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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9172406" data-attributes="member: 7026617">That the VD TV shows at least (I can't speak of the books because I've never read them) made some effort to have the nature of vampires be such that their tendency toward monstrousness was baked in, but not strictly mandatory; that someone motivated enough could avoid being a monster, but it required walking a fine line between &quot;I'm almost paralyzed by how strongly my emotions run&quot; and &quot;I can easily deal with that problem by turning them completely off, but then my empathy goes with them&quot;.&nbsp; That seems to include a considerably greater thought than is usually baked into such settings.(Again, remember, this is about the Vampire Diaries setting I'm talking here; it appears you're talking about Twilight, which is a different, and to my view, much more simplistic setting.&nbsp; TW vampires are only monstrous because they can't be arsed to be otherwise, far as I can tell).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 9172406, member: 7026617"] That the VD TV shows at least (I can't speak of the books because I've never read them) made some effort to have the nature of vampires be such that their tendency toward monstrousness was baked in, but not strictly [I]mandatory[/I]; that someone motivated enough could avoid being a monster, but it required walking a fine line between "I'm almost paralyzed by how strongly my emotions run" and "I can easily deal with that problem by turning them completely off, but then my empathy goes with them". That seems to include a considerably greater thought than is usually baked into such settings. (Again, remember, this is about the [I]Vampire Diaries[/I] setting I'm talking here; it appears you're talking about [I]Twilight[/I], which is a different, and to my view, much more simplistic setting. TW vampires are only monstrous because they can't be arsed to be otherwise, far as I can tell). [/QUOTE]

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