Turn me into a vampire!

[Sky Father]

I just got a picture of your poor character reading Twilight for ideas and then putting sparkle stickers all over his body, donning eyeliner and running out in broad daylight flexing.

Uhm, for productive ideas...

Maybe he can bribe a few of his friends to pretend they have amnesia after leaving his club and display the "telltale" signs of a vampire with the twin puncture marks. Either it will stir up rumors that he's a vampire or the police will bust his a** and his face will be all over COPS.

[Venus of the Crows]

B u s h i r e n k i n

I just got a picture of your poor character reading Twilight for ideas and then putting sparkle stickers all over his body, donning eyeliner and running out in broad daylight flexing.
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How true.
Don't look to Twilight, it wrecked vampires. Look to Dracula or Dungeons and Dragons. Dnd has good examples because they assume that the dungeon master isn't going to say "okay, let's go find the vampire!" They want the characters to figure out the guy is a vampire.

[Coffee and Alcohol]

Do research about a real but poorly-known historical figure from the 18th or 19th century, and use that research to build a plausible outline for all the events of their life that they'd deem significant - and have your would-be vampire memorize all of them. For good measure, he should also shut himself in his room with minimized human interaction while he studies historical films/newsreels/etc. along with print sources to capture the mannerisms of someone who lived in those times, as best he could. Combine that with the high-profile actions of some friends (and coroner bribe-ees) who can be trusted to recreate the events of Dracula in the proper order, and you have a believable fake vampire.

[KD Heart]

The club ends up attracting a lot of attention and he does find himself face to face with "real" vampires and, in the end, he starts believing his own lie (I may be giving away more of the plot here, but I usually feel the path is more important than the destination so I hope I'll be excused). I've been looking into vampirism and vampire lifestyle (if anyone knows a good site for stuff like this - "real" vampires and people who believe they are vampires - it would be great, I've wiki-ed it and I vaguely remember a couple of documentaries about this stuff that stuck with me over the years). As far as fictional vampires go, Dracula is referenced heavily (the character is called Vlad and his friends called him "the son of Dracula" even before this started) as the story was initially set in a Romanian city (starting to have doubts about this part - for one, it would be hard to make the Victorian look work with the context). Also, I'm going with Tanya Huff's Blood Books for the vampire's image (though it would be tempting to dress him up like Jean-Claude in the Anita Blake series twisted )

I haven't read Twilight, but I might just do it after I finish this story just so I can use the sparkle stickers in a parody twisted


I have to say, this is the first time the WF's been so helpful to me (maybe I'm starting to figure out how to ask the right questions). Thanks guys! heart

[Dulcia Dusken]

Linda Quest

I have to say, this is the first time the WF's been so helpful to me (maybe I'm starting to figure out how to ask the right questions). Thanks guys! heart

Do you know in what way you might be asking differently the other times? I know that I personally find it easier to help people who have a general idea of what they're doing and are looking for help with the specifics.

As for websites, you can find plenty of material googling "real vampires". Sanguinarius is a good place to start if you'd rather not throw yourself on the mercy of google just yet. If you're interested in psychic vampires, this has some interesting information. Both ask that you be a mature adult to view, although neither is an "adult site" in the usual sense of the word. Sanguinarius does have a teen section, but it might not be too useful if you're looking for information on how adult "real vampires" behave.

I'm afraid I'm not really involved in the real-world vampire communities, so I can't directly vouch for their contents, but they seem to be well-respected sites.

[KD Heart]

Dulcia Dusken

Linda Quest

I have to say, this is the first time the WF's been so helpful to me (maybe I'm starting to figure out how to ask the right questions). Thanks guys! heart

Do you know in what way you might be asking differently the other times? I know that I personally find it easier to help people who have a general idea of what they're doing and are looking for help with the specifics.

As for websites, you can find plenty of material googling "real vampires". Sanguinarius is a good place to start if you'd rather not throw yourself on the mercy of google just yet. If you're interested in psychic vampires, this has some interesting information. Both ask that you be a mature adult to view, although neither is an "adult site" in the usual sense of the word. Sanguinarius does have a teen section, but it might not be too useful if you're looking for information on how adult "real vampires" behave.

I'm afraid I'm not really involved in the real-world vampire communities, so I can't directly vouch for their contents, but they seem to be well-respected sites.

I have a tendency not to get my questions right - both online and in real life - and I only realize it after I said it and made a fool of myself (I'm finally making progress)

Thanks for the links, there shouldn't be a problem about my age, unless they want me to be 21. As for google, its the same as with my questions - though I know what I'm looking for, I don't usually know where or how to find it redface

[Dulcia Dusken]

I have a similar problem - I'm always looking for rather specific information that's difficult to fit into a search engine. Like "what kind of violent injury could kill someone in no less than two weeks without brain damage."

