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1) When he goes though his fencing ~~kata~~ practice alone he uses a much heavier blade than you’d normally fence with. Something more like a classical arming sword. Which is why his blows have much more power than his opponents would expect in tournaments.
2) His ancestors were actually Crusaders and he still retains ties to Rome. Though as much as he rages about affronts to the Knights Templar he’s never clarified whether or not that’s due to some familial connection.
3) Despite everything they’ve gone through and any accusations that people have made, it’s never crossed Orpherus’ mind that Eduard might not be a noble because deep down as much as he likes the trappings and so on, Orpherus honestly believes that real nobility comes from within.

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4) He claims to have trouble seeing girls. Nobody quite knows what it means when he says that though it may in fact be similar to Naoji’s exclusionary rule where he has trouble seeing anybody else if Ludwig is in the room.

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5) He’s fully aware of how silly family names from Kuchen can sound to foreigners and he often suspects that his is justification enough of his fondness for jam.

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6) He’s also terribly fond of cheese and likes to heap lots onto his tagliatelle. For someone who occasionally rages that Görz is a German province, damnit he eats an awful lot of what’s typically described as Italian food.

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Orpherus seems to take the obvious route of defining identity or opinion by exclusion. It’s easier to point out what you aren’t when you’re trying to define what you are rather than go straight for trying to figure out what you are. He’s probably also slowly defining what makes Orpherus; Orpherus by figuring out what he doesn’t mind and what he objects to which would make sense for someone who’s spent most of his life trying to fit into the mould of what he thinks he should be. Really defining self beyond expectations would take a much more careful feeling out of what does and doesn’t fit, especially if he’s never had the chance to do it before.

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Naoji.
Also, fact number 5 about Orpherius has given me a sudden craving for Jam. And now I have no idea why I wrote that, I think it's time I went to bed.

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1) Naoji not only has an alarmingly high tolerance for alcohol (he can put away an entire bottle of claret without so much as wobbling) but if and when he does he tends to develop the urge to write poetry.
2) His drunken haikus conform to all the prescribed forms of meter and style as well as seasonal attributes as appropriate.
3) He times his tea brewing with military precision and has been known to thrown entire pots out if they don’t meet what he considers an acceptable standard. He also despairs of Orpherus’ inability to time anything as well as Orpherus’ penchant to wander off aimlessly while his tea is brewing.
4) He’s fond of omelette, ~~Chinese~~ cured sausage and udon. He also likes to put Worchester sauce on just about anything.
5) He’s trilingual and claims to read Lovecraft to help improve his English. He’s been known to claim to feel ‘squamous’ some mornings.

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6) He takes his martial duties very seriously and on any given day is quite prepared to cut down Ludwig’s political opponents in a bloody swathe or stab them violently but discreetly with hairpins. Most days it’s the former since he’s actually Ludwig’s husband for the most part.

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I don’t mind second requests if people want since I’m in an absurdly tea-ful mood at the moment.

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1) Eduard is very aware of public perception and has been known to ham up playing the part of the quintessential rogue. If people can’t tell what is and isn’t real, he figures that’s their problem not his.
2) He drinks English Breakfast tea as a rule since he finds Assam (which Orpherus prefers) too thick and Darjeeling (Ludwig’s tea of choice) too thin. He’s also aware that that might be interpreted to mean something but he doesn’t try to guess.
3) He’s extraordinary fond of Bach and anything else that involves alarming amounts of counterpoint. He knows that performance-wise it’s easier for him to play anything by the Romantic composers but Baroque is his absolute passion.
4) He enjoys horror novels which he occasionally borrows from Naoji. Le Fanu’s Carmilla is a particular favourite, perhaps because it defies all the later vampire conventions.
5) He’s been known to hide as soon as Ludwig and Orpherus start the heated discussions. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate their flurry of references, only that he finds it a little silly and knows that neither of them would be happy with him if he just laughed at it.

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6) He owns a Marseille tarot deck and knows much more about that sort of affair than he ever lets on. Surprisingly enough this isn’t due to ‘gypsy’ heritage but rather several notably dubious Braunschweig ancestors whose diaries and notes he’s combed over meticulously. Many of these records are in fact kept in the secure underground rooms beneath the pavilion at the end of the lake on the family estate.

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I've had debate issues as well, I keep away from debates for the simple fact that most people these days just don't know what they are talking about. And this is a good online version of Carmilla.

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Naoji is a fun character to read about and I agree, I'd love him as my husband. XD

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stab them violently but discreetly with hairpins
He would make a perfect husband, really, it doesn't get any better then that.

