>>She didn't actually mean to be terrifying, as such, but in her
>>constant quest to be taken as seriously as possible, she often overdid
>>it without realizing.
>
>Was she aware that the staff whispered about the perceived threat of
>being broken down for alchemical spare parts and/or Flandre feed?

Probably not, since her own maid didn't mingle with the other servants.

>>For complicated reasons, this ends up with me envisioning Sakuya and
>>Meiling re-enacting the plate armor scene from Bill & Ted's
>>Excellent Adventure, complete with Sakuya screaming, "You
>>killed Meiling, you medieval dickweed!" and attacking the medieval
>>guard dude.
>
>Heh, you know I could picture Meiling delivering a line like that, but
>Sakuya doing so seems... well my brain renders it almost like
>Meiling's voice coming out of Sakuya (perhaps she's narrating a truly
>bizarre dream she had over breakfast.)

As a matter of fact, I had the same thought (that it sounds more like something Meiling would say), but since Meiling's the one in the armor, Bill's line had come from Sakuya for the thing to map correctly. The dream explanation is as good a one as any. :)

>>She's particularly concerned about his reaction to some fairly
>>specific parts of the book, primarily regarding details of vampire
>>ecology she was reasonably sure he didn't know
>
>I'm curious now if we readers have seen mention of the item in
>question or not. I have one guess, related to vampiric fertility, or
>rather the lack thereof,

Indeed, that's the main one. There were a few other bits and pieces she thought he might be sort of generally disgusted by (for example, the technical details about feeding and the turning process are pretty queasy when presented in such a clinical fashion), but that's the thing she figured he was most likely to take as an unwelcome surprise, under the circumstances.

> since I could see a girl as traditional at
>heart as Remilia still can be thinking that might be a deal breaker
>(despite knowing G does not exactly lack for offspring.)

Well, in a way, it's because she knows he has children that she thought he might be disappointed to discover that there won't be any more if he follows through with marrying her. (When, in fact, it hasn't even occurred to him.)

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