#stranger ask

[lsdoiphin]

Hey cowboy vampire... are you seeing anyone ; )

[somewhatgreatexpectations]

For your honesty hour, what was your first impression of me and why was it that I am so very awesome?

It would be something nice if you weren’t dead to me. You’ve even sunk the friend ship. 🥲

[feralrodent]

Billy Hargrove? (If no one as asked this one yet)

hey bb!!💗

Worst haircut of your life?Oh god I remember this one. It was the seventh grade and I wanted to have short hair and bangs, I was going through my emo phase at the time and so when I did get my hair cut I looked SOOOO BAD like coconut head. If you want a reference look at that one picture of Noah in the uncut wig. That was me. Worst experience and worst time.

Can you drive?Not yet, I still needa take my written exam (I’m a baby I know no need to rub it in. All my friends are older than me so they drive me places)

Do you play any sports?I do! Soccer actually, I’m usually a starter on the field and I always place striker or midfield bc I can run run run

[lsdoiphin]

Got any life advice for us, cowboy?

[lsdoiphin]

Night Sky or Roof over their head?

[lsdoiphin]

Best companion?

I guess now’s a good time to mention that despite being a loner, Stranger is never alone, because vampirism is a parisitoid affliction. Much in the way that cordyceps compels ants to climb to high places so the fungus can release its spores, the lichworm compels humans (living or dead) to consume blood. Then it sits back in your gut and just eats what you eat.

The line between what’s “you” and what’s “the worm” quickly blurs. When you can no longer tell, that’s when vampirism has become incurable and a permanent fixture of your being instead of an illness or a curse.

Despite being the literal cause of vampirism, many vampires are in some degree of denial about being a monkey suit that finds blood for an unholy tapeworm... this insecurity is the cause of many grandiose, dramatic vampire speeches. Most vampires mentally reframe the worm as a vessel for their power that they have to feed--a fantasy that puts them back in control of the situation. Some deny it’s there at all.

Stranger’s view of their lichworm? Uh... it’s unusual.

[lsdoiphin]

favorite food?

Vampires tend to lose interest in normal food... some degree of satisfaction is lost when you get all your sustenance from supernatural hematophagy. Peppers, however, transcend life and death (at least to Stranger)

[lsdoiphin]

ngl I'm new here so maybe uhh for your cowboy vampire a little introduction? 👀

That’s fair! I also haven’t spoken of my characters on here in ages and a lot of the information that‘s up might be depreciated/inaccurate now, so a quick little intro/refresher is probably a good idea.

“Stranger” is, as we know, a vampire cowboy, and the mc of the weird west story/worldbuilding project/??? I’m tentatively calling “Where the Sun Dies.” More under the cut...

As I’ve mentioned a bit before, they’re a bounty hunter who takes out dead and dead-or-alive bounties because it’s convenient: less people get angry about the death and dismemberment of a notorious criminal than they do a friend or neighbor. Collecting bounty money is a perk too, of course. (Bigger, cooler, sexier vampires would find this lifestyle incredibly cowardly btw--but those are few and far between, and Stranger cares little for their opinions anyway.)

While bounties are mostly a pragmatic way of feeding, there is one they take seriously, an ongoing albeit one-sided feud between them and a former mentor of sorts, Sullivan (who I have not drawn/posted here yet). Kicking his teeth in is Stranger’s topmost priority, but Sullivan is a sneaky bastard who leaves cold trails and questions in his wake.