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So I briefly touched on this in my last post about True Blood, but I wanted to discuss aging and vampires in more detail.
If you don't mind me raving about Jessica's character for a minute, I want to point out that she has two disadvantages working against her: she was a sheltered teenage girl and she is a new vampire. She's both learning how to be an adult and how to be a vampire, and both of those are visible. When she's telling Hoyt that he doesn't understand, she says that both because he doesn't know what it's like to be a vampire and because Jessica is a teenager and thinks no one understands what she's going through, and isn't going to bother to explain.
The "is a vampire dating a teenager a pedophile" debate is one that is really fun, personally. Are vampire really their age? Is it like they've lived multiple lifetimes or do they hit a stasis point where they don't have to mentally deal with aging and such and so stay at a twenty-something mentality?
Which ties into why Spike and Damon falling in love with a human and changing works for me and Eric - not so much. Spike and Damon are both "only" around two hundred years old and have spent that time in emotionally juvenile relationships. Eric was a mother fucking viking. If my math is right (always questionable) that means he is at least a thousand years old. A. Thousand. Years. Old. ....And Sookie is special enough to catch his attention because....? I don't mean this as a diss on Sookie, in particular. I just can't believe that after meeting as many people as you would in ten. different. centuries. you would not find anyone unique.
That said, I do find it interesting that Eric seems a little bit more emotional whenever he's around Godric, and I wonder if that's because, given that Godric is his maker, Eric feels safe enough with him to be a bit more vulnerable and less detached and in control.
If you don't mind me raving about Jessica's character for a minute, I want to point out that she has two disadvantages working against her: she was a sheltered teenage girl and she is a new vampire. She's both learning how to be an adult and how to be a vampire, and both of those are visible. When she's telling Hoyt that he doesn't understand, she says that both because he doesn't know what it's like to be a vampire and because Jessica is a teenager and thinks no one understands what she's going through, and isn't going to bother to explain.
The "is a vampire dating a teenager a pedophile" debate is one that is really fun, personally. Are vampire really their age? Is it like they've lived multiple lifetimes or do they hit a stasis point where they don't have to mentally deal with aging and such and so stay at a twenty-something mentality?
Which ties into why Spike and Damon falling in love with a human and changing works for me and Eric - not so much. Spike and Damon are both "only" around two hundred years old and have spent that time in emotionally juvenile relationships. Eric was a mother fucking viking. If my math is right (always questionable) that means he is at least a thousand years old. A. Thousand. Years. Old. ....And Sookie is special enough to catch his attention because....? I don't mean this as a diss on Sookie, in particular. I just can't believe that after meeting as many people as you would in ten. different. centuries. you would not find anyone unique.
That said, I do find it interesting that Eric seems a little bit more emotional whenever he's around Godric, and I wonder if that's because, given that Godric is his maker, Eric feels safe enough with him to be a bit more vulnerable and less detached and in control.
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Oooh, this sounds interesting. And it's definitely something that no other urban fantasy with both vampires and fairies has addressed (that I've read, at least).
I haven't read Rosemary and Rue, but it's on my to-read list.
(That's really funny about your comment is that I'm talking about fairies and how much I hate them in TB over in my most recent post of TB, so I'm like, 'rashaka, how could you be late, I've barely even started responding to comments in this entry!')