I’m worried since the market doesn’t really seem to take to the genre I’m writing in…
Picture it: 1838, London. M. CHARACTER has always lived a charmed life. He is the son of a nobleman, who’s also one of England’s finest entrepreneur, and he himself had been blessed with both brilliance and relative kindness. Thirteen years saw him a small, slender boy, with a constant smile on his lips, blah blah blah. Then, after running away because, despite being a nice guy and all, he’s a spoiled rotten, arrogant, naive, cry-baby, sore-loser, selfish brat, he gets attacked and is given a choice to live or die. He chooses the obvious one, but it’s not what he first thought. After two weeks of painful illness and transformation, he finally becomes a blood-thirsty, raging monstrosity who goes around killing orphan children and other easy targets and throwing their bodies into the River Thames. The story is basically about him trying to control his blood-thirst, falling in love with a human, and trying to avoid the Scotland Yard and keep them from incarcerating his ass
Mild gore, some dark themes, told in third person, with a somewhat distant, semi-formal voice.
My vampires are: not sparkly, blood-thirsty, stronger, faster than humans, infertile, cold, deathly pale (save for after a fresh feed ;D), have a dulled conscience, have no reflection, are repelled by garlic, can be killed with a stake, can (after MUCH training) control wolves, bats, etc (think Dracula), can’t enter a house without permission, CAN go into the sunlight, though they can’t do anything and it’ll hurt like hell (parasol, please
) can’t enter churches, can’t touch holy water/crucifixes/any other religious artifact/ hearing prayers hurts them, they can eat regular food, etc.
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