eat bones and shit ghosts — also, interesting to me how - while of course the...

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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man, remember Buffy vs Dracula?

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also, interesting to me how - while of course the ultimate inspiration for both is Bram Stoker’s Dracula, alongside/which itself draws on extant vampire lore - how precisely the iconic vampire abilities of the various clans in Vampire: the Requiem match the demonstrated abilities of Dracula-as-portrayed-in-Buffy.

Buffy!Drac turns into a bat, for instance. And a wolf. His hypnotic abilities seem connected to eye contact in ways that are less explicit elsewhere. His bite is explicitly depicted as pleasurable, which is at least not consistent for Buffy vamps, and it seems to have some of the mild amnesiac properties of Requiem’s Kiss as well. His blood is powerful in more varied ways (Buffy rarely discusses the consumption of the blood of vampires, in general). Mist Form is OP. etc.

he calls turning someone into a vampire ‘the Embrace’ as well which i know isn’t unattested as a sort of flowery usage but afaik Req codified this as The Term for it anyway it’s interesting and i think the timelines would work out for Buffy to have potentially been a formative vampire media for people involved in developing Requiem? certainly for Requiem’s intended audience