MBC #2: 'Bloodletting' (Ruby Version) [Part 1, 🌲🍂]
Added 2024-10-21 12:30:02 +0000 UTC
[Alternate Text: A header image of a broken hourglass. Its white sand is spilling out with only one half of its glass chambers still intact, while the other is shattered into several shards. It has gilded finishes. The background is black, though there is gold shimmer around the hourglass itself. The title 'Bloodletting' is the same color as the sand with a dark shadow stretching out from it.]
Ruby almost continues around the corner until you tug on your joined hands and come to a complete stop. She adapts, matching your sudden pause, but not your teasing smile as she glances down one of the Verner mansion's palatial hallways. It stretches on and on, flanked by expensive artwork, well-preserved armor, and other displays of rarity and wealth.
It's perfect—a main hall meant to leave guests impressed each time they walk through it.
"I thought you were famished?" Ruby asks. "I would have brought you breakfast in bed."
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Comments
Listen, ok just listen. I was in the Bering and Wells fandom.... I like angst and pain i can't help it. >.> <.<
three of eight
2024-10-21 20:01:31 +0000 UTCthis is great because the Ruby writing that gets you is the one where Ruby is technically dead 😎
ckl
2024-10-21 19:59:34 +0000 UTC😂😂😂 Hmm, perhaps you are ri- *sudden chill* Rightly valid in your opinion and I wish you the best >.> CoughImDoingHerRouteNextCough.
three of eight
2024-10-21 19:47:47 +0000 UTC*shaking this writing like a bag of treats* become a Rmancer become a Rmancer become a- /j
alex
2024-10-21 19:38:45 +0000 UTCMe: OK there's gonna be angst but I can do this, I like Ruby but she isn't my main RO so I'll get through this... we can do this. Aelsa: lmao you thought Lmaoooo I'm not OK. The warm happy flashbacks smattered between the cold bleak future ... the only valid response I can give you is remember 2010 to 2015 tumblr and the whole my emotions!! various gif stuff cause that's me. Can't even word my emotions gotta do it through doctor who gifs. But I too am wondering whether it was done for the "greater good" as mentioned in other comments as a way to be "if someone's gonna do it I'd rather it be us to try mitigate the awful" or something else. I am hooked, kudos.
three of eight
2024-10-21 19:36:23 +0000 UTCI am so utterly chill and perfectly normal about this short (me when I blatantly lie). AHHH, what a tone shift between the competition and happier times and Fernweh under a vampire occupation. I'm fascinated that this is something the heirs chose, that Char and Verner did this willingly. (TBH, if I was going to extrapolate on *why* they chose this, I wonder if it was a "lesser" evil situation? If there was a vampire coven that was going to come into town and control Fernweh, wouldn't it be better to have the heirs become the vampires as opposed to Outsiders. Sorry, I'm thinking so hard about this scenario that I'm derailing myself. But it's such a delightful bit of horror that the town knows that the Bloodletting occurs and that people volunteer for this, but these people are... tainted after. Fernweh, never change!!!) Past Jam and Ruby hits so hard, I can't believe you've done this to me. When Ruby shows January the jewelry but Jam catches Ruby looking at *her* instead - she's thinking about the ring and the promise already, she's thinking about it!!! (Somewhere out there Doppel: 😎) Also, all through the later half of this writing is pure suffering for me. That vampire is *not Ruby*, Ruby Verner is dead. Jam is steeling herself to do what she knows she needs to do, but if that's not Ruby, why is she stopping January from smashing her face? Why did she retreat for a split second? OOOOH, the hurt about the obituary. Is there a spark of Ruby's soul in this soulless creature? Does Vampire Ruby kiss the same has human Ruby? lmao sorry for this never ending comment. I can't wait for the continuation
ckl
2024-10-21 18:39:52 +0000 UTCI thought we were gonna be fighting vampires together, not my love being one 😭 I thought we were gonna have a Buffy moment Wait no, my Ruby got turned 😭 that’s even sadder 😭😭😭 Gosh, this has my heart twisted 😭 this either ends with Barbie and Rubes dieing together or us joining her, ain’t no in between 🤣
Dieonysucc
2024-10-21 17:31:50 +0000 UTC
