cryptsleeper | 20s AU Post

"Land of the Dead" (Watch on YouTube)

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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[Water, he says, and Alucard is able to give that much. The glass is still in Alucard's hands, and the vampire is quiet as he mulls over the words next time.]

We can't have a next time.

[For this situation, at the very least.]

You need to tell us things are starting to become problems before they get to this state. If I did this to you in turn, you'd be furious at me right now and don't even try to tell me otherwise.

[ He downs the water just little too aggressively to avoid making an unpleasant comment about how Alucard did do this to them both. Without that comment, though, he doesn't have a good response. Because yes, he would be furious. Because- ]

You're important. This is what I'm here for. To deal with this shit so that the people who matter don't have to.

[The words aren't said. Alucard would shrink if they were, be shut up for a good week, and then have nothing else to fight this stupidity with because do as I say, not as I do is an absolute factor here.

Alucard waits until the glass is relinquished, then puts it aside.]

Don't say that you don't matter in this. [On that, the vampire's voice is a little too firm.] You're the only reason we've come this far. You're more important than I am.

Bullshit I am.

[ It's a common argument. Not of the most common, really, if one puts aside the things that don't really matter that much (choosing dinner is too much responsibility for him! What if he decides wrong?). ]

I can't do my job if I matter. I can't do anything worthwhile if I matter.

Do you think I would have survived the aftermath of that fight alone? Serious question.

You wouldn't have been alone. Sypha was there. Bunicuta was there.

[ He sighs. ]

It isn't a bad thing, to be disposable. It's what I want. Belmonts aren't worth shit if they can't be thrown away.

And neither of them would have been able to do what you've been doing, nor the insight into these kinds of politics that I'm terrible at, Sypha would be worse at, and Agatha would....bluntly, I'm still furious with her, and I doubt I would be inclined to listen to her at the time.

[He raises one hand, rubbing slowly at the bridge of his nose.]

Disposable. You've made yourself essential from our perspective, or do you genuinely fail to realize that?

I realise it. I just hate it.

[ With considerable effort, he shuffles in the bed, trying to swing his legs over the side of it. It takes a few tries. ]

Everything my family ever did, we did because no one of us has ever been important. If we mattered, we'd have to be afraid. This is what I am.

[Alucard's arm reaches out and he grabs onto Trevor's collar. Nope.]

You're staying in bed, Belmont. [He never uses the last name. Not unless he's truly annoyed.]

You may be that. But you're much more than that. This house, this family needs you. And it worries me that you don't comprehend how much it aches to hear you talk about yourself like this. Half the time I want to strangle you until you stop, the other time I just...

[There's a miserable noise.]

I'm a loss.

[ He would have tried. He wants to try. But Sypha's outsmarted the both of them. The crutches aren't where he dropped them on the floor. She's picked them up, and they're propped against the wall on the far side of the room. He's not going anywhere without convincing Alucard to fetch them. ]

I-

[ He can't escape. He's stuck with the vampire, stuck with having to navigate emotions. ]

-I don't know how to do this if I matter.

Look at me.

[Alucard squeezes Trevor's hand as gently as he can. It's hard when he wants to strangle the Belmont right now, but it's the easier thing to be soft.]

More than ever, we build breaks into our schedules to ensure that we get rest. We can vary between one or two days on or off, that way no one notices a schedule. If one or all of us feels tired, there can't be any suffering through it either. That's why we anticipate the rest days. Will that help you maintain the cover you need to keep working?

And as for our current state we can...

[Alucard trails off for a moment, then looks to Trevor.]

...that's how We reaffirm who we can trust.

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