To say Gurupada looked unimpressed would be an understatement.
“No.” He flatly refused.
He’d lived through the Raj, he didn’t bow before anyone who didn’t earn his respect. Hell, he probably wouldn’t even if she had.

…would you have stopped it?” He vocalized his earlier thought a bit.

If he wanted, he could turn her own body against her as well. But at this point, that’d just be a show of force, and what would he gain from that? No, he’d simply try to find out more through simple questions.

As soon as Gabby’s eyes once again met him, Eva’s stopped in his tracks and stood straight up. Not that he was embarrassed about his inspecting, he just figured there were likely more subtle ways to go about this.

“That’s true.” He responded in kind.

“If I did have a heart beat…

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🩸Cleaver (Predator Type): Considered illegal among the Camarilla, and inadvisable among the Anarchs. Scott prefers to feed on his friends and family from his mortal life. A fact he is deeply embarrassed by, and refuses to tell anyone else about.

🩸Eyes of the Serpent (Serpentis): Scott has a way of keeping people’s attention, and that includes forcefully. By looking into someone’s eyes and activating this discipline, Scott will render the person unable to move so long as he keeps eye contact. He uses it for intimidation usually.

🩸Lingering Kiss (Presence): The effects of a vampire’s bite is already intoxicating to its recipients, but Scott is able to ramp up its effectiveness even more. Bite recipients may even experience withdrawals after a few days. Useful for creating a flock of loyal followers.

Disciplines

🩸Fluent Swiftness (Celerity): It’s hard for Scott to be seen lacking when it comes to dexterous acts. He moves with an alien grace.

🩸Awe (Presence): It’s hard to resist the charms of Scott, as he seems to have a supernatural allure to him. People are drawn to him.

…obsessed with getting someone to break their own moral code, that may even include Scott himself if he’s desperate enough.

🩸Transgression (Compulsion): The l dissolution of moral order and inhibitions are what the faith of Set is all about. When the Beast wears at the edges of Scott’s willpower, this tenet of the faith is all he cares about. When falling to the Beast’s influence, Scott may become singlemindedly…

…he will grow somewhat physically weaker and have a harder time functioning. While all vampires will sustain grievous bodily harm when exposed to sunlight, it’s somehow even worse for the Ministers, such as Scott.
There’s a reason his pawn shop has a lot of “mood lighting”.

🩸Abhors the Light (Bane): Though all vampires have been damned to be harmed by the sun’s rays, it seems that the sinful theology of the Ministry has damned their blood even further to the point that all light is troublesome to them. If Scott is ever illuminated by any kind of light directly…

ℭ𝔥𝔦𝔩𝔡𝔯𝔢𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔑𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱: 𝔖𝔠𝔬𝔱𝔱

(Vampiric Powers & Features)

…commenced, just to try and make sure he heard it all right.

“What’s a spider such as yourself doing with uh…microphones was it? Didn’t take you all for the technical kind.”

Another pause followed as he grabbed ahold of the required tool box.
“Is that spider racist to say?”

Francisco wasn’t an idiot, far from it if you asked him. Granted, he did flunk out of high school…
But that wasn’t because he was dumb! Despite that, he was struggling to exactly make sense of what the spider had just said to him.

“Uh, sure I guess, little amigo.” A few blinks…

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…it ceased. Yet no matter how long after he stopped breathing, he never seemed to even gasp for a brief bit of air.

“Your powers, how’d you get them?” Evan probed.

Like some sort of archaeologist looking at an artifact, he started to circle Gabby and examine her further.

Had she tried to manipulate his heartbeat? Was that how she discovered that his heart was as silent as a corpse? That possibility made him all the more intrigued.

“You are perceptive. Well, if the cat’s out of the bag.”

His chest had been rising and falling as normal. Now…

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…“Ah, it was you! What was that you said, little friend?” Francisco’s voice did sound slightly paternalistic. Addressing the spider like it were a poodle who was ugly in a cute way.

@mauricethespider.bsky.social

Talking with animals wasn’t new for Francisco. He’d created a killer song based on a conversation he’d had with a raccoon once. So hearing a little voice call to him wasn’t anything shocking.
Looking around a bit, Francisco sported the arachnid and said…

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@aka-cadence.bsky.social

Evan’s slim face was contorted into one of deep study, as he examined every detail of the woman before him as if he were appraising a horse.
“You can control heartbeats? Did I hear that right?” The slight tinge of excited curiosity still skipped into his tone.

// Gonna be working up an attempted comeback for myself across my accounts. Maybe some lighthearted banter will help?

Will still be a bit slow getting to responses, but hopefully not as slow as usual!

„「 Earth 3521 - @nycbites.bsky.social 」”

"She gave him her heart like dawn's first light.

Unaware he was made of midnight."

// Gonna be working up an attempted comeback for myself across my accounts. Maybe some lighthearted banter will help?

Will still be a bit slow getting to responses, but hopefully not as slow as usual!

#catwoman

l̶o̶v̶e̶d̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶l̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶b̶y̶ ̶p̶a̶i̶n̶

…her lips with his own briefly.
The warmth of her lips sent that thing inside him just that little bit more crazy.

‘Just a bite…’

No, he had a good control on his hunger, for now.

…rouse up from its primordial rest, whispering up into his mind like some evil thought that sounded too much like him.
‘A tasty human being.’

“Oh, I think that’d be fun! I’m not hungry really, but you should get yourself some food.”
Propping himself up on his shoulders, he captured…

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The irony never quite left him whenever she brought up the possibility of going out for food or drink. Because there she was, his food and drink.

‘No, don’t think like that. She’s a human being’ he would have to constantly mentally remind himself.

But something deeper would…

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ⓨⓞⓤ ⓚⓝⓞⓦ ⓘⓣ ⓘⓢ ⓐ ⓜⓨⓣⓗ ⓣⓗⓐⓣ ⓦⓞⓜⓔⓝ ⓛⓞⓢⓔ ⓣⓗⓔⓘⓡ ⓟⓞⓦⓔⓡ ⓐⓢ ⓣⓗⓔⓨ ⓐⓖⓔ. ⓐ ⓛⓘⓔ ⓘⓝⓥⓔⓝⓣⓔⓓ ⓑⓨ ⓜⓔⓝ ⓐⓕⓡⓐⓘⓓ ⓞⓕ ⓑⓔⓘⓝⓖ ⓒⓗⓐⓛⓛⓔⓝⓖⓔⓓ. ⓨⓞⓤⓣⓗ ⓗⓐⓢ ⓒⓤⓡⓡⓔⓝⓒⓨ, ⓑⓤⓣ ⓝⓞⓣ ⓟⓞⓦⓔⓡ.

T͙h͙e͙ ͙I͙r͙i͙s͙ ͙w͙h͙o͙ ͙m͙a͙n͙i͙p͙u͙l͙a͙t͙e͙s͙ ͙d͙e͙s͙i͙r͙e͙ ͙v͙i͙a͙ ͙s͙c͙e͙n͙t͙s͙ ͙

“I did specify CUTE! I’m sure there are cute zombies out there. Actually, I know there is one, because it’s you!”

Hector had draped himself over a chair like he were a living…er…breathing…well….blinking throw blanket. His face contorted into a wolf smirk as he loopily pointed around.

❛ 𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖈𝖆𝖓’𝖙 𝖗𝖚𝖓 𝖋𝖗𝖔𝖒 𝖜𝖍𝖔 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖆𝖗𝖊. 𝕰𝖛𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖞, 𝖎𝖙 𝖈𝖆𝖙𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖘 𝖞𝖔𝖚. ❜

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