skinchangers versus bloodsuckers

[coraa]

This came up in someone else's LJ a few weeks back, but alas, I cannot remember who or where. Nonetheless....

To those of you who read such things (or watch them, TV or movies are fine too): can you think of any books where there's a love triangle involving a vampire, a werewolf and the protagonist where the protagonist ultimately chooses the werewolf? I can think of several examples offhand of such a triangle where the protagonist chooses the vampire, but not the werewolf. (I deliberately don't specify what species is the protagonist, because I don't really care whether it's a human or a fairy or a were-elephant doing the choosing... though if the protagonist isn't human, it'd be interesting to know that too.)

Hell, even if the love triangle is in the background -- can you think of any? Or even any books that include both humanlike vampires and werewolves where the protagonist ends up with a werewolf, regardless of whether there's a love triangle involved? (Obviously if it's a choice between werewolves and nonsentient sluglike beings that happen to suck blood, that's not much of a choice.)

(If the protagonist winds up on her own, with no love interest at all, that'd be interesting to know too, but since the werewolves vs. vampires thing tends to come up in supernatural romance, I'm not expecting as much of that.)

I'm curious. I'm a werwolf fan myself, but it seems like main characters really like the bloodsuckers.

EDIT: Comments have spoilers for various things, including but not limited to the Mercy Thompson series, the Discworld novels, and Harry Potter.

Comments

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wonder. It does seem that vampires wind up dominant over shapeshifters, and that might have something to do with it. Also the fact that it seems much more frequent (to me) that vampires are coded sexy: it's really not infrequent in my experience that people become more attractive when they get vampired in books (explicitly so - pores closing up, skin tone smoothing out, losing weight, etc), but not so much so when they get werewolfed; the bite of a vampire is often coded in sensual or pleasurable terms, whereas the bite of a werewolf is much more often pursued-by-ravening-hellbeast and not very pleasant even when the werewolf is a good person.

Of course, it's sort of chicken-and-egg. Do vampires win out because they're sexier (or more dominant), or are they allowed to be sexier (or more dominant) because they're going to wind up with the protagonist?