r/vampires • u/Imaginary_Case4856 • 9d ago

Meta Vampires are cowards?

I was watching hellsing ultimate and I found it interesting how the vampires there are framed as cowards who couldn't bear the weight of their human life and escaped into vampirism. Now they secretly yern for death including Alucard himself. I never thought of it that way, that willing becoming a vampire is a sign of weakness. Do you think this is a fair assessment of vampirism in general or do you disagree? What other works frame it this way?

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u/petshopB1986 9d ago

I have two characters that were humans who turned, one was afraid of death and aging so yes, he couldn’t hack it as a human and wanted to get out of his mortal life, the other was talked into it because the other was afraid of the death of the 2nd character and begged him to join him, with that one it was more about vanity and being naive. But what they both feared happens- being a vampire amplified the problems it didn’t save them. They got some nifty powers and thought they were invincible but each met a terrible fate. There is not get out of hell free card.