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I would do the same, I'd be "oh dear, Naoji is in a mood again" and just bury my head in whatever book I happen to be reading. XD Also, icon love, who could say to those big eyes.

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1) Ludwig likes to complain. He won’t admit to it often but he actually enjoys poking holes in various arguments and ideologies.
2) He’s a surprisingly good cook though he doesn’t cook often and tends to cook French-style food for the most part. He’s been known to claim that the reason for his lack of frequent cooking is to spare Naoji death via overtly rich Western food.
3) He claims to drink an awful lot more gin than he really does. He actually drinks in moderation and doesn’t like to be very drunk at all.
4) Despite claims, he enjoys green tea just as much as he does Darjeeling. This may or may not have something to do with the fact that Naoji brews up whole pots of flavoured secha.
5a) Surprisingly enough he can sing quite well and can in fact sing the entirety of the Austrian national anthem from memory. (This may be, depending on version, because he is either half or a quarter Austrian.)
5b) He can play the shamisen quite well though he is very self-conscious about his level of skill not being apt to do the instrument justice. (Third version that is.)

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6) He sometimes worries that the only Japanese phrases he knows and can repeat with any accuracy belong exclusively in the bedroom. Though as much as he may complain about the matter, Naoji doesn’t seem in anything of a hurry to correct that oversight.

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No fic yet alas though possibly with a little transcribing from hentai I could put something together at some point.

Absolutely! Naoji, so Ludwig maintains, is the stuff ‘real men’ are made of. Naoji on the other hand might claim that it’s more a certain Heian aesthetic.

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My, thank you for the downloads. I was getting tired of my playlist, really. Although, I have something else here, too. Another fandom this time, and maybe a somewhat unexpected character: Esther.

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1) Esther likes firearms, more so than anyone suspects. She has a natural affinity for them and though she’d never admit it aloud, finds the feel of a weapon in her hands to be the most satisfying thing she could possibly imagine. It’s why she has no trouble keeping up her vows of chastity. Who needs sex when she can fill something full of silver bullets instead?
2) Her bras are custom made. If she’s going to be leaping about with a gun in her hands she really doesn’t need the potential trouble of things getting in the way. This also means that her chest never moves. Incidentally, this phenomenon terrifies Dietrich which is why, unlike other men might; he always looks her directly in the face.
3) Though she’s developed a rather more neutral accent during her long months in Rome she occasionally slips back into her original Hungarian one when pronouncing certain words. ‘Asparagus’ is one of them.
4) Her amazingly high scores during AX training came from a combination of two things; her amazing agility and sheer bull-headed persistence. Esther was the trainee who after a gruelling assault-course could still lift and hold a Jericho 941 steady enough to hit a target though sheer stubbornness.
5) Despite firmly believing in AX’s purpose, when she’s bogged down in protocols and formalities she does sometimes feel a twinge of longing for her days in István when she could deliver God’s judgment on her own terms.

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6) She goes to confession regularly and though Abel is her partner, she’s glad that he’s not her confessor and that that duty falls to William instead, since he’s the only one who seems to understand and perhaps even sympathises with the fact that one of her darkest fantasies is to shove the muzzle of her gun into Dietrich’s mouth and blow out his brains.

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Oh dear. So while Dietrich is happily hiding in a nest of dream-eating vaginas, Esther prefers to "shoot"? They're the perfect match for each other, really. If they could just both come out of their respective denial. But I think that's the thing; Trinity Blood: "Gender" what? And now I'm in a stupid enough mood to try and analyse what it may mean that Paula is able to break steel with her thighs. ~~...it was her thighs, right?~~ Which is probably what Esther now thinks she can do, too, or at least she tried to break the bars of the Methuselah prison in Byzantium with her hands. And the rest of the points is really rather cute. ♥ As for the last point... William and Esther vs. Isaak and Dietrich? It's a wonderful death match between former, betrayed lovers.

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I don’t know, Esther might be a little too extreem (http://imperial-artist.livejournal.com/511452.html) for Dietrich really. I’m tempted to suggest that with Paula it’s meant to prove that she’s a real woman ~~Was it hands of steel as well as thighs?~~ because Esther is evidently a boy, Caterina is Isaak’s little brother who always wanted to be a pretty princess, Seth is a man, Mirka is also a man but a bitchier one than that girl Süleyman who thought she could get into politics and Helga… well, he’s a drag queen. Or maybe Helga is a woman really because all the actual women have decent qualities. Kate’s a code-monkey, so is Dietrich, Isaak’s reigning queen of Rosencreutz, Radu’s the helpless but pretty heroine who needs to be rescued from being in a shounen series, Lilith was a military commander, Asta is part of the ~~secret~~ police force, Noelle’s power isn’t actually whatever it’s listed as but rather the knock-out power of Sex on Legs (that’s what AX officially lists it as too) and so on. In fact we can pick out all the real women because they’re either tech-heads or military. It’s also why William fails at things that aren’t crazy inventions because it’s just not a male prerogative in the Trinity Blood universe.
Epic cane-fight and… Dietrich has wires because Esther being a boy has to have a gun.

