Vampires, how should they be?
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yeah it does dude, i love the German accent, and besides, vampires should talk like where they are from, even if Germanyarchwiccan said:
For one they need to catch fire when exposed to sunlight and should have a need to feed. Also try not to make them twinkle or bore the hell out of a viewer to the point where he falls asleep during the movie.
Or soapy tit wanks. *Points to the game bloodlines*Dorian Cornelius Jasper said:
Pretty much that.
He did not make the original creature. Vampires have been around in eastern-european folklore for ages. Stoker merely created Dracula as a fictional vampire. And he existed anyway (but very unlike Stoker's)jhonka said:
Warning: Literary fag stuff ahead.
Vampires come from all over the world and, like the flood, every culture has its own version. But in general, vampires are the oppisite of you and me: we're alive, they're dead. They die in sunlight only because the sun is the typical symbol for the Christian God, and vampires are beyond salvation. Thats why European vampires are hurt by garlic (used in cerimonies and has cleansing properties), holy water (blessed by a priest) and silver crosses (another god symbol.)
I've been watching True Blood thanks to my roommate and I like what they did with it. All of the vampire hype lately seems like a few too many people with enough money to product books/comics/movies/shows went through some Vampire: The Masquerade rulebooks and picked out what they wanted and said, "THIS is what vampires are, goddammit!" All kind of silly if you ask me, but makes for some fun storytelling.
And since someone mentioned Vampire Hunter D, has anyone read the novels? They're lovely.
Vampires come from all over the world and, like the flood, every culture has its own version. But in general, vampires are the oppisite of you and me: we're alive, they're dead. They die in sunlight only because the sun is the typical symbol for the Christian God, and vampires are beyond salvation. Thats why European vampires are hurt by garlic (used in cerimonies and has cleansing properties), holy water (blessed by a priest) and silver crosses (another god symbol.)
I've been watching True Blood thanks to my roommate and I like what they did with it. All of the vampire hype lately seems like a few too many people with enough money to product books/comics/movies/shows went through some Vampire: The Masquerade rulebooks and picked out what they wanted and said, "THIS is what vampires are, goddammit!" All kind of silly if you ask me, but makes for some fun storytelling.
And since someone mentioned Vampire Hunter D, has anyone read the novels? They're lovely.
a vampire is someone with a mental sickness that has the pigment in their skin go really white! Then the sickness effects their brain. So they now have thoughts of consuming human blood. But they die just as easily with a bullet to the heart, lung, or brian.
little more on topic-Paul Askonas..... just ask him
little more on topic-Paul Askonas..... just ask him
Vampires are a woman's wet dream. I mean come on, they're pinnacle of the bad boy (prince of darkness and kills people to sustain itself) whose ways they are trying to change. The vampire somehow falls desperately in love with some girl, who they can't resist, despite themselves being men with dark powers to attract any woman without even trying (in addition to being perfectly formed), and undergo constant temptation and struggle in not trying to drink her blood. Women want a 'high quality' man with status, power, and will do anything for them- and that's the damned vampire. Seriously, I can't stand vampires. It's just so unrealistic.
I like the way they're portrayed in the Vampire: The Masquerade games (Based of a pen and paper game with the same name, from what I know), for some reason.
Some are living in harmony with humans (night-time, obviously), while others have no regard for humanity. Divided into clans, each with its own strength and weaknesses.
Their traits: Paler than humans, are clinically dead, got a body that can take a beating, regeneration, sharper senses. They're monsters, yes, but not all are downright terrible, despite being a monster.
Their weaknesses (as explained by "Jack" in Bloodlines):
"Forget that comic book crap, kid. Garlic, useless. A cross, shove it up their asses. A stake, only if it catches you in your heart, and even then it just paralyzes you. Running water, I bathe... occasionally. Now, a shotgun blast to the head, that's trouble, kid. Fire, that's real trouble. Sunlight, catch one sunrise and it's all over, kiddo."
Works for me, as long as it keeps away from Twilight's "Sparkhulz Vampire"
*Shiver*
Some are living in harmony with humans (night-time, obviously), while others have no regard for humanity. Divided into clans, each with its own strength and weaknesses.
Their traits: Paler than humans, are clinically dead, got a body that can take a beating, regeneration, sharper senses. They're monsters, yes, but not all are downright terrible, despite being a monster.
Their weaknesses (as explained by "Jack" in Bloodlines):
"Forget that comic book crap, kid. Garlic, useless. A cross, shove it up their asses. A stake, only if it catches you in your heart, and even then it just paralyzes you. Running water, I bathe... occasionally. Now, a shotgun blast to the head, that's trouble, kid. Fire, that's real trouble. Sunlight, catch one sunrise and it's all over, kiddo."
Works for me, as long as it keeps away from Twilight's "Sparkhulz Vampire"
*Shiver*