User blog:Twelveseal

Hi, and welcome to my blog!

If you've read my profile, you know that I have a tendency to make leaps and bounds in directions with no just cause, i.e. I have stupid ideas that come from parallels in subject matter of my own concepts of how I would do things. So, instead of posting most of this stuff on the actual pages, where it would just get in everybody's way, I'm putting it here.

Here is your disclaimer, most of this is completely unfounded, I have no special sources. It's wild conjecture. Believe at your own discretion...

Also, feel free to comment on any of this, I like constructive input, like references (in English please), corrections, opinions that are well stated and not just insults to my own, and other peoples ideas on Nasu's work. This is just kind of an excuse to go out and be creative, to have fun, to imagine what the setting would/could be like under different circumstances.

Ideas:


 * 1) Vampiric Nature: This is my idea of exactly what constitutes a vampire in the Nasuverse. This idea comes from the way Nasu handles the True Ancestors, such as Arcueid's self resurrection, Brunestud's ability to affect his descendents posthumously, as well as the fact that Altrouge summoned him to create Tatari, how Nrvnqsr's body persisted after Shiki killed him, how Stanrobe Calhin continues to exist as a ghost, and the understanding that True Ancestors are elementals, and that Roa's soul is vampiric and transforms his host body into a vampire with each incarnation. It also comes from the phrasing Arcueid uses to describe the process of becoming a vampire (see my entry on the Talk:Vampire page). The idea is this: Vampires are not physical entities but, are rather, discorporated souls. The body of a Vampire is really just a tool used by the spirit as a means to interact with the physical world. This is why they can regenerate so easily; their soul is separate from their body, and can simply reconstitute it from prana stored in their soul. When a Vampire's body is destroyed, it discorporates into atomic level matter and the prana used to generate, similar to the process of Gradation Air. The matter itself comes from material substances consumed by the vampire and rendered down for the prana contained within. This means that in order to completely destroy a Vampire, the soul iteself must be destroyed, and not just the physical body. The body, as a separate existence, has its own concept of mortality independent from the Vampire's true self. A Vampire that dies and can no longer reconstitute a body remains as a ghost, until it loses all sense of self and is reabsorbed by the Akasha. True Ancestors generate their bodies from condensed prana, similar to fairies, but on a higher magnitude of power, into a form that they recognize as their own. Dead Apostles from the lineage of the True Ancestors do much the same thing, but they must consume vast amounts of prana in order to maintain their artificial existence. They get this energy from consuming blood, flesh, and the like. This means that the qualification to be a Dead Apostle, and a Dead Apostle Ancestor, is to have a soul that is a completely separate existence from the body. True Ancestors likely consume blood as a means to help maintain their humanoid form, similar to how Nrvnqsr did. The human blood gives them a model to work from as a reminder of their appearance. This is why the desire to drink blood increases with age; the True Ancestor loses their sense of self with the ages regardless of their activity, and must eventually drink blood in order to stabilize their physical Avatar.
 * 2) A-Ray/Eirei: Their may be a connection between these terms. They seem to cover similar concepts...
 * 3) Dark Six/Six Sisters: Another one with a connection, the fact that the Dark Six is said to unite all Dead Apostles under a single banner, and that the Six Sisters united the whole of the planet's population in a single cause suggests that this two may actually be the same being. It wouldn't surprise me if the Dark Six is a collective existence with six independent bodies, and it is said to be able to regenerate, which would explain how the Sisters acted even after their apparent Death in Notes.