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[vampirehydeftw]

Title: After Dark
Rating: 18
Genre: Supernatural Horror
Band: Mejibray
Pairing: Koichi x MiA
Summary: The sun protects us, a shining beacon that has kept the darkness at bay. Evil fears it, for the light is their weakness and they shun it. Even the sun can't protect me now, nothing can. Except perhaps for the man I know only as 'Koichi'.
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[color_me_blue3]

Poor MiA (again? Am I saying this too often?). I don't know who is the meanest one in this chapter XD loved it!

[leifang666]

You'll probably say "Poor MiA" a lot in this fic. He has a rough time really. As for the meanest:

Meto was actually quite reasonable in this chapter, all things considering. Koichi was both cruel and kind to MiA... perhaps more cruel, but he's trying to be kind. (Often Koichi's ideas of what's right and wrong are messed up in this fic, if you hadn't figured that one out). Tsuzuku is suffering, and I don't think overly mean to MiA. What he told MiA was the truth, and Koichi was afraid MiA would believe it.

[color_me_blue3]

I feel a bit bad for Tsuzuku... turned into what he hates... I hope things work for him (and Meto?)

[leifang666]

I can't say either way. Well I could, but spoilers.

[hamhamheaven]

Nope. I definitely don't like Koichi. Or Meto, for that matter. Turning Tsu just so they can claim he's "still alive" was cruel. (And I'm sure they didn't bother to ask what he wanted in the situation.) At this point, I feel like I should be rooting for the nuclear reactor to melt down and blow them all to kingdom come.

[leifang666]

Well yes, by human standards neither Meto or Koichi are behaving at all morally. However they belong to a race that has systematically wiped out most of humanity, hunting and enslaving those who remain. By these standards they're both acting with some level of kindness. Koichi was stuck in a position where killing Tsuzuku would upset MiA and break the promise he made (in his own way, Koichi keeps his promises to the letter), but keeping him alive was out of the question. Notice how he didn't mention Tsuzuku's name to Hiyuu? That's because he knows exactly what would happen once his clan found out. He's doing his best. His morals are perhaps alien to the human mindset, but he's from a race of creatures that have shown they don't really have any. Like MiA will do anything for survival, Koichi will do what he sees is necessary

[hamhamheaven]

They are tyrants, but they're kind tyrants? I don't have much sympathy for that. In the first place, they used to be humans. Centuries ago, probably, but human nonetheless. So they ought to remember what it's like. And even if their mindset now is that humans are "lesser species" good for nothing but food, even we humans (at least many of us) realize that systematically slaughtering animals just because is pointless and cruel. That's why there are anti-cruelty groups pushing for regulations on the meat industry; that's why the vegetarian/vegan movement exists. That's why the endangered species list of the IUCN is a thing.

In the second place, there is no moral high ground to be taken when vampires are the ones who began the extermination. Even gentle, timid creatures will fight back when cornered, and that's what Tsuzuku and his friends have been doing. He's not an assassin or a murderer. Because he wasn't hunting vampires for sport, and he didn't start hunting them until they began trying to wipe out everyone.