#vampire characters

Like people think they’re these ageless creatures of the night who think at inhuman timescales….

Imagine you fell in love a long time ago. Whoever was a vampire first turned the other because you are just so in love with each other. However as the years go on, you still love each other but gods are you fed up of being stuck together because eternity really means eternity and now you have become the oldest most grumpiest married couple there ever was. You love each other but you bicker like crazy because after all these years you just know each other too well and everything is predictable. Suddenly that idea of eternity together is looking worse and worse. So how do you spice things up? Oh I don’t know, maybe by seeing other people. Maybe sabotaging each others lives. Maybe even trying to kill each other even though you are both well matched ability wise and it’s a real challenge.

I think I liked Lestat the most, starting with the first book, Interview with the Vampire, and the movie. Anne Rice is an excellent author, and Lestat is, of course, charming. I've read probably all of this author's books about him. Deacon Frost from the movie Blade is also pretty cool, if I try to remember off the top of my head. I've read Dracula and Carmilla, of course, they're classics. I liked Coppola's 1992 film Dracula. I know that Luc Besson's new film Dracula has just come out, but I haven't seen it yet. I also like Strahd in general, but he's a well-known vampire in D&D. To be honest, I was able to truly understand poor Strahd thanks to Astarion (when in patch 6 they tried to “take away” Astarion from me by destroying the game). Before that, I used to joke about poor Lord of Barovia, saying, why is he so obsessed with this Tatyana? He's a cool vampire, a lord, there are plenty of women around, he could find someone better, lol... But then I realized that it wasn't right to joke like that. Probably, at that moment, if Strahd and I had sat down and had a drink together, we would have been able to understand each other and have a meaningful conversation “about life.” :) I didn't like Twilight. I started reading it but gave up because I personally found it too boring and snotty. Although I generally like vampire romance, for example, I liked the story of Sylas and Delilah Briarwood (from the Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role), the love story of Armand and Daniel (Anne Rice “The Vampire Armand,” the series “Interview with the Vampire”).

I also really liked Miklós Balza, a vampire character from Alexei Pekhov's Kindred series of books. He is a particularly interesting character. Unfortunately, it seems that Alexei Pekhov's books have not been translated into English, as I was unable to find any translations. A small parallel can be drawn with Astarion because of his extremely cruel past in slavery, which Miklos also had. But Miklos' character is perhaps tougher than Astarion's. He is cruel, strong, charismatic, and narcissistic, but he is not like the clichéd movie villains. He has the appearance of a fragile young man, but with a steel core inside (as well as perfectionism, flashes of rage, brilliant black humor, and high intelligence):

“My attitude toward mortals is no worse than their attitude toward each other. I even kill them on a smaller scale than they do to each other. And in all the time that the Golden Wasps have existed, I have not been able to come up with anything more cruel than what humans have invented — mass murders, reservations, concentration camps, genocide, sadistic experiments...“ © Miklós Balza, from the book ”The Founder"