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From there, it's called a knife sharpener.

I remember when I was a teen that they had these Freddy gloves in Orlando which had clear plastic claws, but the cool part was that they lit up red, and you could choose constant or flashing-in-sequence.

I was a fan of vampires myself. Always wanted a pair of vampire teeth.

I know, right?? A good friend saved up her money in high school and had a set of acrylic vamp teefers made by a dentist. They snapped in, and she could bite through a can of soda with them. Effing H4WT! (granted, I'm not into the rough-stuff, so if I'd been fortunate enough to bed her I'd have made it clear that I didn't want any blood drawn lol.)

Whoa! Bit through a can? Dude. That would've been my dream come true... Till I started biting people... (shrugs)

Heh, talk to a dentist!

(Orca* a few weeks down the road, on some lovely's neck: "NOM NOM NOM NOM!!!")

Oh no, no,no, no, no; Hallo'ween + fake blood, + drunk friends + little kids out trickin' and treatin' = a rocking good time.

(don't even THINK about scolding me on that one; I was scared witless every halloween and I loved it. candy and adrenaline go together like pizza and coke)

SCOLD SCOLD SCOLD SCOLD!!!!

Just as long as you don't STEAL candy from the kids, you aren't treading on any of my bad memories :-)

Orca, you can buy fake vampire teeth that look amazingly real.

Let me know when you are going to start scaring kids on Halloween. I'll make the trip up to help.

One FYI, skip the fake blood you buy. Use red food coloring and karo syrup. It looks great and is reasonably tasty. Makes it easier to appear to be overcome by the "thirst".

Red food coloring, gylcerine, corn syrup, corn starch.

Best blood ever. :)

Ok, are we going to be the suave sensual vampires or the revenant wild vampires?

I actually have a novel in the works on either kind.

I always figured Vampires were casual members of society, indistinguishable from the general peoples. They work night-jobs, like at a convenience store, or a night auditor, or a call center. They drink blood, but ever really kill humans to get it (stupid cops...).

So, to answer the question; neither really.

Not a bad concept for them. But it shoots down the immortality side of vampirism then.

I can't see someone who has lived for centuries living incognito as a "normal" human. Partly because they wouldn't suffer fools lightly. And partly because they would avoid any interpersonal relationships, because they had seen all their friends and loved ones grow old and die.

I agree they wouldn't kill often. But I also think, as fashions got skimpier, they would alter the location of their bites. In Victorian England a mark on the neck might not be seen. But in modern society, it would be noticed. But the human food wouldn't remember what happened.

I do think there would be as many different personalities amoung vampires as amoung humans.

Which would mean that there would be sadistic, murderous ones as well. But, depending on where they lived geographically, they might not last long. We humans tend to notice a decent body count.

So there would probably also be the whining, over-sensitive undead too. But I doubt they would last long. Too much guilt and they would end up sitting on an open hilltop to face the sunrise.

But would a centuries old vampire be able to cope with the speed at which changes happen in our modern world? After all, the world of 1900 was more like ancient Rome than our modern times.

When you live so long, tomorrow is just another day, in my mind. As for the 'hickies'; I posit the interesting qualities of oral sex. (tee hee ;P) You can thank John Carpenter for that one. Personalities would so very much vary, agreed; most would probably die out quickly if they simply killed, or succumb to the huge force that is an angry uprising of people in the face of supernatual threats in a small third world community. As for adaptation, most would fall into a pattern of observation I think. Their emotional states would be their downfall, unless they accepted their longevity and all the issues they no longer have to deal with (namely everything human regarding mortality)

I dunno. If vampires existed, they'd just be people to me; I can't see them any other way. Definitely a rarity in daily occurrence; maybe a new vampire coming about once a century? I can't see very many coming into being, especially if they started out as human.

...Fashion could be a problem, good thing we live in an era where so many styles have revived themselves.

Make your own.