video; un: diva

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It's going to be my birthday soon! August fourth, to be exact!

_{[Yes, hello. Sorry Nysa once again for being subjected to Diva. Here she is, the backdrop of her video one of the Nadril caves, (pre-lit thanks to the natives), which wouldn't be anything special if it didn't look so...warm. Diva's wearing nothing more than a simple white dress with blue accents and upon closer inspection at what's behind her there's green growing on the cave floor, along with what looks to be a hardy species of wildflower peeking out from various cracks in the rocky floor.]}

I'm going to be a hundred and seventy...um..._{[Yes, you heard her right.]} a hundred and seventy five? Maybe six or seven? I don't really know exactly but you can't fit that many candles on a cake so does it really matter?

_[Haha.]

Anyway! I found this really warm cave and I want to have a masquerade party in it! My lover helped me barter for food, instruments and even drinks! I also found an old record player with a few records, but I'm not sure how to use it...Surely someone can figure it out, no?

_{[And if you don't believe her - wait for it - she'll show off her hoard of goodies. There are indeed a few crates of food items, bottles of various types of alcohol and even what appears to be an old upright piano and a few acoustic guitars and one or two other unopened instrument cases. There also seems to be a box full of various fancy party masks as well. Yep, she wasn't joking.]}

I need singers, musicians, dancers, cooks, people who can mix drinks and others willing to do some heavy lifting! I have a box of decorations too so if you've an eye for decor I want your assistance as well!

_{[Anyone want to blow up some balloons?]}

You don't have to worry about dressing too fancy and as long as I don't want to kill you you're invited so please do come and RSVP!

_{[ooc: mingle now up!]}

Comments

[kikoku]

[Well that's understandable, then.]

Don't "you know," me, I obviously don't know. The only thing even remotely resembling a vampire that I'm familiar with was a man who'd make himself a zombie army by eating people's shadows.
[Which... it's not like the guy was a vampire, he just had a devil fruit ability. But it was the closest he could think of, as far as concrete examples.]

Assuming people are always well intentioned is a good way to get killed, is what I'm saying.

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_{[Buddy this is a low sodium area. Take your salt elsewhere!]}

If I wanted to kill someone I could go do so right now. I don't need to have a birthday party to do something like that.

_{[She's not a schemer...far from it.]}

[kikoku]

[He's very salty for someone who physically cannot handle salt water.]

... Fine, I'll grant you that.
[Like... it's not a great argument as far as establishing her good intentions, but it's logicially valid and Law can respect that. He still wants info, though. Because he's a rude man who doesn't have any concern for a girl's feelings.]

You said you can eat food normally as well as drinking blood. Is that something that can be substituted entirely or do you need some amount of blood to survive?
[He's hoping it's the latter because then there's Scientific Questions that need to be asked about what's so special about blood that can't be obtained just by eating meat. Are vampires just super anemic by default and need large amounts of iron? Who knows.]

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<sub>[Don't fall in the ocean...

Luckily for Law Diva doesn't mind asking questions or being grilled. She's practically used to this line of inquisition by now.]</sub>

It's an essential part of my diet. I guess you could say it's another food group for me.

_{[Human blood - the most important part of the new and improved food triangle. Apparently.]}

[kikoku]

[That's a hard task to set for a pirate captain, but Law's apparently managed.]

Interesting.
[Like, legitimately, that seems to take the irritated edge off of his voice.]

And does it have to be human blood, rather than an animal? Most mammals wouldn't have wildly different blood composition from humans.

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If I want to remain healthy and strong it has to be human and besides, it tastes the best! I like other blood too though...although dragon blood is kind of spicy!

_{[Uh. Yeah. The more you know???]}

I'm sorry about this weird salty pirate doctor

[kikoku]

[Law wants to complain that there's no reason dragon blood would be spicy for a bunch of nerdy science reasons but it's not relevant so he just quashes that urge down like he does the vast majority of his feelings.]

So you're saying only consuming non-human blood would keep you alive but not at peak health.
[He's got so many theories, most of which could be tested if he could get some of Diva's blood, but that seems like a pretty big, intrusive ask even to him.]

