I have a vampire story question.
Clearly, in Buffy, people whose destiny it was to kill vampires are capitalised Slayers. In Supernatural, people can choose to hunt, and in my head, they are lower-case hunters. From what I'm getting of TVD, we're talking capital letters again, so Hunters.
What other anti-vampire/supernatural fighter titles are there in the fiction? I'm trying to remember that pallid English Buffy genderswap ripoff--that was a title sort of a thing, right? What noun/verb did they use?
Well, there's Grimm . . .
I don't watch Grimm. What noun/verb do they use?
They're 'Grimms'. Of course, most of us who watch the show want to call it Monroe.
Slade!
On Arrow? (I had no Arrow W&P commentary this week. But let me just say how much I hate Laurel's makeup, particularly her tarantula eyelashes.)
Still enjoying Arrow, though. Hoping for lots more Deathstroke in the future.
pallid English Buffy genderswap ripoff.
Demons? I know they used the word "Smite" a lot.
On Arrow?
Yep. I also liked the throwaway line Laurel said about looking silly in fishnets.
I've seen Helsings and Van Helsings in vampire fictions (god, don't ask me where in fiction), but even in a lot of urban fantasy, there's a LOT of H(h)unters or S(s)layers.
Which OT1H, annoys me, but OTOH, unless you have a NAME for your supernatural slaying society as an author, the synomyms are...not great:
hunter: chaser, huntsman, pursuant, pursuer, sportsman, stalker, trapper, assassin, butcher, cut-throat, executioner, exterminator, gunman/woman, gunperson, hit person, hit-man/woman, slayer, soldier
slayer: assassin, butcher, criminal, cutthroat, enforcer, executioner, hit person, hit-and-run, homicide, killer, manslaughterer, manslayer, massacrer, murderess, perpetrator, slaughterer, soldier, trigger person, triggerman
Although a few would work, and I am pretty convulsed with laughter with Dean and Same being the "Massacre-ers," it's just so awkward to say!
And Anita Blake ruined "The Executioner" IMHO fiction-wise. BLEARGH.
Yep. I also liked the throwaway line Laurel said about looking silly in fishnets.
Yeah, that made me laugh.
