Vamps the space Ranger summary so far

Today, one of you wrote to ask me about Vamps, thinking I was talking about myself in the third person 😂
I realized that if you've only been on my Patreon for a little while, you might not know about all my projects. So, I’ve decided to collect some information about her again. Remember, you can explore all of my Patreon by scrolling through the gallery (there’s a lot of content!) or using the tags and collections system to navigate posts by theme.

Let’s talk about Vamps.

Vamps the Space Ranger is my original character, a tribute to Barbarella and other stories of spicy space opera. Initially, she was just a galactic and retro sci-fi version of myself, created for my pinup and burlesque projects. Naturally, her name, Vamps, comes from my social media nickname, Vampisaurus. At first, I simply wanted a character whose name connected easily to my artistic identity but was fully centered on space-themed pinup and burlesque.

Over time, however, Vamps grew into much more than just my burlesque alter ego. She became a pulp character with her own stories. That led to questions like: why is this space-faring character called Vamps? Why does she have so many frequent spicy encounters during her space adventures? By answering these and other questions, I began crafting her backstory.

In shaping Vamps’ journey, I’ve had the help of some amazing artists and also subscribers who have helped me with scripts and new stories. Through collaborations and commissioned works, they’ve created comic-style covers featuring her, as well as illustrations, comic pages, and their own interpretations of my character.

What started as me sewing my own sci-fi costumes and taking pinup photos from time to time for Patreon has evolved into something much larger, a project I am very fond of. Vamps the Space Ranger developed her own identity, history, past, adventures, and goals. As a result, I shifted from creating only single pinup photos of her to producing photo-stories where I cosplay as Vamps.

These photo-stories are exclusive to my monthly rewards here on Patreon and are often ambitious projects that involve building props, designing studio sets, creating new costumes, and more. I continue to commission artists to design comic-style covers for the photo sets I create, and one day, I’d love to develop a full comicbook. I think many of the adventures I imagine for Vamps would work better in a dynamic and imaginative medium like comics than in studio photography where they have to be smaller and simpler adventures constrained by my skills and budget.

But let’s go with a bit of her backstory so far.
Vamps isn’t the character’s real name—it’s the nickname she has earned over time because she belongs to a species with psychic needs; although her kind are fed normally with regular food, they also need to fed their vital esence not just their bodies, like psychic vampires... However, this species is largely shunned and scattered across the known galaxy, outcasts in most systems. This is for two reasons: first, their ability to drain the life force of others isn’t exactly welcome in most planets; and second, their home planet has been lost to history for centuries. No one remembers where they come from... The few who remain are either criminals hired for their abilities or beggars lurking in crowded areas of densely populated planets, stealthily siphoning minuscule amounts of energy from passersby just to scrape by without drawing attention to themselves. Most of those who manage to reintegrate into society keep their true nature and origins a closely guarded secret... except for our protagonist Vamps.

Flipping the insult her kind often receives, she embraced her identity and turned it into her profesional name.
Vamps is a xeno-archaeologist and a ranger-for-hire. That means, for the right number of credits, she’ll venture into the perilous Outer Rim to retrieve a relic, accept contracts from museums (or black market) to recover stolen art, or track down an unidentified spaceship cargo for the highest bidder. She’s essentially a cross between Barbarella, Tomb Raider and Lifeforce.

Her true motivation for entering this peculiar line of work, however, lies in her search for a strange, ancient technology scattered across the galaxy. She believes it holds the key to the disappearance of her species’ homeworld centuries ago. Since no government seems to have answers about her people’s role in the galaxy—or how an entire planet could vanish a thousand years ago—she’s determined to find her own answers.

That’s the foundation for most of her adventures. But you might be wondering: how does this character end up as the protagonist of an erotic science fiction comic? Well Vamps has a unique curse, even among her kind. She can’t drain life force simply by being near other living beings (as the most powerful psychics of her species), nor through touch (like majority of her species). Instead, she can only drain and feed on sexual energy, functioning almost like a cosmic succubus. This strange power sometimes has to become her last resort when all hope is lost, as every intimate encounter leaves her especially revitalized and empowered.

And yep, that's the premise on how her space misadventures often take some wildly erotic turns!

If you have any questions or suggestions about this character, remember there’s a dedicated chat here on Patreon where you can ask anything you’d like. Today, I’m sharing some incredible artwork that talented artists have created featuring Vamps and another day I will share some of my favorite photos (my Vamps pinup style photos are shared in my Pin-Up tiers and the full photo-stories I create are exclusive content for my Xeno Warrior and up tiers).
Thanks for reading til here! 😘