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Post by Yager on Mar 29, 2009 5:37:23 GMT -5
"Vampires aren't evil, Buffy," Yager said in the voice of someone who had said that quite often.
"It's just that when they choose to be, they're a Hell of a lot better at it than the average human. Top-of-the-foodchain sort of thing, I suppose. Cruelty, however, is about the same to start out with... vampires simply get hundreds of years to hone their skills." At this point, Yager realized he was giving a lecture and shook his head.
"Anyway, claiming all vampires are evil is the same as saying all angels are good or something like that. Reputation gets in the way of truth."
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Mar 29, 2009 21:16:11 GMT -5
"But there IS a lot of evil vampires," Krolock said neutrally. He wasn't evil, no, but one couldn't exactly call him Mr. Nice Guy, either.
"'tis all a matter of circumstance with us, and...ah! Here's what I was looking for."
He was half-talking to himself at this point as he pulled a large, page-heavy volume off the shelf and flipped it open. He started paging through it rapidly.
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Post by Buffy Summers on Mar 30, 2009 9:51:52 GMT -5
"Evil's not 'circumstantial,'" Buffy said. "It's about having a soul." She sighed. There was no getting through to some people. "Wait... Angels aren't good? Isn't that, like, in the definition?"
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Post by Yager on Mar 30, 2009 10:31:16 GMT -5
"I don't know what you're on about with the whole 'soul' business... I know plenty of vampires with a soul." Yager shrugged and then gestured to the count. "I'm pretty sure we've got exhibit A right here."
Ugh... definitions.
"No, not all angels are good. In fact, they mostly spell Trouble with a capital T... and, forgive my wording, are assholes on the whole. Allowing for the occasional exception, of course," he added.
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Mar 30, 2009 10:38:35 GMT -5
Krolock didn't know about angels, having never met one, but the subject of souls was a...bit of a sore spot. It was something he'd agonized over in the past...was he or was he not a monster? If one considered all that he'd done...*starts singing Unstillbare Gier*
He shook his head to clear the thoughts away, holding out the book toward Buffy, the tome opened to a page with an illustration on it.
"Is this the one, madamoiselle?"
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Post by Buffy Summers on Mar 30, 2009 11:01:59 GMT -5
The whole circular nature of conversation with Yager was wearing on her, so Buffy just stared balefully at him for a moment before turning back to the count and the book. Her faced screwed up in concentration, she looked hard at it.
"It might be," she said doubtfully. "It was pretty dark, and I got kind of distracted afterward by..." By the whole trying-to-eat-my-only-friend "...by, you know, the vampire thing. Why, what is it?"
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Mar 30, 2009 13:48:09 GMT -5
"I'm afraid it's a Canderian Demon. Quite tricky and very chaos-inducing."
He flipped to the next page.
"And unfortunately, this says to be wary of getting their blood upon you--the goo--because if it touches both you and another person, it switches you around, for lack of a better way to describe it."
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Post by Yager on Mar 30, 2009 13:56:09 GMT -5
"So... what? We have to get another one of those things to goo all over her?"
Yager made a face, that didn't sound very appealing at all.
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Post by Buffy Summers on Mar 30, 2009 14:02:59 GMT -5
Well, that seemed all too simple and compact, which... was actually a lot like other plots demons Buffy had come into contact with. Still, she crossed her arms over her chest.
"But what if it's not that demon, and I end up switching, I dunno, boy/girl-ness with Spike?"
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Post by Yager on Mar 30, 2009 14:05:37 GMT -5
"Then you would scare me just that much less." Now it was Yager's turn to stick out his tongue.
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Post by Buffy Summers on Mar 30, 2009 14:32:59 GMT -5
Buffy stared at him.
"You're scared of girls," she said, disbelieving, though as she said it things got so much clearer to her. "Oh my god, me being a girl is worse for you than my being a vampire. Where are your priorities?"
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Post by Yager on Mar 30, 2009 14:41:30 GMT -5
"Women are scary... and scarier by far than vampires," Yager said a touch defensively.
At least he could understand vampires... the proper ones, anyhow.
"Though I have to say... the combination angry vampire/jealous woman... lethal."
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Post by Buffy Summers on Mar 30, 2009 14:44:06 GMT -5
"Sexist," Buffy muttered, throwing him a dark look. Women, after all, didn't have a... a biological imperative (was that Willow's phrase?) to drink your blood.
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Post by Yager on Mar 30, 2009 14:45:27 GMT -5
"Specist," Yager shot back, crossing his arms and making another one of his continually failing attempts at glaring towards Buffy.
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Mar 30, 2009 18:38:23 GMT -5
Quite stealthily, Krolock was rolling his eyes. Of course, when his expression was back to the usual impassiveness, he addressed the two of them.
"I don't know where you get your ideas from, Yager. Regardless of gender, people are quite scary. But also, quite pleasant."
He inclined his toward Buffy.
"One can understand being upset over being suddenly and unexpetedly transformed into something else. She didn't gain her vampirism in a normal fashion. And even people that do gain it in the normal way can still be unpleasant."
Whatever Yager's issues with women were, Krolock didn't share them. He still had issues, just not ones quite so bad
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