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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 3123496" data-attributes="member: 4910">I love reading your posts on this topic, Nyeshet, though I'll admit it makes my paltry replies feel a little scant by comparison.  Damn you, midterms! >_<To split hairs on the coerced invitation thing:One way to look at it: a vampire must be invited into a dwelling by someone with the authority to do so.  If the subject is being dominated and is then commanded to extend invitation, it is not the subject doing the inviting.  It's the vampire trying to invite himself.  Doesn't fly as the vampire doesn't have that right.However, if instead the subject is charmed rather than dominated, it's a different kettle of fish.  Dominate: you're my puppet, you do what I command you to do.  Charm: much more insidious - I don't order you to do anything, you just really like me because we're such good friends and I'm ever so trustworthy.  If you then invite me inside, it's not because I'm inside your mind putting my words past your lips, it's because you've made an Assisted Critical Error in Judgement.In a culture like the one we're constructing, one might very well not invite their bestest buddy in the whole wide world into their home (because you never know...), but it does give our vampire a foot in the door that some suavue old-fashioned social persuasion might be able to wedge open a bit more.</blockquote>