I don't think I actually believe vampires are capable of being loved or loving another. It's not in our nature to show the ultimate compassion towards another, and we learn from the night we first rise onward that the most important thing in this world is to protect our existence with all that we are. When you love someone, they become as important to you as yourself, and that's something risky, dangerous, and even foolish, and we know this. And when it comes to being loved, I have a difficult time believing any can look at us and see us as more than a dangerous being. I have heard vampires claim to love another and humans claim to love vampires, but I can't say I believe it is anything more than a brief relationship of convenience and companionship. Perhaps that is enough.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
how do you deal with discrimination?
Just as in most things, it depends on the situation and the circumstances. In no way do I believe all who discriminate against my kind need to "pay" for it. I am just as guilty of discriminating against others as many are of discriminating against me. People can judge me, my business, and my kind all they like so long as they do it peacefully. When violence is the core of the discrimination, I'm pressed to do things I would be foolish to acknowledge publicly.
i hear you can fly. What else can you do that is attributed to your kind?
That is not just a rumor, I am capable of flight. It is my gift and something not many vampire at all are capable of.
Vampire attributes are almost entirely what they are rumored to be. I am capable of glamor, which is a powerful influence on a human mind. I have impressive (mostly unfathomable to humans) strength, agility, and speed. I can see with complete and total clarity in total darkness. I can hear whispered words across a crowded room as clearly and as easily as if they were spoken into my ear. And for those vampires I am tied to in significant amounts of blood, I can communicate with them wordlessly.
is mainstreaming a rouse of lust under the guise of love for humans, just so vampires can keep a willing blood donor?
This question actually made me chuckle upon first reading it simply because truthfully, those of us who refuse to be caught dead claiming to be a mainstreamer are far more likely to have and keep willing blood donors than those who actually mainstream. Since we left the coffin, a vampire is hard pressed to do much of anything without finding a human who is curious of or actually in search of being bitten. The opportunity is around every single corner. We're not hard pressed to find willing donors.
Mainstreamers are the joke of the undead population, if only because it's like claiming you're less a vampire than the rest of us. Mainstreaming, in general, is a joke, a rouse, a farce, just as you suspected. None of us are fooled by it, simply because it doesn't truly exist. We all are aroused by the smell of blood. If we had to choose between the fresh blood of a warm human and a microwaved bottle of something synthetic created in Japanese labs, guess what every single vampire would choose. Anyone who actively claim to be mainstreamering has some kind of hidden agenda, whether it's to keep a willing blood donor or to "fit in" better with humans or some other motive, it's definitely bullshit.
when, if you have, did you stop sleeping in a coffin? Are they really as comfy inside as they look? If so..what's up with that? I mean the person in a coffin is most usually VERY dead, why the pillowy interior?
I do not sleep in a coffin unless I must, and the only time I must is when traveling or when I am staying some place unequipped for vampires during the daylight hours. I prefer spending my death in a light sealed room, in the comfort of a bed, and have for decades. Even before we left the coffin and were privy to inventions created to cater to my kind, it was not such trouble to find a house with at least one completely interior room. Some vampires cling to the old ways even now, but I can't and won't claim to understand it.
As for their comfort... I can't say it's incredibly comfortable, because it isn't, at least for a vampire of my size. It is incredibly confining, and while they do tend to have a very "pillowy interior," there is little room for any kind of movement, despite the fact that we tend to enter them before the sunrises and stir from our death before the sun completely sets. There is nothing more annoying then being trapped immobile in a confined space while waiting for the sun.
As for why... coffins are the cars of the afterlife. They are a status symbol. Yes, a cheaply made wooden box suffices and will serve it's purpose, but is that what you wish for everyone to recall as your final statement to the world? Coffins are as elaborate as the one who lays within them. No one wants their last impression to be something repulsive or halfassed.
What's with this wave of asking/taking vacation time, from your Fang employees?
Part of me wishes I knew, simply because I am growing tired of allowing the vampires who work within it time away from their duties, but truthfully, I understand it in full. Fangtasia, while a successful nightclub filled with humans who are willing to fawn all over and stare longingly at those of us who practically consider it home, is very trying. Each of us have very... intense existences and personas that are a far cry from the silent, brooding demeanors we must plaster on for the masses who travel through the doors on a nightly basis in search of a "dangerous" experience. It can be difficult to balance our personal, professional, and political existences when the club and the humans who flock to it demand so much of our attention.
On top of how quickly monotonous it can grow and how trying it can be, the whole idea of working nightly is almost foreign to many of us. Before the Great Revelation, holding any kind of traditional employment was nearly impossible. The habit of being able to go where you want to, do what you want, and do it when you want to can be hard to break when you've practiced it for centuries.
That being said, the next vampire to get time off for a vacation from Fangtasia is me.
what do you have to say to people and vampires who say you have gotten "soft"?
Is there really anyone- alive or dead- foolish enough to speak those words? I truly hope not, because ignorance such as that is hardly curable. I have walked this earth for over a thousand years. I have fought uphill battles I was given no chance of winning. I have seen and done terrible things all for the sake of surviving.
Everything I do now, today, is because of that, because I have seen the world completely, both it's blessings and it's curses. While my physical form hasn't changed since the fateful night I died, I have evolved, grown, and come to where I am now, and I am completely certain where I am now is a place any vampire should consider themselves fortunate to be.
If that is mistaken foolishly as "softness," perhaps that's only to my advantage. I don't feel it is my responsibility, nor in my best interest to educate those who mean nothing to me. Let them remain oblivious. When the dust settles, I will remain, while they will be lost to the ages.