Stupidity and Art

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Dracula, Brides of Dracula, only one of them - Character Additional Tags: Vampires, Vampire Bites, Vampire Turning, early experience of being turned not the actual turning process, Inspired by Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897), References to Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897) Summary:

Crimson filled my sight. I was not some peasant wench that He could pass whatever this affliction was upon! That leper! That damned Count! I could kill Him! Rip Him apart with my very teeth and nails until He was naught bone and gristle! Savage that damned bastard’s heart, smash His skull upon a rock! I would kill Him!

I flinched at the sheer vitriol of my own thoughts. My explosive anger cooled in an instant as the thoughts that had raged through my mind dawned on me. Disgust roiled in my gut. Rip Him apart with my teeth? My nails? Why had I- how could I even think of something like that? Had He inflicted not only pestilence upon me but derangement as well?

The Mariposa, Institute, and Appalachian strains of FEV all have similar results, all of them producing Super Mutants that are larger than humans, have green skin, and have varied intelligence. The Mariposa strain is the most heavily advanced form of FEV from before the bombs and as such its results with humans are the best, in the best scenario greatly improving intelligence, though for most cases it either leaves mutants stupid or barely changes their intelligence. The Institute strain likely could have similar results, but its use is almost entirely on wastelanders, but we see that these SMs are smarter on average than some of those in the Master's army. Being able to plan, construct their own army, even developing their own culture. And Appalachian mutants are very much the same.

Vault 87's strain of FEV is unique, however, in how it reduces the vast majority of its subjects into feral raging brutes, not just leaving them stupid, but also cranking up their rage to levels that isn't reflected by other strains. Intelligence is so uncommon in this strain that these mutants view it as a aberration and actively reject any of their number that have any degree of higher thought. They're raging berserkers that grow bigger and stronger and all the harder to kill as they age (Institute and Appalachian mutants can also develop in Behemoths, but we don't know if this growth happens across the board or if its just a unique few, unlike Vault 87's mutants where we can visibly seem them getting larger). And this to me seems intentional when we look at the majority of experiments that surround Vault 87.

The Blood Beast! This is a comic I had to make as a finale project for one of my classes. I'm not 100% happy with how it turned out, there are panels that I messed up and just had to roll with because I didn't have the time to redraw them.