Scott Goldsmith is a human. In fact, he is the only human in Oakhurst. Everyone else is a vampire.

And it just so happens that Scott has the exact same name as the vampire lord who disappeared 600 years ago (records disagree on whether he was killed or just sealed away). They even look exactly the same!

Question is: what to do with him?

Option 1: just kill him. Option 2: play friendly with him. Option 3: ignore him. Option 4: be the one to turn and sire the new Lord Scott Goldsmith.

Because reincarnated lost sassy human or not, the Goldsmith name comes with a certain prestige amongst vampire society.

"I'm telling you! That's the Scott Goldsmith!"

"As much as I generally dislike agreeing with Avid of all people." The doctor shoots him a glare and then pinches the bridge of his nose. "I believe that is indeed the Scott Goldsmith."

"But how?! Scott was a vampire and that Scott is... not." Shelby purses her lips, staring at Scott's back from where the group hides.

"He is from a time even further back than I am. There were greator magicks back then. It's possible he was cursed- or even cured." Legundo's tone darkens. A potential cure would be bad news for all of them.

"The last anyone heard of him was from 600 years ago... if he's human then how could he have lived that long?"

Avid leans in beside Drift, whispering. "It was reincarnation."

"That be a bold accusation, laddie..."

"Ohhh my god, not this again." Cleo tugs Pearl away from the circle, rolling her eyes.

"It's true! Somebody- Somebody staked him or- or found some other way to kill him! And then he was reincarnated as a human! Just look at him!" Avid points, whisper yelling. The poor noble is staring up at his and Shelby's house, hands on his hips and trying to figure out where life went wrong. "He clearly doesn't have the... the life experience of anyone over a few decades!"

"Avid, I'm telling you. Reincarnation does not exist."

"No, no... I've read about this kind of thing. People die and they're said to have come back years later. I've only read about it happening to humans though, not vampires..." Sausage taps his lip with his pen, staring at his notes in deep thought.

"Just to put it out there... I don't believe in reincarnation, especially not for vampires. When we die there's no good thing waiting for us. We're unholy creatures of the night. The only thing for us after this is..."

"Hell." Owen mumbles off the way, finishing the scholar's thought. He's been staring at the ground this whole time, brooding, one might say. "It's likely some asinine curse like Legundo said. Elder vampires are tricky. I wouldn't put it past Goldsmith to be fooling all of us."

Martyn snorts. "With a beating heart? Flowing blood? No fangs, no claws? Sure, right. He's fooling us."

"He's pale enough to be a vampire at least..." Apo mumbles.

"See. Fools." Owen huffs, meeting the doctor's eye and then stepping away.

"Well." Pyro puffs out his chest and dusts off his coat. "You all can continue fighting over if he's the real Scott Goldsmith. I'm going to go get me a new fledgling."

"Wha- Hey! You can't do that! I figured out who he was first!"

Pyro towers over Avid, baring his fangs. "I think I can do whatever I want."

Avid hisses back.

"Guys, guys, look... Maybe we can figure this out without tearing each other apart?" Drift squeezes in between the two, pushing them back. "Tensions are already going to be high with all of us stuck here. And there's only so many animals..."

"Oh! I have an idea!" Shelby puts her hands on her hips. "How about whoever can convince him to let them be his sire, gets him as their fledgling?"

"I'm sure I can think of some... ways to convince him." Sausage wiggles his eyebrows. Pyro stares at him in distaste.

"Until we can come to an agreement on how to best handle this, I believe it necessary we keep our vampirism a secret around Scott. If the human finds out he's trapped with 13 vampires, I do not think it would be good for his... mental state. Hysteric humans are dangerous."

"Mostly to themselves..." Everyone's attention darts to Shelby as she worries at her lip with a fang. She tastes blood and laughs apologetically. "Whoops." Yet she meets their stares with a challenge.

"You continue on with your yapping, I'm going to go talk to the fella!" Martyn takes one marching step only to freeze.

Abolish is already in deep conversation with Scott whose nodding along in agreement to something.

Anyway the brain worms suggested that Joel is Bigfoot and I'm standing by this.

Bigfoot is real, his name is Joel. He's happily married to a mermaid (Lizzie) and he and Scott have unfounded beef that Joel started. No, Scott still isn't sure how this started but by the Goldsmith name he's not backing down from a challenge.

Owen with the least experience as a vampire... and everyone but Avid and Drift can tell

Most people with a heart treat him like a baby and he hates it

The militia four end up pretty close to each other (Apo doesn't know how she got here) and take him out to hunt all the time

Pearl and Sausage piss him off the most by cooing at him when he tries to act scary

Avid and Drift are still terrified of him, albeit a little less so than canon

Cleo, Ren, and Pyro spend the least time with him/have the least interest in him

Legundo and Abolish spend the most time with him, Legundo is curious about him (scientist vampire Legundo yippee) and Abolish is concerned about the whole massacre thing

Shelby is less innocent and tame but that actually makes it easier for her to get pretty close to Owen, she probably treats him the absolute most like an equal

Scott gets visions and dreams about his past life as Vampire LordTM whenever a beacon gets desecrated. Sometimes he faints and has to get carried to the clinic. Specifically by someone who doesn't care about his name because they would definitely try to turn him while he's asleep.

