( damon doesn't really do cuddlr anymore, because he's got elena and he doesn't really care about anything else — but this guy is apparently 273 years old and is king of the vampires. so yes, he'll swipe right, why not. )
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Well, aren't you forward. The biting's actually more of a figure of speech, it means taking someone out for a meal.
It's also my funny way of subtly saying I'm a vampire, let me gnaw on your veins, but you don't seem so concerned with the subtlty.
And you're not worried about what the humans might think? Don't you have hunters wherever you're from?
( this isn't concern for rafa, of course, or even damon himself — anything that brings attention to the vampire population puts elena one step closer to being discovered, and damon may think she's going about this all wrong, but he doesn't want her hurt. )
Salvatore's Italian, yeah. I was born and raised in America, but my father was from Arezzo. E tu? Il tuo nome suona anche italiano.
i am not worried about hunters here. violence is not solely forbidden for us at home things are different but to be clear, i would not fear them. i've dealt with worse than frightened humans before
[ Try an army of faeries whose magic is literally poisonous to him, or a court of vampires that he'd made his own by force. The humans are the least of his concerns.
Besides which. He enjoys humans. They taste good. ]
io sono siciliano mio padre era da messina, ma se n'è andato ora. E ho cercato altri lidi
[ In fact, this will be entirely written in Italian from here. ]
such as this place, for example. the americas are no more than colonies where i am from is that where you have gone? already i have met many here who hail from there
We've all dealt with worse. Doesn't mean frightened humans aren't the most persistently annoying threats we face. At least you can kill other vampires without everyone yelling at you about how "innocent" and "important" they are.
( not that... damon has annoyances built about about that... or anything.....
from this point on, everything damon's writing will be in italian. )
Then you're from the 1600s, 1700s? The American colonies become their own country and take over a good part of North America over the next 200 years. I'm from 2011, and there are 50 states now. We're kind of a big deal.
[ Oh, Rafa likes this one. Clearly, he has some experience with the hypocrisy of humanity. That's welcome. ]
humans are sensitive about death. presumably it is because they are dying
i have little sympathy. but tell me! you pay attention to mortal government that's interesting. i do that only insofar as we must deal with them we are not part of them
tell me about vampires in this america. are humans truly the most irritating threat for you? do the fae trouble you?
Humans are sensitive about a lot of things. "Don't torture people trying to kill you, that's mean!" Well maybe if they hadn't tried to kill me I wouldn't have to torture them.
( can it be... a like-minded vampire? someone who doesn't brood or try to deny his nature? be still damon's slowly beating heart. )
I paid attention more when I was human, I was young when our country was barely 100 years old. We had a civil war that I fought in for a little while, but I disagreed with the principles of my side.
Fae? We don't have any of those. We have werewolves, which can kill us, and the Original vampire family, which are really only an annoyance to my group at the moment. Witches are little shits all the time, but that's not new. What are you dealing with?
you have forgotten that it is always our fault, not theirs. we should not kill them, we should spare them we should be kind, we should not hurt them
when they spare the prey they like to eat? i will consider it
[ But hey, wait a second. Werewolves can kill them? That's new. That's definitely new, and surprising. ]
we are at war with the fae. faeries, who seek purchase on earth. they want to play with our humans we prefer not to share.
witches can be a problem. their magic can be a problem, because it burns as easily as does faerie magic. but they are allies against the fae, so for now, we have a peace
werewolves are safe. a pack of them is working for my coven
the...original family. you mean that? you know who the first vampires were in your world?
Oh, I like you. You should meet my girlfriend and tell her all this. She's new, and disgustingly human about everything. She doesn't even feed properly
Well, we definitely don't have those. We've got just about everything else, but so far, no faeries.
Magic burns you? How does that work?
( you're blowing damon's mind right now, rafa. peaceful werewolves, burny magic, faeries? what kind of weird world do you live in? )
Where I'm from vampires were made by magic. A witch wanted to protect her children, so she made them into the first vampires. When she realized what she'd done, she decided that was a terrible idea, and spent the next thousand years trying to kill all of them. Werewolves are our natural enemies.
Except Original brother number... three? He's a hybrid.
Yeah, I know them. The hybrid's here, actually, or he was a couple months ago. I don't keep tabs on him.
[ A girlfriend - another vampire, who has not accepted what she is? That will never do. ]
has she drunk human blood at all? i will tell her. they all come around in time
[ Most of them, anyway. Rafa has known a few exceptions, but none who have lived for very long. He'll not say that to Damon.
