Hey yall like uhhhhhh found family but with monsters? Did some world building in the vampire au with @duck-n-clover here this past week and wanna write it down while it’s still Fresh. Some of my first vampire fact post may be relevant here if you want a refresher.
We don’t have an exact time frame for when these things happen, but this is like a rough kind of timeline. Levi and Izzy are made vampires around the same time, they’re the oldest of the group. (17th century? probably?) They’re very close and bond together. They’re part of a bigger vampire coven for some time but unfortunately things didn’t work out for one reason or another. They have each other and random people along the way but it’s a big difference from a big vamp family. A vampily. Don’t know exactly when Lucky or Andre were made into vamps, but it’s definitely been a while. Lucky was in a currently undecided but not great situation, and Levi and Izzy kinda take him in and help him out gettin readjusted. It’s also still a bit before Andre joins them, Lucky might get just a bit concerned sharing Izzy n Levi after being a trio together for so long, but it was still recent enough that he’s sympathetic about Andre being in a similar situation as he was in when Levi/Izzy found him.
Andre’s in a very bad spot with an abusive maker and coven. He’s basically one of if not the weakest of the group, and purposely kept that way. Just kinda kept him around as a plaything and scapegoat if needed. The last to eat, forced to have bad sleep, not usually allowed to leave, used, promised a lot of things with no reward, and kept in the dark (pun accidentally intended) about coven decisions and just general important vampire information that he could’ve easily been taught in order to help him. He was with them for quite a long time, but it would be especially hard for a freshly turned vampire thrown into this mess without much concept of their new found immortality like he was, it seemed like forever. Roughly a decade or two, maybe?
The head vampire that made Andre is infamous in the vamp community for being cruel, it’s not exactly a secret, but he’s powerful and not easily dealt with. One night there’s a raid and a big vampire fight at one of this coven’s hideouts, the one Andre was kept most of the time. There’s probably a few casualties, but the lead vamp and a lot of his more appreciated vamps escape relatively unharmed, with plans to just scatter and move on to their next hideout for a while as things blow over. They’re pretty cavalier about it, thinks most of the vamps there were expendable, anyway.
Levi happens to overhear some gossip about this raid, something about the expendable pawns who “helped” these bad vamps escape easier. He wants to check it out for himself and see what went down, if this hideout really is empty now. It’s pretty wrecked and deserted, but he finds Andre alone, curled up and weak. Carries him outta there and takes him home before the sun comes up, lets him cozy up and recover in his bed. Andre’s out of it for a little while, too weak to really care but he’s pretty defensive and scared when he gets more aware that he doesn’t know where he is or what’s going on. Gotta reassure him and build up that trust! It’s hard because Andre still thinks his maker will come back for him like he promised, even tho he’s cruel and was obviously lying and Andre’s better off without him anyway.. He does feel more comfortable with the trio, after some tough work.
It’s a process, some things are easier than others, some things take years. He struggles with food a lot at first. It probably doesn’t help that he keeps overfeeding after being starved for so long and they have to control his blood intake.. he’s not a fan of that!!! You’re not his maker, let him eat!!! Once he’s doing okay, he goes out alone* a lot at night. (*kinda pseudo-alone for a while, someone’s close by to make sure nothing goes wrong, but he feels confident enough to do what he wants on his own. He’s comfortable with this.) He’s still not really alright enough to go out during the day, something that’s only really doable for healthier stronger vampires, carefully for stretches of time. And even when he is stronger, he still has a worry about it that blocks him.
Over enough time he’s generally Pretty OK, though. They’re comfortable together in their weird happy little spooky house.
Meanwhile! Kriss and Nathan are good buds in this AU, and they were roommates... They constantly have horror movie nights together. They were turned during like uhhh. The early 90s maybe. Recent, modern, not completely outta the loop but like. A Little While Ago. They love the neighborhood’s absolute out of place creepy manor that everyone has little theories about. Witches live there, definitely. Oh, it’s very haunted actually. Someone disappeared there, they say. Very curious, they follow the one they are absolutely sure lives there, and the only one who regularly goes out during the day (it’s Levi) to figure out Hey! Just what is the deal with yall!!!! And I guess they do that. Kriss kinda still thinks they’re just really committed to the goth bit, but Nate dives right in. Vampires, right, it's so obvious now, of course. Somehow eventually convince the vamps to let them join in,, after they’re sure they’re ready to be serious about it. I don’t know specifics but I think Izzy turned Nathan.
Andre’s mostly fine by now, but the trauma still lingers in some ways. He seems very mysterious to them, but really he’s just... really worried about strangers moving in and taking up his partner’s attention now so he’s being standoffish and a lil spooky. He doesn’t want to talk to them or trust them or anything, he just wants to LURK! He also doesn’t like how goofy they seem to take it at first, yea you watched vampire movies and this is just like lost boys somehow but he spent years having a bad time and even more years getting over that! Levi gives ‘em an important talk and Andre eventually warms up to them.
Some time after this, once they think they’re all finally settled in once again,, Izzy gets vampire pregnant with a baby vampire Nico! A rare and welcomed occurrence? The specifics of vampire children are still unnecessarily confusing to me but we love this son I’m glad he’s here. He ages slowly n will stop at some point but,, uhhhh,,,, I ‘unno yet! Teething is hell!!!
Thanks for reading enjoy vampire facts baybee. Here’s vamp facts part 2: this time there’s more.
