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MEME: Most Wanted

Darrow's Most Wanted list is a constant work in progress, and one which isn't complete at present. This meme is your opportunity to add to it in a more detailed manner.

Comment to this post with the names and canons of characters you would especially like to see in the City. Whether you're simply listing or you're posting extensive essays complete with pictorial evidence (gifs) of why these characters need to be apped, anything goes. The more, the merrier!

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Selfishly, I'd love pups from Gideon's canon - specifically John/God, any of the Lyctors, and either terrible Tridentarius. Gideon would have very mixed feelings XD

This bad bitch:

Claudia, from the AMC TV series, Interview with the Vampire. And all of the horror and complications that she will bring with her.

J has literally only one other person in his canon and we don't wanna see that fucker (though hey if you wanna watch the crazy musical and do some kind of cathartic temp plot, that is a-okay by me), so let's take a look at Shion's canon instead — Dark Moon: The Blood Altar.

tl:dr; Shion's canon is a web comic about seven seemingly young men who are sports stars in their high school except actually they're like 200+ year old vampires. They have spent almost none of that time in high school, to be clear, they're on a mission. And, okay, the plot of this webtoon revolves around a new transfer to the school who is an actual teenage girl and the mysterious pull they all feel towards her (though only the eldest is shown to have actual romantic feelings for her) and them unraveling some major secrets of their past, so a lot of it is fairly typical tropey stuff, but it's also surprisingly dark and the wider cast really helps to make it feel more balanced and also it's just fun.

I would be super happy with any of the brothers. I would, for that matter, be very happy with Sooha! I really enjoy her character. She's widely hated by the fandom, but that's not surprising, all things considered, and Shion is very, very fond of her. She's a teenage girl who's spent her whole life moving around and being worried people will hate her because she's unusually strong, which for some reason equals people think she's a vampire. Between that and her only childhood friend being killed by a vampire, she hates them, which is awkward.

Solon is the obvious first pick for who Shion would most like to see. Where Shion is sunshine bright and extroverted, Solon is awkward, introverted, and grumpy. He comes across as gruff and uninterested in befriending other people, but that cold, calm exterior hides how tumultuous his emotions actually are and how much of himself he tries to protect by not talking about it. As the only member of the group who isn't just a vampire — he's a hybrid, which he's mostly hidden for centuries, and has a lot of conflicting feelings about it — he tends to feel insecure and like an outsider. He and Shion bicker like they need it to breathe and Shion misses him desperately. Whole lotta subtext there.

Everyone else is tied. Jaan (pronounced "Ian") has super strength, beyond the other boys, and an outgoing nature — a little blunt, but kind and fun and sturdy, his brothers' protector. He was one of the first to warm to Sooha, despite all of them knowing they should keep their distance from people outside the group. Jino isn't just warm, he's hot, as in he can literally make and manipulate fire. He's also charming as hell, sweet and fun-loving and almost as mischievous as Shion. Heli is the eldest and he was the first of them to arrive at Vamfield House when they were actual children. He's steady, calm, strategic. Though he comes across incredibly warm-hearted, like Shion, he tends to keep himself somewhat detached from people until he meets Sooha. His whole focus is keeping his family safe and finding out the truth of their past. His power is telepathy, though he's worked hard to avoid reading people's minds by accident.

Noa is the youngest member and has always been very solemn, even as a tiny child. He didn't talk much when he was little, and he still doesn't, so most people don't see how playful he can be or how intensely he cares about people. Jakah is his favorite partner in crime, but Shion is so devoted to him. Even though he's hardly older than Noa, as far as they can tell, he sees himself as Noa's protector. His ability to manipulate shadows — to envelop himself in them, to shape them, even to use them as weapons — also allows him to hide himself easily when he's overwhelmed or struggling.

Jakah, meanwhile, doesn't need or want protecting. Of the seven Vamfield boys, he's the one who's best at strategizing in the coldest possible manner, capable of keeping his emotions out of it almost entirely. When he's not planning for their personal battles, he's planning for ones on the Nightball field. He might actually be the most competitive of them, which is saying something. But when he's done working, he's all play, as fiercely competitive for fun as he is in everything else. His ability is super speed — to the point that he may or may not actually be able to manipulate time this is a comic book stay with me here okay.

Though Blood Altar doesn't linger super long on any of them aside from Heli and Sooha, we get some really interesting snapshots of their personalities that made me want to know them better. The new prequel series, Children of Vamfield, focuses on the seven and has really fleshed out who they are in ways that make sense as both continuation of and precursor to the original series. For more characterization, there are the webnovels, only one of which is currently available in English. All in all, it's a really fun series that proved way more intriguing and well-written (and drawn!) than I anticipated when I first started it. I read a little out of curiosity and then got completely sucked in.

All episodes of the comics are available via the Webtoons app/site (although I may have other sources for Blood Altar, hit me up), and Blood Altar is now considered complete, so no waiting for new issues with that! We've got drama and comedy, we've got shenanigans and death, we've got reincarnation and superpowers and homoerotic subtext! There's a soundtrack that goes way harder than a comic book soundtrack needs to, and if you even just read a little, you will make me very happy, but if you bring me a vampy boy (or non-vampy girl!), you will make me even happier still, and I will sit here making puppy eyes until then, thank you.