>>715922912
It's definitely goofy when everyone insists on using the word 'vampire', but the horror for me sunk in when I realised that even the in-universe use of that goofy, cartoonish word is an attempt to soften the premise of resurrecting sociopathic predators our very biology has not forgotten the trauma of from deep time. Like by naming the thing we can try to make of it by relating to to Bela Lugosi when in reality the thing doesn't care what we call it, it's just reading the thrumming beat of our hearts through the veins on our throat and calculating how to best hide what remains of our bodies.