Brain Assassin

That’s an inter­est­ing ques­tion, don’t you all agree? There’s no ques­tion that peo­ple have always been attracted to the dark side of the force. For that rea­son alone there are many peo­ple flock­ing to the vam­piris­tic move­ment. You think I exag­ger­ate? Just open your eyes. If you know how to look, you can see them almost every­where. There are no real bound­aries – not in a world that is con­nected by the Inter­net. So, with­out a ques­tion, there is a sub­cul­ture that cen­ters around vampirism.

Some peo­ple are attracted to it because they like the dark side. Oth­ers sim­ply enjoy hav­ing power over their fel­low humans (Just in case you’re won­der­ing: That power is evi­dent. I have wit­nessed some punks chas­ing after a quite beau­ti­ful woman who had the appear­ance of a goth. They had barely time to utter a few words when she bared her fangs. Yeah, right. Fangs! Both punks sud­denly stopped, unsure as what to make of it.). Then there are quite a few who seem to get sex­u­ally aroused by act­ing like a vam­pire. Oth­ers are in for spir­i­tual rea­sons while a few just like the fashion.

Intrigued by the scene I had wit­nessed, I started to inves­ti­gate. I scoured the Inter­net for scraps of infor­ma­tion on this grow­ing move­ment and called in some favors. What I found out was amaz­ing. There are many peo­ple who see them­selves as preda­tors. Some claim to see them­selves as more awak­ened than the rest of human­ity. These peo­ple tend to form a pack or, to use the cor­rect jar­gon, a House. There are many clans and each clan (House of [insert some­thing here]) has its own turf, so to speak. That clearly indi­cates that mem­bers of these Houses show a ter­ri­to­r­ial behavior.

Still, there’s more to it. Appar­ently, these clans are quite sim­i­lar to secret orga­ni­za­tions. As such each House has its own rit­u­als. There’s an ini­ti­a­tion rit­ual in which a sin­gle per­son is chal­lenged and has to rise to it to become a mem­ber of one of these fam­i­lies. If they don’t fail, which I hear doesn’t hap­pen too often (which in turn speaks for a pretty rig­or­ous pre­s­e­lec­tion), they will be treated with respect within the com­mu­nity. Any­way, every House has its own rit­u­als inspired by ancient soci­eties from Europe. That’s where Dracula’s from.

It seems that the line between fic­tion and real­ity is very thin within the scene. I don’t wanna really know how many peo­ple feel attracted to it because of Blade, Bram Stoker, or Anne Rice. I have to admit that it seems tempt­ing. If they would pos­sess super­nat­ural pow­ers, if they could really grow insanely strong by drink­ing your blood (there can be no doubt that there are rit­u­als where the drink­ing of blood is involved), well, it would be tempt­ing to pay a visit to this under­ground cul­ture. But then, vam­pirism and sex have always gone well together, haven’t they? Almost every vam­pire novel has more than a fair share of sex­ual adven­tures in it.

Why not? Sex sells. That’s a fact. There are more peo­ple out there who would shiver with sup­pressed lust with the thought of plung­ing their (arti­fi­cial) fangs into the soft flesh of a vir­gin than you or I know. As attrac­tive as it might seem to some, there are struc­tures within this sub­cul­ture. Like in our world there are hid­den agen­das and peo­ple who seek to instru­men­tal­ize oth­ers with­out their know­ing. Even a vam­pire move­ment isn’t free of lead­ers who devise cer­e­mo­nial mag­ics to enthrall the inno­cent. On a side note: I man­aged to get the impres­sion that most par­tic­i­pants in this move­ment try to dis­tance them­selves from the movies and books. Unfor­tu­nately, there are extrem­ists everywhere.

What to think about it? I’ve heard reports of peo­ple who just want to express them­selves. I’ve heard of folks who like to impress oth­ers with their car­nal looks. I’ve read of a very few who pushed the enve­lope by killing inno­cent peo­ple to drink their blood and eat there body parts. I’ve watched many doc­u­men­taries cov­er­ing vam­pirism and related sects. I know a hand full of peo­ple who are to a cer­tain degree involved into this move­ment. I don’t really know what to think about them. But I know one thing for sure: I too am a preda­tor if I have to be.