#stranger ask

It would be something nice if you weren’t dead to me. You’ve even sunk the friend ship. 🥲

hey bb!!💗

Worst haircut of your life?Oh god I remember this one. It was the seventh grade and I wanted to have short hair and bangs, I was going through my emo phase at the time and so when I did get my hair cut I looked SOOOO BAD like coconut head. If you want a reference look at that one picture of Noah in the uncut wig. That was me. Worst experience and worst time.

Can you drive?Not yet, I still needa take my written exam (I’m a baby I know no need to rub it in. All my friends are older than me so they drive me places)

I guess now’s a good time to mention that despite being a loner, Stranger is never alone, because vampirism is a parisitoid affliction. Much in the way that cordyceps compels ants to climb to high places so the fungus can release its spores, the lichworm compels humans (living or dead) to consume blood. Then it sits back in your gut and just eats what you eat.

The line between what’s “you” and what’s “the worm” quickly blurs. When you can no longer tell, that’s when vampirism has become incurable and a permanent fixture of your being instead of an illness or a curse.

Despite being the literal cause of vampirism, many vampires are in some degree of denial about being a monkey suit that finds blood for an unholy tapeworm... this insecurity is the cause of many grandiose, dramatic vampire speeches. Most vampires mentally reframe the worm as a vessel for their power that they have to feed--a fantasy that puts them back in control of the situation. Some deny it’s there at all.

That’s fair! I also haven’t spoken of my characters on here in ages and a lot of the information that‘s up might be depreciated/inaccurate now, so a quick little intro/refresher is probably a good idea.

“Stranger” is, as we know, a vampire cowboy, and the mc of the weird west story/worldbuilding project/??? I’m tentatively calling “Where the Sun Dies.” More under the cut...