I'm still reeling from how most people here even have surnames.
[ It just strikes him as weird, since...well, commoners on the isle don't have family names, and it doesn't strike him like the tribes down in the South where clan lineage means a lot, if not necessarily everything. ]
Annoyin' an' pretentious. My ol' lady's name is "Rosalie of Annihilation Eclipse". The "of whatever pretentious thing here" title is their family name an' they use their whole damn names with other nobles all the time it's suuuuch a pain.
My ol' lady's a vampire lord. 'Cept, I didn't know that 'til she captured me. She thought I was dead, but I'd been abandoned in the slums, an' I never knew her. But she let me stay with her for awhile, tryin' to teach me how to fit in an' all. It went 'bout as well as you'd expect, given everythin' I am.
[It was a disaster. He tried? But whoof. Never again.]
You look way better as you are now, I imagine. What were the odds of you turning out to be some noble's bastard child, though...
[ Though in Day's experience, that sort of thing is less common than the stories would have you think, but happens more often than anyone would like still. ]
Right? It's totally crazy. I thought for sure she was lyin' at first, but... Well, I mean, vampires can kinda tell who their kin are just by scent an' senses an' she did seem familiar in a way I couldn't place. So that much is true, strange as it sounds.
Huh. Guess fate works out funny like that. [ He says as if he isn't familiar with exactly all the weird little ways fate works in. ] Is kin important to vampires, or...? [ It's kind of hard to say whenever the answer with nobles back home has always been "It's Complicated". ]
Usually, yeah. 'Specially for nobles. They use 'em like pawns though, matchmakin' an' makin' allies for whatever stupid squabbles they're bound to get into, over territory or whatever. So it's not so much the kin that's important as it is the bloodline, if that makes sense?
If relationships are a universal truth, then that part still holds up, I suppose.
And, uh, I'm fresh off dealing with something to do with ridiculous noble family politics, so yeah. [ He won't talk about the fact that his real job tends to involve messing around in politics at least a little, but this part is also true. ]
Hah, hopefully you won't have'ta deal with anythin' like that again any time soon! 'Course, I doubt we're gonna be dealin' with anythin' that stupid here.
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Can't say I ever imagined I'd be offering my blood one day, but there's a first time for everything.
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[ It just strikes him as weird, since...well, commoners on the isle don't have family names, and it doesn't strike him like the tribes down in the South where clan lineage means a lot, if not necessarily everything. ]
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[oh my god someone who gets it!!]
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[vampire nobility sucks (pun intended)]
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[ At least they agree on it being pretentious. ]
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[ From what he's managed to glean, Malice really doesn't seem like a noble at all. ]
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[It was a disaster. He tried? But whoof. Never again.]
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[ So he's not surprised to hear it at all, though...what are the odds of him being a bastard child, huh. ]
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[He doesn't have to pretend to have manners or talk properly, it's so nice...]
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[ Though in Day's experience, that sort of thing is less common than the stories would have you think, but happens more often than anyone would like still. ]
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[It's Complicated, in other words.]
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[ He sounds disappointed but not surprised. ]
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And, uh, I'm fresh off dealing with something to do with ridiculous noble family politics, so yeah. [ He won't talk about the fact that his real job tends to involve messing around in politics at least a little, but this part is also true. ]
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[Hopefully...]
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To be honest, I dunno if I should be afraid if anyone here has to deal with that sorta thing while we're here...
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