[If he ever meets this man -- if Kyle's sire ever returns to the city again -- Charles resolves himself to dealing with the man directly. Immediately. Ideally with Kyle, before his sire can get real access to the other man again.
Everything Kyle is describing is disturbingly similar to the ways the more self-important, and manipulative vampires in the London Underground pull people into their orbits. They overwhelm them, prey on their personal weaknesses or doubts, and make it nearly impossible to refuse them.
Charles imagines the now-vampire and experienced in that kind of abuse Kyle would be more able to protect himself, but if there's any chance he might falter in that in some way? Out of love, nostalgia, willingness to excuse terrible behaviour for the sake of easing someone's apparent suffering, or some other reason? It can't be allowed to happen again.]
I'm pleased for your sake that you've been able to come this far in that, but... [A grave frown etches its way into the vampire's face.]
I think it's worth considering directly why you may have been susceptible to a manipulation like that. [He isn't meaning to blame Kyle for it in any sense - his idea is only that it all feels like it ties into the struggles the other man seems to have with boundaries in his giving, and caring, in general. A deep desire and need to be needed and loved, perhaps?] Beyond the vampiric aspects of it. I don't know many humans, or vampires for that matter, who would have been able to protect themselves from the total emotional overwhelm you're describing. That is the effect we're designed to have.
[It's just that some vampires wield that power to much more directly wicked ends than others.]
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Everything Kyle is describing is disturbingly similar to the ways the more self-important, and manipulative vampires in the London Underground pull people into their orbits. They overwhelm them, prey on their personal weaknesses or doubts, and make it nearly impossible to refuse them.
Charles imagines the now-vampire and experienced in that kind of abuse Kyle would be more able to protect himself, but if there's any chance he might falter in that in some way? Out of love, nostalgia, willingness to excuse terrible behaviour for the sake of easing someone's apparent suffering, or some other reason? It can't be allowed to happen again.]
I'm pleased for your sake that you've been able to come this far in that, but... [A grave frown etches its way into the vampire's face.]
I think it's worth considering directly why you may have been susceptible to a manipulation like that. [He isn't meaning to blame Kyle for it in any sense - his idea is only that it all feels like it ties into the struggles the other man seems to have with boundaries in his giving, and caring, in general. A deep desire and need to be needed and loved, perhaps?] Beyond the vampiric aspects of it. I don't know many humans, or vampires for that matter, who would have been able to protect themselves from the total emotional overwhelm you're describing. That is the effect we're designed to have.
[It's just that some vampires wield that power to much more directly wicked ends than others.]