VAMPIYAAAAHHSSS
For those of you on ff.net, you know of my Kingdom Hearts vampire story Tainted but Beautiful. For you wonderful NYC girls and everyone else, don't read it because its plot is nonsensical and there's oodles of sex and violence. OLD SHAME.
I do like the world I've created, so for that reason I've been thinking of coopting it into a real original story with a real plot and everything, not the nonsensical rambling that the story actually is. Currently all it is is a file of vague plans and character descriptions, and two "maybe scenario" short stories. Which I'll post later. Right now is the vague plan and character description time.
So. We have a world, which is a kindof darker, more noir-ish, version of our own. The main setting is a big gothic city, NYC or Chicago or some random fictional city. So basically it's Gotham City, but there is no "goddamn Batman" (what a sin, you should be shot, Frank Miller). There are lots of vampires and werewolves, though, which exist side-by-side with humans and are humans' natural predators. Vampires will be the main focus.
Vampires are feared, and rightly so. Most of the ones who humans most often come in contact with are made vampires, savage and mindless brutes. The leaders of vampiric society, however, are purebloods--sentient, beautiful vampires who are born as vampires. They're rarer than made vamps because it's very rare for two vampires to conceive a child. Gee, this is all old hat to anyone whos' read the fic (which you shouldn't do). Since they don't let ordinary humans see them, purebloods are a very mysterious force, and subject to lots of inaccurate pop fiction depictions (more on this later, it's important). All vampires aggregate in covens (what is Twilight? Never heard of it!); they used to be organized in families, but during the Enlightenment era covens affiliated by region and ideals and liberty-fraternity-equality, not blood, took over. French Revolution stuff, oh boy. There's a reason my avatar is Napoleon, and that's not just 'cause Napoleon is one badass mofo.
As long as their have been vampires, there have been vampire slayers devoted to killing them. All slayers (except those affiliated with the Catholic Church...) belong to a worldwide Slayer Society with regional chapters and stuff. I can't decide if it works more like a nonprofit group/club, or a corporation. Most slayers are "human slayers," ordinary people who've trained in weapons and spells and stuff. The mainpower is held by the slayer families, who are also the only slayers technically allowed to slay purebloods. The slayer families augment their children with the blood of extinct magical crfeatures (dragons, fairies, unicorns, and the like). This, however, is kept a closely guarded secret. Notice parallels between vampiric and slayer society? It's intentional!
Vampires, even among purebloods, are highly stratified. At the top are the powerful coven leaders, some of whom can even withstand direct sunlight. The lower echelons of the ierarchy are filled with warriors, scholars, guards, mages, trackers, and the lowest ranks, incubi and succubi (the nightmare demons). Screw accuracy to folklore. It's my mythology so I'll do whatever I want to it! All vampires (well, purebloods at least) have enhanced speed, strength, reflexes and can summon familiars, and have powers unique to their stations (magic for mages, draining vital energy for the nightmare demons). They are weak to silver and sunlight and having their "true names" revealed, which has nothing to do with Earthsea or the Bartimaeus Trilogy.
This is getting rather long andI don't feel like lj cutting so characters go in another entry.
So yeah. The crud that comes out of my mind. It's probably exactly like every other vampire story out there. Sigh