REMMICK.

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SPOILERS AHEAD BOTH IN THIS SECTION & HIS BIOGRAPHY!! 

Obviously, since his canon only takes place during one single day/night, and he dies at the end of it, I am by default going to write Remmick pre the movie's timeline. I'm happy to do post-movie AUs where he survives.

biography.

In ancient times, across cultures, there was a common belief that some people (Filí in Irish, Firekeepers in Native American, Griots in African) could make music so true that it pierced the veil between life and death, conjuring up spirits from the past and the future. A gift that could bring healing to communities, but that also ran the risk of attracting evil.

Sometime in the 5th century, Remmick was part of a community in Ireland, when Christians started invading the country. Following the spread of the monotheistic religion and the theft of their lands, Remmick's community and its traditions disappeared. At some point, Remmick was turned into a vampire, his soul becoming stuck in his body, unable to rejoin his ancestors in death, cursed to walk the Earth which was filled with hate, and to never see a sunrise again. He spent many centuries afterwards trying to create a new community by turning people into monsters like him to achieve that goal, always on the lookout for one of those gifted musicians he had been told about growing up, wanting one to join his community in order to be able to see and connect with his own family again. At some point, he adopts an American accent to blend in better.

Centuries later, in 1932, Remmick was hunted by the local Choctaw community, who had discovered he was a vampire, and ran into a house where Joan and Bert, a couple involved in the local KKK chapter, resided. Desperate to escape the hunters and hide from the rising sun he already suffered severe burns from, he manipulated them into letting him hide with them. The men who had been hunting him tried to warn the couple of Remmick’s true nature, but the couple ignored them, and as the sun was starting to set, the men decided to return back to their community where it was safe. After the sun set, Remmick murdered the couple and turned them into vampires, and as a result they became part of a hivemind with him; sharing memories, sensations, emotions, with Remmick, as the first vampire, being the strongest. As such, Remmick's strong desire for a family, a community filled with love and kindness for one another was imprinted upon them. Meanwhile, Remmick learned of the Klan's plans to attack a juke joint that was being set up by the gangster twins, Smoke and Stack.

Deciding that he would save them from that fate by turning them into vampires and letting them become part of his vampire community, Remmick and the couple arrived at the Mississippi Delta where the twin brothers's juke joint was located. Whilst outside, Remmick heard their cousin, Sammie Moore, singing and playing his guitar, which made Remmick realize that he had finally come across a musician with the Gift, as Sammie seemed to be attracting spirits from both the past and the future whilst playing.

Offering money and music for entry, Remmick and the couple were denied an invitation by the twins. Reminding the twins that the bar needs the income, Mary, Stack's lover, met with Remmick outside where he subtly revealed his true age by handing her gold coins, before he turned her into another vampire. She returned inside, where she seduced Stack and then bit him. Smoke, walking in on them, shot her several times, but she was unharmed by the bullets and escaped, as Stack lay on the floor, bleeding out.

As the juke joint emptied after the shock of Stack's death, Remmick and his vampires ambushed and turned the departing patrons. Stack was revived as a vampire inside the joint, but Annie repelled him with pickled garlic juice, forcing him to flee. She then instructed the survivors: only silver or wooden stakes can kill vampires, and they cannot enter a building unless invited. As the survivors prepared themselves for an attack, Remmick and the vampires started singing Irish music and dancing to the tune. Remmick then attempted to negotiate, praising Sammie's supernatural talent, claiming that vampirism offers immortality, freedom, and escape from discrimination and racism, which he offered in exchange for Sammie using his skills to summon the spirits of Remmick's lost community, which Sammie considered accepting, but the other survivors held him back from stepping outside. Remmick also warned the survivors that Hogwood, who was secretly the Grand Dragon of the local Klan, planned to attack them at dawn. When the survivors nonetheless refused his offer, Remmick and Bo (Grace's husband that had been turned) confronted Grace, threatening to attack her daughter. In a desperate act of anger, Grace invited them into the juke joint, allowing them in. In the ensuing battle, Grace, Annie, and Delta Slim were killed, with Mary, devastated by Annie's death, as she fled the bar.

Smoke and Pearline helped Sammie escape the jukebox joint, with the latter dying in the process, but Remmick caught up to him. In a final confrontation, Sammie smashed his guitar over Remmick's head, before Smoke arrived just in time to kill him with a stake. As the sun rose, the vampire horde was incinerated, including Remmick himself who ended up engulfed in a tornado of flames.

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