This is so stupid it hurts. There's a lot of shapes more complex than a cross. Heck, a sword is a cross. Can they just not get near a dude with a sword? A three dimensional corner is more complex, can they not go inside buildings? Windows are more complex, and often have crosses in them? Can they not go inside or outside houses, without risking freezing up if they see a window?
I like the version in things like Dresden Files and Monster Hunter International; it's Faith itself that they can't stand. It doesn't even have to be Christian faith, anyone with a strong belief system can use that faith to ward off vampires. Crosses are one of the more common symbols of faith, but you can pour power into whatever symbol you believe in to drive away undead.
That explanation isn't even internally consistent.
Shhh, shhh. The important thing is that Jesus isn't real, faith sucks, morality sucks, and we should all just be nihilistic little slaves.
To be fair, I think they had to do it this way, or their own writers would be repelled by the power of faith, even in fiction. They'd start shaking and speaking in tongues and stuff.
Yup, and it's just like how they're largely incapable of writing the good guys as the good guys, and the bad guys as the bad guys. Their villains always come off as cool, and their good guys as insufferable bullies and busybodies.
Also, I'd never thought about it, but what's the 'wood' symbolism? I get why faith and purity/cleansing hurt them, and why they have issues with homes, but what is wood to them?
This is so stupid it hurts. There's a lot of shapes more complex than a cross. Heck, a sword is a cross. Can they just not get near a dude with a sword? A three dimensional corner is more complex, can they not go inside buildings? Windows are more complex, and often have crosses in them? Can they not go inside or outside houses, without risking freezing up if they see a window?
I like the version in things like Dresden Files and Monster Hunter International; it's Faith itself that they can't stand. It doesn't even have to be Christian faith, anyone with a strong belief system can use that faith to ward off vampires. Crosses are one of the more common symbols of faith, but you can pour power into whatever symbol you believe in to drive away undead.
With black magic that summons demons? That explanation isn't even internally consistent. Should have just said it doesn't really work.
Shhh, shhh. The important thing is that Jesus isn't real, faith sucks, morality sucks, and we should all just be nihilistic little slaves.
To be fair, I think they had to do it this way, or their own writers would be repelled by the power of faith, even in fiction. They'd start shaking and speaking in tongues and stuff.
This is one of the fundamental problems with leftist "creativity" they've rejected everything good and positive and have nothing to write about.
The Vampire is a symbol of degeneracy without limit, hunger without dicipline. It's the very embodiment of unchecked just.
It's contrary symbols, wood, the church, clean water, secure homes.
Do I really have to spell it out?
Vampires aren't capable of writing good vampire fiction because they fundamentally miss the point of why the Vampires are the bad guys.
Yup, and it's just like how they're largely incapable of writing the good guys as the good guys, and the bad guys as the bad guys. Their villains always come off as cool, and their good guys as insufferable bullies and busybodies.
Also, I'd never thought about it, but what's the 'wood' symbolism? I get why faith and purity/cleansing hurt them, and why they have issues with homes, but what is wood to them?