watched dawn of the vampires (AHHHH), here are some questions/standout thoughts
NONE of my theories were completely correct and that makes me very sad, never listen to me again
for a movie called 'dawn of the vampires', i feel like not much was actually done with them (i feel like i came out with more questions about them than answers)
my ranking of the new gen characters: 1. victor, 2. nova, 3. vargas, 4. vera, 5. ray
i am calling for the public execution of both the eldress and the commander, IMMEDIATELY
when i posted my thoughts about the teaser, i asked if zed gets into trouble multiple times in the movie...boy i did not know how correct i was going to be, good lord
so i guess julian just wanted to dress up like a werewolf (in regards to the werewolf-y pics of him at the wrap party)
i was a little surprised that the ogs already knew the story of the daywalkers and vampires
they just recycled the eastside eels' colors for mountain college and i don't like that (were there not other pastels to choose from???)
there was ZERO mention of the bloodfruit, visions, the pulses or the familial relations (nova being the commander's daughter, victor being the eldriss's nephew) in the trailer and i don't like that either
speaking of the visions, it's reminding me of how in the first descendants book, ben and mal dreamed of each other before meeting
zeddison were still super affectionate in this movie!! let's all cheer!! i was paranoid for literally no reason
maybe i'm just not a vampire aficionado but do vampires usually have wind powers???
kinda wish that we got to see willa and eliza walking through the woods
zed apparently went to a summer camp but how??? they weren't supposed to leave zombietown...unless it was also in the basement like their classes were
i thought they were going to go the 'ray has a crush on nova' route and i'm so glad that they didn't
guess we're getting mermaids (they should have pink hair)
zed literally almost died/lost his humanity and yet we're having a party i-
i didn't get my zeddison proposal...but the ain't no doubt about it scene was still VERY cute
the pacing was...interesting. sometimes it felt like scenes were missing but maybe that was just me
really wish we saw more of the towns. i especially liked how shadyside looked. hopefully we'll see more details in z5 (like what do the interiors of the buildings look like???)
for the most part, i really liked the outfits in the movie, save for like a handful of pieces (zed's sweater, i'm looking at you)
they just didn't explain why addison's hair looks different and i honestly find that really funny (personally, i think it's because ppl were upset that addison got to look like a full alien so they made her hair white again)
i genuinely laughed at almost every comedic bit so idk what that says about me but i enjoyed my time
willa kinda did nothing in the movie, save for scaring the campers...wish she got to do more (at least eliza got to do techy stuff)
have the vampires and daywalkers heard of zombies, werewolves, and aliens??? cause they seemed really unbothered that there were other monster species (zombies especially, because every zombie has been from seabrook...do they get news channels in shadyside/sunnyside???)
"I'm her sister, I'm supposed to protect her."
"Who protects you?"
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For as long as you could remember, there had been a boy who would show up in your head when you needed him. And Victor could not think of a time the girl as bright as the sun hadn't been waiting in his dreams. What happens when you finally meet, and that pull in the back of your minds can't be ignored? When the people you both wanted so desperately to be real are standing in front of you?
I do not own the Disney Zombies franchise. This is a fanfic. I do, however, own my original characters and plotlines
Masterlist:
Cast and Moodboards
Chapter 1: The Sun and the Moon
Chapter 2: Sunny Starting Line
Chapter 3: Shady Starting Line
Chapter 4: The Place to be
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"I'm her sister, I'm supposed to protect her."
"Who protects you?"...
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!Trigger Warnings!: (Updated as needed)
It's a musical, song jumpscares, use of Y/n (sue me), mature language, spicy scenes (not smut), neglect
can i just say... i quite enjoyed zombies 4: dawn of the vampires? i was a bit hesitant at first (i'm not the biggest fan of change, thanks, hate to see the og's go) and to be honest after rise of red i was not feeling the continuation. but i was pleasantly surprised! here are some thoughts nobody asked for:
malachi and freya had some INSANE chemistry. i was cheering for a kiss by the end. we did not get it. fine. zombies 5?
i was worried about meg and milo's chemistry for absolutely no reason. they're too cute. zeddison 5ever and i need the wedding milo has promised us. i could watch them hold hands and look at each other on a loop. (meglo forever!) (mostly platonically) (but a little romantically) (but obviously meg has a boyfriend and they're adorable)
i wish eliza and willa could have done a bit more, but i get that a big plot point was to "pass the torch" as they say. i did enjoy their "core 4" friendship vibes, though i missed wynter and wyatt and bonzo and bree and even bucky, whom i adore. willa is just honestly one of my favorite characters and watching chandler on dwts this past season (ROBBED, btw) made me love her even more.
vargas had my entire heart from beginning to end. he's legit so cool. i want to be him.
ray? could have done without him. he made me mad.
vera? same. i came around towards the end but why she gotta be eavesdropping and not listening to the whole conversation? do it right please.
i'll admit the trailer had me SO confused as to what the entire plot of the movie was. don't know what i expected but the first thirty minutes of the movie i was at a loss for how anything seen in the trailer was going to fit in. don't worry, it's fine, it all worked out, but i was lost for a bit.
