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On the contrary: vampires are an allegory for the upper class, being parasites who suck the blood (wealth) from society.
(Also, the nature of being immortal means you have plenty of time to wait for your investments to appreciate, so all but the newest vampires should be wealthy enough to afford a castle if they want.)
That’s what Bram Stoker’s Dracula was about, which has shaped modern ideas of vampires.
Older stories were a little bit more “monster in the dark”. There was a fairly famous case where 18th century New Englanders took the heart out of a young dead woman, burned it and fed it to her brother to break a vampiric curse.
Since the actual curse seems to have been tuberculosis, this didn’t quite work.
I’m willing to bet there haven’t been any vampires in that family since, so…
The vampires in your workplace:
Yes, Dracula lived in a castle because he was a landlord. But all classic vampires in literature are in a sense. Originally, in oral history and folk takes, vampires were more about fear of sickness and about not understanding how diseases spread. But later, literary Vampires were a standin for the universal experience of how landlords are bloodsucking pests. Take Dracula: the protagonist is a solicitor who comes to Transylvania to help the vampire buy land and various properties in England. Then the plot revolves around preventing his moving to England, but the heroes fail at that, because he has prepared to well, is just too rich and has filled out all the legal paperwork.
The monsters have never been the problem, it’s always been class warfare. The nobility are the monsters
I was gonna say something about how there should be a modern setting with working class vampires. Then I remembered that vampire the Masquerade exists and has the Anarchs.
Fun vampire fact:
It is considered extremely rude and offensive, in vampire culture, to not allow a guest who really needs to use the bathroom into your home, to use it and then quickly leave.
I thought vampires didn’t urinate or defecate? Touching up your hair also seems tricky.
Well, I mean, what, are you running a hemoglobin screen on everyone you meet?
How are you to know who is and isn’t a vampire?
(lol)
But uh I hadn’t heard the no urinating or defecating thing. Maybe I missed it? I’ve more familiar with the uh, more vintage vampire lore, than with… sparkly caesarean sections.
I basically mean most stuff up to Buffy.
#NotAllVampires
#NoTallVampires
My vtm character is trailer trash, it’s pretty great honestly
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Good point though. Most vampires are gutter punks.
