Why do you have to wait 100 years to resurrect yourself, Drac? I mean your best friend's the concept of Death itself made manifest, can't you get him to just resurrect you every time you die?
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
He has "cheated" and come back earlier than 100 years under certain circumstances. In Portrait of Ruin, the suffering caused by World War II brought him back, though he didn't have complete control over the castle.
Why does Drac have to wait 100 years in the first place? Can't he just ask Death to, y'know, resurrect him immediately after a Simon/Trevor/Richter/Shaniqua-type kills him?
This just gave me the image of Dracula sitting in his tomb on a laptop, updating his tumblr and entering cybersex chatrooms while roleplaying as Karkat.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Alternatively, they could play drinking games for a hundred years. Though Death has a bit of an advantage, and I don't know if vampires can get drunk.
Then again... (throws wine glass onto the floor) But enough talk! HAVE AT YOU!
Maybe the deaths of people whose souls are in distress, such as from untimely deaths, charges some kind of evil soul-battery that, past a certain threshold, allows Dracula to resurrect.
Death can just harvest souls, and can kill people for their souls, but can't produce soul-energy for that soul-battery himself.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Huh, I like it.
Dracula's Castle would have to work on a slightly different principle, though. Like Dracula needs around ~100 years of rest to have enough power to control his castle.
What if Death, being the antithesis of life, has no way of manifesting himself on the mortal plane on his own? What if he needs the help of Dracula or a similarly powerful being to manifest himself?
I meant that death as a force still exists in the world (obviously), but death as a tangible being cannot exist without Dracula or a similarly powerful being.
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Death can just harvest souls, and can kill people for their souls, but can't produce soul-energy for that soul-battery himself.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis