Beth Winter

The last batch of the request drabbles from two weeks ago, though fyrie's turned into something much closer to a full story. I still owe Van Helsing to two people, and am still working on it. Incidentally, it's not that I haven't been writing fiction lately: I have, but it's a long Tanz der Vampire series that will need to be posted (and read) in order, and is still missing the first two installments.

For azarias: Bruce Wayne as a Jedi Sith apprentice. Part of the Will to Act verse.

( Truth and the Bat, 200 words )


For fyrie, Viktor from Underworld meets Draculea. Incidentally, apart from another drabble where Draculea muscled in while it was supposed to be VH!Vlad, this is the first formal posted outing of Draculea, also known as my historical!vampire!Dracula.

( For all the Sultan's gold, 670 words )

Also known as: Excuse me? What's the Doom rip-off doing in my vampire movie?

Meh. It's still visually über-pretty (the eyes!) and has some extremely cool moments, many of them courtesy of Derek Jacobi. I'm also glad to see that they kept true to the form and didn't put in gratuituous dialogue and exposition. Cool, but not the OMGCheesyLove that Underworld was for me.

The interesting thing is that from previews and interviews I expected something much different. People kept mentioning the semi-prequel character of the movie, the abundance of flashbacks that was somehow reduced to one ten-minute opening sequence and several disjointed scenes, and finally there were people on the cast list that I didn't see in the movie at all - especially Sophia Myles (Erika, the blonde who was after Kraven). Post-production cuts? Bah humbug.

I wanted more. I wanted Lucian and Sonya, Amelia explained, Viktor offering immortality to Selene, Kraven meeting Selene and falling in love with her. Instead I got a slasher movie, and not in the boy-love sense of the word.

I guess that's what fanfic is for, right? Too bad that I never seem to find good Underworld fic.

Selene, Kraven, Lucian: OUT of my head. I MEAN it. No, not even if you pout.