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it’s probably a testament to how often ive been trawling through tdz tags that my immediate response to this was “WOW, penhales !!!” anyway omg thank u im gonna do krolock bc hes my favorite Soft Vampire Dad

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3 // Hope

Krolock’s first and only real hope is that Herbert will be happy. The Count himself hasn’t been happy in centuries; he is too old and too weary to have any hope for fulfillment. The only thing that keeps him going is his son who, against all odds, has endured the 300-odd years they’ve been alive and is still overwhelmingly positive. Krolock just wants Herbert to enjoy his unlife, however much of it he has left, and to not resent his father for bringing it upon him.

(ive got some Thoughts about herbert’s turning good god)

10 // Art

Krolock is an art connoisseur. When you’ve been around with nothing but a massive fortune and three hundred years on your hands, investing in art and literature only makes sense. He has a particular taste for poetry, especially works derived from the Greek concept of the tragedy (powerful, strong-willed men succumbing to their supernaturally imposed fatal flaw. huh.) He’s even been known to write verse, but what little of it does get kept and bound is doomed to remain in a back corner of the library, probably forever. Castle von Krolock is beautiful, architecturally – both the parts of it that were his inheritance as a human and the additions and changes he’s made over the course of his unlife. Paintings, however, are a little more of a rarity for him; most traditional paintings shine best in natural light, and that is in… short supply, for him.

30) Sex

Krolock, for all his melodrama, is real quiet in bed. The most you could probably get out of him, after a lot of work, is a low whine under his breath or a gasp here and there. He likes it slow and quiet and romantic – raw animal fucking is, like, super juvenile and ungentlemanly, as far as he’s concerned. (It might be a whole ‘nother thing when the bloodlust hits him, but

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40) Scent

Dead things don’t, um… smell great? It’s not that he (or the other vampires, for that matter) smell bad – they just don’t smell of much of anything at all. The microbiome and pheromone concoction that gives humans their natural scent is absent in the undead, and as a result, Krolock just sort of smells… musty. Not mildewy or unclean, just – like dusty bedcovers you find in your basement that have been dry but untouched for like a decade. He smells like old books and cobwebs, and both he and Herbert make good use of perfumes and oils to mask it.

The idea of anyone thinking “wow Penhales!!!” is so foreign to me ❤

Also I’m so glad you picked DADDY KROLOCK. I agree with you on all of these, but I’m especially sitting here screaming about your answer under “sex” because I love it. At first I totally imagined him as more animalistic, but you’re absolutely right. This dude brought a handkerchief to wipe his mouth clean after biting Sarah, of course he’d be that restrained and romantic. And I never thought of the smell thing, either, but that too makes sense. 

10/10 great answers.