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Vampire Fans?
Chiroptera:
The "estranged couple has to team up" idea is something I've seen in general, but not with vampires. It would be interesting to see where you could go with that.
--- Quote ---Twilight, it ain't. That whole series has some epic rants attached to it on my part, believe me.
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:D There's a hate thread somewhere in the Media section. I'm sure your opinions would be greatly appreciated.
ballplayer72:
--- Quote from: Elle de Valois on January 15, 2009, 09:04:21 PM ---This story would be more like vampires falling....err, out of love and in love and out again....centuries of snarky-ness.
Basically the premise is two people, bound together as companions but estranged in marriage (Vivian would say her favorite mistake), but she is a "psychic consultant" for a police department in a city yet to be determined and Dante is a medical examiner/coroner in Boston. When suspicious deaths begin to crop up looking like copycat crimes from not only their past but also crimes that live in infamy, they end up having to team up to save the day....err, night. Oh and they happen to be vampires.
I kind of wanted to combine my loves across different genres and have been looking for a way for years to do it.
Twilight, it ain't. That whole series has some epic rants attached to it on my part, believe me.
I just tend to have the uncanny ability to come up with stories that are close enough to other stories that I don't even know about yet, to seem like I'm ripping my ideas off of them. Frustrating to be sure.
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What kind of Vampires to you favor? Obviously not crazy monsters cause you have MC's that are vamps. Can they eat animal blood or do they need human blood? can it be bottled or does it have to be fresh? do they have to feed to live or just to use the superpowers? speaking of powers, what can they do? is it full dracula with mental hoodoo and superstrength? are they both unique?
ps NO SPARKLY VAMPIRES I HATE SPARKLY VAMPIRES VAMPIRES TURN TO DUST IN THE SUN THEY DO NOT SPARKLE NO SPARKLES EVER
thank you.
Chiroptera:
--- Quote ---VAMPIRES TURN TO DUST IN THE SUN
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Only post-Nosferatu for the most part, I think. But yeah - sparkling is just wrong.
Infamous as Elle!:
So far I'm working on their character sketches and pinpointing down their timelines so that I can go back and research potential paralleling storylines.
I'm also working on supporting character sketches. Dante's best friend is Shakyamuni, Siddhartha Gautama actually. He's actually an older character idea than Dante and Vivian Bianco but I never had a story really for him to fit into except a small vignette about his creation. When I was in Thailand, I was reading a parable about how a King Cobra became enamoured of the meditating Siddhartha and so the snake gentle coiled himself beneath the young Buddha, rising up over his back and expanding his hood to shelter Gautama from the elements. That tale, twisted just a bit, is the key to Shakyamuni's background.
I'm also sketching out potential threats to vampires on whole. I thought about something like a Van Helsing society that investigate weird and paranormal things but from the other side of the spectrum. They are the first to point the fingers toward the beasties that lurk in the dark, so the vampires usually end up getting the short end of the stick. Sometimes Van Helsing is right but more often than not, they aren't. They also have a collection of professionals and amateurs, so it's a toss up as to who is more of a pest.
In this world there are good vamps and bad ones too. The biggest split is amongst the Dracul family but that's still a bit hazy for me. I do know that conflict sparked off a war for years that may still be going on and I want the wars to slip neatly in amongst some of the bloodiest human conflicts in history. There are always secret layers to wars and some of the biggest have been the deepest and darkest secrets of all.
Anyway....so I have ideas rolling around in my head. I'm just hoping I can find interest in it long enough not to drop it. That's my biggest problem, keeping motivated and interested.
I suppose I'll just have to write something that I really want to read! Heh.
Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon):
--- Quote from: Araneae on January 16, 2009, 03:59:29 PM ---Only post-Nosferatu for the most part, I think. But yeah - sparkling is just wrong.
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Trouble is, it's been part of the modern vampire lore for so long now, due to that, it's hard to completely tease it out. Although I like how they handled it in the sadly short-lived TV series "Moonlight": vamps there could go out in daylight, but it makes them very uncomfortable, while direct unobstructe sunlight (ie. one episode set in a desert) can make them deathly ill.
I might despise the Twilight series, but I have a feeling a lot of the kids who got hooked on it will go for anything with vampires because of it, so hopefully they'll find the better stuff, like Richelle Mead's "Vampire Academy", etc.
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