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stardust_rifleI can remember reading some Vampire AU for some like...shitty gatcha mobile game and it was dumb and melodramatic and the writer didn't seem to have a very good grasp on like...rules of grammar but there was always one scene that stuck with me.
So, some context. This verse's vampires can regenerate from pretty much anything, even having their head cut off, but if they regenerate their head, they lose all their memories because they have to grow fresh neurons.
The story starts with the protagonist waking up next to the dead body of some guy he doesn't know and his own severed head. As the story goes on, he learns that he used to be the servant of some really evil vampire, the guy he didn't know was actually the human love of his life, who the really evil vampire tricked him into killing.
As the story progresses, he falls in love with this other dude, and together, they defeat the really evil vampire's mate (who wants to avenge their husband's death) and the romance is melodramatic as fuck, but it's still cute...
And then, when the vampire protagonist activates his "super mode" (basically in this universe vampires can tap into insane levels of power/bloodlust if they eat the flesh of a virgin) in order to defeat the evil vampire's mate...
but he loses control of himself and kills his human boyfriend. The final chapter ends with him staring down at his boyfriend's dead body.
And he rips his head off. And at the end of the chapter, he wakes up right where he started- in the middle of nowhere, lying down next to the body of a man he doesn't recognize and his own severed head.
And just like at the start of the story, he just walks away.
So, some context. This verse's vampires can regenerate from pretty much anything, even having their head cut off, but if they regenerate their head, they lose all their memories because they have to grow fresh neurons.
The story starts with the protagonist waking up next to the dead body of some guy he doesn't know and his own severed head. As the story goes on, he learns that he used to be the servant of some really evil vampire, the guy he didn't know was actually the human love of his life, who the really evil vampire tricked him into killing.
As the story progresses, he falls in love with this other dude, and together, they defeat the really evil vampire's mate (who wants to avenge their husband's death) and the romance is melodramatic as fuck, but it's still cute...
And then, when the vampire protagonist activates his "super mode" (basically in this universe vampires can tap into insane levels of power/bloodlust if they eat the flesh of a virgin) in order to defeat the evil vampire's mate...
but he loses control of himself and kills his human boyfriend. The final chapter ends with him staring down at his boyfriend's dead body.
And he rips his head off. And at the end of the chapter, he wakes up right where he started- in the middle of nowhere, lying down next to the body of a man he doesn't recognize and his own severed head.
And just like at the start of the story, he just walks away.
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Date: 2020-11-19 06:48 pm (UTC)He wasn’t sure of which direction to go, and he’d forgotten both where he was traveling to…and who he was. He remembered absolutely nothing. He suddenly looked up to see an elderly woman before him. She grinned toothlessly and with a cackle, spoke: “Now your third wish. What will it be?”
“Third wish?” The man was baffled. “How can it be a third wish if I haven’t had a first and second wish?”
“You’ve had two wishes already,” the hag said, “but your second wish was for you to forget everything you know.” She cackled at the poor man. “So it is that you have one wish left.”
“All right,” he said hesitantly, “I don’t believe this, but there’s no harm in trying. I wish to know who I truly am.”
“Funny,” said the old woman as she granted his wish and disappeared forever. “That was your first wish…
—Planescape Torment