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原本以為自己好了
但現在又縮回龜殼裡了
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Princess Emily made up a superheroverse
Reality switches back and forth between Logic/Reason and Myths/Magic
Back in the 70s, it started swinging back towards myths/magic
And we got teams of superheroes
who used their newfound magic to protect the earth
Now, however, those original heroes have gotten really set in the idea that they're the Good Guys
so whatever they do is Good
Good™
And have been taking increasingly draconian measures to keep the peace
AND SO A NEW TEAM IS BORN
Of younger heroes who aren't quite so willing to compromise on their morals
And I am supplying this team with the Team Dad
Back in the 1500s, before the magic went to sleep entirely, there was an Eastern European folk hero.
A man who fought against the corrupt nobles and clergy that kept the peasants and commoners in suffering
With stealth and fear and clever tools
And, when that wasn't enough, with dark magic he got from a deal with the devil
Which was his undoing. When the magic finally went back to sleep, so did he
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
And also that 600 year long smear campaign had made his very name associated with evil and suffering:
Dracula
Dracula is not really like all the legends of him we have
I haven't really figured out what his actual powers are
But his role on the team is to be the Team Dad, and also the perpetual fish out of water
As he has no knowledge of the 21st Century
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A dork who no one respects most of the time because he doesn't really understand how the modern world works
But then he actually cuts loose and everyone's like "Holy shit um"
Someone scary, who uses fear as a weapon
But who is ultimately still a hero
An antihero but like
antihero still has the word "hero" in it
[enchant voice] so hey where are the hot lesbian vampires can you hook a girl up
the key point has to be like
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
but the OC Cast are the ones who will go out of their way to make sure nobody dies
Right
Drac is willing to kill people
But he's not willing to let people die
There's an important distinction there
also consider
what vlad did and how he did it, historicallu
maybe his deal with the devil power is just
he can make people be afraid of him
I think he does have some actual magics
he can just like, make people feel intense fear
But that's a strong angle
But lemme take that a step further
He can't just cause fear
What he can do is inherently know what people are afraid of
"let's see... devil, what is mehmed ii most afraid of?"
"ten thousand men impaled on pikes"
"... ok"
That's part of the smear job
He only impaled a FEW people
maybe that was like his signature thing
For people he decided to kill
leaving them impaled somewhere his enemies would find them
stake through the heart
Perfect
Dracula staked people as a method to spread fear
I think his powers are "Instinctively knows what people are afraid of" and "general shadow fuckery"
Dracula absolutely would kill the Joker, but he would never even risk bruising a civilian.
Like you can't really put specific rules on it
Sometimes shit just happens when it's dark
TO his advantage
Sometimes you shoot into the shadow you saw him in and you KNOW you should have hit him
But he's fine
Sometimes he's somewhere you don't expect
How did he get there?
Listen
Don't question it
The blood drinking thing is PURE propoganda
Never happened
you impale a dude through the heart and blood is just gonna get everywhere.
that's like, literally the heart's whole purpose.
if some gets on a dude's face
and you're so terrified you think the blood landing on his general mouth area looks like drinking it
sometimes you say some shit
There was a guy
who was scared of vampires
Drac leaned into it
The story got carried away
there we go
and that man's name was bram stoker
(Realistically probably someone in the 1400s)
Van Helsing
What if Van Helsing is one of the old generation of heroes
in some form
Maybe not the original Van Helsing but like
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
Some guy who calls himself Van Helsing
this is superhero comics based, so,
Maybe Van Helsing's great grandchild
Maybe a descendent of Jonathan Harker?
Since they actually did have a kid in the original novel- they named him Quincy after the American guy Dracula killed.
DID Dracula briefly wake up in the late 19th century?
I think it makes the most sense for Bram Stroker's book to just be a work of fiction
based on the smear campaign against Drac
yeah that scans
But I like the presence of a legendary monster hunter in the antagonist force
Who sees Dracula as like his Moby Dick
I mean we potentially have Orion he's a monster hunter of sorts
Okay
lemme run an idea past you:
orion is a nemesis to a lot of characters
Orion has a LONG history
a monster hunter for dracula
orion's entire everything for artemis
a fuckboy for enchant
of fighting monsters
And Van Helsing is one of Orion's descendants
hmmm
I kinda want to work Bad Guy Van Helsing into this but I'm not QUITE sure it makes sense
van helsing
ALSO made a deal with the devil
... or maybe an angel
to forever slay monsters
oh shit
THERE we go
Dracula knows your fear psychological weakness
Van Helsing knows your physical weakness
Thus, how he knows how to kill monsters
Oh I like this
He woke up in the 70s while Drac woke up in the 10s
so Van Helsing has a 40 year head start on him
He was like
a church inquisitor type
that's good
For the record his name IS Vlad Tepes
Dracula was like his superhero alterego name
And I think means "Dragon" in Romanian or something
Van Hesling must have some vague light powers to counteract Drac's vague dark powers
'son of the dragon', i believe
Thank you that was it
what about light constructs
a monster slayer who can make any tool or weapon he needs
sorta hard-light projections
His BIG thing is like
He has an organization
Kinda speedwagon foundation-esque
But they're just as interested in preserving the status quo as they are in actually fighting evil
Started out with the best of intentions but now they take all kinds of jobs
For like corporations or corrupt governments trying to keep people in order
All in the name of "peace"
and "order"
Vlad’s favorite things about the 21st century:
- ice cream
- non alcoholic drinks that don’t make you sick
- cell phones
does he in fact show up in mirrors
He does
He deadass is not a vampire
He was confused the first time someone brandished garlic at him
"ugh what is that SMELL"
"aha THIS IS YOUR WEAKNESS"
"uhhhhhh i mean i guess i sure don't like it, it fucking reeks"
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
Hannah do you think garlic smells bad?
garlic smells delicious tho :-(
IT DOES
garlic breath does anyway
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