[ SECRET POST #4346 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4346 ⌋

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Re: Inspired by #3: Vampire fans!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know about needing to be attractive. If you're supernaturally faster and stronger than pretty much any human, potentially with other powers like changing into animals, controlling animals, turning into mist, climbing vertical walls, etc, you probably can get by just straight up grabbing and overpowering people. I mean. Just mug somebody in a dark forest/alley and chow down. Rinse and repeat as needed.

Re: Inspired by #3: Vampire fans!

[tabaqui]

Sure. But kinda boring story-wise. I like it if they can go out and mingle with humans. And just leaping out of the shadows for centuries would get old and kinda boring. Being able to stalk your prey *and* have a fancy car or lots of awesome books or whatever is more interesting, to me.

If you live for six centuries, you should have *something* to show for it other than a box full of dirt.

Re: Inspired by #3: Vampire fans!

[(Anonymous)]

Well, that's a fair preference. I don't think it would necessarily mean a boring story though. Just a different character type. Or range of types. You can play it as the 'woe is me' vampire, just with arguably a bit more cause when they're hideous and have to spend their unlives mugging people in dark alleys. Or play them as a purely pragmatic predator, who doesn't play around with humans because they don't CARE about them anymore, and what concerns them are more powerful threats like other vampires or possibly hunters, those rare humans who can actually fight them. Depends on setting too. In a world where the supernatural is hidden, yes, visibly monstrous vampires are going to be at a disadvantage plotwise. In worlds where the supernatural is right out in the open, it needn't be the same kind of barrier.

Also, I mean, you can be hideous and mug and kill people for food and still live in a castle with a library. Particularly if the castle is also supernatural, but even normally too. Money works just as well as good looks. Better in some circles.

Re: Inspired by #3: Vampire fans!

[tabaqui]

Heeee. It's true, money is a great incentive - just look at tRump!

Since i detest all 'woe is me' vamps, I'd rather plump for 'the supernatural is out there and we know about it' kind of thing.

(Though an attractive vampire is still more...attractive, to me, than one that looks like a Gollum, but a good story could sway me.)

Re: Inspired by #3: Vampire fans!

[(Anonymous)]

My thing is that existing vampires would probably choose attractive people to make into vampires. It'd be a self-selecting process, assuming you go with lore that vampires are the ones to sire other vamps, by giving them vamp blood or whatever.

Re: Inspired by #3: Vampire fans!

[(Anonymous)]

Listeno, why do they have to be shallow, just because they're vampires

Re: Inspired by #3: Vampire fans!

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno man, I guess it seems less vampirey to me if they really take the time to get to know you as a person first

Re: Inspired by #3: Vampire fans!

[(Anonymous)]

If you're gonna spend the next few hundred years with someone, I imagine you probably want them to at least meet your preferences.

Re: Inspired by #3: Vampire fans!

[(Anonymous)]

Usually with unattractive vampires, it's the curse itself that does the damage. You start to look like the corpse you are, or the evil of the curse warps you around it. Nosferatu-type vampires don't usually get a choice how they look past a certain amount of time. So, in that case, it doesn't really matter what they looked like originally, though the vampire who turned them could well have picked them for their beauty.