#hecula

Just wanted to tell you that

once again you're selling me the trope of heat like no one else before lol, esp as some sort of biological mechanism that bonds childe with sire

the idea that the sire can offer clarity to the childe by pressing the turning scar, but only enough to command them further, is really clever

"Something warm flutters inside his chest at that. Butterflies, of all things. Or maybe moths, hungry for the light Dracula offers him." is it bad that I really liked this line and found it a cool twist for a vamprire lol

anyway now I'm toying with the idea of Dracula deliberately cutting up Hector with his claws (mostly his juicy thighs) because he knows that he can just force Hector to feel pleasure at that :) thank and keep up the good work ❤️

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this ahhh!!!

Ngl I am having a BLAST with that fic. I think part of it is that I used to explain vampire stuff away with a non-committal shrug and "eh. it's magic". Which works, don't get me wrong! But this time my brain went: wait. what if it's not magic. What if its just... biology. Like, bodies doing body things. It is just their species design, something they have no control over, like their eye color, whether they like it or not.

And i just love that approach. Making the sire/fledgling bond not a psychological but a physiological one at its forefront. They are still mentally connected. But their drive is different now.

I also love playing with Jonathan's bite mark as a trigger point, a short cut to flip their dynamic to complete submission vs. dominance! But even that has it's limits. Dracula can quickly put him on "pause" but only long enough until he states his next command, and like this, Jonathan can do nothing but listen. Drac's control is finite. And it is not really mind control in the classic sense either; a part of Jonathan is still there after all, he can think, and feel, even as he is being commanded, but his body/movements are just like that, overridden. The horror! The implications! Glad you enjoy that hehe

"Something warm flutters inside his chest at that. Butterflies, of all things. Or maybe moths, hungry for the light Dracula offers him." is it bad that I really liked this line and found it a cool twist for a vampire lol <- i know, right?? SOME part of Johnny boy is starting to warm up to Drac, no matter what he says 🤭

But sometimes... when I have the Feels... I like to imagine him in Love. Before he noticed that he's serving a vampstard. Hector melting under his Lord's touch, and being happy that he's loved and cherished, and believing that any price is fair for that one sublime feeling. And it's still twisted and wrong and the hold Dracula has on him is immense, but. idk. sometimes i want them to be cute in their own fucked up way 🥺

Here ya go!!! I hope you enjoy this board, like I enjoy when you write about these two 🩷

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