middaeg | [OPEN] you're dead and outta this world

Who: Liliana & YOU! (Other vampires are very encouraged!)
When: August 15th, night of the Full Moon
Where: Aristocratic District, Entertainment District
What: Full Moon Vampire transformation time.
Warnings: Bat violence? Maybe a little blood.

For these prompts, Liliana is a very fearsome pied bat. She's about a foot tall and has a wingspan of around 4 to 4.5 feet.

Going Batty

[ Much to her dismay, Liliana has found herself a little hairy. Well, very hairy. Despite Chandra's best efforts to placate her--and they did work for a while--these vampiric instincts were too much to ignore. So she takes to the skies in search of--something. Food? Probably. She's restless and doesn't want to be cooped up inside their (admittedly large) house much longer.

Heading directly into town seems to be the best course, as she enjoys spending her time getting entertained by others there when she can. She's been avoiding it recently after her death, but this is suddenly very freeing. It's not exactly a conscious choice, but her little dead heart is beating faster than it has in a long time.

Being a bat isn't exactly easy, though. Liliana does her best to land on a lamp post and hang upside down...

...but she misses and ends up being a bat torpedo onto the nearest bystander. Oops.

OR she manages to successfully situate herself on the lamp, pulling her wings around herself like a perfect little burrito. And waits. Waits for someone to pass underneath so she can satiate the growing hunger in her belly. Do you see the bat? Are you wary? She'll be more inclined to get the drop on witches. ]

-3

BAT FIGHT! BAT FIGHT!!

[ NOTE: If you are ALSO a vampire and want to get in on the ridiculous bat fight, please do!!! If you are not a vampire (either another monster or a witch) and want to try and break it up, you are welcome to as well. ]

[ Being a bat isn't actually all that bad, she's surprised to find out. Granted, she isn't exactly thinking like she's used to and is kind off an adrenaline high, but it's the best high she's had in quite a while. A few nips and bites to the locals have given her a taste for blood, but it also means that there might be competition.

Which is why when she finally encounters another bat circling the area where she has been attempting to hunt, she lets out a warning cry. ]

-7

Wildcard!

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[Look, he's been trying to be very good about the whole blood drinking thing. He's asked permission and been mindful of how much he's taking and all of that. Maybe too cautious, actually, given the near-starvation at first, but—]

[But. Being cautious as a bat is a lot harder than in more-or-less-human shape. In part this is because bats are not very smart, and it's harder to think in bat shape. In part, though, it's just more fun to be a bat wheeling through the sky, and he's got a lot less motivation to maintain his own standards.]

[In other words, he's in the perfect mood for a BAT FIGHT.]

[Having scented blood and wheeled towards it, he is both shocked and affronted that some other bat would dare get in his business like this. Excuse you, this is free-range blood. He bat-shrieks right back at her and dive-bombs. Why? Because he can. Although even if he makes contact, he's not trying to injure her, so he'll just bounce off.]

[ Liliana is absolutely terrible at sharing when it comes down to it. And as a bat? She can't even play it off and try to be cute. (Although, in many ways, she's probably cuter right now with the fuzz and even teeth.)

But she's still fearsome. Totally scary.

And clearly disagrees that this is an open buffet.

Liliana isn't the most coordinated bat, so the dive bomb does catch her off guard. She lets out another shriek when she goes barreling in the opposite direction of the impact, but manages to twist back around.

Oh HELLS no. It's on now.

It's her turn to try and get the drop on him, shooting forward as fast as he can to try to head butt him like a ram. ]

[Neither of them, it seems, are very good at being bats yet. That's not that surprising. It takes much more coordination than Giorno thought at first to, you know, fly. He expected it to come naturally. It does not. It took him a while to even figure out how to get off the ground.]

[True to his nature, dodging is what he's best at so far, but even so, he doesn't quite manage to dodge her revenge attack. In fact, he's still trying to redirect himself from his own initial attack, so her headbutt . . . definitely works.]

[Bad news: she headbutts him into a tree. Good news: the leafy part, not the hard part. He squeaks through the thickest layer of leaves and manages to latch onto a branch, from which he yells the bat equivalent of complex Italian swear words.]

[But he doesn't come after her . . . weird . . . is he injured . . . maybe she should come check . . . This Definitely Isn't A Ploy.]

[OPEN] you're dead and outta this world

bAT FIGHT

I love how fuzzy and not at all intimidating these bats look

um how dare you they are SO frightening