#professormorriarty

Oh oh oh, I love this headcanon and am behind it completely! (You wouldn’t have any more you’d be willing to share, would you?)

Horst Cabal, the vampire, looked at a small squashed cake.  It was a cream-filled vanilla article from one of the concession stands.  He’d been escorting a lady, and it seemed more companionable to get one for each of them.  She’d eaten hers, and he’d taken a few mouthfuls from her behind the ghost train, and  then she’d suddenly felt tired.  He’d escorted her back to the gates.  She was safer away from all this.

The carnival was strange.  He sat on the roof of the train and watched it from a distance.  The May night was cool, but it didn’t bother him.  It was a revelation to be out of the tomb, to talk to real people and feel the air on his face, but the workers smelled of brimstone and sulphur: the zombies of rot.  The only beating heart on the train was his brother’s.  He could hear it now, thudding sullenly in the office.

Horst had blood, at least, but it was a pleasure that blotted out everything else, and that worried him.  He distracted himself with the work of the carnival.  He’d made a promise - to Johannes, but still.  It kept him from thinking about blood all day.  He watched the crowds mill through the carnival from his perch, temporarily above it all. He should be down there, welcoming people, watching the hell-things.  

ALL THESE TAGS ARE MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. The radio series is -sublime-, the voices are perfect, the acting is brilliant, but WHAT A WASTE... That said, I will forgive them because No Sinecure and The Last Word expertly broke my heart. The way Raffles says "Bunny... is my friend," hurts in the best way.

OK NO i re-listened to The Last Word last night after like, one whole year of pretending it doesn’t exist, and i Swear i’ll never listen to it again. I CAN’T HANDLE IT. also, how dare the lady who introduces the episode say “wracked and wretched with grief, bunny continues his life on autopilot” ??? SHE SAYS IT WITH A SMILE ??????

oh gosh HOW DID I FORGET, YOU'RE RIGHT. Maybe the "sad they omitted it" bit I was thinking of was in A Trap to Catch a Cracksman: "I had never seen Raffles more interested and impressed; but at this point his smile altered, his eyes softened, and I found my hand in his." I knew the radio version left out at least one of my favourite "look how much he cares" moments.

At first I was sad the radio didn't have the "apotheosis of Bunny" line but then I realised THIS IS FAR CUTER