
07-10-2010, 03:10 AM
I've been working on this story for nearly seven months now, and I'm having some trouble with it.
It's set in the Harry Potter universe, but only uses a handful of actual Harry Potter characters. It focuses around three fan characters of mine: Annabelle Le Croux (human), Dante Esposito (human, later a vampire), and Integra Black (vampire).
I've been writing pretty diligently for the past few months, but I'm stuck on one part: One of the characters is pretty much Dracula, and he was allegedly killed in the beginning of the story.
The problem is, I've already strongly suggested that the Count is indeed alive, but I'm not sure how to make it obvious.
I was thinking about the concept of him not being 'physically' alive, but only alive as a 'consciousness' that can take people over when they're sleeping.
I'd also like to add that Dracula is one of the 'good guys' in the story, and the 'bad guy' is a woman named 'Lillith'.
The concept is that Dracula (Vlad the Impaler) made a Faustian bargain with Lillith: all his power and all his wealth, to be given in the year of 1899, in exchange for victory in battle.
Before Lillith could come to collect, Dracula had moved to England and lost majority of his worldly possessions. Lillith was angry, but the British Ministry owed up to it, and gave her what she asked for (hence the law was passed that no vampire is allowed to own a material possession).
In revenge, Lillith gave the same promise to the German government in 1938, and when the Count found out, he began working closely with the Allies on how to counter her. (Dracula did say he loved England!)
so the grudge between Lillith and Dracula began to grow, especially after Dracula's side won the War.
Now Lillith is angry and spiteful, and looking for revenge on Dracula via Integra.
She turned Integra's friend Dante into a vampire, and is planning to use the vampires she creates to invade the dreams of people who are sleeping and cause a mass global genocide..
But I'm not sure if the plot is very strong towards the end.
Last edited by IadulDraculai; 07-10-2010 at 03:34 AM..
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