Three cheers for REAL vampires!

Sounds like a more gothic take on the Terry Prachett books. Well, if there'll be a lot of commedy.

"I have no idea where I'm going to be tomorrow. But I know that tomorrow will come. And I'm going to rise to meet it."
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Hi five for real vampires and taking shots at Twilight! (I have a vamp who is slightly obsessed with Body glitter, and his nickname is Eddie. His real name is Edmund though, and other than the glitter thing he is bad@$$. The glitter inspired him and is there entirely to have a laugh at glittering vamps.)

I do admit I am straying from myth in a lot of areas, but not horribly so. Mostly because there are so many myths out there, so really I am aiming towards some of the less known ones rather than the most generally excepted. And the sun thing came in late enough in the mythology (Movie Nosferatu anyone?) that I don't feel too inclined to stay in those bounds. Mostly they will be effected, but-

Okay, so my vamps are a mix between the psychic vampire myths and the bloodsuckers. I pretty much combined them. The ones that drain more psychic energy have a cleaner conscience and more control over predator instincts, but cannot go out in the sun for more than an hour without getting seriously, seriously injured. Any longer and they would be dead. Ones that stock up on human blood can go into the sun with only a severe dampening of their powers while the sun is out. So I will nod to it, if that makes any sense. ^_^*

Basically that is how my vamps are in many areas. They have the same effects in a lot of ways, but I edit the reason or I vary the effects slightly. It's kinda fun. And I am SO having an OCD vampire that started the whole 'scatter grain into their coffin, and they will spend the whole night sorting it out so they won't go out to feed' myth. Vampire lore is so fun!

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original.

So long as they don't SPARKLE IN THE SUN, I can forgive most anything!

PROBABLY OFFENSIVE RANTS ABOUT THE FORUMS!

My story will feature vampires also, but my main character doesn't realize it. >_>

Quite frankly I think vampires are badass no matter what you do to them. I mean, they can sparkle in the sun all they want, but they're still freaking awesome fighting machines. Even a pussy vegetarian vampires is 10000000x cooler than a fairy or some crap.

Three cheers for the blood sucking undead altogether (as they say, you can't keep a good mythological creature down... even if you make them sparkle).

(Although the sparkling was a bit bizarre. Even I found it quite strange. But I liked the horrible venom that caused immense pain to the victims. I just wish Twilight would have ended with Edward losing control of his bloodlust and horribly slaughtering Bella. That would have made for such a fantastic finale.)

Quite frankly I think vampires are badass no matter what you do to them. I mean, they can sparkle in the sun all they want, but they're still freaking awesome fighting machines. Even a pussy vegetarian vampires is 10000000x cooler than a fairy or some crap.

Three cheers for the blood sucking undead altogether (as they say, you can't keep a good mythological creature down... even if you make them sparkle).

(Although the sparkling was a bit bizarre. Even I found it quite strange. But I liked the horrible venom that caused immense pain to the victims. I just wish Twilight would have ended with Edward losing control of his bloodlust and horribly slaughtering Bella. That would have made for such a fantastic finale.)

Yay for real vampires :D *high fives*

Nice to see other people are taking stabs at Twilight |D I might be writing about Gods in high school, but Adonis is my walking, talking Twilight gag. Heck, he even sparkles in the sunlight XD

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:) Good for you! There aren't enough real vampires in fiction!

I'm going to have at least one 'vampire' in mine, but I'm making my own vampire mythos--basically by picking and choosing and inventing. Since it's in a world stuck between the Dark Ages and the Industrial Age, in a sort of alternate future, the vampires are going to be different--and called by a different name. I have a feeling that I'm going to make at least one anti-Twilight sparklepire crack though.

Good God I've been looking for this!!!

My vampires don't glow though when pissed off their eyes glow blood red. My group can go into the sun but they have to wear thick dark sun glasses as the sun light can leave them permenatly blinded. I give you points for bashing twilight. It is actully considered evil in the vampire world.

Closest I get to being happy about this is having targets for Killian, Sebastian and Co. We take on bloodsuckers, demons, fallen angels, pissed off familiars, warlocks, and infestations of fairies. For a price, of course.

Still, now and then I do enjoy a nice tale of ghouls in the dark. Even if I do cheer when the dead are laid to rest. Feel the power of the pun.

