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I'm sorry, but ever since I watched Nosferatu I have been AFRAID of the dark. I feel like he might pop out and eat me alive.
 
If I ever play a vampire, I'll be the most creepy, deadly yet unknown beast in the whole world! I'll have a castle with a lot of prison cells and I'll grab all lonely little girls as my bloodslave! -evil laughter-
 
I think MonMarty has gone over this one. Vampires, on this server, if I'm correct, are suppose to be Evil.
You're not suppose to be yelling "But I'm a good one", anymore then you want to get a pink cloud.
It's not good RP - I mean it may be stereotypical but these are suppose to be dark ages in the sense of the Vampirism curse. The best Vampire Rpers I've seen are Luthien & TechPac because they play vampires evil, but in a very odd and creepy way. They are just those enjoyable characters that people love.
 
Erdu Cololee said:
I think the majority of the horrible vampire RP comes from new players who decide to become vampires before they can sustain themselves. Which usually leads to them begging for blood on the street whilst screeching obnoxiously.
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Agreed. It's when people convert themselves into these creatures without having any knowledge about how they act. One of the larger problems is that some people who roleplay as 'good' characters change into vampires with no reason whatsoever. Personally, I believe that if you want to become a vampire, you have to have a roleplay reason of some sort. Not just 'Oh, that looks cool. I wanna be it." Whether it be your character's completely insane and evil, or your character is either working against the Crimsons, and wants to take it up a notch, or whatever. :P

Mattium_ But what if your character's personality is not evil whatsoever, but they had the reason to change? I roleplay Carrie no differently, despite the fact that she's a vampire... Well, apart from when there's blood everywhere and she's thirsty. :P My point is, are we supposed to change our characters when they're converted? If so, I hardly think that's... 'fair', for or all those Rpers who choose to become vampires, even though their character's are just as friendly and kind as other races.
 
Verityg said:
Agreed. It's when people convert themselves into these creatures without having any knowledge about how they act. One of the larger problems is that some people who roleplay as 'good' characters change into vampires with no reason whatsoever. Personally, I believe that if you want to become a vampire, you have to have a roleplay reason of some sort. Not just 'Oh, that looks cool. I wanna be it." Whether it be your character's completely insane and evil, or your character is either working against the Crimsons, and wants to take it up a notch, or whatever. :P

Mattium_ But what if your character's personality is not evil whatsoever, but they had the reason to change? I roleplay Carrie no differently, despite the fact that she's a vampire... Well, apart from when there's blood everywhere and she's thirsty. :P My point is, are we supposed to change our characters when they're converted? If so, I hardly think that's... 'fair', for or all those Rpers who choose to become vampires, even though their character's are just as friendly and kind as other races.
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These are the kinds of people I feel need to put themselves into a comparison of Louie from Interview with The Vampire, in this book, Louie values the few shreds of humanity he has left and struggles with his urges to feed off of humans, he still does it to live but it causes much internal conflict within him. This in a way, removes him from truly being evil within his own eyes, but Im sure this would make other's view him as evil, even though in a true sense he is not, he merely wants to survive. Now in this book, Louie is ALSO faced with the decision to have a pure animal diet, but the blood tastes revolting almost to the point of throwing up which is no way to live.
Now I am not saying every vampire that feels they are "good" base their RP around his, but they need to realize that becoming a vampire will involve some struggles in life that will make their lives difficult and allow others to view them as evil. In my eyes, vampires are meant to camouflage within society but never merge with it, they shouldnt concern themselves with inquisitions, witch-hunts, and so forth because they are no longer among the same society, they may join it for their own entertainment purposes, but they need to realize they are no longer a part. What they decide to do from there should determine their actions, whether its viewing themself as a monster who is not fit to be around the crowds of society, or viewing themselves as gods who watch non-infected humans events and conflicts unravel for their own amusement.
 
Vampires, i think, should be played as neither good nor bad, i suppose that's up to who you want your character to be, it shouldn't be based strictly on the fact that you are a vampire. Vampires are self serving and follow their own agendas, which is mistaken for pure evil, but it's not, they are just selfish. I feel they should be played as more calculating, calm, sly, aristocratic, even graceful at times. Elegant, smooth, and dangerous. At least thats how i would play mine.
 
