#erich asks

[ashintheairlikesnow]

Erik, Auri how are you doing these days? What are you up to today?

Erich doesn't even look up. "Whatever they want," He says, not quite bitterly.

Auri all but preens, sitting back with their legs over Erich's hips, leaning their head on one hand. "Don't listen to him," They say, not quite a purr. "I haven't killed in weeks because of him."

[ashintheairlikesnow]

For the intoxicated questions:

Erich, how are you feeling?

Are vampires able to get drunk in your universe? Or more like blood drunk?

Erich sits on the ground, leaning back against the brick wall of a building in some dark downtown. His eyes glimmer, reflecting light and seeming to glow in the dark. When he smiles, his teeth are smeared pink, fangs still red from blood.

"If they're drunk," He says, voice dipping into a deeper, rural German accent that he has mostly smoothed with time. "We get drunk."

He gestures to the body of a woman on the floor, her legs and arms thrown out and bent like a broken doll's. The body's eyes are still wide, with a bit of her blonde hair settled against her cheekbone.

Erich exhales, raking a hand back through his hair. "She did not have to die, though," He murmurs.

From a windowsill, where they crouch like some malevolent cat, Auri chuckles, sucking the last bits of blood off their fingertips. "Yes, she did. She didn't tip the waiter."

Erich doesn't look at them, but his jaw tightens. "Not leaving a tip doesn't make someone evil."

"Hm." Auri rolls their shoulders backwards, arching their back. "I suppose that depends on if you think about it from the perspective of the waiter, liebling."

[ashintheairlikesnow]

What if we whump both Auri and Erich? With him realizing (for the first time? Yet again?) his maker isn't all that powerful?

Actually, scratch that. Let's whump Erich only, and make Auri rescue him 😈

Erich is not pleased with your secondary suggestion, but Auri thinks that sounds GREAT

[ashintheairlikesnow]

WHY ARE THERE MULTIPLE POSTS ABOUT FUCKING COVERED IN NAZI BLOOD.... YALL THINK CRITICALLY HOLY SHIT. STOP EROTICIZING THAT.

I feel like this is a pretty critical misunderstanding of all of those asks as well as the piece. I am going to guess you didn't read it, and that you were far more focused on leaping on what felt like righteous anger than on actually having any idea what things were referencing.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

I'm curious, does Erich ever stop caring about morality? Also, does Auri have any lines they won't cross (hurting/killing a kid, turning a kid into a vampire, killing animals, etc) or is there no line they won't cross?

Erich will. Eventually, he'll become so disconnected from humanity that he'll more or less just stop giving a fuck about human morality entirely. That's what happens to my vampires with time - they just stop seeing people as anything more than prey to be toyed with and consumed.

Auri would never turn a child into a vampire largely because they would be responsible for that child, and they are... not about that life.

They kill animals if no humans are around, and don't really care about it. Although they are fond of dogs and would avoid killing a dog unless they had to. And they just avoid cats in general.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

☾ - sleep headcanon: for my dear Erich and Auri pls

Auri and Erich don't breathe. When they sleep during the day, they look exactly like corpses. This led once in the 1960s to someone who found them in an old warehouse to call the cops reporting "dead bodies". When touched, both of them went into a kind of berserker sleepwalking state and slaughtered the cops, then hid back in the darkness.

The wholesale slaughter of two cops, a security guard, and a guy who was sleeping in the warehouse all in one day has officially never been solved.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

How does Chris/Auri/Erich's vampirism compare with Ryan/Corrine?

Two entirely different takes on vampirism.

The Adze (Corinne and Ryan - or well half of him) can shapeshift into a firefly, although Ryan didn't actually know that yet during the Bad Arc, although they are stuck in human form when trapped anyway. They have the power to possess humans, and often negatively affect the lives of the people around them. They are known for feeding on children or while people sleep, making their way through closed and locked doors. They are not subject to the rules about who can enter a house.

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Other aspects that came from my story:

They can choose to have fangs or not in appearance.

They are not particularly social - that part of Ryan comes from his father. Ryan is born half-vampire, but can also make vampires in a kind of consummation where he feeds and is fed from at the same time. There isn't venom, but being fed from is pleasurable.

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Auri/Erich/Chris have a few rules - silver hurts them or weakens them, although no other metal does. They must be invited into a home that anyone who is alive is residing in, and if they leave it for three days or longer, they have to be invited again. They have fangs all the time. They do not have heartbeats, they do not breathe. They are trapped physically in time of their death - so if Auri cuts their hair, for instance, it will be back to the same length after they sleep. Chris will always appear sixteen/seventeen years old.

They feed significantly more often than Ryan's type of vampire. Thirst will drive them mad eventually. They tend to group into small packs with a 'packleader' and the people the packleader has turned, the people they turn, etc. Except that Turning people is actually fairly rare because once you do that, you're responsible for them. To become a vampire, you must be drained near to death and then fed the vampire's own blood.

Vampire venom numbs the victim and is a kind of strong sedative, distilled and used in medicine and also as a recreational drug. It is strongly physically addictive.

When vampires push venom into each other, though, it's an intense overwhelming physical pleasure and brings on euphoria.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

Maybe the meeting after that? IF there is a meeting after that?

Ash, what have you planned? Don‘t create a cute and evil nb vampire and make them suffer. Pls. I want them creating all the suffering😫😈

Me: So, you know how you were going to get revenge?

Erich, suspiciously: ... yes?

Me: Well, see, my tumblr mutuals and readers have decided that you are literally too much of a snack for that

Erich: ... Scheisse

Auri, from a distance: Hooray!