Many characters in Bloodlines will give you some grace and advice because you’re a baby, even if you are being a disrespectful asshole and while it is a decision partially made for gameplay and story convenience, it IS also important narratively.
You are a fledgling left without guidance and many older vampires like Nines and Therese will give you a break even if you test their patience, because you are an idiot baby and they have very likely been there themselves and likely lived because someone else offered them grace and didn’t make an example out of them. The decision to NOT exercise their power and influence, speaks of their own humanity.
Similarly, Mercurio becoming a trusted ally if you show him a shred of grace and humanity and Beckett going out of his way to find you before leaving to warn you about the sarcophagus (and even admitting he might be wrong), and Isaac choosing to warn you to not trust Lacroix regardless of your affiliation, are important showcases of the humanity you can find in WoD. Mercurio appreciates the smallest acts of kindness because he knows they are precious and rare. Beckett knows you’re still somewhat innocent and naive and thinks you deserve a chance to survive this mess. He has no reason to care about you other than that he just does, because there is still that goodness to him. And Isaac doesn’t want to see you perish as another pawn of Lacroix’s, because he appreciates the work you did in his barony and sees that you are capable of being more than what the prince has in mind for you.
You meet Samantha and you know there was love and humanity in your old life, no matter who you were. Someone cares and misses you, and that little scene is so well acted and melancholic, and human.
Heck, the freaking sleazy smut paddler warns you about the snuff tape and tells you it’s a truly messed up deal and not worth dying for. He doesn’t know you. He has no reason to care. But despite how he may come off and being less than a stellar person, he is still decent enough to warn you.
And you often have the option to be kind, yourself. You can help others for no reason. You can be kind to the homeless and to the sex workers, who are easy targets for predators, because many others won’t care about what becomes of them.
Your very first interaction after the opening scene, is to be greeted by a likely inebriated homeless man and if you show him that drop of kindness, he is grateful and polite, and man does it feel like a nice encounter after what you went through.
Finding those bits of humanity and kindness in WoD is so vital to writing good stories in that setting, imo. And power of friendship is OP as fuck in that setting because of how precious and rare it is to find.
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