The rest makes him hesitate. ]
i do not know how, only that it does it always has. all magic is anathema to our kind. as strong as crosses stronger than garlic
the fae dislike us for that. for existing and for feeding from the humans they want, and so we are at war, and have been for as long as i have been alive in any case
werewolves have little to do with it. but we have hybrids too, now i made them myself. i did not think they existed outside our coven
[ He's glad that they do, though. It means what he's done is stable, that Hunter and the others will survive and grow strong. That's a relief. ]
how was it done in your world, if you are natural enemies?
She has.She's only a year old, so she still has all these stupidly human ideas about how wrong it is. She thinks it's wrong to treat humans as meals rather than people.
( it's... exhausting. and trying to get her to work through her issues is even more exhausting. it's not like they even have to drink from the vein here, elena just likes to make herself feel like shit for stupid reasons. )
Crosses and garlic work on you?
So you can't use magic to protect yourself from the sun?
( that sounds... awful, to damon. and dangerous — any human who knows anything about vampires knows they can't come out in the sun. actually being unable to craft a daylight ring would leave them all vulnerable. )
These fae sound like assholes.
The Original hybrid, Klaus, was a werewolf first. When he made his first kill as a vampire, his werewolf gene triggered and he turned. As a hybrid he was too strong, so his mother did a spell to divide his nature and keep his werewolf side from manifesting. Fast forward a thousand years, he kills my girlfriend to undo the spell, then uses her blood to turn more werewolves into hybrids.
How'd you do it?
( hopefully not by killing an innocent human girl just trying to protect her loved ones. damon... might not like that too much. )
i have not seen the sun in many years you can do that, then? walk in the sun with the help of magic the magic alone would burn me up, before the sun would get the chance
[ The thought is just strange to Rafa. He's very used to walking in the night. He'd lived a near-nocturnal existence even when he was human, given that he was raised by vampires. The idea of walking in it is incredible to him. He can't picture it.
As for the fae, he doesn't contradict Damon; clearly, he has told the story properly. It's clear to him already that magic is far more involved with Damon's kind than his. But in the case of hybrids, it actually did have a role. ]
by experimenting when i tried to turn one of them, they healed too quickly for my blood to take root it cleared it away like an infection
so i got a witch to help, and use magic to suppress the wolf then i turned their human side, and when the witch let go, it was too late for the wolf to heal it away and so the hybrid was born. they are different from us they can still transform. and their vampire side can cope better with magic, and with sunlight and they are stronger. faster. the greatest creatures i have ever turned and now the pack are allies of my coven.
[ He's proud of them. But more than that, the wolves are his friends. He'd turned them because of that, so that they would be immortal, for though they had been long-lived as werewolves, they were mortal creatures still. Now they are something much more, and Rafa need not lose any of them. ]
no sacrifice was needed it sounds more complicated where you are from
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Those eyes would've had him just by themselves, though. ]
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hello
is the biting a promise? i would enjoy that.
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Well, aren't you forward. The biting's actually more of a figure of speech, it means taking someone out for a meal.
It's also my funny way of subtly saying I'm a vampire, let me gnaw on your veins, but you don't seem so concerned with the subtlty.
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(Those eyes are worth it.) ]
i was told there were other vampires here
i think i will not find them with subtlety. our kind are far too good at hiding
salvatore is an italian name, yes? is that where you are from?
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( this isn't concern for rafa, of course, or even damon himself — anything that brings attention to the vampire population puts elena one step closer to being discovered, and damon may think she's going about this all wrong, but he doesn't want her hurt. )
Salvatore's Italian, yeah. I was born and raised in America, but my father was from Arezzo. E tu? Il tuo nome suona anche italiano.
( your name sounds italian too. )
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at home things are different
but to be clear, i would not fear them. i've dealt with worse than frightened humans before
[ Try an army of faeries whose magic is literally poisonous to him, or a court of vampires that he'd made his own by force. The humans are the least of his concerns.
Besides which. He enjoys humans. They taste good. ]
io sono siciliano
mio padre era da messina, ma se n'è andato ora. E ho cercato altri lidi
[ In fact, this will be entirely written in Italian from here. ]
such as this place, for example. the americas are no more than colonies where i am from
is that where you have gone? already i have met many here who hail from there
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( not that... damon has annoyances built about about that... or anything.....
from this point on, everything damon's writing will be in italian. )
Then you're from the 1600s, 1700s? The American colonies become their own country and take over a good part of North America over the next 200 years. I'm from 2011, and there are 50 states now. We're kind of a big deal.
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humans are sensitive about death. presumably it is because they are dying
i have little sympathy. but tell me! you pay attention to mortal government
that's interesting. i do that only insofar as we must deal with them
we are not part of them
tell me about vampires in this america. are humans truly the most irritating threat for you? do the fae trouble you?
