Crafty Rafa

Fan blog for various Minecraft SMPs

[fantomartz]

What if,,,,

So while watching Legs’ pov for the first time and he claimed to be a vampire in front of the town, I was frankly astounded that nobody called his bluff, and thus this au (tentatively named ‘one question’) was born:

What if the townsfolk asked questions, what if they asked specifically one (important) question: who turned you? Legundo panics briefly, and he has to choose the right vampire here- one who would be willing to go along with his plan to get the vampires and town working better with each other, one who isn’t hostile or at risk of telling Scott: Owen. The townsfolk take this and assume that it was forced, and Legundo immediately backtracks (getting the town hating on Owen is really really not part of the plan) and says it was consensual.

He says he asked for this, and the reasons he gives? The same reasons Owen tried to use to convince him to turn just a couple of episodes prior: “I can help so many people, save so many lives, cure the incurable”. The town buys this, a little wary but they *trust* doc. Owen is, of course, invisibly listening in to this conversation.

He’s struck by an intense *yearning* because this is how it genuinely could be, Legs a vampire, willingly, because of him, to help people, but… he knows it isn’t real. So he does what any completely sane and rational vampire does, he asks Legs to meet him in the woods, claiming he needs another drink and doesn’t trust anyone else for it. And then he turns Legundo.

The dialogue in the comic I wrote when first coming up with this idea, but the au extends past it, because Owen now has *leverage* over Legs: Legundo can’t tell the town what happened because even if they believe him, he’ll lose all their trust because he lied to them! He doesn’t want to go to the coven vamps, can’t tell the town, and Owen is his sire- however much or little that means it’s still a fact.

So yeah I promptly went insane and drew a comic to my own dialogue, I’ve never written either of them before but here we are! :D

[yippeeboodles]

Ugly bloodletting DOODLES PLUS fledgling duo because I miss them but couldn't be bothered to make the sketch nice because I'm lazy.

[eagle-warri]

“MARMARMARMARMARMARMARMARMARMARM-“ Avid sprinted along the bridge, leg squeaking just a bit. Though, it was a bit quieter than usual, and just as he reached Marm, the pants (that were not already cut, unlike his usual outfit) caught in his knee, sending him sprawling. “Ow.”

“Avid? …what are you wearing…?” Marm grabbed Avid’s arm, pulling him up off the ground.

“I don’t know!” Avid spun around, the new outfit twirling around him. A blood-red cape hung off his shoulders, pinned to his shirt collar with what seemed like gold buttons. The rest of his outfit was similarly gothic, all greys and whites, with a black, nearly knee-high boot on the living leg. And somehow, despite never seeing or wearing anything like this before…it fit like a glove. “I just kinda woke up in this. You like it?”

“Looks good on you.” Marm circled Avid, grabbing the cloak and feeling it between her fingers. “The things we’ve seen here…maybe they apply to clothing as well…I wonder if I’ll get a new outfit too. Were you doing anything before this?”

Avid looked up for a moment. “Had a weird dream about vampires, but that’s about it.”

“Hm.” She squinted for another moment, before shaking her head. “Never mind. You might want to get those pants tailored though, you got caught in them.”

