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i'm gonna make this place your home ([personal profile] episodic) wrote2020-10-11 01:21 pm
vampireboulevard: (before you burn it out)

[personal profile] vampireboulevard 2020-10-16 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
I'm guessing other than being young and hot forever?

[Because, you know, obvious. But also it lightens the tone of the conversation a little bit.]

You'll be stronger and faster than you were as a human. Your senses will be stronger. I don't know. I'm not going to lie to you and say that it isn't hard. Dealing with cravings is going to take a lot to get used to. But ... being a vampire made me the best version of myself, as weird as it sounds.
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[personal profile] widenecked 2020-10-16 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
( She successfully gets him to half laugh at that. )

It's not weird. This version of you isn't bad.

( But you did try and save his life. )

Are there more of you? More vampires out there who save people?
vampireboulevard: (but if you're so smart then tell me)

[personal profile] vampireboulevard 2020-10-16 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
You make it sound like there's just the bad vampires and the good vampires, but ... it's not that simple. Vampires are just like people. They make choices just like people do.

[Everything comes in shades of gray.]

Some are better than others, some are worse. It just ... seems amplified, because that's what being a vampire does. It amplifies everything you are.

[Who knows. Ryan might become even more succinct and taciturn.]
widenecked: (bruised and beaten)

[personal profile] widenecked 2020-10-16 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
( She may not know him, but every single thing she's said has hit him. Humans that didn't raise him made choices that. brought him to the Cohens. An excuse for a human being is why Marissa was driven off the road. Humans could probably be worse than the best vampire. Than a vampire like her.

But, there is one thing that matters before he makes the choice. He's not done yet, and he will not be like the vampires that captured him and took advantage in his own home.

Caroline ends up staying with him because of PTSD he doesn't acknowledge but right then, he thinks about all the life he could live. The people he could help. Amplified.
)

What's your name?
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[personal profile] vampireboulevard 2020-10-16 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Caroline Forbes.

[She holds out her hand to him, and smiles her trademark Caroline Forbes smile.]

Nice to meet you.
widenecked: (interested)

[personal profile] widenecked 2020-10-16 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Ryan. Atwood.

( Something warms within from her smile. There's nothing he can be sure of, except, maybe, what Caroline means to do. And who she is. He can read her enough. It's not that she means well. It's that she does well. )