I am sure this has been asked before but going through threads I haven't seen it anywhere recently so I am posting the question out of curiosity.

Its simple, why do you personally like them? I don't mean why do you think they are so popular but your own personal reasons for liking them. Looking around at the vampire vs werewolf posts, there were quite a few more vampire fans than werewolf yet very few people gave their reasoning as to why they like vampires so much.

My reason is...

My idea of vampires are the Anne Rice/Laurell k Hamilton/Karen Chance kind. The beautiful, powerful, mysterious ones, not the incoherent zombie-like ones. I like them because they have this special kind of freedom. I have often felt trapped and suffocated and always wanted that kind of power and freedom. These vampires can't die easily, they can do and experience all sorts of adventures and dangerous things that humans cant. Plus you wouldn't have to do all the lame life things like paying bills or buying food when you are a vampire. They don't have to deal with all the drab human things and that has always been such a draw for me. That freedom would be wonderful. Doing what you want and having no one control you...family, friends, enemies, government etc etc... no one.

Then there is just the magical aspect. The magic and wonder, simply supernatural curiosity, the love for the dark and different. I cant really explain that bit all that well, but I just love the enchantment and romance of it all. I adore it which is why about 90% of my semi large book collection consists of vampire books. I have read so so so very many and have loved most of them. Its a sliiiight obsession

Now, why do you love them or find them fascinating?

In fiction, they are a lot like me.

If you are speaking of the fictional vampires (as stated) they tend to be very erotic creatures. There is the lawless, badboy thing going on. ;) Living outside of the societal constraints we all feel has a certain attraction.

I am frail, they are not. Vampires don't suffer from illness, I'm pretty sure their joints don't pop when they move, they don't have to worry about their fragile health deteriorating even further every year. The idea of living forever intrigues me, living more than 80 years intrigues me actually. I've always had a soft spot for the undead, I'm thinking it has a lot to do with living vicariously through someone I wish to be like... I find myself doing the same thing with many people/ characters I admire or find interesting.

We can live out our dreams vicariously. Things these fragile bodies can never do. Things like the knowledge that one might be able to accumulate over that much time. The paintings one could paint. The books one could read.
All the things we are limited in by our mortality.

How so?

(referring to the fictional vampires such as Rice's) For me, it's the erotic way they are. They are sexuality and sensuality and beauty personified. They leave the drab monotonous wold of the living, reborn, and are able to see the world in all its detail and beauty; almost to the point of drunkenness. They are freedom from what would bind us to reality, becoming whispers of a secret we wish to be a part of.

I agree.

And btw that was beautifully written.

Why do I like vampires? Honestly? I don't really know. I've been fascinated by them, out of all proportion, for as long as I can remember. No particular reason, that I can tell, but when I find a new author of vampire novels, I go all squealy. When a new vampire movie comes out, I start obsesssing about it and lurking imdb. I write vampire short stories, and I've done extensive research into them, their history, the legends, and scientific rationales, as well as pseudoscientific justification. I'm a huge fan of vampires.. but I don't want to be one, at all.

I don't own hardly any black clothes, I sunbathe regularly, and I order my steak well-done. Whatever my attraction to vampires is, has nothing to do with any personal wish to experience it for myself.

Personality-wise they're nearly always shown to have a psyche made from complex diametrically opposed natures. Cultured and sophisticated...Capable of great empathy and understanding yet also capable of being animalistic, callous and sociopathic. The good or innocent side of them is often what plunged them into the grey areas of amorality and evil to begin with. Dracula and his undying love...and loss. Spike and his spurned love at the hands of a manipulating woman. Louis and the love of his brother. All powerless to hold on to that which they hold most dear...All far past the verge of giving up and in their despair they invite darkness in.

In my life I've never known whether I was a good person who thought and occasionally did bad things or a bad person driven so by the crushing of hopes...Yet who still had the pretension of being good as a way to temper a willpower against very strong negative impulses. Like a vampire who craves the kill but can get by on pigs blood or rats at a push to show he is stronger and deeper than his basic nature. I remember my fall from grace, I was a child that cared too much and ultimately I became an adult who knew how to guard against such pain by becoming something worse than my original fears at will. I embraced the death of my innocent self to be reborn as something stronger.