“Yeah I know…There aren’t even any tailors on the server…”

~~~~~~

Legundo woke up covered in blood.

He was only about 75% awake when he realized, going to rub his eyes and getting the distinctive scent of iron in his nose.

“What-“ He pulled away his arm, staring at the sleeve. It may have once been clean white robes, but dried red marred it now. Legs ran through the scripts in his head. They didn’t have blood here, having blood meant something special, and… “Alright, who put me in a dead man’s clothes?”

He tugged off the Doc’s bloodstained scrubs, tossing them onto the floor. The underlayer was still clean, dark pants, dark shoes, a shirt buttoned all the way closed. It fit like a glove. He sat with them, for just a moment.

But soon those too were exchanged for his regular clothes. The underlayer went into the closet (Catmaidcon was coming up, maybe he could be a cat-butler or something?), but the robes stayed on the floor as Legs pulled a box from the closet. There wasn’t much inside, just the book with the journal he had mistakenly started writing here too. The scrubs were folded, and tossed into the box, which joined the bottom of the closet again. “Stay dead, Doc.”

“What?” M1g was at the door that Legs didn’t realize he had left open.

“Nothing. How long have you been standing there?”

Mig stared into the middle distance a second, then shrugged.

“Alright. Let’s get to work.”

[kiomisnotloading]

Legundos pov is definitely my favourite icl

[schellis]

Great legundo subathon mosspocalypse guys! There's no more extraction it's just mosstraction now

[jackdaw-sprite]

Can we have your "random bloodletting fragment"? I don't even need context. Just throw the words at me like a steak at a feral dog.

Good news for you, you've accidentally happened upon half the context for it anyway with the other ask, because it's Doc actually telling Owen about that town!

"But that." Legundo stopped. "Pyro said that vampirism takes the dark parts of you, and brings them to the surface." "Please, Owen," Legundo said. "I have already killed so many people. I don't want to kill more." "He was lying." "Lying." "Or, I don't know," Owen flicked his hand, as if casting something away. "He's had a rough go of it. Under a lot of stress. And it does make you hungry. And," here Owen cocked his head. "I thought you were of the opinion that vampirism doesn't change who you are?" "There is a difference," said Legundo, "between supporting a narrative to keep people safe, and refusing to acknowledge certain…risks. Especially with individuals with a known history of violence." "You." "Me." "Is this…fear, why you don't want to accept the gift?" "One of several," said Legundo. "The most pressing, certainly. I don't want to become that man again. I can't become him again. I won't. I would rather--" Owen's eyes widened. "Doctor--" "I TOOK YEARS TO REGRET IT!" Legundo exploded. "Years! There were children, Owen! There were children, and I watched them--" Legundo shook his head. "I can't become that person again. I can't chance becoming him again. If it's even a possibility, the world is better off without me in it."

[bardicc-inspo]

I like to think doc has to get creative eventually on getting a rise out of Owen in triple hell together

(one without words below the cut)

[itsjustdigit]

My part of the art trade with Helly... After Scott took a pickaxe to his face, Pyro went to Legundo for help and comfort

[youllnevertaketheskyfromme]

So much of Doc's character and issues are defined by the fact that his war crime was celebrated. He was called a hero for it.

"They gave me a medal"

It explains why he doesn't believe anyone who tells him he's a good person, because he was told that before when he murdered thousands of people.

It's why beyond his passive suicidal nature he doesn't entertain the idea that he could do more good as a vampire than a human when Owen offers to turn him. He tried to do a good thing before, was told it was a good thing, and it resulted in the deaths of thousands of people.

It's also why Pearl saying "I'm disappointed in you" is what snaps Doc out of his level three rampage/PTSD trip/grief and horror spiral, because when he was hearing those boots marching the first time and had that medal pinned to his chest no one was telling him they were disappointed in him.

Yes, the reminders of his friends and the people who needed him helped him come back, but he needed to be reminded that someone else could reel him in and tell him he's not doing the right thing.

I think this core part of Doc is also why he has such an abiding trust in Cleo. Cleo noticeably knows what it's like to think terrible thoughts and have terrible ideas because she is the one who keeps telling him that he is a strategic target to kill both because of his medical expertise and his later ability to make holy water. They call this out constantly and are not afraid to say blunt things like "you're taking this too far."

Doc more than anything is a man who has had to rebuild his moral compass from the ground up surrounded by people who would have thought he was insane for thinking he did the wrong thing. In canon we have no evidence of anyone in his past helping him figure out how to never become that kind of person again. There must have always been a part of him in the back of his head that thought that since he was both the man who committed that atrocity and also the man who rebuilt himself there was always a chance what he thought was right was actually horrendous. So it must have been a relief to find someone else who could call him out if he went too far again, even if it was the smallest chance.

He would never put the burden of his moral compass on someone else intentionally. He is a fiercely independent man who believes that he is the only one responsible for himself (even though he considers himself responsible for everyone else around him). But it would have been nice to find someone who trusted him enough to tell him if he was going down the right path.

Thankfully Pearl was able to bring him back enough with her call-out that Cleo was later able to get through to him to talk about the plan to get everyone out of Oakhurst.

It's a shame that the man who always wondered if somehow he was still a monster, managed to think dying was a good thing. Even when at the hands of his friend. One last terrible thing after all.

[gh0stlyscooter]

Do No Harm

[gh0stlyscooter]

They would have an... interesting relationship as starting vamps I think

[redstonebug]

recently been enamored with the mental image of Leg's chat being represented by a bunch of pink sheep

[mixigrave-deactivated20260421]

go, my bloodletting

owen is so smitten and he doesnt even realize it. CAN THESE IDIOTS GET A JOB

[brothermouse-skeleton]

Funniest thing about Quincy shooting the bat and breaking the window is that he confesses that he's been shooting every goddamn bat he's seen over the past few days.

There's a missing part of this novel that's just the notes of a very concerned conservationist and local police records detailing how they teamed up to find out who's been shooting all these bats in the middle of the night.

[craftyrafa]

And more of Abolish with his new partner (or babysitting job? He's still debating).

Matteo Legundo. Abolish remembers that his name was different before. He had found Doc's first name in his research after Oakhurst. His whole life story, really. This kid is different in a lot of ways. But there's some things that stay the same.

"You shouldn't drink so much caffeine. It's not good for you."

Mother hen.

[craftyrafa]

Decided to throw my hat into the ring of Reincarnation aus. Not everyone is found at the same time or by the same person. It starts with Abolish walking into his office and finding newbie hunter Legs as his new partner (because I adore Temperance Duo) around September of 2024.

I do have some ideas of plot and misadventures and such, but I would love to hear other peoples' thoughts!

[noxlotl]

townsfolk