Hey guys, guess what I'm doing this weekend?
This semester, I wanted to polish off my English-credits requirement, with the last open literature class. Late 19th century Gothic. The first book was Bram Stoker's Dracula. And now we come to the final paper. I have an option between analyzing some other Gothic text of my choosing (lame), or...
making up my own narrative. I don't actually have to write a book or anything, just a five page blurb and discussion about my concept.
Picture, if you will, a quiet American suburb. Progressive in it's way, for a general tolerance of vampires. Excuse me, the "vampirically effected", who despite the protestations of radio pundits, are fully entitled to the protections of the 14th Amendment and the Hate Crimes Act. (In this case, vampires are more like Bram Stoker's original depiction, weakened but not harmed by sunlight. As well as being a full rip of the TVTropes description of Twilight's vampirism - a combination of medical condition and lifestyle choice that grants superpowers, immortality, and great sex, but for some reason makes one a persecuted minority.) Everytown USA gets by with it's simple little lives, little disputes, little conflicts, between the vampirically effected, those who love them, those who hate them, and poseurs who want to be them but don't have the guts to take the plunge.
Then one day, a man comes to town. No one knows him, no one sees him. But he's here to set things right - an ancient, contemptuous, coldblooded monster in the vein of Dracula or the Nosferatu, who's here to show these losers how vampires are supposed to roll, and have his fill of human cattle by hiding behind the tolerance for his weakling (and sparkly) kin. Cue witchhunts, persecution, broken romances, and soul searching once the town sees how they tore themselves apart over one bad apple in a fair (but sparkly) bunch. Lots of allusions to racism, extremism, "national security" type implications, the nature of poseurs, and the eternal question of "when does tolerance become dangerous?".
I don't actually have an ending or many specifics figured out, but I thought you guys might enjoy it. Thoughts?