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cant fucking sleep bc wikipedia has separate lists for vampires and for fictional vampires
I think draculas should be vulnerable to all holy symbols, but only if the dracula recognizes it as such.
I think if a vampire comes to visit you and sees the funny scroll thing hanging by your door the dracula can say “ha ha what’s that, should I touch it too?” and then when you explain to him what a mezuzah is suddenly his hand catches fire
also if you teach him about Pastafarianisn he gets really nervous around spaghetti and meatballs
Wouldn't there be garlic in spaghetti anyway?
Only good spaghetti.
I think vampires have to be bound to rules that are inherently ridiculous. If a vampire knows that a symbol is considered holy, they are automatically repelled by it—but if they learn more about it and discover that the symbol has no traditional properties of protecting against evil or negativity or bad luck or malicious spirits, then it again becomes harmless to them.
Which is why, if you hope to injure a dracula with holy water, you need to inform them that it’s holy water—or at least heavily imply it.
Potentially you can lie and injure them through the pure power of talented bullshitting, but a dracula has minor psychic abilities and may be able to sense lies.
Nope. The dracula’s personal religious beliefs are irrelevant. An atheist dracula may not believe in a god, but the fact that other people do forces them to recognize and respect that belief by catching fire when confronted with holy symbols. It’s not so much a supernatural power affecting the dracula via the symbol as it is the vampire’s anxiety about making social faux pas magically attacking them. Vampires are deeply afraid of being problematic.
"VAMPIRES ARE DEEPLY AFRAID OF BEING PROBLEMATIC"? THEY SUCK BLOOD. FROM LIVING, UNCONSENTING HUMANS.
Yes, and?
Nobody’s perfect—killing and eating people is one thing, but being a bigot is something else entirely.
Yall need to read ‘Carpe Jugulum’ by Terry Pratchet.
....but an axe isn't a symbol
Is it?
Let’s make it one.
First, Dracula is the family’s name. ‘A Dracula’ would be ‘someone from the family Dracula.’ What you want is ‘a vampire.’
Second, I don’t believe Dracula encounters holy symbols at all. The closest I recall is that when Lucy Westenra dies, Dr. Van Hellsing places a crucifix on her body in order to prevent her from rising as a vampire. (A maid then steals it, because it’s gold, and she rises anyway). It’s the presence of the holy symbol that prevents the unholy undead from rising.
I haven’t read it in a while, but this is the only instance I really recall a holy symbol being mentioned; the villagers in Dracula’s village also try to give Johnathan a crucifix when they find out he’s going to Dracula’s castle, but I can’t recall if he takes it, and if he does it doesn’t seem to bother any of the vampires who try to eat him.
In either case it seems to be more of a preventative measure.
I’m pretty sure the ‘holy symbols repel the evil’ comes from Nosferatu where vampires are treated as considerably more ‘Unholy’ than in Dracula and the heroes explicitly use a cross to protect themselves from and drive back Nosferatu. (Dracula vampires are evil but considerably more ‘human’ than other interpretations, they’re even capable of entering sunlight, they just lose all their supernatural powers during the day.)
And in Nosferatu it’s the belief in the thing that enables it to protect someone from the unholy creature. Nosferatu is repelled by holy symbols held aloft by people who believe in them because God is protecting them from his unholy monster. It’s a defensive act.
In a less literary context; typically Dracula is considered to be Vlad Drăculea the Third, better known as Vlad the Impaler, who was notably very christian. His country, Wallachia, was claimed by the Ottoman Empire during the time of the crusades. Vlad was raised, essentially as a prisoner of the Ottomans, and is reputed to have been a very disobedient child who refused to convert to Islam like his little brother. So when the crusades hit, and the Ottoman Empire demanded extra taxes from Wallachia to help pay for their armies, Vlad said no as loud as he possibly could, (by nailing turbans to their wearer’s heads) and when the Ottomans sent an army to try and murder him for it, he got his impaling on.
(Although it’s worth noting that some historians take the stance that Vlad’s legendary sadism was a defensive tactic as well. His country/armies were significantly smaller than the Ottoman Empire and if the Empire put significant effort into stamping him out they could’ve done so easily. So his extreme-violence was a means of making sure people didn’t want to fight him. At least one story claims that when a truly massive army was forced to walk through a ‘forest’ of Vlad’s impaled victims to get to his capital less than 10% of the army actually arrived due to the rest deserting.)
In this context it’s usually taken that Dracula’s revulsion toward holy symbols is because he’s a man who lost his faith. A crucifix is a symbol of the thing he damned himself for.
Thanks for your input but we are not talking about Count Dracula the literary character OR Vlad Dracula the historical figure, or even vampires as a whole. All draculas are vampires but not all vampires are draculas. I understand the source of confusion but this is an all-important distinction and I cannot stress that fact enough.
So would “a dracula” be a kind of pattern that vampiric beings may fall into? Like a kind of memetic profile that determines their cryptozoological niche among vampires in relation to how mundane human people understand ‘monsters?’
Yeah! A dracula is like... a particular cultivar of vampire. Draculas are to broccoli as vampires are to Brassica oleracea. Count Von Count is a dracula but Lestat is not a dracula. Sometimes even Count Dracula the Famous Vampire is not technically a dracula because he deviates too much from the breed standard.
Vlad Dracula the Famous Human is not a dracula despite being a Dracula, much like Reverend John Russel was not a little dog. Though that almost implies that Vlad Dracula the Famous Human bred and raised draculas...
I’m making it a habit to say “drac u later” when I leave a room and “I’m backula” when I enter a room
no babe the vampire fangs stay on during sex
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Some doodles- was thinking it would be cool if each of the VtM Bloodlines had a unique set of fangs/teeth!! Mostly an excuse to try out drawing some funky fangs.
I was so frustrated with the Dracula miniseries that during it ended up doodling an actual good version of him, so yeah enjoy
what if instead of biting you, a vampire just jammed a capri sun straw into your neck
#lisa walked into dracula’s own home and did not give one fucking ounce of a fuck
It's okay if your fangs get in the way when we make out, bro. I actually kinda like it 😳
dracula’s “what is a man” scene except instead of breaking a wine glass he perfectly flips a water bottle
OH MY GOD
i’m obsessed with how little the netflix castlevania series has actually told us about how vampires work
does garlic actually repel them? we don’t know.
do half-vampires drink blood AND eat food? unclear.
holy water seems to work against them, but do crosses? not stated.
how is someone made a vampire? is it through bites? drinking vampire blood?
how aware is the general population of vampires’ existence and how much wealth and power they seem to wield?
does running water kill them? apparently not even the vampires themselves know that.
does sunlight hurt them? kill them?
can vampires sexually reproduce among themselves or do they have to get with a human?
is alucard unusual? how common are dhampirs?
do special powers (ex: shapeshifting) come with being a vampire or are they rare? or perhaps the product of humans with magic becoming vampires? only some vampires seem to have/use them.
then again dracula kind of spits the word “magic” so… is what we think of as his magic actually some kind of science or a hybrid between the two?
do dhampirs have somewhat different powers than vampires? (alucard seems to be the only one who has demonstrated super speed)
a fact we do know about vampires:
they can get diarrhea
Which means they still have a functioning human digestive tract