Aight, aight – CR, otherwise known as “Who the hell are you people, anyway?” You all know the drill, if anything looks off or needs an edit, give me a holler, watch the edits happen before your very eyes.
I'm gonna go in alphabetical order because we got the first four letters seamlessly covered – five, when Emi gets here. If we can get Victoria to change her name to Fictoria, it'd be perfect.
Adam – If people can be put into the three rough categories of 'Fistbump', 'Arm's Length', and 'Get Off My Planet', Adam is type 2. It's not because everyone says his family is some weirdo religious cult or anything – well, okay, it was kinda weird at first but obviously Adam isn't into... whatever that is, so whatever. And the guy was able to get his hands on some seriously sweet recording gear that makes online streaming a breeze, gotta thank him for that. But, still... Danny can't quite get over the notion that if there's anyone he shouldn't be letting into his personal life, it's this guy. Maybe it's all the sudden rando questions. Danny's never asked if Adam's family hug snakes for Jesus or have that special grape Kool-Aid in the fridge at home, so it would be nice not to get Q's about what the biggest thing he's ever levitated was, or where he learned to do it. (The answers to both those things happens to be “It's not your business, Mr Nosy.”)
Blaine – He's cool. Well okay not 'cool' in the commonly-accepted and socially-agreed upon sense, but in the 'bro, fistbump category' sense. It's kind of neat how the guy always played as Warlock class in D&D, and grew up to be one in real life. That's the kind of commitment to a cause that Danny can admire. They have the whole magic-thing in common (really, Blaine is the only person that Danny can actually talk to about a lot of that stuff without them getting a glassy-eyed 'Wtf' expression), but it's really their home lives... or rather, lack of home lives – that gives them common ground. True, Danny's father didn't turn into a vampire and try to kill him like Blaine's did, but he does do an awesome impression of Invisible Dad. So. It's good to have people around who don't have it easy either, and don't take things for granted. Underneath Blaine's imperviously egotistical demeanor is one of only two people in the world that Danny really feels 'gets it'.
Casey – Is the second person who gets it. Funny how there's a common theme in Washington for parents who either died or vanished totally from the world. In Danny's opinion, Casey has it the worst; he didn't just lose the ones who mattered, he got stuck with people who didn't give a crap. There have been many cold and hypothermia-inducing nights that Casey has spent crashing on the couch, the two of them raiding the budget-foods in the freezer and staying up way late playing vidya. It's actually kind of nice. They've known each other from way back in nerdy childhood, having shared interests and shared bullies and a shared interest in avoiding the bullies. It did take a while to get used to the way that Casey pokes fun at him – what teenage boy doesn't like being called 'Carrie'? - but, it turns out, that's what friends actually do. Huh. Coolbeans. It was all super normal before the whole vampire/monster/blobby-thing killing gig came along and Casey pulled him into it, but it's neat. Way more fun than homework and moping about. Like being a superhero. With homework.
Dana – idk yet. Stick a TBA here. Give it time to finish cooking.
Victoria – She's too reserved and closed-off to get to know, and too casually pleasant to really dislike. She seems like someone who who has come from somewhere and is going places, which is kind of annoying to someone who comes from nowhere and is likely headed back. But, the others like her – Blaine seems to really like her - and she's far from a liability in the evil-murdering sense, so it's easy to play nice and reel in the apathy. Danny probably wouldn't have anything to do with her if she wasn't in the same group as he was; because people like her aren't generally in the same group as people as him. Two different worlds, yet both allied in their dislike of being exsanguinated by creepy-looking dead things and left chilling in an alleyway for homeless people to find. And that's a shared interest that unites nations.
