NerdPrincessLina
I know some of you are vampires smp fans, so I want to share my Horrible Evil Theory/Headcannon.
Spoilers for Owen's backstory.
So. Here's the relevant information: Turning someone is enough to make you a level 2 vampire (as seen in Scott and Pyro's POVs). By level 2, you have claws, bat form, invisibility, and the lunge. Louis (or is it Lewis?) was a good person. He did not like violence. He was killed shortly after turning Owen. He was framed, and the townsfolk did not actually know he was a vampire. He is 100% dead, as Owen saw him in the afterlife.
So... Because he'd turned Owen, Louis was almost certainly level 2. So he had bat form, invisibility, and the lunge. And the townsfolk had no reason to trap him with silver and no beacon to stop his abilities. He had access to them. Completely. /So he could've gotten away from the pyre/. He could've turned invisible, jumped away, turned into a bat, fought his way out. But he didn't. I think that's because he knew they'd come after him if they knew he was a vampire. And then he'd have to kill them to get away. And he did the math, weighed the scales, and decided his life wasn't worth the cost in the lives of the townsfolk. So he walked /willingly/ to the pyre, to save them.
This makes Owen killing them even worse, and also those lines where he's like "Louis' life was worth every one of theirs!"
Yeah. I've been thinking about this for a while, so you can have this horrible terrible thing I thought of, too, now.
NerdPrincessLina
@Probs_reading_ yeah... the /only/ way to redeem Owen was to somehow convince him he was wrong, and he was very stubborn, and few people in Oakhurst actually genuinely believed he was wrong, at least strongly enough to be able to convince him. Dr. Legs /wanted/ to believe Owen was wrong, but in the end, didn't. The only reason I say Owen was redeemable is that I'm too much of an optimist and I'm also very pedantic. If something is possible, no matter how unlikely, I will not call it impossible. Owen being redeemed was crazy unlikely under any circumstance, and even less likely under the circumstances of Oakhurst, but I just can't call it impossible.
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Probs_reading_
@NerdPrincessLina also! I had an idea with whether or not Owen could have been redeemed. Owen’s key idea about morality is that ‘ you can try all you like but you’ll never change’. That was why he killed Avid, in some sense. If that was so, it makes sense that Owen the human; who had a deeply rooted loathing towards the villagers for their actions toward him due to his disease. This means that, if we take Owen’s logic, he never would have been able to redeem himself because he would forever align with his idea of hate and outcastness to the world
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