You gotta keep in mind at first they only planned to do one game so their original idea required doing other monsters in vampire form if they wanted to include them at all Gangrel are werewolf vampires, Setites are mummy vampires
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
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
That is so staggeringly on-brand for you
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Replying to @autogynamelia @Nymphomachy and
I was gonna say, was she also a mutant names Hibernia
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Replying to @nivenus @autogynamelia and
Hibernia naps on command, this was napping on the Storyteller's command totally different
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Again, you need to finish Season 3 of Travelers
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
(Spoiler alert: This becomes Trevor's extremely dangerous secret weakness, it's one of the things that happens when a mind that's been copied to a new brain too many times gets too old and starts getting data corruption)
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