#trans vampires

[Art by https://twitter.com/remusmaurice which is also the cover for my little webnovel I wrote Love Beyond The Holy Light]

For me a vampire is a chance for a rebirth. The death removes that person who was there before and brings someone who was there inside all along, someone stronger, someone with fantastical powers and the strength to live on even beyond their own death. In this rebirth they are given an idealized form, a form that is their own deep personal, subconscious ideal. All vampires are sexy because their the self they wish to be. Their thirst for blood is a thirst for connection, for affection, for vengeance, it is layers of things depending on the context. Typically my vampires are not hurt by the sun but instead they simply are about human strength and around human ability when in the sunlight, they are playing by the rules of society but in the dark they make their own rules and are beyond the cis/het patriarchy. Although powerful vampires are effected even less by the sun.

A vampire has hypnotic powers, their compelling, their freedom, their way of life, their passion, their charisma, their unique sensibility it pulls you in and you just want to listen. They are fast, strong, they regenerate, they are unending in their resilience and ready to bash back. The vampire is a magical being and in so is inclined to magic, it comes naturally with different strings of magic coming to different people easier or harder. This leads to diverse things from turning into bats to shape shifting into other forms of humans to becoming a soft mist, a vampire's spells are their own, personal.

My vampires can see their reflection and are not effected by religious objects. However, this is only so true as they transcend their own traumas. Can they look themselves in the mirror or do they remember when they face they saw looked wrong and avoid being seen by it's reflective image. Does the pain of a religious upbringings make them move back at the sign of a cross, avoid a temple of worship, run at a incantation from a holy person?

If you want an example not written by me of Vampire's I think is good Seifuku no Vampiress Lord is probably my favorite Vampire Story that I've read. It's sadly a series that had to rush it's ending do to being canned and has yet to be localized but I promise it's an expectational lesbian vampire story.