You seem to be making this bigger than what it is. You're giving me the impression that you don't like Astarion's vampirism because he's not depicting in the way YOU like. I, on the otherhand, don't mind how he looks based on the more popular vampire looks. The reason why I mentioned Dracula as being the first vampire story is because it is the first vampire story to be made popular. You seem to have misunderstood what I meant by Vlad the Impaler being a vampire. The "stories" I mentioned are oral stories. He is in fact revered in Romania and considered a protector. There are a few legends regarding him as a vampire but once again they are oral stories. These are things that I have heard historians say in regards to Vlad the Impaler.
No, you lay words in my mouth, please don't do that. I don't like Astarion, because he isn't a very original character and basically a cliche in my opinion, as I said before. And that hasn't even to do with him being a vampire (otehr that he feeds a certain trope), but with him being evil stupid (as someone so fittingly put it). ANd I thought, I did express that plainly enough ... obviously not.
I only corrected some of the things you wrote about vampires, because they are simply not true - is the good looking vampire the most popular today? Why, certainly yes. But that is a new phenomena. And the good looking vampires can still be interesting - but not in Twilight-like stories, that are more romances, than anything (I recommend Poppy Z. Brite, Lost Souls). And there wasn't a legend about Vlad being a vampire, before Stoker decided to make him one. That one is made up by Francis Ford Coppola and his Dracula movie. I only try to deliver facts here, as I said, I have no problem with Dracula being a gentleman vampire today or vampires mostly look good, but read quite a bit of vampire mythology and lore and just thought, I'll bring in my 2 cents of knowledge, that's all.
Again you are misunderstanding what I wrote. When I mentioned stories, I said oral stories. You are not going to find them in writing. As I said these are things I have heard historians say. Just like you, I have also read plenty of vampire lore but what you and I have read could be different. That's why you and I keep contradicting each other. I also want to remind you the I did not intend this thread to be a debate but to discuss why we like or do not like each companion, although you seem to have responded to my comments in a very argumentative way. You are also the person that responded to me previously by saying not to ask you why you don't like Astarion before you edited that part out of your response.
