A fictional Halloween question….

[mrodgers]

What if they showed you their fangs and turned into a bat? Would you need them to take you away?

I was with the same thoughts that Cannot_wait_4Disney said, but then again...

Worked the night stocking at the grocery store for a year after college before landing my "real" job. We had a young guy with black hair, black eye liner, black fingernail polish, always black jeans, black t-shirt, and long black thin trench coat. He was a bit pasty white and his canine teeth were very very prominent. You couldn't not see them when he talked. He had to leave every morning a 5 am. We assume he had to be home before the sun came up.

 

[mrodgers]

Well until sunlight, holy water, or a steak through the heart gets you.

Well, if you're a female then a steak would be the way too my heart but I do prefer it going through my stomach first.

 

[JLTraveling]

I was with the same thoughts that Cannot_wait_4Disney said, but then again...

Worked the night stocking at the grocery store for a year after college before landing my "real" job. We had a young guy with black hair, black eye liner, black fingernail polish, always black jeans, black t-shirt, and long black thin trench coat. He was a bit pasty white and his canine teeth were very very prominent. You couldn't not see them when he talked. He had to leave every morning a 5 am. We assume he had to be home before the sun came up.

LOL, here's another true story:

We have a guy here in NOLA who's been a "vampire" as long as anyone can remember. He's a tour guide, and he was also Anne Rice's carriage driver when she used to kick off her book releases by emerging from a coffin in a horse-drawn hearse at a local bookstore at midnight. So it's all part of his schtick, nobody thinks he's actually drinking blood or anything. But he absolutely, 100% looks and dresses the part, and is not seen during daylight hours, ever.

But after Katrina, he got hold of a friend's boat and worked long days out in the hot sun pulling people off rooftops. Poor guy got burned to a crisp, but he kept going. So much respect for him for that.

 

[BrianL]

So they come for the honky-tonks?

Honky-Tonks are more of a Nashville thing - we have Blues clubs. Many vampires are big Elvis fans though!

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

LOL, here's another true story:

We have a guy here in NOLA who's been a "vampire" as long as anyone can remember. He's a tour guide, and he was also Anne Rice's carriage driver when she used to kick off her book releases by emerging from a coffin in a horse-drawn hearse at a local bookstore at midnight. So it's all part of his schtick, nobody thinks he's actually drinking blood or anything. But he absolutely, 100% looks and dresses the part, and is not seen during daylight hours, ever.

But after Katrina, he got hold of a friend's boat and worked long days out in the hot sun pulling people off rooftops. Poor guy got burned to a crisp, but he kept going. So much respect for him for that.

I heard the female Vampires said he looked smokin hot.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Is he a sparkly vampire like in Twilight?

Since I’m a huge Twilight fan and totally Team Edward I’d say…..change me

Yet another way to kill a vampire. Force him to watch the twilight series all the way through back to back. Just 5 minutes of listening to that whiny little puke of a werewolf might just do it.

 

[Buzz Rules]

Yet another way to kill a vampire. Force him to watch the twilight series all the way through back to back.

V.D. was more realistic than Twilight. Even Harry Potter’s vampires were truer to folklore. Vampires were a legend before the 19th century I believe. The same with Indian shapeshifter legends, Big Foot and sea monsters. On a serious note, I find it fascinating that with all our current technology we still have much we don’t know about the world.

 

[Buzz Rules]

Questioning the DM -10.

 

[Buzz Rules]

Honky-Tonks are more of a Nashville thing - we have Blues clubs. Many vampires are big Elvis fans though!

 

[nicolita3]

I'm more into the True Blood vampires.

I guess if he was my true love, I'd tell him to turn me.

 

[Mysterian]

Many vampires are big Elvis fans though!

"Fang you, fang you very much!"

 

[Buzz Rules]

Stay young as well. Plus you could watch over your descendants (unlike Katherine “watching out” for Elena).

Actually thinking on this, if you were turned, would you go and protect your 15 times great granddaughter or would you just stay out if their lives completely? I think if my 15 times great granddaughter was getting into trouble I would try to intervene and set them straight.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

"Fang you, fang you very much!"

Pass the mashed potatoes... No garlic

 

[easyas123]

I'd have a bigger problem if my new husband kept from me his love of Elvis or Country music than if he was a vampire...

 

[Mysterian]

I was never interested in the Vampire Diaries, and know nothing about their vamps, so I'm brushing that universe aside for this scenario.

On the subject of Nosferatu and vampires of a certain appearance, you can never truly be sure what you're getting. Some can be attractive one moment, then turn into a complete monster the next.

For example, Van Helsing's vampire brides and Santanico Pandemonium (Salma Hayek) from From Dusk Til Dawn turn into bat and snake like creatures, respectively.

Before turning to monsters, they will at least draw fangs and look pretty fly. But know that the monster form is not far behind.

In Lost Boys and Buffy, vampires look normal until they reveal their teeth, spooky eyes, and bumpy Klingon butt-foreheads. I'm sure some people out there are into it, but not me.

Underworld, Daybreakers, persistent fangs and spooky eye color. An obvious vampire, but without the monster looks. A win!

30 Days of Night - Pale, black eyes, jagged fangs. They look and behave like human sharks. No thanks.

Near Dark - nothing, they don't even have fangs and look completely human. All the usual vampire traits intact though, but otherwise they'd pass for human.

 

[Buzz Rules]

I was never interested in the Vampire Diaries, and know nothing about their vamps, so I'm brushing that universe aside for this scenario.

*Warning for some vampire gore*

 

[Buzz Rules]

When your 15 times vampire great grandmother tries to give you advice vampire style:

It’s a shame we never got to meet Elena’s 15 times great grandfather in the series (if he was a vampire). I wonder if he would have been a nice protective ancestor or just as evil as some in the series.

 

[Buzz Rules]

I'd tell my spouse to just be calm and that the good gentlemen with the nice white coats will be here soon.

Plot twist, she turns them right before your eyes before she is taken away.

 

[Buzz Rules]

Actually thinking on this, if you were turned, would you go and protect your 15 times great granddaughter or would you just stay out if their lives completely?

Plus you could watch over your descendants (unlike Katherine “watching out” for Elena).

To those on the thread, if you chose to become a vampire would you look after your decendants as a protective great whatever times grandparent? If you saw your descendant going down the wrong path would you scare them straight? Or if you saw them dating someone not right for them (ex. a bad influence), would you scare the boyfriend/girlfriend so they would stay away from your descendant? Curious about your thoughts on this.

 

[Mysterian]

To those on the thread, if you chose to become a vampire would you look after your decendants as a protective great whatever times grandparent? If you saw your descendant going down the wrong path would you scare them straight? Or if you saw them dating someone not right for them (ex. a bad influence), would you scare the boyfriend/girlfriend so they would stay away from your descendant? Curious about your thoughts on this.

I would watch from a distance…from my castle overlooking the ancestral home….but do I watch with binoculars? No. Vamp Vision!

I write my brats handwritten notes, tucked secretly in pastries: “No dating before 30. Sincerely, Not-Your-secret-Vampire-Great-Whatever-Times-Relative.“. They never suspect a thing! It’s a pretty good gig! It’s like interactive streaming drama series, where *I* pull the strings!

One time they ate the whole note with the pastry! Ok, maybe four times! Awkward!