ooooh! i feel like both those ideas are so interesting 👀 i feel like it would depend on how you'd want to go with santana's character, like where she's at, emotionally, rn. is she looking for escape, a change? because vampirism is a huge one, and it's a plunge into a whole new world. depending on your sense of her character, maybe she's actually unprepared for such a huge change, for the maker/progeny bond, etc.? i feel like that's a natural conflict that would arise. whereas, i think the idea with her mother is less about escapism, more about a sort of, organic exploration? and it would take her down a different path, where the conflict or emotions, should they arise, would be more internal to her, and more of a story about coping with and processing her mother's death, and the sense of realizing that her mother had this whole inner, private life that she didn't know about.
either way katharina will be here and i'd be happy to offer her as a connection in some way ❤️ she is quite a weird noodle and has never fully integrated into human society so she's like "ah yes, i am on the Tiktok, i perceive that your instagrams are trying to communicate to me but i do not know what 'filters' are," etc. she is also moderately evil and is like this at the idea of santana wanting to be turned LMAO but either way you go we can figure something out!