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11->'''Vitus:''' Is it getting easier?\
12'''Jack:''' ''No!'' I feel like a shark working in a bait shop!
13-->-- ''Webcomic/TheKingfisher''
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15Some characters have it rough, especially those that get infected with a ViralTransformation that gives them a HorrorHunger for humans. They may be forced to feed on humans more than they'd like, even becoming good at it, [[StagesOfMonsterGrief much to their own shame.]] Or they may try to be a VampireRefugee or FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire, werewolf, or whatever, and [[VegetarianVampire only feed on non-sentient things.]]
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17Then they make a {{Muggle}} friend, maybe even with LoveInterest potential! This is all sorts of awesome since it helps reconnect them to humanity and makes their existence bearable, maybe even allowing a semblance of a normal life/relationship.
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19There is, however, the obvious problem that they are now underfeeding ''and'' [[ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere spending a lot of time]] with someone who is [[CarnivoreConfusion directly below them on the food chain]]. Things will only get worse before something GoesHorriblyWrong. What usually happens is they suffer a brief bout of GlamourFailure when the HorrorHunger is strongest, they'll reflexively extend their [[FangsAreEvil fangs]] and claws, start seeing in VeinOVision, or put on their GameFace. However, they'll manage to retract them through [[HeroicWillpower sheer willpower]] before their new [[DeliciousDistraction friend/love interest]] notices... most of the time.
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21Where they usually fail to maintain the {{Masquerade}} is when facing a situation where their new friend is bleeding and they're desperately hungry, and to avoid attacking their friend they give in to the lesser urge for the spilled blood and start lapping it up. Or to have their friend show them a [[SupernaturalRepellent cross/garlic/open flame]] and for them to recoil in horror before [[HissBeforeFleeing hissing and fleeing]] (when not [[ManOnFire spontaneously combusting]]). At that point, the jig is up, and they usually stay away in shame at being exposed or for fear of losing control completely.
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23On the bright side, the friend does usually prove to be [[TrueCompanions very loyal]] and finds them afterwards, and decides to take their chances by remaining close.
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25Contrast EmergencyTransformation. Compare FrequentlyBrokenUnbreakableVow. Often somewhere in the middle or low end of the SlidingScaleOfVampireFriendliness.
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32* Mikaela Hyakuya in ''Manga/SeraphOfTheEnd'' has several moments in which he visibly fights vampiric bloodlust due to being around humans. He only gives in and drinks human blood for the first time when his childhood friend, [[HeterosexualLifePartners Yuuichirou]], begs him to in order to save his life. Despite being terribly starved, he's still able to keep himself from killing Yuuichirou.
33* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'':
34** Following his transformation into a HalfHumanHybrid, Kaneki finds himself standing in a crowded crosswalk surrounded by ordinary humans. As his HorrorHunger begins to overwhelm him, he finds himself going from thinking of those around him as "man, woman, and child" to simply [[MadnessMantra "meat"]] while biting into his hand and drooling. He's terrified when he realizes what he'd been thinking, and flees the area. On another occasion, after using his powers for the first time, he hallucinates [[MuggleBestFriend Hide]] arranged on a beautiful platter and nearly attacks him. This event leads him to slowly begin pulling away from his childhood friend, equally frightened of being discovered or hurting him.
35** While critically wounded and starving, Nishiki attacks his human girlfriend and reveals himself as a Ghoul. Her willingness to accept him brings him back to his senses, and prevents him from killing her.
36* ''Literature/VampireHunterD'':
37** One time when D is with Doris Rumm, his fangs extend, and he has to fight to control himself. Seizure warning, lots of flashing: watch it [[https://youtu.be/Ykwh-XNxpGQ?t=55m8s here, starting at about 55:08.]]
38** On the part of Meier Link, the vampire who kidnaps the girl everybody is out to rescue in ''Bloodlust''. Throughout the chase, we see him resisting his [[VeinOVision urges to bite her]]. [[spoiler:He doesn't fail, surprisingly.]]
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43* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
44** There are several fanfics that involve a member of the cast transformed into a changeling. Nearly all of them use this trope at some point. (changelings feed on love rather than blood, but they can stimulate their target with mind control powers)
45** There is at least one ''MLP: FIM'' fic that has actual vampires and features this trope, such as ''Fanfic/MyRoommateIsAVampire'' where the vampire in question (DJ Pon-3) states the trope's name verbatim.
