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So in a lot of vampire lore, the process of becoming a vampire requires two steps, correct?

1. The vampire bites the human, which results in a wound that cannot be healed natural or within a normal time frame.
2. The vampire forces the bitten human to drink their blood, siring a new vampire.

So in the fiction I’m currently creating, someone discovers that is you ignore step 1, step 2 actually works as an effective fertiliser and regenerative, actually healing the drinker without turning them. This results in humans reversing the vampire pray predator role, with humans now using vampires as a means of fertiliser and drug.

Question is, does this make some sense?

Been thinking about this ever since I read the 80s lot of Excalibur and some other horror comics, but wouldn’t it be interesting for CB to start developing his magical abilities?

I ask because as a character, quite a lot of his interesting story’s are just with him as a B character to his sister or the Xmen. I kind of wish he had his own leg to stand on again. And given his powers are magical in nature, maybe if he started exploring them, it could lead us down an interesting part. Especially if strange is the one to teach him.

As a Brit, I have always like it when Marvel have focused on UK stories, with Excalibur being a specific favourite. Would after Doomsday be the best time to introduce them? Personally would prefer a miniseries over anything.

In this case, rather than going the mutant route, I’d make it more like a special black ops team working for MI6/5, MI13 with Olivia Colman heading it, with the overall story being a bit like BBCs Torchwood, with the episodes being single adventures whilst also having elements tied into the over archive story, specifically Mad Jim Jaspers and the invasion of Otherworld.

The roster would be:
- Brian Braddock/Captain Britain: A magically enhanced man who’d formerly being a member of the Master of the Mystical Arts before letting pass issues get the better of him (the destruction of his home and vanishing of his twin brother). After doing supernatural odd jobs for years, Olivia recruits him into Excalibur. The name Captain Britain isn’t given to him in this, but more of a joke given his powers similarity to Captain America.
- Dane Whitman/Black Knight: A historian who is recruited by Olivia to act as an intel for supernatural and magical threats. Though a fighter at heart, he develops a strange addiction to combat due to using the ebony blade.
- Pete Vidya: A high ranking MI6 agent who was demoted to Excalibur head following a botched job with the Skrulls, whom he had a vendetta against. A mutant, he also experienced uneasy relations with fellow agents. Unlike his coming counter part, Pete Wisdom, Pete is of South-Asian heritage.
- Nigel Higgins: A skilled marksman who worked under Pete in MI6. Kind of a hothead and dick, he easily gets on people’s bad side and went with Pete to Excalibur to learn ‘humility’.
- Kelsey Leigh: A intelligence officer who worked under Pete in MI6. Very skilled in strategy, who voluntarily went to Excalibur out of boredom of mundane field work.
- Elsa Bloodstone: A monster hunter looking for her brother and a network of cable of sorcerers known as the Mys-Tech. Making a deal with Olivia, she join Excalibur on the condition of gaining their help.
- Faiza Hussain: A paramedic and former army medic that got caught up in an Excalibur mission at her hospital. Showing great resource and quick thinking, Brian persuades Olivia to have her join the ops. She later gains the actual Excalibur sword during the final conflict.

When a person becomes a vampire, does their soul become a ghost?

I ask this because I thought it would be a fun subject and piece of lore to touch on. In my mind, when a person becomes a vampire, in order to comply with the curse, all the fragments of their personality and soul that will help with their survival as a vampire, such as their pride, wrath, cunning and self-preservation, is taken with the vampire. The rest, the sorrow, pain, betrayal and compassion is severed out, becoming a ghost.

So in a way, in this case, becoming a vampire also results in someone becoming a ghost. Maybe said ghost wasn’t nothing more than the demise of the vampires simply to be whole once again.

What happened to the other knights after Camlann? Arthur died and went with Morgana. Merlin and Gawain are gone. Percival and/or Galahad went to heaven or something. Lancelot and Guinevere shoved off to do god stuff (never was a fan of this). But what about the others? Surely not all of them died and of those who did, did they go on to do something productive?

Side question, has there ever been a story about the knights after the battle? Made focusing on Lancelot trying to find some peace of mind and goals. I like to imagine him journeying through the world, maybe haunted by a memory of Arthur whilst visiting the surviving knights, who either hate or pity him.

Been thinking of this after reader some of the latest Scarlet Witch run and I’ve been thinking what if Wiccan is capable of Magic, are the others Maximoff children? Luna and Speed, specifically Speed.

I’ve always like the idea of Tommy starts to develop the magical abilities to, be rather than going with Scarlet, Dr Strange comes in. As, in addition to showing magical skills, Tommy also shows medical capabilities. After an adventure involving Hydra and some Halloween magic plans, Strange decides to take Tommy under his wing, training him to be both a wizard and a paramedic.

Not sure if they’d ever bring this character into the limelight but I can dream.

Stories wise, it would be a bit like BBC’s Torchwood and Agents of Shield, with Brian (Captain Britain) basically working for MI6 under Sonya Falsworth (Olivia Colman’s character from Secret Invasion), tasked with dealing with supernatural and extra normal threats, eventually ending with Excalibur and the UK ending up in a mystical conflict with Mad Jim Jaspers.