Like the vampire I chose not to care about what happened to me. I chose a living death over suicide and discovered a whole new world lay beyond. I rejected religion and its meaningless sentiments.

Like the vampire there are those that pity me, those angry with me, those attracted to me and those who fear or hate me for my nature. And I usually couldn't care less which one they chose.

Unlike the fiction I am not effortlessly attractive or unstoppably confident and charismatic. I have only my mental powers at my disposal and can also be a big girl as and when I please. Mind you quite a few fictional vampires have their effeminate sides these days at least.

Back in the day I truly believed I was a vampire..I made myself believe it because so many things fit. Acceptance is sanity however and I won't abide weakness in myself...I am human. 'Just' human is meaningless because as I've said before. It's us who define what it is to be human.

I like vampires okay, but not too much (as far as its commonly used in fiction and in folklore) i like the concept and use it for my own purposes "although altered to fit my own uses as any other writer would".

I like that you give well thought out deep answers. I enjoy reading them. And while they get me thinking and pondering, its hard to respond to them. I guess you left me speechless in a sense, like you already covered everything that needs to be said.

my personal reasons are probably indicative of much.

My mother had cancer when I was 10, it went into remission until I was 16 then it returned and never left. As a result I went through my teenage years incredibly aware of mortality. In the real sense. I watched my vibrant mother detiriorate before me and eventually die before my eyes.

It gives me a different perspective on life and I have often felt that it makes me view things slightly askew.

With time my affection and attraction to mythical vampires has been enhanced rather than detracted from. The more I see people playing mind games, manipulating others and taking great stock in small victories. The more disheartened I become. There is no time to submerge into a moments passion. No ability to immerse oneself in total absorbtion of a period of history you are interested in. No rest from the mundane for any period of time to truely live.

Vampires have always reflected that for me.

I wish there was a way to express my deepest sympathies for your loss better than a virtual hug Vicerine...I know it's an old wound but they don't heal. I have a friend at work whose mother died of cancer around two years ago..A member of staff there thinks he should be getting over it by now, as he to lost his mother but there is a vast difference between old age and cancer. Cancer is a cruel and merciless disease that steals away life long before a person passes. I know that if it happened to my mother it would rip out my heart with brutal fingers.

I am lucky in that the only person I lost while young was myself...I have lost a few over the years but while they were loved ones and friends I have always born it well. My heart is open briefly for grief when I feel it would burst from me negatively otherwise...My mother's passing I imagine will undo my strength of will far greater because she has been a keystone in my life.

But look how cute this virtual hug is

In all seriousness, I am sorry about your loss Vicereine2. Have you ever read The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause? You may really like it, as well as relate to it in some ways.

Thankyou Vore. And Moonlight. Actually I havent read it no. Not to sound maudlin, but I also lost my maternal grandparents and one maternal aunt within the following 18 months as well. So yes, its a pivotal stage of my life.

My mother was my rock as well. She taught me well though, I like to think. As a result of most of this and other things that happened to me over the years since, I have little tolerance for ignorance and small mindedness.

When you have witnessed real courage first hand, you become somewhat jaded towards peoples making of mountains out of molehills etc.

As some of you know both my children are autistic as well. Which is another curve ball. Yet it does enable me to see the strength in people they may not realise they have. And its taught me tolerance in some other ways.

Its not something I would wish on anyone.

For me it's the erotic way they are and their teeth and the fact that they suck blood.

You should read vampire erotica then I have lots of erotic vampire books, I love 'em!

I don't know, that might make me want a vampire and right now my love and sex life sux enough, so to add on wanting a vampire makes it worse.

oh jeeze,
there are so many attractions about them.

