Eerie Cuties 02-07-14 Stranger in my own home

[Giz]

New strip! http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/st ... y_own_home

[Passing Through]

Okay, there's a major difference right there.

Her innocence gone in an eyeblink... or rather, gone the hard way centuries ago.

I just 'ope against 'ope that guy isn't a corpse, we don't need any more to worry about what with Nina's rampage.

I wonder what charity it was she was raising money for back in Kissing Booth, some sort of 'Save the Bats' thing perhaps? But... will she still care? Will she still adore the Valiant Crosses?

[Cranium]

Eco Friendly LOL ... It is a good thing I was never a Layla fan ... but for those that miss the old Layla like Nina does, it still not too late to memory wipe the old queen. Eugene is grown on me since he was first shown, he knows that the modern world is too modern for the Quintessa ... if she goes too crazy ... well human kind have come up with number of ways to light her on fire Bwahahaha

[Gotoh]

Even her parents are are struggling with the issue of distinguishing "Layla" from "Quintessa", even though they're referring to the same person. Eugene has already begun to think of her in terms of who she once was, while Maria still believes she's the same as she was before, except with her old memories restored.

Based on that last scene, it may be that Eugene has a better grasp of the situation, 'cuz that was definitely more "Quintessa" than "Layla".

[Passing Through]

Eco Friendly LOL ... It is a good thing I was never a Layla fan ... but for those that miss the old Layla like Nina does, it still not too late to memory wipe the old queen. Eugene is grown on me since he was first shown, he knows that the modern world is too modern for the Quintessa ... if she goes too crazy ... well human kind have come up with number of ways to light her on fire Bwahahaha

And convieniently enough, Layla can use those same methods of fire usage to set humans alight. She'd probably have an easier time of it, too. Not to mention the increasing popularity of drones, very convenient for a vampire warlord.

As for erasing her memories, how would that help? For wasn't a memory failure the problem here? Gotta find her some memory enhancements.

[Insectoid]

Hmm... that French fellow may be a bit late to awaken.

[vampire hunter D]

I wonder if this will be the cruxof the comics plot for a while, Laymia tring to learn again how to live in the modern world.

[Crystafent82]

I do think that EC will not go as dark as MC so there will be no depopulated villages and such.
But Layla has to be retaught some things since old habits take over.

As for humans vs vampires:
The numbers strongly favor the humans, and the advancement of technology makes it easier for humans to kill vampires.
Not to mention, unlike in VC/PMS we have so far not seen a changed vampire (aka ex-human) only born vampires, therefore reducing the numbers of people who want to recognize vampires as citizens (and not as a danger) resulting in more people gunning for them. Pun intended.

[Cranium]

Eugene knows that Vampires must maintain the low profile least they all become barbeque very fast. Quintessa may not even consider how much man kind has advanced, it would not be easy to just bleed out humanity like she did 200+ years ago.

Layla not strike me as being very computer savvy and would likely have to engage the technocracy of the world of men with only her hypnosis/charm effects. While I do believe that most humanity not accept monsters in their midst, AA students likely after graduating will more likely enter into fields that sniff out monsters ... military etcetera ...and many of those students learn to resist domination, sure we have goof balls like Ava that get mind controlled but also have others that resist as seen in Magic Chicks. I have no doubt that Layla/Lamia could eradicate say 3-4 billion humans ... but she would only die again. But how many Cryptids would die as well?

I figure Eugene is one of the founding fathers of Charybdis Heights and likely that he and other vampires and cryptids have moved underground. His words in this strip and Eleanor indicate something like this has happen to help in preservation of cryptid kind.

So Eugene is seeing the BIG PICTURE while Maria only sees her daughter with more memories. Quintessa chaffing at the thought to living as something other then Queen in the world of modern man. And that mankind is nothing but Meals On Wheels, while Layla said "Meal On Wheels" she said so with Humor knowing the human needed to live, while Quintessa would rather squeeze every last bit of life juice and make popsicle latter on.

