This is an excerpt from a book that was written long before Claude was an AI creation. I'm not publishing the book. It's not readable :) And I look past all the AI stuff. I will use the words Gemini, and Guru, (not Alexa...never had use for that name). I'm just beyond the whole AI universe.
In defense of my vampire I will say there is no better candidate for redemption than a vampire. And that's exactly what happens to my vampire. He meets that girl who reconnects him to his roots, to his lost humanity, because she is from his tribal lineage.
The usual sexual tension that most films play up between vampire and seduced young maiden...no, not in my book. Only this woman, who ends up being the catalyst for his reclamation.
So, yes, vampires are icky, but a vampire can also set the scene for a discussion about the value of life, life on what terms, good and evil....
Writing this was a very interesting exercise, and once I set the goal for myself of writing 80,000 words, I couldn't stop. It was a marathon.
RE: Vampire Alley