PopeAlessandros

The Rebel Vampire

Hmm. . .Oddness. . . .This should be one page over. . .

The Rebel Vampire

The officer hums to himself softly while Joseph is gone, trying desperately to keep himself from just charge up the stairs and have a face-to-face with the rebel leader. His usual stoic expression is tainted by his fear and worry for his brother, despite his best efforts to cover it all up. The tune is nonsensical, making it up as he goes along, but en eventually he falls into a light tune he can repeat over and over, the sound of it keeping him calm and focused. 'So, he's smarter than most, and patient. I really hope this all goes well for Alexi's sake. If slavery ends however I have to wonder what's Alexi's gonna do. Maybe I could just quit my job and take up the chores. . .'

His eyes follow Joseph as he walks back in with his sandwich and drink, setting it with the ease and grace developed over the many years he's been a slave. 'I could never make up for Joseph, but maybe I could at least keep this place from going completely to hell' He lets out a long sigh, mumbling a thank you to the head slave before picking up the sandwich and taking a big bite. He chews slowly, his mind still rolling on like a steamroller, when suddenly he pauses. Swallowing his mouthful he lets his head hang, his body relaxing into the vampire's touch. He hums slightly at Joseph's explanation an murmurs, “I forgot to ask you for one last night, thank you Joseph. . .” He lets the man work his magic, his after meal snack all but forgotten. “Oh, and one more thing Joseph. Alexi wants the guy to tell him his name himself, something about a show of trust or whatever. I had to jump through a lot of hoops to keep him from hearing or reading the guy's name, so, now that you know it, please don't say it in front of Alexi. . .”

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Alexi blinks slowly, watching impassively as the bound vampire practically snaps out his reply. He had been aware of the rumor of magicals starving themselves rather than taking the potion, however in each case, the rumor had proven false. 'So they really believe such things? It saddens me to think that the option of death is so much more appealing. . .' The flash of fang as he snarled before worries him a bit, his prayers turning to the hope that he will not try to bite himself in a fatal way. He would rather not have to call in any sort of medic, and while the chains may be able to circumvent most attempts at suicide, they are not fool proof. Near to it, but everything has it's flaws.

When at last he falls silent Alexi casts his gaze to the floor and tries to gather his thoughts. His head tilts this way and that until it is all in place. Looking back to the chained vampire he bows his head slightly before sitting back up strait. “Forgive me, on that first point, I misspoke. Yes, there is a fair number of slaves who have committed suicide when being broken by incompetent owners. The way I should have said it is this: No magical has ever died from the process of being hard broken when the procedure is done properly.” He adds on, a little quieter, “As to your second point, I have done my research. In all cases that such a thing was claimed to have happened, none of them have proved to be true. It is a fact that I have not lived long enough to see every case, however I have investigated several thousand cases, and none of them are as you believe them to be.”

His gaze once more falls to the carpet, not sure how much to say on the final point. It is true, Joseph is not happy here, but for what it's worth, it has nothing to do with his treatment or duties. Well, perhaps now partially because of his duties now that he is helping to break another of his kind, but that is neither here nor there. Alexi lets out a sigh. “No, I do not believe he is happy here, however he wants it that way. The best I can do for now is to keep him from being completely miserable.” He looks into the vampire's eyes, complete sincerity shining from behind his gaze. “It is up to him to tell you more than this, however you may want to ask him why he thinks he deserves to be a slave. He came to that conclusion on his own, or so he told me, so please believe that I do not agree with him in this matter. Freeing him is going to be very difficult, since I know he does not want to accept freedom and will fight against it til the end.”

The Power of The Fallen ~ PopeAlessandros x AkiBlue

Kuro has to manually hold his laughter in as the display in front of him goes from mildly amusing, to quite hilarious in his opinion. He holds his hand over his mouth as Dani declares he's going to eat the angel, his eyes wandering over Aoba wings as he watches them twitch and flick as he speaks. 'Huh, interesting. I've never watched them like this before, however it is very entertaining now that I have a chance to watch them uninterrupted' Glancing past Aoba he notices that Dani's act much the same way. Having never left his wings out for very long, let alone watched them while they were, he finds the revelation fascinating that they act a lot like tails on animals, expressing themselves through movement.

