LITTLE LIES.

Kindness is often mistaken for softness and let me tell you, friends…that is a mistake you don’t want to make. Kind people are not born that way, they do not stumble into it, kind people are forged in fire and darkness and imploding stars…they have steel cores. Throw a punch and you’re going to break your hand. sydney sage, for wearelondonhq.

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JACK.

     it was exciting to have access to an endless amount of entertainment at his fingertips, but it was also a bit overwhelming. the options were seemingly limitless, and the mention of programs being recorded definitely caught jack’s attention. he pressed the menu button and watched with amazement as it pulled up a screen he’d never seen before. “ whooooa. so i can pick anything i want to watch ? “ he was too fascinated with the device to notice if the girl beside him was looking at him curiously, but it wouldn’t have surprised him if she was. he had no idea how he ended up where he was, but it was a far more exciting city now than it had been a century earlier. “ uh  …  no. “ jack had never been the best liar, so it didn’t take long for him to give a defeated sigh and shrug defensively. “ okay, fine. maybe i have. but i’m not really that interested in leaving our flat when everything out there confuses the hell outta me. “

     sydney couldn’t help but smile as the fascination swept over his face. perhaps others might find it irksome to explain so many parts of the world, parts they’d been used to their whole lives, but if she was being honest with herself sydney found the whole thing rather fascinating.  “  anything at all.  ”  she thought about launching into a tirade explanation how streaming services had altered things a bit, but recognized that the amusement gracing jack’s features could quickly shift into something a bit more fear-based as the sheer amount of information sydney could provide on, well, most subjects. readjusting your entire worldview took a lot of effort and patience - not that she knew what that was like firsthand. still, it all felt a bit familiar in a way sydney couldn’t quite place . . . it was no matter, she reassured herself with another swig of her latte. she’d focus on mysteries and problems she could solve for the time being, such as jack’s obvious lie. she only has to raise an eyebrow before jack is admitting the truth, but getting the real answer doesn’t seem to make her feel any better about the subject.  “ i understand that, ”  sydney conceded to jack’s admission, a bit more warmth gracing her features,  “ and i’m not saying you need to go explore the entire city on your own. but even a few minutes on the porch every day will help things feel a little less confusing, if you feel like you’re up for it. ”

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JACK​.

closed for @astrcncmical​ !

     it had been another one of those weird days where jack woke up feeling completely out of place with the world, so he wasn’t particularly keen on going anywhere or doing anything. instead, he stayed in his pajamas, his hair an untamed mess as he sat on the couch and attempted to flip through channels. 1912 was a helluva long time ago, and he had certainly never seen a device like this before he wound up back in london. thankfully, his roommate seemed much more up-to-date with technology than he was, so he relied on her almost completely to explain the very basics. “ syd ? what does this button mean ? “ he asked, pointing to the MENU button. “ does this thing serve food ? “

     sydney’s day hadn’t been all that long or difficult, in that it was equally long and difficult as the days that had preceded it, and likely the days that followed it, too. a full load of classes, a research assistant position, and a part time job made for a full schedule, but it was what sydney had signed up for when she took off for college. what she hadn’t expected was to be sharing an apartment with a guy who had no concept of modern technology  -  or modern anything, it seemed sometimes. still, jack was kind, and she never minded being patient with him while she explained things. “ not yet, unfortunately. just a frightening number of shows and movies  -  ”  she takes a large sip of her vanilla latte  ( nonfat and fully caffienated, no matter the hour ) before amending her sentence.  “  and sports.  that button brings up your watching options. you can check and see what programs have been recorded, or look to see what will be playing later. jack, have you been here on the couch all day ?  ”  

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welcome to london, SYDNEY SAGE ! did anyone ever tell you that you look just like MADDIE HASSON? well, no matter, we hear that you are 21 and working as a/an STUDENT/RESEARCH ASSISTANT. we also hear that you currently DON’T HAVE your memories from VAMPIRE ACADEMY/BLOODLINES and have a tendency to be INTELLIGENT as well as CRITICAL. 

hello all ! i’m logan, and i’m here to talk to u about the sunshine of my life aka sydney katherine sage ivashkov !!

FULL NAME: sydney katherine sage  NICKNAME(S): sage, syd AGE: 21 ETHNICITY: white PRONOUNS: she / her SEXUAL ORIENTATION: heterosexual OCCUPATION:  college student / research assistant MEMORY STATUS:  has no memories

so for those of you who have never experienced the vampire academy books/movie/tv show and the bloodlines spinoff series, sydney comes from a world with more than one kind of vampire: there are moroi, who are much more human-like than their counterparts but still require blood to sustain themselves; dhampirs, human/moroi hybrids that don’t need blood but do possess superhuman speed and strength, and typically spend their lives protecting moroi from the final type of vampire: strigoi, creatures who look almost human but possess no ability to feel ( apart from feeling like killing all moroi and wiping them from existence ! )

and sydney is . . . none of those three things !! she’s part of a group called the alchemists, made up of humans that keep the big Vampire Secret under wraps from the rest of the human world - think men in black but for supernatural creatures and with a lot more religious overtones. 

she’s wildly meticulous and absorbs any knowledge she can get her hands on, so she’s quite good at her job ! or at least, she used to be. after being tasked with keeping a royal moroi and her friends hidden for a few months, she spends a lot of time with creatures she was once convinced were all monsters and discovers they’re actually really lovely people, even if these moroi in particular are a bit overzealous sometimes. 

as if she needed enough reasons to question her upbringing and beliefs, she discovers one of her teachers is actually a witch, and has been secretly teaching her magic - what’s more, she’s got a serious natural talent for it.

through a lot of romance and shenanigans and with a lot of help from her friends, sydney exposes the alchemists for their lies, rescues the royal moroi she’d been assigned to protect in the first place, and leaves the alchemists to start a life with her new moroi husband and their magical dhampir baby ( don’t ask. ) 

of course, here in london she has no recollection of any of this !! 

in this world, no one’s been able to force her into a job she didn’t want - she’s about to finish her bachelor’s degree, and if she gets her way, will spend the rest of her life in libraries and museums until her brain literally implodes with all the knowledge. she’s a good, loyal friend, too - if you can get her out of her academic zone long enough to hold a conversation.

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Try it a little louder, honey. You poor babies.  Maddie Hasson as Valerie in We Summon the Darkness (2019)

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