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[foulplayed]

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[foulplayed]

It does. I don't plan on getting sloppy while I'm here, so a sparring partner or two would be very welcome.

Interested?

[memoriams]

I suppose I could humor you. Though it does beg the question: were you something of a fighter back home?

[foulplayed]

I was a lot of things back home - swordplay just turned out to be a pretty advantageous skill to learn.

What about you, Mr. Knight in Shining Armour? Are you the hero I've been looking for?

[memoriams]

A lot of things. How very mysteriously vague.

I think I've painted the wrong impression of myself. I'm hardly a knight. It isn't what some people would call my "aesthetic".

[Not Alucard, who isn't keen on visualizing himself as some majestic hero riding in to save the day. It is never so grand; saving Wallachia had felt like ripping his own heart out, rather than some noble deed.]

Consider me simply capable of defending myself, in a world that has been less than kind to me and many others.

[foulplayed]

All part of my charm.

( Pfft. )

Anyway, it seems like I'm not the only one carrying around a bit of mystery. You sound like a guy with a story to tell.

[memoriams]

No more than anyone else. You mentioned a war in your world? You could say that mine had been in a similar state.

[foulplayed]

Kind of a shame that war's the one thing that unites most of our worlds, isn't it.

I guess people will always behave like people, no matter where you put them.

[memoriams]

Human fallacy, or so they say.

Can I ask what’s the nature of your world’s war?

[foulplayed]

Same thing as always: disagreements over power. Church versus Empire, with everyone else getting dragged into it along the way.

That the Church turned out to be built on centuries of lies didn't help matters.

[memoriams]

[Ah... the Church. Alucard's own opinions about any sort of powerful religious organization are particularly raw and bitter, and his opinion is given freely on the matter.]

Lies, hypocrisy, deceit? Corruption, even, at its core - its more peaceable and tolerant tenants conveniently forgotten when its power is threatened by outside forces of thought or even philosophy?

Am I close?

[foulplayed]

( Go off, Alucard?? )

Got it in one. Where did all that come from, huh?

[memoriams]

In my world, the Church is the cause of many troubles, many sorrows. A few personal, but more egregiously, one can say it's the reason for much of the conflict that had only recently been quelled.

So, I am not surprised to hear that your iteration shares similar traits. Unflattering, all if not most.