Vampire theme?

[Selena_Kitt]

Anyone ever heard of a vampire story where the vampire is actually "turning" AIDS victims who are near death?

Posted or published... either one...

don't want to "steal" someone else's idea...

 

[snooper]

Anyone ever heard of a vampire story where the vampire is actually "turning" AIDS victims who are near death?

Posted or published... either one...

don't want to "steal" someone else's idea...

Writing another story with this theme would not be stealing. The idea is too all-encompassing to be anyone's private territory.

If you wrote about a vampire called Percival whose victims were Esmerelda and Ermintrude, all of whom lived at 55, Acacia Avenue, that would be plagiarism (assuming somone else had already written such a story).

Do you see the difference?

 

[Texguy84]

Anyone ever heard of a vampire story where the vampire is actually "turning" AIDS victims who are near death?

Posted or published... either one...

don't want to "steal" someone else's idea...

Well, if you want to add some flexibility to the concept, you could expand it to include "Women with terminal illnesses" rather than just AIDS victims.

IIRC, on the TV show Angel, one of the characters was a vampire who had been suffering from Syphilis before being turned. They managed to turn her human again, only to discover that she had the Syphilis again, and so she found someone to turn her into a vampire again.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Sounds cool.

I'm going to write one at some point a story about an ancient Italian vampire named Horatian, who has been around since Justinian's day (and in fact fought for the Ostrogoths against Justinian). He was turned soon afterward by a Gothic vampiress and became her protege for a while.

In my story, which picks up in the 21st Century, vampires don't turn others by biting. They do so by putting some of their blood, semen, sweat, saliva, vaginal juices or any other bodily fluid in direct contact of some sort with a mortal's body on a full moon. Any other night won't work. So, sex, donating blood (nice reversal, eh?), kissing, sweating, or any other exchange of bodily fluids on a full moon is enough to work. Hence, condoms won't stop it because there would still be sweat and saliva exchanged. Even spitting on someone works on a full moon. Naturally, therefore, most vampires avoid sex, kissing, or even combat during the full moon, including Horatian, unless they wish to pass on their powers to a particular mortal.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Writing another story with this theme would not be stealing. The idea is too all-encompassing to be anyone's private territory.

If you wrote about a vampire called Percival whose victims were Esmerelda and Ermintrude, all of whom lived at 55, Acacia Avenue, that would be plagiarism (assuming somone else had already written such a story).

Do you see the difference?

Oh I know it wouldn't technically be plagiarism... but I just didn't want to do something that's "been done" ... and although I hadn't heard of it, I've been outta the vamp scene for a long time, so to speak... so thought I'd pose it here and see if anyone said, "Did you know so-and-so wrote almost that exact thing in blah-blah?"