thread: 2011-03-10 : Hungry Desperate and Alone
On 2011-03-11, cc wrote:
nolanddda, wut?
That... seems very bizarre to me. I'm not saying it can't be done; clearly it has been done. It just seems kinda pointless to me. Plus, you can look at all those love-across-the-class-barrier type stuff and see that it is romantic precisely because it describes a situation that is rare in reality. And in all of these the participants are still human, and the barriers that separate them socially imposed (or magical, in the case of Beauty)
It seems pretty simple to me. Vampires are not people, they are undead. And they they don't just exploit humans, they kill and eat. Getting emotionally touchy-feely with prey species is not something you see a lot of in nature, and in fact most of our, human, relations with other animals are with other predators (cats, dogs) rather than with prey.
So whatever, I just find the idea that vampires have these relationships with humans thoroughly unintuitive and requiring a big leap of logic. Frex, do vamps have a sex drive? They don't reproduce like humans, so why would they be hung up on all the romance stuff? Would their brains respond to the hormones and chemical influences that we experience as "love"? Maybe, you can do anything in fiction if you want, but it just seems odd to me as an assumption.
