(image: HBO/20th Century Fox/SyFy/Warner Bros) Tell us about your favorite (and least favorite) female vampires below! Despite only appearing in 24 episodes, she has remained a fan favorite.
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In many ways, she reminds me of Lorena, an abuse victim who then abuses others, but makes for a compelling villain in the series and honestly, is Spike’s most compelling partner. Mentally broken because of it, Drusilla is cruel because she was created out of cruelty. As a human she was a psychic and religious woman who could have been a saint, but that potential for holiness drew the attention of the vampire Angelus who tormented her ruthlessly before turning her into a vampire. Thankfully, there were a few and of those few, my favorite by far was Drusilla. When I got into Buffy: The Vampire Slayer as an adult, one of my biggest disappointments was how few female vampires there were in the series.
(20th Television) 1) Drusilla ( Buffy: The Vampire Slayer) Yes, True Blood’s Tara was around before, but Tara was also treated like crap the entire series. Until Mattie, there really weren’t any other black female vampires in media that I found to be as loved as her. Mattie is an awesome woman of color, who was added to the show in an effort to be more inclusive but they also took a character from the original novel who was racially stereotyped and turned her into a beautiful, powerful vampire in her own right. She is a brooding, philosophical vampire who loves women and is treated as such. Her relationships with women are never reduced to fetish fuel for a male audience. Vampire sisters Carmilla Karnstein and Matska “Mattie” Belmonde are great examples of two characters who have been previously mishandled in the vampire genre.Īs a queer vampire, Carmilla is sexy without being overly sexualized. I’ve spoken before about how much I love the web series Carmilla so I won’t repeat myself too much however, it remains of the most compelling female-led vampire dramas ever. Well not to me! She is an interesting character who we didn’t get to know well enough before she was staked and I’ll always miss her for that. She is in the way of Bill and Sookie, not a romantic option, therefore she is expendable. We spent episodes and whole seasons dealing with Bill and his angst and his pain and his trauma, but Lorena’s angst and trauma are only given a few minutes of dialogue. In fact, it isn’t until Eric calls upon Lorena as a ploy to separate Bill and Sookie that Lorena even enters Bill’s life again. One of the most telling scenes about Lorena to be is that when Bill threatens to kill himself if Lorena does not release him, she does. When she falls in love with Bill because he is good, it is her way of finding a good man to love, to love her back, but also to have power over. Lorena is herself a victim of abuse and torture from her own maker and therefore that is how she learned to exist. With True Blood, I never thought Lorena and her manipulations of Bill were good, but the same can be said of Bill and Sookie’s relationship or of Eric and … well, anyone. One of my biggest issues when it comes to how female vampires, especially antagonistic ones, are written is how their manipulations are seen as more horrible in contrast to those of their male counterparts.
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