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whereserpentswalk · 1 month

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laurasimonsdaughter · 9 months

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Pack dynamics for domestic urban fantasy werewolves:

● They're never exclusively werewolves. Werewolves have a habit of aggressively adopting everyone they are fond of and when you've won the trust and affection of one, the rest come along in a package deal.

● They're territorial in the protective sense. No trouble in our neighborhood. No hunger in our houses. No fear on our streets.

● They hold grudges. Shopkeeper overcharged one of the pack members in their store? None of them will shop there again. Restaurant owner yelled at one the cubs who got a job there washing up? They've just lost all their hungriest diners.

● Young werewolves think the word "pack" is way too old fashioned and prefer words like crowd, crew, fam, and swarm. ("Honestly, honey, swarm? What are we, pigeons?")

● They're nosy. The upside is no one with a werewolf pack to back them up will ever be left to fend for themselves. The downside is that everyone is always sticking their hairy noses in.

● They vary greatly in size. In some places, especially more rural ones, it's not uncommon to find entire villages that are basically one pack. In other places they might only have a dozen members, scattered about. And many packs start with a set of two or three going somewhere new to build a life and a community.

#werewolf #werewolves #If I could have a year off work I would write a children's series like The Little Vampire #but with werewolves #urban fantasy #laura tumbles

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cheeseanonioncrisps · 12 days

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Stuck on the idea of vampires as a kind of reverse fae, or like someone's twisted, perverse attempt at moulding humans into fae.

They're repelled by liminal spaces.

A vampire could never enter fairyland, not just because they'd never be welcomed, but because most of the usual entry-ways are naturally barred to them.

They can't cross running water. They can't be seen in mirrors. They will wait forever at a crossroads, unable to pick a direction to go in. They can't even step over a thresh-hold unless there is absolutely no ambiguity about whether they are welcome inside.

They crave human blood, iron and salt, but are repelled by herbs and plants. They are supernaturally prevented from harming you unless the rules of hospitality have been invoked.

A fairy may replace your newborn child with something unnatural and ever-hungry. A vampire will do the same, but with your grandmother's corpse.

The fae are typically associated, even in stories where they're the bad guys, with flourishing and purity. Vampires, even in stories where they're the good guys, are typically associated with decay and corruption.

The fae turn ancient human burial mounds into fancy halls for their courts. Vampires take ancient human castles and let them grow mildewed and cobwebbed, exchanging the beds for coffins, turning them into burial places.

Fae don't tend to live among humans, but can generally pass for them with relative ease if they so choose. Vampires nearly always live among humans, but tend to find not revealing themselves a huge struggle.

I can't think of many stories I've read where fae and vampires even exist in the same universe, let alone ones where they actively interact. I feel like their enmity is almost more inevitable than that between vampires and werewolves, however.

The rivalry between vampires and werewolves is, essentially, the rivalry between two apex predator species who share a territory. (Even in stories where the werewolves aren't actually hunting humans.)

The vampires hate the werewolves because the werewolves interfere with their access to prey. The werewolves hate the vampires either because they consider themselves aligned with humans (the prey species), or because they are also predators and the vampires are competing with them.

By comparison, I think there's some story potential in the fae finding something genuinely creepy and uncanny valley about vampires.

They're immortal, like them, but also dead. They can be beautiful, like them, but that beauty is something they actively require humans to sustain. They like to inhabit beautiful and ancient ex-human dwellings, like them, but they actively work to make those places dark, damp and empty.

Fairies who are unflappable in the face of all sorts of Otherworldly monsters, can look an eldritch horror in the eye(s) without blinking, and have never been phased yet by any human, but will recoil from even the weakest vampire.

Vampires who hate fairies just as much, but in a more envious way. The way that the creature for whom immortality is a curse is bound to hate the creatures for whom immortality is an eternity of sunlight and laughter.

Maybe their touches burn each other. Maybe vampires can't stand physical contact with anything so alive and vital. Maybe immortal fairies become ill from too much exposure to the undead.

