The Bright family has a long, complicated, prestigious and tragic history. But the twins Fenris and Felix Bright decided to move to Forgotten Hollow to start a new chapter in their lives. Will the distance allow them to mend family ties? Will they find success or love? The answer can only be found in the darkness of the night!
"Lilith would probably be interested in turning you guys."
And just as he says that, a woman with a definitive family resemblance to Caleb shows up. Given how femme Caleb presents, the only real difference between them is that her hair is long and she has boobs and a vagina. Also, she is ripped. Where Caleb strikes the goth emo stringbean aesthetic she is definitely going for athletics. "Did anyone talk about turning people? Also hi, I'm Lilith, nice to officially meet you."
"Hi!" Fenris says surprised. "We actually came here to talk about vampire mind control, it was our only lead for the weirdness..."
She starts counting on her fingers. "You live forever, superspeed, super hearing, can turn into a bat, can turn into mist, there's a bunch of other superpowers you may or may not get over time..."
"You can't be a wizard, though," says Red, "if you're a vampire. No idea why, the Rite of Ascension just fails to work for them and they can't do any spells."
"And there's, you know, the need for blood-or-similar, out-of-the-box weakness to sunlight and garlic and wooden stakes—"
"Hey, my sales pitch," Lilith complains. "How am I meant to make a sale if you keep talking about all the drawbacks?"
"Remember, Lilith, we want people to make an informed decision."
"Well," she grumbles, and she sounds a lot like her brother when she does, "you can become immune to all of that. And besides, if you really don't like it, you can get back to being a regular boring human, I guess."
"I doubt the three of us would want to turn right away. But it might be useful. Maybe we could even each take a role and figure out how to combine our talents into a new state of being."
"We've been trying! It seems like a hard constraint for now, but who knows, maybe the three of you being genetically identical will help somehow."
"One new relative at a time, please. But I guess we could have a spellcaster, a vampire and a standard human to be experimented on?"
"Harrumph. One vampire power that some vampires have is personality detection," he continues. "Vampires can use it to figure out general details about what kind of person someone is. Lilith here has it, and she used it on you guys when you arrived."
Lilith however cracks up at that. "Something like that, yes."
"You were asking about mind-related powers, this is one of them," explains Red. "And a damn useful one since it was clear as day that you guys were legit."
"The three of you are nauseatingly nice," Lilith says, sticking her tongue out. "Exactly the kinds of people these goody-two-shoes would like."
"There's probably a lot more details we should go over about both spellcasters and vampires before you guys commit to anything."
"But spellcasting is straight-up an improvement over being a regular human, the literal only drawback is that if you do too much magic in a row it can backfire but even that can be mitigated with yet more magic."
"I am not nauseatingly nice, I am just young and innocent," Thunder says with a mock pout.
"Anyway... either of those options sounds good. And I guess we can help your causes regardless... I still want to check on our family..."
Snuggle. "We should wait to do that? I think it won't be any worse if we get ourselves more oriented."
"Any of you hungry? Actually I don't care about the answer, I'm about to show off one of the perks of being a wizard."