Canon is BBC's Being Human.

[goingdry]

Eh, not one of your better ideas. Then again what ones are good at four in the morning when you have to be at work at nine?

Not that I'm a proper role model for "good ideas".

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[diana_abel]

Well, for what it's worth, this isn't exactly a place for good ideas.

[goingdry]

[Oh well, hello fellow vampire. He'll just be wary of you, because you guys only come talk to him when you want to cause trouble.]

Really? And why's that?

[diana_abel]

Dunno. Just kinda the nature of the place, I guess?

I think it's just some kinda unspoken agreement from all muns. To be sadistic, ya know?

[goingdry]

[That just makes him laugh.]

Wait so this is what's passing as sadistic now? I've seen sadistic, this is tame, this isn't even worth getting worked up about. [Not yet anyway.]

But I guess I've not had much experience with the mundane, yet. We'll add this to my resume.

[diana_abel]

[Her tone gets a little clipped. She's trying very hard not to sound irrational.]

I would hardly call some of the things done to me around here "friendly." Sadistic is my word of choice.

[goingdry]

[Right right, he realizes he's maybe being a bit of a boob right now.]

Done to you, like what?

[He sounds genuinely curious, if not perhaps a tad bit worried. Were there vampire hostilities around here too? No doubt, he was sure.]

[diana_abel]

Like being tied to a chair and shot in the face on live television.

To demonstrate to the population the proper way to deal with a "monster."

[goingdry]

[That will have Mitchell swallowing thickly, looking very uncomfortable. She meant humans had done that... right? But they aren't supposed to know about them, not unless they're part of the system they have set up. But why would they-- no no, don't think about that. That would just drive him mad.]

Sounds hypercritical to call us monsters when they're just as brutal. Guess I have a lot to catch up on. What else has happened here? Are there any leaders in the area, groups? [Just please don't say Herrick is here. Please.]

[diana_abel]

If you're looking for any kind of organization or structure in the vampiric community where I've been tossed...

...there...is none.

I think I may actually be the oldest vampire in Dagaz. Which I guess makes me the de facto Prince, except that I don't really wanna be.

[goingdry]

That's extremely reassuring to hear. [Though honestly depending on the vampires that could be a really good thing, or a horrible thing.]

Dagaz? Can't say I've heard of it, but you're welcome to its rule. Not really king material myself. [Sure he'd had his go at it, but he'd been the reluctant had no choice sort.]

So how old are you 'prince'? If it's not rude to ask.

[diana_abel]

Wow. Clearly your mother never taught you not to ask a woman her age.

[She's teasing. Really.]

Two hundred and fifty eight. I think.

[goingdry]

Hey, I asked if it was rude.

[He'll shoot back, but his tone is easy, considering their previous talk of being shot in the face.]

You've got over a hundred on me, I must know your beauty secrets.

[diana_abel]

Diet and exercise.

[She smiles.]

What's your name?

[goingdry]

I've got the dieting bit down, might have to work on the exercise a tad.

[With all the running around he did one would think not.]

Mitchell. Can't say your the usual suspect I run into. Usually they all want something. [He'll lower his guard around her, if only a little. She does genuinely seem like a nice girl, for a vampire. Most he's used to are nothing but trouble.]

[diana_abel]

Mitchell? Used to run around with a guy named Mitchell, back in the 1970s. Not as cute as you, though.

I'm Diana.

[goingdry]

You never know, could have been me. I was around then too. [Of course he knows it wasn't him. He would remember her, or he likes to think he would have.]

Nice to uh, meet you. [Don't mind him seeming to find this a little surreal. He didn't have many vampire friends, or make many nice acquaintances of his own kind, due to his stance on not using humanity like cattle to feed on. Kind of made other vampires dicks around him, usually.]

[diana_abel]

You're sounding a little hesitant there, Mitchell.

Is it not nice to meet me?

[goingdry]

Let's just say this isn't the typical song and dance I play with other vampires usually.

Tends to be a bit of bad mouthing, something about being superior to humans. Threats of violence. The normal thing.

[diana_abel]

Superior to humans? As if!

[goingdry]

Yeah you didn't know we were the next step of evolution huh? Didn't catch that memo?

[diana_abel]

Dude, we are so far outside of evolution, Darwin would weep.

[goingdry]

Wouldn't that be a sad irony. If Darwin were still alive, one of us?

Poor sod.

[diana_abel]

You know, it would not be the most shocking thing I'd ever learned.

Now, Elvis? That was a surprise.

[goingdry]

... really?

[Now that's one he hadn't heard.]

[diana_abel]

Oh yeah. He used to work out of a wedding chapel in Vegas. It was also an Elysium for the local vampire population, until they were all idiots and pretty much destroyed the city.