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Level 1: The vampire drinks blood, but is fine with non-human blood. It does not want to drink your blood. Any relationship between you and the vampire can be presumed as authentic as a human connection.

Level 2: The vampire would really LIKE to drink your blood, but is unwilling to do so. This can be for general moral reasons (won’t drink any human blood) or person-specific reasons (won’t drink YOUR blood). It can be presumed that the vampire may obtain human blood in another way, such as blood bags. Any relationship with this vampire is almost the same as with a human, with the undercurrent of “it does still want to eat you, or something like you”.

Level 3: The vampire wants your blood specifically and is willing to hurt you to get it, but is not willing to kill you. This may be due to a personal connection with the vampire (it likes you) or selfish motivations (if you’re alive, it can drink your blood for longer). Any relationship with the vampire is tinged by the uncertainty of its motivations.

Level 4: The vampire wants your blood and is willing to hurt or kill you to get it, but it would generally prefer not killing you. This may be due to a personal connection with the vampire, though a more tenuous connection than at Level 3, or selfishly motivated (the longer you live, the more blood you make). You may have a relationship with the vampire, genuine or otherwise, but you know it’s willing and able to kill you.

Level 5: The vampire wants your blood and is willing to kill you. It has no interest in keeping you alive. It may form a relationship with you, but this can be understood as either a hunting tactic (false sense of security so it can strike at an opportune time) or sport (it enjoys playing with its food). You are unlikely to understand the vampire’s true intention, and may genuinely believe you have a relationship with the vampire, but authenticity on the part of the vampire is unlikely.

Level 6: The vampire wants to eat you, sees you as prey, and will hunt and kill you on sight. It has no interest in forming a relationship with you, even as a hunting tactic. The animalism of the vampire may vary, from a completely animal predator to an intelligent creature who sees you as the animal.

Anyways, here’s what I find hot about each level:

1. Basically a human, normal relationship.

2. Hot cause restrained. Wants something from you so bad but values your needs above its own.

3. Hot cause vulnerable. It’s nice to offer something in a relationship, and this situation makes you incredibly vulnerable. You are baring your throat, and trusting that it won’t be torn out.

4. Hot in the way russian roulette is hot. There’s a good chance you die and you may not gain anything from the risk, but it’s thrilling in a way not many things are. This is where I draw a distinctive line called “only hot in fiction, I would not like to experience anything like this in reality”.

5. Hot in the way holding a lit match is hot. Playing chicken with a freight train. A life-or-death chess match. You know where the danger is, you know it will strike. Your only salvation is knowing when to stop playing.