#I expected her to be diablerie bait by week 2

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I do have something for this, actually! In the World of Darkness setting, vampires are... not quite definitionally opposed to fae, but they're definitely not buddy buddy. The stasis of vampires, their unchanging nature, is basically metaphysical poison to the fae. This means that getting their current human vessel turned into a vampire is one of the vanishingly few things aside from cold iron that can permanently kill them, and produces one fucked up vampire besides. They don't appreciate this, for obvious reasons. For the vampire's part, fae are irritating, chaotic, problem-causing little shits and can also throw fire around like it's confetti. There's a lot of variation by Clan, from the Toreadors often moving in similar circles and politely ignoring or playing ball with them, to the Ravnos occasionally hunting fae for sport and suffering exactly the consequences you'd expect for that.

In my particular case, I have Alva. Alva is a vampire. Allegedly. She's fucking weird by vampire standards, and that is in no small part due to the fact that when she was a very young vampire, unguided by anyone having explained shit to her, she wound up by some old standing stones practicing Auspex, and met a rather odd soul. They talked, danced around the point for a bit, and it turned out she worked as a therapist. They actually hit off quite well, and she served as a very helpful anchor for the general mess of new vampire life. They'd meet up a few more times, and eventually Alva rolled her very first Aura Perception on her. This rolled a botch. Which lead to Alva, a raging bisexual in life and increasingly so in death, to misinterpret the rainbow-tinged aura of a fae as flirtatious intent. A while later, Emilia learned about this, and in true fae fashion, ran with it.

Things... developed from there. Whether they got better or worse is honestly subject to viewer discretion! Neither of them particularly care though. This has wound up with her developing the Code of Honour merit specifically due to her exposure to Emilia and fae conduct in general, and she'll be permanently Enchanted (the WoD method by which a fae can pull a non-fae partially into their side of things) soonish, after this months-long, slow circling courtship/political clusterfuck. She's likely to shift off to a sub-road of Humanity as her governing mental framework due to this too. And overall, she is very much winding up, ironically enough, like the old changeling stories. She's like most vampires. The basis looks the same. But there's something off about her, a tilt of a few degrees in perspective that doesn't fit with them anymore. A little spark of madness, treated like a treasured gift. She wouldn't have it any other way.

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.