I actually don't know that much, but I have excellent data-gathering skills. I've never seen death, never experienced it first-hand (well, three of my grandparents have passed on, but my family has done cremations long before I got hired into it... it was all internal for me). I sometimes feel sheltered, isolated from the "real world" because of this and the way I am. I've always been protected, by family and fate alike. I'm not sure I can cope with many things at all well.

I'm not lifting wholesale from Stoker. ^^ The garlic thing, for instance, is right out the window because it's always seemed a bit ridiculous to me. And crosses and holy water mean a lot less when applied in a Shinto-and-Buddhist worldview. Sai wouldn't exist in the Victorian Christian worldview, after all, and to suddenly change such an inherent premise of the series would crack the world I'm trying to build on. So... tailoring. Trying to decide how mean I want to be to Hikaru and how slashy I want this to be. From part two, it's getting very obvious where Akira's leading, and I've no idea whether or not I want this to go down the usual path. It could be interesting... but it could be more so if I don't take the easy route.