This is slowly mutating into a vampire journal

[general_radix]

Who's up for yet more vampire AU blather?

I've started work on a big 'ol doodle dump (plan is to traditionally ink everything and colour it in PS); not every idea I have for these things tends to make it to paper, but at minimum I want to have all the heroes interact in some manner. Things already drawn include angsting over whether or not vampires have souls, the requisite Vince/Durandal, and bear!Alex.

Not yet drawn: an idea for a non-vamp character.

You know how some works will casually throw in a character who's alien to the setting and let the audience fill in the gaps themselves? While making dinner tonight (read: heating up a Hormel thing), my brain went, "Dr. Frankenstein, but in a Marathon AU".

Vediovis Hospital is one of Tharsis's most advanced medical facilities; in the vamp AU it's also the workplace of one Dr. Frankenstein. Her pallid, discoloured skin, bolts in the neck, random stitched-on patches of differently-discoloured skin, and occasional glimpses of some kind of symbiotic length of alien worm flesh are all rather suspicious--and if you ask her, Frankie will gladly inform you that she's a zombie.

And that's all the explanation you'll get, because "those records aren't for public viewing". What records are publicly available indicate that Dr. Frankenstein's been around for ages, and shows no sign of slowing down. Generally regarded as brilliant, but with a faulty brain-to-mouth filter as a result of primarily examining corpses and getting her wires crossed when interacting with live patients.

Vampires befuddle and frustrate Frankie because some aspects of their existence seem to involve actual magic (or some force very close to it) and her worldview leaves no room for things like that. (It never occurs to Frankie that "vampire magic" is an entire new field she could be studying.)

I'm thinking that the main party rushes into Vediovis one night for whatever reason and Frankie manages to unwittingly offend every one of them. Then Durandal mentions Strauss and Frankie gets real quiet...

Comments

[hokuton_punch]

I like her already. :D

[general_radix]

Hehe. :DDD

[juzo_kun]

I can't wait to see the drawings (and I can't wait to draw Frankie)! :D

[general_radix]

Hopefully I can get it all done within a reasonable amount of time (with minimal back/arm pain). :D

[juzo_kun]

Uh! Please take care of yourself first and foremost, arm and back pains are no fun at all... :( (says the middle-aged woman always crouched in front of a PC screen)

[general_radix]

Yeah, I've been trying to remember to take longer breaks and stretch often; also recently started using my tablet on my lap instead of on the desk (since I have to raise my arm if it's on the latter, which leads to strain faster).

[juzo_kun]

I hope I'm not poking my nose too much, but given what you wrote I'm wondering if the desk surface might be a bit too high for the chair height and the screen position. Drawing and working at the computer more often than not require different desk heights... (or, much easier to deal with, adjustable chair and screen).

[general_radix]

Sa'right! Apparently I had my chair at the lowest setting (probably for a better view of my CRT); hopefully bringing it up a few notches will help?

[juzo_kun]

Raising a bit either chair and screen might help a bit, I think! Also, pauses every 45min/1 hour ;)

[vulthuryol_majicue]

Damnit Strauss! Even poor Frankie? I've only just met her for five seconds and I want to beat the shit out of Strauss!

Hee! I think Frankie and Dr. Grey (Red Vs Blue) would get along very well! ^_^

Hmmm... Well, you know me. I say everything has a soul.

But there are rules in the Vampire lore about the species not having souls. In Buffy, they had to magically summon the soul of the human victim and place it back into the vampire's body in order for the vampire to have a soul.

[general_radix]

At this point, you could count the number of people Strauss hasn't abused or screwed over on one hand. XD;;

Maybe going into spoilers, but wrt: vampires in this specific setting: if they were truly soulless, then they'd be barely-reactive shells.

[juzo_kun]

For some reason, I'm having the idea of everyone reading her silence as "oh, no, another one horribly screwed by Strauss" and the real deal is...

...they used to play something like skeeball or pinball together and he always won and then Frankie dicovered he was cheating all along; Frankie is always Really Serious when gaming is involved and never forgave him.

[general_radix]

Pfffftttfftt. XD