Welcome to Gaia! ::

Jacob mentally shook himself out of unpleasant thoughts to focus on what Ma was asking him.

"The aches and pains are still pretty horrible at times, I will admit. Even overall they've been lessened, I still wouldn't wish them on anyone. As to whether it's a curse or a blessing... It's hard to say. It's a blessing in disguise in part because of certain reasons, aside from being able to easily 'sacrifice' myself to keep loved ones safe without any long term consequences. Well, any that I've not already grown accustomed to." The first few times of getting smeared or blown apart were at least somewhat unsettling for the necromancer when they happened. "At any rate, even if it were fully a blessing for me, I still feel it's a duty on my part to find the way to remove the curse for others that are just as afflicted, if not more so. Who knows, maybe there's even more than one way to remove it, aside from divine intervention."

Jacob simply coughed and cleared his throat slightly at the experimenting line aimed at him, his face reddening just a little bit.

"As for considering myself human... Well. I'd have to say yes, I do. One with immortality, but still a human that's had many years to learn many things, and with an innate sense for the dead since I was a child. Other than those things, I still breathe, eat, and function all the same."

"To be honest... I would rather prefer all of you stick to having to use willing partners, or go after those that would harm innocents. However, that's not exactly always feasible, is it?"

Jacob thought for a moment, uncertain of what answer to provide to this question and problem. He wouldn't rather have the vampires starve, or go crazy with blood hunger or anything. He also would not rather have innocent people be killed if that could be avoided. However, he felt that if it couldn't be avoided for whatever reason, or if it somehow accidentally happen, perhaps that shouldn't be an issue then so much. And what did it harm an innocent person in the long run really if they were fed off of, willingly, or... unfortunately as it had to be done sometimes, unwillingly... they would not remember the incident however. Jacob stretched slightly, and looked back towards Ma from his brief pondering.

"I think feeding would be fine, just as long as the killing isn't done intentionally on innocent people. Murderers I'll let you all handle as you see fit. I can't very well take sustenance away from people. Anyway, yes, feeding on people in general is fine.

I do have a slight concern that since this has only been recently brought to my awareness, that some may have grown a bit more restless than others, perhaps? I'd maybe suggest that those who are a little more in need of human blood have someone they trust if possible go with them so an accident might be avoided (though Jacob knew that it could still happen), or if they can go after a murderer first to take care of any hunger or craving issues."