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Elizabeth Mercer

Somethings Can't Be Forgotten

Will Elizabeth's unhealthy attachment continue on? Will she still continue to see him as hers? Possibly, very likely, even, but for how long, I don't know. They're not going to really meet again for, what, three, four hundred years? Elizabeth's active attachment is going to fade. It has to. Eventually, she'll go days without thinking about him. But once they meet again - I can't say for sure. I'd like to think that by the time they meet again, her obsession won't rekindle in the same way. She will be more independent of him, and she will stay that way. I don't know how jealous she'll get over seeing him with other lady vampires, I'm guessing that she won't get explicitly jealous or possessive unless she sees some possibility that he has feelings for one of them, or one of the girls do for him, if that makes sense. For example, I don't know if she'd get possessive over Violet's relationship with Jaspin, because from how I'm seeing it, there's no romantic tension there. Their relationship is clearly more like a master and his ward.

That being said, I don't know if perhaps Elizabeth will be more prone to interpreting any of Jaspin's relationships with woman as romantic. That's a possibility. I don't know anything for certain until we start playing with them in those contexts. But as I foresee it, I'm pretty sure that by the time they meet again, Elizabeth will have enough control over herself and be over him enough to not go on some 'if I can't have him, nobody can' rampage over Jaspin just having women in his clan.

Right away would probably make more sense. If he betrays her right away, it makes more sense that it's a knee-jerk reaction to this traumatic experience, before he can really get a hold of himself and think about what's really best. For one thing, brand new vampires don't have a ton of self-control. And two, if he had the time to cool down and get his head straight and really think about it, would he still really, with sound mind and body, choose to betray Elizabeth?

Somethings Can't Be Forgotten

That'll work well for their background, I think. The graverobbing thing is because there's no other real way for her to stay in one place for any sustainable time otherwise, right? Attacking live people, even if she didn't turn them, that'd set off a panic in a heartbeat. That idea of Jaspin actively deterring suspicions of Elizabeth if people started getting suspicious - and I would expect people would suspect the new, reclusive, single woman - I love it, how he would defend and protect her.

(Not sure if she drank from him - probably not, but at some point earlier, I considered it a possibility)
Yeah, that patches a lot of potential plot holes.

No, I think I'll keep Elizabeth as she is. More interesting as Bela's backstory is, I think the strength of Elizabeth's will serve the story fine. It's not like she's uninteresting. It was fun to write this response, because I discovered another aspect of Elizabeth, in how she kept thinking 'he's mine, Jaspin's mine', that she's a little unhealthy in her attachment, almost a little abusive in how she makes this choice for him against his will, because she thinks he's her property and he doesn't know what he's good for him. Discovering character is so fun.

Somethings Can't Be Forgotten

She couldn't believe that he doubted her and her devotion. It could have taken her breath away. Had she done something wrong, to let him believe it could even be possible that she'd abandon him? Elizabeth felt heartsick. She had so much to be heartsick for. Heartsick for the man she had tried to nurse back to health in vain. Heartsick for the man who would visit her every day without fail for the flimsiest of excuses, for a single broken shingle or difficult door hinge. For the man who she remembered how to be a woman and a wife for, for whom she relearned to garden and to bake. For the man who stumbled upon her kneeling on the floor, blood dripping down her chin to her chest, and while she sobbed in fear of losing everything, he knelt beside her and steadfastly told her they would be alright. He should have turned on her then. But he didn't. He put his trust in her, completely. And now he was giving up. It had all been for nothing. Nothing but the pain to last an endless lifetime.

No. Her grip on him tightened. She couldn't let him go. She wouldn't. Elizabeth had nothing in this world besides him. She'd had enough suffering. For once, she was going to keep what was hers. She was not about to let Death take the only thing she had for her own in over two hundred years. Death could make no mistake - Jaspin was hers.

"You're not going anywhere," she muttered, muffled in his chest. The moment after he kissed her blonde waves, she lifted her head towards his shoulder, frowning, burning on the inside. "I won't let you." She breathed in his scent slowly, turning her attention towards that vein in his neck that always tempted a part of her. Her attention was always drawn to it, but for months she'd resisted it with little effort. Now though...

She shot forward and one hand went to the other side of Jaspin's neck, reaching up his head to press him closer to her. It was all instinct now, this monstrous instinct that she'd had to live with and tame for over two hundred years. For a second, she felt completely wild, frighteningly so, but for that second, she liked it, in that second she dug her fangs into her beloved's neck.

The blood tasted... awful. It was awful, like rancid meat. He was sick and so his blood was revolting. She was so, so hungry, but it was easy to not take her full and drain him dry. Elizabeth only took a mouthful before breaking away from his skin. But that was all she needed. Her fangs were more pronounced than ever, and, looking at Jaspin's neck, she could see the edges of his wound simmer and go lightly green as the venom sunk into his veins. She held him close to her, her arms wrapped around him like a vise. This was going to hurt him. This was going to hurt him very much. But this pain was merely temporary, nothing like his suffering and death and like her surviving with the torture of losing him. "You'll be alright," she whispered to him softly, like he'd whispered to her months ago. "It'll be over soon. You'll be alright. You'll never have to feel pain again."

Somethings Can't Be Forgotten

Perhaps they do, but I'm fine with either, it's not super important.

I think it'll be more interesting to do him discovering her, perhaps even in the act. We could probably incorporate him starting to have some suspicions that something is off about her. But yes, we can go for him finding her covered in blood, perhaps sometime after reports start surfacing of fresh graves being disturbed around the village.
I keep forgetting that we're not actually RPing this part. I'm just using it to come up with the context of their relationship. This is good, this should work.

*makes secondary character more interesting than main character in only two hours worth of thought*
Oops

There's something we didn't take into consideration with this whole 'feeding' concept. If what makes a vampire is drinking the blood but not draining the body, how does Elizabeth drink from Jaspin (and Jonathan?) without turning them?
Maybe it's a conscious thing, but one that takes a while to master. Like a vampire can actively control the flow of venom, but inexperienced vampires don't know how to do it. That'd explain how a lot of the characters are turned by inexperienced or sloppy vampires, but Elizabeth can feed from him without turning him.

Somethings Can't Be Forgotten

Maybe she'd start liking having him around and falling in love with him and she just keeps breaking her stuff just to get him to come around more. Perhaps it's kind of an old rundown house to begin with so they have lots of time to get to know each other (even though with her age, she probably knows how to do a lot of it herself). But then we need to also start thinking, what's the moment when he finds she's a vampire? How does that go, how do they handle it? I expect Elizabeth would be absolutely terrified at that moment, sobbing with fear terrified.
But then, perhaps she tells him herself. There could be a reason she's do that.
Would Jaspin start suspecting? What kind of questions would Jaspin ask her about her life? Elizabeth would probably be very vague and avoid answering questions a lot.

In one night, I think I made my most interesting character of mine in the RP. Not sure how to feel about that.