Fancasting includes:
- Captain Britain (Tom Holland)
- Black Knight (Kit Harrington)
- Pete Wisdom (Sean Pertwee)
- Outlaw (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett)
- Lionheart (???)
- Faiza Hussain (Anjana Vasan**)**
- Mad Jim Jaspers (Joe Gilgun)
- Meggan (Joanne Froggatt)

Given Benedict’s acting capabilities, I’ve always thought it would benefit him and Strange if there was a Dr Strange tv series instead of a film. My idea is that his last focused story is a mixture of Last Days of Magic and The Oath, with the series called “Doctor Strange: The Oath”.

After the whole multiverse stuff that happened before, Strange has worked with Clea to deal with the backlash on the other dimensions, under the watchful eye of Wong. Their activities uncover that something is throwing off the nature of magic, suggesting some underlying threat is coming. In addition, we learn that Wong has actually developed cancer, meaning they also need to find the next Sorcerer Supreme, with Stephen being one of seven.

Learning that the magic destabilisation is cause by a group of zealots bent on destroying it known as the Empirikul, the three go off to gather the other candidates in order to push back against the attack. Candidates include:
- Ghost Rider (returning from AoS)
- Nico Minoru (returning from Runaways)
- Sebastian Druid (fan casting Alex Brightman)
- Sister Voodoo (fan casting Michaela Jae Rodriguez)
- Shaman (fan casting Amber Midthunder)
- Captain Britain (fan casting Tom Hopper)

Whilst the Empirikul would seem like the big bad, it would later reveal that Mephisto is the true villain, using the new chaotic magic to ascend further in power with Clea being forced to work for him and act as a double agent.

Do Arthur and Buddy have a relationship? I know they’ve worked together before but has there ever been a time where they’ve shown a relationship or rapport?

I ask because I can see a lot of parallels with them. Elemental powers. A great respect and dedication to the world and is ecosystem. They both have daughters with similar capabilities to their own. They both lost a son.

It feels like the building block are there.

This is more to do with biology then mysticism, but since most snake venoms work through coagulopathy (the clotting and binding of blood), would this work on a vampire? I don’t actually know where the blood goes when a vampire drinks it. Does it sit in their stomach and they have to throw it up later after “digesting it”? Or are they like mosquitoes, passing the blood into their own?

Rather new to all this so I’ll just ask, but do vampires ever get bored. And I’m talking about the standard Dracula Prince of darkness kind here. In those fiction, do they ever get bored?

If in the situation of Dracula, you seclude yourself from everyone except form the occasional bride to have or victim to drain. So what else is there for you to do? Are they so without character or soul that they’ve become trapped in predator behaviour? Is that why they drink blood? Not to gain strength but for a least a little while, feel the shifts of change and potential again. What is in them that makes them keep going without the hope that tomorrow will be new. Never have I seen them start a business or make fine art or travel the world.

By the sounds of it, like elves, vampires are offered time forever, and have nothing to do in it.

Has there ever been a point where a companion, or someone close to the Doctor, where they have openly confronted them about who they are or what they’ve done, resulting in the Doctor suddenly noticing he truly is an alien to humans.

If anyone has scene Steven Universe, there is similar scene where Rose (an alien) is confronted by Greg (a human) when he tries to get her to understand his needs. Initially, Rose is very blasé of Greg, treating him nicely, but dismissively or patronising, not really recognising his attempts to understand her or show affection. Only when Greg confronts Rose about this, does she realise what she does, with Greg finally saying “Oh, my God. This is so weird. You really are an alien.” Rose is hurt by this but comes to realise that she isn’t human and she has been rather blind to this and needs to reevaluate her behaviour and relationships with humans.

Has something like this happened to the Doctor? They are forced to realise that in some people’s eyes, they aren’t a legend, a threat, a god, nor a saviour. They are an alien. A thing that breathes their air and walks their world and moves in their lives. But not as an individual in it. As an otherness in someone else’s normal. And that makes them feel smaller.

So I’ve been reading “There is no Antimemetics division”, which is a good book and I think DW could learn some stuff from the SCP foundation, and I’ve been thinking. In the book, there are creatures who cannot only make you forget they exist, but can also make the universe forget you exist or even enter your mind if you even think about them.

So this got me thinking, how far does the silence abilities range? Do they only affect memories or can they also impact all kinds of data, including filling in gaps left when people can’t remember them? Marion form the book, for example, counters a lot of antimemetic effect by recognising the gaps in her memory and working backwards.

I feel like we missed out on some cool development with the Foggy Swamp tribe. It, along with plantbending, was barely touched in both series.

Given the tribes location and lifestyle, I would think unlike the water tribes of the poles, the Foggy Swamp tribe would take inspiration from Philippine architecture and culture, mostly due to the country’s island and jungle nature.

question for the people: if the did stories that were horror focused in Avatar, would you engage with it? and I don’t mean just mysterious or thrilling. I mean actual creepy, blood-chilling, stuff. Given how eldritch the spirits can be, or how dark bending can be used, I’d say there a lot of stuff that could be done in that genre.