Vampire Questions

[NoJo]

The best "realistic" vampires I've read about actually came from Larry Niven's classic "Ringworld" story:

They are short humanoids, about four feet high, with small, childlike heads. They are basically parasites. They lure humans by giving off a powerful sex pheromone. Once they have attached themselves to them, they remain clamped onto them indefinitely, drawing sustenaince from the host's blood. The host continues to survive and feed itself, but is unable to to rid itself of the parasite due its pheromone-induced state of sexual lust. Niven describes it a lot better.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

My only advice is to NOT make your stories an attempt to recreate the Ann Rice series. Those have been done to death, parodied to undeath and are about as fresh as a crypt.

Yeah. The whole sexy vampire thing has become such a worn cliche. As soon as the fangs come our or she sees his deep, hypnotic eyes, I start yawning. It's basically an adolescent fantasy of unlimited sexual power coupled with puritan sexual guilt and blood horror.

Show me a vampire story and I'll show one string of cliches after another. Orgasm=death, pain=pleasure, stake in the heart=fucking, love=loss of soul: I get it already. I'd like to see something original for a change.

 

[Sins666]

The one question I want answered that no movie or book to my knowledge has ever touched on is HOW IN THE HELL DOES DRACULA JUST HAVE SO MUCH FRICKING MONEY ALL THE TIME!!!???!?!?!?!?!?

Seriously that has bothered me for years now.

 

[Liar]

The one question I want answered that no movie or book to my knowledge has ever touched on is HOW IN THE HELL DOES DRACULA JUST HAVE SO MUCH FRICKING MONEY ALL THE TIME!!!???!?!?!?!?!?

Seriously that has bothered me for years now.

Count Dracula.

Either he's noble-folk and has family money, or he's a kickass book keeper.

 

[Halo_n_horns]

The one question I want answered that no movie or book to my knowledge has ever touched on is HOW IN THE HELL DOES DRACULA JUST HAVE SO MUCH FRICKING MONEY ALL THE TIME!!!???!?!?!?!?!?

Seriously that has bothered me for years now.

The Count's real life inspiration was a prince and a warlord, as was Bram Stoker's version of the person. Money, titles, land, livestock, etc., wasn't a problem. Ever.

 

[BlackShanglan]

The one question I want answered that no movie or book to my knowledge has ever touched on is HOW IN THE HELL DOES DRACULA JUST HAVE SO MUCH FRICKING MONEY ALL THE TIME!!!???!?!?!?!?!?

Seriously that has bothered me for years now.

In the novel by Bram Stoker, it's because he's the undead scion of the Szekelys, a tribe or house whom he describes as a conquering warrior race who rose in power through bloody ferocity and courage. You can find a description of his bloodlines in chapter three. Dracula is a count, which in terms of rank is fairly high, equating roughly to an earl in English nobility - and so the owner of large tracts of land and sums of money, no doubt all the more concentrated and built up due to being in the hands of a single avaricious owner for centuries. Too, Dracula hints at another possible source of wealth in chapter two; there, he tells Jonathan Harker that the eerie blue lights he saw on his carriage journey to the castle were signs of hidden treasure, signs that could only be seen on one night in the year. He tells Jonathan sneeringly that the peasants are fools and cowards and don't dare venture out on that night of all nights - but we know from the story that Dracula himself has certainly been abroad upon that evening.

He's a practical creature as well. Dracula is quite happy to invest in land, deal with lawyers, and do whatever is needed to win the battle of the marketplace, as once he was ruthless in the field of physical battle. He's relatively adapative, Van Helsing's words to the contrary notwithstanding.

Shanglan

 

[Stella_Omega]

The one question I want answered that no movie or book to my knowledge has ever touched on is HOW IN THE HELL DOES DRACULA JUST HAVE SO MUCH FRICKING MONEY ALL THE TIME!!!???!?!?!?!?!?

Seriously that has bothered me for years now.

Kiddo- it's just like those gallons of cum, those 48DD tits, those indefatigable lusty wenches we specialize in around here-
He's endowed BECAUSE THE AUTHOR GAVE IT ALL TO HIM!

 

[BlackShanglan]

Kiddo- it's just like those gallons of cum, those 48DD tits, those indefatigable lusty wenches we specialize in around here-
He's endowed BECAUSE THE AUTHOR GAVE IT ALL TO HIM!

Some people take all of the fun out of nitpicking pedantry.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Some people take all of the fun out of nitpicking pedantry.

I'm sorry, I take it back