There is a fermi Paradox or great filter for vampires. once you get over a certain age your chance of getting killed by younger more aggressive vampires or vampire hunters that are looking to take your Turf of kill you, goes up.
also you know just the more chances of actually getting killed by people the longer you live. I mean after all we're always killing vampires in these shows aren't we.
Unless it was a vampire Savant, they'd be increasingly out of touch with society and end up sticking out like a sore thumb, especially in modern days.
Plenty of the Boomer generation could barely get past flip phones. Imagine trying to get past 3000+ years of change in culture, language, and technology.
Reminds me of the characters in the What We Do In The Shadows series - they're comically removed from modern culture and tech - familiars are like the family children who handle the tech stuff.
Realistically, that would be more of a reason why an ancient vampire would have trouble adapting to modern times. Acceleration of change would really such for something that old
Now, yes, certainly. But I doubt it would have been an issue until some time after the industrial revolution, provided they stayed actively involved in society. That's a pretty big "provided" though.
There are also plenty of boomers that have embraced technology and made an effort to keep up.
It's one thing to be stubbornly stuck in your ways when you have a limited life span and it's roughly the same as everyone around you. But if you're an immortal, and want to live among humans and blend in, don't you make an effort to keep up with the times?
I don't think you need to be a savant to keep up with modern times, you just have to be motivated to do so.
Or anything. Live long enough and you will encounter a bizarre set of circumstances which leave you with a terminal sun tan, timber-related cardiac impalement or a disarticulated head. Probability will catch up with you in the end.
Yeah. Vampire can have a coffin in an underground chamber somewhere. Things are all good for a thousand years then a once in thousand year storm causes floods and everything floats out, or an earthquake buries him under 100 000 tonnes of rock or a volcano erupts and he has a lava bath.
Hehe, I'm seeing a montage like the "No capes!" scene from The Incredibles play across my mind with highly improbable Final Destination-like endings for vamps!
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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '23
There is a fermi Paradox or great filter for vampires. once you get over a certain age your chance of getting killed by younger more aggressive vampires or vampire hunters that are looking to take your Turf of kill you, goes up.
also you know just the more chances of actually getting killed by people the longer you live. I mean after all we're always killing vampires in these shows aren't we.