( Quentin watches him attempt to eat the pizza and fall into the classic trap everyone does of dripping cheese. He isn't much better at it despite all his experience, so it's just one of those things, and he smiles, pleased that Godric seems to like it enough to eat. He has a certain glow about him, when he feels like he did a good thing for someone.
His eyes widen at the offer though and he almost blurts out yes we accept immediately because he knows how desperate they both are to get outside of the safehouse. Quentin's having an easier time adjusting to it, but Eliot's really gotten used to more independence. Still. )
I know we'd both be ... super happy and grateful if that were the case, but are you sure? I mean, we're super nice and respectful people who would try and be awesome roommates, but it's your space.
His eyes widen at the offer though and he almost blurts out yes we accept immediately because he knows how desperate they both are to get outside of the safehouse. Quentin's having an easier time adjusting to it, but Eliot's really gotten used to more independence. Still. )
I know we'd both be ... super happy and grateful if that were the case, but are you sure? I mean, we're super nice and respectful people who would try and be awesome roommates, but it's your space.
[After they all wake up!]
Hi Godric. Eliot I think is gone so I'm going to go to the Red Wings safehouse for a little while because it sucks being without him. Thanks for letting us stay, you're the best, I hope I'll see you at RW. I'll get you a drink if you do. <3
Hi Godric. Eliot I think is gone so I'm going to go to the Red Wings safehouse for a little while because it sucks being without him. Thanks for letting us stay, you're the best, I hope I'll see you at RW. I'll get you a drink if you do. <3
Very well.
Is there anything you need from me?
( bereavement is never easy, especially when the parting is done in such uncertain times. he is no doubt maintaining a stiff upper lip, but — it costs him nothing to offer. )
Is there anything you need from me?
( bereavement is never easy, especially when the parting is done in such uncertain times. he is no doubt maintaining a stiff upper lip, but — it costs him nothing to offer. )
No. I guess just reassurance you get I'm not doing it to be a jerk? I don't mean to disappear or anything, you're my friend, it's just been a lot.
@quentin.coldwater (hope you don't mind! can ignore if so)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filloryfanatic
2020-07-21 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey. Checking in on you, are you okay?
Mr. Coldwater.
I am as I ever am, which is to say I lack for nothing. What of yourself?
I am as I ever am, which is to say I lack for nothing. What of yourself?
It's just Quentin, Godric, or Q. I'm doing better than I was. I'm sorry I ghosted. I was in a dark place, I didn't really want to put that on anyone. But I miss you.
Edited 2020-07-23 16:13 (UTC)
It's nothing for which you need apologize. I once went a hundred years without speaking to a man dearer to me than my own life. Truthfully, I would not have noticed if you hadn't said as such.
( his concept of time is. skewed. )
You are always welcome at the apartment, should you have a desire to spend time together.
( his concept of time is. skewed. )
You are always welcome at the apartment, should you have a desire to spend time together.
Why'd you go so long without talking to him?
It was a complicated matter, but I will do my best to answer satisfactorily.
Towards the end of my life I began to express... compassion for humanity, which was at odds with how I had existed for nearly two millennia. I believe Eric felt betrayed by this shift in my ideologies, as I was the one who had taught him everything he knew of being vampire. I had instilled in him the concept that there was no such thing as good or evil, only survival or death. That our survival came at the expense of so many hundreds of humans did not trouble me then, but it began to in perhaps the early eighteen hundreds. By the nineteen hundreds, I had tired entirely of the predatory brutality perpetuated by my people against humanity.
At no point did we agree not to speak for a set duration. It was merely a matter of being on different paths. As I was perhaps the fifth oldest vampire in existence at that time and as such wielded a certain amount of power within the political hierarchy of our kind, I became a governor of a vampire territory in Texas and recognized that even our prodigious powers would not protect us against the advancing technologies of humanity. Being revealed was inevitable, and I knew then we would have to control the narrative surrounding this revelation or risk extinction. We are strong, yes, but our vulnerabilities have been known to humanity since time immemorial. As such, I began working with others towards a political end to reveal the existence of vampires, a motion that came to fruition in 2009.
Eric's own influence followed a parallel line, presiding over a significant part of Louisiana state. Being both my progeny and himself over a millennia, he was afforded certain privileges and had earned the respect of many among our kind. We may have reconciled earlier if not for these responsibilities heavy on us both.
However, when he thought me in danger he was at my side as quickly as constraints would allow. There is no lack of love between us. When you are immortal, you always expect that you have more time to accomplish what you wish to. It is not always true.
