Ahhhh I am sorry to have kept you all waiting so long! And dreadfully apologetic for breaking my word; this week turned out to be a lot busier than I had originally expected.
As a recompense for my prolonged absense I hunted down visual evidence of how all vampire shows are almost exactly the same… please observe the three leading men in True Blood (Bill), Twilight (Edward), and Vampire Diaries (Stefan):
(Props to Bill for looking extra creepy)
Although there are many descrepancies in the vampire world, and it is killing me not to document all of them, I decided for all of our sanity’s sake to just focus on three major ones in my belated spread sheet. Hopefully this will be helpful if…. well…. actually now that I think about it this isn’t very beneficial to anyone, except for maybe pointing out that my obsession has gone a little too far.
| True Blood | Twilight | Vampire Diaries | |
| Blood | - can feed on humans without killing them (Bill feeds on Sookie all of the time)
- Humans can drink vampire blood and get like…. superpowers (?) for a while, also it heals wounds |
- basically every time a vampire feeds on a human (unless they are changing them) the human dies- Vampires don’t even have blood so…. | - can feed on humans without killing them (although Stefan never feeds on Elena
- humans have to drink vampire blood in order to change, and it makes humans kind of drunk-like |
| Weaknesses/death | - Silver burns vampires and makes them really weak- after someone drinks from a vampire it makes the vampire weak for a while-sunlight is a killer, if a vampire is in it for too long they burn up
-can’t come into a house unless they have been invited in, however a human can “resend their invitation” and the vampire won’t be allowed to enter the house again - Can die by fire, sunlight, and silver |
- No weaknesses, except sunlight kind of, because that only makes you sparkle a bit-vampires only die by getting torn up into little pieces and burned | - Any kind of wood will make vampires weak and if struck through the heart they die-Sunlight will make them burn and die (but luckily Stefan and Damon have rings that let them walk in the sunlight…. Yeah not really sure how that works)-vervain (an herb… duh!) will make vampires weak if they consume it (so if you want to ward off vampires, you should eat it!), nullify their powers if you wear it (so they can’t “glamour” you [see super powers]), and kill them if consumed in mass quantities
-can’t go into a house unless they have been “invited in” but once they have been invited it doesn’t matter what the human does the vampire can always get back in |
| Superpowers | - Vampires can “glamour” humans (it’s like intense brain washing)-Super fast, strong, and have heightened senses- becoming a vampire does not automatically make them super attractive | - Although it is never explicably stated I think vampires can “dazzle” people-Super fast, strong, and have heightened senses- becoming a vampire automatically turns you into a super model | - Vampires can “glamour” humans-Super fast, strong, and have heightened senses- becoming a vampire does not automatically make them super attractive
- the more experienced vampires can control their surroundings (Damon likes to mess with people before he kills them by creating fog and sending a crow) |
Well I just read this and realized that I know far too much about vampire fiction than anyone should. Maybe I should switch up stereo typical teenage girl genres…. werewolves seem promising…
Thanks for reading.
xoxo
B-Tamp
seems that the common denominator with all of the leading men is a sinister eyebrow pose. If that is all it takes, sign me up.
And doesn’t Edward Cullen look like he belongs in the Cure here?