The Better Halves Become A Better Whole

She is so specifically tuned to find and know and understand death, who the restful dead are and who the restless are, and she wanted to be a zoologist which is just a blanket study of life right beneath the bigger umbrella that is biology. And yet, because she is squarely in the middle of that as an undead being, she can’t apply a goddamn thing from either knowledge set. So instead she quite literally jams them together going, I know death and life and animals. Clearly, I am half-bat.

Except she died and came back. Her heart’s not beating and she cannot accept that, won’t even entertain the idea because if she came back wrong where does that leave her? Especially if she came back feeling the exact same way she always did, loving animals and being biased towards herpetology. Even the name Bat Child is fucked. She’s not a bat or a child. She’s forty years old and stuck in her twenty year old college student body! But she can’t be taken seriously as an adult because she got turned just shy of looking like she has any life experience. So… she gets treated like a child, and she’s less than human, and that makes her Bat Child.

Fucking chef’s kiss, no notes.

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What if that's Vesper having a moment of crisis where she realises that she's not breathing without conscious effort (vampire) and it drives home that she's still present and experiencing life but her body is dead. And the reality of what's happened to her body since being bitten hits her a little too hard. Not saying she's never processed it at all, just that she hasn't really finished processing something that big (and maybe will not for decades or centuries). She's easily the newest of all the vampires and - I've said this again and again - she had no one guiding her through it after being turned and she still sees herself as not quite an Actual Vampire (which could be read as a fascinating form of denial). Of course she's maladjusted as hell it's only been like 20-odd years for her and from the way she describes her turning and subsequent "wayward tour" (however the turning actually may have happened) it does not sound like it was voluntary and it does not sound like she took it well.