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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9172041" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Its a little more complicated than that with the latter; VD style vampires are, essentially, superhuman predators who fight with emotional overresponse (as in they're effectively involuntary emos) and who's only easy solution to that is to essentially flip a mental switch which turns them into sociopaths.&nbsp; So vampire culture is filled with awful people but also people who are in a constant fight to be better than their nature, and some in the middle.Basically, to the degree they're romantic heroes its in the &quot;tortured people who are in the situation they're in often by no choice of their own&quot;.&nbsp; As such, they're not really benign, but they're also easier to empathize with than traditional vampires.&nbsp; They aren't really soulless monsters, but their situation forces them into corners that can cause them to be awful (and very powerful) villains.Its actually a much more nuanced setup than something like Twilight.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 9172041, member: 7026617"] Its a little more complicated than that with the latter; VD style vampires are, essentially, superhuman predators who fight with emotional overresponse (as in they're effectively involuntary emos) and who's only easy solution to that is to essentially flip a mental switch which turns them into sociopaths. So vampire culture is filled with awful people but also people who are in a constant fight to be better than their nature, and some in the middle. Basically, to the degree they're romantic heroes its in the "tortured people who are in the situation they're in often by no choice of their own". As such, they're not really benign, but they're also easier to empathize with than traditional vampires. They aren't really soulless monsters, but their situation forces them into corners that can cause them to be awful (and very powerful) villains. Its actually a much more nuanced setup than something like [I]Twilight[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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