It's really a style thing, as far as I can tell. The swooping wings/capes do more than the bloodsucking
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There's very little Bat stuff in early vampire depictions. If anything their metaphorical animal was the leech
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Replying to @social_scifi @mssilverstein and
There's an argument that the flukeworm monster in the famous early X Files episode has more in common with at least a certain historical depiction of vampires than a lot of post-Victorian, post-Gothic vampire fiction.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @social_scifi and
Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, a LOT of it dates back, not even just to Bram Stoker, but to Bela Lugosi specifically.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @social_scifi and
To a degree, yeah. And the folklore is interesting, but here's a new blazing cursed sun hot take from me; The "ackshually historical folklore vampires were like X" has become the vampire equivalent to "Frankenstein is the name of the doctor!"
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @mssilverstein and
*makes condescending noise while adjusting glasses* aakchshoehually....Victor Frankenstien wasn't a doctor, he just went to university Awwwlseeew, diid yuew know that Mary Shelly and Lord Byron bibble bibble, John Poliadori's "The Vampyre" blib blib same house one weekend.
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Replying to @social_scifi @dreamingnoctis and
Lol yeah Victor was a goddamn undergrad, when he made the Creature he'd only completed his *freshman year* That was the point, once he started getting obsessed with babbling nonsense about creating artificial life he started failing his classes and alienating his professors
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Replying to @arthur_affect @social_scifi and
Even hotter take; Victor was just the equivalent of a modern day pseudo-intellectual logic/debate/econ brok, who gets some 101 knowledge then fancies themselves the world's greatest genius even though their ideas are actually horrible and dangerous.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @social_scifi and
Shelley's book, unlike the adaptations, doesn't specify how he makes the monster - it doesn't describe the stitching body parts together and zapping them with electricity at all What little it does say says that his theory doesn't make any SENSE
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and
All his teachers tell him that he's just grabbing stuff from long-disproved authors from hundreds of years ago and putting it together in contradictory ways, he's a total crackpot For the sake of the story this is necessary, Victor's discovery is more madness than reason
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Hence no one else can recreate it and when he dies it dies with him He has the terrible realization that the reason he can't make the Creature a Bride is that even making one more example will give the Creature, itself a genius, the ability to reverse engineer the process
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and
All of this is fairly typical for unrealistic Mad Science in fiction but it leaves the door open for fanfic like The Frankenstein Papers or Promethean: the Created to theorize Victor's secret sauce didn't even work at all and the explanation for the Creature was something else
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and
Even Stephen King kind of got into this with his novel Revival, where the villain of the story who thought he'd tapped into unknown powers of electricity to heal actually, oops, accidentally accessed an eldritch a realm of cosmic horror ant gods.
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