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Yeah I don’t think I need to explain how treating Palestinian genocide as “discourse”, or stuff that frames Palestinians who are angry they had their land stolen as just antisemites, or defending the existence of the Iof because “we need it”, or having pro iof and racist ‘human shield’ comics on your acc going all the way back to 2014 is bad. No apology, no cohesive view on Palestine, against the “occupation” but doesn’t even acknowledge what the occupation actually is.

And they were foils

They say every vampire has a choice when they're reborn. You did not.

DEMO TBA ꒷꒦ │RO INTROS

Snatched up by a hunter on the day you were turned, you've known nothing of unlife but the torment of Facility 4.

Your first drops of blood suckled from a syringe, cold and clinical; the sweetness of unsterilised air stolen in panicked gasps in the starkness of the Sun Cells; the strangled curses of your cellmate, a slab of meat on a gurney with eyes of fire. For fifteen long years, you've known nothing else. But when a shift in management takes place, you seize your opportunity and escape.

Tyril, Nia, Imtura, and Mal have had a hell of a year. If you don’t have the inspiration skill to give a good speech, Mal makes it clear that he doesn’t think MC could understand what they all went through, implying that MC had it easy because they were just asleep.

But that doesn’t mean that MC isn’t facing their own challenges in the fallout. Shadow Realm capture aside, they’ve just come back to the Light Realm to find that they missed out on an entire year of their life. Meanwhile, everyone else moved on, doing their own thing. They’ve all changed, blatantly so, but MC still feels the same. MC has to feel like life just went on without them, and quite frankly, the LIs aren’t helping.

Now, take Aerin, who’s spent that same year locked up in a cell, with (seemingly) no visitors and no information… you can see how he’d be the one who could understand MC’s situation best, since his life was basically put on pause while everyone else’s continued, too. They’re both playing catch up.