Are the sites proving useful? (18 is fine.)

[KD Heart]

Yes, thank you. Sanguinarius is actually a very interesting read and a lot of help

[Neomi789]

Maybe have her be a journalist for a local paper that wants to break from her job and write a book one day, so helping with the scheme also benefits her because she'll have a selling point for her future novel.

[[Ex: "I was there when there was a vampire in town."]]

Maybe, when the two of them already have the town very curious about the goings on in the nightclub, the both of them could arrange a classic Dracula scene. They could invite everyone to the club for a social event, and in the middle of the night--utilizing all possible vampire cliches--the writer could mysteriously 'vanish' after writing all those articles about the supposed vampire.

In truth she would have just gone into hiding in the next town over or something.

[KD Heart]

I thought the least I could do after seeing how willing to help everyone was, was to update you on the status of the story. So far, it's turning out to be my best thought through story ever and am trying to write it for NaNoWriMo.

I've split my original "vampire" into two characters: the heroins childhood friend and his friend, the one who pretends to be a vampire. The main character gets dragged into their plan as a favor to her friend and starts bringing up the topic of vampires in the paper she works for and makes sure the rumors surrounding the owner of the newest club in town keep circulating officially and unofficially. There's gonna be an old, spooky house that's literally falling apart; some goth wannabes; some confused policemen, fan girls and I'll try to actually pull this off.

[Chainerd]

what alot of people don't realise is that things such as vampires and warewolves have real life merrit, I don't mean they really exist. lol. what I mean is things like people who are anemic have very pale skin and can crave all sorts of weird things

Anemia (AmE) or anæmia/anaemia (BrE) (from the Ancient Greek Ἀναιμία anaîmia, meaning “without blood”) is defined as a qualitative or quantitative deficiency of hemoglobin, a molecule found inside red blood cells (RBCs). Since hemoglobin normally carries oxygen from the lungs to the tissues, anemia leads to hypoxia (lack of oxygen) in organs. Since all human cells depend on oxygen for survival, varying degrees of anemia can have a wide range of clinical consequences. Anemia is caused by the lack of iron in the body as well.

The three main classes of anemia include excessive blood loss (acutely such as a hemorrhage or chronically through low-volume loss), excessive blood cell destruction (hemolysis) or deficient red blood cell production (ineffective hematopoiesis).

my word of advice is do some medical research and find out the FACTS behind the myths then use that to shape your main character/s , just because it's a work of fiction doesn't mean 90% can't be based on true to life information. good luck I hop your story pans out well

[KD Heart]

Chainerd

what alot of people don't realise is that things such as vampires and warewolves have real life merrit, I don't mean they really exist. lol. what I mean is things like people who are anemic have very pale skin and can crave all sorts of weird things

Anemia (AmE) or anæmia/anaemia (BrE) (from the Ancient Greek Ἀναιμία anaîmia, meaning “without blood”) is defined as a qualitative or quantitative deficiency of hemoglobin, a molecule found inside red blood cells (RBCs). Since hemoglobin normally carries oxygen from the lungs to the tissues, anemia leads to hypoxia (lack of oxygen) in organs. Since all human cells depend on oxygen for survival, varying degrees of anemia can have a wide range of clinical consequences. Anemia is caused by the lack of iron in the body as well.

The three main classes of anemia include excessive blood loss (acutely such as a hemorrhage or chronically through low-volume loss), excessive blood cell destruction (hemolysis) or deficient red blood cell production (ineffective hematopoiesis).

my word of advice is do some medical research and find out the FACTS behind the myths then use that to shape your main character/s , just because it's a work of fiction doesn't mean 90% can't be based on true to life information. good luck I hop your story pans out well

And your point is?

I'm sorry, but you've lost me. What I've been doing so far is nothing but research (thanks for the info on anemia anyway). I was posting just to thank everyone for their help and atempt to put my ideas in what, at the time, looked like order.

I am well aware of the facts behind the myths - and a great supporter of this. The point of this story is to see what happens when people take myths too seriously, as it still happens more often than you would expect in these enlightened times we live in.

Just to clear this up before I go to sleep. The title of the topic refers to how the main character should spread my "vampire"'s reputation and make sure everyone knows or thinks he's a vampire without actually going around town with a loudspeaker yelling that the guy sleeps in a coffin and eats only one this - and that's not bananas. (There were a few others who got that bit wrong along this topic, but their posts vanished mysteriously)

[XoXMidnight_AngelXoX]

If you want to know more about vampires, and how make others believe you're one, there is a book. If I remember the name, I will post back.