Recollé Blood Affinity Permissions

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Okay! So while Elda actually does have another ability which could demand a permissions post (erasing memories), that ability is activated by choice and I will always ask permission about that if it ever comes up. This post however is about an ability she can't shut off because it's one of her new senses: she can smell blood and also smell for Blood Affinity.

So in Karin, Blood Affinity is the preference in taste of blood that a vampire has. But that taste is actually defined not by actual blood type or anything (though that can be a factor, just like diet, when you're actually drinking it) but instead by the emotions of people! Which is silly but hey, what're you gonna do. So for example, Elda's grandson Ren is attracted to the blood of stressed out people and his body involuntarily reacts to the smell of the blood of particularly stressed people. Likewise with particularly youthful people and her husband James.

Elda's (admittedly headcanon, it's never explicitly spelled out but this is best guest from implications) Blood Affinity is basically ennui/unfulfilled-ness/listlessness, but specifically the tired feelings that arise in people as they get older. Think middle aged people, salarymen, people who are feeling crushed under the weight of adulting, people in midlife crisis mode? Stuff like that. People who have that as a potent/common emotional state will have their blood smell/taste better to her and people who are particularly youthful will have their blood smell/taste worse to her. The smell of particularly good blood for her causes a physiological reaction in her that will resemble her being flustered because this is a shojo series (though she will get better about hiding this over time).

So uh! If you want you can do me a solid and fill this out especially if you regularly interact with Elda because this is an involuntary power. However because this does technically involve smelling emotions (even if they aren't like... particularly revealing ones) you can feel free to just opt out of it. Otherwise:
<b>Does your character have blood?:</b> ... some people have ink or are robots or whatever <b>Would their blood smell better or worse based on that Affinity:</b> Feel free to expand on this honestly, it might help me out with it if you're uncertain <b>Any other notable facts about their blood:</b> While the Affinity is most important for smell, if someone has a disease of some sort or is particularly unhealthy (it's noted in canon that eating too much sugar or fried food makes blood sludgey and less good texture wise) or healthy in some other way - or if the blood isn't human blood - can affect taste in the event we ever do feeding. This one is mostly a formality / if you want to mention anything else though.

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Does your character have blood?: Yes!
Would their blood smell better or worse based on that Affinity: Mmm probably neutral/worse based on how stressed out Sakura is feeling. She's young enough where she won't feel overwhelmed in the same manner as a middle-aged adult working 3 jobs to make ends meet and assuming that's as good as it's going to get for them, but! As she acquires more memories and has to juggle those + school + a job, she might reach the college student's version of that listlessness, where the world could end the next day and she'd be grateful for the nap.
Any other notable facts about their blood: Well Sakura eats more sugar than she should, tbh. Not to a point her diet needs to be upheaved, but hey, girl likes her ice cream. There's also the fact she's a mage, though given how Sakura is unique for significant reasons you're already aware of, I actually don't know how that would translate? Mana does tend to pool in the blood stream, so Elda could potentially notice that oddity. And this is to say nothing of when Sakura regains her link to the The Root.

-- NO BUGS, THOUGH. I can promise that much.