What Kind?

[AngelFromAbove]

I would definitely hunt people before animals; however, I would probably hunt both, ultimately. Speaking of which, why isn't there an option for both?

 

[Willie Boy]

I would be a vampire hunter, like a souped up combination of a modern day Abraham Van Helsing and Blade.

 

[Ludlow]

Well, vampires are already dead. So how can AIDS hurt them?

Indeed. And yet it's quite interesting to consider that, in Western Europe, vampires themselves were actually considered to be bearers and spreaders of disease. Some etymologists have argued that the word Nosferatu (which is believed to have been used to denote a vampire in Romanian culture) has its origin in the Greek word, nosophoros (νοσοφόρος) which means "disease-carrying". Some scholars have stated that the legend of the vampire gained a renewed potency when the Black Death ravaged Europe in the 14th Century; the figure of the vampire became an allegory for the plague in the fevered minds of the superstitious subjects of Mediaeval Christendom.

And for the record: I'd be a complex, world-weary, faintly camp yet perpetually dangerous vampire like Barnabas Collins in Dark Shadows:

Fabulous!

 

[Ludlow]

^ Could be why in some instances, vampirism is considered a disease in and of itself? You get bit, you become infected, and turn.

Kinda like zombism I guess.

Or getting bittten by the "Love Bug".

Yeah.

And the theme of disease was present in Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula movie, too; with Van Helsing discussing venereal disease and blood during his lecture.

 

[StlKj]

"I see' said the vampire..."

One of english literature's great opening lines of a novel. It is said by Louis to a mortal who is interviewing him in Anne Rice's "Interview With A Vampire", the novel which began her vampire series. It beautifully begins to reveal Louis' character: thoughtful, ambivalent, reserved. He is also passionate but pent-up, ambitious but self-effacing and sometimes self-denying, lustful but self-censoring, takes human life but sometimes tries to exist off of small mammals, acts cruelly but is moralistic, in awe of and in love with his creator the vampire Lestat but also jealous and envious and of him but also repulsed by him. A would-be romantic in the sense of the Romantic Era characters but really to self-conscious and self-involved to be the flamboyant, adventurous spirit that that requires.

Well what type of vampire is that? And is it you?

Wow. Should I just pay you $80.00 now and then schedule our next session with your receptionist? You do accept my kind of insurance, right?