Yeah despite my love for the Gangrel they became an anachronism the second Werewolf came out and I don't feel like they ever really found a place for them after that
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Replying to @autogynamelia @arthur_affect and
The only one I can't square are Malkavians. I can't figure out what archetype from prior vampire fiction they're supposed to be.
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Replying to @nivenus @autogynamelia and
It's mostly the "knowing the truth makes you mad" and "insane asylums are classic horror settings". Less vampire specific, but it's still there.
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Replying to @social_scifi @autogynamelia and
Yeah I was thinking they may just be generic "mental illness is frightening" monsters.
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Replying to @nivenus @autogynamelia and
They tried to make it more interesting and less problematic in later books with "mental illness is not wacky" paragraphs, but never got there.
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Replying to @social_scifi @nivenus and
I had a Malkavian character who was actually entirely normal—emotionally healthy above and beyond even non-Malkavian Kindred—but for the fact that she had the Hollywood cartoon version of narcolepsy where she'd just randomly blink out for a while, usually during smth important
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @social_scifi and
I think this is canonically a side-effect of True Brujah overusing Temporis
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
There's a Gehenna scenario which revolves around the idea that Troile lied and told everyone they killed Ilyes but Ilyes was, in fact, such a master of Temporis that he just escaped by time traveling to the present day
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Is there a single fucking Antedeluvian who was "killed" who wasn't then retconned as having escaped death?
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Replying to @autogynamelia @arthur_affect and
I love how the WWDITS series seems to deliberately lampshade this with the Baron
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Lol his eyes pop open and glow red and they immediately say to finish burying him
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