Post by Starbird on Jun 12, 2007 9:16:16 GMT -5
I thought these two up last night trying to sleep. What do you think? They're a pair of were-bats/vampires, a stallion and a filly (not related). The stallion, who is nearly blind in one eye, found the filly dying from a fall off some rocks and ...? made a vampire out of her to save her. When she woke up the next morning, he was sitting beside her and opened the conversation with, 'Little girl, I've done a very terrible thing.' You see, the stallion has a very strange take on the world, which he passes on to the girl. He feels guilt for a lot of things- among them, existing, and saving the girl's life by... transmuting her, I'll say. He believes himself to be a monster, and that he's made her one, too. Every conversation they have involves him apologizing for it. Monsters don't belong in the world and regular people hate monsters because of it. We are bad people for being like this, but we can't do anything about it. We are by nature evil. We go against nature, and it is in the nature of good people to try and kill us to restore goodness. He's a very tired person, and she described his gaze as 'looking through her and past her at the same time- piercing and unfocused'.
The little girl is a different story entirely. She accepts the stallion's view of themselves- that they're monsters- entirely, as well as good people will and should try to kill them for doing nothing except being. But the girl also feels she has an obligation to live, even though it's bad. We are evil and we must accept this world's instinct is to get us out of it. But we must follow our own natures, too, and try to be happy while we can. She's trying to insure the stallion is happy, because he won't because he believes him seeking happiness is bad. Her reasoning is we're already bad, so if being happy is bad we're already screwed so let's be happy anyway (not in such blunt language, though. XD)- his reasoning is we're already bad so we shouldn't compound the problem by trying to take something that belongs to good people by right.
Both try not to associate with normal people in order not to be a burden/infringe on their rights to happiness and innocence/set off their instinct/bother them (mixed reasons there). The little girl has decided that what the stallion needs is to not be by himself where it's so easy to mope, and therefore is looking for 'people like them' to keep the stallion busy and hoping he'll find happiness with one of them- friendship, advice, a lover, anything to knock some sense into him. She slips away when she can, usually when he's sleeping, to look for other monsters. It's very funny, both laugh funny and sick funny, to see this little girl hiding along a path and ambushing passerby- "Excuse me! Excuse me, sir! Are you a monster? You see, I'm one and I'm looking for the rest of us... oh, you're not? Oh! I'm sorry! Forgive me for bothering you. I'm sorry, I can't let you kill me because I have find the other monsters so my master can be happy. Once I find the monsters if we meet again you can try to kill me but I'm not sure I'll be good enough to let you... um... I'll go now." ... "Excuse me! Excuse me, ma'am!" for hours at a time. Running up just like a child, but when you say you're not a monster apologizing and backing away- she won't look away from you, with suspicious eyes waiting for you to strike. And then hiding and jumping the next one...
If she meets children she'll stay away from them unless they come up to ask her to play- and then ask, "Oh, aren't you scared of me? Why? Because I'm a monster. Oh, I get it- this is a trap so you can bring home my hide and make your mothers proud. I'm sorry- it's a very good trap but I can't fall in it just yet. I have to find happiness for my master and maybe some for myself, too... I'm sorry."
...Funny little bugger, ain't she? Anyhoo, can I join them?
The little girl is a different story entirely. She accepts the stallion's view of themselves- that they're monsters- entirely, as well as good people will and should try to kill them for doing nothing except being. But the girl also feels she has an obligation to live, even though it's bad. We are evil and we must accept this world's instinct is to get us out of it. But we must follow our own natures, too, and try to be happy while we can. She's trying to insure the stallion is happy, because he won't because he believes him seeking happiness is bad. Her reasoning is we're already bad, so if being happy is bad we're already screwed so let's be happy anyway (not in such blunt language, though. XD)- his reasoning is we're already bad so we shouldn't compound the problem by trying to take something that belongs to good people by right.
Both try not to associate with normal people in order not to be a burden/infringe on their rights to happiness and innocence/set off their instinct/bother them (mixed reasons there). The little girl has decided that what the stallion needs is to not be by himself where it's so easy to mope, and therefore is looking for 'people like them' to keep the stallion busy and hoping he'll find happiness with one of them- friendship, advice, a lover, anything to knock some sense into him. She slips away when she can, usually when he's sleeping, to look for other monsters. It's very funny, both laugh funny and sick funny, to see this little girl hiding along a path and ambushing passerby- "Excuse me! Excuse me, sir! Are you a monster? You see, I'm one and I'm looking for the rest of us... oh, you're not? Oh! I'm sorry! Forgive me for bothering you. I'm sorry, I can't let you kill me because I have find the other monsters so my master can be happy. Once I find the monsters if we meet again you can try to kill me but I'm not sure I'll be good enough to let you... um... I'll go now." ... "Excuse me! Excuse me, ma'am!" for hours at a time. Running up just like a child, but when you say you're not a monster apologizing and backing away- she won't look away from you, with suspicious eyes waiting for you to strike. And then hiding and jumping the next one...
If she meets children she'll stay away from them unless they come up to ask her to play- and then ask, "Oh, aren't you scared of me? Why? Because I'm a monster. Oh, I get it- this is a trap so you can bring home my hide and make your mothers proud. I'm sorry- it's a very good trap but I can't fall in it just yet. I have to find happiness for my master and maybe some for myself, too... I'm sorry."
...Funny little bugger, ain't she? Anyhoo, can I join them?
