tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876216494183628999.post2321490070908598851..comments2023-10-31T00:31:59.277-07:00Comments on The United Federation of Charles: Ten tips for writing a vampire novelCTPhippshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04226189019351004118noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876216494183628999.post-45318490817553559562017-03-24T17:51:43.403-07:002017-03-24T17:51:43.403-07:00Personally, I think vegetarian vampirism is the qu...Personally, I think vegetarian vampirism is the quickest way to strip away the horror of the situation. Admittedly, though, I prefer vampires who maintain their humanity because it makes their choice to feed more horrifying.CTPhippshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04226189019351004118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876216494183628999.post-4713959319410285172017-03-24T15:24:28.675-07:002017-03-24T15:24:28.675-07:00Regarding vampires and horror: What I do in my set...Regarding vampires and horror: What I do in my setting (a sci-fantasy space opera for a game) is that I try to avoid the "Vegetarian Vampire" trope. Animals aren't a good replacement for human blood, so all vampires consume prey on people at least a little.<br /><br />What I do to make certain vampires sympathetic is give them a "Circle of Life" sort of blue-and-orange morality. They view preying on humans as "natural" for them and don't view it as murder per se. Some also care about the general welfare of humans for various reasons. One of the protagonists is a vampire who wants to save a planet from an evil empire, and claims she's doing this because she prefers "humanely grown, free range humans".<br /><br />Naturally, the humans are not too keen on this way of thinking.Matthew Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06887788945033210212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876216494183628999.post-70328732908060734322017-03-11T18:31:25.721-08:002017-03-11T18:31:25.721-08:00While I never described it, in STRAIGHT OUTTA FANG...While I never described it, in STRAIGHT OUTTA FANGTON, I made it clear that black vampires maintain their skin color but they have a slightly 'off' parlor which puts people off in a way most can't really describe. This is because they are shiny corpses.CTPhippshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04226189019351004118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876216494183628999.post-77363450585444070572017-03-11T18:04:10.276-08:002017-03-11T18:04:10.276-08:00I suspect the reason why there's a lack of bla...I suspect the reason why there's a lack of black vampires is that Vampires are usually portrayed as extremely pale, which makes a dark-skinned vampire rather odd. Do you make them albino? Or something else?<br /><br />What I, personally, do is just have vampires have grey (instead of brownish) pigment. So a vampire of African descent has a sort of charcoal skin color.Matthew Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06887788945033210212noreply@blogger.com