If course, Scott also went through a fledgling stage. Everyone assumed he had a good one, luxurious nest, complete safety, all the good stuff. Owen especially is jealous when he thinks about it, having lost his sire early into his own fledgling stage.

But in reality, Scott's sire was a rando on the street who turned him and left. Not even explaining the fledging stage. Scott had such a traumatic fledgling stage that he can't use his abilities, not even turning into a bat, unless he feels like he's in danger.

A non issue during Oakhurst and the days when vampire hunters were constantly threatening him but he's well aware of that truth. He's terrified of it being found out, both for pride and the idea that someone would use that information to betray him... Again.

One of the biggest things is the eyes. When a fledgling is raised to stage three while in the midst of it all, the capillaries in their eyes can burst from the venom seeping into them too fast in an attempt to strengthen their eyesight. This causes the entire eye to be blotched with black. This happened to Pyro.

Scott doesn't have that, right? Well, it would take quite a while for damage from a transitional stage to be regenerated. Pyro's eyes and burns would take hundreds of years to fade enough for humans to be unable to see him as human again.

So one day Shelby, Drift, and Scott got cornered. Some rogue hunters thinking they're slick and trying to get in a quick glory kill. Scott is 1300 or so years old at this point, so it's not like they get close. But they do slash out his eyes during the scuffle. Drift and Shelby are fussing over it but nothing a bit of blood can't fix in a few days, right?

(Timeline wasn't specified so I just used my existing designs)

Why is he looking at me like that? He may know more than he should...

Enter Pearl, who after hearing about it, promptly beelines it to the woods to find these wolves. She succeeds, coming back to town with a whole pack of tamed wolves.

have this be why Scott accidentally bats during the house contest

It’s the first time that Abolish has stood close enough to Scott to trigger the soulmate instinct. Scott bats and just plants himself on Abolish’s chest

everyone is Freaking Out

Like I can see multiple ways this goes about

Scott could have encountered some fae slavers and rescued him asked for abolish to give him his name in exchange for helping him, or just asked for him to be his butler in exchange for helping. I can also see him trying to get in the face good graces by not coming across as wanting possession and instead he says something like what can I address you as? And maybe that would be after he already killed the slavers or kidnappers or really whatever. And this can be from a purely manipulative standpoint. And after enough time they kind of fall into love. But I can also see him taking the gamble and exchanging names. Like if you give me your name I will give you mine, mutual destruction/power over each other

Or he could have found out abolish's true name and forced him into servitude. You can get his toxic as you like with this. There's so many opportunities for literally anything

Maybe at one point during their meetings Owen mentions that there’s a bat that seems to follow him around a lot. Louis is like “oh, that’s where I’ve been going” (I’d like to imagine that the vampire knows that their bat form is going to spend time with their soulmate but can’t remember who it actually is). And so later when Louis wants to tell Owen that he’s a vampire, he also has to confess that his instinct controlled mind has been stalking him for months now.

Bonus points if Louis’ bat form is distinct enough from other bats to where he knows Owen will put two and two together once Louis shows him his bat form.

Maybe because vampires are so long lived they can have another soulmate if their first one dies. Or maybe vampires can have multiple soulmates and Louis just didn’t live long enough to meet Legundo.

Consider this; it's a coven of witches.

Martyn awakening as a witch, the chaotic gremlin flavor, and his blood possibly tasting bad if not outright harmful to the vampires (thanks to his ancestor's magical experiment on their bloodline, which is very much meant as a middle finger aimed at their vampiric nemesis lol) thus accidentally giving him immunity (cause none of the vamps want to bite him now)

Inspired by this post by @promptpires

Vampires have soulmates, but the catch is that only their bat form knows the identity of that soulmate. Abolish finds himself in his house late at night with a bat that refuses to stop clinging to him.

To the public, it's a mystery straight out of the best selling triller novel, but for the organization behind it all, it's nothing more than some ancient devices needing their annual maintenance.

Enter Abolish, the maintenance guy. He's just there for exactly one job. Find the problem beacon at the castle, that keep turning red every 200 years (cause y'know who), and turn it back to neutral. Done! That should get the barrier back up. The barrier that serves to keep vampires in and everyone else out, meaning he's got no problem just walking out as a human. At least, that's how it was supposed to be...

But then some people turned the town beacon orange, and he can't turn that one back, and now everyone's stuck, and how did this become a tug of war with a whole coven of vampires??? Whatever, just stop turning the beacons! They're supposed to stay neutral!

Everyone keeps messing up his work and Abolish just wanna go home lmao