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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago (7 children)

That's just the thing - women provide more challenge.

If you had been doing the same thing for hundreds of years you'd be bored of an easy solution as well.

I like the Witcher universe explanation for vampires drinking human blood:

In the books a vampire (Regis) explains that drinking human blood is just for getting high / drunk.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

There are various different explanations across universes. But the biggest issue is - why can't vampires just drink animal blood? It has to either be some kind of magic, allergy or inefficiency usually. Regis exists to show the book's theme - that not every monster is a monster, and that not every human is human. So he needs a reason not to hurt people, otherwise he's also a monster.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In BTVS they can. There's a vampire who's cursed with having a soul and is therefore unwilling to hurt humans, so he just toddles down to the butcher and gets blood from them.

Soulless vampires either like the hunt or just prefer the taste of human blood. For instance, some vampires just raid blood banks instead of hunting humans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

VTMB, too. Getting in good with the blood bank peeps (or just robbing it) is a good get.

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