Fiction is abound with people getting entangled romantically with vampires, going all the way back to Lucy and Mina being seduced by the charismatic Count Dracula. Besides playing in with the inherent sexuality in the vampire story (the pervasive almost addictive power of the lust for blood, the intimate penetrative act complete with exchange of fluids, the threat of death/consumption therein,) the inevitable idea of romance between mortal and undead should also be inherently tragic. The mortal partner either risks becoming an undead bloodsucking demon of the night themselves (as what happens to Bella Swan in Twilight,) or the vampire partner is either destroyed or doomed to live without their love.
With that in mind, here are some contemporary female vampires and a list of their particular pros and cons.
Marceline the Vampire Queen (from the Cartoon Network’s gleefully anarchic Adventure Time!)
Pros: Cute hipster style, beautiful singing voice, doesn’t drink blood but instead drains color from her victims.
Cons: Selfish, sadistic, amoral, overly possessive. Genuinely monstrous.
Abby (from Let Me In/Let the Right One In).
Pros: Dependable, charismatic, seems to genuinely care about her tween protectors.
Cons: Going to be physically (and, it seems, mentally/emotionally) twelve for the rest of her unlife. Also the whole bloodlust thing keeping you at the periphery of society as a creepy bemustached murderer for the rest of your life is a big minus.
Therese/Jeanette (“Tourette”) Voehrman (from Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines).
Pros: Two girls for the price of one; one you can take to the board room and one to the club. Voiced by the velvety dulcet tones of the talented Grey DeLisle.
Cons: As befitting the World of Darkness’ Clan Malkavian (or the nWoD’s Malkovian bloodline,) completely bat-guano insane. This may be less of a con for me than it is for other people.
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
Pros: Blessed with two immense gifts: her charm and her gigantic wits. (This joke is not going to get old for me ever, besides performing the rare triple entendre, or more accurately, a double entendre within a double entendre wrapped up in a pun [like a turducken of innuendo.]) The Elvira character seems largely dependent on Cassandra Petersen’s mental and intangible qualities (her comedic timing and charisma, per example,) in addition to her, yes, very nice chest area.
Cons: Not technically a vampire.
DracuLaura (from Monster High)
Pros: Cute as a button, perky.
Cons: She’s a “vegan vampire,” the very concept of which sickens me to the very core. Also, is almost1600 years old (if throwaway jokes are to be believed,) and still going to high school (although, like Abby from Let Me In, may still be mentally/emotionally 16 eternally as well, which might offset that.) Something has to be going on there.
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