the planet
expansion
amplification
wisdom
dream
gift
abundance
exceptionality
higher learning
education
spirituality
fortune
miracle
the demon
vampire
To look at you, you might pass as human. Spend a day with you, and that ship sails. The fangs should give you away, but your very presence is hypnotic. You have an eerie allure, romance and sin at once, that degrades the sense of caution in whoever beholds you — whether you like it or not. But what becomes unsettlingly clear about you is the feeling of… more.
You have all the strength of a human — and more. You have the senses of a human — and more. You live as long as a human — and more. This is both boon and curse, for the ability to be more is shackled to the need to have more. Blood is your burden. Experience has taught you that your relentless hunger for it can be quelled, but never satiated.
Experience is another thing you have more of. The hand of time cannot close around you and so you have gained unnatural knowledge and wisdom — arcane and mundane — across centuries of life. Now wherever you walk shivers from the passing of your aura, for you are time out of time. Exemption. Perhaps this is what defines you. For all your extraordinary abilities and enhanced capacities, you have no means of going unnoticed. You may hide your identity but you can do nothing to stop its impact. The victims of your infamous bite are the unliving proof. You are a dark Midas touch. You have escaped mortality, but not yourself.
the flesh
always being special
always being weird
always being impressive
creating shock and awe
inspiring
intimidating
being coveted
always needing more
always bestowing
being incapable of equality
having a Midas touch
always causing expansion
always accruing and amassing
being immune and unaffected
being weary but not tired
questions for the flesh
in what ways are you like The Vampire?
what have you consumed to become an only Jupiterian thing?
how has becoming The Vampire saved you?
what have you accomplished with the flesh of Jupiter’s demon?
recording or journaling is recommended for whatever responses to these prompts emerge
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