Tugging at my undead heartstrings

Author Notes

Fimbulvinter Here, closing out my second published story, and my first foray into a mature fic with clop. Writing this story has taught me several things, but the biggest one is that writing good clop is hard. Writers like Bronystories or Applejinx make it look so easy, them when you try your own hand at it, it ends up as the same monotone ‘oh baby, oh baby, oh baby’ over and over again. Possibly trying to create such a niche subject story didn’t help either.

Reading some of the popular vampire fiction available today, and some of the other stories available here, one theme is common. The main character is either at war with their vampire nature, or dominates it totally. This was most evident during Breaking Dawn book 2 when Bella was able to exert total control over her desire to feed on humans within days of having been turned. It felt like a cop-out, written in purely to allow her to remain a noble character, free from having ever killed anyone.

I wanted to have a story where the main character fully embraces their new nature, revels in it, allows their lust for blood to drive them to engage in perverse acts. I eventually decided that if I wanted that story I would have to write it myself, thus I originally started a story based around a vampire Vinyl Scratch, who was dating Octavia, secretly a vampire hunter, neither one knowing the others true identity, somewhat like Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Then along came ‘My roommate is a vampire’ and I put the story on hold, eventually scrapping almost all of it. The response my first published story ‘Interview with the Changeling’ got convinced me to try again, so I salvaged the Octavia as an assassin idea and set about to find a new character to turn into a vampire. A search of the stories on here on FIMfiction indicated that Lyra had never spent any time as a Vamp, so that was that. Sexy romps with Ponyvilles cutest lesbian vampires.
For anyone who is interested, most of the vampire powers I used in this series hail from either Dracula or True blood. The ability to stand in the sun, not be seen in mirrors, climb walls like a lizard, inability to eat anything other than blood and terramancy all come from Dracula.

The need to be invited into a home and the sexual aspects of the blood come mostly from true blood, with a dash of Anne Rices Vampire chronicles thrown in.

I have some basic ideas for a sequel for this story, it would revolve around Sweetie Belle and revert to a traditional third person narrative. First person is hard, so easy to mix tenses from past to passive present, plus it restricts much of what you can do with other characters who are not the main character at the time.

Finally, I hope that you enjoyed this story. Thanks to everyone who favorited this, thumbed it up, commented or started following me as a result of this story. You guys are the reason we write.

Stay Frosty Everypony and watch this space. I will be back at some point.
Fimbulvinter