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[youresovein]

[ Behold: Lestat, sprawled on a velvet couch in a leather jacket, head leaned casually on the arm rest. Visible from this selfie angle, discarded on his coffee table, is a laptop open to a word processor. He's deep in thought tonight. ]

Have you ever fallen in love? Have you ever been punched very hard in the face, or perhaps attacked by a pack of starving wolves? For those of you who've done both, would you say the experiences were at all comparable?

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i'm justifying him knowing this based on him needing to know how much earth knows about magic

[stabbyfingers]

I was under the impression that vampirism is a quantum improbability corruption of a host-body.

[youresovein]

What the hell does any of that mean?

[stabbyfingers]

Excuse me, how should I phrase this. The "magical" [ he doesn't literally finger-quote it but you can hear it in his tone ] transformation of a pre-existing being into a vampire.

[youresovein]

[ Well, he frowns obviously at the use of the word "magical," or at least the tone he says it in. But... ]

You're right, at least in the broadest sense. I was human once. I appear superficially similar enough to a human still, though it's easy to spot the differences if you know what to look for. But the transformation is as complete as a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.

I'm assuming you're familiar with the idea...?

[ He looks like he knows butterflies. ]

[stabbyfingers]

The insect, yes. I'm familiar with the common Earth metaphor.

[ But there was something else said there he pinged on -- ]

You said these differences would be observable. May I ask how?