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Setrakian: “Like rats, you cannot vomit the blood thinner. An anatomical curiosity, but very significant, too, don’t you think? You are vermin. Look at me. I want your master to see this. Can you hear me? I have something to say to you. You are the hunger. The strain that feeds on us since time immemorial. But make no mistake, you’re still a parasite. And we will flush you out and burn you. It will not be me. It will not be now, but it will happen. No matter how long it takes, in another face, in other eyes, you will see me...as you die. And as for you, Herr Eichhorst... my name is Abraham Setrakian...and you should know, I’m not a number anymore.”

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The Cast of The Strain

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The Strain, Setrakian's home base

I was brought in early on to help visualize Setrakian's shop interior and basement bunker.

Rustam Hasanov

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Blood thinners on The Strain(and why I care too much)

Hold on to your butts, its a long post..

I’d take a moment of my time to explain oroboros.. But I don’t want to... I will however explain the workings of blood thinners..For I am a long time needer of them. I’ve been on blood thinners since I was 13. (i’ll make a separate post if people really want to know why a 24 year old still requires them). The Strain does get the history of coumaidin/warfarin right. It was designed to be a rat poison. However, the kind we humans use VS rats is different so we don’t fucking die. We honestly only started using blood thinners in human care in the 50′s. However this separation doesn’t matter when Setrakian takes an entire bottle of blood thinners.. So he would have been dead.. Eichorst would still be alive and kicking provided he didn’t get curious and try to drink him. But the lethal dose Setrakian takes would cause total organ failure before Eichorst has a chance to drink him. The beating he gives him would have killed him right then and there.. Let me take another moment to explain how this shit works..

As someone who had to monitor my “coumaidin level” for 9 goddamn years..I ought to know what is the dosing for this shit(I had my blood drawing weekly to monthly to make sure I wouldn’t die). The range for people to not die from stroke, blood clots(in my case) is typically about 2- 3 for a coumaidin level to be normal. 4 is high, but not looking into damage. 5 and higher, you need to pump yourself with vitamin K cause you might fucking die from thinned blood(if you cut yourself, you’ll bleed a lot. if you hit you head.. you’ll have bleeding in the brain). 1 is too low and you’re in trouble of having a stroke or heart attack or blood clots. When I was on coumaidin I took 2 mg everyday to prevent certain doom from happening. Missing 1 dose is fine.. but missing 3 months worth.. Setrakian should have technically been dead by now.. but who knows.. maybe the partnership gave him blood thinners... i doubt it.. its suppose to be outlawed by this point. Anyway, he took a entire bottle of blood thinners later on. Also, prolonged exposure to Warfarin or coumaidin causes bone damage. Me being 22 at the time I switched from to a less damaging blood thinner.. Because by the time I turn 30.. I would have needed a hip replacement. (theres a bunch of things coumaidin can cause.. but I’m sticking to why it matters here)

So what does this have to do with not killing Eichorst? Setrakian would have suffered from organ failure from taking the entire bottle of blood thinners. His blood would get super super watery.. His blood couldn’t reach certain parts of his body.. The Brain would suffer the most. He wouldn’t be able to function. His heart would be pumping faster trying to get blood to where it needs to go. If blood is too thin, it doesn’t hold the cells and other things we need to survive. He is hit several times to the head by Eichorst. His brain would immediately start to bleed as the result. He would be dazed and incoherent.. His body would try to clot those areas to stop the bleeding, but it can’t. It wouldn’t be able to stop the bleeding or slow it down because the blood isn’t thick enough to slow it down. Causing him to bleed even faster and bleed out even more into his brain. He’s in dire stress trying to fight off Eichorst; meaning his body needs to produce more blood to have the strength to swing his sword. He need more oxygen to catch his breath. But he can’t catch his breath when his body is going into chaos. He is shown bleeding in several spots.. His body would just keep bleeding out his blood as his clotting factor would basically not exist at this point. He would also be bleeding internally. So he’s bleeding in the brain, the torso.. He would not be able to fight Eichorst as well as he did. Not too mention he’s 95.. He’s super frail at this point and one blow to the head would have been enough anyway... Not to mention the bone damage I mentioned earlier. He could easily break his bones and what not.

Why does this even matter? Why do I care so goddamn much? Because I hate sloppy writing and not researched enough subjects. I get the average viewer won’t make these connections or have this kind of knowledge burned into their mind. I get that people won’t care enough like I do. But when this kind of shit is your goddamn life. It kind of makes you angry. I was on coumaidin for 9 long gattdamn years until switched to xeralto. Its why Setrakian is my second favorite character next to Eichorst. He’s a badass on blood thinners. I grew to love both these characters and their finale, their big fight wasn’t epic. It was too fast, it was done so sloppily.. It was done in a episode where they kill all the characters we don’t need at this point to create this sense of “drama”. But they’re all characters I don’t feel like anyone gave a shit about. It was done in a hurry. It was done in a “We have to wrap this up.. because we don’t know wtf we’re doing anymore” fashion. Those characters don’t even live up to this point in the book. They’re both dead before the world gets plunged into Eternal Night. But the original fight is.. So.. so much better.. Setrakian takes on The goddamn Master and Eichorst. He’s able to kill his long time enemy and do horrible damage to The Master. Fucking Angel joins the fight. So you have Two epic old men duking it out with a horrible monster and getting their final revenge. One last hoo-rah before finally being taken out. Instead we got sloppy writing in a episode design to “tie up lose ends” and create fake drama..

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‪Omg someone just give poor Fet a smile‬

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Part of getting old is checking oneself constantly. Keeping a good firm grip on the handrail. Making sure you're still you.

Setrakian (The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan)

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The Strain Cast, Season 1

Part 2 of the same Photo shoot.

As before, I’ve put all of the original promotional photos in an Imgur album for anyone who might want to enjoy and share them! All of the photos are incredible 4k+ quality (4872 × 6496).

Part 2 of 2. [4k+ Originals here]