Just a Face and a Caption: Vampire Refugee

Not as bad as some I've seen - it definitely seems to demonstrate the "Vampire" bit. Refugee? Not so much.

Caption: "My Bloodsuckers Anonymous sponsor is going to have a field day with this. Oh, that's right; I just ate her."

edited 26th Jun '12 12:16:15 PM by KyleJacobs

Is that safe for work, really?

Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!

Eeeeeehhhhh...it's close enough to NSFW that I think we should find something else (plus I don't get the "refugee" part from it), but it's not bad enough to warrant an immediate pull.

Took a while, but how about the first panel from this page◊ of Baltimore: The Cursed Bells?

The nuns in her abbey all died of a plague that resurrects the victims as vampires, they decide to help a magician who promises to cure them. The above nun is trying to take the communion wafer as a form of suicide/redemption, and even holding the chalice is burning her.

I like that...is there a preceding panel that asks the question she's responding to, or does everyone think this is sufficient.

I read the comic not too long ago, I think she's responding to Baltimore asking if she's ready to die. I can double check tomorrow to get the full exchange.

I don't get the trope ("protagonist is infected with vampirism/lycanthropy/etc and works against curse to defeat vampires/werewolves/etc?") at all from that.

Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.

It's also about finding a cure, and the above nun demonstrates that aspect with the cross burns on her face— she and her sisters were trying to exorcise the evil out of themselves. A pic showing someone like Blade killing a vamp would have the problem it more accurately shows Hunter of His Own Kind rather than this trope.

Cure? Burns? What?

Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.

Cure: In the trope description "they will do everything in their power to find... (Melodramatic Pause!)... a cure." In the previous panel(s), the nun explained she wanted a cure for vampirism.
Burns: In this setting crosses burn vampires. Nuns worship Christ. The nun was using a cross on herself in an attempt to burn the evil out of herself. She failed.
What: She's given up on a literal cure, but wants to take the communion wafer (follow the link to get part of the page) as a show of devotion that will hopefully earn her salvation in the afterlife.

She's not fighting other vampires, she's fighting vampirism.

edited 6th Jul '12 9:48:02 PM by Earnest

You have to be familiar with the comic for any of that to work, I guess. You're describing why it's a good example.

Don't even see "vampire", let alone that those marks are burns.

edited 7th Jul '12 3:59:23 AM by rodneyAnonymous

Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.

The corpse-like appearance, blood tears, and cross-shaped scars say it to me, but I agree that if you're not familiar with those aspects of vampire fiction, you may not get it.

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