Teenager Vampire Love Story

I am Derik, and this what not what I had in mind as a life project for myself. I was recruited in that crazy **** cult named Nocturnal Courts 16 years ago, right after I reach 20 years. Mind you, that was a entire decade before the Year of Madness, when the existence of vampires outside fiction became common knowledge for everyone.

They found something in my blood that meant I was a particularly promising candidate for recruitment. What got me a place in my new “family”. A Vampire Family.

Impossibly old history, the entirely new setting of rules and laws. As if there was not enough arbitrary nonsense in the society I was more or less familiar with! The hunt, the crave for blood, the **** allergy to sunlight. On the other hand, the practical immortality, never aging, knowing that die by accident is all but completely impossible. So close to it that hardly makes any difference. The access to luxury and, well, more money than I ever dreamed to make for myself. On the other hand, the constant war between families, endless annoying plotting for power inside our family. All things considered, I got a sense of being left with a loss in my Sartrean balance.

What kept me going, aside how much effort is needed for a vampire to achieve suicide, was their computers.

Vampires have a network of computers far, and I do mean far, far beyond what humans have.

Apparently, they had interned and cell phones since pre-Historic times. Not large facilities building those things in industrial scale here on Earth. They had the science to, was not economically viable in their minds. Vampires are very “long terms strategy” oriented. Harder to understand than human politicians, and I was never any good in understand those. We get our high advanced tech through commerce with other planets, in other galaxies. Through those portals that only a few vampires in a few families can operate.

Stuff circulates! You mix magic, the vampiric blood powers I mean, with Star Trek space-age technology (minus faster than light travel, because supposedly is impossible for anyone born in this universe to develop that) and the result is gadgets build for endure the passage of time, that really do last geological scale long.

Any vampire family has a basement somewhere full of those status symbols. Some vampire thralls with cyborg eyes, a computer mixed with their brain and the skeleton entirely replaced by nano-ceramic alloy. That sort of thing, not good enough to make difference against really old vampires. Most the time, too expensive in Earth Nocturnal Economy to compensate the use in combat. Mainly trophies.

What got me was the AIs. Specifically, the holographic interfaces, and creative capacities. It is, something.

I knew exactly what I wanted to ask, first. Once I got my personal computer terminal.

Friends. I mean the TV show, from US. Same characters. Got the AI to give a look at it, took fraction of second to get that, and the entire collection of Jonh Norman’s Books of Gor. I wanted to mix them. In my head canon, the Kurii got an accident with some highly experimental stuff, and transported a big chunk of the neighbourhood where the characters of the show live to somewhere between Ko-Ro-Ba, Port-Kar and Mighty Ar.

I wanted the characters to be the characters, behave just like. But, I wanted it to be Planet Gor. So, they would gradually and reluctantly take contact with the local civilization. Find themselves **** to adapt and get acculturated. What is a fundamental Gorean theme, very John Norman style. I got it divided in 480 episodes. Ten seasons. Would not be possible to do this with actors, because that was simulating 10 years of show. With the characters keeping their original age. What, again, is a very Gorean element. Gor has the technology for a sort of cheap biological immortality.

My plan was to watch one episode a week, in my free moments. Enjoy it alone. A moment of escape from actual existence as a nocturnal predator. My AI assistant did all the plot, the twists, the story. Simulated realistic characters, scenario, every detail. Was delicious.

Too good, actually. I ended watching it all the time, whenever I had the chance. Five episodes in a lazy day, sometimes. Ended too soon.

My next project, after that one, was some vampire-teen romance show.

However, this time instead of use the rules of some fictional setting, I just got a bunch of those stories. Books, TV Shows from the 80’s and 90’s, and first decade of the XXI. For setting, I as planning to ask Samantha to use the actual rules of vampirism. How vampiric families, powers and weaknesses actually work in real life. But, keeping the tropes and themes of teenager vampire romance genre.

Never made the request, actually. Because, about that time I had the privilege to meet in real life the romantic couple I sort of had in mind.

Our male protagonist is name Patrick. Patrick Shadow now, when human he was Patrick Edinburg third son of some influent nobleman in his time. Well, Patrick was transformed into vampire in some land in dispute. The British Empire and the French wanted it. I am not sure if the place is Canada or EU nowadays. Doubt it make difference to anyone, anyway.

Anyway, not quite the Southerner Soldier of their American Civil War that we usually get. Also, that took place a bit before US Independency.

For our real time standards makes our protagonist a young vampire. Still a children of the night, in the eyes of anyone who has relevance in family decisions. And Patrik is not a member of his vampiric family by blood. Like me, he was recruited for his potential blood-seed powers.

All vampires can mess with the minds of humans. Issue hypnotic commands, plant emotions by telepathy. That sort of thing comes with time, and anyone old enough can develop this art. Albeit, some use it with more skill than others, due to talent and practice. Usually, only works with humans. Rare cases, like Patrik, have the Command Voice Seed, with that, one can control minds a lot better. And affect not only humans, but also vampires.

Is not infallible. Also, some other powers, and a few items, can provide resistance if not total immunity to it. Nevertheless, it is a rare and immensely useful power to have in the family. What compensates, in some degree, the low status for being young and not born in a Vampire Family.

Our friend Patrick is a yellow haired warrior type hero, turned into a vampire when he was 16 years old. He will always look like that. However, he is large, muscular and serious enough to easily pass for 25. A big, heavy weight boxer fighter, 25 years old. With a head for poetry.

His blood seeds, additional to that one that got him sorted, make him stronger and more thought than any vampire as young as he is should be. And his Command Voice gives him exceptional defence against any sort of power similar to his own. He is also more resistant than the vast majority of us to the urges of the Hunt.

Not resistant enough to never kill humans, mind you. He still needs to hunt, and still loses control during the hunt from time to time. Just happens less often with him. He can usually direct his actions a little more than other vampires, using the command in himself.

And, the man is extremely, ludicrously, romantic.

Does not reach the extremes of self-hate and sociopathy that most vampire protagonists in our genre exemplify. He will not **** his on kin casually for the sake of save the “sacred human life”. He is a pessimist, a bit inclined to depression (takes one to know one, I suppose) but not a self-destructive maniac.

He do, however, completely fell in love. For this human, 15 years old, teenager girl.

Europa. Who in his sane mind names a daughter “Europa” in an English-speaking country?! Well, that is her name.

Nice, fair, girl. Red hair, dark grey eyes. Shy, likes to write diaries. On paper, because of course she does. No relation with any vampire family, as far as I can tell. Some vampire hunter ancestors I believe. The connection with that subculture was lost a few generations back. Didn’t reached the girl. Just gave her a small advantage to resist vampiric mind-control. Not the **** version her vampire boyfriend has, just the regular kind, and only when the vampire is not more than a handful centuries old. Beyond that, resistance makes little difference.

Well, not that she would need that against Patric, he “would never”, as you can imagine. In fact, he is working with his special powers to strength her mind against mind-manipulation by vampiric powers.

Beautiful couple.

Impossible romance.

Only way for her to be safe, realistically, would be for him to claim her as blood-thrall. He will not do that, because doing that would broke the aura of fairy connection that exists between them. Therefore, is a matter of time until some other vampire notice their relationship. Realize she is not claimed, yet. And decide to get her as a toy, or as leverage against Patric.

You see why I didn’t proceeded with my plan to get the AI shape me this TV show.

This is a tragedy waiting to happen. And knowing the people involved as people, instead of as fictional characters, makes it infinitely more entertaining.