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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]

[ 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.

[abracafcku]

Pfft, for me it ain't about being brave. There's a shitload lot more money to be made in adventuring than anything else. Ch'boy's not nobility, so any cash I'm gonna make, I gotta work for it.

[He had a lucrative career as a chef before but...well, no one wants him to cook for them anymore. At least until coming here.]

What about you, pretty boy? What's a vampire gotta do to make some moolah?

[ananym]

Ah.

[ there's a vague air of amusement. ]

Most vampires tend to be of royalty, due to their age. I lived in a castle.

[abracafcku]

Fuuuucking called it!

[Taako rolls his eyes and drops his chin in his hand.]

No wonder you don't know about people watching. Not a shitload of people milling around in a castle just waiting to be observed. Plus did you have like? Human help? Or was it all, I dunno, ghouls or some shit.

[ananym]

[ he shakes his head. ]

The castle was magic. It could travel and take care of itself.

[abracafcku]

[...Diiiiid not see that one coming.]

Is just, like, everything about your life just weird or what?

[ananym]

You base yourself on a piece of paper. Do you really have any room to talk?

[abracafcku]

It's certification, my dude, not my base. Do you not like, get certified in your world? Universities? Shit like that?

[ananym]

There are cathedral schools and so on.

And ultimately, it still sounds like a piece of paper.