Maybe they fight over the human population when their territories overlap. The fairy need for servants and people to make deals with, competing with the vampire need for thralls and blood to drink.

Just… fairies and vampires. We need more stories about them interacting.

#vampires #fae #fairies #fantasy #fantasy headcanons #urban fantasy #now imagine all this in the context of an enemies to lovers story

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anim-ttrpgs · 6 months

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the-likeable-wizard-mack · 10 months

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fridaypls · 19 days

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Do you prefer the harness or the hoodie? Adding tattoos next.

Plus snakebit piercings. and maybe a lip ring??

...both? I gotta fix some shadows to use both.

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weatherbane · 10 months

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no glowup like drawing old vampire ocs from highschool and finally getting them to look like they deserve

#i can make them better stronger #booblier #ive been listening to nothing but modern/urban fiction books and my dash has suddenly becoming 65% vampires #which is not a complaint #weatherdraws #vampire oc #my ocs

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probablybadrpgideas · 1 year

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Vampire the Masquerade character that doesn't do shit. Just takes the bus to their boring night shift job, then back to their apartment to drink refrigerated blood and watch shows. While undead.

#Tick here to allow us to use in the podcast #Horror #Urban Fantasy #Character Idea #submission #vampire the masquerade #world of darkness

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crimson-nail · 7 months

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meryl stryfe? oh fuck sorry i thought you said meryl shrike

#charlie’s art #urban fantasy au go brrrrr #trigun #meryl stryfe #shes a shrike :] bc i like her #i’m working on a few other chars as well there’s. a Range #i love when modern fantasy aus are just yeah your barista is actually a vampire and that bus driver is a demon. what of it #what are u gonna do #be fantasy r*cist? no. not in my story #everyone just coexists like it’s a hallmark movie for werewolves and avians

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possumcollege · 1 month

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Crittertongues Past: barstool blues

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worldchampgameco · 17 days

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BLOOD BORG is funding on Kickstarter now for two and a half weeks :) a gutter punk urban fantasy with dumpster diving vampires and xeroxed zines of blood magic.

An attempt to distillate a lot of the feelings of my 20s: freedom to explore and find yourself, fear of who that self might be, sadness and anger at the world that doesn’t care about you, and power in finding your people and working towards making your life better.

Plus you can drain cops of blood to cast magic spells soooo hyfr.

Compatible with Mork Borg/Cy Borg but a standalone badass hardcover book of its own.

BLOODBORG.COM

#indie ttrpg #ttrpg design #ttrpg #vampires #vampire the masquerade #mork borg #urban fantasy #beggartok #kickstarter #ttrpg community #la dispute #true blood #lost boys #near dark #vampire movies

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whereserpentswalk · 11 days

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Reblog to curse your followers and mutuals.

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laurasimonsdaughter · 3 months

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It took a full minute of struggling before the vampire finally gave up and held still, going mostly limp under the tangle of briars.

“Alright,” he said, rolling his eyes at them. “You’ve made your point.”

“Have I?” they asked menacingly. “Because that’s what I thought last time.”

He looked up at them. “Oh come on—”

“I told you,” they snapped, “that if I tested one more giggly person with inexplicably low haemoglobin, I would fucking find you.”

The park was badly lit, but they could see the vampire’s face well enough to see that he wasn’t taking this anywhere near as seriously as he should be. Ballsy, considering they had him fully immobilized at the moment.

“Clearly you can’t actually be trusted,” they added. “So now you’re stuck with me.”

Dull light glinted of the vampire’s teeth as the corners of this mouth twitched. “That really isn’t the punishment you think it is.”

They stared down at him, baffled. “What—?”

The red shine in his eyes was almost amused. “You’re the only person around here who knows what I am, who I don’t have to pretend for. You know how tiring it is never to smile?”

The cool night air suddenly didn’t seem as cool anymore and they bristled with indignation. “There’s plenty of slayers in town all of a sudden who seem to know exactly what you are,” they replied sourly. That pissed them off too. Slayers were a brutish, self-absorbed lot. They had one or two violent encounters and suddenly felt entitled to harass innocent people just because they had a bit of trouble around the full moon.

