A New Life - fan fiction by metoo

Submitted by metoo on Thu, 02/24/2011 - 07:51

After the first series of fan fiction, of which this is the root page, I started a second series: A darker take

Finally, I published a third series, which had no name but started with a story called Blackeberg 1981

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This is a root page for the first series of fan fiction I've published on this site.

I have ordered the individual texts/pages in an approximate internal chronological order, with the English translations here and then the Swedish original texts below a separate page. Thus, it should be possible to read all in one go, by just clicking the forward links provided on each page.

The Universe of Let the Right One In

Any fiction needs a set of rules, a universe, as a background against which events can evolve. The set of rules should be well defined, otherwise credibility is lost. Here is what I regard the rules to be for Let the Right One In.
    The world is constrained almost entirely by natural laws, which all people and creatures obey.
    There is one, single addition: Vampires exist. Vampires are magical creatures, but the magic is very limited, namely:
    Vampires feed on blood, obtained from a living human being. Apparently such blood contains an essence of life which is required to keep a vampire alive. This essence of life evaporates quickly, thus the blood used for blood transfusions in hospitals have no nutritional value. Animal blood is useless; presumably animal essence of life is incompatible with a human vampire. The volume of blood needed is quite large, too large for a single human being to provide for even a child vampire such as Eli (without being killed).
    Vampires need to be explicitly invited into spaces occupied by human beings. If they enter without invitation, they die (the blood, i.e. the essence of life, leaks out of their bodies).
    Vampires have supernatural strength and heal exceedingly fast, but they are not supernaturally resilient to physical damage and they are certainly not invulnerable.
    Vampire bodies change in a supernatural way depending on their health.
    Vampires can change their bodies at will.
    Additionally, vampirism is contagious, it contaminates through blood, but not through saliva. Vampirism is also spread through being bitten by a vampire. This may be no additional rule to the previous one, if we presume that producing vampire teeth cause the gums to bleed.
    The centre of the fully developed vampire parasite/co-entity resides in the heart. To develop, this co-entity needs to communicate with an intact (alive?) human brain. If the neck is thoroughly severed, this will not happen. If the brain is accessible, but badly damaged, a vampire will not develop, but the body will still revive, becoming a zombie that is controlled by whatever urge that dominated the mind of the person when alive.
    Vampires don’t sleep, they rest; the resting state being similar to hibernation. Additionally, vampires alternate living and resting, each period lasting a few to several months.

The Universe of My Fan Fiction

I believe an essential quality of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s work is that he makes just tiny deviations from the reality were we all live our daily lives. This enhances the contrast, and increases the weirdness and horror of the events that unfold in his books. Less is more.
    I’ve tried to set my fan fiction in the universe that John Ajvide Lindqvist invented for his novel Let the Right One In. I’ve wanted to avoid adding any magic or supernatural properties that isn’t explicitly described in the novel.
    Regarding my exercise about Eli’s wings, I wanted to see to what extent his flying could be explained by natural means. I was actually surprised when I found the math adding up, I had expected reasonably realistic wings to need to be too large to fit the novel.
    Anyway, I haven’t added much, and the stuff I add tend to add further restrictions on vampire life rather than the other way around. All for the reasons stated in the first paragraph above.