lilianade-comics

This whole AU is ultimately built on top of Vlad's characterization. I don't like the way canon wouldn't give his character a single nuanced relationship, so not only is he allowed to love/be obsessed with his weird Frankensteined daughter in this AU, he's able to manipulate Valerie using real backstory parallels he shares with her. He's still a villain, but I'm hoping I'll be able to properly strip away the mischaracterization and flanderization he underwent in canon season 3, and end up somewhere more interesting, more in line with his earlier characterization, and with more depth. I'm not against taking Vlad in a darker direction, though. This AU season is going to be 20 episodes, which would afford more build up to Vlad deciding murdering one of the ghost kids is the only option (and it wouldn't be Danielle on the chopping block this time, I can tell you that.)