#wurdulac

"You make promises to see each other again on different shores."

there is a decadence in visions of black and red

the wolfblood epic | the bloody dopplegänger-verse

a gothic fantasy and paranormal romance that spans generations

"right from wrong is always my thought, now that me and you are no more..."

read: ao3 | sqwa

🐺🩸 bloodbound: a tale of moonlit passion

They meet in battle, on opposing sides of a war instigated by their fathers. One long dead and the other using a cold, iron, fist to drive the war on until only one immortal species is left. They meet in battle, on opposing sides of a war as the blood of a beloved sister flows like a river until there is no more. Yet as a lightening bolt strikes hallowed ground, they are both struck by something ancient, primal, that ties them together. They meet in battle, on opposing sides of an endless war. A love like theirs was strong. - Nik and Lloyd are warriors from two different bloodlines. Somehow they find a way to dance to a difference song.

next up: rise of the eternal blood | stucky [2027]

hello :)

the NL top is from Parsimonious, and is on the second row of this page. the turtleneck is a 4t2 conversion by rascalcurious.

Thank you! Honestly there are a ton of good monster/cryptid Jonathan ideas out there alongside the 'maybe he's a diet vampire?' theories. The ghoul thing (as I've rambled about before) is born of the whole 'suddenly taking on corpsey coloring' + 'the religious stuff doesn't hurt him and he seems to be All About killing the Count' = 'being generally more eerie and unsettling' = 'freaky creature that hunts the (un)dead and has no known issue with Christian paraphernalia' = that boy seems a bit ghoulish!

And while Dracula absolutely stole a drink the last night in the castle, I've never been 100% on that being a basis for Jonathan being any kind of pseudo vampire born of the Count's nibbling. It'd mean he was tethered to Dracula too, and for a longer period than Mina. But Dracula is shitting bricks enough to run from Jonathan rather than fight him with the kukri in hand. So he clearly suspects something is up with this young man that's worth worrying about. Even when Jonathan had scuttled down the side of the house and was giving chase entirely solo ahead of the others, Dracula never turned to fight him.

Sounds like the kind of thing a walking corpse would do if he knew a ghoul was chasing him with his giant cutlery out.

...But, in hindsight, I can also see a different kind of Semi-Vampire!Jonathan in action here. One that's even more worrisome than Dracula's implied brand of vampire, the Romanian strigoi. Say, the same kind of pallid, washed-out vampires we see in, "The Family of the Vourdalak," by Alexei Tolstoy.

tough call... I really really like the vibe of pchd's sepia portraits but the same filtering makes them feel a bit less charming. for example w/ katerina whose photo was retaken

& aglaya's who was as far as I can tell just edited

𝖂𝖚𝖗𝖉𝖚𝖑𝖆𝖈 – 𝔙𝔞𝔪𝔭𝔶𝔯𝔦𝔠 ℭ𝔲𝔯𝔰𝔢