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Fiction idea: Vampires only get weird and spooky if they drink human blood.

In reality, it's commonly accepted that if you eat something similar to yourself, you'll develop diseases (this is a vast oversimplification of kuru and mad cow disease). I propose it's the same for vampires, but since they're relatively immortal, they don't die from it, they just get aggressive, creepy, and obsessive. If they didn't drink human blood, and instead went for animal blood or coconut water, they'd be totally normal.

Bonus points if this work of fiction draws parallels to colonialist mindsets of cleaner societies being "primitive".

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Princeoflonelymt
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there's a group of vampires that were raised to drink only human blood but know that it's wrong and want to stop, there's a cure being worked on but it involves high level experiments and there's lots of sabotage attempts from traditionalists.
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emilie_stims
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@lonerfanatic babes please tell me if you're /srs or if you're roleplaying right now because I am too autistic for this 😂
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emilie_stims
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@lonerfanatic it does make sense that traditionalism would thwart change, though. Even if the human predators were a minority, they would likely be the most visible, and therefore considered the real ones, or more "pure" vampires. Especially with the stereotypical idea of vampires being what they are. A demand for change would come across as an eradication of vampires.
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Princeoflonelymt
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exactly and some humans might even also be against the progress as it threatens their worldview, thereby literally working against their own interest by working in parallel with their predators. Lots of possibilities
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Shiri Bailem
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@Princeoflonelymt @emilie_stims ie one of the most promising obvious areas of research is stem cells just creating blood, or other cloning adjacent research with all of todays arguments...

Also the "vampires are always evil" crowd, who will send hunters after the ones researching (killing the ones specifically wanting to find a way to not harm you)

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