Aight buckle up; there’s a good fair few of you new to my blog here so I’ma just. Go. c: Gon’ be a bit of a read ahead!
My most beloved group of OCs is a handful of vampires and werebeasts from an alternate version of Earth storyverse of my own concoction. Chief among these (literally) is a stone cold ice queen of a vampire named Katarina Schneider of Acheron. She’s one of my all-time favorites among my cast. Acheron is her vampiric lineage and the clan that she leads. I’ve talked about her a lot in the past and I’ve pushed her into almost every AU or alternate design that catches my whimsy as a result.
Katarina, or Kat, is one of the major powers in my world’s vampiric/Night Eternal societies. Her clan is the one at the forefront of keeping the night monsters of the world hidden as best as possible from the light of day and the mortals on that side of the coin. She shook the very pillars of the olden foundations of their society and resculpted them to what she believes is the better path. Kat is a staunch ally to the werebeast organizations of their world. Why should two kinds of monsters both predatory upon and hunted by humans be at each others’ throats? Are there not enough problems with which to contend without going fang-to-fang with each other? Time spent squabbling is time wasted, in her beliefs. And although she may have practically forever, there are better things toward which her energy should go.
That said, no vampire was ever born nor made without some degree of darkness. Hers is that she is, twice over, risen from the dead. Once when she was physically brought back a vampire in the 12th century as Katharine Schneider; and again in the late 17th when the last man -a werewolf she’d once helped escape from hunters- she would ever love was murdered (forcibly by her own hand). Hell hath no wrath like a woman heartbroken and betrayed, and thus arose the new Katarina, cold and vicious and ambitious.
The coming centuries would watch her summarily cut down the diseased and obsolete vampiric powers that once were, and install herself as Clan Elder and her most loyal as her Council. The Night Eternal’s population at large did not deserve to have such horrific trials and fates as those of her generation under her predecessor’s rule. She saved a special hell for the mentoring vampire that forced her to kill the werewolf a century before. There would be other trials and fates not-necessarily-merciful to befall others under her rule, but to her eyes, far fairer than those she had known and heard of. Rogue vampires still are detained and evaluated, but they are not mistreated as she and her maker had been, nor forced to join the clan as she had been. More dangerous threats to vampire society are still removed, but far quicker and mercifully. And no vampire is punished simply for pairing off with a werebeast, nor either party killed.
Kat’s been my response to all the tropes I found boring and distasteful about vampires and werewolves. She was concepted in response to the Twilight series craze in 2009, as my edgy little self’s rebellion against what was popular and poorly researched. xD I wanted vampires who weren’t all lovey-dovey-stalkery-lusty and constantly in opposition to closet furries. So the storyverse to which Kat and her allies and enemies belong was born. c:
