#the werewolf looks like lucient

[dyrewrites]

(5) describe what [project] would look like if it were bad. (alternatively: list out what hypothetical horrible interpretations of the work would look like. fake socmedia discourse emulator optional but encouraged.)

(6) describe the premise/plot of [project] from the perspective of each main cast member.

(10) which characters do you personally dislike most from [project]? elaborate on why, bonus points for how impassioned your answer is.

(12) which scene/plot beat is your favorite? elaborate on why.

(16) what sparked [project]? what was the original premise or jumping-off point, and do you have any records of the first notes from its creation?

this could go for either before deluca or bloodhound !!

Oh my, what fun ones.

(from this game)

Going under a cut because lots.

(5) If 'Before Deluca' were bad it might look like it did when I first started jotting down notes. It was a fairly expected/typical of the genre case of vampire fleeing an overbearing and violent master. Maybe it wouldn't be bad exactly, as that's a fine direction to go but it wouldn't be what it is...and I like what it is a lot more.

(6) 'Bloodhound' for this one. The first volume has Deluca, Alessandro and Leandro as 'main cast members' as they get their own scenes.

Deluca's perspective of the plot, "a starving and lonely vampire detective trying to make the world a better place while fighting to have his husband released" //the accurate one.

Leandro's perspective of the plot, "a ravishing vampire pining after his husband in a box while a perfectly available werewolf is right here and everything he could ever need. We could end all of this mess right now if he'd just give up this ridiculous crusade and be mine and mine alone." //not wrong but...I mean.

Alessandro's perspective of the plot, "a story about a fucking idiot who doesn't listen to anyone and makes everything worse for me, specifically. If he would stop trying to do the impossible and just do his fucking job, we'd all have an easier time. And less dead men in hotels for to explain to the authorities. I would like that, Del, I would like that a lot." //also not wrong

Who knows what plot is anyway, right? Only one of them, clearly.

(10) Lucient's Mistress from 'Before Deluca', she'll make a very big appearance later in 'Bloodhound' too but I dislike her more than any other. Which is impressive considering there are so many options to choose from here.

Whereas Dove took a little boy and made him a whore to earn money off him, she didn't promise him freedom while doing it. Nor did she gaslight and groom him into being a monster long before she physically made him home. Iulia, his Mistress, worked diligently to break this man into tiny pieces so she could rebuild him how she desired and he is still dealing with what she did. Hundreds of years later he is still waking up terrified with her in his thoughts. So she's the worst (fun to write though, they always are).

(12) I have too many for 'Before Deluca', too many. Their banter is so delightful. Their relationship like candy to write and every single coffeehouse scene is my favorite. But I'm not choosing from that one. I'm choosing from 'Bloodhound' because there is a a mystery, as he is a detective and he does solve those, that was a delight to write. I'm not sure it's my favorite in the book but it is certainly a favorite.

It takes place in his hometown, where everything is new (would have to be after three hundred years) but painfully the same.

He's waiting in a graveyard for this supposed ghost to show up and he's talking to his parent's old grave markers. Remembering how Lucient was right and they weren't nice people like he convinced themselves they were. And just as he's about to give up and go home, entirely dejected and more than a little pissed off, the 'ghost' shows up...and it is literally some guy. Some guy in a costume playing pretend to steal shit from his neighbors. It is some scooby doo garbage and I love it to bits.

(16) I have no origin for 'Bloodhound' beyond, "what haven't I seen a vampire do yet? Oh! Detective!" but it spawned 'Before Deluca' and I do have those notes. They're outdated now, of course, but you can have them. The start of them, they're long and from the perspective of Deluca telling his daughter a story, as the first idea for 'Bloodhound' was a single vampire father (who takes advantage of modern obsessions to find meals) and his werewolf daughter.

“What were you like then; tell me a story about the great detective in his prime.” “I was not a detective in my prime, flower…and you do not want those stories.” “You were turned by an ubervamp centuries ago that's got such a hate-on for you he's murdering his way through Europe about it and you're telling me I don't want that story?” “Yes, I am. I was a different creature then, a vile thing not fit to haunt the memories of those it destroyed.” “Then don't tell me those bits, tell me about Lucient. Was it love, your first love?” “Yes, and no…and I maintain that you do not want this story.” “Tell me anyway.” “You truly want the particulars of your dear old dad’s wild nights ravishing another man while bathed in the blood and viscera of our prey?” “...that a trick question?” “Very well, flower. Our story began then as I begin now, on a summer-warm evening at the dawn of a new year…” “Dawn of a new year, in summer?” “I said summer-warm, flower, exercising my poetic license.” “When was it really?” “Oh, my sweet pedant with your insistence on specifics; it was December 31st, 1699 making it an unseasonably warm winter evening.” “Now, was that so painful?” “Excruciating..."

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[dyrewrites]

Deluca and I just figured out, in real-time, why he can't seem to stop falling into these three very specific--and very different--men.

...and that is lovely.

To learn things that way.

I wish every writer this feeling.

May you discover things with your characters.