Awaken the princess from her sleep?

Lover's Eye Bracelet

c. 1860

Watercolor on ivory set in a gold bracelet

probably British

the human kidnapping the vampire, locking it up and starving it so that when they slice their wrist and shove the wound into the vampire’s mouth it can’t help but drink. the sick satisfaction of the human and the horror and repulsion of the vampire. even better if it’s a vampire who avoids human blood.

and once the vampire has been forced to suck the blood, just as it was forced to suck its sire’s blood way back when it was turned, then the human cuts into the vampire’s chest and the vampire is victim once again.

besides the physical violation, can you imagine the mental and emotional toll? the vampire, who had done so well not to hurt anyone, not to spread its horrid disease, has created this thing. a thing that reminds the vampire constantly that it created it.

“i put my wrist in your mouth, but you’re the one who kept it there. you drank from me with pleasure. it’s in your nature. it’s in our nature. everything you are, so now am i. your blood flows within me. we are one, and will live together for eternity. you wanted this. you wanted me.”

Carmilla & Laura