46** Fan art gave this treatment to poor Twilight after she ''nearly'' eats a burger in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls''. They took the idea of her actually eating meat, liking it, realizing what it is, then returning home to find herself surrounded by tasty (but now ''sentient'') cows, pigs, and ''[[ImAHumanitarian ponies]]''.
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48* This is essentially the entire premise of the fanfiction story ''For Love or Blood''. The trope, however, is subverted in that Jericho, the protagonist, ''isn't'' able to restrain his HorrorHunger when his first love interest is injured, and ends up killing her. Angst ensues.
49%%* Occurs in the ''WesternAnimation/AMonsterInParis'' fic "[[http://a-monster-in-paris.deviantart.com/gallery/?31911316#/d53mpvl .:Malade Francoeur:.]]".
50* In ''Fanfic/TheReturn'', Misako (part of a brood of [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Friendly Neighbourhood Succubae]]) has to be reminded several times not to refer to her extended human family (and humans in general) as "[[CallAHumanAMeatbag meatbags]]".
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54* In ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', the shark trio form a support group whose motto is "Fish are friends, not food!'' and which emphasizes not becoming "a mindless eating machine." Played with when clownfish Marlin and blue tang Dory go through their initiation and she mumbles to herself, "Hmm, don't think I've ever eaten a fish."
55* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar1'' when Alex realizes all his friends are, in the wild, basically his food. Cue MeatOVision. He banishes himself to prevent eating them.
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59* Early in ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', Louis feels tremendous shame and guilt over feeding on people, so he resorts to consuming the chickens he owns and any rats he comes across. Needless to say, this is portrayed as being like malnutrition at best or semi-starvation at worst to a normal person. Ironically, this means that anyone close to Louis is in tremendous danger of his bloodlust without him intending or realizing it.
60* In ''Film/LetMeIn'', Owen offers the vampire Abby a blood brotherhood, cuts his finger and holds out the penknife and the bleeding hand. But Abby rushes hungrily on the pool of blood and licks it up, much to Owen's horror. After that, she can control herself just enough not to attack him and runs outside, where, from hunger, she attacks a woman who is walking her dog. It should be mentioned, however, that Abby was starving at the time because she had not drunk blood for several nights. Perhaps she can control her hunger for blood better when she is well-fed. At the end of the film, [[AssholeVictim she kills four bullies who are about to drown Owen]], and has enough control of herself not to attack Owen, and even to be able to touch him.
61* ''Film/LetTheRightOneIn'' has this happen towards the middle. Eli follows Oskar to a secluded spot after she hasn't fed for a few days, and Oskar unexpectedly cuts his palm and offers to be blood brothers with her. She manages to fight the urge to eat him by lapping up the blood he was spilling, but reveals her GameFace in the process, growls, and runs away.
62* In ''Film/LifeBlood'', Brooke is so completely overwhelmed by the scent of Bill, the first human she encounters after being resurrected as a vampire, that she bites him and kills him despite Rhea's attempts to stop her.
63* Freddy in ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'', anguished by the pain of decomposition, [[Quotes/TranshumanTreachery loses it]] and attacks his girlfriend Tina, desperate to eat her brain. [[spoiler:His SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute succeeds in [[Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDeadPartII the sequel]], in a snarky TakeThat parody of KissOfTheVampire.]]
64* Treated semi-humorously in ''Film/ShadowOfTheVampire'', where Count Orlock appears as Max Shreck, [[ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself an actor impersonating a vampire]], and Murnau has to prevent him from preying on the staff and co-stars at almost every turn.
65%%* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', big time.
66* Parodied in ''Film/VampiresSuck'', when the main character cuts her finger and one of the vampires actually sees her head [[MeatOVision transform into a Big Mac]].
67* ''Film/WeAreTheNight'':
68** Lena quickly realizes that she cannot stay near humans for long when she is hungry, because she had to control herself several times not to immediately attack someone who happened to be nearby.
