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Vampyr Headcanons

I figured that today of all days would be a good one to share my Vampyr headcanons. Be warned; I’m tying this to over to another favorite game of mine.

Having only Embraced those whose life was about to end (Dr. Edgar Swansea) or whose continued existence would harm others (Clay Cox, Edwina Cox, Father Tobias Whitaker, Seymour Fishburn, Venus Crossley, and Carolyn Price), Jonathan is able to convince Elizabeth to not take her own life. He immediately begins research on finding a way to completely purify her of the Blood of Hate.

Old Bridget takes care of their needs, bringing them supplies at scheduled intervals. At times, she will act as Elizabeth’s companion while Jonathan goes to visit his aging mother. After her death and funeral, which he is present at, he stays at the castle full-time, looking for the cure. His family’s butler, Avery Cork, comes with to serve and aid the last living Reid.

After over twenty years of hard work, he finds it at long last. After administering the cure, Jonathan, Elizabeth, and Avery wait with bated breath as he tests her blood for the Blood of Hate. To their eternal joy, the test comes back negative.

They return to London to find it much changed: The city has recovered from the Great War, from the Spanish Flu, and from the Skal Epidemic, and is flourishing. They make contact with their old friends and acquaintances from during the Epidemic.

For example, Charlotte Ashbury is overjoyed to reunite with her mother. Things have gone well for her cause; the fight for women’s rights and the equality between men and women has made great strides throughout the 1920s and ‘30s in the United Kingdom.

At the Pembroke Hospital, Dr. Waverly Ackroyd has become its administrator. He isn’t too happy to see Dr. Reid after he disappeared into the blue. He has done well, both for himself and as the administrator of Pembroke, though, and Reid is happy for him on that account.

Others have turned darker. Albert Palmer has risen through the ranks of the Wet Boot Boys, becoming their leader, and he is arguably worse than Clay or Edwina ever were.

Sadly, others have died in their absence. Darius Petrescu and Enid Gillingham have both died of old age. Both Rodney Grader and Archer Woodbead were brutally murdered, and Albert Palmer is the prime suspect.

Much to Jonathan’s annoyance and displeasure, he learns that a second Great War has begun. Only a couple of months earlier, the “Allied” troops were driven out of Europe and forced to evacuate in the “Miracle at Dunkirk”.

Jonathan and Elizabeth’s return couldn’t have been worse timed, as a few days after their arrival, the German Luftwaffe begins bombing London in what would become known as the “Blitz”. Jonathan Reid returns to the medical field as he begins working at Pembroke again with the influx of bombing victims.

A few months later, Geoffrey McCullum walks into Pembroke. During Dr. Reid’s absence, McCullum has softened his stance upon vampires, seeing as he has become one. When his status as a “Leech” was discovered, it created a new schism within the Guard of Priwen. Those loyal to McCullum joined him in creating a new faction, which rejoined with the Brotherhood of St. Paul’s Stole. Those who wished to kill him and continue indiscriminately killing vampires continued on as the Guard of Priwen.

McCullum is here to recruit Dr. Reid into the Brotherhood. As it turns out, the Nazis have their own counterpart to the Brotherhood, the “Thule Society”. Their goal is to uncover and weaponize various occult artifacts against the Allies, and their most effective tools are Ekons. A good number of Nazi officers, especially within the SS, are Ekons themselves.

There is a good chance that the Thule Society will try to cause another Disaster, such as the one that Dr. Reid stopped. As a powerful Ekon who has experience fighting other Ekons and stopping Disasters, Jonathan is a prime candidate to be inducted into the Brotherhood, which is currently working with the Allies.

Elizabeth is against it, but she ultimately concedes. She and Jonathan part ways as he goes to once again fight for King and Country.

Between fighting German soldiers and vampires, and Embracing targets, Dr. Reid begins realizing the potential he denied him during the Epidemic. He soon finds himself catching up with McCullum, and then surpassing him, which is only right as his Vampiric parent.

Without a doubt, Jonathan hates the Nazi doctors in the concentration camps more than even the members of the Thule Society. They are a mockery of everything he has ever valued; they don’t deserved to be called “Doctor”. They are nothing more than sadistic butchers with scalpels instead of cleavers, and he Embraces them without hesitation.

After the end of the Second World War, and after having stopped the Disaster that the Thule Society attempted to trigger, Jonathan returns to London and reunites with Elizabeth. They begin to travel, having long been confined by necessity and by duty.

Later in the ‘40s, an American tycoon tracks them down with an offer. He asks Jonathan to come and join a new society he is building, one “where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality”. This is the wrong message, as Jonathan cares greatly about the “petty morality” that this man so greatly despises. When Jonathan tells him about the cures he gave away for free during the Epidemic, the man leaves quickly, leaving behind a few choice words about altruism.

In early 1967, Geoffrey McCullum comes across a helmeted, suited figure attempting to make off with a child from the Docks. The fight with it is intense, as it is strong, fast, and can throw fireballs from its hand. After losing several good men, and nearly being set on fire, McCullum succeeds in bringing it down.

Taking off the helmet gives him one hell of a shock: It’s a teenage girl by the looks of it. She’s extremely tall for her apparent age, and very frail despite her perceived strength. Something’s not right about her, and McCullum knows just the man to find out what.

Thankfully, Dr. Jonathan Reid happens to be in London, and McCullum wastes no time sending for him. What Reid finds is... disturbing.

For a start, the girl has been mutated. Her blood is much like a Skal’s, the cells unstable, yet the mutations are very different. The powers that McCullum and his men reported about are very different from anything that an Ekon or any other kind of vampire is capable of, and in fact they’re very lethal to vampires (Fireball + Ekon = Dead Ekon).

Besides the unusual height or the mono-color eyes (which reportedly glowed while she was alive), the oddest thing about her is a tumor of sorts on her stomach. It’s not like stomach cancer, like her own cells turning cancerous; this looks like it was something else originally, and then was grafted onto her stomach. Its cells are the most unstable and mutated in her entire body. Reid is at a loss as to where she came from or what she is.

Later, Jonathan and Elizabeth notice more and more reports of little girls being kidnapped in coastal towns and cities on both sides of the Atlantic. Remembering that the “Diver” was trying to take a child, they begin looking further into these incidents. They learn of an American named Mark Meltzer who has been drawing the same conclusions as they are in his own investigations. They decide that it’s high time they pay the States a visit again.

After arriving in the US, they just miss Meltzer before he leaves the country. After figuring out where he’s headed, they follow after him, coming to a spot off the coast of Iceland. They arrive just in time to see Meltzer’s boat attacked by monstrous creatures that emerge from surfacing spherical submersibles, that begin attacking their boat too.

To escape the creatures, Jonathan and Mary jump into the water and make it to one of the submersibles, hijacking it and setting it to take them back underwater. They are amazed when they see the sphere’s destination: A city resting on the sea floor. Jonathan is amazed further when he sees a statue bearing the visage of one Andrew Ryan, the very same man who came to him with his offer over twenty years earlier.

Andrew Ryan’s city of “Rapture” is real indeed.

Thoughts?

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