Atomic wrote:Yep - it's personal.
Yup.... 'tis about her death. I thought it might be the military-disaster aspect of the situation which was disturbing her, but I was wrong... it was the location.
Nothing like having to go back to the place of your horrible, painful death to make you relive a horrible, painful death
and it's certainly enough to have made anyone surly, cranky, and more than a bit prone to bite and flame.
Atomic wrote:Hmmm - 5K years ago == 4K BC, well prior to many known periods of
Northern and Mesoamerican cultures, though the start dates of Aztec, Mayan, and Incan periods had something as a precursor somewhere. Pueblo (Anasazi?) or Mississippian perhaps? Plus the major tribal families, such as Sioux, Comanche, Hopi, and Navaho (to focus on the western plains and Southwest in general, and Nahuatl, Zapotec, Yaqui, and such from Mexico.
So, at the very least, Lilly's ancestry is very Post-Clovis Native American.
Probably. We know that's where she
died. We don't yet know that this is where she was
from. She must have originally lived at least some distance away, otherwise she wouldn't have said "no memory of
how we got there."
Atomic wrote:The Chimera creators (pre-Lanthian?) reached their peak about 12.5K ago (see Bud) but rapidly died out when Bud cleaned their clock - straight to the bone. What was left (outside the blast radius) recovered and resumed their social progression. Note that the Anasazi are thought to have emerged
about 12K ago. (Some one's been doing their plot outlines!)
Considering that this is Pablo we're talking about, well... in the words of Opus, "This, of course, comes as a surprise to no one."
Atomic wrote:I wonder -- That Lilly's been stuck as a vampire for a long, long, time, what did she do starting way back when? How/who did she serve? Ronin warrior? Chieftan's enforcer? Shaman? Healer/midwife? There would be a tale -- the woman who couldn't die....
Lilly needs a hug.
Big time!
I wonder whether the circumstances in Wapsiverse vampirism make it possible for vampires to form mutually-supportive emotional relationships, or whether it's "strictly business" partnerships and "dog-eat-dog" competition? The fact that Suzi had no clue about the circumstances of Lily's death, even after half a century of acquaintance (and partnership?) suggests that maybe it isn't easy for vampires to have trusting relationships. There might be a monograph for somebody here... "A study of the intratribal bonding practices and rituals of shitty mosquitoes".
Julie wrote:Officially one of the creepiest things I ever read as a kid...and that was partly because of the drawing that went with it in the book where I found the poem...*shudders* Not a fan.
Not what one usually thinks of, when one hears the phrase "Toasting a friend".
) and left and became mother of daemons and killer of babies. 
