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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[ That's what he suspects the lines are, anyway. A sequence of lines, branching out from the larger pool of blood at the centre. He knows that what he's drawn here is a map, but he doesn't use this spell. He barely understands it. They're too branching and uneven to be ley lines. Too clearly man-made to be rivers. Too-
-shit. His hand moves, and he didn't do that. The risks of using someone's blood. They know. They have access to you. If they're powerful enough-
-he really ought to have brought Sypha. ]
Get back. Don't say-
[ Don't say anything. Assume that Carmilla can see anything he sees, hear anything he hears, and use his hands to wield the Vampire Killer at his hip. ]
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[There's a map in the glove compartment. That much Alucard knows, but then Trevor's hand moves and he goes as still as he ever has.
Blood magic. This is always the risk of it. The connection going both ways, the person on the other end knowing it and manipulating the matter.
He doesn't speak. He moves back as instructed, now in the door frame. Gold eyes on his Belmont, ready to find some way to severe the connection the moment he's told to.]
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(How precious that would have been, to make the prince put down his own pets. As it is, she can't just kill him. There's very little that she can do with the Belmont. Snatch up the last of the blood and drink it, perhaps, but she has just used her one legal turning of the decade. She considers the window for a moment, but it's the ground floor. Even if it weren't, no doubt the little prince would catch his pet.) ]
The matter is resolved. You need only collect and interrogate your nasty little troublemaker at your leisure. He will do nothing, the poor dear. He isn't immune to his own toys any more.
[ The chuckle that follows isn't entirely alien to Trevor's voice. But it's been a while since he's engaged in humour dark enough to warrant it, knowing how Alucard dislikes such things. ]
You have no further use for my blood. I will hold the Belmont as collateral until it is destroyed. That seems fair, does it not?
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He takes the blood that remains in the tube, holding it up so that it can be seen. It's poured out into the little metal dish that the needle is in, and then Alucard goes into his desk. Takes out the matches he keeps in there, lights a flame.
There's some paper put into the tin for good measure, and then he adds the match. Burning blood isn't...kind...but it is effective and moreover, it can be seen.]
Give me the address. Then you leave Trevor Belmont, and don't dare communicate this way ever again. You speak to me in person. Your age makes you my elder, but you are not regent and are defying sacred laws even now.
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[ Trevor's hands reach for the map that he drew before, and he lifts it before adding labels to the streets. Once he's pushed the paper across the desk, Carmilla releases him.
He falls foreward, bracing himself against the desk and panting, choking down air. ]
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Alucard runs, putting both of his hands over Trevor's. Staying quiet isn't an option either, even as he squeezes both hands reassuringly.]
She's left. You're here, you're anchored.
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Fuck.
[ He swallows, trying to focus on Alucard. They got lucky. They got so lucky, that for whatever reason Carmilla chose not to have him use the Vampire Killer. This could have gone so much worse. ]
Shit, should have seen that coming.
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[Now is not the time. His hands are still resting atop Trevor's, and his squeeze is perhaps too hard. Alucard catches himself, and he knows that soon they'll both be so very on edge from simply being in the presence of the Necromancer.]
We need to finish this part of work first. Will you be okay by the time we get there?
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'm fine.
[ He doesn't really sound convincing, but he takes another breath and tries to sound more steady than he is. ]
We need Sypha. If not to come with us, then at least to give her blessing. If she stays behind, it has to be her own choice.
[ What they put her through last time, when it all went wrong, when she had to learn in the worst way how much she was needed, they won't do that again. ]
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Alucard lifts one of his hands from Trevor's, but it's only to pick up his desk phone.]
It'll be faster if we call right now. The drive is too long, and we need this much closed. For all our sake's.
[But Sypha's most of all. He wants to drag Trevor into his arms, kiss the top of his head and fuss all that he can, but that option isn't available to him. Not in the office.]
Sit down. Please.
[There's no hiding the worry in his voice.]
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As long as she has the option.
[ Carmilla made it sound like he'd be harmless. Maybe he will be. Maybe he won't be the problem, just bait. If the worst happens, she has to know what they're doing. They can't keep it from her again, not when she could barely stand the last heartbreak it caused. ]
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[Alucard's hand hovers over the rotary dial, his eyes on Trevor. The body language says everything, and in truth, Alucard is there with him. There's a fierce desire to scream within the vampire, and he doesn't believe Carmilla for a moment that the man's harmless now. Yes, fledglings are easier to deal with, but that doesn't mean that this one will be any less wild.
He dials. Then waits quietly until she picks up.]
Sypha? It's us. Something work related has come up that crosses into the personal, and I'm so sorry that this has to be over the phone.