💚 anon here! I also miss talking about you a lot!! We've really been way too busy lately. :')
Congratulations on finding a new internship! Don't worry about the late reply. As I always say, no matter how much I love our conversations, I'd prefer it if you prioritize your real life. <3
Pharmacy student Yugi is such an unique idea! He's definitely the type of person who memorizes all the medicine that can be used to poison a human being in various ways and how to administer them without anyone suspecting. You know. Just in case. And to recite internally over and over whenever someone offends him because Yugi is a trembling Motolov cocktail of severely repressed rage dressed up in bright smiles and an unfaltering kindness.
Yami's very grateful for this list when he and Yugi become one. >:)
Oooh, I adore the fact that there're many new kinds of insects evolving to surpass the widespread use of pesticide! What new bugs do you think will emerge?
Kaiba: Vampires don't exists! Drink from the can of "special energy drink" that only he can drink. They're clearly a conspiracy created by the government to control us! Order a coffin and total black-out curtains for his bedroom. And anyone who believes it is an idiot! Suddenly develop an allergy against pesticide.
Mokuba, in the background: Frantically covering up all the evidence that his brother is a vampire and using his vast amount of wealth to skip the monthly check-up. It's okay. Kaiba's too busy obsessing over that pharmacy student. He won't even remember that monthly check-ups are a thing.
Your order of the ficlet has been written down! I'll be writing it once I have the free time! (And also remember how many words I need to write. XD)
(And I do know about art fight! In fact, I plan to participate this year! Uh- Ignore my character references, of which there is none. I'll get around to drawing it later- What do you mean tomorrow is July already??? /silly)
💚 anon have I ever told you before that you're my favorite human on Tumblr. Cause you are.
ALSO OMG SO TRUE PHARMACY STUDENT YUGI WOULD DEFINITELY KNOW ALL THE WAYS TO KILL BOTH HUMANS AND VAMPIRES IN A WAY THAT MAKES IT LOOK LIKE AN ACCIDENT, AND IT'S DEFINITELY DUE TO HIS REPRESSED RAGE
Someone will slight him and he'll continue smiling while thinking of three days to commit murder, or at least inflict severe untraceable pain. Then remind himself that this is unethical and should therefore stay as a fantasy and nothing else, even if this patient wants an amoxicillin for their headache and refuse to listen to reason. It's ok. They don't know better. Even if he has been trying to explain it to them for the past half hour and they kept screaming to his face. It's ok.
(seeing as how rn I'm at an internship, I'm now thinking of having the au be in the middle of summer maybe, the good start of internship, and also the season of bugs)
Your brain is so pretty 💚 anon can I lick it for brain creativity powder cause how do you keep being so right and so funny
Conspiracy theorist kaiba is now stuck to my brain. Poor mokuba.
(also?? The coffin thing? I didn't even think about that vampire trait, but now that you mentioned it, it does make me think a bit.
You know how in several versions of how insect vampires came to being in our au, it essentially ends up in the person's death? Or at least their bodies? And how even if it's just an insect hive moving from one body to the other, some trait of the new body still emerges?
The insect vampires are still kinda human, with human knowledge and trait and fashion and such. So. Why would the vampires, in this au, feel the urge to sleep in a coffin?
Because somewhere buried very deep down, they are mourning their own death. Because they aren't alive anymore, and some part of them, some instinct, feels the need to follow nature's rule in whichever way possible, and if that meant sleeping (the closest thing to a death state) in a coffin in a pitch black room, then that's what they will do.
I wonder if that's also why they like moving at night better, because no sun touches a body buried six feet under. I wonder if that means that even artificial light kinda annoys them? Like, the vampires just like being in the dark, especially when about to sleep. Maybe. Idk. I think it's an interesting idea, how their survival instincts are fighting with their nature following instinct, you know?)
