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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?
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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My vampire can fight for political power and territory with the mages faction in upper hand. This may give him an incentive to find out what the mages are up to. I just need to think more about how they can use my characters as pawns.
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Front companies. Bundlers -- people who solicit donations and then compile them for a political candidate. Anyone who fits a demographic different from the candidate's own -- so a male candidate might want a woman to hustle the League of Women Voters, etc.
Don't overlook good old gerrymandering and other political shenanigans. The mages will have the advantage in traditional techniques such as lobbying in government offices, which run primarily during daytime hours. Vampires will have the advantage in nightlife and other under-the-table scenes that run after hours; they may also have more money. And if vampires do have more money, they're likely backing the "money is free speech" movement while the mages are fighting to tear it down and put more control with individual voters again.