My favorite time of the day is when I wake up from an overly elaborate dream and then find my mind racing through a variety of thoughts.

This morning, I had a dream about daywalker vampires gathering to celebrate the worldwide lord of all vampires.  Unfortunately, he was unable to be there, so his second in command (largely considered an eccentric undead dude) took over for the festivities.  This allowed an opening for a renegade faction, which included the #1 vamp’s mom, to penetrate the grounds and go after #2.

I woke up from that and imagined a story in which vampires had finally conquered the Earth.  It seems to me that nearly any story about vampires ends up having somebody that stops them from ruling humanity but also has any number of living humans who aspire to be vampires.  So what happens in a world where vampirism is the dominant state?  Would there exist a sub-culture of people who eventually declare their individuality by harkening back to imagery of a brighter world?

Specifically, I imagined a group of anti-goths called the Waukees, named for the city of Milwaukee, setting of Happy Days.  Hundreds of years from now, the visions of bright 50’s americana would be as counter-culture as the visions of darkness and isolation that drive counter-culture today.  In a dark world, what would be more jarring than to see people patterning themselves after Richie Cunningham?