TechPac said:
These are the kinds of people I feel need to put themselves into a comparison of Louie from Interview with The Vampire, in this book, Louie values the few shreds of humanity he has left and struggles with his urges to feed off of humans, he still does it to live but it causes much internal conflict within him. This in a way, removes him from truly being evil within his own eyes, but Im sure this would make other's view him as evil, even though in a true sense he is not, he merely wants to survive. Now in this book, Louie is ALSO faced with the decision to have a pure animal diet, but the blood tastes revolting almost to the point of throwing up which is no way to live.
Now I am not saying every vampire that feels they are "good" base their RP around his, but they need to realize that becoming a vampire will involve some struggles in life that will make their lives difficult and allow others to view them as evil. In my eyes, vampires are meant to camouflage within society but never merge with it, they shouldnt concern themselves with inquisitions, witch-hunts, and so forth because they are no longer among the same society, they may join it for their own entertainment purposes, but they need to realize they are no longer a part. What they decide to do from there should determine their actions, whether its viewing themself as a monster who is not fit to be around the crowds of society, or viewing themselves as gods who watch non-infected humans events and conflicts unravel for their own amusement.
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Fair point. :P I agree fully with the fact that yes, vampires should have struggle in their new life. No person, to my knowledge, wouldn't loose some humanity inside them from sucking other people's blood and possibly killing them. I will certainly find and read that book, it sounds fabulous!
 
Verityg said:
Fair point. :P I agree fully with the fact that yes, vampires should have struggle in their new life. No person, to my knowledge, wouldn't loose some humanity inside them from sucking other people's blood and possibly killing them. I will certainly find and read that book, it sounds fabulous!
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Its written by Anne Rice, it has several books in the series foccusing on the stories of other key vampire characters as well as a movie adaptation.
 
Read them when I was younger. Fantastic books, some very explicit content though so beware ;)
 
Thing is, I don't really like RPing fights... Hence my character isn't strong, there won't ever be a debate over who won the battle, I'll (in regular cases) lose. But when I'm playing some sort of vampire 'o doom kind of lady/lord, that will be pretty weird.
 
I love having to be incognito. I do it regularly in Regalia, as my character is of a different faith. I have thought about being a vampire for this reason, but I love the dynamic of being "the third side".
 
Darknesscrusher said:
Thing is, I don't really like RPing fights... Hence my character isn't strong, there won't ever be a debate over who won the battle, I'll (in regular cases) lose. But when I'm playing some sort of vampire 'o doom kind of lady/lord, that will be pretty weird.
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Simple answer, avoid RP fights. They're all not even propper RP anyway.
 
Krolose said:
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I won't imply vampires should look like this. At least, not all the time.
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Scrolled down, Shat my pants. Thanks.
 
Verityg said:
Agreed. It's when people convert themselves into these creatures without having any knowledge about how they act. One of the larger problems is that some people who roleplay as 'good' characters change into vampires with no reason whatsoever. Personally, I believe that if you want to become a vampire, you have to have a roleplay reason of some sort. Not just 'Oh, that looks cool. I wanna be it." Whether it be your character's completely insane and evil, or your character is either working against the Crimsons, and wants to take it up a notch, or whatever. :P

Mattium_ But what if your character's personality is not evil whatsoever, but they had the reason to change? I roleplay Carrie no differently, despite the fact that she's a vampire... Well, apart from when there's blood everywhere and she's thirsty. :P My point is, are we supposed to change our characters when they're converted? If so, I hardly think that's... 'fair', for or all those Rpers who choose to become vampires, even though their character's are just as friendly and kind as other races.
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Well probably in this instance, if your character was forced to be turned.... They would try and go for the cure, or they would RP trying to resist the brute nature of a vampire, but they are still considered evil.
 
Becoming a vampire and staying a vampire means you would rather be a blood sucking creature that can never again see the light of day than be a human.

What I don't get are the people who seem to think that vampires have no choice in the matter. A cure exists. It's rather easy to get yourself cured in both a RP and OOC sense. Yet people walk around saying that they are good vampires that would NEVER hurt anyone if they didn't have too, and they love life and wish to blah blah blah blah, kill me now.

Vampirism probably would change good people into monsters, the curse is probably an addictive and corrupting one. I have no issues with people trying to justify themselves. It happens in a lot of situations. How addicts 'NEED' it, how a vigilante argues that them killing someone was justified because they had it coming, or they would have killed someone if they didn't. What I have an issue with however, is that they actually believe and act like they are good, like they are average people. It's so one dimensional and BORING.
 
I guess I'm a bit late on this topic, but I still thought it'd be fun to put in my two cents.

I imagine vampires, appearance-wise, to generally be relatively pale and sallow looking. As vampirism is a disease, I usually assume that if it does alter your appearance, it makes you look just a touch underfed, possibly even borderline malnourished. It varies between person, obviously, but that's, often, the imagery I get when thinking about them.

As for personalities... well, each character has his own personality (Duh), but some very valid points were brought up, and I do agree whole-heartedly that at the end of the day, any character that remains a vampire is, simply put, a blood sucking parasite. There is a degree of evil in that. However, considering they're, once again, diseased, I assume the disease tends to alter the mind a little. Every organism has some kind of instinct to stay alive and maintain their population. A disease, I imagine, is no different. But how can a disease which clearly makes someone evil sustain itself? Obviously, it makes even the kindest of people fall victim to the idea that they are, in fact, not evil. Their heightened senses are a gift, not a curse. The need to leech off other peoples' life blood is simply a minor detail in it all. They were born to become a vampire, and if they cure themselves, they'll lose part of who they were. It's everyone else that are evil, for they don't understand how profoundly amazing it is to give yourself over to the Sanguine Gift.

