[ SECRET POST #3426 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3426 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm an atheist but I dig big ol' jewelled crucifixes because they make me feel like a vampire hunter.

[(Anonymous)]

What if the vampire is an atheist too, though? Or suppose they are a really old vampire and believed in a religion that no longer exists apart from them and we don't know its holy symbol? So many questions.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, then you bring a big bag and carry lots of talismans.

[(Anonymous)]

Well a stake through the heart kills everybody, so there is always that. Just don't tell your defense attorney you were hunting vampires, they don't like to argue "but my client thought you were a vampire" in court. Or so I was told anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, like that one wimpy bad guy from The Mummy.

[(Anonymous)]

they actually touched on this in a movie, "The Fearless Vampire Killers: Or, Pardon me but your fangs are in my neck" [yes, that's the full title, although, most use "The Fearless Vampire Killers"]. If my memory serves, and it's been an age since I've seen it, they tried to use a crucifix on one of the recent turned vampires and he gives them "the fuck you thinking, I'm of a different religion!"

[kamino_neko]

'Oy vey, have you got the wrong vampire.' is the line.

[(Anonymous)]

same anon - thanks! I was giving a sum of his expression, I had forgotten the original line. Like I said, been ages.

[I do wonder if they kept that line in the musical version...?]

[(Anonymous)]

In the Marvel Universe it depends on the faith of the person wielding the symbol - so Kitty Pryde turned aside Dracula with her Star of David necklace.

[(Anonymous)]

was that during the run where Dracula turned Storm into a vampire? I vaguely recall that storyline

[loracarol]

I think so, personally, but it's been a while since I read it.

Does Wolverine try to make a cross with his claws to ward of Dracula, but because he doesn't Believe, it doesn't work? But then Nightcrawler does it, and it is a successful repellent, because Nightcrawler is of the faith?

Kind of depends on the mythos

[(Anonymous)]

da

If you're following the "Dracula/Vlad the Impaler was the first vampire" mythos, then yes, a crucifix (and other Christian symbology) would work as his history is entwined with Christianity (Vlad's father was vested into a fellowship of knights sworn to defend Christendom. Vlad allied himself with Matthias Corvinus, who received gold from the Pope Pius II to gather an army and purchase warships when the Pope called for a crusade against the Ottomans. Corvinus later shifted his loyalties and betrayed Vlad - he ordered Vlad's arrest, claiming that he was actually in league with the Turks.)

And if you go with Judas as the first, then, hell yes.

Also, vampires tend to be regarded as unholy or evil in a lot of mythos, so it may not matter what religion the vampire was.

Re: Kind of depends on the mythos

[(Anonymous)]

But Judas was Jewish...

[(Anonymous)]

I was raised Catholic and I don't care about this cultural appropriation, LOL. And neither does Madonna. Hey, goths.

Though I'm not sure if a cross would work against vampires if you didn't believe in it as a symbol of God. Maybe it would work if the vampire feared it in any case.

I'm probably putting too much thought into this.

[kamino_neko]

Though I'm not sure if a cross would work against vampires if you didn't believe in it as a symbol of God. Maybe it would work if the vampire feared it in any case.

Depends on the universe.

Sometimes it's the user's faith (ex: Marvel universe), sometimes it's the vampire's faith (Fearless Vampire Killers), sometimes neither matters, and either the cross works regardless (Buffy), or never works at all (Twilight).

[(Anonymous)]

It's his family's culture. What is he taking away from anybody?

Madonna isn't Catholic

[(Anonymous)]

Also, people who wear christian crosses aren't criminals if they aren't christian, but they are massive fucking assholes. Of course someone's going to assume you're a christian if you're wearing that, so you being a massive fucking asshole about it if someone asks is all on you. It's like running around dressed as a hasidic jew and then getting angry at someone if they invite you to temple T_T

A crucifix isn't the same as a cross

[(Anonymous)]

Do your research.