Really, if it were just the strategist and general- I wouldn't like it, but this'd be the best of the terrible options we have. I just don't like the- Carmilla, wasn't it?
The way she's talking about this- I don't like it. [ She's talking about it the way he would talk about it if he thought that he was dealing with a room full of selfish, overambitious pricks. He knows his way around appealing to people's worst impulses to manipulate them. Carmilla's just guessed at theirs wrong. They don't have a scrap of ambition between the two of them. ]
I don't know what the alternative is, but I don't like her.
It's the personification of some darker intention at the heart of all of this. Bad of them to bring her along, as it means showing off some real intent.
[Alucard breathes out, then stands. He can't sit still with this conversation. His boots are quiet when he starts to pace. A curtain of hair obscures his face, not that one really has to guess at the expression. It's thin and tight and worried.]
They want a fight though. It'll come to that, I'm confident of it.
I can trust three out of four of them to put self-preservation before ambition, not to shit where they eat, but not her.
[ He sighs. ]
As myself? I'm willing to let them have the damn place. Saves us a lot of trouble. Probably ends in less death than a struggle over territory would, even if they do mean ill. Means you don't have to be any of this.
But I'm not here as myself. I'm here as a Belmont. And as a Belmont, I fucking hate all of this. I don't- they wouldn't want a new vampire warlord swooping in and taking Dracula's lands for god knows what purpose.
No. I think that's her driving factor, and she'll farm the work out. Wallachia won't be the only place they'll pursue. It's just the first and the most symbolic.
[Alucard's eyes meet Trevor's when he says he'd let them take it. Even for a moment. That's not the Belmont he knows, and God. They're all so tired and worn thin, aren't they?]
If there wasn't to be more fall out, it'd be tempting to just repeat what happened at the castle. [They destroyed how many vampires of Carmilla's level in just a few short minutes? True, Sypha was there, but that's the point. It took three of them to destroy so many. But--
--Carmilla won't be the only one who will try and do something. It pains Alucard to admit that the other two - their names died with them - had a point. That Cho might be dead but others will move into her place.]
It would have saved us all so much if he had only murdered the bishop.
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The way she's talking about this- I don't like it. [ She's talking about it the way he would talk about it if he thought that he was dealing with a room full of selfish, overambitious pricks. He knows his way around appealing to people's worst impulses to manipulate them. Carmilla's just guessed at theirs wrong. They don't have a scrap of ambition between the two of them. ]
I don't know what the alternative is, but I don't like her.
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[Alucard breathes out, then stands. He can't sit still with this conversation. His boots are quiet when he starts to pace. A curtain of hair obscures his face, not that one really has to guess at the expression. It's thin and tight and worried.]
They want a fight though. It'll come to that, I'm confident of it.
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[ He sighs. ]
As myself? I'm willing to let them have the damn place. Saves us a lot of trouble. Probably ends in less death than a struggle over territory would, even if they do mean ill. Means you don't have to be any of this.
But I'm not here as myself. I'm here as a Belmont. And as a Belmont, I fucking hate all of this. I don't- they wouldn't want a new vampire warlord swooping in and taking Dracula's lands for god knows what purpose.
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[Alucard's eyes meet Trevor's when he says he'd let them take it. Even for a moment. That's not the Belmont he knows, and God. They're all so tired and worn thin, aren't they?]
If there wasn't to be more fall out, it'd be tempting to just repeat what happened at the castle. [They destroyed how many vampires of Carmilla's level in just a few short minutes? True, Sypha was there, but that's the point. It took three of them to destroy so many. But--
--Carmilla won't be the only one who will try and do something. It pains Alucard to admit that the other two - their names died with them - had a point. That Cho might be dead but others will move into her place.]
It would have saved us all so much if he had only murdered the bishop.