20s AU Post

[cryptsleeper]

"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.

Comments

[cryptsleeper]

[He could argue she's already seen the real worst of it, injured and too close to death. Sprawled out in a ditch, leaves in his hair. But that isn't what she means at all, because all of that has been external. The things that if not easy to talk about are easy to see and make sense of.

What she wants is against much of his nature. To be at his best to the world around him, calm and in control of both parts of his heritage, it is how he interfaces with the world. All the hidden things, they're out of sight with reason. Not for fear of appearing weak (in the future that will be a fear, because it threatens the city and his position within it) but for fear of scaring off those around him.

When Sypha leans down, he kisses back, but it is with a tiny bit of fear that one day, this request will fail. I'll try. I'll try, I'll try.]

I understand, but as you say, it won't be easy. It...there are many complicated things that go into it. But there is time.

[Time because she came back.]

[willpowerful]

Of course.

[This time, when she reaches for her kiss, it's one she presses against his forehead with affection.]

It's why I'm asking this of you so early. So that there will be time, all the time you need, to think about it. And I will be here while you do, each and every step of the way.

[cryptsleeper]

[There's a sigh that goes with the kiss to his forehead, a heady mix of contentment and relief that why Sypha has asked this has such a pointed purpose. She is thinking as far ahead as he might, and to know that both their eyes are looking that far towards the future, that means the world.]

If there are ever days when it is too much to bear, then take whatever time you need too...

[willpowerful]

...Do you think it will be? Too much.

[It's an honest question. Also the first real indication she's shown of an awareness that perhaps she's leapt into something much bigger than she'd originally contemplated when she'd made the decision to leap in the first place — a body of water that runs far deeper than she'd perceived when she'd jumped.]

Tell me what you're afraid of. So that I know.

[cryptsleeper]

[The hand traveling up Sypha's spine had stopped when she pulled away, when talking began again. Now, most of the way up to her shoulders, it finishes it's route, and finds it's way to where hair and neck meet. There's hair there, and Alucard idly wraps some of it around his fingers. Short like this is the style these days, isn't it? Yes. That's easier to think about than what he's afraid of.

Because the short answer is everything. Beyond her, he's alone in the world for the first time, and there is a difference between preferring time alone and being alone entirely.

There is also an easy answer. One that if he was with anyone else, he'd close his eyes before confessing. Alucard can only imagine that he will be chided for such an action, and so his gaze remains on her.]

Grief can be...overwhelming, most days. I'd hate for that to be the only bedrock of this.

[willpowerful]

I don't mind sharing your grief.

[She sighs, eyes falling closed as his fingers thread through her hair, brushing against the nape of her neck where it's sensitive and intimate, and she's left all but purring from the way he touches her.

It's the truth; she doesn't mind it. She doesn't mind being here, being with him, loving him, having this for longer than they'd thought they could. It leaves the future uncertain — something vast and untamed, like the ocean — and yet facing it with him feels right, like something she was meant for all along.]

I don't mind sharing your everything.

[And there will be time, she thinks, for this conversation over and over again in a thousand different facets and iterations, but for now they're both clinging to those same breathless words, there's time, and right now what matters is making the most of the heat of his lips, the caress of her breath, the way the two of them so seamlessly fit together.]