He presses his lips together firmly as Dani tries to steal Aoba's towel, only dropping his hands when he too senses a demon in the distance. Both he and his brother stare in the direction of the intruding force, but as soon as Kuro identifies it as not one of his other siblings, he looks back to Aoba. With one last glance at his brother Kuro follows the angel inside, a large smile still on his lips.

Meanwhile, his older brother continues to stare towards the demon intruder. 'He's getting closer. If I keep my energy down, maybe he'll get close enough. . .for. . .' Suddenly Dani sits up, racing through all the orders given to him. A slow wicked smile spreads across his face. 'He never said I can't leave his little boarder, and he did order me to do what I can to keep the angel safe. . .' Creeping forward to the edge of the area marked off by Kuro the young looking demon puts half a foot over the line slowly. Feeling no tightening on his collar he moves further and further over the line until he stands completely on the other side. Touching his neck, then glancing back at his wings, he confirms that he's still intact before launching himself full speed at the invading demon with a wildly happy laugh.

Inside Kuro watches as Aoba doesn't even make it to the stairs, instead passing out on the couch. Humming lightly he moves over to the sleeping angel and scoops him up gently. 'you trust me so much, even if I am the one who got you thrown out of your home. If there was an angel sweeter than you, they'd be made of sugar' He rolls his eyes at his sentimentality, then again as he feels that second demon's life snuffed out. 'I was going to warn that one off, but Dani really needed that' Mounting the stairs Kuro takes Aoba to his room and sets the angel gently on his bed, careful not to pull on any of his feathers as he places him gingerly on his side. Tugging off the towel carefully he admires the sight for a few seconds before pulling the covers over his near nude body.

Unable to resist the temptation completely Kuro leans down and places a gentle kiss on Aoba's temple, a hushed, “Good night, Little Mouse.” ruffling his hair as he pulls back. His hand strays across his bare shoulder but after a few seconds he slides it down, grabbing the bed sheet and pulling it up a little higher. Once he's sure the angel is comfortable he slips out of the room and down the stairs. He contemplates going out to check on Dani, however the couch calls to him fervently and without a word ha collapses on to it with a noise just short of a groan and falls immediately asleep. Outside Dani comes back into the yard, dropping the left leg of one of the demon's just outside the marked off area before wandering over to the barn happily purring, the blood soaking his mouth and claws glinting in the moonlight.

The Rebel Vampire

You must really hate the worlds in Final Fantasy. . .

I like complicated, so I don't mind helping with the tech thing, as long as whatever we are working on together has a direct effect on what is going on in the RP between our characters. Alexi and Mois both use cars with wheels, so whatever we need to work out for them to have wheeled cars and not hover cars, I'm all for it. . .How the farmers and other agricultural professions work with their tech, not very interested at the moment, we don't have any farms for hundreds of miles, and none of our guys work with them directly, so if you wanna come up with automated gizmos or the like for them and slap them into your timeline, have at it.

As for the hurt tech. . .I swear I brought this up before. . .Way back when, I said I wanted the war to have trashed things a bit and made a lot of our tech fall behind while others advanced further. . .I remember that. . .But then again, I forget what I had for breakfast yesterday, so maybe I thought it but forgot to write it those months ago. . . I don't see the magical side of reality going down easy, and with the power I see many of the magical community having, I don't see any way of it being anything less than mini apocalyptic. Wow, we really were on opposite sides of this particular idea. . . I could of sworn I brought this up before though! *Ish frustrated that I don't have the patience to go look this up*

Oh, and about that Final Fantasy comment. . . All I can say is Swords and Airships. FF, main weapon, midevil, main mass transportation, steampunk :P I can think of plenty of Anime where the tech was rather sideways, but still worked just fine. Like Escaflowne. Gallant Swordsmen? Check! Giant Mech? Check! Let's go! A perfect marriage of tech and magic there :P Like the fate alteration device. . . .

