Love Of Vampires

True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, Twilight, Underworld, The Vampire Academy. What do all of these movies and TV shows have in common? They’re all about vampires! Vampires, in recent years, have become a trend setting topic and chart topping sensation, especially in the young adult age group. Over the last few years, vampires have been all the rage in books, movies, TV shows, fan-fiction, everything. The cliché plot is there is a shy high school girl, trying to make it through her last years of school, who tends to be a loner but is actually prettier than originally insinuated. There is an extremely popular and mysterious boy who, for some unknown reason, pays no attention to the countless girls he has constantly flirting with him and swooning over him, bowing down at his feet. By some coincidental encounter, the two meet. The loner girl and the mysterious guy seem to be magnetized to each other and always end up near each other, no matter how hard they try and stay away.

            The boy usually tells the girl at some point that he cannot be around her and that it is not safe for them to be together, obviously leaving the girl utterly confused. He typically disappears for a short period of time with no explanation. Once he returns, the girl will tell him she needs him and the boy caves in and says they can be together. He usually will confess to her in some dramatic scene that he is a vampire after trying to keep it from her, and she is oddly cool about the whole thing… She does not seem to mind that her new boyfriend could simply kill her when he had a bad day and got a little moody. To each their own.

            The idea of being in love with a vampire seems a bit.. twisted.. but it in all actuality makes perfect sense. Typically, vampires are supposed to be perfect. They are flawless and charismatic and charming, as predatory tools to lure their prey. The flawless perfection in addition to immortal is a pretty amazing and impressive thing. Who would not want someone who could love them forever? In my opinion, the romanticism of vampires has been around for quite a long time and will remain every girl’s dream for a long time to come.