An odd late night thought
Jan. 19th, 2005 12:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienApropos of nothing in particular, it strikes me that there are certain similarities between Aras in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
karentraviss's City of Pearl and Constantine in Robin McKinley's Sunshine. They're both inhuman but at least somewhat human-friendly compared to others of their kind, powerful and scary and graceful and possessed of long, violent pasts, and form some kind of bond with the female, human protagonist. For that matter, they both have incurable, communicable conditions that make them effectively immortal, though Con was human to start with and has become less so, while alien Aras has moved closer to humanity. On the other hand, Aras would presumably be horrified by Con's obligate diet!
karentraviss, would you care to comment? Might there be vampires somewhere in c'naatat's story-ancestry, or am I completely off-base? Please feel free to ignore me if you'd rather not discuss it.
karentraviss's City of Pearl and Constantine in Robin McKinley's Sunshine. They're both inhuman but at least somewhat human-friendly compared to others of their kind, powerful and scary and graceful and possessed of long, violent pasts, and form some kind of bond with the female, human protagonist. For that matter, they both have incurable, communicable conditions that make them effectively immortal, though Con was human to start with and has become less so, while alien Aras has moved closer to humanity. On the other hand, Aras would presumably be horrified by Con's obligate diet!karentraviss, would you care to comment? Might there be vampires somewhere in c'naatat's story-ancestry, or am I completely off-base? Please feel free to ignore me if you'd rather not discuss it.