With my living vampires, the Irien, they feed from humans, but, they don't see it as an act of predation, they ask first. The ones who agree to feed them are called "donors", which they are. There's no hunting, no treating rational sentients as prey, even though the Irien are predators. They just are rather civilized about it. :)
In return, the Irien is very protective of their donors, seeing to their well being. They usually have more than one to make it easier on their donors. Even though the bite of an Irien can heal and can replenish what they take (they give a little of their life force back into their donor), a single donor can get worn down over time.
Now this is just for the Iriens, in the TA universe there are other breeds of vampire on Earthside, ranging from the classical Dracula type to whatever other vampiric types there are in other cultures, such as the Chinese hopping vampire. I'd have to say the classical type, as you see in most vampire movies, are rather predatory. They see and treat humans as cattle, a term often used. With these types it's a totally different mindset.
Now I've seen some movies where there's a classical vampire who didn't want to feed and would go to great lengths to avoid taking human blood because they knew they'd kill and thus create another vampire. And that's also used as the classic struggle: to feed or not to feed. They feed, they become the predator who sees humans as food, nothing more. To not feed, they become the weak link and it leads to their destruction. Usually they're tricked into feeding by another vampire who's gleefully the predator, everything the other doesn't want to become. This vampire usually feeds on rats or other animals while the predatory one feeds on humans and tries to goad the other into taking his first drink.
There's a movie that deals with this, Vampire Journals. A vampire didn't want to feed and would go to great lengths to avoid human blood. He finally gets trapped and tricked into feeding, but the humans were willing. He felt disgusted with himself but ultimately couldn't help himself because the urge to feed and the predatory complusion was too strong to resist. He was very weak due to his avoidance, and that's why it was easy for the predatory vampire to get him to feed. These predatory vampires knew that to kill the human was a bad thing and would feed until it was almost too dangerous for the human, let the human recover, and meanwhile they'd feed from another. Now and then one would lose control and kill their feeder human, having to kill the human to prevent another vampire from rising.
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Date: 2006-02-17 08:03 am (UTC)In return, the Irien is very protective of their donors, seeing to their well being. They usually have more than one to make it easier on their donors. Even though the bite of an Irien can heal and can replenish what they take (they give a little of their life force back into their donor), a single donor can get worn down over time.
Now this is just for the Iriens, in the TA universe there are other breeds of vampire on Earthside, ranging from the classical Dracula type to whatever other vampiric types there are in other cultures, such as the Chinese hopping vampire. I'd have to say the classical type, as you see in most vampire movies, are rather predatory. They see and treat humans as cattle, a term often used. With these types it's a totally different mindset.
Now I've seen some movies where there's a classical vampire who didn't want to feed and would go to great lengths to avoid taking human blood because they knew they'd kill and thus create another vampire. And that's also used as the classic struggle: to feed or not to feed. They feed, they become the predator who sees humans as food, nothing more. To not feed, they become the weak link and it leads to their destruction. Usually they're tricked into feeding by another vampire who's gleefully the predator, everything the other doesn't want to become. This vampire usually feeds on rats or other animals while the predatory one feeds on humans and tries to goad the other into taking his first drink.
There's a movie that deals with this, Vampire Journals. A vampire didn't want to feed and would go to great lengths to avoid human blood. He finally gets trapped and tricked into feeding, but the humans were willing. He felt disgusted with himself but ultimately couldn't help himself because the urge to feed and the predatory complusion was too strong to resist. He was very weak due to his avoidance, and that's why it was easy for the predatory vampire to get him to feed. These predatory vampires knew that to kill the human was a bad thing and would feed until it was almost too dangerous for the human, let the human recover, and meanwhile they'd feed from another. Now and then one would lose control and kill their feeder human, having to kill the human to prevent another vampire from rising.
Boy, am I rambling...:)
Hope this helps.
--L.Graf