But, anyways, I thinks stuff like that may be a large part of why I don't get your rigidness on tech. If it works in Anime, why cant it work in a fictional earth like world of our own!? :P *Teases* I has the feeling you may explode if we tried that tough :P

"Due to controlling the slaves, and the mere existence of magic as something to study, mind control tech, imprisonment tech, and magical technology are all more advanced than they were in our world. But otherwise, things are roughly the same, technologically."

I think the existence of whole 'nother side of reality would create huge changes not only in history, but in tech as well. Before the war, I can see many of the races being a part of human society, and because of their long lived nature, using what they've learned and their own personal talents to create things that humans may never have thought of because of our short lives. (I may be rambling at this point, so please forgive my rambles, but I think I may be on to something in my own line of thinking) Ever read "My Teacher is an Alien"? There are four books in that series, and one of which is called "My Teacher Glows in the Dark" and in it, it proposes that an alien came down and helped invent the TV, which slowed human's advancement towards space travel because a lot of the focus of human tech went to this new thing, and attempts to leave the atmosphere was put on the back burner. I think this is one of the things rattling around in the back of my mind when I talks about the rather staggered and slightly sideways development of tech. certain areas of development are stunted by others, slowed, and in some cases, abandoned. Like the Tesla Coil. When light bulbs were made, Tesla Coils, made around the same time, were given up on for the most part. . . .

Oh, and, question, if you really want this all back before the computer, what control measures do you see humans using for magicals to begin with? I don't see anything short of powerful shock collars on werewolves, and we need microchips for that. . . .In short, I don't think, with tech being messed up by magicals, that starting at the level of tech you propose would allow for the enslavement to ever even happened. Humans would need to be more advanced to ever have come out on top in a war with naturally magical creatures who are superior to humans in oh so many ways. . .

That works. See, I'm not always so picky :P 60 years gives more than enough time for the magicals to do some major damage :P Oh, and before it gets brought up, I really don't wanna talk about HOW the war ended just yet. I really REALLY wanna get more into the RP before discussing that particular bit of history. . . .

The Rebel Vampire

It makes sense, but you forgot to add in the war. We haven't even discussed how long it lasted, and as I put forward before, what survived it. I want to entertain the idea that the war set us back, that magics were used during it to flat out destroy not only the tech itself, but the know how to use/make it.

As for the "Modern" I vaguely remember us agreeing on a more advanced setting, maybe 50-60 more years advanced than we are now, but only in certain fields, since as I said, development in some areas remained more intact after the war than others. As an example, if at some point during the war, the intronet highway was completely wiped out by a customized spell, and all knowledge of how it works was erased from both mind an text(Remember, this is an example) then after the war, people would remember it, but they would have to not only re-create it, but they would have to do so in a world where such things are not a major concern. The control and enslavement of the magicals would take precedent.

Or, a less extreme example, all car factories in the world were destroyed in a mass combined effort, after the war we could say people more focused on making/using motorcycles to get around on since they are easier to make and maintain. Sure, there are cars in the era now, however they are not hover cars because that tech was not important. I can see auto driving and the like, stuff we don't have yet, but I don't see our world having hover cars. . . .But again, this is an example. Like, the hand held music devices, not important, and they may exist not in the RP, but because they are very much non essentials, they would not be that far advanced.

So yes, what you say makes sense, but do you also see my logic? Also, we really need to decide how long the war lasted. . . .

The Rebel Vampire

"Like, the internet did not exist before the war, because it couldn't have. To have something like the internet, you need the transistor, fiber optic technology, and enough programming for at least 70-80s level computers. To me, things couldn't have developed another way, at least if the primary species is human."