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( can it be... a like-minded vampire? someone who doesn't brood or try to deny his nature? be still damon's slowly beating heart. )
I paid attention more when I was human, I was young when our country was barely 100 years old. We had a civil war that I fought in for a little while, but I disagreed with the principles of my side.
Fae? We don't have any of those. We have werewolves, which can kill us, and the Original vampire family, which are really only an annoyance to my group at the moment. Witches are little shits all the time, but that's not new. What are you dealing with?
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we should be kind, we should not hurt them
when they spare the prey they like to eat? i will consider it
[ But hey, wait a second. Werewolves can kill them? That's new. That's definitely new, and surprising. ]
we are at war with the fae. faeries, who seek purchase on earth. they want to play with our humans
we prefer not to share.
witches can be a problem. their magic can be a problem, because it burns as easily as does faerie magic. but they are allies against the fae, so for now, we have a peace
werewolves are safe. a pack of them is working for my coven
the...original family. you mean that? you know who the first vampires were in your world?
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Well, we definitely don't have those. We've got just about everything else, but so far, no faeries.
Magic burns you? How does that work?
( you're blowing damon's mind right now, rafa. peaceful werewolves, burny magic, faeries? what kind of weird world do you live in? )
Where I'm from vampires were made by magic. A witch wanted to protect her children, so she made them into the first vampires. When she realized what she'd done, she decided that was a terrible idea, and spent the next thousand years trying to kill all of them. Werewolves are our natural enemies.
Except Original brother number... three? He's a hybrid.
Yeah, I know them. The hybrid's here, actually, or he was a couple months ago. I don't keep tabs on him.
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has she drunk human blood at all? i will tell her. they all come around in time
[ Most of them, anyway. Rafa has known a few exceptions, but none who have lived for very long. He'll not say that to Damon.
The rest makes him hesitate. ]
i do not know how, only that it does
it always has. all magic is anathema to our kind. as strong as crosses
stronger than garlic
the fae dislike us for that. for existing
and for feeding from the humans they want, and so we are at war, and have been for as long as i have been alive in any case
werewolves have little to do with it. but we have hybrids too, now
i made them myself. i did not think they existed outside our coven
[ He's glad that they do, though. It means what he's done is stable, that Hunter and the others will survive and grow strong. That's a relief. ]
how was it done in your world, if you are natural enemies?
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( it's... exhausting. and trying to get her to work through her issues is even more exhausting. it's not like they even have to drink from the vein here, elena just likes to make herself feel like shit for stupid reasons. )
Crosses and garlic work on you?
So you can't use magic to protect yourself from the sun?
( that sounds... awful, to damon. and dangerous — any human who knows anything about vampires knows they can't come out in the sun. actually being unable to craft a daylight ring would leave them all vulnerable. )
These fae sound like assholes.
The Original hybrid, Klaus, was a werewolf first. When he made his first kill as a vampire, his werewolf gene triggered and he turned. As a hybrid he was too strong, so his mother did a spell to divide his nature and keep his werewolf side from manifesting. Fast forward a thousand years, he kills my girlfriend to undo the spell, then uses her blood to turn more werewolves into hybrids.
How'd you do it?
( hopefully not by killing an innocent human girl just trying to protect her loved ones. damon... might not like that too much. )
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you can do that, then? walk in the sun with the help of magic
the magic alone would burn me up, before the sun would get the chance
[ The thought is just strange to Rafa. He's very used to walking in the night. He'd lived a near-nocturnal existence even when he was human, given that he was raised by vampires. The idea of walking in it is incredible to him. He can't picture it.
As for the fae, he doesn't contradict Damon; clearly, he has told the story properly. It's clear to him already that magic is far more involved with Damon's kind than his. But in the case of hybrids, it actually did have a role. ]
by experimenting
when i tried to turn one of them, they healed too quickly for my blood to take root
it cleared it away like an infection
so i got a witch to help, and use magic to suppress the wolf
then i turned their human side, and when the witch let go, it was too late for the wolf to heal it away
and so the hybrid was born. they are different from us
they can still transform. and their vampire side can cope better with magic, and with sunlight
and they are stronger. faster. the greatest creatures i have ever turned
and now the pack are allies of my coven.
[ He's proud of them. But more than that, the wolves are his friends. He'd turned them because of that, so that they would be immortal, for though they had been long-lived as werewolves, they were mortal creatures still. Now they are something much more, and Rafa need not lose any of them. ]
no sacrifice was needed
it sounds more complicated where you are from