Can animals be turned into Strigoi?
I just had a thought - can animals be turned into Strigoi?
We know the basic process of becoming Strigoi: either a Moroi kills a person during feeding, or a Strigoi drinks a person's blood and then has the victim drink Strigoi blood. The latter is doable with an animal.
We also know that becoming a Strigoi means that a person loses their soul (or at least becomes detached from it, since restored Strigoi are able to get their souls back). Which brings us to the question of:
Do animals have souls to lose?
According to Vampire Academy's own lore, the answer is yes. To be shadow kissed means that one's soul has passed over to the other side (whatever that may be) and has been brought back. The person's soul has been "kissed by shadows", leaving a …
How did Tatiana become queen?
So we all know that there are a few errors and inconsistencies in the VA series (e.g. several references to Rose punching Jesse in Book 1, Jill's element changing from air to water, Mikhail Tanner's name being changed for no reason in some editions of Book 5, etc). And while it can be a little frustrating and jarring to see these mistakes, I'm more than willing to put up with them for the sake of how great the story is, and I'm sure many others are in the same boat as me.
One error/inconsistency that I've just realised and that is kind of getting to me is about Tatiana, and how the hell she became queen.
So we know that the title of Prince/Princess is reserved for the oldest in each of the 12 royal families, and it is generally that person w…
A theory about spirit and compulsion
So I'm in the midst of writing a VA fanfiction and was thinking about some stuff about compulsion, and I had a bit of an epiphany.
All Moroi have a low level of control over the four elements (air, earth, fire, water) until one of their abilities spike, and they call that specialising. People who specialise in spirit where originally considered to have not specialised at all, because while they had a higher than average control over all elements, none of them spiked. Additionally, all Moroi have some ability to do compulsion, with some being better at it than others, and spirit users are particularly good at it.
So here's my theory:
What if all Moroi have some control over all five elements (air, earth, fire, water and spirit), but only the rare…