the songs were... actually fire???? the "someday" and "ain't no doubt about it" reprises made me cry like a little baby. i LOVED nova's solo song (that girl can SING, holy) and "place to be" was not as over hyped as i thought it would be. i'm glad i avoided listening to it as much as possible so i had fresh ears when hearing it!
costuming was flawless, I loved nova and addison's outfits... though why did they have addison go back to white hair? that confused me. and zed had a couple questionable styling choices, now that i think about it, but other than that, amazing
the dance breaks were SO COOL. i don't remember what song it is (sue me) but it's when zed's with the daywalkers and addison's with the vampires and they're on the beach going to the tunnels - cinematography was on point
the plot both made sense but also had some weird pacing issues? maybe there was more detail that got cut along the way?? I just wanted more, I think
can we talk about the way my heart stopped when zed was DYING??????????? if they had killed him off- I would have- unacceptable. then they just started partying?? I was like, okay...
i'm pretty sure that's all I have to say. a bit incoherent, really unnecessary, just wanted to swoon over zed/addison and victor/freya. all in all, would watch again (probably will sometime soon tbh), recommend! as a whole, i'd give this movie a... 7. or an 8. somewhere in there.
YOU TAKE PROMPTS?????? i would beg hands and knees for a thing about everyone realising victor is actually pretty competent and is just faking it bc everyone thinks he’s stupid already? like he was able to disrupt someone’s wind and both his aunt and nova’s dad weren’t able to disrupt his at the end of the movie. your writing is so incredible so if you ever wrote something like this i just know it’d be everything i dream of and more
Victor is eight and a half when she first notices the power he holds without a darkstone.
notes: this means no one reads my cool masterpost 😭😂 kidding kidding, I hope you enjoy this!
He's refusing to listen to her, rolling his eyes and snatching his sketchbook back from the high counter she hides it on as soon as she turns her back. She sees him with it out of the corner of her eye and yells at him, her own darkstone flaring in tune with the emotions she loses control of, one hand reaching towards him to rip the book back out of his hands.
The second her hand touches the corner of the book, a breeze pushes back at her, hard enough that she finds herself stumbling back a step, and when she looks back at Victor, his eyes are simmering red. One hand clutches at his sketchbook hard enough that it pulls his knuckles white, and the other is raised in front of him, palm open.
The remnants of wind flutters through his bangs. She stares at him, her nephew stares back at her, and for the first time since her sister had died, she wonders if she's fit to raise a child stronger than herself.
x
Victor is old enough to talk back, to fight back, and he is climbing a tower of twisted metal with a daywalker girl at his side, and the Eldress cannot keep him from what he is trying to do. Even with Commander Bright at her side, their powers combined as they desperately try to save themselves from all they do not know, the wind Victor conjures and keeps as they climb is unbreakable.
She throws as much wind as she can summon at the wind tunnel, expecting there to be a weak spot somewhere, Commander Bright slinging fireballs like the brute she's always known him to be, and nothing yields. She glances up at her nephew, expecting to see the shine of his darkstone as an aid, as the daywalker and him make it to the top with two halves of a whole, but his darkstone is colorless. Victor's darkstone is colorless, and a shiver shoots down her spine.
Victor is no longer something she can control.
The Eldress doesn't know if that fills her with pride or fear.
x
Vera has been ahead of everyone her age for as long as she can remember. She's first in every class she takes and doesn't look back. But things change when she meets Victor for the first time, the second time, and then every time after that until she calls him a friend. They're set to hang out today and she finds him hanging out at the top of the highest tree in the park.
She slows to a stop below him, looking up at him with a huff. "Alright, spill. Where's the ladder you used to get up there?"
Victor glances down at her, laughter tugging free from his chest. "You wound me, Vera," he complains with an overexaggerated hand to his heart, but his smile is contagious. "The wind helped me up here," he says easily, like it's something every vampire at their age should be able to admit with confidence.
Vera's heart falls, just a little.
She's studied all her life, gone the extra mile, stayed up half the night for a trial the next day to be sure she couldn't fail, and then came Victor, who wielded his powers like they were an extension of himself that he never had to learn how to use. It was hard, sometimes, trying to fit Victor in alongside the rest of his bloodline. He stuck out like a sore thumb and yet he had always been able to control his powers fairly well, when it came to whatever he wanted to do with them at least, over when it came to someone else telling him what to do.
"Do you want a lift?" Victor calls down to her, swinging his legs back and forth in the air.
Vera rolls her eyes. "And end up halfway to the moon? No thanks."
There's a side to Victor that nobody knows unless he allows them to see it. Vera is glad she's one of the chosen few.
x
She's a little bit too aggressive when it comes to Addison before she truly knows her, hissing teeth and a flare of her darkstone sending the older girl up into the air before she can offer an explanation.
Addison yells - and Vera hesitates, for just a moment, doubt creeping in, until she shoves it away. There was no time to second guess when it came to daywalkers, evil beings that wouldn't think twice before setting a vampire alight, and she wouldn't let one hurt herself or her friends, not here, not ever. The thought propels her powers to new levels, wind swirling violently around the outsider, howling alongside the sea.