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Lemme see - my vampires aren't killed by sunlight. But they need special sunblocker or else, they can get burned badly. Ehm, and there's those few who're allergic to sunlight (and got a cross-allergy to silver). My vampires usually also don't react badly to silver but to gold (the metal of the sun). Some of them love garlic on their pizza. Some are Catholic and actually wearing a cross around their neck. Some prefer animal blood because of the taste, others human blood. And they got that huge apparatus, almost bureaucratic, that works on concealing their existence from the ordinary human being. It's called - roughly translated, I'm writing in German - the Bureau of Concealment and Disinformation. They got people in all the publishing houses all over the world. And in Hollywood. To check on new manuscripts or movie scripts to make sure they don't reveal any truths about vampires but instead, stick to the common myths.

Well, let's see how that works out.

Please help me raise my dragons!

By the way, my slutty mermaid is named Bella.

Yeah, I can deal with most vampires except the sparkly kind.

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D< Fairies are kickass.

Agreed. And actually, if you compare say, a Banshee with a vamp guess who would win? Banshee, definitely. And that isn't even getting into Anko, the representative of Death in Celtic fey lore. Or what about the Fey who can turn humans into toads with a flick of their wrist? Sorry, but fey are awesome.

In one of my stories that combine all myths, fey actually caused vampirism with a curse. SO I would say fey are pretty kickass. Do not insult the fey to make it seem like sparkly vampires are better. Because they are so not. Actually, fey are probably the one thing that COULD defeat the overpowered sparklies, since I am fairly certain they do not have a resistance to magic.So there. :P

And to get back on topic, so this does not degrade into a faerie vs. vampire fight, it is interesting to hear about peoples conceptions of vampires. Anyone else surprised by how many people think vamps should never ever ever be allowed in the sun, or even think the hollywood vamp is the only kind of vampire that exists?

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original.

Weirdly enough, I've never been sort of fazed by it- kind of in between thinking that's how it works, and not. It's probably something that I'd discard only if I was also discarding the Vanishing Reflection (because they have no souls or whatever) and I sort of like both. But I'm ditching the coffins.

Really, it's the werewolves-can't-handle-silver thing that gets me the most. I mean, I suppose SYMBOLICALLY you could get it to work, but only if your werewolves DID respond almost entirely to the moon (e.g, transforming into a proper raging beast on the fullmoon) and if you actually DID use it as a curse (which it doesn't have to be).

But logically? Just doesn't work. (That said, I could never ditch the Iron Allergy faeries have, although that's not based on hollywood, so, uh. . .yeah? Yeah.)

Actually, something really interesting about vamps is that if you look back at the original mythos, they were portrayed quite similarly to the the way zombies are portrayed today. I've been sort of toying around with the idea of writing something on that theme, but I'm sort of worried about it coming across as a "I couldn't decide whether to write Zombie Apocalypse or Twilight, so I did both" type story.

But yeah, vampires were described originally of dark skin and bloated, not pale and stone-like, and they had a great deal of other awesome traits. Original vampires were typically considered to be mischief making creatures. They were also commonly said to have no shadows, which implies that they must have been able to go in the sun, so I have no clue where the 'not going out into the sun' shit came from. :|

(Haha. From the above two paragraphs you can tell I'm a vampire nerd. No offense to the fey folk, but I'd still take a sparkling vampire first. Sorry. :})

(ALTHOUGH, I once read a really cool story centering around fairies as the bad guys, and it was kickass. Loses a few points for having been a fanfiction, but whatever).

My thoughts exactly!

....They are gonna have fangs and drink blood, right?

And yes, the few vampires in mine are going to be making fun of Twilight as well. Maybe I'll have a failed Necromancer named Smeyer...

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Honestly, I can't stand "heroic" fairfolk... but if the fairies are the villains? I'm all over it. I actually have a project (not this year's NaNo; I've been working on it for quite a while) where it's vampires vs. fairies. From a human point of view, the vampires are the "good guys" because, well, if the fairies go around kidnapping human women and children and hunting humans for sport and generally drawing the humans' attention to the supernatural, then it's only a matter of time before we break out the torches and pitchforks. The vampires need a stable, oblivious population to feed off of.

I like your idea! I must admit I have some 'heroic' Faerie... but there are myths where faerie are perpetrators of justice. Even if it doesn't involve them at all. And then there is the Seelie Court. So I feel there is enough evidence of good fey. But even then, I just hate it when people turn them into pansies. Fey are tricky, even the good ones. So as soon as you give up their sneaky, mischeivous ways...

