which is largely concerned with vampires

[faeriemaiden]

Attention particularly to goddessreason: there is a film coming out in September about John Keats and Fanny Brawne, and it looks spiffing. Unfortunately neither of them are vampires in it (no word on Byron however), but one cannot have everything, I suppose.

The sun went down yesterday in a tangle of after-storm clouds and a pale bloom of light, and the rain-

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[lady_moriel]

OOH IDEA: So Mr Caruthers needs an actual reason to realize he's in deep crap and be willing to sell himself to the Ministry (just remembered it's the Department of the Paranormal--why is that, exactly? *runs to Wikipedia* Ah, Britain has both Ministries and Departments, and they're a little different, so...huh.), right? And also he doesn't do anything about being hopelessly in love with Evy for, like, ages, and even then doesn't think he should or that he deserves it or whatever Remus.

So here is my idea: it sounds like some amounts of hooking up, associated with all this bad-magic/drugs stuff or otherwise, went on while Mr Caruthers was being a Bad Boy. So say that there's this girl, dunno if she'd be a hooker or a magic-dabbling hooker or a not-hooker dabbling in some of the magic he is, but whatever the case, it's someone he's involved with and grows to genuinely care for. And largely because of Mr Caruthers' influence/idea/whatever, they both become thralls in pursuit of magic--and maybe she figures out first that it's bad business and tries to leave, or something, but whatever the case, she dies because of it, and he's there when it happens, unable in one way or another to do anything about it because he's 1) already figured out this is bad and has tried to get out, and is therefore restrained somehow/weakened by regular blood loss from vampires feeding on him, or 2) too whacked out on bad-magic vampire blood to make himself do anything.

If nothing else, that would give him a very personal reason for wanting to fight vampires, plus a lot of guilt, reasons for avoiding any romantic relationships (especially if Evy, in one way or another, reminds him of the girl who died, in more innocent times), and willingness to get away from the vampires and help the Department whatever the cost to him.