Poll: If you had the choice to be a vampire....
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As someone who can walk and can customize his pooping schedule (occasionally at the same time), I can think of a variety of things I would never be able to do. For instance, being a sexually active club-gatherer. Getting a career. Having a fully matured brain. Buying R rated games. For me, those would outweigh the benefits of vampirism.Rowan93 said:
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I think the matured brain can just be magicked in, according to precendent (never seen a senile vampire). I'm assuming it is, if I lose a single IQ point from becoming an immortal 2- or 80-year old, then my answer changes to a no.
Being an immortal vampire means careers aren't really necessary - while I suppose you have to get money somehow, you could always just put those powers to use. Let the CIA send you to bring them a South American drug-dealer's kidneys. As for R-rated games, just get some adult to buy them for you, like any other 4-year-old does when they want to play Grand Theft Auto. I suppose being sexually active is precluded by being in a pre-pubescent body, buy I'd be fine with that, since the corresponding urges would also be more or less gone and I could focus on other enjoyable things, so I'd still say it was worth it.
Yes and I want to sparkle in the sunlight to annoy the vampire purists. If I don't sparkle, then I'd just buy/steal a shedload of body glitter and roll around in it to get the effect.
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Vampires are monsters, and should always be thought of as such. They stem from old legends of unnatural beings who defy death itself. These old legends were not to portray as anything romantic at all. So, I would transform into a vampire provided that it was a VAMPIRE, a monster.
Well, if there are vampire women... rawr. Hey baby, is it your time of the month yet?
Sorry, I just cringed a bit, thinking about that.
Sorry, I just cringed a bit, thinking about that.
I have never seen/played/read True Blood, so I'd have no idea what the parameters are.
If:
1. I did not HAVE to feed, but it gave me extra strength and speed or w/e if I did
2. There was no visual marker at all, including that damned fairy sparkling from Twilight
3. I would be immortal
4. I would gain better than normal vision at night
5. It would be relatively painless
6. Holy symbols and garlic and that crap had no effect.
Then yes. No real downsides, and a few perks I could make use of. Otherwise, probably not.
If:
1. I did not HAVE to feed, but it gave me extra strength and speed or w/e if I did
2. There was no visual marker at all, including that damned fairy sparkling from Twilight
3. I would be immortal
4. I would gain better than normal vision at night
5. It would be relatively painless
6. Holy symbols and garlic and that crap had no effect.
Then yes. No real downsides, and a few perks I could make use of. Otherwise, probably not.
Doesn't actual vampire mythology (read: Dracula, Buffy, not Twilight, etc.) dictate that a vampire is actually a demon emulating a person's personality, but the person is actually dead? Because based on that, this question is nothing more than asking us if we would let someone kill us if they offered, only our body would be used for terrible things once we're no longer even around to see it. So... no.
EDIT: Also, the immortality thing. Not for me. I can understand the appeal, but I think it wouldn't be worth it. Anyone who thinks it would really needs to play Lost Odyssey; that game demonstrates the downsides to eternal life more powerfully than I could express.
EDIT: Also, the immortality thing. Not for me. I can understand the appeal, but I think it wouldn't be worth it. Anyone who thinks it would really needs to play Lost Odyssey; that game demonstrates the downsides to eternal life more powerfully than I could express.
Hmmm... I don't think life would be much different than normal... And think of all the extra gaming year... Yes please!
Never seen the show but I've heard the twilight comparison about it far too muhc. So no, not that kind.
But I would be one, i guess.
But I would be one, i guess.
Depends on if I get full control of my faculties. Erections are based on blood flow, after all.
Also depends on if there's any groups that exist solely to fight vampires. I don't want to be hunted my entire life ala Jumper.
And it depends on how vulnerable I am in the sun.
Also depends on if there's any groups that exist solely to fight vampires. I don't want to be hunted my entire life ala Jumper.
And it depends on how vulnerable I am in the sun.
The way I dress people probably wouldn't even be surprised, and have you guys who said no ever tasted blood? It kicks ass! Hell, being able to drink that without causing myself to vomit? Sign me the lump up!
I've never seen True Blood so I'll assume that there are different strains of the vampyrism to chose from. So in my hypothetical situation, I'd hope to meet enough Vampires to allow myself the room to chose which type I'd like to be. In all honesty though, I'd rather my body be used to keep an igor or several alive. Igors rock.
Can I choose an option to stake myself in the heart to prevent myself becoming a vampire, thus staving off the Twilight and True Blood fans?
Anita Blake Esque vampires then sure, where depending on what bloodline you are descended from the powers change.
You are either a "master" vampire or just a regular old vampire, no matter how old you are that won't change.
Master Vampires have an animal they can "call" and any weres of that species E.g- Vamp can call wolves, and therefore Werewolves.
Destruction of the heart by silver/wood and destruction of the head for old ones, seriously old ones burn the body heart and head and spread the ashes in seperate bodies of running water to prevent ressurection.
Holy objects only protect the wearer if the wearer actually has faith in what the holy object represents. Hallowed ground only protects people who have faith. Silver makes them heal slower, and silver chains can restrain them, sunlight burns, but old ones can be out in the weak sun for peroids but never in direct light. The more powerful the vampire the earlier he wakes up in the day. (All vampires die at dawn)
You are either a "master" vampire or just a regular old vampire, no matter how old you are that won't change.
Master Vampires have an animal they can "call" and any weres of that species E.g- Vamp can call wolves, and therefore Werewolves.
Destruction of the heart by silver/wood and destruction of the head for old ones, seriously old ones burn the body heart and head and spread the ashes in seperate bodies of running water to prevent ressurection.
Holy objects only protect the wearer if the wearer actually has faith in what the holy object represents. Hallowed ground only protects people who have faith. Silver makes them heal slower, and silver chains can restrain them, sunlight burns, but old ones can be out in the weak sun for peroids but never in direct light. The more powerful the vampire the earlier he wakes up in the day. (All vampires die at dawn)