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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:28 AM

SUPERHEROES

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:29 AM

Princess Emily made up a superheroverse

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:29 AM

Reality switches back and forth between Logic/Reason and Myths/Magic

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:29 AM

Back in the 70s, it started swinging back towards myths/magic

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:30 AM

And we got teams of superheroes

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:30 AM

who used their newfound magic to protect the earth

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:30 AM

Now, however, those original heroes have gotten really set in the idea that they're the Good Guys

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:30 AM

so whatever they do is Good

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:30 AM

Good™

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:31 AM

And have been taking increasingly draconian measures to keep the peace

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:31 AM

AND SO A NEW TEAM IS BORN

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:31 AM

Of younger heroes who aren't quite so willing to compromise on their morals

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:33 AM

And I am supplying this team with the Team Dad

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:34 AM

Back in the 1500s, before the magic went to sleep entirely, there was an Eastern European folk hero.

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:35 AM

A man who fought against the corrupt nobles and clergy that kept the peasants and commoners in suffering

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:35 AM

With stealth and fear and clever tools

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:35 AM

And, when that wasn't enough, with dark magic he got from a deal with the devil

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:36 AM

Which was his undoing. When the magic finally went back to sleep, so did he

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:38 AM

When he finally woke up in the mid 2010s, he found that even though almost 600 years had passed, the rich and powerful still used their influence to keep the helpless in a stranglehold

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:38 AM

And also that 600 year long smear campaign had made his very name associated with evil and suffering:

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:38 AM

Dracula

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:39 AM

Dracula is not really like all the legends of him we have

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:40 AM

I haven't really figured out what his actual powers are

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:41 AM

But his role on the team is to be the Team Dad, and also the perpetual fish out of water

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:41 AM

As he has no knowledge of the 21st Century

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:46 AM

1 part

https://images.plurk.com/1HaX6qPwglKITLRHWjt53I.png

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:46 AM

1 part

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:47 AM

1 part

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:47 AM

A dork who no one respects most of the time because he doesn't really understand how the modern world works

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:47 AM

But then he actually cuts loose and everyone's like "Holy shit um"

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:48 AM

Someone scary, who uses fear as a weapon

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:48 AM

But who is ultimately still a hero

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:48 AM

An antihero but like

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:48 AM

antihero still has the word "hero" in it

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:48 AM

[enchant voice] so hey where are the hot lesbian vampires can you hook a girl up

Princess Emily

@deerleisure

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:49 AM

the key point has to be like

Princess Emily

@deerleisure

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:50 AM

the Established Heroes are the type who will willingly bust up a city in a fight in order to make sure the Big Bad gets taken down

Princess Emily

@deerleisure

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:50 AM

but the OC Cast are the ones who will go out of their way to make sure nobody dies

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@Overbringer

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:50 AM

Right

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:50 AM

Drac is willing to kill people

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:50 AM

But he's not willing to let people die

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:50 AM

There's an important distinction there

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:51 AM

also consider

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ

@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:51 AM

what vlad did and how he did it, historicallu

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:51 AM

maybe his deal with the devil power is just

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:52 AM

he can make people be afraid of him

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@Overbringer

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:52 AM

I think he does have some actual magics

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:52 AM

he can just like, make people feel intense fear

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:52 AM

But that's a strong angle

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:53 AM

But lemme take that a step further

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:53 AM

He can't just cause fear

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:53 AM

What he can do is inherently know what people are afraid of

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:54 AM

"let's see... devil, what is mehmed ii most afraid of?"
"ten thousand men impaled on pikes"
"... ok"

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:55 AM

That's part of the smear job

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:55 AM

He only impaled a FEW people

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:56 AM

maybe that was like his signature thing

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:56 AM

For people he decided to kill

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:57 AM

leaving them impaled somewhere his enemies would find them

Princess Emily

@deerleisure

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:57 AM

stake through the heart

Princess Emily

@deerleisure

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:57 AM

:V

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:57 AM

Perfect

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 3:57 AM

Dracula staked people as a method to spread fear

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:01 AM

I think his powers are "Instinctively knows what people are afraid of" and "general shadow fuckery"

Echo

@EchoDoctor

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:01 AM

Dracula absolutely would kill the Joker, but he would never even risk bruising a civilian.

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:01 AM

Like you can't really put specific rules on it

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:01 AM

Sometimes shit just happens when it's dark

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:01 AM

TO his advantage

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:01 AM

Sometimes you shoot into the shadow you saw him in and you KNOW you should have hit him

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:01 AM

But he's fine

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:02 AM

Sometimes he's somewhere you don't expect

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:03 AM

How did he get there?

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:03 AM

Listen

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:03 AM

Don't question it

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:03 AM

The blood drinking thing is PURE propoganda

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:03 AM

Never happened

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:07 AM

listen

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:07 AM

you impale a dude through the heart and blood is just gonna get everywhere.

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:07 AM

that's like, literally the heart's whole purpose.