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And now you make me wonder again if risks like this are exactly the one thing that can still really excite Dietrich. He's a reckless little shit sometimes, when he completely falls out of his normally controlled behavioural patterns. Cenobite Friday? That's nice, really. We need another week-plan, don't we? I've only completed one list so far with Mehmed-Monday, Turk-Tuesday, Wallachia-Wednesday, Ţepeş-Thursday, Flay-Friday, Süleyman-Saturday, and Sultan-Sunday. Or, alternatively, Saray-Sunday. ~~I think it was hands breaking steel and thighs of steel, but I'm not all too sure anymore... She can probably break steel with her thighs, too. Really... what a way to die.~~ Don't I love Trinity Blood for exactly this sort of things. Maybe that makes William the one real destructive and insane force to begin with. He blew up the laboratory in Londinium, only to catapult his real fiancée into madness. And now he gives Caterina bad advice to take revenge on all women in the world. Though, wait... she's a man, isn't she? And now I wonder what that makes Tres, since he likes to show off the "biggest gun in the world" just like Esther does with her shotgun.

On another note, can I have another go? I'm curious about an actual list about Süleyman.

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1) While utterly loyal to the notion of the Empire and the necessity of serving in any capacity required, Süleyman did resent his recall from a frontline military position to serve as part of the Imperial Council. He’s never quite gotten over the feeling of being slightly out of place amongst the other politicians.
2) He is no children, never wanted any nor planned for them and still secretly congratulates himself on neatly sidestepping the entire issue by being ‘uncle’ to a vast number of younger Methuselah instead.
3) He speaks German to a certain degree or at least well enough to follow the plot of his favourite opera; Die Zauberflöte.
4) He claims descent from the House of Osman but knows better than to advertise such a fact, if only because, as Radu’s vast collection of vampire literature suggests to him, somebody somewhere is probably laughing at the entire farce that they’re embroiled in.
5) He has a tendency to play with his hair but only does so in private. He’s not entirely sure where he picked up the habit from but can’t quite seem to break himself of it.

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6) He’s been known to make use of mascara and while he’s quite capable of appearing publicly shocked at any compliments on his looks he’s secretly pleased that Baybars’ finds him attractive. Especially since he is of course not above using that fact against Baybars if at all possible.

And since I’ve run out of break now, I’ll get back to the rest of the comment later.

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If I could sort myself out enough to write a real age-play scene between Dietrich and Isaak I could actually envisage a scenario where that’d work because Dietrich could honestly submit and actually be able to take a break from being completely paranoid and constantly thinking about and watching everything and Isaak would be able to give vent to his fantasies about actually being in complete control for once. Because as much as Dietrich is paranoid about appearing to be in control, Isaak isn’t ever in complete either because he always seems to go out of his way to submit to some higher authority. It might work as a little moment of suspended reality for the both of them despite the fact that it would be inherently twisted though I’m not at all sure I’d want to post it if I did because I just know it would be misinterpreted as random fluffy yaoi instead of an entirely flawed solution for two inherently flawed characters.

Maybe William can’t tell the difference any more? Not since Edith became Isaak anyway. Tres is either the butchest woman about or the only successfully male transvestite who disguises himself as a women hence the overt guns. More seriously though I almost like the idea of William being the cause of much destruction not necessarily deliberately but just because he’s prone to it and actually seems to cause disaster by his presence, which would make him something along the lines of XXXholic’s Himawari who brings bad luck to everybody around her. Except that leads me down the route of ‘kiss of death’ syndrome where everybody he loves has to die except Isaak because Isaak’s curse is that he can’t die accidentally no matter how hard he tries to. Which makes it Hellboy and girlfriend, she burns everything around her at random; he’s flame-retardant. Though you have to hit her first or something before that happens… oh… maybe that’s why Dietrich aggravates Radu then since the flames get more destructive the more pissed off he is.

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This also means that her chest never moves. Incidentally, this phenomenon terrifies Dietrich which is why, unlike other men might; he always looks her directly in the face.

