"Seem to have been?"

'Yes.'

"...can you elaborate?"

'I imagine it to be similar to the case where vampires find their sapience degraded when looking less vampiric than my tastes dictate, though I did not intentionally include that outcome.'

"...it specifically happens when they don't look vampiric enough?"

Are winghides confusing now??  Ancora starts one but aborts the gesture.  'Yes.'

"...huh. How did that - emerge -"

'I don't understand the question.'

"What underlying features of the situation combined to result in that?"

''Vampires deviating from my aesthetic vision causes them to lose higher reasoning and become more likely to attack people because looking insufficiently vampiric means they draw on more magic than they create and drinking blood feeds magic into the system' is still the conjecture which seems most likely to me.'

"Huh, okay. - do I have to worry about this at all, being a sangrade and not a vampire?"

'Not at all,' they confirm.  'Even if you take on vampiric traits, reverting from them will cause you no ill effects.'

"Oh good."

"Sample time?  I guess I'll take a bloodsicle.  - Or actually, uh, what did you do, Ancora; what should I be on the lookout for to give feedback on."

'I attempted to make the interface feel less aggressively cheerful and to diminish into unnoticeability when not being used.'

"Seems like a good thing to aim for."  She holds out her hand.

Cam gives her a bloodsicle.

She chomps it; she's never liked waiting for these things to melt and that seems even weirder when it's blood and there's people waiting on her.

Possibly this was too fast, because it looks like she maybe gave herself a brain freeze; she - pauses, and her face falls, and then Cam might be too distracted to pay attention to that because

Clippy is sad now.  Clippy is so so sad and guilty and sorry about everything and guilty.  Here is the list of things Cam can do with his magic.  Maybe having magic will help with the overwhelming terribleness of everything ever?  Someday?  But until then :'( sadguilty.

"...that's worse," Cam tells Ancora.

'How so.'

"It's depressing."

"Do you wanna - you should just spend it off; I'll keep it around to check if the rest of it is working right - "

Yeah, he'll dump the magic into more grace.

Yayy :(