so me and @robotslenderman went to visit High Gate Cemetery this week, and while we were there, there was a brief discussion about how if Amicia and Sullivan had lived during the Victorian Era, they'd be in the business of body stealing and harvesting corpses for organs and blood in order to traffic them to other Kindred. And now I'm thinking about it some more and I wanna see this AU happen.

I picture Amicia as being an undertaker kind of figure to match up with her running a restaurant in canon, with her running a mortuary prior to the rise of embalming and women being pushed out of the business of caring for the dead. She'd receive the bodies of the recently deceased, either from the grieving families or from Sullivan and other body snatchers, so that she could prepare them for burial and harvest them of their organs and blood (if possible). If the contents of the corpse were unfit for harvest, she'd arrange for them to be sold to doctors and medical schools for dissection, claiming that the bodies were perfectly legal (prisoners, suicide victims, orphans etc). She's the face of the business and the one responsible for the legal side of things.

Even as women started getting pushed out of the mortuary business due to the rise of embalment and insistance that it was 'improper' for women to touch a man's body, Amicia had a way of repelling all attempts made to shut her down. Namely she made sure that her competitors were scared shitless at the mere mention of her, so potential clients figured that she had more nerve than they did in the face of death.

Sullivan would definitely be responsible for the less-legal side of the operation. He'd probably have a medical history that makes him real handy for harvesting, and he definitely taught Amicia how to do it and how to be as discrete as possible, all while procuring the bodies of the dead that had been handled by other mortuaries and funeral houses prior to their burial. He stuck around, helping Amicia get set up and teaching her what she needed to know, then once she was confident in harvesting, and had an efficient set up, he'd venture further afield to acquire less common 'vintages' of bodies to harvest.

They are the backbone of the blood and organ trade of wherever they're set up.