#freezingdeception

[bloodsuckingwitch]

[[alex this is So Important http://i.imgur.com/1um7ySQ.gifv]]

[bloodsuckingwitch]

Frozen

In another unfortunate game of “can a vampire get that”, Em has seemingly been overcome with symptoms of hypothermia after she’d found the one patch of ice that could not hold her weight. Everything after the initial sound of the crack was a blur in her mind.

To her luck, Vikas was more than experienced with these sorts of ailments. She’d already been stripped of her wet clothing and given dry garments to wear, placed in front of the largest fire the cabins fireplace can sustain, and fed with a heated glass of bloodwine. So now it was a waiting game to see how long it would take for her body to regain its heat.

She stirs as she feels Vikas sliding in beside her in the small bed, on that had been dragged from a bedroom to allow Em some comfort while she warmed up. The new source of heat is welcomed and she turns so she’s facing him, curling up close. 

"I feel as though this is your country’s way of rejecting my presence," She muses, voice muffled as she buries her face into the crook of his neck.

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Immediately upon feeling Vikas' presence, she reaches out and pushes into his mind for hopes of being able to see what he's seeing - just seeing anything but a black void. She had "recovered" enough to be able to function outside of a hospital, but true recovery would be a long, painful process after having been attacked in the way she was, eyes cut by a slayer and garlic juice thrown in her face.

When her first sight is herself with horrifying scarring on and around her eyes she leaves his head just as quick, the sight almost making her sick to her stomach. No, the blackness is better than looking at that.

No sound comes from the girl for several moments. When she finally speaks, her voice is so... Small that even she is surprised it comes from herself. 

"They know, do they not? All of Elysia knows. Tell me, Vikas, is my name already slandered beyond repair? With this... Scarring that makes me so wretched to look at?" Certainly he'll lie and say she does not look as bad, but she knows the truth. Even her children gasped and almost heaved when they saw her. "Can you even stand the sight of my face? I will forgive you if you must turn away."

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[[em has like a small book of polaroids from the few times ignatius let her take pictures of him

a few of them are when he wasn’t looking an then she has some posed pictures of him next to charlie bc he’s a little shit and probably wouldn’t want to take pictures with his other siblings and then one single picture of her taking a selfie with him 

she has professionally done pictures from the early 1900s of her with her father and they’ve all been professionally restored and she has a few blown up and hanging in her home

and the background on em’s phone is a selfie she took with vikas on a council trip a number of months before he died and it’s stayed on her phone since like 2010]]

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freezing-deception replied to your post:[[tbqh roleplaying post-canon em makes me so sad...

{ and pre-canon em, around cassius’ timeline, is almost just as sad tbh }

[[SHE'S LOST HER BEST FRIEND AND HAD TO FEEL HIM DIE AND BASICALLY SUFFERS PTSD SYMPTOMS LONG BEFORE PTSD WAS EVEN CONSIDERED A THING AND BECOMES DEPENDENT ON HER FATHER AGAIN BECAUSE SHE CAN'T MAKE IT THROUGH A DAY WITHOUT A PANIC ATTACK

gross sobbing]]

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freezing-deception

Hours after the pretrial of Otis Otis, Em sits at the foot of the bed in the shared hotel room of her and Vikas. The hour was late - or early, depending on ones definition as it was only around high noon. Em had woken Vikas with one of her nightmares, though he was used to such a thing by now, or he should be. Now she was simply recovering from the stress, a lit cigarette and a glass of bloodwine in hand. 

"It's this trial. It plagues my mind like nothing else. I have not suffered such stress since Adrian passed."

Her brow furrows as she mulls over that thought, and she takes a drag off the cigarette before speaking again. 

"But Otis' crimes stand. I know that much. It's not him who troubles me. It's Tomas' child... The pravus. Cassius' theories... I see them all in him, at least from what I've heard and memories I've watched." She shakes her head, taking a sip from her glass.

"Oh, Vikas, stop me now. Certainly you can blame my foolishness on the bloodwine."

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m o r g u e: em calling vikas old man when he's a baby vampire bc he said she looked too young to be teaching him

✿ ~ princess ~ ✿: "but shes a child?" "okay old man"

m o r g u e: makes jokes about him being too old and frail to keep up with her

✿ ~ princess ~ ✿: and she still calls him old man to this day

m o r g u e: except it's accurate now

✿ ~ princess ~ ✿: "old man" y OU RE OLDER THAN EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM"

m o r g u e: "oh but according to you i was a child at the age of seven hundred"

✿ ~ princess ~ ✿: "ITS BEEN A THOUSAND YEARS OH MY GOD EM"

m o r g u e: "SOME THINGS JUST CAN'T BE FORGOTTEN"

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✿ ~ princess ~ ✿: "you better hurry up. i hear theres a senior citizens discount" "em im going to murder you in your sleep"

m o r g u e: basically

m o r g u e: best friends tho

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m o r g u e: http://jordanfrederick.tumblr.com/post/103428822849/shineira-awperspook-diefantasie-truth vikas comparing em to rusalki

✿ ~ Duchess ~ ✿: thats probably where she got the idea from tbh

m o r g u e: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusalka read like the first part of that omg

m o r g u e: "However, the initial Slavic lore suggests that not all rusalka occurrences were linked with death from water, and, as the name suggests, red-haired women often arose suspicion in traditional Russian societies as being "bewitched", a connotation that might have come with the Orthodox faith sometime around late 15th century.[3]"

✿ ~ Duchess ~ ✿: cHRIST

m o r g u e: SO VIKAS BASICALLY COULDN'T TAKE EM ANYWHERE IN OLD RUSSIA

✿ ~ Duchess ~ ✿: she had to keep all of her hair hidden

✿ ~ Duchess ~ ✿: "so uh im gonna need you to wear this hood and tie up all of your hair bc im pretty sure the townspeople will mistake you for a witch"

m o r g u e: better tho: the myths exist bc of em fucking shit up in russia

m o r g u e: vikas just "em cAN U NOT"

✿ ~ Duchess ~ ✿: "yOURE RUINING EVERYTHING FUCK"

m o r g u e: "WHAT'S THE FUN OF BEING IN A BUDDING COUNTRY IF YOU CAN'T MAKE YOURSELF A PART OF THEIR LEGENDS"