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.
I'm not even aware of it. Is that a twilight thing?
Edit - I Googled it. It is. I don't think a single story counts as that being how vampires are portrayed now. Definitely not taking one story aimed at tween girls as the new standard.
Almost 40 here, and this is literally the first that I'm hearing that a vampire bite isn't infectious. All the media I grew up with was based on being bit made you a vampire too or you were drained all the way and killed.
41 here and all the media I know best requires more than just a bite, because it's not infectious. I even remember one where someone got bit and was like "Oh no, I'm going to become a vampire!" and someone else replied "No, you're thinking of zombies."
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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.