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...I've had that discussion. I know. I've known since the necromancer that I can't ever hedge that close to being him again, no matter the circumstance.
[He had realized that only after Sypha was back home. After that awkward reconciliation with Trevor. At the end of the day he had become his father in all the ways that would ever matter in the eyes of the world, and that had scared him far to deeply. Combined with the knowledge that this situation would come to pass eventually, control and discipline had become even more important than they already were.
Alucard still didn't trust himself to not do something stupid. Neither did Sypha, and that was what the discussions were for.]
I've always wondered if you just stowed away to get to America. [It's an idle thought. Comes out without meaning to.]
The castle will be there. I...doubt we will be, if things play out in a certain way. Too many memories at that point. Smells. Everything.
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[ He hmphs at that, but it's good-natured. Belmonts just show up drunk at people's doors and stab them. Which is much more good and above board. ]
Shouldn't make any difference. I'll just annoy your father until he kills me or points me in the right direction. Or ask Bunicuta - there's no way you're going to be allowed to leave without telling her where you're going.
I'll find the two of you. Promise.
[ Even if it takes so long that it's just the one of you. ]
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[He's fond when he says that, at least. Alucard loves this stupid Belmont. The chaos was worth it.]
Check with your grandmothers first. Doubtlessly they'll get word to me faster.
[That is the only problem with moving, isn't it? Leaving them and the community that's taken care of Trevor when the other two couldn't, or in Alucard's case, wouldn't. Especially at the start. He's theirs for so many reasons, but the grandmothers are responsible for so much of it.]
So long as when it's two.
[It tumbles out by accident.]
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[ That's the awkward part of this, isn't it? Nevermind that he's almost certainly not really capable of finding his way back from wherever he'll be sent when this is done, he's lived two and a half decades in the space of a single day. Time is all wrong. He could find his way out of this - if he could find his way out of this - and there could be nothing left to return to. ]
While there are still two of you to return to. I promise.
[ Promises have power. Here, of all places, most of all. If there's anything he can do, here, to make sure he returns- this is it. ]
A deal. We can call it a deal. That means something here. You don't make it weird, and I'll find my way home.
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[It's worth asking. It's worth asking because of how this place understands words and deals and all the things that can tangle one over the matter of technicality. Alucard knows that much, even if actions have always been his stronger suit.]
Sypha will yell if we weren't careful.
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[ He goes over it in his head, probably not in the best frame of mind to be figuring out the details of these things. ]
You won't attack anyone except to defend Sypha or yourself from imminent danger, no matter how this ends. And I will find my way to you while there are still two of you to find my way back to, alive and whole and myself in mind at the very least, and I will stay.
Think that's good enough?
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[Both of them have to account for it, even as Alucard's face sours with the words.]
Because you're still coming back. No matter what.
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[ It's a horrible thought, isn't it? ]
If it's only you, I'll return to you. And you won't do anything too fucking stupid in the meantime, to make sure that you're still there to be returned to.
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[The next breath the vampire lets out is unsteady. He takes great effort to not think about the other two and their mortality. This...this is not doing that.]
Make sure you don't take that long.
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[ It's ridiculous. And silly. And comforting, to act like the worst case scenario is a matter of how long rather than of never coming back. ]
Traditionally, I think deals here are finalized with a kiss.
[ That's bullshit and they both know it. ]
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[Time not working as it does in the human world may yet save them all. Their Belmont, back, but with likely untold centuries of Hell under him. Too changed, maybe, but theirs. Always theirs.]
Sure you want to taste your own blood?
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[ Which is to say kisses now, vampire. ]