69** In the second half of the film, the vampire Nora wakes up next to the corpse of a bellboy who was in love with her. The film is ambiguous as to whether Nora accidentally killed him, or whether [[MoreDeadlyThanTheMale Louise did it]] because she doesn't want male vampires to be sired. However, the book makes it clear that after having sex with the bellboy, Nora lost control of herself and accidentally killed him.
70* ''Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'': After being transformed into a vampire, Nick states that he's very, '''very''' tempted to eat his human friend Stu (while Stu is sitting right beside him)... but he won't, even though he does smell delicious, because they're best mates, and best mates don't eat each other.
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74* Taxxon morphs in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' are like this. It turns out the actual Taxxons aren't any happier about it, and [[spoiler:many of them use morphing technology to mode lock themselves in other forms post-war]].
75-->'''Elfangor:''' You're going to have to fight the hunger.\
76'''Arbron:''' What, are you afraid I'll morph and try to eat you?\
77'''Elfangor:''' Yes, Arbron. I am afraid.
78* In ''Literature/DiarioDeUnZombi'', Erico is a zombie trying to ferry two living humans to the alps. The flesh-eating pangs slowly grow over time, adding ''him'' to the threats they face.
79* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
80** Alluded to for Angua in ''Literature/FeetOfClay'', although she seems to have her werewolf instincts well under control, and conceals them from Cheery more because she's afraid the truth will harm their budding friendship than for fear she'll actually hurt the Watch's new recruit. Angua herself admits that it's not a matter of not wanting to [eat people], it's a matter of wanting to and ''not doing it''.
81** Played for laughs in ''Literature/TheTruth'': Otto Chriek is a "Black Ribboner" (member of an organisation of reformed vampires) and a woman faints in front of him. The image of a fainting woman with "bosoms going in and out and up and down like that" triggers the vampiric urges and he panics, and ends up singing jolly songs about not wanting to drink blood ("zer drink zat's in zer livink vein is not zer drink for me ...") until someone provides him with non-human blood.
82* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
83** This becomes a major problem for Susan Rodriguez after being "[[VampireRefugee half-turned]]" by the Red Court. She initially goes into hiding, then gets help from an organization of other half-turned vampires, but it's made clear in her later appearances that she's only barely keeping herself under control whenever she's around normal people. This doesn't seem to be a problem for Martin, the other major half-turned we see, but he's [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld much older than Susan]] and [[TheNondescript intentionally bland]] anyways.
84** Thomas Raith also suffers from this during his stint as a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire. While he is able to feed often, first through one-night-stands with various women and then by opening a hair salon (it makes sense in context), he's only "nibbling" and not truly satiating his Hunger. [[spoiler:His willpower gives out after being tortured during ''Literature/TurnCoat'', and he goes back to feeding as much as he likes on human "cattle" like the rest of the Raiths.]]
85* ''Literature/TheHollows'': This happens to Ivy multiple times when around Rachel in the early books.
86* In ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'', this is a problem for younger vampires to drink too much and kill a human that way. However, as they get older, they can better gauge their hunger and no longer get intoxicated when drinking blood. A direct example can be seen with Simon. He drinks as little blood as possible because he hates being a vampire. Finally, when a girl named Maureen is too close to him, the hunger becomes too strong, and he attacks her. Because a werewolf named Jordan is nearby, and he can pull it off in time, Simon does not inadvertently kill the girl out of hunger.
87* Nat from ''Literature/NathanielKeene'' feels like this quite often after being turned into a vampire:
88-->"There were other changes which made him uneasy. He could hear people: hearts pulsing out steady rhythms, ripe for the picking like some sort of twisted fruit orchard. And he could smell them too -- could dig beyond layers of perfume and sweat to catch the rich, warm, nauseatingly delectable scent of human. A scent which, he grudgingly had to admit, was infinitely more appetizing than that of the cold, packaged blood he was forced to subsist on."
89* The first phase of being transformed into a vampire in the ''Literature/NightHuntress'' books is a horrific uncontrollable surge of the normal blood thirst present in all vampires. Most vampires manage to get back normal control after around a week in restraints being fed on bagged blood and attended by undead. [[spoiler:Tate]] [[HeroicWillpower managed to get to the point where living people were allowed into the room after about a day]].
