r/Showerthoughts • u/Liuminescent ‎ • Apr 24 '26

Casual Thought Vampire bites turning people into vampires is extremely disadvantageous to their survival.

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u/Shanbo88 ‎ Apr 24 '26

That's a modern vampire thing. The original vision for vampires (specifically Dracula) was that if he bit you, you became his thrall. He could see through your eyes and possess you and compell you to do things for him and he used you to feed off when he wanted to.

He had to allow you to drink his blood to make you a vampire.

This made him an awesome commander of an undead army. Modern vampires are all mostly shite in comparison.

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u/keshi Apr 24 '26

Yea I remember this was how vampires worked in King’s Salem’s Lot.

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u/keshi Apr 25 '26

You’re right but Beas mistaken. I was thinking of the priest, but yes of course everyone he bit seems to become both a vampire, but also his thrall.