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:07 AM

if some gets on a dude's face

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:07 AM

and you're so terrified you think the blood landing on his general mouth area looks like drinking it

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:07 AM

sometimes you say some shit

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:08 AM

There was a guy

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:08 AM

who was scared of vampires

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:08 AM

Drac leaned into it

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:08 AM

The story got carried away

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:08 AM

there we go

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:08 AM

and that man's name was bram stoker

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:13 AM

(Realistically probably someone in the 1400s)

Princess Emily

@deerleisure

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:17 AM

Van Helsing

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:18 AM

What if Van Helsing is one of the old generation of heroes

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:18 AM

in some form

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:19 AM

Maybe not the original Van Helsing but like

Princess Emily

@deerleisure

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:20 AM

I don't think sleeping and coming back with the magic cycle is normal for most people-people outside of certain mythological sorts or Dracula-ish immortals (wait is he immortal) but also

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:20 AM

Some guy who calls himself Van Helsing

Princess Emily

@deerleisure

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:20 AM

this is superhero comics based, so,

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:20 AM

Maybe Van Helsing's great grandchild

Echo

@EchoDoctor

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:21 AM

Maybe a descendent of Jonathan Harker?

Echo

@EchoDoctor

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:22 AM

Since they actually did have a kid in the original novel- they named him Quincy after the American guy Dracula killed.

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:23 AM

DID Dracula briefly wake up in the late 19th century?

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:24 AM

I think it makes the most sense for Bram Stroker's book to just be a work of fiction

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:25 AM

based on the smear campaign against Drac

Princess Emily

@deerleisure

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:25 AM

yeah that scans

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:25 AM

But I like the presence of a legendary monster hunter in the antagonist force

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:25 AM

Who sees Dracula as like his Moby Dick

Princess Emily

@deerleisure

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:25 AM

~~I mean we potentially have Orion he's a monster hunter of sorts~~

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:26 AM

Okay

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:26 AM

lemme run an idea past you:

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:26 AM

orion is a nemesis to a lot of characters

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:26 AM

Orion has a LONG history

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:26 AM

a monster hunter for dracula
orion's entire everything for artemis
a fuckboy for enchant

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:26 AM

of fighting monsters

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:27 AM

And Van Helsing is one of Orion's descendants

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:27 AM

hmmm

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:27 AM

I kinda want to work Bad Guy Van Helsing into this but I'm not QUITE sure it makes sense

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:29 AM

van helsing

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:29 AM

ALSO made a deal with the devil

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:30 AM

... or maybe an angel

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:30 AM

to forever slay monsters

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:33 AM

oh shit

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:33 AM

THERE we go

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:34 AM

Dracula knows your ~~fear~~ psychological weakness

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:34 AM

Van Helsing knows your physical weakness

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:34 AM

Thus, how he knows how to kill monsters

NekoInc, MSPM

@NekoIncardine

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:36 AM

Oh I like this

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:37 AM

He woke up in the 70s while Drac woke up in the 10s

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:37 AM

so Van Helsing has a 40 year head start on him

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:37 AM

He was like

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:37 AM

a church inquisitor type

Princess Emily

@deerleisure

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:38 AM

that's good

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:56 AM

For the record his name IS Vlad Tepes

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:56 AM

Dracula was like his superhero alterego name

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 4:57 AM

And I think means "Dragon" in Romanian or something

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:01 AM

Van Hesling must have some vague light powers to counteract Drac's vague dark powers

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:01 AM

'son of the dragon', i believe

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:02 AM

Thank you that was it

Princess Emily

@deerleisure

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:02 AM

what about light constructs

Princess Emily

@deerleisure

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:02 AM

a monster slayer who can make any tool or weapon he needs

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:07 AM

sorta hard-light projections

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:07 AM

His BIG thing is like

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:07 AM

He has an organization

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:07 AM

Kinda speedwagon foundation-esque

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:08 AM

But they're just as interested in preserving the status quo as they are in actually fighting evil

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:08 AM

Started out with the best of intentions but now they take all kinds of jobs

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:09 AM

For like corporations or corrupt governments trying to keep people in order

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:09 AM

All in the name of "peace"

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:11 AM

and "order"

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:26 AM

Vlad’s favorite things about the 21st century:

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:26 AM

- ice cream

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:26 AM

- non alcoholic drinks that don’t make you sick

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:27 AM

- cell phones

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:28 AM

does he in fact show up in mirrors

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:28 AM

He does

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:28 AM

He deadass is not a vampire

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Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:29 AM

He was confused the first time someone brandished garlic at him

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:30 AM

"ugh what is that SMELL"
"aha THIS IS YOUR WEAKNESS"
"uhhhhhh i mean i guess i sure don't like it, it fucking reeks"

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@lastbastion

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:31 AM

and then someone introduces him to garlic bread and he has to take a full fucking week for his emotional crisis of how can something smell so awful and yet taste so good

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@Overbringer

Wed, Apr 7, 2021 5:32 AM

Hannah do you think garlic smells bad?