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Infamous as Elle!:
--- Quote from: ballplayer72 on January 16, 2009, 06:32:03 PM ---I like most of that. Alot. You have successfully gotten around the eating people thing which is good if you want a "good" MC.
The sunlight thing could use a little work i think. It can be alright that they can walk the day, but i think they shouldn't have ANY powers if they are outside, not just diminished powers. Or maybe if they eat people they still get their powers. Some sort of temptation/villian setup is always nice.
Powers... I like the mental stuff for your heroine. The really good looking thing is a bit tooooo White Court for comfort (not to say i don't like the White Court angle of DF but you know it could cause some infringement issues). Maybe you could have Dante be alottt stronger or alot faster than any "normal" vampire? Or perhaps he could do magic of some sort? Perhaps telekinesis or pyrokinesis? Something flashy for those "damn he's such a badass" moments?
Perhaps you could make their powers stronger if they feed on people and snuff them out to give a temptation for them to overcome?
Also, what kind of "crimes for their past" do you mean? Is it like ANGEL where your MC used to be evil and like to snack on virgins?
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Dante's looks have nothing to do with him being a vampire. He's Italian. He was born beautiful and with his vanity. He can only charm with his beauty as much as any good looking guy on the front cover of GQ. It's not like he can look at any woman and make them into a puddle of desire (don't tell him that though, you do not want to see his sad puppy face). He's strong and fast though, intelligent enough to become a medical doctor but I'm still working on his specialty.
This is damned good practice and helping a great deal! Thanks!
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: ballplayer72 on January 16, 2009, 03:57:04 PM ---ps NO SPARKLY VAMPIRES I HATE SPARKLY VAMPIRES VAMPIRES TURN TO DUST IN THE SUN THEY DO NOT SPARKLE NO SPARKLES EVER
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You're still not using enough gunpowder, I tell you.
Infamous as Elle!:
My roomie actually has a phobia against glitter. So you can imagine the hell he's gone through in goth clubs and any other place someone has the opportunity to dress up like a faerie.
It's so bad, he says sparkly greeting cards and Christmas cards give him the willys. I can chase him around the house with my eye shadow case!
Yeratel:
The only vampire series that held my attention long enough to read most of it is Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's stories of the vampire Saint-Germain. That's mostly because they incorporate a lot of history into the historical fiction, and deal with a timespan of over 4,000 years from when he was first made vampiric in the late Bronze Age to the present day. Also, there was a real Comte de San Germain in the 18th and 19th centuries that served as the basis and inspiration of the character.
The vampire Saint-Germain doesn't have much in the way of supernatural powers, other than immortality, and somewhat enhanced physical strength and stamina. Sunlight and being over or in flowing water saps his strength, though he can offset the effect by maintaining contact with earth from his homeland, which usually lines the soles of his shoes. The process of becoming a vampire left him impotent, but intimate vampiric contact with a woman when he feeds provides them intense pleasure, and if he cannot find a willing companion, he does have the ability to influence a woman's dreams, and feed on her in her sleep without her knowledge. If he feeds on someone multiple times, it's possible they will rise as a vampire after death, so he's very careful to limit his contact, unless they are close enough to him to be willing (surprisingly few are, over the centuries). His main strengths are the knowledge he has accumulated over the millenia, including the secrets of alchemy, which have allowed him to manufacture gold and precious gems to add to his wealth, and the wealth itself, which enables him to travel and change identities, and conceal his true nature. He doesn't age, and can heal most wounds, in time, but fire and anything that destroys the brain or central nervous system can still kill him. A couple of other idiosyncrasies are that he cannot eat or drink normal food ("I never drink. . .wine." pops up occasionally. :) ), and religious artifacts like crosses have no effect whatsoever; he was born over 2,000 years before Jesus Christ, after all.
Chiroptera:
--- Quote ---being over or in flowing water saps his strength
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That's a good one that I don't see used in a lot of modern interpretations. I've always liked it though. (Empathy I think - I don't like water :D )
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