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Twilight
Why does it make so many people go "BAWW VAMPIRES ARE RUINED FOREVER!"? Yes, it is badly written. Yes, it is a complete bastardization of everything vampire. But Priest was both of those too, and you don't hear people bitching about how Priest ruined the entire vampire genre.
But seriously, vampire hives?
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But Twilight is defining this narrative generation of vampires. Which sucks.
Give how I just learned that Priest is a manhwa, I agree with Cygan.
Also, Twilight is what happens when a person, who probably doesn't read much or doesn't understand what he/she has read, actually writes a book.
How? aside from the sparkling part, I think it pretty much made them on the same levels as it's werewolf counterparts in terms of survival. In other movies vampires die when shot with a silver bullet, have a tendency to explode or ash at even the most simplest application of it's weakness (Which are all questionable to begin with...seriously). These vampires have to be ripped apart piece by piece and then burned in order to die, which is equivalent to destroying it's body with a rocket launcher and then burning the pieces with a flamethrower. The older vampires were laughably weak to fucking everything as a trade-off for their ability to teleport/move really fast, seduce women and shapeshift (if it's a strigoi, and not a moroi).
I think if Stephanie Meyer didn't write this book as a romance story Vampires would catch on to this and actually become better over time instead of sulking as shitty video game enemies.
The issue is never what particular powers a vampire has. It's how they're depicted and written. The Twilight vampires are bad simply because they don't exist to provide tension, they exist as schlick material for adolescent girls. Usually, a monster is used as a villain of some kind to provide tension and for good reason. Meyer's predictable writing coupled with obvious knowledge of her objective end up preventing her books or vampires from having any impact for exactly the same reasons as one-another.
Contrast Dracula, where the titular monster's powers are never made completely clear, nor are his weaknesses or motivations. In that book, we have a vague idea of what Dracula is but we can't say much for sure. We rarely know where he is at any given moment. It's unsettling. Not because Dracula is super-powerful, but because we can't know.
1. eponymous not titular.
2. That was certainly one of the novels strong sui8ts i'm considering writing a prequel to Dracula and i'm skeptical of whether to give Dracula's point of view for this very reason.
With human perspectives, you can make it seem like Dracula is doing anything he wants, even though you as the writer know that's not true.
Prequels to monster stories rarely work that well, simply because horror. Perhaps unless it was about Vlad Tepes' slow corruption into Dracula from the perspective of one of his generals or something.
So making him Atilla would slightly contradict the novel. Making him Vlad might be predictable, but it also opens up a sort of high-Medieval/Renaissance setting, too.
You know, this is an example of Bad Writing.
I don't like it when a story never wraps things up. Things can he not revealed, but if they aren't wrapped up by the end...
What's relevant is the characters and how they interpret the monster.