Don't be naive. I used Emily to get what I wanted. The fact that she trusted me is a statement about her character, not mine.
I wasn't an abolitionist. I left the Confederate army because I didn't feel like dying so my dad and his friends could keep their slaves. And then I came home, and I was waited on hand and foot by my father's slaves. I went out to see friends, and our dinners were served by their slaves.
And I. Didn't. Care.
[It's a lie. Slavery made him vaguely uncomfortable, but not enough to do anything. Intellectually, he disagreed with it ... But it was easier to shrug and go "the world sucks" and preoccupy himself with his pleasures.]
You know, I've always wondered why my father hated vampires so much when really, what could be more Confederate than a vampire? Old as dirt, obsessed with manners, viewing people as things to use as you please ... He would've fit in perfectly.
Maybe I wasn't such a shitty Confederate after all.
[If that little speech doesn't send her running, then there is no hope for her.]
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Date: 2016-03-31 04:14 am (UTC)I wasn't an abolitionist. I left the Confederate army because I didn't feel like dying so my dad and his friends could keep their slaves. And then I came home, and I was waited on hand and foot by my father's slaves. I went out to see friends, and our dinners were served by their slaves.
And I. Didn't. Care.
[It's a lie. Slavery made him vaguely uncomfortable, but not enough to do anything. Intellectually, he disagreed with it ... But it was easier to shrug and go "the world sucks" and preoccupy himself with his pleasures.]
You know, I've always wondered why my father hated vampires so much when really, what could be more Confederate than a vampire? Old as dirt, obsessed with manners, viewing people as things to use as you please ... He would've fit in perfectly.
Maybe I wasn't such a shitty Confederate after all.
[If that little speech doesn't send her running, then there is no hope for her.]