Has anyone ever just... vampires? Like, I am obsessed with vampires. I don't know why, I just think the concept is so cool and you can do so many different things with it. And so every fandom that I join there's got to be some vampires. And I was at work earlier today and for some random reason just thought... What if the Kratt brothers were vampires but nobody knew. Like everything in the show is the exact same. The only difference is that the Kratt Brothers are vampires. That's it. That's all I want.
I know there's this whole thing with Zack being a vampire but I mean come on guys. That's so not original bro. It's literally black and red that's his whole shtick. Also he was literally a vampire in one of the episodes.
But as I was doing stuff I was thinking about how it would work. Logically, the brothers wouldn't drink blood from people. They're too nice for that. But also the alternative in most stories is drinking from animals but they wouldn't do that either because that's also their whole thing. Saving animals. So what would they do??
I was thinking maybe they'd go to blood banks or something but like they're constantly traveling in the Tortuga. And going to a blood bank in a country that doesn't have blood banks or a good hospital system with blood banks is not very viable, especially when they're traveling constantly. (I mean most of the time they're just in the middle of the Amazon rainforest so definitely not any blood banks around there.) So then I was thinking maybe they drank the blood from already dead animals? But that blood would have to be, like, 100% fresh. That animal just freaking died. But also when are you around a newly dead animal?
And of course there's no like sciency answer as to why vampires need to drink blood. So maybe they don't drink blood and they just eat a frick ton of iron. Because hemoglobin but also oxygen and there's a weird science theory of them drinking blood to replace dead cells? But they're scientists? I don't normally picture vampires being dead. More like a virus kind of thing but whatever works.
As you could probably see, I know a lot about vampire lore for no reason. Because this is one of my niche little obsessions. But I would like you to picture Martin and Chris in the middle of like the North American woods as just tiny little bats in the middle of the night and they're just having a good time.
*Baby voice* They're just cute little babies just having a good little time flying around and playing tag. Oh my God look how cute and baby they are. (I'm not sorry)
There's also the potential for angst because they're keeping a secret from the team that's kind of scary. You could do a crazy fun thing with one of the brothers being like we should tell them and the other one be like no, we can't tell them they hate us for it. They'd think we're weird. (Or like, things happen that creep the crew out and it's like a mystery novel. What is this, what's happening, why did he just do/say that? And the crew just see vampire-ish things happen and have no idea it's vampires so they just either think, creature OR "That's just the Kratt brothers for you. Those weirdos. (affectionate)).
But also you can get some animal instincts in here because bats and maybe vampires specifically have bond instincts. Like sire and hatchling kind of thing, but they're brothers, so more familial. They purr or something (that's so unrealistic). Like vampires aren't real. You can do a ton of just random stuff with this, who cares!?.
This isn't a new (or original) idea, but I just haven't seen anything with the Kratts being vampires apart from Chris as the occasional vampire bat from Creepy Creatures. (Or just, any mythical thing. I've defiantly seen siren/mermaid stuff. And like demigod/chimera things.) I need some fan art or a little one shot or something!!! And if I were to write this myself I would have to put it on the long list of things that I am currently wanting to write and let me tell you something. This list is getting unreasonably long. (And I have written a lot of vampire stuff before. This is not my first bat rodeo!)
