Make a Vampire character who just really sucks at hiding the fact that they're a vampire. Like it's really fucking obvious dude, no one is being fooled here, you look like one those feratu.
Make a BBEG Vampire who's crime is something so petty (like pick pocketing and small scale theft) that the law enforcements don't know they're sending the party to a CR 13 boss fight
Just in case anyone needed to hear it today, your velvet cape is immaculate, your fangs are sharp and efficient, and your collection of exotic animals that the average american or british audience has not seen before and thus fund strange and otherworldly is brilliant.
‘My vampiric mistress saved me from a life of poverty and destitution, but she made me wait to be turned until I was old enough to take up a trade or go to university. That way I might be taken seriously by the humans which surrounded us, and would have the pick of careers to pursue.
‘Unfortunately, in the six hundred years since, cultural mores have shifted, and now appearing to be fourteen means they won’t even hire me for a weekend shift at the Burger House.’
‘And that’s why I’m submitting this audition tape to the Disney Channel. Tired of your serial programming having a short shelf-life when your stars inevitably age out of their roles? I won’t age. Believe me, I’ve tried. This baby face is forever. I can play a winsome middle schooler for decades, and I can do it convincingly. Do you know how many times I’ve gone through fucking seventh gra–’
The video cuts off and resumes with the speaker looking noticeably more composed.
‘Are you sick of working with child actors? Looking for a performer whose maturity level matches yours and whose cultural references you’ll understand? I’m happy to discuss popcorn stitch knitting and World War II submarines with any of your cast and crew. I could do my own taxes if anybody would hire me for a job that generated taxable income. I mean it, I’m a licensed CPA. They have night classes down at the learning annex, and it’s just something to do, you know? But I’ve been going for a few years in a row and the professors are getting nervous and one of them asked me whether I had a goddamn glandular condition and she was so nice about it that I couldn’t just–“
The video cuts off and resumes with the speaker looking noticeably less composed, holding the camera with both hands and leaning in close so the speaker’s face fills the frame.
‘Listen. Listen. I need this job. I am perfect for this job. I will pay you if you hire me, okay? I’m good for it. You know how much money six hundred years of compound interest will get you? Give me this fucking job or I’ll make it my life’s mission to buy Walt’s company and raze it to the ground–’
The tape cuts to a black screen with white block text reading THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST. I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU.
I've recently discovered that apparently in the Dracula book , a wild rose stem can keep a vampire's coffin closed and I. Want to call out all the writers who work with vampire lore. How are y'all not all over this , it's poetic and has Alas Poor Villain undertones to it
Anon youre completely right.
I think the reason it gets ignored/forgotten a lot is because modern itterations of Vampires either leave out the necessity of a coffin, or focus on the physical strength of a Vampire. The idea that a Vampire can kill so easily but is stopped by a mere rose stem can often be missed as symbolism and taken more as "well that makes zero sense."
However I full support the idea of rose stems being used to fasten coffins. If you're running a Curse of Strahd game or any other Vampire related ttrpg story, i fully suggest you allow the possibility of trapping your Vampiric BBEG with a rose. It'd let your players have more time to prepare for any huge fight they may have with them and your players will find it both bizarre and hillarìous that they're able to stop the monster that's about to rock their shit with rose stem.
Same anon , I asked and you delivered so thank you very much ! But now I am bound by Law to enquire... Your thoughts on 21th century , "literal fetus by undead standards" vampires ? (I personally think a Gen Z vamp yanking a Victorian era one by their lacy sleeve and proudly showing them how much humanity has advanced is Quality Content , or they could just bond over dark humour lmao)
A Victorian Vampire being taught how to work their smartphone but like a literal teenager of a Vampire is a very good thought, but also consider-
-Victorian Vampire, Boomer Vampire, and Gen Z Vanpire all live together.
-Boomer Vampire is picking up things like TV, phones, internet fairly okay
-the Victorian Vampire, however, jumps whenever they see the tv is on, and screams when the toaster pops
-Gen Z vampire tries a "vegan diet" using a spinach and brocoli blend to substitute for blood- for those veggies have high amounts of iron in them- and the Victorian Vampire just screams "tHATS NOT HOW IT W O R K S"
-Victorian Vampire is more magically inclined, turning into a bat or a wolf when need be. The Boomer Vampire finds no need for this. The Gen Z vampire worked out how to turn into a frog and makes tiktoks about it.
-"Dear, what the fuck is a ticky tocky" -boomer and victorian, both at the same time.
-Victorian Vampire makes like. Really nice cakes? Suprisingly? Gen Z vampire makes easy to bake food, and Boomer Vampire still didnt get the memo that microwave/instant food isnt cool or remarkable anymore
-"Hey I have a homework asignment on the cold war-" "thats not history that was like yesterday?" "No, no sir it is history"
As someone who really likes the concept of vampires but could never really get into the Victorian aesthetics , I wanted to ask what you think of more modern / "young" vampires ? (As in got turned in the 20th century , not first gen draculas that got used to our current society)
Okay I want you to consider the following-
-Speakeasy and Mafia Vampires
-Vampires who were just old enough to remember both world wars before becoming a Vampire
-Vampires in 40's and 50's fashion even in the 21st century because they're fond of the fashion in the same way that victorian vampires do so.
-Vampires who detest areoplanes because they get in the way of bat flight patterns.
-They may be younger in Vampire Society but theyre in the Boomer Generation by modern standards. Take this as you will.
Vampires who wear corpse paint and get real into metal and stuff, but its actually because its the only kind of makeup that shows their face up in mirrors
Consider making all Vampire Lore canon in your game world in the form of different "strands" of Vampirism. A Bram Stoker style Vampire meets a Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Vampire, and a World of Darkness Vampire insists that the Castlevania Vampire is being a fucking coward and that the running water WONT hurt them because "well it doesn't hurt me!"
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