An Otaku By Night

Vincent perked up the moment he heard her. She had a distinctive voice, to be sure. He walked on up to her a she gleamed her eyes over those precious rings she so clearly desired. His smile seemed to brighten slightly, and he let out a small laugh.

"You, as it turns out. I guess I just wanted a bit of a chit-chat and perhaps get a better view of the lay of the land, per say. I don't exactly want to be walking into the wrong place at the wrong time. Would make my tenure here awfully short. That and I wanted to get to know you. After all, how could I ignore someone who made such a grand introduction. I'm literally talking to a TV celebrity after all."

He gives her a cheeky wink, but his smile flattens a little bit, and he leans into to talk more quietly to her.

"Sorry if I'm making you play tourist guide. To be honest I'm surprised you showed. Many other harpies would probably have blown me off and considered this a waste of their time."

Vincent continued to smile as she continued.

"Sure thing, it's all good, to be honest you were quite sweet actually. As for getting a bite to eat, it depends on what you mean by hungry. I mean I can still eat and drink you know. That turn of phrase is something of a whoosh moment for me. Speaking of drinks..."

*He reaches for his flask, only to find it is missing.*

Vincent quickly checks his pockets before looking at Izzy with a raised eyebrow, and groans.

"You just had to, didn't you? *sigh*... Devious little thing you are, knew I was right to keep an eye on you... Heheheh... So is that a habit of yours, because I may need to dis-enchant my gear for your own safety if that's the case..."

Now it was his turn to smirk, he wonders if she bought his magical ruse.

"You can eat too? That's interesting. I've never met anyone who could do that as well."

Vincent seemed rather happy at this coincidence. It was good to know that there were those who could share in the pleasures he was blessed with. Or perhaps more aptly, not cursed to lose.

"I like to eat a fair amount every now and then. Keeps me in touch, also a nice change from just drinking myself into a coma, gets a little monotonous after a while... So you're one of the hot shots then? Looks I have a lot of catching up to do if I wanna meet your standards then, hahaha. You'll have to introduce me to your coterie sometime, perhaps I'll be able to help in some way. I'm all about counter-intelligence."

"So, you a Hearthstone fan I take it?"

Damn. He hadn't played Warcraft in ages. At least he was close to the right answer though.

"Huh, he seems like a cool guy. I used to play video games a lot, but it's hard to keep up with it all what with work, research, and general kindred-y things, I can barely get to play releases I generally look forward to, but I always make time. But MtG huh? So you play the only good card game then..."

He smirked a bit at his completely unwarranted card game elitism.

"I'll be honest as much as I used to love the Pokemon TCG when I was little it was fairly broken in terms of it's design. I used to Play WoW until quite a few years back. Played Lich King then decided that was enough for me. I tried to get back into it, but it's been such a long time and I don't have the same amount of time anymore. Speaking of which, I've been playing Undertale recently. Jesus Christ, that game is SOOOOOO good~"

His smile turned from very upbeat to quite wry for his next comment almost too quickly

"So your sire is a Primogen? *sigh* It's strange, in places where I normally go city's are very cosmopolitan and everyone comes from everywhere, no-one was necessarily outcast... But here, this whole city feels like one giant family and I feel like a bit of a tag-a-along trying to stay alive. Never really had to deal with being an Outsider before. Not in this sense. My sire was always around or I had some special privileges backing me up because I was there on assignment. Now I guess I really am all alone."

"I'm sorry to hear you lost someone. It happens so much now that I'm not even surprised when they say know someone that died. I've lost so many people over the years that I can't even count any more. It's hard to remember all their names... I guess I'm trying to say I understand how that feels, in a roundabout way."

Vincent attempts to change the subject, the rather horrid subject matter is beginning to break his composure. So many people deserved life more than he, yet he was the one standing here talking to this... Genuinely lovely person. What if it was someone else standing here? What if he had fallen first?

"But the good games, huh? I mainly play strategy games. XCOM2, Age of Empires, that sort of thing. When I have time at leat. Heh, I have chess skills that would make a Ventrue jealous! I'd love to play Celio sometime.""

"Ran away? I wonder what it would be like to run away... Not that I'd even have had the chance, even if I had wanted too..."

Then a very, VEEERRRRY mischievous smile crosses his face.

"We all get drawn in huh? Does that mean... I'll get to MARRY my way in?"

He proceeds to pull Izzy in and hold one of her hands very softly with both of his holding it up to kiss it.