90* ''Literature/OldScores'': Simon stopped auditing UIC night classes because he found other students' pulses and heartbeats too distracting.
91* In the first book of ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'', 10-year-old Darren has been forced to become a vampire in order to save his best friend's life. He is told that he needs to leave home and live as a vampire, but he refuses. Then at school, another one of his friends gets injured in a soccer game, and Darren finds himself compelled to suck his blood. Later that night, he almost drinks from his younger sister. These experiences make him realize he does need to leave home and travel with his mentor, though he spends all of the second book nearly starving to death because he refuses to drink blood.
92* Most vampires in ''Literature/{{Shiki}}'' do not really want to bite humans, but sooner or later, hunger will become too powerful, and will be unable to resist it anymore.
93* The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' novel ''First Frontier'' features the Clan Ru as enemies. Essentially, they're sapient [[RaptorAttack velociraptors]], and find it nearly impossible to live in peace with the humanoid mammals and quasi-mammals that dominate the galaxy for this reason (prompting Kirk to wonder how seriously he'd be able to take people who smelled like warm baking bread).
94%%* ''Literature/{{Thirsty}}'', as the protagonist turns into a vampire.
95%%* This is the entire plot of ''Literature/Twilight2005''. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the ''WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded'' entry for ''Twilight.''
96%%-->'''Alice:''' Edward, it's like you're a recovering drug addict, that's ''dating crack''. It's never gonna work.
97* Not normally an issue for Jack from ''Literature/TheVampireFiles'', as his usual appetite for blood isn't that intense. If badly wounded and a few quarts low himself, however, he starts smelling the blood under peoples' skin and has to really strain to hold back his body's desperate survival-drive to feed.
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101* Rev Bem in ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'' is always having to stop himself eating and laying his young inside his crewmates. He relies on his religion ("Wayism") to get him through the day. Apparently, Magog physiology requires that he kill something to activate his digestive system. He keeps a supply of live fish aboard the ship for that purpose.
102* Mitchell in ''Series/BeingHumanUK'' had to do this practically every other episode, with mixed results.
103* ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'':
104** Angel sometimes has this problem in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and later in [[Series/{{Angel}} his own series]]. He's mostly overcome the issue by using animal blood, but flashbacks to his early attempts at living around people show it wasn't always so easy for him to resist humans, and if he's severely weakened or starved, he's liable to grab and start drinking from someone before he even realizes what he's doing.
105** Other vampires have the same problem, though being soulless demons means that they usually don't even try to restrain themselves. One exception is Harmony, who joined the good guys in season 5 of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' and, of course, wasn't allowed to feed on humans. She complained that, since she doesn't have a soul like Angel, it's twice as hard for her to resist eating people.
106** In the second season of ''Buffy'', Spike even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this by stating outright that one of the reasons he ''doesn't'' want to destroy the world is "Billions of people walking around like Happy Meals with legs." He also [[MurderTheHypotenuse doesn't like how Angel is stealing Drusilla]], but that's beside the point.
107* M'lee, the calcium-eating alien in season 1 of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', has the light-emitting horn crown on her head change color when hungry for calcium. Interestingly, she manages to "fang off" ''after'' her cover is blown to plead with Crichton that she [[DarkIsNotEvil isn't evil]], but she needs calcium to live and (being trapped on a forest asteroid with no other animals) has to find a humanoid source to eat. Happily, she isn't killed, and they manage to find her a suitable substitute to eating the main cast... [[MonsterOfTheWeek the other villain of the week]] and the [[{{Mooks}} Peacekeepers]] arriving to investigate. It's implied that she's now being employed by [[MagnificentBastard Scorpius]] in exchange for the disloyal members of his crew. M'Lee's plotline was apparently going to come to some sort of larger fruition later on, had the series continued. [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Sadly...]]
108* Lyekka of ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' is very matter-of-fact about this: she'd "prefer" not to eat her human friends, but deprived of other food sources, she ''would''. It's less of a problem than in most stories, since the main characters are all completely indifferent to the deaths of humans who aren't them.
109* In ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', [[spoiler:Seth finds the power to resurrect the dead and gives it to Curtis to bring back his dead girlfriend]]. Unfortunately, the resurrection causes her (and anyone she bites) to turn into a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie]]. She can hear heartbeats and gets nervous when she's around him because she doesn't want to eat him, so she eats his pet lizard and later his neighbor.
