[Pet peeve. One that shows with the way Alucard growls it out.]
Look. This is...[How to explain this without getting more asshattery thrown in his face? Alucard hates when the world sees a thing and reduces it to something flat and without nuance. He isn't Adrian, he's Dracula's son to his peers. (No. Subjects.) Sypha isn't Sypha, she's the Speaker or Alucard's witch. To not acknowledge a person's humanity is to forsake the things his mother taught him.
This is also about control. Which is the thing he shrugs off in his own home, because there he is just himself.]
I do not want this to hedge into compulsion. Or to make it feel as if you are even more a prisoner of this house than you may already feel you are. So I need you to tell me what things make it easier.
no subject
[Pet peeve. One that shows with the way Alucard growls it out.]
Look. This is...[How to explain this without getting more asshattery thrown in his face? Alucard hates when the world sees a thing and reduces it to something flat and without nuance. He isn't Adrian, he's Dracula's son to his peers. (No. Subjects.) Sypha isn't Sypha, she's the Speaker or Alucard's witch. To not acknowledge a person's humanity is to forsake the things his mother taught him.
This is also about control. Which is the thing he shrugs off in his own home, because there he is just himself.]
I do not want this to hedge into compulsion. Or to make it feel as if you are even more a prisoner of this house than you may already feel you are. So I need you to tell me what things make it easier.