[Art by @swordsofthorns from our comic When Hypnotic Eyes Meet. He is currently crowdfunding for transition care, please go support. ]
The vampire is an ever expanding concept, layers on layers from innovations, merging of myths, alternative cultures, and the many layers of media representation. What a vampire is, what it represents and how it exists in this world all vary from story to story. It is with knowing that that I speak about my own personal take on vampires as a person who has written vampires many times.
I believe vampires can go into true queer wish fulfillment. That a vampire can stand for queer strength, queer struggle, queer love and queer liberation. The death and then rebirth, the fear of the light, the community, the spreading through intimacy, the undying nature, it all suits queerness does it not. As a trans Lesbian I particularly am found of the death and rebirth, killing an old self and being reborn as someone new, someone more true to the nature of the woman who was once there.
I want to cover the blood of how Vampires I write work then talk about why I chose these things thematically and as part of the lore. Click keep reading for all the goodness.
[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.
I hope you enjoyed, if you did you might like checking out my work, you can go to my Carrd to get links to everything I worked on and find ways to support me. I'd love to write more vampires and I may be doing a bit of that in Thirsty Sword Lesbians: Falling Deeper.
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You know you're addicted to vampires when you wake up after a night of drinking and say, "I'm a vampire right?" while checking for fangs. With your tongue.
