January 8th, 2011 at 03:45am
It's weird, I was thinking about this the other day as well. I mean, we've been presented with so many different versions of a "vampire" that I'm not sure there is a correct one. And if you keep changing things about the creature, when does it stop being a vampire and turn into something else entirely?
It's really quite thought provoking when you think about it. I mean, there is a big difference in the ones from Buffy and from Twilight, but they are both called vampires. It's just interesting.
So with vampires being fictional, they get morphed and twisted into whatever the author / creator wants them to be. Be it they burn in the sun, are "allergic" to garlic and get seriously agitated by crucifixes or be it they walk beneath sunlight because of a ring / are just super sparkly, think garlic is tasty, and use crucifixes for decoration.
That's basically it, they're fictional. They're whatever we want them to be. There is no real vampire race so there is no real definition for them.