Throw vampire clichés at me

[Rater202]

Is there a race in this world that is like poison to vamps? I remember reading some lines in a dresden crossover fic where he talks about how someone who is White Court I think, but not evil, cant be around the woman he loves because love is like asking a buffy vamp to gargle holy water. He has to wear gloves just to touch her or be burned or some such thing. A tragic love match like that would be even more perfect. Not only do their families oppose the pairing, they literally cant be together or else she/they burn.

That would be Harry Dresden's half Brother Thomas Raith-White Court Vampires like Tomas feed on Lifeforce but must do so thourgh a negative emotion-Raiths feed on Lust, but there are others who feed on Fear and Dispare.

It's not a property of his beloved that burns him, but rather a property of his own powers-White Court Vampires are burned if they try to feed on someone who is protected by a strong and true manifestation of a specific positive emotion-Love, Courage, or Hope. In the case of White Court Vampires, if the person they try to feed from last made love with someone whom they genuinely loved in the romantic sense, and who loved them genuinely in a romantic sense, then they can't be fed on-0even if their true love is the vampire in question.

The problem is that White Courters feed by skin contact, and Thomas can't control himself enough to not instinctively feed on people he's attracted to when he touches them.

Although, by the time of Ghost Story, he and his beloved have found a loop hole that allows them to be together for a short while.

[SoC175]

Which is also a mythological vampire cliché, apart from the shouting of the numbers. Classic way to get away from a vampire: throw them a handful of salt or rice, they can only continue hunting you when they have counted the grains.

Better not rely on that, as Wes Craven's Dracula teached us

[Traab]

Agreed. Definitely at least make it a love triangle, though a love rhombus would be okay as well.

Make sure to include an arranged marriage that at the very least SHE doesnt want. That way you get extra tragedy as she is not only in love with her families enemy, but also being forced to marry someone she doesnt want to. Preferably someone far older and nastier so there is more danger and emo involved.

[Eldan]

Better not rely on that, as Wes Craven's Dracula teached us

That's why you fill the salt in large sacks and drop them from a rooftop on their heads.

[Traab]

That's why you fill the salt in large sacks and drop them from a rooftop on their heads.

With a holy hand grenade inside?

[Radar]

With a holy hand grenade inside?

They aren't as good as they are advertised: you need to cook them while counting aloud.

[Killer Angel]

...and he's got a part-time job in a blood bank.

[runeghost]

It's looking pretty good so far, but I haven't seen anyone suggest an actual corset yet. And on the face makeup, I'd suggest doing something like Neil Gaiman's Death from Sandman.

Don't forget to have her complain about how much she misses lovely sunsets. She should also be a talented piano and/or violin player. And possibly in a rock band, which may also be made up of vampires or other supernatural creatures.

And for maximum munchkiness and cheeze, have her katana be something like Excalibur or Cortana; it was taken to the East hundreds of years ago, and then the ancient and magical western blade was reforged into a katana by one of her ancestors. (Probably Muramasa or Hattori Hanzo.)

[Eldan]

That's right, can't forget the famous ancestry.

[Jeivar]

It's looking pretty good so far, but I haven't seen anyone suggest an actual corset yet. And on the face makeup, I'd suggest doing something like Neil Gaiman's Death from Sandman.

Ah, good old Death. A worthy suggestion.
And an armoured corset will of course feature in the overall outfit.

Don't forget to have her complain about how much she misses lovely sunsets. She should also be a talented piano and/or violin player. And possibly in a rock band, which may also be made up of vampires or other supernatural creatures.

I already wrote Darkblood Gloomgloom into an underground Gothic rock band, with her as singer and guitarist. But since I have her living in a church the thought occurred that it might still have a great big organ. But it's difficult to move one to a concert, and I don't want to spend the points for TWO musical skills.
Also, after finding stats for a whip as a weapon in V:tM I was able to justify her possessing one: Using whipcracks as a beat in some of the songs. Now she uses it as a weapon in the battles of the damned!

That's right, can't forget the famous ancestry.

This made me think of Elisabeth Bathory, but I don't know if Carmilla Blayde is evil enough for that kind of connection.

[Eldan]

Claim a poet or an artist, then. Byron would be double-funny for inspiring the first Victorian vampire.

[Radar]

Claim a poet or an artist, then. Byron would be double-funny for inspiring the first Victorian vampire.

Which would segue nicely into her writing pretentious sappy poetry (not that Byron was anything like that - it's just that having such an ancestor might have an influence on her view of her own abilities regardless of reality). Her tortured soul tries to glimps the marvels of inaccessible heavens through art. Unlife... is pain.

[TheThan]

Not sword. Or not just a sword. Clearly, you need a Katana. That also allows you to make the grandfather Japanese and your vampire half-asian.

or a scythe, its a good alternative to a sword.

Don't forget to have her complain about how much she misses lovely sunsets. She should also be a talented piano and/or violin player. And possibly in a rock band, which may also be made up of vampires or other supernatural creatures.

You need to play a harpsichord or a pipe organ.

[Rater202]

Make her a cute monster girl Nosferatu who constantly angsts about how ugly she is despite the fact that all four of her love interests think she's cute/hot despite or even because of those deformities.

If she plays the pipe organ, then a gender swapped version of the Title Song from the Phantom of the Opera is mandatory

[Traab]

Has anyone mentioned the animated shadow? Thats a fun one. It can be played for laughs, for creepy factor, or even as a terrible power. Or just be like Unseen Servant Only, you know, a shadow.

[SowZ]

There's a common trope in media about goth girls having one cutesy/stereotypically feminine thing about them that they either embrace and somehow turn dark and creepy or they hide and would kill you if you revealed. This could be a beloved stuffed animal, she eats gummy bears, wears pink underwear, squees over gerbils, drives a slug bug, whatever. It's a somewhat sexist cliche, but I've seen it plenty of times.

[Jeivar]

There's a common trope in media about goth girls having one cutesy/stereotypically feminine thing about them that they either embrace and somehow turn dark and creepy or they hide and would kill you if you revealed. This could be a beloved stuffed animal, she eats gummy bears, wears pink underwear, squees over gerbils, drives a slug bug, whatever. It's a somewhat sexist cliche, but I've seen it plenty of times.

I've already decided she owns a bat plushie from her childhood.

Anyway, I think my cliché monster is pretty ready, and now I'm just writing down pretentious lines of dialogue to use in certain situations.

Entering combat: "To the abyss with thee!"
Frenzying: "The beast uncoils from mine damned soul!"
Hurrying: "Let us fly on wings of darkness."
Waking up in the evening: "The sun surrenders and the damned rise."
Feeding: "Feel the cold embrace of the dead."
Hungry: "I must quench mine unholy cravings."
Going to bed: "Into the arms of Morpheus I go."

And so on.

[Jeivar]

Well, after much deliberation I think I've found the perfect pretentious vampire name: Scarlet Nite.