Category:Our Vampires Are Different: Difference between revisions

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: Wolf and Bat are common but they can also do insect swarms and other animals; sometimes they can mimic other humans.

* [[Wolverine Claws]]: Fingernails of the lethal slicing kind, for both sexes.

The purpose of vampires in the story varies quite widely. They serve as the [[Big Bad]] or as a metaphor for something (communicable diseases like plagues or STDs; alcoholism, drug addiction, denial of aging). There is some danger of the vampire character being too [[Anvilicious|on-the-nose]] for the metaphor.

 

 

Differences may be reinforced by [[Phantasy Spelling|spelling it "Vampir"]] or [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe|"Vampyre"]], or using [[Not Using the Z Word|a clever synonym]] like "nosferatu" "sanguinarian" or "strigoi". If the differences are emphasized by overt mocking of other authors and unused vampire tropes it becomes [[Your Vampires Suck]].

 

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