Fluffcheep is the MIGHTIEST WARRIOR. I'm so proud! :sniffle: I... There's some residual badassery in my eye.
as a sadness break, please watch this video of a baby cotton ball. i am definitely enjoying the idea of fluffdad never getting any bigger than a pomeranian, and bel shows up to important meetings with this dainty little purse-pet puffball lusus and sits there totally straight-faced while people start making fun of him. and then fluffdad pokes his head out of the purse all like WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY ABOUT MY BEAUTIFUL SON, after which all hell breaks loose.
... Don't suppose Bel checked the premises for incapacitated bite-addicts before torching the place? Since that was the ostensible reason he flipped to murder-mode in the first place... well, probably less that and more being pissed about the Erskin situation, just the possibility of other victims flipped things from "Murder is Self-Indulgent and Unnecessary" to "Murder is TOTALLY JUSTIFIABLE," and of course green-torso-flailing is fun for the whole family. Once he comes down from the adrenaline buzz he might wanna check their personal hives for survivors, though. Hmmm, also, depending on how many addicts Bel just cut off from their suppliers, Aurora and other more discerning consumers like her stand to benefit from a nice influx of pre-tenderized juiceboxes. Though if I were a drinker I'd worry about Bel's footage inspiring copy-cats if it goes viral. ... 400 sweeps is old and canny enough to know that thinking things like "I'm too old and canny to get offed by such yolk-damp wrigglers" is the sort of thinking that gets even old, canny drinkers dead, right? ... though I'm sure this sort of thing has happened before. Bunch of young, stupid drinkers who think they're too old and canny to have to watch their own asses get mass-murdered by vengeful quad-mates, probably happens at least once a generation. ... end ramble.
A scribbly doodle of Immediately Before Hell Breaks Loose: Spoiler: HERD U WERE TALKIN SHIT I couldn't resist
yeah this is exactly why aurora was like 'most young idiots die young and idiotically'. the bloodsuckers that survive their first century don't do so by playing at monstrous royalty, they survive because they're practical, quiet, easy-going nerds who are perfectly happy to spend twenty sweeps alone in a forest watching ferns grow or whatever. i think aurora spends most of her time patiently constructing enormous goldsworthies up in the seasons-long arctic / antarctic days, with a few breaks here and there for 'take-out'. she'll probably make it to a thousand or so before some storm tears her apart, not a pissed-off vampire hunter. other similarly aged rainbowdrinkers probably do bonsai or manipulate the courses of rivers and shorelines or organize intricate quests or build exquisite hiking trails or decide to level a mountain with a shovel. in a roundabout way i wanted erskin to be right— rainbowdrinkers can be cool, mature, pleasant-natured dudes. it's just that it's the mellow old ones, not the freshly minted kids still blasting around with delusions of grandeur.
this is exactly a reference to those heinrich the vampire dad posts. i am pretty sure there is a troll heinrich out there, and he is definitely a dad.
yeah, bel tossed the place thoroughly, including opening every locked door and sledgehammering suspicious walls. he also looted it, and has a big stock of the dead vamps' sylladex cards to go through. he won't know where their personal hives are until he goes through those, though. he didn't stop to ask their addresses. anyhow, there are probably some dazed kids wandering around all drugged up and partially exsanguinated, and a nice guy would call them a cab or something, but despite being a knight to the bone bel is a troll, and trolls are dicks. :P
they probably all get briskly mugged by an enterprising passerby while bel eats his lizard barbeque and observes the proceedings. later they go home to their various quadrantmates and sulk.
Is it strange that I am really looking forwards to Pancho getting her hands on Bel? I love Pancho, and I feel like both her and Bel really need some intense jams and to figure out a lot about their life (and come to terms with what they've decided and not actually really processed).
Spoiler: from the RP Battle fatigue? I know Bel's in top physical condition and also a troll, but even small massacres take a lot of time and energy, and in my admittedly small experience, even play combat eats spoons like goddamn nothing else. Bel has had a big day. Even if he can't sleep, at some point the adrenaline drop's gonna hit and I would super not suggest he attempt driving between now and some combo of good rest and massive calorie intake. ... Unfortunately, I would also not put it past Bel to be like, "Pffff whatever, I'm FINE, gimme the keys. I am an unstoppable killing-and-piloting-fliers machine." ... mitigating factor, autopilot is a thing, but so is that brain-stage when you can't let anything drop and you start thinking things like, "Wow I am way too keyed up and bored to trust the autopilot, I am so very awake and lucid right now it's kind of amazing gosh THIS IS A GREAT IDEA." Which might not at all be the case with Bel right now, but at the same time my inner mother hen is starting to make noises like "GODDAMN IT BEL LIE THE FUCK DOWN." Does he still have a response from Poncho incoming? Either way I think he might need it.
also i doodled some kids and here they are i don't know how much this looks like jethro WHOOPS their horns are different from bel and pancho's because i say so
