networkinthenight | first experiment; 9:53 PM

For our more vampiric population, I come to you with a solution for your dietary problems.

I've invented artificial blood. A substance you can consume without harming others, but that will sustain you much as food and water. I owe a debt to Elena for helping me test them.

Unfortunately, it cannot yet be used in a medical sense-- for blood transplants, which are, by the by, a very important part of medical knowledge, which makes up the second part of this announcement.

If you do not know your blood type, come see me, and I can at least determine it. Blood types are a vital bit of information in a place where one routinely gets cut to bits. Transfusing blood-- that is, the act of giving one's blood to another-- can save a life in many cases. However, if the wrong sorts of blood interact, the result can be deadly.

Many of you do not know your blood type. This will, inevitably, come back to bite you.

So. I suggest you come by my lab within the next few days and find out, before you nearly die of an injury, manage to make it back to town, and then die of your original blood sensing the invader and killing off the cells that came to theoretically heal you. What a horrible, ironic death that would be.

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She's not a fighter, she knows how to survive though. Her strength is in her mind.

That's an interesting excuse. Does it make you feel better, telling yourself that and knowing how selfish she is?

If anything, it makes her more human.
I'm selfish too, Vanitas. It's not wrong to look out for your own interests.

Even at the expense of others?

Sometimes. I try not to. We have to decide for ourselves the way that brings the most benefit at the least harm, how we measure that is based on what's in our hearts.

Depending on who gets sacrificed, you mean.

Someone like me is expendable, as long as it furthers your goal.

Master Xehanort thought that too. The ends justify the means.

Is that what you think? That you're something to get spent up for somebody else's ends?

[ he doesn't think it, he knows it. ]

Everyone is to someone.

That doesn't make it okay! Did Xehanort teach you that? He was a sick old man who left you in a desert!

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Shut up.

His methods were effective. You can't deny that.

I wouldn't be half as strong if he hadn't taught me what he did.

We can't know that. He never gave you a choice.
He's the kind of person who's forgotten how to do anything but take things from people and break them.

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