well you see, the traditional vampire dynamic is usually scary dom man taking advantage of and corrupting an innocent maiden (Dracula, Nosferatu)... the teeth as a penetration, forever changing the victim (virginity metaphor).
But we can also think of the sucking of blood as the taking of bodily fluids, traditionally a bottom's duty. Literally sucking dry their life's essence (blood/cum) with your greedy hole... what's more bottom than that?
as a service (aka real) top people need to focus more on "giving" vs "receiving" rather than lateral position.... vampires are receiving! your blood! they are bottoms!
Also vampires are traditionally dom monsters because of their power, but you could easily think of their reliance on blood as something subby... gotta beg for your liquid dinner from these stupid humans... pathetic!
I've actually never seen vamps as tops because my first exposure to them was stuff like Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase and Karin where they're basically just tsundere subs
oh I should check that out! the classic vamps from Dracula to Twilight very much emphasize the straight mdom which was never my area of interest, so I never took much notice
Ohh they're not actually good. I watched them when i was a kid just to see the cute moe vampire girls. I was squicked by the het romance with them but kept watching because I thought the main girls were cute back then. There's no way I could stomach any part of those series now.
I only ever drew yuri for most of my life so I only paid attention to fem chara for most of my life😂 most of my first exposure to fantasy race Iike vamp or youkai was a moe girl. I still view some charas in BL as cutegirl♂️ so I prob attribute some of the tsukuyomi vamp girl vibe to chars like ast
oh I see! my preference was always toward either femdom or yaoi so I focused on subby men, and dom men & women. I don't have much experience with cute girl media, especially het focused... (which is most mainstream vampire media... I'm glad there's more types now!)
I can see why they have cultural staying power, there's just so much to explore in the metaphor and symbolism... many appeal points for vastly different groups... everyone can have fun with vampires!
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Anyway 🧛🏻🧛🏻🧛🏻 much 2 consider...