Towards the end of my life I began to express... compassion for humanity, which was at odds with how I had existed for nearly two millennia. I believe Eric felt betrayed by this shift in my ideologies, as I was the one who had taught him everything he knew of being vampire. I had instilled in him the concept that there was no such thing as good or evil, only survival or death. That our survival came at the expense of so many hundreds of humans did not trouble me then, but it began to in perhaps the early eighteen hundreds. By the nineteen hundreds, I had tired entirely of the predatory brutality perpetuated by my people against humanity.
At no point did we agree not to speak for a set duration. It was merely a matter of being on different paths. As I was perhaps the fifth oldest vampire in existence at that time and as such wielded a certain amount of power within the political hierarchy of our kind, I became a governor of a vampire territory in Texas and recognized that even our prodigious powers would not protect us against the advancing technologies of humanity. Being revealed was inevitable, and I knew then we would have to control the narrative surrounding this revelation or risk extinction. We are strong, yes, but our vulnerabilities have been known to humanity since time immemorial. As such, I began working with others towards a political end to reveal the existence of vampires, a motion that came to fruition in 2009.
Eric's own influence followed a parallel line, presiding over a significant part of Louisiana state. Being both my progeny and himself over a millennia, he was afforded certain privileges and had earned the respect of many among our kind. We may have reconciled earlier if not for these responsibilities heavy on us both.
However, when he thought me in danger he was at my side as quickly as constraints would allow. There is no lack of love between us. When you are immortal, you always expect that you have more time to accomplish what you wish to. It is not always true.
[Whoa he did not expect this, but he reads it all fascinated anyway. It's still so hard to imagine centuries, even as someone who has lived out a long life in another timeline. It's still not a thousand years.]
Vampires went public in your world. How did that go over? Humans aren't super well known for making it easy to be different.
Vampires went public in your world. How did that go over? Humans aren't super well known for making it easy to be different.
Some were horrified. Some sought out means to kill us, and many succeeded. Others came to us in droves to offer themselves. Wealthy people with fatal diseases would often ply us with gifts in the hopes we would turn them. Many religions and their respective churches took up against us. I myself was a guest of one of them for some time.
Yeah that sounds about what I'd expect. We have vampires in my world but they're very quiet and secretive, as are most supernatural beings. Do you think you made the right choice? It did put a big bulls-eye on your back.
I think we made the inevitable choice. We were able to paint vampirism as a tragic condition, more a disease inflicted upon the unwary and unwilling than an evolutionary happenstance. Controlling the narrative afforded us more sympathizers than our existence being revealed after a massacre would have, most certainly.
I do not regret how it came about. I only perhaps regret not doing it sooner.
I do not regret how it came about. I only perhaps regret not doing it sooner.
What timeline was it in? Because probably doing it later when there was a lot of TV, pop culture, social media, etc., was probably wise. It's easier to push out that narrative when you have technology on your side. I've often thought if we went public, all the supernatural stuff, we could get famous real fast.
Do you see vampirism as a tragic condition? Or was that just the company line?
Do you see vampirism as a tragic condition? Or was that just the company line?
2006. Right at the height of Stephanie Meyer's popularity for those Twilight novels of hers. Believe me, it did help pave the way.
The way I view vampirism has changed a great deal over the years. I have seen it as many things — gift and curse both. Now I am... undecided. I think it is perhaps best described by what you make of it yourself.
The way I view vampirism has changed a great deal over the years. I have seen it as many things — gift and curse both. Now I am... undecided. I think it is perhaps best described by what you make of it yourself.
[during the invasion:]
Do you know a bat that communicates with lights?
Do you know a bat that communicates with lights?
I'm sorry, I'm unfamiliar with such a creature.
( he does consider, briefly, writing this off as a wrong number or something similarly coincidental, but. hadn't one of the displaced spoke on the network about people being transformed by the monsters?
there is a pause, and then his next message comes: )
One individual I know uses light powers, but he is human, generally. I assume he managed to convey my name to you?
( he does consider, briefly, writing this off as a wrong number or something similarly coincidental, but. hadn't one of the displaced spoke on the network about people being transformed by the monsters?
there is a pause, and then his next message comes: )
One individual I know uses light powers, but he is human, generally. I assume he managed to convey my name to you?
They conveyed 'godric' and you're the first I've found. I'm afraid there was no second name involved, but I think they may be tiring as they initially only communicated 'god.'
Alternately he worships a deity named ric and the god has some altar that he wants to be guided to.
Alternately he worships a deity named ric and the god has some altar that he wants to be guided to.
There is very little here to do with religion, among the natives or Displaced. I am the creature's likely intent of conveyance.
Where are you now? I will come to you.
Where are you now? I will come to you.
Page 11 of 11