[mikbuster]

She's right. It would be eco-friendly to help with the overpopulation problem.

[brasca]

I do think that EC will not go as dark as MC so there will be no depopulated villages and such.
But Layla has to be retaught some things since old habits take over.

As for humans vs vampires:
The numbers strongly favor the humans, and the advancement of technology makes it easier for humans to kill vampires.
Not to mention, unlike in VC/PMS we have so far not seen a changed vampire (aka ex-human) only born vampires, therefore reducing the numbers of people who want to recognize vampires as citizens (and not as a danger) resulting in more people gunning for them. Pun intended.

Vampires weren't living in the open a thousand years ago because they had plenty of enemies then and most were human. It was easier to kill because of the high mortality rate and ignorance of the population, but if Quintessa was out and about medieval leaders probably would've organized a crusade to destroy her and that probably would get mentioned in the history books. Aside from the students at Artemis or Apollo the average person would probably think all that was a myth. As such I think she drained her victims dry, but unless they were someone important most people of the time wouldn't notice. Today it would be difficult in a place like Canada where people would notice a large number of disappearances, but if vampires wanted to relive the old days there are plenty of wartorn countries where they could feast without arousing too much suspicion. More than likely Quintessa will realize that it's too risky to kill until she's rebuilt her empire and not as vulnerable.

[Bambikles]

Layla should meet Ra's al Ghul.

[Varanus]

Hmm... that French fellow may be a bit late to awaken.

My impression was that she fed as normal and that for vampires in this series a normal feeding won't kill a human, other wise she would have said something about the man already being dead. It looked to me like she was remembering killing humans she fed on after feeding on them, for what reason other than a feeling of superiority I can't say.

[crimzontearz]

Yeah...is there an equivalent of the Masquerade in EC? If so what is the penalty for breaking it? Because Layla might find herself greeting the sunrise soon enough. She might have quintessa's memory but if the EC's equivalent of the "sheriff"/"seneschal" of the area is drawn to her by her methods she is STILL just a teenage vampire.

[Passing Through]

I do think that EC will not go as dark as MC so there will be no depopulated villages and such.
But Layla has to be retaught some things since old habits take over.

As for humans vs vampires:
The numbers strongly favor the humans, and the advancement of technology makes it easier for humans to kill vampires.
Not to mention, unlike in VC/PMS we have so far not seen a changed vampire (aka ex-human) only born vampires, therefore reducing the numbers of people who want to recognize vampires as citizens (and not as a danger) resulting in more people gunning for them. Pun intended.

It remains possible, perhaps even likely, that Layla was reminded of the human preservation legislation in time to save that guy. But before... before she was a normal teenaged girl who happened to be a vampire and was, well, harmless. The poster child of fluffyvamps. Now she's an ancient vampire Queen who happens to be a teenaged girl, she can't not be more dangerous than she was prior to Nina's accident. She has a thousand years' worth of memories to deal with and some of the recent ones (involving a certain chaotically evil murdererous lunatic(and rapist) named Faith) won't help her cope.

On technology: Any device a human can use, a vampire can use and good luck getting a sharpened stick through a knife proof vest. On numbers: Who's to say what the vampire to human ratio is today or was a few centuries ago? On vampire reproduction: While Layla and Nina were born vampires, that doesn't preclude the turning of humans into vampires (indeed, the Vampire Cheerleaders could walk in at anytime, they share a Universe with this one). On thralls: Let us not forget that Layla could send loyal human servants off on missions of devastation in the event of war. On scepticism: If someone started claiming Layla was an ancient vampire queen, they'd put him/her away! On human unity: *Snigger* If Vampires were at war with the Otherplacians, there'd be plenty who wouldn't care, would sell the Vampires weapons, or would happily join in against the Otherplacian scum.

At the end of the day, vampires would only have to achieve local superiority. An unarmed population (and the bulk of humanity would at best be armed with pointy sticks alone) would stand at the mercy of even a small body of armed vampires. Not to mention all the thralls.