I just...burst out laughing. o.o The mental imagery there is not only priceless, but deserves to go into the Hall of Fame for that sort of thing.

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*downloads the music*

And I say...Trinity Blood's Cain for your meme. :3

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1) Cain really does like mechanical toys; he’s just completely incompetent when it comes to putting them together and after one too many obvious sighs from Isaak he now just pretends to lose interest so that Isaak can put them together for him.
2) It took him over a month to learn how to tell the difference between Dietrich and Helga. They were both pale, screechy and nearly always vying for Isaak’s attention whenever he saw them.
3) As much as most people would never guess, he’s actually horribly possessive of Isaak. Though he doesn’t quite understand it himself, Cain is quite certain that Isaak is his and nobody else’s. In the past he’s been known to physically prevent a drunken Isaak from attempting to phone William Wordsworth to attempt a reconciliation.
4) He does like fish and chips but given a choice actually prefers cod fishcakes.
5) He doesn’t like wearing underwear. He’s doesn’t see the point of it and claims to find it itchy.

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6) He still worries about his siblings and wishes that both Seth and Abel would do something more constructive with their time than what they’re currently engaged in and thus tries to set a good example by his own actions. What Cain considers ‘more constructive’ is proof positive that every thing really is a matter of perception.

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Oh god, 3 has given me fic ideas, thank you! 5 and 2 made me giggle, 1 made me thoughtful, I think that he also likes to watch as Issak puts together the toys and 6 really does fit, I mean he goes out of his way to get Abel to join him. I love it when you come up with these facts, your mind is a fun place.

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I… was somewhat tipsy when I came up with that list. Though to add to 3, when he’s drunk Isaak’s version of what happened in Londinium probably doesn’t fit with the official story though funnily enough on the few occasions when William has had a little too much to drink as well his version corroborates Isaak’s.

And seeing as it’s afternoon but I’ve just fallen out of bed, I’m open to second request for this thing if you feel so inclined.

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If your still up to it, how about some facts about William. Now that I'm playing him, it'd be fun to read your little canon stuff on him. And you must post that university era fic, if only to know the truth from Issak and William's point of view. I have my own ideas of what happened in Londinium but I'm too tired to go into them right now.

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1) William is one of life’s unintentional liars or to better phrase it; storytellers. He simply can’t seem to give the bare facts of anything when he’s telling a tale and the version of any story that he comes up with on any given occasion will be full of wonderful embellishments and witty repartee that may actually have never happened.
2) He doesn’t have any distinct alcoholic preference, simply because he prefers to put whatever it is in his tea, which is the more important part when he’s drinking.
3) He’s always regarded himself as secretly still being Anglican. And though it doesn’t make all that much difference to matters now, is wise enough not to share that fact too widely while in Rome.
4) He has actually kissed Isaak once. They were both utterly drunk and on the way back from a do up at London Bridge. Isaak didn’t recall it in the morning so William thought it circumspect not to mention the matter.
5) As odd as it seems, he actually plays pool rather than snooker. Though he does at least prefer Bridge to Gin Rummy.

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6) He was actually studying Theology in Londinium but still insists on telling everybody that it was medicine. Knowing full well that while Isaak might reasonably consider calling him on this fact, won’t because William could then reveal that Isaak’s claim of BioMed is also a complete lie and that he was in fact studying Mechanical Engineering.

I have two versions of what may have occurred that I’m particularly fond of though yes, once I get round to trimming up this ‘how Isaak met Cain’ piece and post that I’ll probably get back to the sillier version of what happened between him and William.

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Thank you, you've made me very happy. #2 makes me happy for the simple fact that I really don't know what he would drink, he does seem like the kind who likes his tea most of the time. #5, that crossed my mind Friday, and to me it fits that he would play pool. #4 it just wouldn't be complete without a kiss between those two, I find it all rather cute.

And now I have more fic to look forward too, lovely. XD

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#1- please, stop coming up with things that makes me immedesimate with William more and more! XDD

Anyway, it was all very nice to read, and I've always had a kiss for him and Isaak in my pseudocanon too..
Althought William has never really think about him as a mate there, he uses to think of that kiss as people ask him about his first homoerotic experience, because everything about Isaak is always absolute. And a drunk, just half conscious kiss from him is a far way deeper experience than a wild night with even the most handsome random roman boy.

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xD And Cain just got that much cuter. #5 was just side splitting, thank you. ...*saves them for later crack ideas*

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And you can thank the apple schnapps for those ideas.

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<3 *thanks them heartily*

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So you do know RiB. That's exciting.

