There are other vampires – one of them turned you, after all.
Vampires are like humans, so some are loners, some form ‘families’ or other looser associations, a few are actively anti-social or are ‘good vampires’ who work with slayers and religious groups to destroy your kind. It’s a rich tapestry!
The question of money is an interesting one. I think investments are a good approach, and of course thievery might be easier as a vampire (you can’t be seen by the security cameras after all). Working the night shift seems like the obvious option – perhaps at a hospital? As long as there’s a way to make sure you don’t get involuntarily transferred to days.
Working for the cops seems risky, but possible, if you have crime-fighting urges. (I liked Forever Knight!)
But the OP says we can keep our current relationships!
Am I the kind of modern-noir vampire who still enjoys sexy times or the traditional Nosferatu with no interest in my potential legion of nubile goth girls?
Yeah dude, I’m all in. I’ll just chomp on people I don’t like!
(At first I was gonna write, “I’ll just chomp on dicks!” Heh. Totally not what I meant!)
(Imagining that is amusing me right now. I’d totally come at it from the side, since I’m not really a straw kind of guy, and then I’m making the vampire face, but it’s such an awkward position that I can’t really get into it, and I’m totally NOT into it, if you get my meaning, but I’m friggin’ starving and man I really should have thought this through…just stick with the neck dude. Jesus.)
I don’t like the part about constantly craving blood. That makes me a desperate addict and I’d want to kill myself except for that “eternal damnation” part. Shit. This would really suck, pun intended. Even after feeding I still crave blood? Wouldn’t I non-stop feed until I’d wiped out all human and animal life? This doesn’t end well.
If I could at least be temporarily sated the same way humans are after they eat, well then I could see this working.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that you would never be sated. If you feed on human blood, you’ll get full like a human would after a nice meal. I just meant that it would always be blood you’d crave, the way humans get hungry. Only somewhat more so, not literally constant.
Sure, at first I’ll be all “I’m only preying on the bad guys” but just like with popcorn, a couple of kernels turns into a handful turns into a bucket. Pretty soon, you’re surrounded by corpses, forced to subsist on cows and whatnot like a common peasant ghoul. (shudder)
If animal blood is an option, I’m good with that. I eat meat anyway; what’s the big diff?
As for the other issues, a lot would depend on the theological implications. If I’m truly “undead,” or, worse, soulless and damned, then I’ll need to find a nice priest who’ll put a stake through me. I will not continue in such a state.
If it’s just another phase of existence, with some weird rules, then, sure, I’ll play along.
Good gawd, the board’s HAVE deteriorated - we now have a bunch of pansies (when was the last time for that one?) who want to be “sensitive” vampires:
“I’ll take human blood, but I won’t hurt anyone”.
You’re a fuc*in’ VAMPIRE - get over yourself - you WILL be all nasty. And you’ll LOVE it!
Well, the soul question is unresolved. What is a soul?
But the priests will kill you if you ask, I think. Unless asking to be killed disqualifies your demonic essence, or something. A potential paradox?
