Alucard \\ Adrian F. Ţepeş (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cryptsleeper) wrote2018-11-11 04:32 pm
cryptsleeper) wrote2018-11-11 04:32 pm
20s AU Post
Current Carmilla plot outline
--Post-fire, Carmilla and Mr. Peanut team up mostly to use each other. Carmilla's spent the past several months (since November, it is now February 1925) networking, and it's clear to her that Alucard's not suited for the position and that the other two are the obvious weakness. Mr Peanut needs something back, so this is perfect on her end. Mr Peanut can only imagine the joys of vampire blood in his work, and he'd like an army of vampires for his own ends.
--Shit stirring from Mr Peanut (all of March?)
--Mr Peanut also begins to sell mis Miracle Serum, which has vampire blood in it.
--Gang is very much trying to murder Mr Peanut during this.
--Start of April, vampire gets a call from one of the blood bank contacts that 3 patients have come in and are displaying some bizarre signs. Investigation yields the fact that they're in process of turning, and they've all taken the same serum.
--Additional investigation reveals O FUCK IT MR PEANUT
--Meanwhile Carmilla's been made aware of a familiar she didn't sire, so she knows something's up. Big fight with Mr. Peanut and thus Mr. Peanut is left depowered
--Gang commits a murder
--Carmilla's well sured up on her contacts now, and it's time for open rebellion (mid-April)
--In a more subtle attempt to let Alucard just step aside, she cuts the breaks on demon car and shows up to gloat/suggest he not pull a dad and go to deal with his grief quietly while she runs the city. The how he wants to do it is up to him (black widow joke goes here.) Treffy and Sypha walk in.
--1 week of straight up rebellion; feedings, no help from allies, need to do damage control instead of fight carmilla, every dracula rule is
--MEANWHILE IN GRAVITY FALLS, triangle shows Vlad what's up to try and psyche him out, somehow this finalyl snaps Vlad out of his depression and he heads home
--Just in time for Alucard and Carmilla to be tearing each other to bits in one of the bayous, it's not going well
--Vlad coming in means the king of vampires is accosted by a belmont with a pair of blessed knitting needles and a speaker with a fucking gun and he's just like what the shit happened to the world while i was gone
--Wards around the fight means that only demon car can break the wards, everyone has to pile in.
--Carmilla gets her ass kicked AND SENT TO THE JUSTICE DIMENSION
THEN THERE WERE FAERIES.
--Prior to all of this the vampire and Sypha have done a shit ton of research on how to get their Belmont back
--Sypha has also been practicing debating with dad, which leaves everyone Very Tired.
--When Trevor is actually snatched up (1 year after marriage, it takes fae effort. Taking Arn's shape fails, so it's a lot more kidnapping by force), Sypha and Alucard go into Faerie
--But they're playing this as politics, not as heroes rescuing their damsel, so that means the faeries are just "wait what now excuse u?"
--There are 3 gates and 3 trials (the particulars we're still bullshitting.) Each is asked to sacrifice 3 things. (Alucard: voice, his titles as bestowed upon by his father and his people, i forget the third; Sypha: her human form (she's a birb), fuck what were the other two)
--They enter the court at the end of the third trial. After LITERALLY ALL THE TITLES Sypha declares she Speaks for Trevor Belmont
--Claim debate over Trevor, turns out that the rules are in Sypha's favor.
--But that means debating to leave Fae without giving up what they've chosen.
--Sypha lawyers it all out, Alucard is a safety deposit and hangs out with Fae!Trevor
--In the end, safe passage out of Faerie consists of Sypha giving up her memory of the necromancer (billed as a great mage she studied under), the vampire gives up his immortality, and Trevor is replaced with Carmilla (dad was aware of this option and OK with it), but Trevor has his ability to swear taken. He now soundslike a rubber ducky when he tries
--Everyone gets home okay, except for the AU of this AU where the gang fails, but Trevor's on their doorstep like a bat out of Hell because time doesn't work right and he's been in Hell for a WHILE.
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[ His eyes narrow. The moment is fading, along with his patience, with the humans acting as themselves again.
The Belmont turns back, lips pressed into a tight line, and nods. ]
Am. I. Clear?
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[Trevor had managed to get his bearings back quickly, once the spell over the two of them had dropped away, but Sypha hasn't yet picked her head up; she's still considerably shaken, so overcome by the weight of Dracula's compulsion that she can barely seem to gather up the words to speak. Even now, she gives off the impression that whatever was done, she's still reeling from it, feeling it like a physical burden to be overcome.
But she fights to find words, and she whispers.]
If he does what you want. If he lets you keep him safe the way you see fit. When you have done it...will it have made you happy?
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No.
[ And such a simple answer. ]
But he will be safe. Protected. A monument to the one thing that ever did.
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[She keeps her head down, her voice soft. At the torture house, she'd met fire with fire, threat with retaliation.
There's none of that, now. Just a lump in her throat that's difficult to speak past.]
Will you also name your price, for him to be your son? How long will it take...and for what cost...? I would like to know. So that I can pay it...if I can.
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[ He answers immediately, and with absolute certainty. ]
Nothing less. You have a month, Speaker.
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[She nods, and that marks her assent as well.]
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His voice is raw (his throat is killing him. Alucard is exhausted. A new week long depression nap sounds amazing right now.]
The three of us are in agreement then.
[Alucard hates this. He just wants permission to leave now.]
A month.
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You are dismissed.
[ He doesn't leave. None of them do. They are simply somewhere else. The castle folds around them and they are in the living room. The radio is on, playing music. There are no scabs on the floor or walls. The only things that seem out of the ordinary are the short, jagged tears in clothing, the one snipped away lock of Alucard's hair, and how very exhausted and shaken they all are.
Trevor moves first, guiding the two of them down onto the couch before sinking to the floor himself, finally starting to tremble. ]
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He manages words.]
I am so, so sorry.
[They were free. They were done. They were safe, happy, and here. And by virtue of simply being in the castle, by the same thing that got them out of the woods, they're in it even worse.]
I don't know what the hell I thought would come of that.