ShieldWife
Marchioness
Can vampires and humans openly live as equals in a society without a Masquerade or the equivalent? Something like True Blood?
I see a lot of discussion about that idea and I always think it’s ridiculous. Vampires and humans can’t live as equals, because the existence of vampires is such a fundamental game changer with regard to how we perceive reality and what possibilities exist, that either vampires and vampirism comes to utterly dominate society OR humanity violently reacts to vampires and we are able to win a conflict against them and vampires are either wiped out or hunted into hiding.
A major reason for this is immortality. If vampires are unaging, as they are in almost all fiction, then almost everybody is going to want to become a vampire, if not when they are young then when they are facing down death. Humans will serve vampires in the hopes of being transformed or demand to become vampires too. If vampires have supernatural powers at all, especially mind control powers, then humans are going to fear and hate them and it might be justified.
What does everybody else think? Can humans and vampires openly coexist and, if so, how?
I see a lot of discussion about that idea and I always think it’s ridiculous. Vampires and humans can’t live as equals, because the existence of vampires is such a fundamental game changer with regard to how we perceive reality and what possibilities exist, that either vampires and vampirism comes to utterly dominate society OR humanity violently reacts to vampires and we are able to win a conflict against them and vampires are either wiped out or hunted into hiding.
A major reason for this is immortality. If vampires are unaging, as they are in almost all fiction, then almost everybody is going to want to become a vampire, if not when they are young then when they are facing down death. Humans will serve vampires in the hopes of being transformed or demand to become vampires too. If vampires have supernatural powers at all, especially mind control powers, then humans are going to fear and hate them and it might be justified.
What does everybody else think? Can humans and vampires openly coexist and, if so, how?