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** Marginal notations in the vampires' edition of the [[All There in the Manual|Discworld Diary]] suggest that one member of Ankh-Morpork's [[Vegetarian Vampire|League of Temperance]] is actually a human who ''looks'' like a vampire and enjoys hanging around with them. Even the other League members are fooled. |
** Marginal notations in the vampires' edition of the [[All There in the Manual|Discworld Diary]] suggest that one member of Ankh-Morpork's [[Vegetarian Vampire|League of Temperance]] is actually a human who ''looks'' like a vampire and enjoys hanging around with them. Even the other League members are fooled. |
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* In ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' the Volturi have a human secretary who is under the impression that they'll be turned. Really they're going to be snack food after a few months. Bella also wants to become a vampire. But let's face it, Meyer's vampires are basically sparkly, ridiculously overpowered, cold, immortal people. What was the downside again? A bloodlust that you can learn to control with enough training? Wow, that's really off-putting. |
* In ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' the Volturi have a human secretary who is under the impression that they'll be turned. Really they're going to be snack food after a few months. Bella also wants to become a vampire. But let's face it, Meyer's vampires are basically sparkly, ridiculously overpowered, cold, immortal people. What was the downside again? A bloodlust that you can learn to control with enough training? Wow, that's really off-putting. |
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* At one time [[TV Tropes]] featured advertising for ''First Bite'', described as "a personalized vampire romance novel ... where ''you'' are the star!" Oh joy unto the ages. |
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** [[Ad of Win|We've got a page for that!]] |
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* In [[George R. R. Martin]]'s ''[[Fevre Dream]]'', this is how Damon Julian, the leader of the evil vampires, motivates his competent (but not too bright) human servant. However, [[Our Vampires Are Different|in this setting]], it isn't even possible for humans to be made into vampires. Apparently, Damon likes to string his servants along with the promise of eventually being turned as a reward for their service, then when they're too old to be useful, he abandons them and doesn't even have the decency to end their wretched lives. A good vampire encounters one such former servant and realizes the old man has been murdering and eating people in a hopeless attempt at prolonging his life. |
* In [[George R. R. Martin]]'s ''[[Fevre Dream]]'', this is how Damon Julian, the leader of the evil vampires, motivates his competent (but not too bright) human servant. However, [[Our Vampires Are Different|in this setting]], it isn't even possible for humans to be made into vampires. Apparently, Damon likes to string his servants along with the promise of eventually being turned as a reward for their service, then when they're too old to be useful, he abandons them and doesn't even have the decency to end their wretched lives. A good vampire encounters one such former servant and realizes the old man has been murdering and eating people in a hopeless attempt at prolonging his life. |
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* ''[[Lonely Werewolf Girl]]'' has a werewolf wannabe in the form of [[Big Bad]] Sarapen's spy Madrigal. You can guess [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|how this went]]. |
* ''[[Lonely Werewolf Girl]]'' has a werewolf wannabe in the form of [[Big Bad]] Sarapen's spy Madrigal. You can guess [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|how this went]]. |
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