Question #9:
Which would you rather be?
VAMPIRE OR LYCAN?
This week’s argument comes from
a return guest
blogger ~
Dennis Crosby from
Welcome back to the blog, Dennis!
The argument:
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. So…a vampire, a lycan and
ghost were sharing an apartment…
Wait, what? Oh, yeah that was a TV show. Ok, how about this
one? So…a werewolf and vampire fell in love and…
Huh? So that’s been done too? A lot?
I suppose the simple truth is, vampires and werewolves go
together like peanut butter and jelly. Honestly, even better than peanut butter
and jelly because these days everything is organic, gluten free or some soy
substitute. Throughout the horror genre though, there are no characters more
recognizable than vampires and werewolves. They are simultaneously beloved and
feared. But, as with every dynamic literary and cinematic duo, there exists the
inevitable question:
Which would you rather be?
For some of you, on the surface, that may seem to be an easy
question to answer. But you’ll need to take some things into account first. You
see, you have to consider the many variations on these characters. For some
authors and screenwriters, not all vampires are immortal. Some simply age
slowly and are impervious to most basic injuries, but they can be killed if the
attack is severe enough. In other cases, the more traditional cases, they live
forever, but have limitations like sunlight, silver and wooden stakes. Then you
have your emo-vampires, vampires that live off of your life force, and one that
inexplicably lives on Sesame Street and is allowed to roam a neighborhood full
of children without any consequences.
With the lycans, or werewolves, again, not all are immortal.
In fact, it seems more common for them to have a normal lifespan, only with a
fuller, more…interesting life. Traditionally, they would only turn on the full
moon and they could only be killed by silver bullets, which had to remain in
the body to keep the creature from regenerating. These days, werewolves are a
tad more integrated. Their animal senses are heightened to superhuman levels
even in human form and they can change at will. Hell…some can even change
certain body parts without having to shift fully. In some cases, they become
full wolves, while in most cases, they become some bipedal hybrid of human and
wolf.
So, to make it easier, I’ll give you a more refined choice.
If you choose to be a vampire, you are endowed with immortality, super human
strength, agility, senses and speed, BUT, you cannot go out during the day and
can only survive on blood which you must consume every evening to survive. If
you choose to become a werewolf, you are not immortal, you have limited use of
your werewolf abilities in human form (heightened strength and senses are still
stronger than humans but not as strong when you’re in wolf form), you can
change at will except during a full moon when you change whether you want to or
not, and you must endure an excruciating amount of pain when moving from one
form to the next. There’s no magical, “Twilighty” shape shifting going on. There
will be bone snapping, popping and elongation. Your teeth and jaws will move
and your nails will extend as your hands turn into claws.
Morphine will not help you!
Now, I’m certainly not trying to sway you to one side or the
other. But which would you choose?
Tessa
Dawn replies: And since my guest blogger didn’t make a clear choice,
I will have to do it for him. :-)
Meh.
Easy peasy.
The winner is…VAMPIRE
(But be sure to register your vote or post your own nonsensical
question or suggestion in the comments below. Who knows? I might just run with
it. J)
And now, it's time to return to my day job: writing Dark Fantasy
Fiction & Gothic Romance!
Please tune in next week for another utterly-mindless, nonsensical
question!
Until then...
Cheers!
Disclaimer: I really am a thoughtful, contemplative,
fairly educated person. :-) I have a BA in Psychology and an MA in Nonprofit
Management, and I write a wicked, dark, edgy, action-packed story...but I just
don't have time to blog. Oh, and I will interrupt this mindless nonsense
(from time to time) to post about new releases, upcoming books, videos,
contests, or other various teasers...just so you know. :-)
