i never understood
what made your lips on my NECK
such an i n t i m a t e affair
until your teeth grazed my pulse
and i realized
you could TEAR open my t h r o a t
and make me b l e e d out in your arms
but instead
you CHOSE to K I S S
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Ok so like, howwwwww …. does your vampire body know to grow your hair back, and to the same length. Like, you talk about vamps cutting their hair and then it grows back, which, ok, whatever, but then how does your body know when to STOP growing it. Like, uh oh, better add a few more inches for Claudia, but Armand only had a bob when he died, can’t go over that. How would it know?
I stopped questioning these things many years ago. I have no idea why it is that way. It simply is.
pic of Santiago non-con petting Louis’ hair bc of reasons
I think the vampiric parasite (Amel) analyzes the blueprint of the host’s body when it’s installed and it then immediately uninstalls the features it doesn’t need (e.g. internal reproductive organs). It then starts converting all the organic matter of the host body into its own substance to “perfect it” into the pure supernatural killing machine that it wants to be.
In that sense, that initial blueprint probably indicates length of hair, beard growth, muscle shape and position, etc., at time of death, and those are elements that the vampiric parasite program respects and wants to maintain as it continues to “update” its host body. It could be detrimental if a vampire shaved its head and then was stuck like that for eternity. The external appearance of the host body will affect its ability to hunt, and thus, preserve itself. It’s in the parasite’s interest for the host to continue to survive so that it can, too.
However, if the vampire had shaved as a mortal before turning, then that would be maintained.
BTW, about nails:
The nail growth part of vampire mythology seems to stem from how corpses tended to shrivel from dessication in their coffins after death, hence, making it appear that their fingernails had grown longer. Although I think hair does continue to grow for a short while after death? I’m not sure.
Dracula’s whole “The children of the night! What music they make!’ thing is a lot funnier if you take as canon Stoker’s notes that vampires are insensible to music. Cause then he’s not trying to be all poetic and gothy, he might just not be able to distinguish between the crying of his lupine minions and whatever those goshdarn mortals churn out on their new-fangled pianofortes and all.
Ex-Vampires Therapy Group
Tonight’s Meeting Topic: Anger Management Post-Vampiring
Interview with the Vampire (1994), Once Bitten (1985)
@alejcvz recommends HIM’s song based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Also look at this lead singer Ville Valo like, c’mon, very vampiry:
Does anyone has thoughts on vampires and polar night? do they need to go to sleep if there is no daylight?
I think if there’s answers anywhere, they’ll be in Blood and Gold, but I’m not sure if she spelled it out re: Thorne… I’m curious about whether staying awake indefinitely would produce the same effects in vampires as in humans. Lestat’s state in QotD suggests that it might – it seems like Akasha flies him around the world keeping pace with the night, and this is part of why he’s so discombobulated. She apparently controls him by – amongst other things – not letting him experience anything but ‘mortal sleep’ for a long time.
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it’s a general observation of mine…
And a probable off-topic here as well but…
The life of the VC vampires became so uninteresting in every book after Queen of the Damned that I became genuinely interested in their lives before they become vampires.
ooc: I feel like for me… it’s just that things have gotten way too easy for the vampires, if that makes sense. TotBT was still ‘Okay WtF is Stat going to do to get himself out of this’. And MtD, while I disliked it at the time, still gives the vampires massive problems. There’s a guy who claims he’s a devil! A ghost of a victim is haunting a vampire! Is there a hell?!?!
Later books, and especially Prince Lestat--and this was one of my two big issues with that book–sort of take away any of their problems. Suddenly they’re all too powerful for anything to be a real threat. And suddenly being a vampire isn’t even seen as bad! Vampires can have kids via vampire science! Maybe they can drink synthetic blood! The sacrifice for immortality isn’t there anymore and neither is the idea that it’s hard or not for everyone. It’s just handed out easily. it’s like they’ve turned from vampires into transcendent angelic beings or something, and it means there are no stakes. Want to be a vampire? Line right up! Why not! Let’s vampire everyone!
Maybe this is not where you were going, but I understand. I think as a fanfic writer or RPer, I like the cracks in canon–how did Daniel go mad? How did he get better? etc. etc. Because it’s fun to fill in the gaps with fic or RP. But I do wish we’d more of those stories in the books, because those are the stories I want. Not a world where vampires are happy-go-lucky creatures where nothing can harm them, I want to see them struggle with murdering people and wrestle with their own demons.
So their lives before they were magically super powerful do become more interesting because they weren’t flawless.
^I very much agree. Vampiring is so easy now. All one needs is a pair of fangs.
I didn’t watch/read Trublood, Vampire Diaries, or Twilight, and so I can’t really declare an opinion on them however much I want to grrrrrrr
…But at least in VC, yes, a lot has been overcome, smoothed over, dealt with, and I think that’s partly what led to the crackiness we see in later canon. It may have been a need to create some kind of conflict again, but bc the earlier books had already resolved the juiciest issues, later canon came across as less dimensional.
Again, I haven’t read/seen most of the more recent vampire media, but from what I have seen, my opinion is – and take this with a grain of salt, if you do love this stuff – these vampires seem declawed. Neutered. Their monstrosity has been watered down. Why? I don’t know. But they’re not interesting to me in that form. I can’t help but think that this has influenced Anne Rice in some way.
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