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[horror] Villain concept I have rolling around in my head
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I call it Wine Snob Vampires but it's much darker and less jokey than that name sounds
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the basic premise is that vampires drink human blood to survive and also to fuel their vampiric powers
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but specifically
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the negative emotions of the victim - fear, pain, despair - elevate the flavor and potency of their blood
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so drinking from a happy, content human is like, whatever
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but drinking from someone completely miserable is rapturous
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the immediate implications are no surprise
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but any idiot vampire can torture a guy and then drink him
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vampire lords are different
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they're artists
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a vampire lord doesn't have victims
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a vampire lord has projects
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individual humans they've picked out who they work on for months
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either with nightmarish body horror tortures or by more subtle means
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elevate someone to the top of the world, then tear of everything away from them
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break them
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to create a mastercraft vintage
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they aren't just indifferent to the suffering they cause
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they're proud of it
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describe them in long, meandering monologues
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sell completed projects to other vampire lords for millions or just boast of their collections
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and of course
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since this is a wine snobbery parallel
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the notion that this creates better blood than just hurting a guy a bunch
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is 90% bullshit
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it's a placebo effect
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the blood tastes better because you know where it came from, not because it's all that different
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the whole blood gourmet circle is nothing but senseless cruelty to no end
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elite monsters doing it to impress each other
Gabiluzbad
This got dark
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gothic horror fantasy
pastel ranma
Oh this is good
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Obviously, the first thing that came to mind is
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Fraud
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blood fraud
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A vampire who sees himself as an “ally” to humans because he tricks elder vampires into paying a lot for faked tortured blood
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He SAID it was the blood of a former billionaire who got reduced to being a penniless prostitute
pastel ranma
Though I think a possible sick & twisted joke you could include here is that a human that figures this out hits depths of despair previously unknown so they actually do have a tangible difference in flavor
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really it was some guy he stabbed in the leg
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mixed with a little owl blood for spice
Gabiluzbad
But actually it was just some guy he tortured in his basement for a week
pastel ranma
At least I think there's a certain existential horror someone would feel that not only have they seen a lot of pain & suffering and endured some themselves but that it's literally pointless
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some vampire getting meta about his torture
Echo
I wonder if it's some mystical resonance of negative emotions, or if vampires can just taste the flavor of like. Stress hormones.
Echo
Maybe somebody figures out how to artificially synthesize the chemicals that the human brain produces when deeply distressed, using it to make unnaturally delicious blood.
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And then has to avoid getting whacked by vampire lords who are pissed off about this "disrespect to the art form" and/or trying to cut in on their business.
BattroidBattery
'eh if you just tell a human they're on the hook for $10,000 and let them stew on it for a week you get 99% of the flavor you get from destroying everything they love over the course of a decade'
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'pleb'
"let's blind taste test then'
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