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Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon):
No, not help becoming a vampire: I have no interest in becoming a blood-sucking wierdo. :: laughs::

I'm working on a short story/short novel dealing with a woman's crisis of faith after she gets forcibly turned by a vampire, but I'm stuck as to what sort of vampire it should be? The Anne Rice-esque emo blood-sucker doesn't work for me, nor does the over-sexed Laurell K. Hamilton variety, and I'm not sure as if I want to go the opposite way and incorporate something like Max Schreck in F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu". I'm trying to bring something new and original to the table here, and I'm afraid I'm coming up with a blank open document on my screen at the moment. Anyone got any suggestions?

redneckwitch18:
I have the same problem with my story. However, I just made my a stronger version of an everday female. She doesn't know she is as attractive as everyone says. She moves more gracefully and has to act because she doesn't feel emotions as strongly as she used to. Super powers are kinda a must, but if she is struggling with her religious aspects, the thirst must be a main component in her character. Ann Rice's vamps don't have emotion. If she tries to reconnect with her religion and fails, it also tells the reader about her indirectly.

Am I rambling or lecturing? If So, I apologize whole- heartedly ::)

Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon):
Nah, not rambling or lecturing at all: It kind of gave me a few ideas to nibble on, actually. We'll see what comes of it.


--- Quote ---Super powers are kinda a must, but if she is struggling with her religious aspects, the thirst must be a main component in her character. Ann Rice's vamps don't have emotion. If she tries to reconnect with her religion and fails, it also tells the reader about her indirectly.
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A few hopefully *not* too spoilery details: my main character has somewhat recently converted (a year or two) to being a Jehovah's Witness, and since her faith -- which she loves dearly, since it's given her a sense of purpose and community -- does not allow blood transfusions or anything like it, she has to decide between following the tenets of her faith to the letter and wind up dying, or adjusting her beliefs to fit her new state of being and risk being shunned by others in her faith community. The idea came to me when I was watching a short PBS documentary on Jehovah's Witnesses, much of which dealt with the case of a young man who needed a liver transplant and the challenges he was facing because of it, since the surgery would require him to have a transfusion... and I'd recently been watching episodes of the anime "Hellsing", thus my strange brain came up with the question, "What would someone who's Jehovah's Witness do if they got turned by a vampire?" It was a loopy idea at first, but as I started quiddling with it, the story started to take shape and acquire a much more serious note.

Yeratel:

--- Quote from: Morraeon on May 25, 2007, 10:52:45 PM ---A few hopefully *not* too spoilery details: my main character has somewhat recently converted (a year or two) to being a Jehovah's Witness, and since her faith -- which she loves dearly, since it's given her a sense of purpose and community -- does not allow blood transfusions or anything like it, she has to decide between following the tenets of her faith to the letter and wind up dying, or adjusting her beliefs to fit her new state of being and risk being shunned by others in her faith community. The idea came to me when I was watching a short PBS documentary on Jehovah's Witnesses, much of which dealt with the case of a young man who needed a liver transplant and the challenges he was facing because of it, since the surgery would require him to have a transfusion... and I'd recently been watching episodes of the anime "Hellsing", thus my strange brain came up with the question, "What would someone who's Jehovah's Witness do if they got turned by a vampire?" It was a loopy idea at first, but as I started quiddling with it, the story started to take shape and acquire a much more serious note.

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I'm not 100% certain, but I don't believe that the JWs admit the existence of anything like a vampire. If I were a recent convert, and became a vampire, and found out they'd been lying to me in their beliefs, I might be angry enough to start making a steady diet of Jehovah's Witnesses and doing a little "converting" of my own.

Cyclone Jack:

The most well known aspect of the JW's is their rather intense devotion to evangelism and conversion. Your protag could, in misplaced zeal, decide to use her seductive and hypnotic powers to carry on such work. Of course, the church might not be too happy with the new converts and their literal and rather bloody interpretation of 'living forever in a paradise on Earth'.   ;D This could lead to some fun as the JW's -- one of the more polite and mannered of sects -- have to become vampire slayers. I could even see them soliciting advice from older and more 'dark fiend' knowledgable Christians such as Catholics.

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