What type of vampire do you like most? Do you want them to be mindless killing machines, monsters that can think but can’t exactly pass as human, or something perfectly capable of blending in with humanity? Or should there be stages? Would they become mindless killing machines after they’ve drank too much blood? Or when they haven’t had enough?
For example, in Priest they’re completely mindless, mostly just animals. Yet in 30 Days of Night they’re human-shaped but don’t hide or blend in with humans (or even speak human languages). And… I couldn’t think of a good example of an aristocratic vampire so I went with Interview with the Vampire. I know there are lots of other aristocratic vampires but couldn’t think of a good example of one that can blend in perfectly well with humans.
Sometimes vampires can change their type, too. Like in Daybreakers, where vampires are mostly human but going too long without blood essentially turns them feral and they lose all sense of humanity. In that movie, feeding on yourself even accelerates the decline. But then there are other stories (can’t remember a good example right now) where the longer you live as a vampire the more you slowly lose pieces of yourself and your humanity. And then there are still other stories where a vampire can mostly pass for human except when they get caught up in a bloodlust and temporarily lose all control.
So which form of vampire do you think is best? I don’t really have an answer to this, I just like thinking about all the various forms and stages of vampires there can be. And all are valid. There’s no wrong way to do vampires… except maybe Twilight. (Ha, I just wanted to make a joke there.)
I think they should look human at first glance but be wrong if someone takes a minite to actually look at them. I prefer intelligent and human-ish but alien ones, that lack any inhibitions and morality. Feral ones are great too. They might be able to talk, but there can’t be any society of vampires.
Ooo, that’s another aspect I should’ve mentioned… Whether a vampire society should exist or not. That’s an interesting one.
I love vampires societies. We can imagine a very complex one, with different system coexisting. Like, their is a queen, but also clans and some have pledge to her and some have not. And lone vampire and nests… To me the vampire is by nature a societal monster. The few that can’t live close to other vampires for any reasons ends up trying to get close to humans to build relationships.
Dunno vampire high society to me looks like a joke, they are corpses that move as long as they consume blood/life/essence of others, there is no place for refined or realistically any society beyond aknowledging existence of others. They barely survive, that is not benefical to any kind of complex society.
Other monsters like fairies or elves seem to me the kind to form complex societies.
I don’t see high society as in there is the elite and the pleg but more as there is people they can always come back to, be it elders, sires or something else.
To me a vampire is always craving and because of that it is always craving a bond. Whether he want company despite his suffering or more cruelly want people to suffering with him.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula had 3 wifes but he should to go to London because it was the place when there is the most people and agitation, a place where he could feed and turn as much as he wished.