audio; un: alucard

[reposing]

[Sometime after the Escort Missions are completed, Alucard speaks up on the network, sounding weary.]

I loathe to ask this of any of you, though I respect any who wish to decline my request. If you accept, know that I am incredibly grateful for it.

I require a bit of blood, if you have it. I know not all of you do. I will not accept it from someone who is ill.

Should you wish an explanation, or have further questions, I will answer them. I am open to discussing on methods of bloodletting if you would consider to donate it to me.

Comments

[boxedcrook]

Oh yeah?! Come say that to my face! I'm not like other demons!

You're no different than that flea, Myoga! Do you even know if you'll be able to stop before you kill someone?

I can't believe how many people are dumb enough to just go along with what you want.

[reposing]

What would be the point of saying to your face? I owe nothing to your self-esteem.

Nor am I like other vampires. I was raised with self-control. Can the same be said about you?

Because they know I would not harm them. I do not take what is not offered. I do not kill, unless it is to protect another. I am not some senseless beast with no mind of my own.

[boxedcrook]

I've got plenty of self control, thanks!

[Spoilers: he doesn't.]

Oh yeah? I guess you're gonna tell me you haven't been pickin' off the villagers either. Half of us here are just human! If you drink too much, they'll die. So how about stop asking just anyone to hand it over! They're too dumb to say no, and you know it.

If you're gonna need blood, take it from the people who can deal with it!

[reposing]

You have the self control of a wild mutt.

I haven't. I would never take from someone unwilling, and I know perfectly well how fragile humanity is.

What, like you?

[boxedcrook]

Why you... [FIGHT HIM IN THE FUCKING PIT, ALUCARD.] If you knew, you wouldn't have been asking just anyone! How much have you already had, huh? That'll just be someone else we gotta drag around and take care of on top of everything else!

Bleeding is nothing. I can heal ten times faster than these morons. But who said I was gonna let you get your blood-sucking claws on me? Try get some from a squirrel or something!

[reposing]

You dare speak as if I just drain a person dry. Perhaps you should should stop speaking and flinging out assumptions, you well.

If you knew anything, animal blood would only stave my hunger. I cannot survive on that alone.

[boxedcrook]

Don't worry, I heard the conversations.

But I'm sure you knew who to find if you needed some that wasn't from humans. Am I wrong?

[reposing]

Heard and apparently incapable of comprehending them.

You are wrong. Who would I know who to request from? Certainly not you. Even if you offered, I have no desire to be poisoned by your spoiled blood. A demon's life does little for me.

[boxedcrook]

Hey! What's that supposed to mean?! I don't have "spoiled" blood, and it's gonna poison anyone! I'm not just a demon, so shows what you know, smartypants.

Not that you're gettin' any of my blood anyway.

[reposing]

A demon and a dog, then?

I would want none of it, rest assured. I fear it would diminish my ability to think, not unlike its source.

[boxedcrook]

The demon part is the dog! Come say all that to my face, and we'll see how big you talk then.

My blood is a thousand times more powerful than a human's blood. When the team starts dying off, we'll know who to blame. All because he thought he was too good for certain blood.

[reposing]

My words would be no different. So what is your other blood other than a demon's? I thought I smelled impurity, but I presumed it was the canine in you.

Are you offering or aren't you. Perhaps you should make up your mind.

[boxedcrook]

Human, and it's not an impurity. [How dare you talk about his mom that way, wtf.] Not that it's any of your business.

If you could smell me, then you could have just found out who to ask for blood. You're not gettin' any of mine unless there's nobody left but humans.

[That's, like, 95% of Hathaway, Inuyasha....]

They'll just be weak after, and then we have to babysit them.

1/2

[reposing]

I'm only getting blood from humans. You have no capacity for conversation.

[reposing]

...Human?

[boxedcrook]

That’s what I said! You got a problem with it?

[reposing]

...No.

It's nothing.

[boxedcrook]

Oh, cat got your tongue now? Getting humans to give you blood is askin’ for trouble. So next time, get it from someone who can handle losing a lot of it!

[reposing]

I refuse to take any from you.

[boxedcrook]

I said I wasn’t giving— [Wait. That just sounds like he isn’t good enough. Worse than humans. No, worse than demons! He’s so freaking tired of people giving him hell because of who he is!]

It’s not spoiled! And it’s not impure either! Just because you can’t handle it doesn’t mean it’s bad!

[reposing]

That isn't-- I misspoke, and misunderstood what you are. Who you must be.

Frustrating as you are, we are not unalike.

[boxedcrook]

What’s that supposed to mean? I’m not a vampire.

[reposing]

I know that.

[He sighs, speaking less irritably:] my father is a vampire, but my mother was a human. I am not pure blooded. A dhampir, some call it.

Not unlike you, born from a human woman.

[boxedcrook]

[Ummmm, stop being sincere and nice to him now?? Inuyasha is super confused. Abrasive behavior and anger he knows how to deal with (by returning it), but kindness. Thanks, he hates it.]

Who says I--? [Wait, no, he can't say that, or it'll just be rude to his mama. He lets out a frustrated snort.] Yeah, I heard. But what's that matter?

Just because I'm not a full demon doesn't mean I can't lose blood. [It's less: I'M READY SUCK ME and more: How dare I erroneously perceive that you are insulting my half-breedness???] I can take it better than the other humans.

[reposing]

That isn't what I'm saying at all. If I bothered to explain myself, would you even listen, Inuyasha?