Ideas for a series of stories

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Some time ago, I had this idea for a series of sci-fi stories. It was somewhat inspired by Anne Rice - I chose to make my characters immortal, except they're not vampires but an immortal race of my own creation. My two characters used to have traits similar to Rice's Lestat and Gabrielle, too, but by now both of them have become something entirely "mine".

The stories take place on another planet people have colonized, where history has long been going its own way. The main character, Bertrand, 21 when made into an immortal, is the son of a nobleman who grows up with an extraordinary passion for wildlife and resolves to become a biologist even though all his family, except his mother, object to it. I guess I ended up giving him both AS and ADHD. He’s bouncy and exuberant, and loves socializing but doesn't quite know how to do it, so he keeps getting into embarrassing situations. He’s drawn to social events but gets disoriented and drained by them easily; he’s also too candid, usually says whatever he thinks (uppity moods don’t help much either) and has a short temper. He dresses in the same simple, casual way and doesn’t care much about how he looks. As a child, he was terrible, what with bringing every spider, scorpion and snake in sight into the house, stuffing them in people’s faces and launching into long excited monologues about the characteristics of those animals. He's totally enchanted with just about everything about the animal kingdom, can spend hours lying on his belly studying the behavior of insects or examining interesting lichens, and devours books on biology by the dozen. In the forest, he feels perfect, and as much as he loves talking to people, it is there that he relaxes and is most himself.

His mother, Louise, is HFA and the type of person who doesn't like company at all; neither does she need it much. She’s also quite exuberant, but without being social, and so brutally honest she may come across as very harsh and blunt; she has retained a sort of childlike fascination with the world which she shares with Bertrand. She is as passionate about animals as her son and would rather be around them than people. Louise is a biologist and ends up practically living in the rainforest after she is changed into an immortal.

I want to put both of them in a sort of survival situation where they have to adjust as quickly and as much as they can – they come to a big city where Bertrand changes his name, starts work in a pet store and enrolls in university (biology naturally), then both of them are spotted by a scientist who wants human subject for an experiment, and get captured and changed into immortals. Some time after that, after the ruler of the immortals’ own state learns about them and starts feeling attracted to Bertrand, they are captured again and brought to her. Louise is allowed to go study animals in their natural habitat like she had always wanted to, Bertrand has to stay. He ends up being forced into a situation where he is given an implant that changes his personality and erases his memory, and made to kill a huge number of people. After the implant fails and he realizes what has happened to him, he is able to escape, but his memory never fully comes back and he becomes a lot more autistic than before. His old love of nature is what shows him the way out of his crisis and allows him to begin life all over again.

I’ve already started to work on it and it’s proving to be catharthic. It seems that whenever I start off writing sci-fi, or anything for that matter, it tends to become something overly reflexive and psychological, almost stream-of-consciousness, but I'm willing to go on all the same, because it lets me get so many things off my chest.

How does the idea sound to you?:)

You need killer mutant vampire ninja lesbians.

I already got that covered in my series, don't worry. Or at least, the a part-fairy-part-vampire-part-succubus bisexual gothic ninja-like Blood Goddess wearing revealing Victorian dresses while slicing up creatures that are practically half-zombie and half-Cthulhu.

It's actually a really depressing drama. Seriously.

Sounds marvelous, Veresae ! !! Send me a link ! !