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REmake/REmodel: A Brand New Monster

Si Spurrier's instructions:

You know the score, of course. In the Byronic tradition: blood-supping aristocratic wronguns, scantily-clad virgins, power-over-mortals, etc. Switch in the odd cloud-of-smoke, an occasional kapoosh-now-it's-a-bat, maybe lose the aristocratic bit, add a quiff, give him an iPad, blah blah blah. It's still an inefficient leechpredator who creates his own foodchain competition, has a set of the worst Kryptonitealikes Evar, and probably has really really smelly poop. Vampires, when you think about it, are completely rubbish.

So let's make ourselves a new monster. Let's get rid of all the fluff, all the questionable traditions, all the pale-and-interesting emo wank and all the cloaks.

You will design for me a Creature who can live Among Us. We want a fiend who preys on the community in as creepy and unconventional a way as possible. Avoid obviousness – this isn't a guzzler-of-flesh, but a Stealer Of Power. Does it eat laughter? Ideas? Screams? Sexuality? What role in society would it take: this thinner-of-the-human herd?

Put away the folklore bibles. Don't even bother flumfing around on Wikipedia for foreign versions of the vampire trope. You will be original. You will be cunning and clever and sinister and awesome. And funny, if you like.

What does the SuckBeast of today – or, hey, tomorrow – look like?

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