Suicide by Sunlight: Difference between revisions

|''[[Jonathan Coulton]]''|'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}K_1uK67mQm0 Blue Sunny Day]''' by ''[[Jonathan Coulton]]''}}

For these reasons '''[[Title Drop|Suicide Byby Sunlight]]''' is the preferred method for a lot of vampires. They'll avoid the hassle by simply going out during twilight and [[Cue the Sun|waiting for the dawn]], or even just stepping out into direct sunlight mid-day. From a story telling perspective and for an added and romantic bonus, it's hard to top this method for sheer pathos. There will be a quiet scene as the vampire waits [[Face Death with Dignity|nervously yet resolutely]] for the dawn, only to break out into screams [[Man On Fire|and flames]] as the dawn's rays hit. In ''very'' rare cases the vampire achieves a level of inner peace beforehand that allows them to ignore the pain and die in peace. For extra ''extra'' pathos, a loved one of theirs will try and fail to get them to find shelter, only to have them soon mourning over [[No Body Left Behind|a small pile of ashes]] that [[Dramatic Wind|scatters in the wind.]]

* On ''[[Blood Plus+]]'' the Schiff are a group of people who were used in lab experiments to create artificial [[Our Vampires Are Different|Chiropterans]](although ironically they resemble more traditional vampires than the chevaliers or the chiropterans themselves, the Schiff are susceptible to sunlight, the chiropterans and chevaliers are not), however, they were a failed attempt and [[Power Degeneration|suffered from a disease called "The Thorn"]] that basically meant that [[Body to Jewel|their bodies would end up crystalizing]]. They were all chased by both cinq-fleche and the chevaliers, in the end there were just three left, and one of them was suffering an [[Anti-Hero]][[Heroic BSOD|ic BSOD]] and was showing signs of also having the Thorn. In the end, after Moses (the leader of the group) was able to help Karman (the Thorn afflicted) to come to terms with himself and with the death of his friends, both of them decided to face the sunlight for the first (in years since they were turned into Schiff) and last time. As for Lulu (the youngest of them, and only remaining Schiff) she was put to the care of the main characters after being cured of the Thorn.

* Played with in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld/The Truth|The Truth]],'' where Otto the vampire loves flash photography but the light involved gives him a lot of pain or disintegrates him. He ends up having to carry a vial of blood around his neck that smashes in his remains when he dies, causing him to come alive again.

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