I will download these once I get my own computer back. Electrical storm desecrated internet in our area and even now after five days we just got dial-up back (so I can't use my computer yet). That's my excuse for being absent.

Character (ignoring the obvious and if you haven't spoken of him yet, as dial-up is so slow I'm trying to keep link-clicks at a minimum) is Hughe.

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I don’t or at least I didn’t until you mentioned it and then I went on a little hunt and found a Madonna remix and some albums.

It’s not Call of Cthulhu time again, is it? Though the next total eclipse shouldn’t be till August anyway.

1) Somewhere in the back of Hugue’s brain is the suspicion that his fixation with his sister is verging on the unnatural but every time that thought rears its head he deliberately quashes it. He does this quite efficiently so that for long periods of time he honestly finds absolutely nothing wrong with addressing just about anyone of even the slightest resemblance with her name.
2) He was terribly fond of Noélle since her hair reminded him of his sister’s, even though it wasn’t the same style or colour. He’s fond of Kate too because the tea she serves on the Iron Maiden also reminds him of his sister. Lots of things remind Hugue of his sister really for completely inexplicable reasons.
3) He’s actually rather ambivalent about cooking though he is a rather good at it. He simply regards the matter as being useful and doesn’t quite understand how anyone could develop a passion for food stuffs.
4) William is one of the few people that Hugue is fond of without it having anything to do with his sister. He genuinely enjoys William’s company and finds William’s incessant chatter to be a pleasant background accompaniment to whatever it is that he’s doing.
5) Though he’d never voice the thought, the consideration has crossed his mind a few times that he really ought to attempt to arm-wrestle Tres simply to see whose mechanical arms are stronger.

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6) He takes the matter of personal honour very seriously and in addition to intending to avenge his family, has also secretly sworn to avenge William’s disgrace in Londinium. As far as Hugue understands it was all brought about by the betrayal of William’s fiancée, that von Kämpfer girl but since it’s obviously a delicate matter he hasn’t thought to ask William for clarification.

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Once my internet is up again I'll upload his best (Cyberium is obscenely Dietrich) and give you the links. I have a fifty song list of various TB characters and songs to match. (Burnin' Heretic by Apoptygma Berzerk as Petro's Theme)

Next eclipse is on my birthday I believe. No Cthulhu to speak of until then.

Your f-canon Hugue is fantastic, by the way. I myself suspected his sister-infatuation was a little bit on the brink of obsession...I thought it was his lover that had been killed when I watched the anime. And I can see why he would like William. For some reason some silent people like being around chatterers. And I laughed outright at number six. It is entirely possible that the ever-so-slightly delusional Hughe never even noticed Isaak wasn't a girl. Or he simply refuses to accept it.

And Dear God if Isaak WAS his fiancee, that would complicate canon, wouldn't it?

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Considering the drastic change in appearance or at least hair colour after the university incident, I wouldn’t be half surprised if Edith Butler really was hiding a few secrets. After all, if the Baroness of Luxor can throw gender out of the window then why not? Poor William, he stuffs up at uni and then his fiancée goes mad, becomes a terrorist and starts calling herself Isaak von Kämpfer. And it probably doesn’t help when he gets the occasional phonecall from the old Marchioness Marchmain haranguing him for being the priest that her daughter ran off with. Though of course what he doesn’t realise there is that the Marchioness doesn’t actually exist and it’s just Dietrich using a voice scrambler similar to the one he uses when he leaves recorded messages for Esther saying that the Bishop is very disappointed with her. He used to do the same thing to Radu, pretending to be his dead brother Mircea until Radu started regaling him with some hideous torture fantasies. Dietrich then admitted who he actually was and Radu told him to get lost since there was no point in discussing that sort of thing with anyone who wasn’t family. To this day Dietrich still doesn’t quite know how to take that.

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Hair color? What color was it originally?

Yes, William does have it really bad, doesn't he? We can't forget that his fiancee starts molesting psychotic twelve-year-old boy murderers either.

I would love to see Radu actually creep Dietrich out with some exceptionally uncouth fantasies. Dietrich would be undoubtably jealous, but also disturbed and irritated.

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Brown originally and it’s mentioned that he has/had green eyes. Though his eyes were described as dead, somewhat like fish eyes.

I do currently have a WIP (http://imperial-artist.livejournal.com/505978.html) that involves Radu at least managing to do non-con things to Dietrich but that’s less about Radu’s capacity for anything rather than Dietrich having tempted fate one time too many. He’s been pwned by members of both the Egyptian and Greek parthenon now.

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