The Gratuitous Vampire AU - Part 5
Finally done! (Sorry for the wait - my beta reader's had to deal with a seriously uncooperative couple of weeks) Total word count now comes to 16,000 words, which I am embarrassed to admit makes this truly gratuitous AU the single longest fic I've yet finished in this fandom (even Chain of Command barely made 12,000). clearly this only means I need
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I also wondered if Sol's "true form" was a reference to a different series. Now that I think about it, didn't that one anime have really freaky vampires.... oh, Blood the Last Vampire.
... which I guess is more than three or four, but I wasn't sure if some of it was just similarities in vampire fiction anyway.
I think I didn't notice Sol's vamp-ness the first time around because I wasn't paying enough attention? Hahah I always find that my first read-through of something I've somehow missed a million little details. (Was real fun back in high school, when we were reading "The Sun Also Rises" and everybody mentioned the narrator's lack of a certain vital part of his anatomy, and I had NOOOO idea where they got that from. Reading comprehension FAIL OTL)
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I've never seen Vampire Hunter D, but the vampire-hunting-vampires is such a common trope I didn't even really count it as a specific reference. Sol's 'true form' comes from the cover art on the 2000-2004 artbook - though his wings are probably meant to be more reptilian than bat-like and he's supposed to have a tail too. A vampire sprouting batwings was me reaching a bit - it's far more common for them to transform into bats outright with no intermediate form, but I've seen it once or twice (though I don't know if I could tell you where).
The Twilight reference was actually the 'Isabelle' mentioned in the first chapter (rather silly teenaged girl with a name related to Isabella/Bella, dating some guy who climbs in through her window and probably isn't a real vampire despite suspicions - sound familiar? ;) Shame no-one seems to have caught it. ^^;
(Was real fun back in high school, when we were reading "The Sun Also Rises" and everybody mentioned the narrator's lack of a certain vital part of his anatomy, and I had NOOOO idea where they got that from. Reading comprehension FAIL OTL)
We had a similar moment in my English class once regarding a scene in a rather dreary novel called 'A Fringe of Leaves' where the author spent what most of us only later realised was a sex scene talking about a passing hedgehog (so not making this up). So, sometimes it's you, but other times the writing really is that ambiguous.
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I... don't know why I didn't catch the Twilight thing. :X That shoulda been obvious enough.
OKAY DRABBLE PROMPT. Umm.... Your Overture AU verse, if that's okay? :3 Ky trying to actually HELP somebody, while Sol is "flirting" with him and Sin is... destroying something? gagging at his parents gross-ness?
Of course, anything that's Sol/Ky will make me happy. More vampire!Sol/Ky is okay in my book too XD I actually really like vampires when they aren't being melodramatic. (... which is like ALL the time but anyway)
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