Rogue: Vampire hunter.
Right, just to let you know, this isn't actually a chapter. I just wanna see if people like the idea and let you know some basic info and where I got my inspiration.
This is an AU, I'm pretty much screwing everything around to fit my idea, (ages, powers, histories, you name it, I've probably twisted it).
They are mutants but there are no X-Men, Acolytes or Brotherhood. Xavier and Magneto are still friends and run the Institute together (though that doesn't have much to do with the fic except as a place to get extras from if I need 'em).
The students there are; Wanda, Pietro, Evan, Kurt, Kitty, Lance, Jubilee, Piotr, Todd, Fred, St. John, Tabby, Roberto, Ray, Jamie, Amara, and Sam.
Teachers are; Scott, Jean (both of whom are more like their comic selves), Mystique, Logan and various others to be decided.
They are not superheroes or villains and have no codenames. Mutants, while not entirely accepted, are not persecuted or tested on as long as they don't cause any trouble.
Remy is still with the thieves guild but is neither engaged to nor married to Belladonna (she died when she was younger). He is also on a private crusade to kill any and all vampires he meets since they killed his cousin and Belle.
Storm is also with the thieves guild and hates vampires as much as Remy since the time she was under the complete control of one.
Rogue is (as the title suggests) a vampire hunter. She has complete control of her powers, but also has enhanced strength, speed, agility, flight, a certain degree of invulnerability (all nothing to do with Carol Danvers) and enhanced night vision. Despite the control of her powers the palms and tops of her hands, at the very least, are always covered. She became a vampire hunter after her family was slaughtered by vampires when she was thirteen (she's about 20-ish here) and she herself was left for dead. She looks more like the X-Treme version (think Infinada and Storm of the Arena) with the same tattoos and everything. She is no relation to Mystique of Kurt but is Irene's daughter (Irene has no connection to Mystique either).
Rahne, rather than being a mutant, is a true werewolf and works with Rogue.
Both Rogue and Rahne are freelance (there is a secret group who employ demon hunters out to others for an extortionate price) and only charge those who either seek them out and offer to pay or those who can obviously afford to spare the money. Living this way they make a fair amount of money, which they supplement with the inheritance Rogue received on her eighteenth birthday.
Due to the nature of their work they have no set home (but somehow people in need always find them), living instead in hotels (usually five star) or staying with people they have helped before and befriended (not that there are many. Both are highly secretive about their lives, trusting very few people.
It will be a Romy but there will be quite a few hurdles before the fic gets that far.
The inspiration for this comes mainly from the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novels by Laurell k. Hamilton and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I will be using many aspects from the latter (e.g. vampires dust when you stake them) and a lot of the other demons will be based on Buffy demons. As in the Anita Blake books and the early comics (the ones where Storm is made into a vampire) a cross will not always harm a vampire, they need faith to back it up. Following this idea then Kitty could use a Star of David in the same way a Christian would use a cross and atheists are basically screwed.
There are also aspects from the Lost Boys (half vampires for example) and Wes Craven's Dracula 2000 (the guy who played Dracula in that was sooo gorgeous). I will also be using various monsters from folklore of certain countries and religions.
Some of the werewolf aspects come from The Silver Wolf by Alice Borchardt (who happens to be Anne Rice's sister but that's beside the point).
You might wonder why I'm writing a vampire fic without using Anne Rice as any inspiration. The answer to that is quite simple, I don't like her work.
So? Do you think it has potential? If I get enough positive responses (translation, if even one person likes the idea) then I'll continue. And please feel free to let me know if there's anyone else you want to see in here, good or bad, or if you have any plot suggestions (I have several ideas but I'll always accept more).
Anyway, I'll start writing the first chapter now, just in case, and if it's wanted then I'll get it up hopefully by tomorrow, fingers crossed.
Oh, before I forget, if anyone wants to have a little cameo or have an OC appear on either side just let me know what you, or they, wanna be known as, a brief physical description, any mutant powers they may have, and a bit about their personality and I'll try to put you, or them, in. Be warned though, unless you specify that you want you, or them, to be doing something specific there is a chance that you will turn up as a corpse right away or be a helpless screaming victim then a corpse, can't have too many people running around or I'll lose track of them. You will, of course, be given full credit for any characters used.
Much love to you all,
Mercury Dream.
PS. Ish, yes, I'm gonna put the barman in here.
PPS. None of the characters, books or movies mentioned here belong to me and I make no money from them.
