Vampires or Werewolves?

Aero · 2025-04-20T04:30:57+00:00

LONG long ago, when people sent messages by smoke signals and hunted mammoths, I played the online flash game Adventure Quest. In it, there was a story arc a...

Kaper

Aero

Kaper
where did you find this picture of me...

Kaper

Aero Holy shit I forgot about garlic. Fuck team vampire, I'm going back to the werewolf side. What good is eternal life without GARLIC

Somnolence

Sorta tangential anyone remember the TV show "Being Human"? I've never met anyone else that had even seen it before.
There was an UK version, but I much preferred the US remake - it didn't get the chance to fly off the rails like the original did. Basic premise was that that werewolf, a vampire, and a ghost all end up living in the same house. That might sound like the setup to a joke, but it was a really good show with a ton of drama. Kinda girly at times, maybe along the line of Supernatural or True Blood, but benefited from some excellent acting and pretty decent TV effects.

For the record, a transformed Werewolf would beat the piss out of a Vampire.
Batkeks just keep losing.

Aero

Somnolence
Syfy shows are in a league of their own. What an insane channel.
To play devil's advocate, a werewolf would probably win a 1v1 vs a vampire, but I think vampires would have the upper hand otherwise due to the large numbers of ghouls/other shit they can command plus magic.

Somnolence

Aero
It's true, vampires typically have a bit more of a support network. Sorta makes me wonder why they get typecast as aristocrats, and why werewolves are always the blue-collar hill-billies.

Aero

Somnolence
Blood sucking monster, fat bureaucrat LEECHING off my tax payer dollars
Not much of a distinction other than fujo sex appeal

T0RIN

Its vampires. Its not an even a question. Can you imagine how much of a pain being a werewolf is? Not only do you have to deal with a painful transformation once a month but just imagine how expensive it is. Just imagine how many clothes you'd end up burning through because of the transformation. Its like the Hulk basically.

I mean come on!! Vampires are richer, cooler, hotter and more iconic compared to the werewolf who's biggest claim to fame is a Warren Zevon song and Twilight. The choice is obvious!!
Also fuck werewolves because the wolf transformation scene in the thriller music video scared the crap out of me as a kid. Why did they have to make it so scary???

LOWnHA

Wow. A 50/50 split. Werewolves are boring.

Ross_R

Pon Anyone played Vampire the Masquerade tabletop rpgs

By the way, completely forgot to say. Those WoD RPGs also had Hunter: The Reckoning among others, which is often overlooked for whatever reason. I mean, those The Reckoning books are darn awesome. And they had several interesting video games along the way as well. I do recommend to check out Hunter Books Avenger, Innocent, Redeemer and Judge especially. You can, potentially, make deals with both vampires and werewolves in those games too, though given the nature of vampires such dealings are dangerous and short-living. Glass Walkers though? Quite a possible ally.

So yeah, werewolves. Touch fluffy tail, haters.

sanner

I remember reading the pagan-balkan myth of sava savanovic (? i think his name was). the certain text i was reading had a lot of annotation about the origins of vampires and werewolves, apparently they can be traced back to very similar-- if not the same --original story, implying they are both interpretations of the same creature/phenomenon. of course because most of these stories were primarily orally told, its difficult to confirm this theory, but its interesting nonetheless that they are still mentioned together with frequency.. although that may just be because of twilight like aero mentioned!

Aero

sanner
That's interesting. Do you have anywhere I can learn more about it?

Ross_R

Somnolence Werepyre sounds rad though.

Werezompire is even better.
Frankly, I believe I saw the werepire concept executed more than a few times. The most recent one is the Vampyr video game that I already mentioned above, where werewolves are treated as an animalistic subclass of vampires.

sanner sava savanovic

Sava Savanovic is a serbian character. He is kind of famous because the book about him - Ninety Years Later - came out in 1880 before Bram Stoker's Dracula. He is also mentioned rather extensively in the following movie:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200800/
The Butterfly is in the name because, according to several slavic myths, vampires were believed to turn into butterflies rather than bats. Though in many myths vampires are just shapeshifters altogether, with werewolves being just one of their forms.
Also, in slavic myths vampires are rarely undead and/or refined aristocrats like Dracula. More often then not they are just evil men, who are wizards and/or sold their soul to various devils. They are usually monstrous in appearance, barely resembling human.
All in all, slavic vampires is an entirely different breed from the western ones that you are used to. Much like asian vampires too. I guess, everyone heard about weird hopping chinese vampires, no?

the-syreth-clan

I also grew up on AdventureQuest and a whole bunch of other Artix games; it didn't take long for the badly drawn player support vampire queen to grow on me. Although to be frank, she was just one of the many other kindred that really got me into it. There was also Jeanette Voerman, Pachira, a bit of Mina Tepes and of course Remilia Scarlet and her sister. The vampire thing stuck with me ever since, it's one of those constants for me now. My online persona is a vampire herself still, even after all these years. I don't think it will ever change.

Aero

A fellow artixbro
My poison was mostly Dragonfable, but I dabbled in the others like Mech Quest. I went back to finish Book 1 last year, but after that, the story kind of fell off for me. It lost the zany quality that made it so fun. Good times though.

the-syreth-clan

Aero
I mainly played AdventureQuest Worlds up to 2023 at which point I became so embittered by the company's antics that I forcefully cut it all off and deleted my account along with all the rares and special items and everything. Only recently I returned to the forums to make a small gallery for myself — my character still holds a very special place in my heart. Of course, she is also a vampire.

Reveriemoe

I remember playing that game too after seeing sidebar ads on Newgrounds, but I'll have to go for vampire just because as far as I know howling at the moon is the extent of werewolf lore. Vampire gets a manor, a cape, vintage glass and wine collection, transformation powers according to Castlevania 3, probably a dramatic Byronic past, so it seems a bit one-sided.

Aero

Reveriemoe but garlic bread...

Eugehi

Werewolves are better and vampirefags can only cope about it.

A werewolf would undoubtedly beat the crap out of a vampire in a fight
People who can transform in a cool ass wolf monster have an insane sex appeal, especially if compared to snobbish twinks who can't even go outside
Who cares if vampires live a long life if they have to live a BORING one
Abandoned castles are cliché and overrated
Werewolves have badass claws

Get real.

magicrabbit

Eugehi People who can transform in a cool ass wolf monster have an insane sex appeal

aaaand... the furry reveals himself.
Every time.

Ross_R

magicrabbit the furry reveals himself.

Said the user named "magicrabbit" with an anime avatar.

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