Anne Rice style or the classic Dracula type back to the basics style?
it's really weird that vampires are considered really seductive when Dracula's methods of seduction were basically to cause terror and promise to only stop once you give into what he wants
Vampires in Dracula are comparable to a cop demanding you confess in exchange for being allowed to go home out of a days long interview room
Idk if you ever read the Anne Rice vampire books but they are incredibly horny.
Do you have that cool classic vampire accent?
You know, the whole De children ov de night, wat moosic dey make thing
How do you feel about What We Do In The Shadows?
Also can you tell the two vampires who stand at the end of my driveway that I'm not going to join their goth band?
vampire
obsessed with the thing that vampires avoid by feeding on the living
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6BPqhza60M
Umm acktchually vampires don't require human blood to survive as such. It's more of an addiction, where if they go too long without blood, they go into a frenzy and get killed by concerned citizens.
There are so many versions of the vampire lore, going back centuries, that what you say only applies to some of them and what I said only applies to some of them. Sometimes even sunlight doesn't harm them and just makes them sparkle because the writer is that obsessed with husbando power fantasies.
vampires as blood sucking thinking beings more or less is an invention of 18th century English gothic literature. Most of the elements you would recognise as being a vampire were made up wholecloth by Polidori. Like how orcs aren't from folklore and Tolkein made them up
the folk stories they are based on are more similar to zombie myths or ghouls than what we would recognise as vampires and seem to have been morality plays about the importance of properly burying dead family rather than leaving old corpses in your house. Although the detail that a vampires first victim is always the one they loved the most in the folklore is a pretty good dramatic touch
If you really want to dig that far back, vampires were supposed to be ugly. Bloated, discolored, grotesque like the corpses that were accused of being vampires hiding in their coffins.
Turning vampires into a Mary Sue power fantasy of beauty was a later contrivance, and a very annoying and tiresome one.
oh I agree. Like I pointed out elsewhere in the first stories vampires were seductive but by causing terror until their victim gives in. More like a cop using sleep deprivation to get a confession than a charming lover.
well if you think about it someone who bases their entire existence around avoiding a thing is obsessed with that thing
that's my bad I'm a contrarian at heart and it gets me into trouble sometimes
