case: (Default)
Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-05-21 03:23 pm

[ SECRET POST #3426 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3426 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.


__________________________________________________



02.

__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________



07.


__________________________________________________



08.
[Renaud (French singer)]















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 048 secrets from Secret Submission Post #490.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
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) 2016-05-21 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, then you bring a big bag and carry lots of talismans.

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
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) 2016-05-22 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, like that one wimpy bad guy from The Mummy.

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
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: Tedd from El Goonish Shive. Drawn by Dan Shive, coloured by Kamino Neko. (Default)

[personal profile] kamino_neko 2016-05-21 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
'Oy vey, have you got the wrong vampire.' is the line.

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
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) 2016-05-22 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
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) 2016-05-22 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
was that during the run where Dracula turned Storm into a vampire? I vaguely recall that storyline
loracarol: (nekkid people are funny)

[personal profile] loracarol 2016-05-22 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
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) 2016-05-22 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
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) 2016-05-22 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
But Judas was Jewish...