What are everyone's headcanons for vampire mates? Are they fated or chosen? If a mate dies can a vampire recover and find a second mate?
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What are everyone's headcanons for vampire mates? Are they fated or chosen? If a mate dies can a vampire recover and find a second mate?

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Do yall believe in vampire mates how stephenie describes? Like a vamp changes irrevocably (lol) and is "paired off" and such?
G: hmmm. I think it's easier to talk about this if we separate it into two aspects:
1 - Fanon. when it comes to Twilight vampires, the fandom heard the word "mate" and took that shit and RAN with it (because of course we did, we are the horny little bastards who invented A/B/O. more power to us.) I think smeyer uses the word "mate" a little differently—she's trying to make the vampires animal-coded, and she's trying to communicate that their society doesn't really have marriage but they still have this type of heterosexual monogamous Eternal Commitment. I've seen a lot of people in fandom treat "vampire mates" as if they function the same as werewolf imprinting—as a switch that flips, no free will involved, and an (often sexual) compulsion.
peeeeersonally I think what stephenie actually means with all that "changes irrevocably" stuff is that vampires are only capable of loving in extremes—they live forever, they commit forever, they mourn forever, so naturally all their relationships are really intense. but there is still that element of CHOICE there that is totally absent from the werewolves—the vampire gets to CHOOSE who they wanna be with, and "mate" is, crucially, a label they assign each other. I've seen many fics where "vampire mates" work the same way as imprinting ("Oh my God, Demetri, you locked eyes with Y/N and discovered she's your mate!") and I don't think that's what's going on in canon at all. (alice and jasper excepted, of course, since apparently they really WERE Destined By Fate or whatever. lol wacky fun.)
2 - Ok, THAT SAID, I do think canon "vampire mates" are still very soulmate-AU adjacent. the idea of "singers" is close to both that and werewolf imprinting, for example. and stephenie's own upbringing colors the fact that she writes her vampires with exactly One True Love ever and no one is allowed to move on and find love with someone new.
so do I "believe" in vampire mates the way stephenie wrote them? I mean...kinda? It's her story, and if she says they commit to one person for eternity, that's her prerogative. but I personally wouldn't let that keep me from writing Second Chance vampire romance in fic, or stories about moving on from grief, etc etc, if I wanted to. it just so happens that I think stephenie's "the vampire is forever obsessed with wreaking gory vengeance" take is more fun most of the time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Shannon: Because of how much it's tied to the omegaverse, nowadays when I hear "mate" I constantly am thinking of 1) the omegaverse, 2) those shitty weird ads I keep getting on tiktok and facebook that are straight up wolf porn, and 3) I guess Twilight a little bit. but my longer opinions are summed up in an old ask here.
^an ad G got the other day. it's "refusal from the clan" btw
Lilia: "um it's like when Australians say "mate," you're really good buddies. we just don't get it because we're american. it's an inside joke and we're not privy to the fun"
Hi I was wondering if you could make a Klaus Mikaelson Love one shot where the reader is Carolines twin sister and also Klauses mate but Klaus don't want her to get hurt by his enemies so he spends his time on Caroline and the reader is a vampire so she can feel the mate bond and doesn't understand why he hates her so much to ignore their mate bond so she goes into depression and doesn't eat or drink blood she doesn't leave her room and she is in pain all she wants is Klaus but she thinks that Klaus doesn't want her and Caroline starts worrying about her so she gets Bonnie to do a spell to see what's wrong with herand they figure its because of Klaus rejecting her.
ends in smut only if you want to it doesn't have to!!!
Resisting the truth
The concept of soulmates wasn’t something Klaus believed in. A ridiculous theory really.
And when people claimed to have had them he took pleasure in killing one just to watch the other crumble at the sight.
Even when Rebekah insisted that Marcel was hers, he wouldn’t let them be together. It was a stupid idea and he wouldn’t condone it.
He didn’t believe it in any respect.
So when he felt that odd pull, well he didn’t know how to respond.
