You've talked about what would happen if Varney and Kostaki happened to meet while in Romania before, but what would happen if they met in England while he's visiting Jane?
Summoned to the same vampire council by Floyd Dracula. Kostaki kills Floyd and drives away a mob that also showed up. Varney head over heels. They kiss
Later it turns out Rochester knows Varney; he's flabbergasted to find out he was a vampire the entire time. Next thing you're going to tell me that Parisian lady who was hosting the party we were both at is a vampire too, imagine!
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Carmilla and Dracula are the only classic canonical shape shifters? If so, it's surprising, because the folkoric vampires/strigoi/vukodlak shifted into certain animals, became mist, dust, shadow, or invisible presences that could press down on sleeping victims. Well, if Dracula gets to fly then she should too.
They're not the only ones, but the ability is surprisingly rare. Heira from The Vampire of Vourla can transform into a bat. Sava Savanovič from After Ninety Years takes the form of a butterfly; he's also a folklore vampire, so that's hardly surprising. Azzo from The Mysterious Stranger can turn into mist, or so I've heard; I still have yet to read that one. Most unexpectedly, it's implied at one point that the unnamed Hungarian nobleman from Varney the Vampire (Floyd Dracula on this blog) can take the form of a giant toad. You could probably also count whatever Alinska is doing to invisibly hit people, destroy letters, and feed on Helene as an "invisible presence", although it's never fully explained what that power is or how it works.
One of the ways to detect a vampire in folklore is to lead a black horse through a graveyard; if the horse refuses to pass over a grave, the grave contains a vampire.
Floyd Dracula canonically rides a black horse.
This thought spun out of control and gave rise to the following unhinged idea: Floyd's horse is a trained vampire hunting horse that he stole. The horse, having found a vampire more successfully than any other horse to date, is now frantically planning step 2: Kill the vampire. Floyd, oblivious, is convinced the two of them are fast friends. The horse has tried to kill him multiple times.
Alas, it's hard to wield a stake with hooves, and trampling is not a known method of vampire slaying. If only it could communicate its desire to a handy human...
... Then I realized, wait, I DO know an 18th century fictional character who talks to horses.
Aside from Varney/Charles, are there any other relationships (romantic, qpr, platonic, other) that you think have potential for expanding into something interesting?
Ohhhh this ask is pure catnip to me. Thank you for sending this in I'm going to be thinking about this so hard.
I've already talked some about the grifter4grifter potential that is Varney and Margaret Meredith, but that's a silly example and I have more serious ones.
Varney/Marmaduke. I have canon evidence of this one. I'm in the process of exploring it in Man of the House, which is stalled at the moment while I figure out where on Earth the plot of it is going, but once I do then so help me God I WILL write that tragic toxic vampire yaoi.
Henry/Varney. I think this one is almost completely one-sided; it adds something to Henry's character as a guy who is just the MOST out of his depth anyone has ever been if he also develops a crush on the vampire harassing his family. And Varney finds it incredibly entertaining; he eggs it on, fans that little flame just to see how big it can get. I've written fic about this too, it's Chapter 1 of Varney the Vampire Bites Everybody.
Whatever the hell is going on between Varney and Floyd. There's almost not enough of it to even speculate. They're cordial to one another in the vampire council scene, but then in Anderbury Floyd attempts to sucker up to Varney for money and Varney murders him. I need to know more. Were they ever friends. Do they hate each other. What is their deal.
For the lesbians out there Flora interacts with exactly one (1) female character who isn't her mother, and it's Helen Richardson from Anderbury. They become friends. I'm afraid I can't tell you more than this because literally the entire relationship happens offscreen in a sort of epilogue to the Anderbury section, and then both of them vanish from the narrative and are never seen again.
...Sorry lesbians. This book is terrible with female characters. It's fine we'll just break free of the bounds of time (linear time is already not a thing in Varney the Vampire) and introduce her to Clara Crofton, who also has no personality but we don't CARE we don't CARE we're chucking the author out a window and boarding it up behind him. They can awkwardly bond about having their lives ruined by the same disaster man while Charles nurses Ringwood back to health in the background from his latest head injury.
How did I forget about VARNEY/BEVAN mein gott. Those old men need to fuck. Or at least tenderly kiss. Varney. Take a leaf out of Clarimonde's book and SEDUCE! THAT! PRIEST!
I'm not done yet. Putting more of these under a cut since they've got big spoilers for the Varney summaries
Varney and Marchdale. Whatever they've got going on could be fascinating. (I say "could be" because in practice Marchdale is a cartoon villain and Varney is a different kind of cartoon villain, and their relationship has zero depth.) I've expanded on their whole Deal a bit in blood, sweat, and tears (god I've referenced so many of my own fics in this post. I guess that's not surprising, most of the relationships I'm interested in are ones I've written about) where I have Marchdale In It For The Immortality and Varney playing along with him because he'll wade through fire for anyone who learns about the vampirism and still treats him like a person.
On that note, Mrs. Bannerworth and the chaotic triangle of men in her life. Listen to me. Mrs. B married Marmaduke, but Marchdale courted Mrs. B when they were younger, and they were close enough that he moved into her house when Marmaduke died. Then a Goddamn Vampire arrives on the scene, menaces them for a while, and then Marchdale betrays her family for the Goddamn Vampire. To the point of attempting to kill her daughter's fiance. AND THEN. SHE LEARNS. THE GODDAMN VAMPIRE WAS FRIENDS WITH HER HUSBAND BACK IN THE DAY. they maybe fucked you can't prove they didn't. And now the Goddamn Vampire is friends with them, so really Marchdale betrayed them and died for nothing. What a goddamn STEW. Genuinely Mrs. B might have the most interesting perspective on the events of the story of any character in it, and James Misogyny Rymer makes her little more than set dressing. I'm going to raise him from the dead so I can re-kill him.
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I did not realize Floyd was based on an actual character in the book
@animate-mush He is! He's an Unnamed Hungarian Nobleman who shows up in town asking after Varney, makes no effort to disguise that he is a vampire, gets owned by Mrs. Chillingworth, gets shot by the innkeeper, and then floats down a river and out of the narrative without ever interacting with any of the main characters, including Varney. The author was evidently planning to do something with him and changed his mind.
He shows up in a later section and attempts to wheedle money out of Varney, and gets murdered for his trouble. At some point he also tries to bite a girl, and fails. He might be the only vampire worse at vampiring than Varney is.
He does have Toad Fashion, though. (Either he can shapeshift or he can give people nightmares about it)
