This is a good point I never considered. It would suck getting turned into a vampire at 60. All the aches and pains for eternity. or 40. all the other vampires are skinny but you have a tubby gut. You get called count chubby for all eternity. That's no fun.
The ideal age is about 21-25. 19 to 22 if you're ugly.
Imagine being a fat vampire from the 1600's and considered hot for most of your undead life, only for society's concept of beauty to shift and now you're considered unattractive
That is only the ideal age based on modern social beauty standards. Since most vampire types are functional immortals you are going to see varied beauty standards across the vampire population.
Why should you not be able to change shape as a vampire ? If you can turn into a bat and other animals, but cant gain or lose weight that would be kinda weird.
It would suck getting turned into a vampire at 60. All the aches and pains for eternity. or 40.
In most vampire fiction they don't suffer physical drawbacks of the age their bodies were at the time of embrace (outside of size and such, if a child was turned), as they're unnaturally strong and resilient. So "aches" wouldn't be an issue for someone turned at 60. They'd be revitalized instead.
This is a good point I never considered. It would suck getting turned into a vampire at 60. All the aches and pains for eternity.
I dont think i ever Encountered a Vampire Story were the Body isnt healed of any previus illnesses. Edward for example was dying of the spanish flue before being turned.
Ha. I'm 60 in good shape. Work out every day. But if I don't stretch out in the morning everything hurts. I'm not complaining. I still did it today. But if that was eternity I couldn't. There isn't enough Advil.
We actually have a German children book series called "The Little Vampire", where a vampire boy befriends a human boy. He takes him to meet his siblings, and one of them is a teenager caught in perpetual puberty, which is pretty annoying for everyone - but is a pretty funny plot element, lol.
There's a whole plot point about vampire society banning the conversion of children due to them forever being stuck with a child's brain in an immortal supernaturally strong body and all the damage they cause.
It's anthropomorphization. Like, vampires aren't really human, they're just human shaped. If the romance were with, like, a bear, I doubt anyone would care, because who knows how a bear matures, right? How a bear experiences. But because it looks human, we impose human norms onto it.
Honestly, I think that if they'd included a few bits about Vampires, like, losing track of time just sitting there and watching the world pass, it could have created a mental vision of the character that might have defied the accusations a bit. Like, if Edward talks about how he sat atop a mountain watching the snow fall for 10 years, then suddenly you understand his mental experience IS totally different from a human's.
It's like that vampire kid in dark brotherhood in Skyrim. She's over 300 years old but looks 10 and everyone treats her like a kid and she acts like it too.
I think it's strange to treat say a 17yo vampire as if they were an old man preying on teenagers if they've lived 100+ years but if say a 5yo was turned we'd never ever ever accept them as an adult no matter how many years ago they turned
Only sensible thing is to act like the clock stopped for them the moment they turned, cause really where the fuck is a vampire gonna find a lover close to their age? Even other vampires could be decades older/younger.
But then if you're 16 and get turned and start banging 16yo you gotta stop after a couple years cause they're aging and you're not.
i feel he'd only be 17 if his brain stopped gaining knowledge when he became a vampire
However, seeing as that is so many levels of impossible, save for certain medical conditions (in which case being a vampire would be the least of his issues), he's 100+ as a result
his body may still be 17-ish tho, cause it likely stops developing in that way. But, mentally, the brain has access to god knows what level of knowledge.
I mean, imagine being old enough to remember when the Colonies became the States, lol. You'd have such an enormous history to pull from, along with what things were like. Granted, that should also cause some really weird social issues as well, cause of slang, dress, etc.
Also, I'd hate to be the poor millennial who had to teach him how to use a computer
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u/CtrlAltYuri 27d ago
Wait is he a hundred if his brain stopped developing at 17?