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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Replying to @Nymphomachy @nivenus and
Again, you need to finish Season 3 of Travelers
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(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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