A long time ago - Black Orchid
I had this idea for Big Bang. The idea was basically one where Jinki had a kinky hidden life and his regular life was as a professor at a university and Taemin was his assistant, only Taemin and he had met in the hidden life and all the ocmplications and whatnot that this would bring.
However, there were some things about this idea that seemed very similar to other things I had read, for example stjoan4eva 's amazing Camden Road. For that matter there were some overtones of other things I had written myself. I seem to see Jinki in particular so strongly in a certain way that it's really hard for me to see him any OTHER way in order to write things from a different angle. This wasn't my only idea for Big Bang either.
I had another one which the aforementioned stjoan4eva and kinnosuikazura helped me work on which I actually halfway stole/borrowed from an aborted KyuChul storyline I had come up with where it's the far future and ...well it's sort of a cross between an arranged marriage fic and an mpreg fic and that one isnt' really shelved completely if I can come at it from a different angle.
So, I was thinking about these ideas last night and turning them around to see what was underneath and basically just pondering the whole thing because for the first time in a while I have a huge desire and need to write and I dont' feel blocked (yahooo!) so...then I started thinking about this series of books called the Black Dagger Brotherhood.
If you aren't familiar with the series, basically it's about a group of men, well vampires really who are the warriors of teh vampire race etc, etc. There's a lot of details that really aren't important to tell and there's some that don't even apply and, I don't think it's a secret I've wanted to write a vamp fic for a while.
so the salient points are that I've pretty much scrapped the professor part of the original idea for a few reasons. Jinki's a doctor instead, a vamp doctor. Vampires aren't what humans think they are. In the book series all the warriors of the vampire race are ginormous etc.but I'm not using most of the details of the series, just a tiny few. One being that vampires have one real Mate for the most part. Taemin of course will turn out to be the said Mate and that's Mate with a capital M. Jinki is a black sheep aristocrat vamp which will be explained later.
So here's a snippet that's an introduction to the story.
Yes I told you all that so I could post this. Never say I don't expound.
These gatherings seemed to waver between tedious duty and sizzling arousal doomed to disappointment, Jinki thought, watching the next exhibition with his eyes half closed. He was leaning against the wall, arms folded, resting in a bit of shadow cast by an overhanging stairway. He had his own part to play in the performances going on at this so-called fetish ball.
He sighed and stretched a little. Places like this tended to attract his kind so it didn't surprise him to scent others that he knew, to be forced to exchange guarded pleasantries or nods and bows at the very least. His full lips curled with slight distaste and he sighed again. His people could pass for human and did, but there was something more vicious, more predatory, more dangerous about them that even humans felt and sensed without knowing why. But here, in such a place as this, that sense of danger attracted the humans rather than repelling them.
Jinki himself was really there for only one reason. The attraction of toying with a human playmate was gone for the most part. It was only that the signs had been read at his birth; the claim that his only chance at finding his Mate would be here in one of these human gatherings devoted to pleasure and pain. He sighed and let his head tip to one side, stretching his neck. Loneliness hung like a chain around him, one Mate in all the world and so far, Jinki couldn't find that one.
He had only the vaguest dreams of burning bright red hair and lithe limbs to go on, a fragrance like vanilla and something fruity that lingered when he awoke. It was not uncommon for a pair to dream of one another but usually this began after they had met, not before. Yet Jinki had nothing more to hold on to, than these ephemeral memories and notions. He licked his lips as if tasting that vanilla scent and flavor on them.
Jinki closed his eyes, remembering the small offering of incense and other things he'd burnt on the roof last night in hopes that this time he would find his Mate. He could only hope the Powers would finally smile on him. He shivered with longing so strong it left a taste in his mouth and took a breath, waiting.
However, there were some things about this idea that seemed very similar to other things I had read, for example stjoan4eva 's amazing Camden Road. For that matter there were some overtones of other things I had written myself. I seem to see Jinki in particular so strongly in a certain way that it's really hard for me to see him any OTHER way in order to write things from a different angle. This wasn't my only idea for Big Bang either.
I had another one which the aforementioned stjoan4eva and kinnosuikazura helped me work on which I actually halfway stole/borrowed from an aborted KyuChul storyline I had come up with where it's the far future and ...well it's sort of a cross between an arranged marriage fic and an mpreg fic and that one isnt' really shelved completely if I can come at it from a different angle.
So, I was thinking about these ideas last night and turning them around to see what was underneath and basically just pondering the whole thing because for the first time in a while I have a huge desire and need to write and I dont' feel blocked (yahooo!) so...then I started thinking about this series of books called the Black Dagger Brotherhood.
If you aren't familiar with the series, basically it's about a group of men, well vampires really who are the warriors of teh vampire race etc, etc. There's a lot of details that really aren't important to tell and there's some that don't even apply and, I don't think it's a secret I've wanted to write a vamp fic for a while.
so the salient points are that I've pretty much scrapped the professor part of the original idea for a few reasons. Jinki's a doctor instead, a vamp doctor. Vampires aren't what humans think they are. In the book series all the warriors of the vampire race are ginormous etc.but I'm not using most of the details of the series, just a tiny few. One being that vampires have one real Mate for the most part. Taemin of course will turn out to be the said Mate and that's Mate with a capital M. Jinki is a black sheep aristocrat vamp which will be explained later.
So here's a snippet that's an introduction to the story.
Yes I told you all that so I could post this. Never say I don't expound.
These gatherings seemed to waver between tedious duty and sizzling arousal doomed to disappointment, Jinki thought, watching the next exhibition with his eyes half closed. He was leaning against the wall, arms folded, resting in a bit of shadow cast by an overhanging stairway. He had his own part to play in the performances going on at this so-called fetish ball.
He sighed and stretched a little. Places like this tended to attract his kind so it didn't surprise him to scent others that he knew, to be forced to exchange guarded pleasantries or nods and bows at the very least. His full lips curled with slight distaste and he sighed again. His people could pass for human and did, but there was something more vicious, more predatory, more dangerous about them that even humans felt and sensed without knowing why. But here, in such a place as this, that sense of danger attracted the humans rather than repelling them.
Jinki himself was really there for only one reason. The attraction of toying with a human playmate was gone for the most part. It was only that the signs had been read at his birth; the claim that his only chance at finding his Mate would be here in one of these human gatherings devoted to pleasure and pain. He sighed and let his head tip to one side, stretching his neck. Loneliness hung like a chain around him, one Mate in all the world and so far, Jinki couldn't find that one.
He had only the vaguest dreams of burning bright red hair and lithe limbs to go on, a fragrance like vanilla and something fruity that lingered when he awoke. It was not uncommon for a pair to dream of one another but usually this began after they had met, not before. Yet Jinki had nothing more to hold on to, than these ephemeral memories and notions. He licked his lips as if tasting that vanilla scent and flavor on them.
Jinki closed his eyes, remembering the small offering of incense and other things he'd burnt on the roof last night in hopes that this time he would find his Mate. He could only hope the Powers would finally smile on him. He shivered with longing so strong it left a taste in his mouth and took a breath, waiting.