I suppose there's some sort of component in human blood that your body doesn't produce, some sort of antigen if I had to guess. Though, if that were the case, it would be more effective and efficient to just inject into your bloodstream.

no its great i love it im laughing so hard

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<sub>[Look buddy you do shots of dragon blood yourself and tell her different.

There's a bit of a stretch from her, following a yawn. Sorry she...kind of tuned out half way through what you were saying. She's spent so many years of her life being an experiment that the topic is snore inducing at this point.]</sub>

Mm...I don't know. If Amshel was here you could ask him. Maybe Solomon would know? I don't know. Either way, you wouldn't try to stop a cat from eating mice, would you? I'm a predator.

_{[Just. Shrug.]}

You're pretty interested in me, aren't you? My blood is pretty special - it has regenerative properties. I'm practically immortal. Neat, huh?

OH I'm glad

[kikoku]

[he's not trying to stop her, no. It's just sort of his job as a doctor to make sure everyone stays alive, which... she said she's not looking to kill anyone, so as long as she sticks to that, it shouldn't be a problem. That said, he can't let her get things twisted;]

I'm not interested in you, I'm interested in your body.
[... WAIT, PHRASING.]

That is- in how it functions differently from a human body. As a doctor it's my business to know these things.
[He's.... so glad this is only audio, the embarrassment is less palpable that way.]

\owo/

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_{[She's kind of gone past her killing quota lately so...best to scale things back for awhile.]}

Oh?

_{[Good thing you clarified. Even so, she doesn't exactly seem all that amused. It's not the first time she's been told by a man that he's interested in her body due to ~science~.]}

Then maybe you should talk to Solomon. He's a doctor too. Or was.

_{[Before he was turned into a Chiropteran and essentially became her babysitter.]}

You'll find I'm very much not human at all.

[kikoku]

I suppose that Solomon is someone I can find here?
[Because otherwise she surely wouldn't bring it up.]

... I'm not particularly concerned in proving how distant you are from humanity, regardless. I've met humans who act far more like monsters than you have so far, so there's no point measuring yourself against us.
[Is this his attempt at being nice because he feels like he put her off a bit? How dare you suggest he has anything resembling compassion or concern. You can't prove he does.]

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Yep! He's my Chevalier.

_{[Well...that's unexpected. She wasn't expecting to hear something like that.]}

Now that's something I'd have to agree on. I can be quite monstrous, but nothing I do compares to what humans are capable of I think.

[kikoku]

Chevalier?

[He laughs lightly, because yeah. Human beings are capable of pretty horrendous things, in his experience.]

It's the wide variety of things that we're capable of that makes humans dangerous, right? [A pause, before he adds;] I don't know how much blood you need, but as a doctor, I'm fully capable of drawing blood and storing it, if you need such a thing.

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It means knight in French.

_{[Not that she expects him to know where or what France is.]}

Mm, you're quite right. _{[The second part has her raising a brow, interested.]} Wouldn't you have to go to quite the effort to find willing blood donors for such a thing? I've quite the appetite but I won't say no if you want to give me blood in any capacity.

_{[Because she's fat.]}

[kikoku]

[Law doesn't know what French is, nor does it really answer his question, but he also doesn't care enough to pursue the topic.]

I'd think finding willing donors would be your job in all of this. But now I'm mostly just concerned about how much blood you need and on what sort of time basis.
[Looping back around to threat assessment, apparently.]

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Mm...then there isn't much point. I have people who are willing to let me feed right from their necks.

I don't think something like that is your concern.

[kikoku]

... I suppose if they're giving it willingly it's not a problem.
[Presumably it means they aren't dying from it, which is all he's really obligated to care about. Either way, he figures he's reached the limit of prying he can do. Asking for blood samples can come at a later date.]

I'll let you get back to your party planning, miss.... [a pause, because he isn't sure if her network username is her actual name or not, but hey. Worth a shot.] Diva?

[colorature]

I usually ask. I didn't before but I've gotten better about it.

_{[It's easier to feed from the willing, after all.]}

Yep! That's my name.