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Main Character race type and profession (Name the mythical creature with a job)

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Cyclone Jack:

I always though the dichotomy of an undead pediatrician would be quite resonant as a basis for urban fantasy. A creature of the dead who aids in helping life come into the world would be useful for some weighty themes. Yet the only ideas that spring to mind are all very short gag type stories. :P

Kiriath:
Ravirn and Cerice in the Webmage urban-fantasy-esque books are hackers that look like elves.

Eddi in War for the Oaks is a rock singer.

Noey:

--- Quote from: Cyclone Jack on April 13, 2008, 02:20:17 PM ---I always though the dichotomy of an undead pediatrician would be quite resonant as a basis for urban fantasy. A creature of the dead who aids in helping life come into the world would be useful for some weighty themes. Yet the only ideas that spring to mind are all very short gag type stories. :P


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One of my favorite characters to write about of my own is a vampire paramedic. Who better to be able to see death approaching and stave it off, you know?

Yeratel:
F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack is kind of outside the normal P.I./Cop genre, in that he "fixes situations" that are outside the norm, and often involve the paranormal.

Moritz:

--- Quote from: Cyclone Jack on April 13, 2008, 02:20:17 PM ---I always though the dichotomy of an undead pediatrician would be quite resonant as a basis for urban fantasy. A creature of the dead who aids in helping life come into the world would be useful for some weighty themes. Yet the only ideas that spring to mind are all very short gag type stories. :P


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I was going to say that there is a character like that in a German vampire novel I recently read (Kinder des Judas bei Markus Heitz), but she is a nurse who helps children who are dying (as in holding their hand and telling them bedtime stories). edit: and yeah, she is a vampire.

Reading this thread makes me sad. Are there really only these PI and hero types in Urban Fantasy, or is that because of a narrow definition of UF?! E.g. if I look at Gaiman's work...

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