A Good Place to Put Your Feet Up

[whatamithinking]

There is a woman at the bar. She's drinking some sort of coffee beverage, and grading papers.

Comments

[her_imperial_radiance]

"As long as everything still exists, yes. It just can't generate body parts out of nothing."

[whatamithinking]

"Huh. Well, not really relevant anymore, but theoretically good to know."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"And the process will dissolve anything that isn't organic body part or glass, which can be inconvenient for some people who've been injured and had that addressed in ways other than turning first."

[whatamithinking]

"I imagine it wouldn't dissolve the wheelchair."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"No, the wheelchair would be fine. But hip replacements come up pretty often..."

[whatamithinking]

"That does sound inconvenient, if it doesn't make new ones."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"It doesn't. So now we have expensive, hard-to-maintain extradimensional tech to handle re-replacing those hips with bone. And it has to be a genetic match, not because they'd have time to reject the bone but because if the hipbone turns with the rest of the person and it's different it'll generate different vampire venom and that will create mildly uncomfortable scar tissue."

[whatamithinking]

"Sounds unpleasant. And it can't help matters that the people most likely to have gotten hip replacements are the ones with the least time to get turned in."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Yes. We go as fast as we can. The anesthetist works full time and the witch who copies powers takes his for occasional shifts too."

[whatamithinking]

"Anesthetist?"

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Turning into a vampire hurts a lot." (This is an understatement.)

[whatamithinking]

Shiver. "Aha. Venom indeed."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Someone who needs to jump the line and can't displace a pending batch may choose to turn without Alec or Addy helping, and that used to be what anyone who turned had to do anyway, but it's not advised."

[whatamithinking]

"I can imagine it would be preferable to dying..."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Not during the process. Rates of regretting it afterwards are pretty low, though."

[whatamithinking]

"Close enough. If I know I'm going to regret something I'll refrain even if it feels good while it's happening."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Makes sense."

[whatamithinking]

"So unless literally every vampire turned before your mother took over had it done without consent probably there are emergency circumstances where it would be warranted."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"...Most vampires turned before Mama took over were without consent, or at least without informed consent, but not all, and plenty of them would have died without it."

[whatamithinking]

"I suspected most. I did specify literally every."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Well, Mama herself was a consensual non-anesthetized turning."

[whatamithinking]

"I'm not sure if I should be offering my congratulations for the consensual part or my condolences for the non-anesthetized part."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"She did spend some of it in an induced barbituate coma to skip part of the process. So it wasn't as bad as most were."

[whatamithinking]

"That sounds better than not."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Morphine was also tried but that didn't work."