The time is modern day. Characters will be translated from their 1830's identities, except Orlok. The setting is yet to be worked out, but whatever the case, there will not be an emphasis on a specific location. It is a normal city and suburb, and Hutter and Ellen live in an upper-middle class neighborhood, although their house is modest compared to some. Across the street from them is a house which hasn't been sold in a long time because of ghost rumors. It's similar in style to the Salzspeicher. This is where Orlok moves.

He is the Nosferatu. He has come to the city to drink blood to his heart's content, and has nothing in his “home” besides a coffin with dirt in it. The things he likes most in the world are blood and women. He will eat anyone if he's hungry, but he tends to spend extra time creeping women out by following them or watching them through windows. He sometimes tries to think of new ways to get them to spend more time with him, specifically Ellen. However, it's important to know that he isn't ultra-dedicated because he hasn't the braincells to care about anything as much as he does his sustenance. When he's at his house, he mostly stares at Ellen and Hutter's house, especially at Ellen's bedroom window. Eventually he buys a dining table and some armchairs. He can sit perfectly still for hours like a spider on the wall. He waits for Ellen to come home from work. Aside to that, there's someone close to being upstairs, but they're not quite there. Orlok seems to have some interest in mirroring the humans, but he misunderstands nearly everything there is to know.

Although Ellen is not a cuckoo's egg, she feels like one because she's around too many “normies”. She lacks her husband's charisma and people often ask her to repeat things. She's never been able to make good friends with another woman, and both her parents died only a few years ago, so she can be rather clingy to Hutter (if he deserves it.) She has a darker fashion sense than her peers and gets mistaken for Goth all of the time, or a witch. Her job is (I don't know yet), but it is nothing meaningful to her. In her free time, she's part of a book club and she likes to create with fabric (clothes, blankets, bags.) She's a bit cloudy on the outside; people don't always know if they've pissed her off, or if she's happy with them. Ellen can be quite passive and non-confrontational. Orlok brings out a side of her that is extremely different than usual because she must hit him over the head with honesty if she wants to preserve herself. It turns out that sometimes she wants to rip her hair out, or someone else's.

Hutter's that guy you knew in high school, who was kind of an idiot, but he was always so nice to you so you never had the heart to call him a popular asshole. Things just seem to go swimmingly for him. Although his wife has a number of rainy days, he seems to have hit a groundswell of good luck. His parents paid him through college, he makes decent money, and he doesn't ever get cavities, even though his diet is as bad as a college frat boy's. His hobbies include TV and camping, both of which Ellen hates, but he can also make fun out of nothing and sometimes comes up with weird ways to entertain her, like building forts with the couch cushions or proposing a water-gun fight. He wishes Ellen would cook dinner every night because it's “so good”, but most of the time he improvises with cereals, waffles, and Hungry Mans. Despite his flaws at home, he tries to be professional at his career. He likes to bring paperwork into bed when Ellen isn't in the mood, and his phone always rings at the wrong moment. Every few minutes, he promises he'll be back in a few minutes, but he really is guilty when he has to ignore Ellen. He likes to pretend he's the whole package, but he knows deep down that he would run away from a fight and would prefer if his hair stayed fluffed.

This couple is struggling a little. They were friends as adolescents, then they fell in love and got married. Although they care deeply for each other, they don't have a lot in common and are more of a story of opposites attracting. Both have different circles of friends/lifestyles and different interests. While Hutter is very positive and forward thinking about all of this, Ellen can't help but realize that no matter what happens she feels alienated and awkward whenever they make a compromise on how to spend an evening, and she can only imagine that deep down Hutter feels the same in the opposite situation, try as he may to pretend otherwise. That said, Ellen is attracted to his sweetness and the very behavior that can also get on her nerves – his vigor and sometimes rashness. It can either make or break an evening; either create a spontaneous romantic experience between the two, or make Ellen walk out of the room in frustration. When they're having an issue, Ellen tends to sink into herself, take bubble baths, write poetry, or go on walks. Hutter would prefer it if Ellen were a little more straight-forward about what it is she wants out of him, but Ellen feels he should have better intuition if he's really her soul-mate. He doesn't seem to ever “get” her even though they work on “communication”. Ellen sometimes treats Hutter like she's his mom, wondering if he's thought about if a situation is safe or reasonable. He likes being waited on and taken care of, but sometimes he wishes she thought he was a little smarter.

...Is not one that they see eye-to-eye on, and neither can be negotiated out of their position. Orlok does not really care that women don't want him – he has an elementary understanding of the mind, but focuses on his ability to control the physical world, so if he can bring a woman to him, he feels he's succeeded. Orlok isn't always near Ellen, but he invades her dreams and makes proposals to her in her sleep. She is in a constant state of unrest because of him, sometimes preferring to stay up late instead of surrender to the contaminated subconscious that awaits her. She does not have any interest in vampires and thinks Orlok needs to be killed, she just spends much of the series unaware of how that could be done. Despite that she adamantly feels this and does not try to hide it at all, Orlok likes to have her company and is a tiny bit amused by her torture. All of their interactions are initiated by him, who first wants simply to stare at her before killing her but is then convinced that he is in love and that Ellen will be coaxed to submission. Because she's building up a tolerance, his attempts to incite dark emotions in her (particularly lust) don't work nearly to their worst degree. Unfortunately, he does waver her a little and she has to deal with the horribly peculiar force that surrounds him. But, mostly, Orlok wants to exercise on her his very bizarre “shadow sexuality” (what is left being that he is undead and now a monster), until – she fears, and he does not deny is possible – he gets bored and kills her for that oh-so-delicious blood.

Hutter thinks maybe if he ignores the vampire that he will go away. He knows he sold him the house across the street, and they feel his presence whenever he's in the neighborhood, but Orlok very sneakily spends time with Hutter's wife, so he doesn't know at first that he's harassing her. The thing is, Hutter is kind of a wimp. He is not particularly willing to confront Orlok and instead tries to use Ellen as a mediator. All of his interactions with Orlok end in Hutter being very uncomfortable. He doesn't think Orlok has good manners, good taste, good thoughts, good anything, but eventually, despite the fact that he and Ellen talk openly about this horrible creature living nearby, Orlok's control over Ellen to some degree makes Hutter question her faithfulness because he does not understand she is his victim. When Orlok learns he's creating a rift between them, he starts to find more ways to make Hutter feel inadequate. He isn't really capable of respect, so he basically just ignores him in the meantime, despite the fact that they have met and he has almost fed on him before. That memory gives Hutter the shivers. Orlok seriously considers killing him during the series, but Ellen keeps making negotiations. In the end, she runs out of ideas.