☽ I: video

[inabluemoon]

[The video flicks on to reveal a figure silhouettes against the red moon glowing full overhead behind them. It looks like Vanitas has somehow gotten onto the roof of somewhere and is perched very precariously on the edge, his hair ruffled. For as dim as his face is in the darkness it's clear that he's grinning widely, his teeth looking almost suspiciously sharp and his blue eyes glowing with what seems to be red.]

Hello, fellow Moonblessed! To those of you who I haven't met yet, my name is Vanitas.

[Briefly the video becomes a blur as he spins to face the moon, gesturing to it broadly as the red glow washes over him.] Where I come from this sort of red moon usually heralds the birth of beings known as vampires. But it's a shame that such doesn't seem to be the case here, you know?

[He laughs, the sound just a bit manic.] You might be wondering why... It's simple- I'm a doctor to vampires, and without any patients it's just impossible for me to do my job! And I'm a very busy man, you know... So I'd like to make an offer to all of you!

If there are any vampires here, I want you to let me test something on you! If you're inhuman but not a vampire I suppose I could still try it on you, really... So what do all of you say?

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[inabluemoon]

[Suddenly his expression turns serious, expression darkening into one of disdain.]

I'm not.

[milkisgross]

Then why are your eyes glowing red?

[inabluemoon]

Doing what?

[Yeah he genuinely has absolutely no idea. He snorts.]

You must be losing it. I said I'm not a vampire.

[milkisgross]

Is your hearing going bad too? I said your eyes are glowing red. Like the vampires you told me about before.

[inabluemoon]

[Vanitas purses his lips, looking clearly skeptical. He fidgets with his device for a little bit before he finally figures out how to see himself in the camera, holding it out almost comically and squinting.

Then he almost drops it, yelping.]

Woah- hey, what the hell is this?!

[milkisgross]

[Oh. That surprise looks pretty genuine.]

Hell if I know. There's got to be a doctor somewhere around here. Maybe you should get that checked out.

[He's serious, though he has no idea about what kind disease or condition could cause that glow, save for the vampire thing he had been told about.]

Maybe you were bitten by a vampire?

[inabluemoon]

Does this look like the sort of thing a normal doctor could fix!?

[He gestures emphatically to his glowing eyes before holding the camera veeeery close to his face, trying to get a better look.]

And what would me being bitten have to do with it?! I've been bitten plenty of times! [Since vampires can't actually spread vampirism, at least in his world.]

[milkisgross]

I don't know! I'm an alchemist, not a doctor!

[Oh no. Vanitas yelling meas that Ed's just going to follow suit. It's only downhill from here, folks.]

I thought that's how vampires were made! Don't blame me for not knowing how something works from your world!

[inabluemoon]

[Welp this is just going to get ridiculous.]

Why would that make any sense?! Tch! [Vanitas, he has a point. There's no reason for anyone to get how vampires work for you.] If that's how it happened I would have been a vampire a long time before now!

[milkisgross]

That's what all the stories say about how vampires are made from where I'm from! I'm sorry I didn't know it was different in other places!!

[He sure doesn't sound very sorry.]

[inabluemoon]

Tch! Well now you know!

[He scoffs.]