[party post] come sail away with me

[varymydays]

You've come through a door, and you are on a boat. Specifically, you're on a cruise ship in the middle of some giant body of water. You've come through the door behind you which is attached to nothing and may now be locked. It's relatively empty as giant as it appears to be. The only other passengers that are here appear to also have come through the door for the most part and it is not nearly enough to fill up this entire cruise ship.

Also, who knows who the hell is driving this thing since all of the employees appear to be either ghosts or holograms...

Is this your first time here or your hundredth time here? Do you want a drink or a dip in the pool? Is it day or night? Do you stumble on your room or some other situation either fun or painful within its many rooms, shops, and facilities? Do you run into someone you know or a complete stranger?

The possibilities are unlimited!

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[consumes]

Damon just smirks at the question, leaning forward against the bar as he looks across it at Nikola, and the smirk widens, because okay, this guy's amusing. He'll give him that. "I had no expectations. All I know about what you are is you can't get drunk or get damaged in anyway. But inventor guy whose experiment goes wrong somehow isn't cliché?" There's only the slightest of pauses when Nikola says he doesn't regret it. Damon doesn't anymore despite how he misses his humanity in that way that deeply destructive way, because he'll never be human again.

And reaching anywhere near those levels of humanity is even more painful, because it's never going to be human enough. Damon's smirk widens even if he's imagining Stefan during his Ripper phases with teleporting abilities (if Damon had them even, he is not good and never will be after all).

"Yeah. Makes an uncontrollable killer that much more difficult to control." Or track down or stop.

[serbian]

"Who said the experiment went wrong? The results were an infinite number of possibilities and my current predicament is all by one of them. Granted, I'm something of a unique variable in that, given the fact that in order to achieve said results, one needed to prepossess the specific genetic markers required to produce it — which I did."

Unknowingly so. Nikola had no idea that he'd had Sanguine Vampiris ancestors, that once upon a time, vampires mated with humans spawned his family's bloodline until they started to look into why he wound up a vampire as a result of the serum when the other four were vampire-free. He'd had the potential to be one locked away in his DNA since birth; it had taken exposure to pure, untainted vampire blood to trigger those genetic markers and bring them to life — which the serum (and more recently, Afina's blood) did.

"I'd argue the problem is less the teleporting and more those who have sympathy for someone who can't be saved when it comes to controlling him."

Helen was the problem nine times out of ten. She was more than willing to take down Adam when he was threatening London, but John? Oh no, John had to be fixed. Saved. He didn't understand it, his more compassionate side having wilted after being dealt blows by men who laid claim to the changes he brought to the world.

[consumes]

"So it worked in a way you didn't expect it to work, but not wrong. Either way, science experiment is still pretty cliche and apt material for a movie."

Not that Damon thinks that Nikola seems like the Stan Lee-superhero type, but he can still see Hollywood taking a story like that and running with it. It's a lot more interesting than the reason that he became the way that he is (pathetically falling hopelessly, madly in love with someone who didn't feel the same but told him that she did

promised him they'd be together forever. God, he was an idiot).

"...compassion can be a pain in the ass that way or at least the people who have it endlessly." Damon doesn't have any though he never would be able to do what needs to be done in terms of Stefan, no matter how far down the line he was. That's because he loves his brother and doesn't care about the people he kills as the ripper. "So why didn't you just do what needed to be done anyway despite the compassionate ones?"

[serbian]

"As long as they get someone who didn't duet with Freddie Mercury to play me. Honestly, David Bowie looks nothing like me, but when you put a film in the hands of Christopher Nolan, you get two of three things: Batman, that kid from 3rd Rock From the Sun, or big names in awkward roles. Sometimes you have Shinzon playing Bane, other times a rock star playing me."

He shrugs, muttering something under his breath about how rock and roll isn't real music — because it isn't. He knew some of those great composers of that transitional period in the early 20th Century. JJ used to bring in symphonies to the Waldorf-Astoria for them to conduct while his guests danced the night away. Nikola's almost nostalgic for those times.

Almost.

"Because the one with the compassion is the one person who stands a chance of living as long as I will, and I'm not about to spend eternity listening to them rag on me at every opportunity for kicking Jackie's proverbial bucket."

Helen would never forgive him, and that would grow to be intolerable after a few centuries, if not decades.

[consumes]

Damon smirks at that. He is fairly well versed in movies and pop culture (at times), but he hasn't actually heard about that particular one. Now he's thinking he's going to have to look it up though. "...did David Bowie as you sing a song? Because that would just be the icing on the cake."

He is going to be amused by it no matter what especially with the way Nikola is both shrugging and muttering about rock and roll music under his breath. Damon's thinking he should probably not mention Taylor Swift songs either, but he might one day. Or maybe he'll just blast it over the loud speaker like the asshole that he is.

There's a soft, knowing smirk at what he says, and Damon swallows.

"So you don't want to lose the only person that might be able to keep you company all that time."

Loneliness is a dangerous thing and a powerful motivator. He should know. Not that it ever stops Damon from doing stupid, terrible things.

[serbian]

Nikola's a rare surviving member of The Five in that he is actually well acquainted with the times. He blends in easily with the people and the era, and not just because he's learned how to guise that thick Slavic accent that would otherwise coloring his voice. John and Helen, on the other hand, are oftentimes still far too Victorian to function in this modern century. James had been the same way before he'd been lost in the depths of Bhalasaam. Yet Nikola, in spite of his grumpy disposition and antisocial tendencies, got along just fine with the 21st Century.

(He did help usher it in, recorded history's accounts be damned.)

"Something like that." Because his relationship with Helen was as complicated as it was simple, stagnant, and impossible.

[consumes]

Damon lifts his eyebrows up curiously at the Something like that. There's a tiny smirk on his face, because well, the only relationships that he has in his life are all complicated, impossible. It was impossible that Elena should care about him, and yet she did-- she does.

He's used to thinking of her in the painful past tense way that tore open his chest.

"Something like that," he says quietly, lifting up his glass as if in response, as if in toast to relationships that are something like that.