Vera is so focused that she doesn't see Victor move, darkstone and eyes glowing as one, but her wind reacts, disrupted by another. Victor's power is as effortless as always, a simple flick of his wrist as his powers wrestle Vera's wind out of her grip until it fully dissipates, and he lowers Addison to the ground carefully, shooting Vera and the Eldress quick looks as he moves to her side.
Vera shifts, still on the defensive, but there's a small part of her that is exhausted, drained that quickly from the short tangle with Victor's own powers. She forgets sometimes, just how much damage he could do if he wanted. But his soul is far too kind for that of a vampire, and he's defending the cheerleading alien girl before the rest of them can fully wrap their heads around it.
(Much later, after the orchards are healed, Vera will seek Addison out and ask her about that night, about the way Victor had bent the whims of mother nature so easily, about how he had brought her back down to the ground like she weighed nothing, and the older girl will smile softly and remind her that Victor has been chosen to lead for more than one reason.)
x
Nova doesn't know how they managed it, but there's daywalkers and vampires hanging around in the forests outside of Camp Rayburn, acting like the teenagers they never got to be. She's leaning against Victor's shoulder as they sit in front of a tree, his arm tucked around her shoulders like a pillow, the sun lazily disappearing beyond the horizon.
She thinks she could fall asleep like this, listening to the crunch of leaves and echoes of distant laughter. Victor's lips gently press against the crown of her head when he thinks she isn't paying attention, and Nova smiles, pressing closer. She doesn't know if she should say something or let the silence speak for her, but before she can decide, there's a loud yell, followed by a painful scream.
Victor pulls her up with him as he jumps to his feet, checking to make sure she's with him, before grabbing her hand and dragging her along. They sprint through the forest until they locate the group of vampires and daywalkers forming a circle next to a towering pile of rocks covered in moss and fallen leaves.
Ray notices them first and shoves back the few daywalkers he can reach. "Let them through," he calls, but even his voice trembles in a way that Nova doesn't think she's heard before. Victor lets go of her and pushes through, his shoulders set in a firm line, his eyes catogulating everything he can see. Nova trails half a step behind him, stomach already twisted in knots, though she puts on the brave face everyone expects her to wear.
"It was an accident," one of the younger daywalkers babbles as soon as Victor's eyes land on the way the fallen vampire's knee juts out at an odd angle, definitely broken, their shaking hands hovering in the space around it because they don't know what to do. "We were climbing the rocks and - and Vernon lost his grip - "
"He's telling the truth," one of the other vampires confirms, their eyes darting between Victor and Nova, as though the two would doubt any of them. "He fell."
"I know," Victor says, and his tone one that Nova's only heard when he's talked politics with his aunt, or back when the orchards had burned to a crisp, firm and resolute. He's crouching beside Vernon as he says it, eyes flicking across his body with a red glow as he checks for any other injuries, before he's turning to the other vampires huddling behind him and giving out orders.
Nova watches in a stunned sort of silence as Victor takes control of the situation as easily as anything else. He doesn't falter, doesn't buckle under the pressure, and she's always known he's more than everyone's made him out to be - she knew from there very start - but it's still something to behold, when she gets to watch him be the leader he's always been meant to be.
He's not cruel like the Eldress, or sharp like her father.
He's simply himself, a natural born leader even if he pretends he isn't because he doesn't want to grow up just yet. Nova thinks she's ready to lead, and then she watches Victor lead in times of crisis, and she knows she still has a while to go.
Victor's eyes meet her own as his darkstone flashes, wind building around him and Vernon, knee now cradled by sticks and torn cloth in a makeshift brace. Nova gives him a quick nod, and then smiles, and wonders just how their future will unravel.
She has no doubt he will bring the vampires to new heights never seen before.
x
Victor stands in front of the orchard and Nova lingers behind him, watching.
They're older now, her hair longer, his cut shorter, bright red streaks fading slowly into a softer color. She leads the daywalkers with kindness, and he leads the vampires with peace. He's still taller than her; it still makes her laugh sometimes, when he holds something out of reach and she catches the shine of mirth in his eyes. She teases him about his few wrinkles. He tells her she's going grey even though they both know it isn't true. He wears the same necklace he's always had, refusing the grandiose one his aunt used to wear, darkstones catching the rays of the sun when he turns back to look at her.
"Aren't you coming?" he asks her, already smiling like he knows something she doesn't.
Nova chuckles, shaking her head. "I'm just admiring the view."
Victor stares at her for a long moment, and then she feels wind pushing at her back, gently edging her forward, and Nova smiles and takes a step, allowing the wind to catch her. To think, all those years ago, all the people who said Victor could never be apart of the same bloodline that ruled, when he was better than them all along.
To think, all these years later, that they were both right where they were always supposed to be, leading their people.
Vera and Vargas absolutely COOKED Ray when he said “we can make fire” and they hit back with “so can two sticks” they DEVOURED he had not one good comeback after that
