IDK about you, but if I became a vampire, got 150 years old without visibly aging and recovered from severe wounds without medical assistance I would probably consider myself ‘immortal’.
Some of us are a little more skeptical than to believe in immortality after a measly 150 years.
“You know Ted back there-“
“OOG OOG”
“-has been going strong since pre-history. He goes so far back, he can actually drink a chimp. But mostly, he spends his time hypnotizing himself with his basin and masturbating. Which was why I suggested shoes.”
There’s a villain in the DC universe who is actually an immortal caveman. But he uses his immortality to learn the languages and customs of the area and era he is in.
Sounds like “The Man From Earth”
I mean he does a fuckton more than that…
There’s another immortal caveman who whenever he dies, he comes back to life with a new superpower
Those ones tend to stake themselves eventually, or get obsessed with seeing sunlight “for real though”. They’re not in it for the long haul.
The way we know a million other things. We are told by a trusted expert.
Want a story where vampires just drop dead after exactly two million years
I played a lot of Vampire the Masquerade in the 90s and liked their origin idea about Vampires.
Basically Cain from the bible is the 1st and only truly immortal, having been cursed to walk the earth forever by god
so every person who is made a vampire is one generation away, most players in the game are at the edge. basically 12 generations away from Cain. The 2nd generation are all dead or beyond isolation. The 3rd generation are the powers that be that control the world and are at war with eachother and have the defining characteristics that all the vampires sired under them have the potential to have
but the old vampires will usually go into torpor for hundreds of years and only influence the world through dreams or proxies
What We Do In The Shadows has a funny answer to this question.
It always felt unbelievable when an ancient vampire was super “with it”. At best they’d be too shitty and un-self aware that their ego would remain basically intact over millennia, otherwise any immortal is facing an eternity of future shock, derealization, and complete dissociation.
The only way to really face eternity would to have such a disordered personality that the very idea of other people held no particular meaning.
I mean, I don’t know if I’d still be interested in women after being a vampire that long, but I’d like to think so.
Go to a country with lax sex laws (or at least enforcement), set up a bordello and feed on the workers while they sleep off their necessary highs for doing sex work for a horrible human (vampire) being.
Plus, under the rules I’m fixating on mentally, drinking the blood of someone who is high will get the vampire high, and after hundreds of years plus immortality, I’m gonna get high at some point lol.
(Rules referenced: Old World of Darkness, VTM, etc)
