//No but imagine Gabrielle paradoxically being a huge science buff but at the same time preferring to stay away from civilization and most other vampires in nature at the same time. Like she’d know how meteor showers, supermoons, and auroras work, as well as biology of animals and plants in great detail but she’d sleep under the dirt and soil at the end of the night.

I don’t think that’s a paradox at all! Gabrielle could have a lab somewhere in a rural little town, w/ internet access and equipment to study whatever natural phenomena she likes, and I bet she would have preferences for sleeping in different kinds of soil, the different textures and scents. Maybe with the vampire Eleni at her side…

She loves the act of climbing out of the earth every night, like a plant pushing it’s way up, killing her breakfast, and then rinsing off in a stream or waterfall…

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