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Do they sleep perfectly still in a coffin to stop messing their hair?
Nov 7, 2024 9:19 AM
elmesito
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Do they sleep perfectly still in a coffin to stop messing their hair?
Skizmo
The use phones with cameras.
manulofdoom
Unpopular opinion: the mirror thing is the worst vampire trait. There is no way to explain it in any more-or-less logical way, unless everything in your setting runs on pure magic and there isn't even remotely such a thing as real-world physics.
ParaspriteHugger
If you are around for a few hundred years, you sooner or later bite a hairdresser.
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Maybe they help each other?
Caboune
It's an undead thing. You wouldn't get it.
INeverReadTheTOS
A vampire's first thrall is always a hairdresser.
KnifeKnut
They use mirrors backed with a different metal than silver.
drkwngduck00
“When you are a vampire you become very sexy.” -Deacon WWDITS
SimplyWalkedIntoMordorAndBroughtPizza
if the mirror is coated with alumina instead of silver, they should be able to see themselves.
Volpe42
They are quite familiar
meganical
I mean, the transformation is notorious for turning them sexy as if it is a trait that allows them to hunt better by enchanting prey
Kittensandyarns
In 'Angel', when they went to the Pylea dimension where rules were different and Angel could see himself in the mirror, he wondered why his hair was like that and why no one told him.
So, even if it looks good, it might not look how the vampire intended it to.
It does explain why Spike often used the simple slick-back. It's a lot easier to style.
MacDofGlasgow
Willow asked Angel how he shaves in a Buffy episode and they rapidly changed the subject as Angel was about to answer. Though Angel was locked in a crate for months once and didn't grow a beard so maybe he can't.
prfesser
If he's undead he's not really alive so it doesn't grow, right?
tinydog
But many vampires have such long hair.
prfesser
Must be the length it was in life.
Baltzdelirium
Mirrors used to be made with silver nitrate that is then exposed to formaldehyde vapors causing a thin metallic layer to develop.
Skizmo
... and what does that have to do with the hair?
TheJomsborgViking
Vampires can't see themselves in silver reflections because silver is a weakness
simianruler
You're thinking werewolves. Vampires don't care about silver.
Kjasi
Silver was considered a "pure" and "holy" metal, thus, effective against "unholy" creatures, such as Vampires. Although, recent depictions of Vampires have diminished the effect of "holy" symbols.
DeadeicPrints
I have read hundreds of books, stories, myths, where vampires are indeed injured and killed by silver. It is not an uncommon myth if you consume the media.
TheJomsborgViking
It depends on the mythos, but they do mostly agree that beings cursed by god will have aversion to holy metals. Silver was considered a holy metal, and Dracula, a man who blasphemed was then cursed by god.
Also Silver was the metal exchanged for the wicked deed of murdering Gods son, so those who do wicked are cursed to have aversion to silver.
Also look at pop culture. Blade uses silver tipped stakes. or some amalgum of silver and mercury if I remember..
TheJomsborgViking
I ran out of room to give more examples, I am pretty sure the Belmonts from Castlevania used silver in almost all of their weapons. that one I am unsure of though..
RitzBitz25
Apparently they do care about silver
simianruler
Going into the wikipedia article tells us that it's from a 1939 Batman comic. He uses silver bullets to kill a coven of vampires that had kidnapped his fiancée. I guess that's as good a source as Bram Stoker, but I still don't like it.