redwinter101 wrote: What a lovely comment, alle. I do have answers to some of those questions (swilling around in my head somewhere) but not all, as this really did just come about as a stand alone without too much thought as to how Coraline got here or where she went afterwards. I really wish I had more ideas for Coraline's backstory but they just aren't coming to me at the moment.
Someone pointed out to me after reading this months ago that Morgan had lots of photos of churches on her desk and on her computer; I'd never spotted that so it did give me a little thrill that her fascination with all things religious was so in line with canon.
Red
You just channel her, Red... One of these days you'll get a new story for her... it'll come to you like this one did... cause you channel her...
And that church thing was one of the cool things about Moonlight... the priest was a vamp, Mick went to the church and made that comment about the complicated history of vamps and religion... I love how they got rid of that crucifixes kill vamp thing and the vamps can't go onto "holy" ground thing... which again just makes this story sing... cause of course she'd go to churches... they were the performance halls and art museums and social centers and power displays of Europe back in the day...and Coraline doesn't sit on the sidelines.