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matchbreaker) wrote2018-03-05 09:09 am
matchbreaker) wrote2018-03-05 09:09 am
Recollé Blood Affinity Permissions
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:
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:
no subject
Would their blood smell better or worse based on that Affinity: It could go either way, I think? Miai is a super thrillseeker and go-getter and such, but it's largely because he's super easily bored with life and pretty unsatisfied with himself and the life he's living. What he's doing isn't Enough so he always needs something more interesting, more fun to stimulate him. So outwardly he's quite energetic, but his motivations for being so are a little more morose.
Any other notable facts about their blood: This isn't relevant at the moment, but whenever Miai regains his canonical terminal illness (probably not for awhile, though) it'll probably taste less great on account of the illness itself and all the medication he'll need to take.