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[starspangledhero]

[ Here is America. He is extremely dirty, tired-looking, and, given the red chapped face and dark tint to his nose and cheeks, slightly frostbitten. Nothing new. If you have been here since his arrival, you probably know what happened while I was on hiatus. ]

Uh. Thanks, Namine. Again. For the... yeah. I'd say it'll never happen again, but it keeps happening.

...D-don't ask where I've been. Not here, is the answer. Kinda out towards the prairie, but I didn't hit the river. Let's just leave it at that.

[ He sniffles loudly and wipes his nose with his sleeve. ]

Sorry 'bout that guys. I try to be around to save the day as much as possible, but it's way harder without planes and stuff! Did I miss anything cool?

Comments

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[starspangledhero]

What.

[ pause. ]

What.

[ another pause. ]

You're a vampire what?

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[subshiki.livejournal.com]

Is that all you got out of what I said?

And it's werewolf.

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[starspangledhero]

Man, you're layin' it on me pretty heavy, one thing at a time. So you're a werewolfpire.

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[subshiki.livejournal.com]

Fine...

Shiki come in either the werewolf variety or your typical vampire.

1/2 voice

[starspangledhero]

THAT'S RAD!

voice

[starspangledhero]

Except for the whole... dying thing. Not rad. Um.

Does being a werewolfpire make you terminally sick?

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[subshiki.livejournal.com]

The vampire type dies before changing. The werewolf kind doesn't technically die.

...But I don't know what you mean by sick.

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[starspangledhero]

I mean I guess... that counts as terminally sick...

"Technically"?

voice

[subshiki.livejournal.com]

What does?

voice

[starspangledhero]

No, I mean, how do you "technically" die?

voice

[subshiki.livejournal.com]

Your body functions cease, obviously. The brain shuts down, the heart stops.

voice

[starspangledhero]

Either that's dying dying, or you're talking about being a zombie.

voice

[subshiki.livejournal.com]

What do you think Shiki are? A vampire is one of the undead.

[ siiiiigh. ]

What happened to me was different. My heart slowed to a point where a pulse couldn't be detected.

voice

[starspangledhero]

Vampires and zombies are different though!

That's happened to me before, and I was only kinda a zombie once.

voice

[subshiki.livejournal.com]

Kind of?

voice

[starspangledhero]

It's a country thing! [ or an "America is a freak" thing. ]

voice

[subshiki.livejournal.com]

Sure...

voice

[starspangledhero]

So lemme get it straight... you got bit by a werewolfpire and that means you'll die before you change even though vampires are undead anyway?

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[subshiki.livejournal.com]

I got bit and drained by the vampire type. When that happens there's a very rare chance a werewolf type is created instead of another vampire type.

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[starspangledhero]

Oh my God this is a trip, man. Vampires making werewolves.

voice

[subshiki.livejournal.com]

You think it's a trip? Try living through it.

voice

[starspangledhero]

It's like a horror movie in the making! And those never end happily! And you're not running around eating people so it's even sadder! ...You're not, right?

voice

[subshiki.livejournal.com]

I don't attack people. I can survive by eating regular food.

voice

[starspangledhero]

Then why do you have to die?!

voice

[subshiki.livejournal.com]

All Shiki are going to be killed in order to save the village. This also includes me. Humans and Shiki can't live together peacefully back home.