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agallimaufryofoddments · 6 years

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It feels like I haven’t shared/done a headcanon post in a while, so here’s a Naritaverse one:

I like to think that one of the television shows that Zao Dugnald (a vampire from Vamp!) produces is one of those ‘travel documentary series’ where the host travels to different cities/countries and you experience the sights and history and culture alongside them (like one of Rick Steves’ shows, for the Americans out there).

It goes without saying that one of the destinations would be the island Growerth (with the host visiting Waldstein Castle and maybe Neuberg, probably timing it so that they can attend the Carnale Festival), but the main idea driving this HC is that Lotto Valentino is one of the cities the Dugnald-produced series visits the early 2000s.

I can picture it now... They’d tour the libraries, of course, and pay a special visit to the Third Library. (Whether they actually secure an interview with Dalton is another matter). If any of the aristocrats’ mansions still exist, they’re probably tourist destinations; Esperanza’s manor definitely (as it’s the governor’s manor), not so sure about the Avaro Manor.

(Maybe the series visits when JPAD or Luchino happen to be in the city, and you can see them in different background shots).

----Since LV celebrates JPA as a famous 18th century poet (I bet he’d be pleased he ended up being remembered more for his poetry than his plays) and some of the libraries keep copies of his work, you’d think there’d be a small museum dedicated to him for the crew to visit. I’m actually surprised Narita hasn’t suggested that anything like that exists; even if JPA’s descendants are implied to still be living in JPA’s home, a museum could have been set up next to it or something.

Anyway, I just enjoy the idea of LV being featured on one of those travel series shows with the show happening to have been produced by Zao Dugnald. ...Granted, I also l like the idea of Maiza and others watching a total stranger ‘guide’ them through their hometown and their hometown’s history, authority and tourist all at once.

(Inserting a keep reading because I ended up going on a wild unrelated tangent on how the immortals would react to visiting the Advena Avis in that museum located ‘somewhere on the East Coast’. Goddamnit).

Still wonder if any of the immortals will end up visiting the Advena Avis in the maritime museum or not. Hell, Victor did go to the museum, except he sat in the car and made Jessica go in and access the archive materials instead. It’s true that the experience might be painful for some of the immortals, I suppose...even if it has been nearly 300 years since the massacre, so he may have wanted to avoid looking at it since he had the option.

Elmer would be 100% unaffected by visiting the Advena Avis, but the only reasons he’d have to visit it would be a) if visiting it made someone smile and b) if he needed to access the research materials. Huey...would deliberately not let himself be affected because Suppressing His Feelings has been his national pastime for 300 years™. Nile and Denkurō would be somber but otherwise handle it fine.

Begg (well, if Begg ever recovers his mental acuity/decides to face life again) - is an unusual case in that his happiest memories are of him playing with/looking after Czes on the Advena Avis. Okay, sure, when he ‘shut down’ he probably shut out memories of the massacre as well. I’d be interested to know whether or not his happiness with Czes on the AA would still overshadow the grief of the massacre when he’s in his right mind. I think it would. Czes is so important to him, and that happiness was important to him. Visiting the AA would be bittersweet, but he’d focus more on the ‘sweet’ than ‘bitter’.

Ooh, hang on. Czes would...he’d find the visit bittersweet too, but in the opposite route where it would be more ‘bitter’ than ‘sweet’ by far. His memories from the ship really are childhood memories - they’re pre-abuse, and they were experienced at the mental age of ten rather than ten-going on-two hundred. He still has those happy memories of playing with Begg, genuinely happy ones, and seeing the AA would probably remind him of those memories.

...But where Begg treasures those memories and is able to (and depends upon) remember those moments for what they were, Czes can’t. Those memories are important to him too, but he can’t stop them from being overshadowed by all the pain and betrayal he experienced afterwards.

He might look up at the AA and remember playing hide-and-seek with Begg – innocent child that he was – but he’s so different from that child (so trusting, so ignorant of Fermet’s true intentions) that they may as well be different people. And it would hurt to think of that child, he-who-is-not-him, unaware of all the sorrow to come his way. Lucky Begg, lucky him for being able to remember those times without so much baggage.

Maiza and Sylvie are definitely the two survivors with the most trauma associated with the AA. If someone were to make a scale graphing which immortals were most emotionally affected by the massacre, it’d probably be a scale from Elmer to Maiza or Sylvie.

(And I do buy Victor ending up closer to their end of the scale than Elmer’s end because he’s so human, because Szilard was his colleague whom he respected despite the ego, because he was shocked at first but also not surprised in the least when Szilard conducted his massacre. In 1935-B, we see just how complicated his feelings toward Szilard are two hundred years later.)

(I think I touched on this in the Elmer fic, but I feel like Victor was probably partially ostracized on the AA post-massacre. Stowing away on the ship to try and stop the alchemists was already bad enough; that he was one of the Dormentaires’ people surely made it even worse. Szilard was his colleague; how could he not have foreseen this? Why didn’t he stop him? The blame of others + his own guilt... Maiza & Sylvie’s grief from the massacre is understandably focused on the must, but I really do think there’s a case to be made for Victor being one of the next most affected).

Uh, that got away from me. Maiza and Sylvie are...interesting, because they both dealt with the fallout in similar yet different ways, and after being affected by Gretto’s death for so long they’re making active efforts to move on. I feel like...visiting the AA in 2003 would be a way for them to deliberately engage with the grief of that night, as part of the moving on process.

(Actually you know what, if past!Sylvie came across the AA again she would probably have used it to reaffirm her hatred/desire for revenge? Taken the fresh grief she felt at seeing it and molded it into a spear.)

Wait, cripes, this was supposed to be short headcanon post. What happened? The whole point of finalizing posts to queue was that it was supposed to save time...

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