The vampire grimaced. “Correction,” he said smoothly. “The only person who knows and is nice to me.”

“Nice to you,” they choked.

“Come on,” he grinned, fangs sparkling. “I could be lying here choking on garlic, or burning with silver! But instead...roses?” He gave a half-hearted tug on the bloom and thorn covered branches. “You could have done far worse…”

A loud, thoughtless rushing filled their ears, their face flushing with confusion. That was not—

“On that note,” he continued conversationally. “Why are you still here?” He gave them a curious look. “Why not just leave me here?”

“I—”

His grin returned. “You don’t want the slayers to find me, do you.”

“Shut your fanged face.”

“Ouch,” he winced, but not in a way that anyone could possibly interpret as painful.

They were too annoyed – too angry – to think straight. “I could be asking you the same fucking thing,” they snapped, recollecting themself. “Just passing through, you said last time. So why the hell are you still here?”

His expression changed, just a fraction, and for a moment it looked like he had an answer for them. Then he shrugged, shifting uncomfortably on the grass, and looked away.

That, at least, was better. Slightly. Probably. “Well,” they said after a brief silence, folding their arms. “If you’re sticking around, you better keep your fangs off my patients. You can go right back to stealing the lab’s medical waste.”

The vampire made a dismayed noise, his gaze snapping back to their face. “You expect me to survive on nothing but dead blood?” he cried.

“I expect you not to trick innocent humans!” they glared.

A sly look passed across his face. “So the slayers…?”

Well, if they kept bothering Mrs. Lupus… They gave a sharp shake of their head. “No! No biting any humans!”

“Unreasonably cruel,” he muttered sulkily.

“You—” They raised their head with a start, glancing in the direction of a sudden sound.

“Speak of the devil,” the vampire breathed, eyes darting in the same direction.

Damn slayers. They grimaced through their frustration and drew their pocket knife. It glinted in the dull twilight and the vampire’s eyes were on it instantly.

“Now hold on, there’s no need for that!” he protested nervously. “I agree— I agree to your terms.”

“You better,” they hissed, kneeling beside him with the knife. It wasn’t silver, but he couldn’t have seen that immediately they supposed. They deftly snipped through the briars and cut him loose. “Go on, get out. And I better not have reason to bother with you again.”

The moment he was free all the vampire’s speed and grace returned. He was on his feet in a moment and smiling brilliantly down at them the next. “Well, that’s highly unlikely,” he grinned ominously. “You’ve just turned your place of work into the only place in town where I can get a bite to eat.” He winked, and fled.

They watched him disappear, their hackles raised as high as their heartbeat, and swore into the dark.

#laura drabbles #vampire #vampires #vampire/human #enemies to lovers #at least in the vampire's mind~#nblm romance #urban fantasy #Harper & Lysander

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monsters-for-sale · 1 year

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If you want to read more 👀

https://m.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-vampire-librarian-/list?title_no=729145

#maybe read my comic #thevampirelibrarian #original character #webcomic #webtoon #vampirelibrarian #urban fantasy #modern fantasy #monster #comicart #art #supernatural #artists on tumblr #vampire #webtoon canvas #library #not a ship

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anim-ttrpgs · 2 months

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Eureka is the only ttrpg made specifically to allow Columbo and Jacket to team up with a vampire to do an escape room.

@abstractlime

#monsters #eureka #eureka: investigative urban fantasy #coc #roleplaying #rpg #ttrpg #tabletop #allied forces #vampirism #vampire #goth #fangs #hotline miami #hotline maimi 2 #columbo

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marlynnofmany · 8 months

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New heist idea! Along with vampires trying to get their old stuff back from a museum, there should also be werewolves trying to get their paws on the moon rocks that NASA has collected, because those are basically reverse Kryptonite.

#somebody write the story #stories even!#allllll the urban fantasy heist stories #c'mon it'll be great #the vampires and werewolves can even know each other #with hilarious banter and used-to-date drama #or it can be all srs biznis #your call #writing prompts #werewolves #vampires #the moon #lycanthropy #heists

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