Vampire Mates pt. 6*Lemon*
Author's note and warning: there are 2 lemons in this chapter.
Britt's pov:
"Are you doing anything tonight?" Atem asked
"No, why?" I asked
"You should come back by our place, I insist." Atem said
"Uh sure." I Said
I started walking with them talking with Yami but Kayla stood between the three of us and leaving. I knew she had encouraged me to go forward with this and here she was standing in my way. I questioned what she was up to but she smiled at me.
"Where are you going?" Kayla asked
"She's coming with me and my brother." Atem said as I saw Kayla look at him "You wouldn't want her being alone after everything that's happened to her, right?" "I..well" Kayla said
Kayla loved without a second thought and I walked right past her knowing there could be more better things. I saw my sister and her boyfriend just talking away but I was curious on what these two had in mind. It was a bit of a walk before we arrived at their place.
Vampire Mates pt.4
Britt's pov:
I was walking to old place admiring how well built it was and not really ready for what was to come. I noticed the string for a doorbell and I pulled on it waiting to see who would answer. I didn't get any answer so I knocked on the door and suddenly it opened. I walked in which may of been a bad thing but the door was open.
"Yami" I said looking to see if I could find him without going too far in "Yami"
I'd made it to the living room as I looked around amazed by my surroundings of his place and I heard noise coming from somewhere as I was taking in the area. I walked toward the door again to look outside when I saw a black crow, it surprised me and when I turned around I came face to face with someone who looked like Yami but was more tan. He didn't even seem phased that I was there as he seemed to be admiring me?
"I--I'm sorry for barging in the door was.." When I looked back the door was closed "Open" but then I looked back at the man in front of me. "You must be Britt. I'm Atem, Yami's brother." He said "He didn't tell me he had a brother." I said "well, Yami isn't one to brag." He said as he put a hand on my shoulder "Please come in. I'm sure Yami will be here any second." Atem said

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Vampire Mates pt. 5
Britt's pov:
I just left the house of Yami and Atem, I had many things to think about one of them being that Atem was so mysterious. Yami, I knew him from school but something was up. I tried hard not to over do it as I knew there was too much to go on about. I went home where I helped mom with dinner.
"What's on your mind?" Mom asked "I went to see someone, I ended up meeting their brother." I said as I was continuing my work. "I think they're twins, but I didn't get that far in the conversation."
The night was nothing to talk about as dinner went on like usual. Not that I wanted to really talk as I worked on concentrating on keeping things together. I knew too well that there was nothing more I could do on my part. When I went to bed my mind had thoughts as if I were someone else to the point I woke up sitting up breathing heavy. Bre came in and checked on me seeing I was breathing heavy.
Vampire Mates pt. 3
No ones point of view:
Britt was walking around with Tanya speaking to her about things. Tanya was questioning Britt to get an answer out of her. They saw Jake and Britt waved which Jake waved back only to turn from them.
"He hates me." Britt said
"That's not hating...it's I love you but you turned me down before I even had a chance to date you." Tanya said with a laugh
"Well I don't want to date him and I told him that." Britt said
They were arriving to the big school party which Britt didn't mind going to with friends.She had a small group which was her main friends but she didn't mind and it wasn't like anyone else could bother her.
Vampire Mates pt. 2
Atem's POV:
I watched her for a while as she seemed so naive about her own surroundings but then most humans were. I loved the idea of converting a new mate though one that would not tear me and my brother apart or try to make us decide when one would get her and the other had to wait. Yami watched her practically never taking his eyes off of her. He'd already met her first so I pushed him forward and he looked at me.
"Go talk with her" I said
Yami seemed hesitant but he walked over to the table of girls I knew he could never take his eyes off her.
Britt's POV:
We were talking about the coming up party for the return to school and everyone seemed to be in agreement to go. I was glad that no one seemed to object but suddenly Hathor looked over noticing a group of guys. I wondered what she was looking at so I looked seeing Yami who I'd bumped into earlier.
"Oh it's him, the new guy." I said