I figure even the sweetest and most pure hearted vampires will eventually fall victim to pure evil, little by little. That, or they'll break free and cure themselves.

By the way, if it's not already completely and utterly obvious, I really like vampires. :P
 
Adrian Malakye said:
Becoming a vampire and staying a vampire means you would rather be a blood sucking creature that can never again see the light of day than be a human.

What I don't get are the people who seem to think that vampires have no choice in the matter. A cure exists. It's rather easy to get yourself cured in both a RP and OOC sense. Yet people walk around saying that they are good vampires that would NEVER hurt anyone if they didn't have too, and they love life and wish to blah blah blah blah, kill me now.

Vampirism probably would change good people into monsters, the curse is probably an addictive and corrupting one. I have no issues with people trying to justify themselves. It happens in a lot of situations. How addicts 'NEED' it, how a vigilante argues that them killing someone was justified because they had it coming, or they would have killed someone if they didn't. What I have an issue with however, is that they actually believe and act like they are good, like they are average people. It's so one dimensional and BORING.
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You are fantastic, Adrian. Could not have put it better myself.
 
Vampires try and choose to RP as good and kind-hearted. But it's like a drunken, high, filthy man trying to hug you in a dark alleyway, it just doesn't feel, look and seem right to others. So this is why Vampires are 'suppose' to be evil. Of course people are going to deviate from the path of pure-evil, but still, what are they supposed to do? Walk around in the shadows saying you are nice to people. This doesn't work either. I've met a few Vampires who don't always suck peoples blood, yet still don't cry they are nice. These are very good Role-Playing people, I wish more were like them.
 
In my opinion, when it comes down to it in the very end, the vampires on the server are played by a.......younger age group. This is because the novelty of being able to jump two blocks high and see in the dark is like, this amaaaazing craaazy thing. And when one is of that age group, they aren't directly aware of how they are appearing to the wider audience. To themselves they probably seem edgy and cool with a decent amount of badass thrown in. On top of that, you are actually expecting people i would consider children to comprehend the circumstance that is vampirism in a mature and realistic way. They do not have enough life experience to understand this. they have the unrealistic representation of life, and good and bad portrayed in the media, but not the actual experience of their own. They are echoing things they see. Yes those things are ridiculous, yes they are unrealistic but it is all that they will understand.


So in the end, do not have high expectations of those who do not understand character development past i am better than you listen to me shriek. Okay?
 
I go for the top style. Vampires are usually evil though there are some who claim to be good ones (Vampussies). Most claim they feed off animals but will sooner or later serve their thirst. There is a younger fan group who has no idea what they're doing and a group of goths/emos/whatever who aren't too bad but I've found that most people only see the obvious vampires. Not to start a Salem Witch Trials event here but there are a lot of them who blend in quite well. I think the worst of them are the Twilight fans and attention whores.
 
I see vampires as you would describe a sociopath. Charming and maybe even appealing but only nice to get what they want. Vampires to me are like dark gods, Intelligent and driven by there thirst for blood. I mean if you want to RP as a saint don't be a vampire. Vampires are meant to primarily drink human blood so having them live off of animal blood is like trying to make a lion live off of vegetarian meat. Sure if a vampire is hungry animal blood is a good replacement but in my opinion if a vampire who lives off of animal blood is put in front of even the smallest amount of human blood the vampire will go crazy in a blood lust do to being deprived from its true and natural food source. I love vampires but I think people (besides the Rp staff) are making them look like derp ass emo teenagers. I'm not biased against vampires at all in fact my character has some really (really) good relationships with vampires but even they are blood thirsty beasts when it comes down to it. Also vampires have to have intelligence and emotions (or at least being able to imitate emotions) to get close enough to there food/trick there food so that they can feed. No matter if there food source is willing or not. If vampires were dumb monsters like some people depict them they'd all be dead by now.

So in short I mostly agree with the Massive lore. Though if they dumb vampires down anymore then vampire Rp will be really boring and it will be REALLY hard to Rp as a vampire.
 
there should be a forms post in the RP character section that's a list of approved vampires to use as references for people who want to make a vampire character. Because like Luthien stated, very few good vampire Rpers are known.
 
News from the future guys: Today I was confronted by a man who claimed to be from the future, because of what he wore. So he begins talking to me and then he goes on to tell me how in the future the Kades and the Vampires have worked out their differences, and are now living in peace and harmony. Isn't this just wonderful? Because of this message we should all just leave the vampires alone and let them wander the streets sucking the life out of every creature with blood running through its vain's. While they re-produce and continue feeding Mrs. Baver so that one day she will be strong enough to take over all of Aloria.

Brilliant news I say!
 
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