For today’s Archetype-Avatar we move onto the most prolific being in urban fantasy: The Vampire! There are dozens of amazing choices for this Archetype and I know whatever one I choose will be wrong in someone’s eyes.
For this one, I move away from the trend of protagonists and give Lilah The Tainted some company on the antagonist side of the field. I name Russell Edgington from True Blood: the vampire king of Mississippi!
Russell is old, like really old and that makes him POWERFUL! Russell is dark, strong, polite in his old-world kinda way, and definitely someone you should not fuck with! He captures the Vamp’s themes perfectly, everyone hates him but they’re all way too scared of him to do anything about it; no one wants to get into Russel’s Web.
Tell me about your favourite vampire!
Nick Knight from Forever Knight
As long as your vampire doesn’t sparkle, you will be OK.
Eli from Let the Right One In or the mother/daughter vampire duo of Eleanor and Clara from Byzantium.
All the vampires in Only Lovers Left Alive, but especially Eve.
Russell Edgington is exactly the kind of vampire I wanted to portray when I played in Vampire LARPs. A polite and considerate monster. 🙂
Damon from The Vampire Diaries.
He might already be based off another urban fantasy RPG, but Julian Luna from Kindred: the Embraced.
Bishop from Being Human (US)!
And Blaine from I Am Zombie (okay, technically he’s not a vampire, but he is undead, feeds on humans and pushes drugs and brains – what’s not to love?)!
Twilight!
Markus Schoenlau you damn right! He’s even better. Petty drug dealer in life, now he pushes brains, as drugs and slowly becomes supernatural crime lord with no real opposition from unsuspected humanity!
Ya, Blaine is also pretty perfect!
To add to the Blaine endorsement, you could totally do the Vamp as a zombie since feeding on human flesh is one of their options. 😀
Herrick from S1 of (BBC) Being Human!
To me Russell Edgington was the best villain of that whole series. An urbane, genteel, terror.
Oh my gosh Russell scared the bejesus out of me
[SPOILERS]
The scene when Russell rips out the newscaster’s heart and addresses the nation is one of the best scenes EVER!!!
^truth
Andrew Medeiros The first time I saw it, I was shocked, but now it’s so over the top it makes me laugh my ass off.