TEMPTATION [JENSOO x SEULRENE]

Imprint

The sisters are having a peaceful evening, watching TV together while talking about their day like any other normal siblings in their new home. Yes, they have just moved in a week ago after living for 10 years in Ulsan.

"Achy..." Khali spoke all of a sudden.

"Hmm?"

"That girl... Jennie, she's interesting." Khali changed her sitting position to face her sister.

Achy took the remote and paused what they're watching. She did the same thing, now facing Khali while her head leaned against the backrest of the couch.

"What do you mean?" Achy queried. She waited for a few seconds before Khali spoke again.

"I can't smell her." Khali uttered. "She's scentless to me." She added.

Achy thought about it for a second, she can smell Jennie's scent though and it's very overpowering.

"Her scent is strong to me though, and it's weird because it smells familiar." Achy crossed her arms, obviously trying to recall what makes that human's scent familiar to her.

"And she doesn't show interest in you as well... Did you... By any chance, imprinted on her?" Khali seriously asked her sister who is still in deep thought.

Achy gasped at what her older sister said.

"What?! Now why would I imprint myself on someone I don't know? And this morning is the first time that I saw her. Also, I don't even know how imprinting works duh?" Achy said to her, raising an eyebrow at her sister.

Imprinting.

In contrast with marking, imprinting is a deeper kind of connection. A vampire's imprinting can occur with the first human that looks at them eye to eye, without the intention of killing the human. The pure connection.

The vampire won't notice that they already imprinted on a human, until they feel their human's heartbeat.

Imprinting's effect had some similarity with it's impure form, the marking.

A human who has been imprinted on will be the strongest and most addicting scent to their vampire, but will become scentless to any other monster of the same kind. Vampires can also sense their human even if they are not together, especially if they are in danger.

An imprintee won't feel the natural attraction or trance towards their imprinter. They can also feel the natural attraction towards any other vampire, but it won't be as strong as an unimprinted human.

For example, the dhampir sisters' parents.

Khali and Achy's father imprinted on their mother accidentally when he was sitting by the river, while their mother was roaming around with a basket full of flowers one quiet afternoon. She was the first human that made an eye contact with the beautiful red eyed monster, therefore making him imprint on her unintentionally. He became addicted to her scent but not in a way that he intends to bring harm to the woman. He was the first one to feel the strong attraction, but their mother doesn't feel the same way for him at first. He had to work his way for her to make her feel the same way towards him. Imprinting on a human means that they have to make the human feel the genuine attraction towards them.

Their vampire trance won't work on their imprintee, so they have to start from scratch for them to get their 'mate'.

Imprinting could also mean that a vampire is no longer a free entity, meaning that once a vampire imprints they are also surrendering themselves to the imprintee, making the human their rightful owner. Although vampires can refuse the natural effect of imprinting on a human at first, it would be too late for some to realize that they have imprinted already. The effect of it would be too strong for the vampire to contradict that's why most of them resort to killing their imprintees before the attraction could get even stronger.