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Arthur H. Bell Sherlock Holmes
UN: ThreeCoffins

STATUS: Graduate Student

ACCOLADES: Masters in Pharmacology, Bachelors of Biology, etc. etc.

BIO: Yes I am Vampire. No I won't drink your blood, but I will assist in tutoring people in science-based disciplines.

© TESSISAMESS

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march necromancy night

[hawkwardness]

Hey. I know you've got a lot going on and I'm really sorry to be bothering you right now, but it's an emergency. Where are you?

UN: ThreeCoffins

[improbablenotimpossible]

I'm leaving the infirmary back to my room - did Hector do something again?

[It would be about the right time of the month]

[hawkwardness]

You don't have worry about it yourself, I just need some of the kind of blood you drink. Is that alright?

[He didn't say no... so probably yes. Héctor. Again.]

[improbablenotimpossible]

Of course - take the ones that's still in medical bags. The one others in less... secure containers are for experimental use.

Oh. Don't try to warm them up, it's going to be far worse than just leaving them cold.

I'll take a look at him when I get back.

[hawkwardness]

Alright. Thanks. He'll be fine in twelve hours, I hope.

[Time to go get some blood...]

sometime later in July

[hatesdeerstalkers]

Sherlock

I've done some digging in our family tree and I've found something I think you'd like to know

Are you free currently?

Re: sometime later in July

[improbablenotimpossible]

I am. I'm surprised you went digging, but I suspect you found something of note.

[hatesdeerstalkers]

Why wouldn't I? It's my family as well, and I did also track the Moriarty Family tree before.

[Nothing really of note, but.]

I'll be over shortly.

[And he is, coming in holding a folder with quite a few papers inside.]

I suppose I should start off with the simple things - most of the 'branches of the tree' are relatively uninteresting. We aren't related to any famous figures in history, or the like - though I suppose past a certain point, it might be a bit more plausible. Mycroft's descendants seem to be doing well, also.

There is, however, something that's quite...unusual. Especially considering it is from the 'line' we directly come from.

[He opens the folder, handing over a paper containing information about -]

It seems our Great-Grandmother used to be a Vernet.

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[Sherlock actually cleaned up enough so Moriarty has a place to sit, he does smile slightly hearing about Mycroft's descendants doing well]

...Vernet, I know she's related to the paint...

[Sherlock pauses]

Oh. The other Vernets.

[hatesdeerstalkers]

So you're aware of them....Yes. The Mage family, the Vernets. Currently, they're an incredibly weak family, mostly clinging to their place in Mage society due to their history.

[And he'll pause here, mostly for drama.]

....Yet, there was something else I found about them - the reason for their decline.

[improbablenotimpossible]

I had to deal with a minor incident with them in the 20s...

[a beat]

I will need to start clarifying soon enough, and the reason for their decline...?

[hatesdeerstalkers]

An Incident...? Ah, later.

[He's pretty sure sherlock would get annoyed if he started asking about that now, of all times.]

There is a certain...bloodline trait the Vernets have - in fact, the head of their family must always possess it, and they have not had a head of the family for almost 2 centuries.

[....Another pause, because he's a shitlord like that.]

[improbablenotimpossible]

...

[His eyes slowly widens]

Twins?

[hatesdeerstalkers]

Indeed. But, not only that.

[He hands over another piece of paper - this one recounting testimonials of the Vernet family heads.]

Every Head of the Vernet family was a Twin, yes...but, that was not the only difference.

Every single one of them...Had twice the magical capacity of a normal human. While the other twin is often not talked of - it appears that they were either adopted out or ...disposed of, all of the twins I would track down shared another trait peculiar to the line.

....Sherlock. You....cannot use magic. Correct?

[improbablenotimpossible]

[He shook his head]

Nothing that isn't innate for a Vampire.

[hatesdeerstalkers]

[He pauses, because -

When he'd found this, he'd practically had to go and stew for a while on it. On how cosmically unfair all of this was. How, just because of chance and genetics, he'd literally been a criminal from his very conception.

No wonder it came so easily to him, in the end.

Still, Sherlock has the right to know - and he places a hand on his own chest, directly on top of his still heart.]

...That is because I have your magic. The secret of the Vernet bloodline....is something akin to in-utero parasitism.

[He takes in a breath, before resolutely speaking.]

One twin will steal the other's magic during development, and be born with twice the magical capacity. This often leads to the other twin being born stillborn or fatally deformed, and if they do manage to avoid that...then they have no magical capacity. In short...they are a normal human being.

...And there is only ever one set of the Vernet twins alive at one time.

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[He listens, and sees the look on Moriarty's face, starting firmly]

First - don't take blame for a literal freak chance.

And I see - since we did not "die" in the right sense, they had been stagnating after that.

[Sherlock pauses, thinking over what it meant beyond adding more to Moriarty's issues with his sense of self and identity]

[hatesdeerstalkers]

...Considering what it is, can you truly blame me for thinking such a thing? It seems my propensity for crime started from the womb.

[It's...a joke, but a very, very self-depricating joke.]

And..yes, that appears to be the case. Because we still exist, the Vernet family has been getting ever more desperate.

...Perhaps they were already showing the signs in your encounter back in 1920?

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Yes, I recalled one of their cousins was experimenting with well... they called them Homunuculi, but clone seem more scientifically accurate for what they were attempting. Most of the family then felt it was beyond the pale then.

[Now, they would be all for it]

[hatesdeerstalkers]

[There's a pause, as if he's trying to decide if he really wants to know what he's about to ask.]

...were you there to see them in person?

['....if so, what did they look like?']

[improbablenotimpossible]

[His eyes flickered, glancing away]

I caught him early... they were still developing, like fetuses... though now I wondered if he had been more vigilant in covering his tracks.

[hatesdeerstalkers]

Or if anyone in the family is still trying to this day.

[It would be fruitless, anyway - as long as they existed.]

...Still, that isn't the whole reason as to why it took me so long to get this information.

I was...attempting to learn if it would be possible to transfer back the magic I stole from you.

[improbablenotimpossible]

Eh...? Pardon?

[He blinks owlishly at that]

[hatesdeerstalkers]

W-Well, I mean....!

[He flusters, just a little.]

It isn't as if I need all of this magic, after all! And besides, you know more of the workings of the mage world than I do!

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I mean, yes out of necessity - I never went in with the idea of using it myself!

[He puts a hand over his face]

Just... this is a lot to take in.