ALSO LOL NOT KAIBA BECOMING 'ALLERGIC' TO PESTICIDE OUT OF NOWHERE
Kaiba I don't think you can develop such an allergy that late in life 😭😭😭
Also about pesticides, I think it's less that new bugs will emerge, and more that bugs will evolve and become resistant. Which is horrifying to think about, personally.
That being said, this world IS funky, and due to the whole prejudice against bugs, maybe new species will appear and old ones disappear? Idk, we already have vampires in this au, let's throw new bugs in. Just for fun. (I say while scratching my skin just from thinking about bugs)
Also, for allergies, due to the newer (and likely more potent, in some cases at least) types of pesticides, and how it's mandatory to spray them every once in a while (whether cause the people hate bugs or believe in vampires or anything else,) the personalized masks idea is now back online babyyyy
At least during the week the pesticides are spread, cause the spray takes a while before going away and all, and it can't be healthy to breath in all these chemicals, especially since they keep evolving it to match the evolution of the bugs around it
I imagine summer is the most hated season for this reason, too many bugs (relatively. Still much less than the real world) and too many chemicals in the air. Probably will be known as the spraying season or sm lol
The interesting thing about the whole spraying season thing, is that people don't really know much about insect vampires, and don't know how they come to being, and the government should know that most vampires have a way to escape or just blend in by wearing masks. so this whole thing isn't really about killing/ limiting vampires, as much as it is just a hate letter to bugs (and maybe a slight irritant to vampires. The effects are less with masks and all, but there are still effects, you know? Maybe that's why they've been switching vessels every few decades lately? Trying to find a body that's less allergic to the chemicals? If so then there is some sense of cruelty in that, because unless their bodies are deathly allergic at simple contact, then they are killing and stealing people's bodies for what's essentially the equivalent of a spring pollen allergy)
I think something that's quite interesting in this au is just how much people fear a find bugs disgusting, likely from early conditioning and childhood stories and such. It could raise some ethical questions about the whole thing too. Also scientific ones too cause usually the early steps of an apocalypse is the lack of bugs. That's a whole ecosystem you're trying to erase buddy 😭😭😭
I don't know much about the latter so I'll probably stick to the first one, cause what the people of that world are doing is essentially the same thing the bad vampires are doing too? Killing smaller weaker beings without second thought, since clearly they are the "higher" ones of the two
💚 anon, were you the type to step on an ant as a kid? Light a fire at a colony? Squish a bug that accidentally got into your home? Be relieved once you see their dead bodies, knowing they are gone now? What about the difference from killing a bug that entered your house, and one that's out in the wild? What about the aesthetically pleasing bugs, did you look at a butterfly one day in awe while stepping on a worm at the same time?
I think, cruelty, can kinda be ignored when done to things that can't scream loud enough for us to hear
Then again I also kill bugs that enter my house lol. But maybe this au could help me get over my fear of bugs
I would love to explore the beauty of bugs in this au. I haven't found it yet personally (seriously why do people like butterflies?? It's still a bug eugh) but I think seeing the beauty of something seen as utterly disgusting and monsterous would be a lovely think to explore, and unraveling what years of conditioning and propaganda teaches us, maybe? Idk, it feels like that type of au, you know? A plotless one where the exploration of concept is the center of attention, alongside some character development too? Idk tell me what u think and how you currently see the au
Also don't worry about the ficlet please!!! You can literally take all the time in the world and I wouldn't mind!!! Just please have fun with it, that's my only condition and if it's not met I'll send the boogeyman after you. He will be carrying milk and cookies and will give you a good therapeutic talk before putting you to bed and then slithering under it to keep the nightmares away. This is a warning for a possible intervention.
ALSO OMG YOU KNOW ART FIGHTS!!! Probably the first person I've asked who actually knew it lol
I'm also thinking about participating this year but I'm too busy so if I ended up participating it would be with only a few attacks or something 😭😭😭
Also same I haven't updated my character references or description yet lol
