Post by mongoose on Feb 21, 2009 15:55:50 GMT -5
That being true of angels (it's an open forum) I guess the same could be said of vamps and warewolves. On with the Christian blood suckers!
Of course, they'll have a problem with two things. Maybe three:
It's gotta be pretty rough, seeing the evil in the world for more than a few lifetimes, knowing it's evil. They rarely deal with that in the lore of immortals. They have them getting depressed and bored every now and then, but very little righteous indignation or sorrow. Then again, there is a great deal of joy in our lives with Christ, even with the evil in the world, and that tends to increase as we spend more time with him and age. So the immortal could be like one of these happy old monks, or whatever. Nothing fazes him.
To the pure all things are pure, and he's had plenty of years to let God purge him of all that is impure, except for the bloodlust. God even left Paul with a thorn in his side, and that's the vamp's thorn. He has to wrestle with that temptation every so often. Lust isn't a problem, and two centuries of anger management and the fact that you can almost kill by looking at your victim dealt with the whole anger/hate/murder issue, so he needs some kind of sin to deal with. Ergo, blood lust!
How did he become a vampire, if it's not demonic possession, which some people believe can't happen in a Christian (others have observed demons manifesting in Christians). But, of course, in speculative fiction it could happen, if it served the author's purpose. Still, I'd probably resort to some little understood and only suspected and hinted at phenomenon. All we know is that vampires are made from humans via an exchange of blood, right? So we'll make the vampirism, all the powers and weaknesses that come with that, be the result of a virus type thing that changes the victim's DNA. Nothing spiritual or metaphysical about it.
Last time that was mentioned the only response was "Resident Evil" wherein the victims were hardly sentient any more. But again, that's just what the creators of that series chose to do with it The vamp doesn't have to be a zombie just because the vampirism was the result of a virus and not a demon. It's speculative, and there are very few rules. You can do what you want.
And then consider that, since there are no scientific studies of vampires, if they existed there'd be many legends about them, most of which would be filled with speculation, hyperbole, mis-representation, deception etc. A vamp novel could very easily have the characters showing how far off the legends really were, presenting the vamps as they really are. Anne Rice kind of took that angle, but again, she was just one author doing her own thing.
Speaking of Rice, it's said she's a Christian now, and has written a book, like her vampire chronicles in the first person, but about the life of Jesus or someone. A reviewer said the book was as dry and boring as her other novels, the fact that it was Christian not helping it at all.
As with other ideas I've set out here, I'm not likely to write or publish these ones outside of short lived RPGs and short stories published on-line for fun and free. So if any of this appeals to anyone, go ahead and use it in whole or in part. And if I change my mind and decide to write and publish it, I'll just change the story again and make it my own.
Of course, they'll have a problem with two things. Maybe three:
It's gotta be pretty rough, seeing the evil in the world for more than a few lifetimes, knowing it's evil. They rarely deal with that in the lore of immortals. They have them getting depressed and bored every now and then, but very little righteous indignation or sorrow. Then again, there is a great deal of joy in our lives with Christ, even with the evil in the world, and that tends to increase as we spend more time with him and age. So the immortal could be like one of these happy old monks, or whatever. Nothing fazes him.
To the pure all things are pure, and he's had plenty of years to let God purge him of all that is impure, except for the bloodlust. God even left Paul with a thorn in his side, and that's the vamp's thorn. He has to wrestle with that temptation every so often. Lust isn't a problem, and two centuries of anger management and the fact that you can almost kill by looking at your victim dealt with the whole anger/hate/murder issue, so he needs some kind of sin to deal with. Ergo, blood lust!
How did he become a vampire, if it's not demonic possession, which some people believe can't happen in a Christian (others have observed demons manifesting in Christians). But, of course, in speculative fiction it could happen, if it served the author's purpose. Still, I'd probably resort to some little understood and only suspected and hinted at phenomenon. All we know is that vampires are made from humans via an exchange of blood, right? So we'll make the vampirism, all the powers and weaknesses that come with that, be the result of a virus type thing that changes the victim's DNA. Nothing spiritual or metaphysical about it.
Last time that was mentioned the only response was "Resident Evil" wherein the victims were hardly sentient any more. But again, that's just what the creators of that series chose to do with it The vamp doesn't have to be a zombie just because the vampirism was the result of a virus and not a demon. It's speculative, and there are very few rules. You can do what you want.
And then consider that, since there are no scientific studies of vampires, if they existed there'd be many legends about them, most of which would be filled with speculation, hyperbole, mis-representation, deception etc. A vamp novel could very easily have the characters showing how far off the legends really were, presenting the vamps as they really are. Anne Rice kind of took that angle, but again, she was just one author doing her own thing.
Speaking of Rice, it's said she's a Christian now, and has written a book, like her vampire chronicles in the first person, but about the life of Jesus or someone. A reviewer said the book was as dry and boring as her other novels, the fact that it was Christian not helping it at all.
As with other ideas I've set out here, I'm not likely to write or publish these ones outside of short lived RPGs and short stories published on-line for fun and free. So if any of this appeals to anyone, go ahead and use it in whole or in part. And if I change my mind and decide to write and publish it, I'll just change the story again and make it my own.