I've watched 4 people die in my short lifetime.
two were people very close to my heart.
it's the most terrifying thing in the world to realize our own mortality,
especially when the first slice of that knife cuts you when you're 5.
there's this blazingly intense attraction to eternity for me,
I so fear rotting in the ground for all of time.
I love the material and non-material things of this world too much.
for example reading, writing, music, sex.
it's too much to accept having to give it all up.

of course there's always this air of sexuality about them,
all the more fueled by how dangerous they are.
there's something so arousing about that danger and promise of the ensuing pleasure.
they're a major turn on for me,
not to mention that I love getting bitten.
hahah

Powers of telepathy, levitation (I've always wanted to fly)
Supernormal strength
Immortality (oh, the paintings I could paint; the stories I could write)
A castle would be nice, lol
Cool wardrobe
Nice cars/horses
Always sexually attractive
Mysterious
Intelligent
Invincible
Savior
Lover
Beautiful of course


Most of the vampires I've met in real life are not at all like the vampire stereotype. Imagine that. If anything, many are quite weak. Heh...maybe they aren't Human Living Vampires at all, or perhaps, they are the emotional vampire and only that.

But it's fun to fantasize, to read a vampire novel, and get lost in a more interesting world. For a few minutes, you can live an alternate reality.

I like the abuse in the relationship. and i don't mean hitting or anything like that. I mean how tehy can sudduce you and absolutly enthrall you make you feel high even and then just drop you back into relaity it causes you to just chase the high. lol

sounds sexy.

yeah i get my high every friday night and sometimes more when i go over to my x boyfriend's he dosen't know i know. lol however what's weird is everytime i go through it i trick them all into thinkin i'm human

What happens every friday and he doesn't know you know what? That he's a vampire?

yerp he don't know i know he's a vampire. actually ever friday night i go to the hoard i guess it's RHPS but even better because i'm a card girl so in a span of two hours i get abused by two+ guys/girls and it goes awesome

nice. So what kind of vamp is he?

the one that's here is a psi like me. however the ones at Rocky are all kinds. actually one of my fridns goes with a stake. he's parinoid after what happened that one night.

That's cool what one night? What happened?

Some Chick invited him and he's human, out to legends and she actually has spouts of hysteria and can't control her blood lust so he was trying to help diagnose her illness cause he's a shrink she ended up biting him and i mean aimed for his juglar and ended up geting the vein. Mike is usually pretty open to shit however in this case he ends up freaked out for once.

Russ- Psi
Mike - Human
Chris - blood
Derrek - Blood
Bret - Psi
Pyro - i'm not sure.
and then there is Niki and she's a half breed. It's really intresting the people i end up hanging out with

Ugh..do you have any idea how dirty and germ filled a human bite is??? *shudders*

Bites are awesome, shut up. Sure wish people didn't bruise as easily though ...

What I love most about vampires is the vanity, vanity is sexy.

Thank you for putting this back on topic

Lol sure.

Err ... thanks for putting it back off topic with that post?

yeah the vamity is a major turn on. goes back to the self confidence that just draws you in

Biting is awsome and sexy. That's weird cuz I haven't bruised, it might hurt for a day or two, but not bruise.

lucky. I don't recover easily actually i've had one bruise for a year

I don't bruise and even though I sometimes do I heal amazingly quickly :P

For example when I got a tattoo I was told it'd be healing for anywhere between two weeks and a month ... it healed in 5 or 6 days.

A month!? That had to be one hell of a tattoo. Mine took under 2 weeks I think, it would have been shorter except my work pants kept rubbing against it.

No, just annoying

Took about five hours to make, but as I said, it healed in less than a week because I'm awesome like that :P




I find that vanity and arogance are only annoying to those who don't have them. :)

Grand total healing time for all my tattoos was a little over a week.

I like Vampires for personal reasons. Nothing supernatural, but wouldn't that be nice?

What in Hades are you people talking about?

Eh..they're just having a bit of silly fun. ;)

Misan I love your Avatar. Yeah I'm lucky like that I have never gotten a bruise by getting bit, however I have gotten pretty good hickies by being bit ( it wasn't on purpose though, I don't really like hickies.)

so back to the subject?!?!

The subject is why you like vampires.
If you want to talk about your vampire friends why not make a thread?

cause they sink straight to the bottom

No offense but if they sink then that means people don't want to talk about it.

Hmmm vampires ... why I like them?? Who knows .. maybe it's the fictional atributes I like? Maybe it's the whole idea of being apart of something that will last until the end of time. I think there is soo many things that make vampires enticing that I would be unable to sum it down to one thing or another! Lert me merely say I like them just because! :3