BDE Vampire AU Brainstorming

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

So we've all probably got a bit of an idea of what we want our characters to have been up to over in the AU. What we need now is to get hooked up with people who have similar plotting needs or just really dig an idea.

This is that post! Ask for help accomplishing something for your AU character. Volunteer to help others! The OCD's set up by what type of character you have/want so just ping in with what you're looking for/hoping for.

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Anything Else!

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

Because there's always something else!

Re: Anything Else!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Putting this here for lack of being able to guess what other thread it would go under:

It occurs to me that years of this would mean that Fandom develops its own culture/sociology about these things. Like - just to start with some concepts to get the brainstorminig ball going - maybe the various types of survivors get thought of as grouped based on what they do. "Healers" "Helpers" "Hunters" "Some other label that doesn't insist on alliteration" and so on.

Then there could be ways the groups related to each other, like maybe it's understood that you always protect healers and helpers because without them nobody gets to get better and/or eat. Hunters of the vampire type might have some rules - overt or simply understood - about watching each other's backs, or knowing that sometimes you have to let a hunter die if it's a choice between saving them and someone who couldn't defend themself.

People might come up with routines to help give structure to the days. Like maybe everyone who does cooking has a set time they all get together to start peeling potatoes, prepping breakfast, and so on.

Vocabulary might be another thing that evolved. Like they might come up with their own terms to refer to the barrier that keeps them from escaping the island, or the day when shit got bad, or the time of day that if you're out there you're taking your life in your hands. (The later could obviously be "sunset" but that in and of itself could evolve in their language, like "Where's Claire?" "Sunsetting, like an idiot.")

Likewise there could be cursewords that crop up based on commonly hated things.

And there might be sacred things and rituals. The dead would have to be creamated to make sure they stayed dead, so what do our survivors come up with in terms of funerals, or honoring those who passed? There might also be holidays - not necessarily in the celebratory sense, but like memorial day when significant events in Fandom's history (like the island being shut off from the world) are marked. (Heck, maybe this is known as a day the vamps have a huge celebration while the survivors quietly light candles.)

Anyway, all off of the top of my geeky, far too many thoughts head. I'm married to none of it. Just thought it might be another aspect of the AU worldbuilding some folks might want to play with.

Re: Anything Else!

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

Claire objects to the use of her in this example because she's probably off doing it...

I like this though. It makes sense.

The vamps should totally call their human victims "snickerdoodles" :D

Re: Anything Else!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

I second the motion.

Re: Anything Else!

[swerval_zero]

'Bite me' would be a substantially stronger curse, I imagine.

Re: Anything Else!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Good call!

Re: Anything Else!

[thatsamilkshake]

ILU YES.

The dead would have to be cremated to make sure they stayed dead

Lilah would like to wryly add "Or beheaded" to that, but yeees.

I love all of these suggestions. Especially sunsetting.

Re: Anything Else!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

I am here for all your boobies geek needs.

Re: Anything Else!

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

*points above to checklist Obsession Girl* hee, yes, that. Jeez, I so want to write this stuff already.

Re: Anything Else!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

INORITE?

Re: Anything Else!

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

I was even thinking tutoring/classes in other things might be held some evenings on schedule, because it helps them believe they're still getting off the Vampire Dessert Desert Island to try and get an education sometimes. Some would never participate, but some summer days, there'd be long enough hours to do it.

WANT TO WRITE NOW. I already have Parker's "Welcome to Hell" speech written, damnit.

Re: Anything Else!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

If Willow were still mortal, she'd be all over that ;)

And yeah, I could totally see stuff like classes and whatnot just to help provide a level of "normal" to the day.

Plus there's stuff like entertainment. Without TV and internet they'd have to start making up their own. Musicians, singers, storytellers, performers could all find themselves having a useful job in that they help morale.

Re: Anything Else!

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

See, yes. Not to mention scavenged books, and I imagine they could get a DVD player going once in a while, maybe once a week? If there was energy for it from the generators, and that would be another big community thing. Heeee.

It's like WRITING A NOVEL or creating a universe and I want to do it noooow.

Re: Anything Else!

[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

*cough* I am totally not picturing a story that starts at the point of a newbie day, and how the island inhabitants get ready in their own way and - ahem. Yes.

So... how's Parker handling a limited cigarette supply? ;)

Re: Anything Else!

[trigons_child]

She's already made arrangements for that!

Re: Anything Else!

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me that there probably aren't enough humans to feed all of the vampires all of the time. So what if the vamps have a farm of sorts with animals they can feed from when they can't find a human victim? And the more adventurous survivors can occasionally try to steal a cow or pig from there to have more food?

Re: Anything Else!

[glacial_queen]

I also like the idea of a human farm. One very regulated so they don't die and very protected because, well, the vamps prefer not having to feed from animals.

Of course, all the survivors know that some things you just have to leave alone, but there's always people who a) can't understand that, b) think bending the rules is okay if So-and-So Important Pants gets taken away to the Food Farm.

Re: Anything Else!

[thatsamilkshake]

See my comment below! But also, Eliza-vamp is running something along those lines, yep, with some pet humans + Deadpool!

Re: Anything Else!

[thatsamilkshake]

The vamps have an all you can eat buffet with a captured Deadpool, and most would hate to resort to animal blood. They do however occasionally like to snack on human food, so they might have some animals just for the hell of it.