110* A variation in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' season eight. The sole purpose of [[InvincibleVillain Doomsday]] is to destroy Clark, but the monster also gladly massacres scores of humans whenever he is free. The human host, Davis Bloome, [[AlternateIdentityAmnesia has no recollection of the rampages]]. However, Brainiac also programmed into him an attraction to Clark's {{Platonic Life Partner|s}}, Chloe Sullivan, making his blackouts more and more frequent. [[TragicMonster Suicide fails to end his tormented existence]], and Davis is forced to [[SanitySlippage kill people in his human for to suppress the bloodlust]]. Then he discovers that [[ThePowerOfLove Chloe's presence makes him human]], but that also eventually fails, and he kills her. Good thing the ResetButton is handy, but in the end, there is a DownerEnding.
111* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
112** Oddly simultaneously inverted and played straight. Sam is a demon blood-tainted human who became addicted to [[PsychoSerum demon blood]] and the demon-exorcising power that it provides. Withdrawal kind of sucks when your main target as a hunter is demons and your weapon of choice is a knife. And then the demons use this advantage and ''make'' him [[ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere drink their blood]]. [[DidntThinkThisThrough It doesn't turn out well for them]].
113** Played straight with Lenore and Benny, who both ''want'' to go VegetarianVampire but struggle with temptation. Lenore commits assisted suicide after she's psychically forced to attack humans. [[spoiler:Benny agrees to Dean's plan of killing him so that he can rescue Sam from Purgatory. He promises Dean that he'll come back with Sam, but ends up staying behind to fight off a group of attackers so that Sam can escape (although he was clearly intending to stay there anyway, because he knew the temptation on Earth was too much for him).]]
114* An odd, non-predatory and character-specific example comes in ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' when [[RobotGirl Cameron]] admits to John Connor that deep down, her hard-wired programming is permanently directing her to kill him at all times, and is overridden only by the other programming that the future John Connor used on her. At one point, Cameron does revert and starts trying to kill John, only to override her own termination directives at the last second. Cameron also has to fight the ''opposite'' reaction when dealing with people she interprets as threats to John, and also admits that she doesn't ''know'' whether she will kill someone who she views as a threat. Her uncertainty regarding both of these eventually drives her to [[RestrainingBolt wire up an explosive device into her skull]] in case [[ICannotSelfTerminate she loses control and needs to be put down]].
115* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'':
116** Seen in the pilot when the lead vampire is around his bleeding love interest.
117** Seen again in episode 2.03 when [[spoiler:Matt]] started bleeding and [[spoiler:Caroline]] just couldn't resist taking a bite.
118** Stefan is noted as having a problem with blood addiction. His use of animal blood, while most non-homicidal vampires steal from blood banks, is because he's afraid of relapse. Later on, he starts to carefully start drinking human blood again, as using only animal blood makes him weaker. [[spoiler:In the season 2 finale, Klaus makes him drink bag after bag of human blood, until his addiction resurfaces and he turns into a "Ripper", an extremely not FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire.]]
119* ''Series/TheXFiles'': The episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS07E03Hungry Hungry]]" features a brain-eating mutant who [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster tries not being a brain-eating mutant]].
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123* The AchillesHeel of Vampire teams in ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'': Vampires have a 1/6 chance each turn to run off to seek blood to feed on instead of playing the game. This leads to them either draining one of your Thrall players (leading to an instant KO) or running off the pitch to hunt audience members (cancelling the action and causing a turnover).
124* This trope is mechanically enforced in both ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' and the successor game ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'', as a vampire low on blood will often have their body taken over by [[EnemyWithin the Beast]], who doesn't care ''where'' the blood comes from as long as it gets fed. In ''Masquerade'', younger vampires can feed on animal blood in lieu of human blood, but it's not nearly as satisfying. Unfortunately, that means this trope occasionally comes into play, because every once in a while a neonate attempts to maintain relationships from their mortal lives while also trying not to feed on humans. Sad to say, when this inevitably happens, it is treated as a breach of the {{Masquerade}} and the bloodbag in question needs to have their memory erased or be killed before they can spread the word. ''Requiem'' vampires have it worse, mechanically, especially in 2nd edition: while vampires in ''Masquerade'' can at least try to feed on animal or medically stored blood, ''Requiem'' vampires can only feed on animal blood at the lowest tiers of power, get effectively nothing from medically preserved blood, and can't derive any sustenance from corpse blood at all.
125* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' has a toned-down version of this; unlike vampires, werewolves do not actually ''need'' nor feel compelled to eat people, as they can still feed on regular food (though more experienced ones can only subsist on meat, it doesn't need to be human meat). However, their instincts cause them to perceive things with the mindset of werewolves, and their SuperSenses make them constantly realize all the small weaknesses in humans and how easily they could hunt and kill them. This makes it ''very'' difficult for them to continue perceive them as equals, and not as preys.
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129* ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'': Once afflicted with the Demon Virus, ''every'' enemy, potentially, can be easily devoured, and refraining from devouring anyone will quickly see the afflicted losing their minds and attacking everyone in sight. It's clear that everyone has to exert at least little willpower the rest of the time. [[FatBastard Mick the Slug]] develops a fondness for eating his own men once they succumb.
130* ''Franchise/LeagueOfLegends'': Ahri is a vastaya (Runeterra's species of [[LittleBitBeastly animal-people]]) with the natural ability to [[SoulEating consume life energy]], swallowing a person's emotions, memories, and everything that makes them a person. It's a craving that will run wildly out of control if she resists for too long and, to her horror and shame, has led to her consuming loved ones in the past. ''VideoGame/RuinedKing'' exemplifies her feelings by having her keep everyone at arm's length for the first half of the game and shows that she's drawn to very conflicted individuals like [[ByronicHero Yasuo]].
131* In ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKainSoulReaver'', you can choose to live peacefully inside the Human Citadel. To survive, Raziel can take small sips of energy from the friendly locals (if you haven't killed off their fellow vampire hunters or neighbors, that is). Be a glutton though and the host dies.
132* In ''VideoGame/{{Moonrise}}'', vampire Lady Cassandra Mallory adopts this viewpoint with ease. Humans are sources of food, not friends.
133* ''VideoGame/Vampyr2018'' uses this very cleverly in a brilliant form of GameplayAndStoryIntegration. The main character is a vampire and a doctor, and this means he can see people's health conditions thanks to his VeinOVision. The best way to level yourself up quickly is by feasting on any of the unique civilian [=NPCs=]. They all have placards over their heads showing how much experience they're worth, so it tempts the ''player'' as much as the thirst tempts Jonathan.
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137* Arcueid in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''. Normally, she's able to suppress her bloodlust by sheer power, but when events in the story force her to use much of it up, she's left relying mostly on willpower. Despite knowing this, protagonist Shiki Tohno chooses to stick with her. Satsuki is another example for whom things [[DemotedToExtra didn't end as well]].
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141* Duane in ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'' is a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent "plod"]] who has managed to retain his sentience and sanity...in the daytime. At night, he's a plain old zombie and needs a partner with a magical trinket to keep him pacified; and at all times he has a nigh-insatiable hunger. It's not hard to guess [[ImAHumanitarian what he hungers for]], but it isn't explicitly shown until the end of chapter 6, when he loses control and [[spoiler:messily slaughters a member of Starfish's troupe, then spends the rest of the night nibbling on his remains]].
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145* In one of the ''WesternAnimation/MinaAndTheCount'' shorts, the Count is invited to dinner at Mina's house. He's very disturbed when he discovers Mina has an older sister Lucy (Mina never mentioned her because she doesn't like Lucy). The Count's favorite prey (for blood drinking) are young women. Sitting through dinner is a bit awkward for the Count.
146* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has a variation with the changeling Thorax from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E17TheTimesTheyAreAChangeling The Times They Are a Changeling]]". [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch He doesn't desire to harm anyone]]; in fact, he wants genuine friendships to substitute his need to [[EmotionEater drain love]]. Unfortunately, strong amounts of love trigger his instincts and cause him to hiss ravenously against his will and Flurry Heart's Crystalling has filled the Empire with it. It doesn't help that he admits that he's starving. [[spoiler:It pays off eventually.]]
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