FORKNI-L
Digest - 12 Aug 2008 to 13 Aug 2008 (#2008-191)
Wed, 13 Aug 2008
There are 3 messages totalling 70 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Vampire Blood
2. Vampire Blood Injected in Human Characters (2)
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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:25:29 -0400
From: Ramona Jackson <lexyladyjax@g.......>
Subject: Re: Vampire Blood
> >>Where would this lead when vampires make love and drink each
> > other's blood on a regular basis? How would the metabolism know
> > when to stop?<<
>
> ...FK human and vampire characters have different reactions to vampire
> blood (among other things, humans became emotionally and mentally
> unstable when injected with vampire blood, as seen in ILCK and FI,
> while vampires do not)....
Mona here, who would like to point out that there's a big diff between
ingestion and injection.
(She would also like to point out that she only quoted four lines from each
post as well, but the quotes seem awfully unwieldy at this time.)
<returning to lurk mode>
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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:45:58 +0800
From: eruve erundun <eruveerundun@y.......>
Subject: Re: Vampire Blood Injected in Human Characters
"Amy R." <akr@l.......> wrote:
<snip>
Separately, my theory was that Sofia's treatment includes some
unknown element in addition to her blood to achieve this effect, as a
contrast to what happened in "Fallen Idol." Just an unprovable
theory, of course. <snip>
Adding my own unproven two cents...
Maybe the difference lies in the fact that Natalie had Nick's
blood in her freezer...while "Dr. Jurgen" drew it fresh. Perhaps
freezing the vampire blood deactivated some elements.
Pondering about it,
Ell
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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:14:26 -0700
From: cindy clark <badwolf15895@s.......>
Subject: Re: Vampire Blood Injected in Human Characters
ILCK is a kind of inversion of the whole "Blood Countess" myth,
isn't it? I don't know whether it was wholly fiction or had some
element of historical truth, that story of the mad noblewoman who
bathed in the blood of girls to maintain her youth,
Elizabeth Bathory was the Hungarian countess who bathed in the blood
of virgins, thinking that it would keep her young. They figure that
she killed something like 600 peasant girls in the process. She
finally killed a girl who was part of the minor nobility, and, of
course, that couldn't be overlooked, so she was arrested and tried
for her crimes. They walled her up in her own castle, and she lived
that way for another 6 years. She was a close cousin to Vlad Tepes,
so when reading, one often finds their "bloody" histories linked
together.
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End of FORKNI-L Digest - 12 Aug 2008 to 13 Aug 2008 (#2008-191)
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