Since the poll didn’t attach to the other, pardon the dupe.
So let’s define vampire since there are many different types: we’re going with the True Love/Buffy paradigm here with vampires being immortal creatures, humanlike but with superhuman strength and speed, and the regular weakness of daylight (though not crosses) and inability to reproduce.
If offered would you become a vampire?
I dibs Spike!
If I can be a souled vampire, with only a few weeks of crazy instead of 200 years of brooding, sure. Spike got him some: Dru, Harm, Anya, the Buffster…
Since True Blood vampires don’t have to kill to live, they’re basically just immortals who have to avoid sunlight. I could deal with that.
I wouldn’t want to become a Buffyverse vampire. Whether you believe the Watcher’s Council thing about there being no true connection between vamp & human or not, Buffyverse vamps are evil sociopaths. I won’t become a murderer.
Are True Blood vampires evil in the same way? I mean, I know they don’t have to actually drink HUMAN blood, but neither do BuffyVerse vamps; Angel’s much badder than average on simple pig’s blood. I haven’t watched the show, so I don’t know if TB vamps have the moral flip-flip that Whendon’s vamps do.
With Buffy they can be awake in daylight as long as they don’t go out in the sun. True Blood is similar except it seems to take a whole lot to wake them during the daytime, and of course there’s that irritating burst-into-flame thing if they walk into it.
Twilight vampires can walk in the sun as long as they mope and act pitiful but they shine, so I’d rather them not be a factor.
Some are, others are more human. They’re very- shall we say- individualistic. Most don’t consider themselves much more connected to humanity much more than you’d consider yourself connected to being a baby, but they still have the appearance of humans and many take human lovers. The premise of True Blood for those who don’t know is that a synthetic blood is on the market that enables them to stay alive without feeding off of humans at all, though many still do as there are many humans willing to offer themselves (it’s sexually gratifying and doesn’t kill them).
I wouldn’t be a Buffy vampire. I don’t know anything about True Blood vampires, so I can’t really say. But I’d definitely be a NWoD vampire if given the chance (even a Nosferatu!).
If my life were a round of golf, I’d be about on the 12th hole, so I think I’d convert. Any reproducing I’m going to do is already done.
With this milk white skin I’m in an abusive relationship with the sun anyway, so the whole not going out during the daytime thing wouldn’t be the deciding factor for me. I can’t be the only one vain enough to be thinking it would be okay if death was the alternative and a. it happened before I got much older b. but I got into (even) better shape first, right?
I wonder about the whole lack-of-reproduction thing: sure, you can’t have biokids - if we’re going by Trueblood and BTVS rather than a few other mythos - but there’s nothing to stop one and their equally immortal spouse from adopting, right? You know, “Oh, the Smiths? They’re great foster parents, been doing it for 150 years now, and straightened a lot of kids out” 
I pay a much steeper price for immortality, so yes.
I would also hire a personal trainer for 8 months prior to conversion so I could look my best forever, but I’d gladly take one of those extra-magically vampire conversions that also morphs you into your body’s physical ideal. You do see so few flabby vampires in fiction.
I wouldn’t be willing to kill people for immortality. But I would be willing to give up sunshine. You don’t get any sun being dead either.
Thank you. Exactly! You never see any fat vampires. I would want to be in top physical shape. Once you vamp, that’s it. I would be more horrified at having this gut forever than being one of the undead!
Totally! I’m pretty much already there anyway. I’m quite the night owl and have to remind myself to go to bed before the sun comes up.
I don’t know much about the Buffy vampires, but I’d rather be like an Anne Rice vampire. I’d like to become a Lestat, but I’d probably wimp out and be more of a Louis.
It’s almost like the Star Trek transporter dilemma for me. Is it you beaming down or is it your clone?
Vampires seem to be almost new people with superficially similar traits to their former selves. Would I be a vampire or would it be my doppelganger going goth forever instead? That’s the key question.
It really depends on what if any changes to the personality are involved. I don’t want to turn into a sociopath; and with some varieties of vampire the original personality is essentially outright destroyed. As for the physical drawbacks; I already like the night and have no interest in children. And with immortality on my side, I’ll eventually be able to get around the sunlight problem by waiting until technology advances to the point that I can replace my weak vampire flesh with superior cybernetics, and become the robot with the brain of a vampire!! For the total B-movie lifestyle.
I’d like to. I’m already a night owl by nature and I’d like the whole not getting old thing.
I’ve never watched True Blood, but I’d be an Anne Rice vampire. I just hope I don’t turn into an brooding ass like hers tend to.
Given that I’m one of those anti-vampires whose level of biological activity is a direct function of whether the sun is out or not (I’ve been known to detect the sun getting behind clouds and back out while in a windowless building), vampirism is not an option unless it would involve an exact inversion of that problem. Today it’s cloudy and I currently seem to have about two active brain cells, the rest are refusing to wake up at all.
Sunshine? Feh. It’s not doing anything for my tomatoes right now, so I’d gladly kick it outta my life. Besides, there’s the whole no pain thing, which I find very appealing (fat white vampire blues notwithstanding - I’ll be more like the Stephen Root vampire in True Blood).
Really depends on the kind of vamp.
Given the premise that I maintain my sapience, can control my feeding (ie, don’t need to drain a still living human until they’re dead*), and my physical form either remains the same or improves over time (none of this turning more monstrous with age thing)…
Sure. I’m a night owl, anyway. I’d especially go for it in the True Blood 'verse - the only problem being the chance of getting caught up in internal Vampire politics. (Or attacked by humans for my blood…but see below.)
And on the topic of flabby vamps: Eddie Gauthier. (I see singular1 already mentioned him by his actor. Still, that’s Eddie.)
Of course, mentioning Eddie brings up another caveat - I’d want the vamp who turned me to stick around, teach me how to do what I needed to do to survive (and protect me from people who don’t want me to). Poor Eddie never had a chance.