/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17562033]

Are vampires cringe? And will they ever not be cringe anymore?

[Anonymous No.17562052]

>>17562033
classic vampires 1313 – 1977 wlll always be cool.

[Anonymous No.17562059]

>>17562033
They're not cringe, anon
Truth is...
...They never were

[Anonymous No.17562085]

Sometimes when I /nightwalk/ I fantasize about being turned by an ancient Greek vampire who recognizes something special about me. I'll immediately know she's a vampire intuitively. She'll sense my longing for death and intelligence. We go back to my apartment and fuck and she turns me into a vampire. I'll disappear from my life and travel the world with her as a beautiful immortal. Ill live for thousands of years and learn every language and instrument and science. Eventually, we will walk hand in hand into the sun to meet our oblivion.

[Anonymous No.17562140]

>>17562033
I think they are far less cringey when they are just one of many types of supernatural creatures instead of the faggy aristocracy of the night or whatever nonsense vampire fiction calls them.

[Anonymous No.17562166]

>>17562085
Sounds gay XD

[Anonymous No.17562209]

>>17562140
They seem cool as an Indo-European folk creature I just get the impression they may have been over used in recent fantasy tropes

[Anonymous No.17562258]

>>17562033
I've planned out a large-scale story with vampires, and it's a (more or less) serious tragic drama. It's one of the stories whose outline I never post on 4chan because I don't want it stolen.

[Anonymous No.17562317]

>>17562258
sounds cool, could you give a small outline like the setting and vibe of the story?

[Anonymous No.17562345]

>>17562033
No, they're great. (Provided you do them well.)

Remember, Dracula is one of the half-dozen most well-known characters in all of literature. Why? Coz he's a great archetype.

You just have to make sure you know exactly how "hard science" you're going with the patently ridiculous aspect of it all. Whatever you go for you have to stick to, otherwise the whole thing becomes absurd and comic immediately. (Unless you want comedy of course.)

But the reader basically *wants* to suspend his disbelief, however hard it might be, because vampire stories are so awesome.

[Anonymous No.17562356]

>>17562085
you need to go outside

[Anonymous No.17562379]

>>17562033
some vampires will be cool forever

[Anonymous No.17562401]

>>17562033
the Byronic vampyre is based

[Anonymous No.17562409]

>>17562356
I was outside when I though this

[Anonymous No.17562741]

>>17562317
A vampire has a half-vampire daughter he's lost track of. He has spent many years searching for her, without success. (Her mother was human and is long dead.)

Meanwhile, he himself is being hunted down (by an anti-vampire organization which also has a vendetta against him personally). He suspects they have almost caught up with him, and knows they will soon find out about his daughter and go after her too. In desperation he gives information about himself to a man who owes him a debt (a chance acquaintance who doesn't know what he is). He asks this man to find his daughter and look out for her. Then he's killed.

The main story is the man piecing together the vampire's backstory, discovering he was far from being wholly evil, and trying to find this girl. She doesn't know what she is (in my universe vampires are not spectacularly different from people, at least when younger). And she has no idea she's being hunted.

Perhaps "tragic drama" wasn't quite right. It's still adventure / horror / mystery, but it's not supposed to be silly.