the world.

[ananym]

Our current surroundings does not seem to suggest there are a lot of those.

[ after all, alucard just met his first robot. ]

[abracafcku]

Well yeah - it's a reality TV show. They're not gonna bring boring ass people to a TV show. We're all the cream of the crop here, bud.

[Taako pauses.]

The really fucking weird as shit crop.

[ananym]

[ alucard's expression does not falter. ]

Even so. I doubt anyone here are plebeians.

[abracafcku]

Well, not on the Fleet, sure. But the places we visit?

[He wobbles his hands a little back and forth.

Ehhhh? Your usual grab bag of people - no one all that spectacular.

[ananym]

But what are the standards for such things? It's not as though we're in those worlds long enough to know.

[abracafcku]

Standards don't change just 'cause the scenery does, bubelah. If none of 'em caught your eye, then they weren't up to them.

[ananym]

Perhaps. Though I cannot say I spend a lot of time observing people.

[abracafcku]

Why not? It's fucking hilarious watching people stumble through their lives.

[ananym]

Yes, but isn't that what the Atroma is doing to us?

[abracafcku]

Whoa there, fella - there's a BIG difference between kidnapping people and putting their whole damn lives on display and just sitting on a park bench and seein' what shit people get up to in public.

[ananym]

[ his lips twitch. ]

Fair enough.

[abracafcku]

Unless you're interested in what people do in private? In which case? Hot damn.

[ananym]

[ sadly he's not the blushing type, so alucard does not even stumble. ]

Not particularly. I can guess what people do in their spare time easily enough.

[abracafcku]

Mostly? Boring shit. You'd be surprised.

[ananym]

What would I be surprised with?

[ he honestly isn't sure. he's never held or witnessed a normal life. ]

[abracafcku]

Most of their lives are spent sleeping, eating, or shitting in the bathroom. It's honestly boring as hell being banally mortal. They get a routine, stick to it, and rarely vary it.

Adventurers, at least, nearly almost die on the regular. That's some excitement.

[ananym]

I do not think I've ever led a boring life.

[ trevor and sypha certainly haven't. alucard knows of a normal life vaguely through his mother, but it has never been his experience. ]

But there must be something to it.

[abracafcku]

Yeah, the whole not nearly dying on the reg thing.

Most people don't want an exciting life. They might dream about it, whinge about not having it, but given the opportunity? They'll stay where it's safe and leave the scary spooky shit to the rest of us.

[ananym]

Perhaps.

[ but he thinks about how dracula tried to lead a normal life and how badly it backfired. ]

But I cannot fault them for doing so. It is not an easy thing, to be brave.