[ oushi is grateful for the break in eye contact. hopefully vanitas is distracted enough he doesn't notice the way oushi rushed out a relieved breath, as if he'd been holding it in this whole time. hopefully vanitas won't notice how oushi's hands have unconsciously begun to linger. ]
I don't know. You're the first vampire I've met.
[ oh. hold on, let him catch up on his knowledge of vampire lore (based entirely on media, to be fair, but.)— ]
Or were you just fed on?
[ he had met a great many different kind of people in The Other Place, the one before this, but he doesn't think he'd come across a vampire before.
...
no one who was originally a vampire, anyway.
but admittedly his knowledge on this kind of stuff is very limited and kind of conflated, at this point. ]
Taking off my shirt in front of you's not gonna make you hungry, will it?
[ it's funny, isn't it? how much easier it is to talk about things that should have been completely mind-blowing for him, when the alternative is to address the fact he's finished all those buttons and now the only thing left — the thing he's very clearly stalling on — is to peel those skin-snug pants off. ]
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I don't know. You're the first vampire I've met.
[ oh. hold on, let him catch up on his knowledge of vampire lore (based entirely on media, to be fair, but.)— ]
Or were you just fed on?
[ he had met a great many different kind of people in The Other Place, the one before this, but he doesn't think he'd come across a vampire before.
...
no one who was originally a vampire, anyway.
but admittedly his knowledge on this kind of stuff is very limited and kind of conflated, at this point. ]
Taking off my shirt in front of you's not gonna make you hungry, will it?
[ it's funny, isn't it? how much easier it is to talk about things that should have been completely mind-blowing for him, when the alternative is to address the fact he's finished all those buttons and now the only thing left — the thing he's very clearly stalling on — is to peel those skin-snug pants off. ]