See, this is the kind of stuff that confuses me. . .Why? Why can't it have existed? Why is it impossible for those things to have existed 80 years after slavery ended? Can we not simply make it so slavery ended around the time such things were coming into being? So that by the time the war started it was simple, and slow as hell, but it did exist? I'm not saying any of this has to be the way things were, I'm just wondering why you seem against having that level of tech before the war. As I understand tech, it grows in the direction one focuses on, and in Our Earth's case, that has been mostly war based growth. What if trade and communication was the base drive of this RP world's tech growth? Would that not make computers come about a lot faster there than they did here? Correct me if I'm wrong here, it's been years since I was in school, and most of my info these days about tech comes from nerdy stuff I learn on TV shows :P

I have no problem with Joseph being captured right after the war, and I'd say that the law about slavery of magicals would have passed not a year after the end of the war, as kind of a solution so that no more wars were possible. Flawed logic, but I'd say they thought that as long as all magicals were slaves, there would never be enough free to start another war, and they'd once more have all the free labor they could ever want. Win win, y'know. . . Humans are stupid that way :P Also, about hard breaking, I think it would have been being developed during the war, perfected after the war, and first put to use successfully 3-4 years after the war. The scientists thought it would eventually come to enslaving magicals, so they worked on it during the war in secret government facilities *Shifty eyes*

A Bloody Murder

Not willing to pass up the opportunity to take those constricting boots off Rei pops down next to the prince when he sees him begin pulling his off and start wrestling the footwear off. To golden haired male's comment he murmurs, “I will answer what questions I can. . .” Mimicking the prince he pulls his pant legs up, rolling them so they will not fall down, then sinks his considerably shorter legs into the cool refreshing stream. What the prince says next, while not sounding exactly like a question, still prompts Rei to think and consider how to answer. After only a few seconds of thought he tilts his head slightly, coming up with what is hopefully a satisfactory reply. 'I know I can give no real indication as to the village's location, however I can at least tell him a bit about it, and assure him it is on this plane of existence'

However as he opens him mouth to speak the feeling of warm fingers once more caressing his sensitive ear causes him to pause. His mouth closes softly and his eyes fall to half mast. Not as tense as he was last this occurred he responds quite differently this time. The feeling from it is warm and a bit unsettling, having never had felt such a way before. However the touch is brief and the feeling flees as soon as the prince pulls his hand away. He looks to the young man curiously, his comment giving him even more to think about. Deciding to speak on his comment about the village first he looks back over the water and sighs.

“The fae villages are indeed on this plane. It is how they fell under attack by humans long years ago, and how I was kidnapped. While the lands around them are enchanted to keep humans away, all one needs is one skilled in illusion and enchantment to find your way through the befuddlement spells.” His head tilts to the side, his eyes narrowing slightly as he tries to figure out how best to respond to the prince's comment about he not being real. 'I am here, and I know I exist, as well as all those in my village. . .I do not understand how one can touch something and not know that it is real. He has laid hands on me a few times, and I him, and yet he still expresses doubt' His thoughts take less than a moment to race through his mind and in his next breath after falling silent he continues speaking.

“We exist, out of sight, and for the most part, out of mind. Our lands are rich, drawing from us what they need to stay healthy and fruitful. The village I live in is deep in woods, the thick foliage keeping our diet to meats and vegetables for the most part, the rare fruits in fall from a small stand of fruit bearing trees a few miles away, and berries that grow wild in the surrounding forest.” His head tilts to the other side, turning so he can look at Alessandro. “I am not sure how more to ease you mind of my existence than to be here for you to see and touch. I am sorry if that is not quite enough for you to believe in me or my kind, but it is all I have to offer without betraying them and bringing you to the village with me. . .” His gaze returns to the water, kicking his legs gently as the fish come back, causing them to scatter once more. His feet are well above the stream bed allowing for free movement.

The Rebel Vampire

"And if we disagree, then instead of one of us changing, we will both just write totally different things."

I'd never do that. If I find something I disagree upon with you, I will bring it up and hash it out with you until we agree on it somewhere.

I am sorry, I know I put my foot down here and there. . . A lot so it seems, and I am sorry. *Bows* I don't mean to be pushy, but honestly, when you ask me what I think, I tell you what I think, and once I've voiced something, I have a slightly harder time changing my mind than if it comes up in the RP naturally. I'm a planner. . .

