I'm skimming Wikipedia for all the different vampire myths/variations in the myth, and there are a grazillion of them, even just sticking to Romanian folklore. The traditional boundary between vampires and werewolves is a lot blurrier than modern lore would have you believe, especially with this silly notion that werewolves and vampires are natural enemies, which is just as dumb as it is stupid, and I'm not very fond of it, and, the Google Docs processor corrects inch marks to quotation marks; what's the deal with Blogger? Sometimes it bothers me a lot more than others, but it's not something that can be ignored indefinitely.
factional ambiguities
So, yeah. Vampires and werewolves, totally on the same side (I think I mentioned that before.) This is a very important point in book 2, where it's them versus fairies (Ancient Ireland was traditionally infested with werewolves, which sets those guys perfectly against the fae.) Come to think of it, the fair folk being descended from the lost ten tribes like that, setting them on the side of the Jewluminati, means that no side in this conflict would really be the "good guys," unless the cabal aren't really that bad...? They ARE against the Babylonian Brotherhood, I guess, but isn't the Tooth Fairy one of them, which makes him both, if he really is a fairy, I mean just his alignment is up in the air, maybe he'll come back in Book 2, that'd be neat... sometimes I'm just taken aback by how very weird these books are/are going to be...
So, what about elves? Are they on the "side" of fairies? If werewolves (or at least one form of them) came into the world through therianthrope Usenet groups in 1992 inadvertently triggered into existence by Finn due to his incursion into the dreamtime, the otherkin (most notably elfkin of course) were around longer than that, starting sometime in the '60s I think though I can't remember the exact dates off the top of my head. Dragons came onto Usenet in, 1993 wasn't it, not long after the alt.horror.werewolves thing, so that's another faction whose alignment is up in the air.
hey so speaking of usenet groups
The growth of technology came only really after the end of the Cold War, and/but with that coming the explosion of community all finding each other and these alternative whatevers all really coming into their own, and I find it just fascinating how that counterbalances everything on a magicorealist level. That's it. That's the core, I think, of what the Finn Michael Moone universe represents. It all may have started from a dream two years ago where this Michael Westen type gets jumped by a vampire, which spun out into a character and then a framework for adventure around that, but, the existence of TTDECBA in the milieu in which it is, that's inextricable. Technology is crowding out magic and science crowding out belief, but on the other hand mass communication is instigating/facilitating a grand scale individual imaginative methods of looking at the self and the nature of soulstuff. Something draws me to this turmoil, this churning landscape. Maybe that in general says something about me, but I myself think it's more about the specific ways that the 1990s themselves manifested these themes.
Or maybe it's just because the 1997 Hong Kong handoff provided such a perfect metaphor for the framework of Book 1, which at the time I was realizing would work way better as Book 3, that I decided, what the heck, Book 1 is Book 3, the event they're counting down to really is the Hong Kong handoff, and everything takes place in the '90s, which is pretty neat because you don't see much post-Cold War pre-War on Terror espionage stuff. That works too?
so vampires anyway.
I think I really like Moroi, as, according to Wikipedia (though unfortunately all the sources in the article are in German or Romanian, so I'll have to take their word for it,) "Moroi can also be forms of demons which possess a living body, usually the body of a bear. Moroi can be put under the control of a strigoi." Connecting the bear myth to strix/strigoi again, more directly this time, but in the opposite alignment from what we've last seen. Oooh, more alignment ambiguity! That'd be good for, you know, a spy novel...
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