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Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

What We Do In The Shadows has a funny answer to this question.

It always felt unbelievable when an ancient vampire was super “with it”. At best they’d be too shitty and un-self aware that their ego would remain basically intact over millennia, otherwise any immortal is facing an eternity of future shock, derealization, and complete dissociation.

The only way to really face eternity would to have such a disordered personality that the very idea of other people held no particular meaning.

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DominatorX1@thelemmy.club ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I was thinking about that exact same thing today.

The material world’s purpose is to get you out of your head. To force you to stop dreaming all the time and face something better.

Wealth and technology are ways around that of course. With wealth and technology we create an air-conditioned dream womb.

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HenryDorsett@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I mean, I don’t know if I’d still be interested in women after being a vampire that long, but I’d like to think so.

Go to a country with lax sex laws (or at least enforcement), set up a bordello and feed on the workers while they sleep off their necessary highs for doing sex work for a horrible human (vampire) being.

Plus, under the rules I’m fixating on mentally, drinking the blood of someone who is high will get the vampire high, and after hundreds of years plus immortality, I’m gonna get high at some point lol.

(Rules referenced: Old World of Darkness, VTM, etc)

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- Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Considering how sex is, emotionally, such a life affirming and intimacy driven act, I’d expect someone like an ancient vampire to crave a great deal of it but never really get the itch scratched.
  
  Imagine it. You’ve lived so long that humans have stopped seeming real. The older you get, the faster time seems to go. You’ve long since forgotten the ones you once truly loved. New humans are so culturally different and apparently short lived that they barely even register as people anymore.
  
  Ancient vampires would be starved for intimacy or any genuine connection. They’d fuck skillfully and often perhaps, but without passion or connection.
  
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shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ann Rice’s vampires would generally go insane after 300-400 years. The one’s that didn’t, kinda still did, went catatonic.

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- Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I can’t now recall which of her books I read, but as a budding creepy kid at the time it was with a mounting despair. No, this is a cool book, it must be! Why am I bored? When does it get good?
  
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