Do you remember the person you recommended me to? I'm not sure if you guys ever talk about me, or what he and I are doing, but we spent about 2-3 months and 180+ posts trying to hash out the RP idea we started with, and ended up scrapping it just because there was too much planning. She got an idea in her head, but then asked me what I thought, and then we'd end up in 20 post lone debates over it because she would keep asking me all the facets of what I saw, before bringing up what she wanted. Most of the time I would fold, but by then there would be certain things I would not want to change, and more often than not, one of those things would be challenged. We ended up making an RP entirely based on building a universe, starting as barely formed something or others just so we wouldn't have to do much real planning, since the universe doesn't even exist yet :P And even then, we had a few rough disagreement patches.

Sorry for the rambling, I just wanted to give you an example of why it seems like I'm being forceful and controlling. I will take whatever power given me, and once in place, I may very well defend it vehemently. In your's and my's case, I think the point I feel is being missed, is that, and correct me if I'm wrong, you are taking your tech base off of a very strict understanding of Real Life world history, and the evolution of tech here on Our Earth. For me, that's like. . .My playing chopstick next to someone playing Beethoven. I don't know evolution of tech and the histories of tech development on Our Earth, so when it comes to RPs, I phutz around until something makes sense in my head, and while I can't articulate it properly(Chopsticks), in my head there is perfect sense(Beethoven). My version of tech history and development makes sense, in my head, but digging into it brings about the frustration of my not being able to put it on paper properly. I see the history of tech in our RP world developing along a completely different line than in the Real World, partially due to my ignorance of RL tech history, but even more because of the magicals themselves. Before the war, the were there, changing things, making the RP world different from ours, even in the tech sense, so despite our base of an earth like planet(We can even call it Earth, for simplicity sake) I would like to keep things on the simpler side and let things develop as they may.

That doesn't mean I refuse to do planning, I love planning, but maybe we can stick to specific tech ideas, like, was the intronet a thing before the war? Did the iPod ever come into existance, or something like it? Smaller scale. . . .Smaller scale. . . .

The Rebel Vampire

What part of an earth like place but not earth do you not get?(Please do not take offence to that, that's just how it came out) I know you like your tech stuff following a logical line and for times to make sense, and I respect that, however to we need to have this earth like place to have advancements in the exact same areas, and use the same basic time settings? Joseph could very well been enslaves 500 years ago, and still have the tech that we have now the way it is. His enslavement has nothing to do with the tech and time placement of the war, only that he was enslaved right after the war, which happened 500 years ago, on a place that is not earth, just a lot like it. When I was talking about when slavery ended in America, I was not saying that america even had to exists, just that that was the level of technology at the time slavery ended, that way the whole thing could make a kind of linear sense for a person born on this planet.

*Long exhale* Sorry that came out the way it did, I'm just a little, *Nyaaaaa*, at this point about making the world so. . . .Real Life? Does that make sense? What if I wanted there to be cars 20 years before there were cars here on earth, just because on this world, they focused more on that than other branches of science and technology way back when? I don't wanna use dates like 1800 and 2000, because that makes are nice little made of fantasy realm a little to. . .Exacting? Is that the right word? We can come up with what tech we have as we play, and what tech we lost as well, as it becomes relevant. Joseph was enslaved after a war that threw the linear timeline of tech, which up to that point may have been focused in completely different areas than what is was in our reality, into a complete maelstrom of WTF, and after things settled, it stalled mostly due to the new need that the crazy humans had to get every last magical under their thumb. I think beyond that, we should just let it all develop naturally as we RP. . . . .

The Rebel Vampire

I placed the war after the civil war in America myself, because that was when slavery(Not world wide of course) ended in my head. Just call me a selfish American :P That way we would have E-male and Intronet, along with all the gizmos needed to enslave the magicals electronically.

As for the precautions. . .Alexi is a light sleeper, he would hear Erik moving his chains around that much in his sleep, and while Alexi is not there, I would say that the magical chains would recognize such an attempt and, not being the will of the one that sealed them, would circumvent his actions. There can even be a seal on them that knocks him out when he gets too violent. Humans may not be naturally magical, however they have learned to use it over the years. So, in short, his magical chains will not let him kill himself. Magic for the win!