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
Yeah I hate that I've ever been in a position to argue in favor of anything Stephanie Meyer ever did but Her reimagining of vampires isn't even as extreme as what LeFanu, Polidori, and Stoker did with the existing vampire myths a century and a half earlier
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Replying to @autogynamelia @dreamingnoctis and
I feel like there's room in pop culture for both gross ancient Strain style vampires and pretty sexy gay vampires and I've lost patience with anyone who holds one up as "better" or more "real" than the other
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Replying to @autogynamelia @dreamingnoctis and
That's why Vampire the Masquerade has multiple vampire clans and has the whole ongoing Nosferatu/Toreador feud
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Replying to @arthur_affect @autogynamelia and
Occasionally they forget that the shtick is basically "each clan is one particular set of Vampire tropes", but the game is best when it's fully aware of it.
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Replying to @social_scifi @autogynamelia and
Yeah the whole idea is there's such a dizzying array of vampire powers and weaknesses it would be almost impossible to play a single character who embodied all of them so they spread them out
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Replying to @arthur_affect @social_scifi and
IIRC there's even a thing where they typically used "repelled by garlic" as an example of the ridiculous things humans believe about vampires but then there's actually a family of revenats (hereditary ghouls, i.e. shitty half-vampires) who really are horribly poisoned by garlic
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Replying to @arthur_affect @social_scifi and
You can even pinpoint specific movies or books that inspired each Clan, like Brujah was invented to play the "teenage street punk" vampires from The Lost Boys, Toreador was the Byronic artiste vampires like Lestat from Anne Rice, etc etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @social_scifi and
The street punk vampires have always been my fav.m ever since I fell in love with The Lost Boys when I was like, 7.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @arthur_affect and
I didn't really ever want to play a Brujah mostly just because I love fancy Disciplines so then a Storyteller developed a really cartoonish, out-of-genre Discpline called "Blue Magik" which was just a bunch of empty dots that would let me save a move to it if I was hit by one
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Did you ever follow all the stuff with the True Brujah and the Temporis Discipline
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and
In what sense? I love True Brujah and their Clan Discipline, they're one of my favorites along with the Baali and Kiasyd
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect and
Wow your faves are like, all the clans that White Wolf grognards hold up as the franchise jumping the shark Always bucking the conventional wisdom
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