[text] @helsing; I've always liked to play with fire [open]

[kungfuey]

I'm looking to speak to anyone who;

1. Has communicated with the Church hermit
2. Has come across any railroad tracks in Beacon
3. Has seen any antibiotics lying around

[ She would have left it there but figures maybe she should probably let people know this next bit; ]

I also spotted a giant spirit in the woods around the museum. Try not to get killed by it.

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[tribridfreakshow]

Well, yeah. My grandma is the one that cast the spell and made the first vampires out of her entire family. She basically invented dark magic.

[She doesn't believe that's what makes them. She knows.]

You have to feed to fully transition anyway. In order for him to survive becoming a hybrid, that blood had to be mine.

[kungfuey]

Different worlds, different Vampires.

[ It's said like a revelation rather than an argument or statement of fact. Even if she wants to see Hope as like her, they're still completely different. ]

So your blood turns them into Hybrids. [ She's been saying that but none of this has really sunk in until now. ] What if a vamp bites you?

[tribridfreakshow]

That's my guess, yeah. Similar, but not exactly the same.

[Which was still a slight comfort. After all, they both had dealt with some pretty heavy shit.]

The bite itself wouldn't do anything. If they took too much and killed me, I'd probably transition into a vampire, but that's only because I'm weird. Humans have to ingest vampire blood and then die to turn. The same thing would happen if a human died with my blood in their system.

[kungfuey]

Heh - [ A dry, bitter bark of laughter. ] My world would be a lot less fucked up if things worked that way there.

The infection comes from the bite. Like... Zombies or some shit.

[ An infection, not magic. At least, that's how she's always seen it. ]

[tribridfreakshow]

...What are your vampires like, then? Mindless?

[kungfuey]

No... well? The feral ones are. Vampire goes long enough without human blood and they become more animal than Vampire.

[ Notably not human. ]

Normal ones seem human but.... It's twisted. They become these extreme, fucked up versions of who they used to be and they're driven by their need for blood, death and power.

[ So. Mikaelsons. ;) ]

[tribridfreakshow]

...like they've turned off their humanity.

[Her voice is a little quieter.]

Ours can do that too, but they have to choose to do it. Sometimes they just don't care about anything anymore, but sometimes it's like that.

[kungfuey]

Yeah... I guess?

[ But not all of them. If she were being honest, there had been one who broke the mold. ]

There was a... man I knew. Before here. He was a Vampire. No idea how he managed to do it but he was able to cling to some part of who he was before. He never killed anyone. Wouldn't drink blood from a living donor. He couldn't sustain it though. He would have ended up like the rest of them or dead, eventually.

[tribridfreakshow]

Vampires feel things more intensely. It's a survival mechanism, to be able to turn that off if they're overwhelmed and too weak to deal with them.

[Her family committed those atrocities without really ever turning theirs off, though. She tries not to think about it too much.]

Someone in transition has 24 hours to drink human blood or they just....die. [A beat.] So what happened to him? You said he 'would have' ended up like them.

[kungfuey]

Uhhh. [ I mean. She wasn't going to be able to keep it a secret forever, was she? ]

He got cured... [ Something in her tone suggesting that she knows how insane that sounds. ]

[tribridfreakshow]

Oh, gotcha.

[She doesn't sound...that surprised.]

Is that as rare for you as it is for me? There's literally only...one cure for us.

[It was her Aunt's turn to use it next. It was weird.]

[kungfuey]

[ W e l p. ]

You could say its a finite resource.

[ I mean? That's true.

A soft huff of air spilling over. ] Or I guess, it was is more accurate now.

[ She considers not saying it but here? Did it even matter anymore? ]

It was me. And... my sister, technically but. I don't even know if she's alive or not. Wouldn't be the first time she came back from the dead, though.

[tribridfreakshow]

[Whoa, back up.]

You mean, like, literally you? Is it your blood or something?

[She didn't realize Scarlett had a sister either, but one thing at a time.]