#no ancient vampire influence in their life to tell them what is and isnt the norm for vampires katherine the salvatores were never coached

[nerdie-faerie]

Do you think there's any elements of vampirism that the Mikaelsons sold as being quintessential and a norm of being a vampire that was actually just a side effect of their specific experiences with early vampirism. Like maybe they try to sell that vampires don't need sleep, they're superior to humans but that's because they couldn't sleep while on the run from Mikael constant diligence was expected of them. Vampires can go days between feeds if they wished but in reality they couldn't always find someone to feed on while on the run at least not without alerting Mikael etc. etc. That lil speech Rebekah gives Elena about vampires being a predatory species just screams rehearsed, a story they sell to newbie vampires that also helps dispel they're own guilt

#TVDu #The Mikaelsons #idk the concept of being the first of your species and having to learn everything through trial and error and then having to explain to #others?? particularly when your case of vampirism isnt the same as theirs which they likely only would have realised by accidentally or #intentionally harming/killing baby vampires through that same trial and error #like im sure theres plenty of things that they consider to be part of being a vampire that is specific to their situation like #'love is a vampires greatest weakness' im sure thats not a conclusion that all vampires would naturally come to definitely some wouldve com #to a similar conclusion but i can imagine the mikaelsons trying to convince younger vampires that caring about others is dangerous and #theyre predators but they cant afford to care because mikael will destroy everything they care about #and the limits theyve discovered about vampirism that only came about from being on the run and likely most would never naturally encounter #those limits themselves most vampires have probably never gotten to the edge of dissication they dont want to risk it they get hungry they #feed simply as that they probably dont know how long they can run without stopping whilst the mikaelsons are probably very blase cavalier #about it 'oh well just run to france its easier' o.o like what? it probably wouldnt occur to must vampires esp the newer ones that have had #no ancient vampire influence in their life to tell them what is and isnt the norm for vampires katherine the salvatores were never coached #on being vampires but heres rose like the mikaelsons are the oldest vampires around and shes got all this lore and history #i just wanna know what the mikaelsons might have included in that particularly when they were newer and probably trying to seem #more important and grandiose than they were esp given their collective superiority complexes #no idea if im explaining this clearly its so clear in my head but wording it is hard