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On the contrary: vampires are an allegory for the upper class, being parasites who suck the blood (wealth) from society.
(Also, the nature of being immortal means you have plenty of time to wait for your investments to appreciate, so all but the newest vampires should be wealthy enough to afford a castle if they want.)
That’s what Bram Stoker’s Dracula was about, which has shaped modern ideas of vampires.
Older stories were a little bit more “monster in the dark”. There was a fairly famous case where 18th century New Englanders took the heart out of a young dead woman, burned it and fed it to her brother to break a vampiric curse.
Since the actual curse seems to have been tuberculosis, this didn’t quite work.
God damn, is everything tuberculosis or something?
I read a book that made that argument.
Ay, somebody got my reference! xD
Sigh… share with the class, please.
“Everything Is Tuberculosis” by John Green
They both read a book and got tuberculosis
No, sometimes it’s hallucinogenic bread mold.
I’m willing to bet there haven’t been any vampires in that family since, so…
The vampires in your workplace:
Haha, I was looking for a mention of this guy.
Any vampire that doesn’t live in a castle or similatly expensive abode is either a) fairly new to the vampiring game, b) actively chosing not to, or c) terrible at investing.
I’ve said it before and ill say it again: if you can’t make money as an immortal, you just can’t make money
you’re immortal you’ll eventually learn that the blind accumulation of wealth is a treacherous poison and that the true treasure is community.
Arguably a castle is a fortress first an abode second. Part of the reason why castles are so expensive now is because the cheap sturdy ones got used for other things over time and the less sturdy ones were abandoned and ruined, this leaves us with the castles that are expensive and annoying to repair.
A vampire could definitely set things up to have an easy to maintain easy to live in fortress akin to Roman castra for them and their clan. Relatively easy to upgrade with the most expensive elements being the living space since the walls probably only need large scale work every hundred years or so.
Yes, vampires often live in nests, but I’m not sure about that first part.
Yes, Dracula lived in a castle because he was a landlord. But all classic vampires in literature are in a sense. Originally, in oral history and folk takes, vampires were more about fear of sickness and about not understanding how diseases spread. But later, literary Vampires were a standin for the universal experience of how landlords are bloodsucking pests. Take Dracula: the protagonist is a solicitor who comes to Transylvania to help the vampire buy land and various properties in England. Then the plot revolves around preventing his moving to England, but the heroes fail at that, because he has prepared to well, is just too rich and has filled out all the legal paperwork.
#NotAllVampires
#NoTallVampires
The monsters have never been the problem, it’s always been class warfare. The nobility are the monsters
I was gonna say something about how there should be a modern setting with working class vampires. Then I remembered that vampire the Masquerade exists and has the Anarchs.
Good point though. Most vampires are gutter punks.
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