Help with my urban fantasy plot

[snowynight]

This's a urban fantasy setting set in recent day New York, with supernaturals such as faerie and mages.
There're three main characters, a social worker suddenly can see the supernaturals, a college student with faerie heritage and a mage who's also a hacker. Right now  it has two main plotlines: different vampires who compete with each other to be the prince of New York, and two factions of mages are in a magical equivalent of nuclear race. However, I can't find a way to connect them. I think of eliminating the vampire plot, but I really like the idea of vampires as a common enemy to bind my main characters together. It also allows me to have a vampire as an unreliable ally who sometimes gets my characters into trouble for his purpose, so I'd prefer to make the vampire plot a bit larger. So help?

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[lynnoconnacht]

*nods* Okay. So you've actually already got a connection between your two plots. It's just a bit tenuous.

You're saying he poses as a vigilante, so I'm going to assume that also involves him actively saving people. He could (and probably would) use that to his advantage? Actions speak louder than words and all that. If he can't make them believe he's on their side because he's saying it, he could try and orchestrate for them to see his claims getting backed up. (Or, y'know, it could be random luck, but that kind of thing.)

Would that help any? (Sorry. I'm a bit pressed for time, so please do let me know if I'm not entirely clear. in what I'm asking and I'll try and explain better. ^-^)

[snowynight]

Thank you. It's very helpful. My vampire is getting good rep among the public for his vigilante act and I now can see that it's something he can use to his advantage. I can now work on it.

[lynnoconnacht]

I'm glad it's helpful. ^-^ If he's getting good rep among the general public, one of (or all of) your other main characters might also come to suspect he's not all he appears to be and that could intrigue them enough to seek out your vampire to see if he's willing to help their side instead of the other way around. If that works with your plot, that would actually make it a stronger one because then both sides would actively be seeking something from the other.

ysabetwordsmith makes a good point, though. If they're in the same area, they'll be competing for similar resources. Even if they can easily keep to themselves (NY is BIG, after all), they'll have heard rumours and stories of other supernatural acts, possibly even groups, in the city. All things you can use to your advantage in drawing your characters together, though!