Astarion Ancunin

[scrapdraught]

omg she's a reporter

it's Interview with a Vampire

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[haematocritical]

Yes, perhaps approach the topic with her gently. She’ll probably answer your questions because of who she is as a person [ too nice ] but it’s not something she enjoys dwelling on.

Motivation, my dear. I don’t know all the details, only stories and the rumours and rare accounts I’ve heard — neither can truly be trusted, but one seeks oppressively brutal control and the other seeks a delightful and destructive amount of chaos.

[ lawful evil vs chaotic evil, essentially. ]

[scrapdraught]

Yeah, I imagine she gets a lot of flack off the cuff.

[who would do that? 😬]

Ah. Fascists and fuckos, got it. [Camille huffs, a short and silent laugh, then gives his bicep a casual squeeze. A gesture for far better friends than they are, yet she's turned away without a second's pause, carrying on with their inspection of the place.

Camille picks up a remote and glances over to a box television against the wall opposite. Hm.]

[haematocritical]

[ oh. hm. ]

Ah. You are aware she’s not a devil or a demon, yes?

[ just to point that out.


the bicep gets a blink because he’s still not sure why he hasn’t wiggled away yet, not why he’s not eager too, so she gets away with it. ]

It’s rather quaint, isn’t it?

[scrapdraught]

Teifling, right? [She'll make eye contact to triple check.] She told me. Didn't specify exactly what it meant though. She was telling me a few other things. Sparked my curiosity about the delineation, especially since it didn't match up with what I knew.

[Camille takes a seat on the couch, clicking the power button. Voila! Television. A grainy signal manifests.]

It's almost deceptively peaceful. I wonder how many bodies are hidden under the floorboards.

[would you look at that, the opening credits to Jurassic Park.]

[haematocritical]

[ he nods. ] Yes, tiefling. [ which my ipad is trying so hard to turn into tie fling ] I doubt the places we’re from are especially similar if a tiefling is new to you. It stands to reason other things wouldn’t match either.

[ oh boy it’s jurassic park. ]

At least three. Isn’t that the case with cute little neighbourhoods? They hide the biggest secrets, just like the benevolent rich people who own manors and give to the poor.

[ DOODOO DOOOO DOOOOO DOOOOOOOOO ]

[scrapdraught]

Outside of a few overarching commonalities, I'd say you're all alien to me, yeah.

[HOLY FU-CKING SHIT, IT'S A DI-NO-SAUR, OH MY GOD, WHAT THE FUUUUUCK🎵

Anyway Camille laughs at this. Quiet, below the breath, and with no eye contact.]

Well. Our worlds have that much in common then.

[haematocritical]

Interesting. It's strange to think of a world without elves, half-elves and the like.

[ well.



ok.

hang on. his face is just pure what the fuck is a dinosaur. ]

[scrapdraught]

They exist in fiction.

[also oh. Lmao.

She pats the seat beside her on the couch.]

Need a primer?

[haematocritical]

[ he taps the point of his own ear. ]

Clearly not.

[ hmmmm. ]

What are they? Dragons?

[scrapdraught]

Which are you? Half or full?

[Perhaps a testy question but he's a sharp-edged man to begin with. She'll weather a little blow-back if need be.]

Not quite. Dinosaurs. Very big lizards. Walked the earth long some millions of years before humans showed up. Likely died out thanks to a giant meteor.

We only know about them from digging up their bones through countless millenia of dirt. This movie poses the age-old question of whether it would be fun to bring them back.

[Smash-cut to the T-rex trying to eat children.]

[haematocritical]

Full. They'd be shorter if I were half.

[ less testy. he knows half-elf who could club him with a mace and refuse to heal him. ]

...



Hm, yes that seems about right. Pestering a dragon would have poor results unless you really knew what you were doing. And they do have a lot of teeth.

[scrapdraught]

Ah. Thanks for the heads-up.

[Remembers his zombie biting Karlach suddenly. Files that away for later.]

And they breathe fire, right? Or is that just another whimsical myth a magic-free world?

[haematocritical]

Not always. They can do nasty things with other elements, or so the stories go.

[ the one you can fight in act 3 is lightning. but astarion hasn't fought them. ]