Basically, I can see fey being chaotic good at best. Lawful good and Neutral good? Pfft. No way. As a generalization of course. If we are to treat them as a good, fleshed out race there will be those who don't fit into the mold. But definitely not the vast majority.

In my long-term novel the fey and Vampires kinda sorta work together. There are a group of extremist fey who think the vamped humans are an aberration to magic, so they try to hunt them. However unless a crime has been proven it is a very sticky situation. But I can't go much further without explaining all the politics and influential groups in that world. Sigh. It is complicated. Like actual politics really.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original.

i had one vampire in my series so far
strangly enough she was good
and a necromancer
she raised the corpses of goblins to hold a goblin army at bay in my first nano novel
then got hit over the head by a falling timbre when a goblin sabatour snuck in and began messing things up
she survived though but ive never come back too her
maybe she will appear with the war on the undead kicking off...

i may include a few vampire like creatures as a temple guard for an ancient god of death

What is a "real" vampire exactly? Myths of vampiric creatures exist all over the world, as with dragons and many other mythical creatures. Consulting "The Sorcerer's Companion" brought me a great many variations:

-Red-eyed beasts with green or pink hair
-A snake-like creature with a woman's head
-Humans with elongated teeth, paleness, and hair on their palms

I assume you're going with Count Dracula? In which case you are actually basing your vampires on a real person, Vlad Tepes, not merely legend. Vlad Tepes would impale his enemies through the heart with wooden stakes, and bathe in the blood of the slain. Is that what your vampires are like?

Do your vampires transform in bats, wolves, rats, or mice? Can they talk to animals? Are they unusually strong or fast? Can they fly? Can they hypnotize people, controlling them and seeing what they see?

Then of course there are the methods of destruction:

-Sunlight
-Beheading
-Cremation
-Iron (Not Silver)
-Holy Water
-Exorcisms
- Or my personal favorite...in Slavic folklore you can kill a vampire by stealing its left sock, filling the sock with stones, and then throwing it in the river.

And while not deadly, they have weaknesses in these:

-Garlic
-Obsessive Counting (As someone mentioned)
-The need to sleep in earth from their homeland

Then there's the basic mind of a vampire. Are they mindless, soulless killers? Upstanding gentlemen like Count Dracula? Or humans tortured by their curse? All this I discovered, just from the short entry in "The Sorcerer's Companion."

So basically there are a million twists on vampires. Good luck trying to create a "real" one.

Also, just as a note, I advise against writing out of spite towards Twilight. I did that last year and it didn't go well. Anything written with venom on the mind is going to turn out horribly preachy. You're better off ignoring Twilight and just doing your own thing.

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I'm using them, but they only have as much free will as the necromancer who raised them gives them. That's my only real change from baseline I think.

Well, I do have a few fairies that are more or less on the good side - but none of them are exactly heroes, and one's a changeling and basically considers himself human, and most of the others are trolls or similar. The "elf" type fairies that have grown up as fairies are pretty much uniformly chaotic neutral to chaotic evil.

I'm not personally writing about vampires this year, but I've developed a bit of storyline around them with my sweetheart, for non-nano pursuits.

Personally, I have a real fondness for the "theoretically-magical-thing-approached-as-something-else". Like alchemy, where it's basically magic viewed from a science angle. Or, when it comes to vampires, treating it almost like a medical condition. The vampires me and the girl wrote wouldn't turn into bats or burst into flames or any of that, but they were extremely sensitive to the sun, for example.

Sure, some of the "science" didn't work (and thus becomes magical, I guess) but it was treated less like a curse and more like a very unfortunate blend of anemia and porphyria.

But that's just me. I find the whole "vampires = evil savage monsters" notion to be almost as annoying as the Twilight brand.

"When the hero develops this sort of arrogance, it always ends dreadfully. Look at Icarus. Fellow with the wings, have you read that one?"
"I think so."
"That is precisely where we find ourselves now."

I thought all banshees did was wail if someone was going to die, and not much else. Also, I thought they were ancestral revenants, and therefore not fairies.

My vampires love human blood and would never convert to vegetarianism. They 're killed by fire and beheading, for the most part. Let's see...Do they date humans? No. Humans are food. You don't date your cheeseburgers...

But demons? They can't get enough of that hellspawn goodness.

I know a guy so pathetic he may be forced to date cheeseburgers.

Ironically, we call him Cheeseburger.

That's funny.

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