Vampire dynamic/story tropes I adore / Part 1(?)
Abandoned newborn/fledging gets picked up by a begrudging experienced vampire and becomes their surrogate sire. Bonus points if the fledging is instantly attached and the older vampire takes a little while to realise that they are too. This one is probably my favourite.
Person who comes from a family of hunters/is a vampire hunter themselves gets bitten and turned and has to navigate new vampiric life while struggling with their pre-existing perceptions and misconceptions of vampires. This normally goes one of two ways: either the vampire struggles and is found out by their hunter family, being rejected and pushed entirely into the nightlife, joining a coven and understanding that they didn’t understand vampirism in the first place. Or, they are found out/confess to their vampirism and are accepted - hesitantly or not - by their hunter family and they all evolve and learn together.
Following on from hunters, vampires who very obviously don’t know what they are doing or are ‘tamer’ than the average vampire come face to face with a vampire hunter. The hunter frightens the hell out of them, but takes pity or realises that this vampire isn’t so bad and agrees to take them under their wing/spare them.
Vampire and werewolf who are forced to get along and realise the other isn’t so bad. I normally see this in a romantic sense but honestly, non-romantic scenarios for this are so fun too. I think I’m just a sucker for two parties with underlying conflict coming together to better understand and accept one another.
Family of all vampires that want to branch out into the modern world but it’s painfully obvious that everyone is very clearly out of the loop. Its normally quite corny but I do enjoy the trope of a character so painfully not of this century trying to adjust and act like they are and always have been. I am a fan of WWDITS if you can’t tell.











