History WebAnimation / TheVampair

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: "The Night" is set to the tune of Voltaire's "The Night." "Land of the Dead" is set to the tune of Voltaire's "Land of the Dead." Meanwhile, "The Resurrection" is set to the tune of [[spoiler:[[Music/LilyAllen Lily Allen's "Fuck You"]], and is sung by Missi, as opposed to Duke.]] This becomes a staple of the series, with Duke voiced by Voltaire and Missi voiced by other female singers.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In "The Resurrection," after it finally sinks in for Duke how well Missi has acclimated to his cane's powers, he decides he's had enough and promptly slinks from the room. Unfortunately for him, Missi has no intention of letting him go that easily.

* SmugSmiler: When Vampire!Missi isn't throwing a DeathGlare or SlasherSmile your way, she is invariably doing this (save for in [[spoiler: "The Silent"]]).

* TemptingFate: Duke singing about how much power he has in the underworld and how no one can take it from him. Missi Spiderwebs rises to the challenge.
* TooDumbToLive:
** Missi in "The Night." An in-universe explanation for her choosing an abandoned mansion to read her book in has not yet been given, though one can reasonably deduce that she just thought it would be a cool place to read a vampire novel.
** The Duke is a more literal example, as his lack of suspicion that a girl he's been tormenting and who's been trying flee in terror from him ''suddenly'' decides to [[HoneyTrap seduce him]] and lure him over by the curtains, which [[ThePowerOfTheSun gets him fried]].

* WeakenedByTheLight: In classic vampiric fashion, Missi kills Duke at the end of the first short by pulling open the curtains in the hallway, thus causing all the sunlight to shine in and burning him to ash. Apparently, she was then stuck in that shadowed corner for the rest of the day.

* CrossoverCameo: In "When You're Evil", there's a FreezeFrameBonus of the Duke hosting a dinner-party at the 2:02 mark. Several characters from other shows attend: Angel Dust and Alastor from ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'', and Airad, Nim, Alister, and Brier from ''Threnody''.

** At 2:02 in the "When You're Evil" MAP, animator Dashikibi fills Duke's dinner table with various references. Music/{{Voltaire}}'s portrait is on the back wall and his "zombie prostitute" is at the table. Angel Dust and Alastor from ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' are also at the table (Cohen is one of the animators of the pilot). There are also several characters from ''Threnody''.

* EyeScream: At the end of "The Showdown," [[spoiler:Missi is clutching a bleeding eye. Whether it's lost or just damaged hasn't yet been revealed.]]

* TheGlassesGottaGo[=/=]TheGlassesComeOff: In the first video, Missi wears NerdGlasses when reading her book. After meeting her, Duke's first actions are to destroy her book, make her glasses magically disappear, and give her a make-over to match his ideas about femininity. Since then, the vampire transformation and power-upgrade of Missi have apparently fixed her eyesight, and she no longer needs glasses to read. In the teaser episode "Oweee", Missi casually reads another book while Duke stares at her from a glass window. She has no problem reading without her glasses and glances towards Duke; watching him from a distance. The bookworm is now a badass but remains a bookworm.

* HartmanHips: Downplayed, but in "The Silent," Missi is briefly seen in a silky nightie that hugs her figure and it's evident that she has some junk in her trunk.
** ''Not'' downplayed in "The Showdown," where a whole shot is dedicated to a view of Missi's midsection as she cocks a hand on her side and shakes her hips beckoningly to the rhythm of the music.

* IHateYouVampireDad: Missi implies this to be the case with Duke in "Resurrection."
** Missi herself might be a variant. [[spoiler:She's only a vampire when she holds his staff, which she only grabbed in self-defense when Duke almost ate and [[DateRapeAverted raped]] her. She's clearly still furious with how Duke tormented her in "The Night," and a lot of her antics amount to lashing out at the vampire who sucked her into his undead world.]]

* MilkingTheGiantCow: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]. Duke is a vampire and a man of nobility as a result. He's prone to making these sorts of gestures when speaking, as shown in some of the animation tests Daria has done, and when he's singing, ''he performs''.

* MinimalistCast: The original short features only Duke and Missi, with no other characters. The second short features mostly Duke, with silent cameos from various creatures of the Greek Underworld, and Missi appearing on her own in a short PostCreditsScene. The third film is back to featuring Duke and Missi, with the only other characters being magically-animated gargoyles. Other than the two protagonists, and Missi’s new cat Minose, the series so far has no other recurring characters; the fifth episode features a zombie prostitute by the name of Genevieve, an entire skeleton orchestra, and Missi's sister, but so far, they've only appeared in that episode. The protagonists barely interact with anyone else apart from each other.
** Missi's sister and the Underworld crew reappear in brief cameos as of "Stuck With You", and season two seems to be expanding the cast a bit. "Raised by Bats" includes the vampires that turned Duke, and various people around the until-then-unseen town, while other videos show Duke as a child, as well as his father.

** While Duke is the elder of the two vampires, there is little to no mention of his past, other than a mention of his father [[spoiler: who looks like and may very well ''be'' Aurelio Voltaire]]. How he acquired the mystical staff and the mansion is not explained. Averted in Season 2, where multiple entire videos are dedicated to explaining his backstory.
** Even less has been explained about Missi's past and why she started out by seeking refuge in an abandoned mansion at nighttime. She was carrying a schoolbag, which hints that she may have been a schoolgirl, but nothing else is known about her background, other than a prior interest in vampires, given [[Literature/{{Twilight}} the book]] she had with her. Then again, she presumably thought the mansion was abandoned, and what fan of horror literature would be able to resist the urge to read a vampire novel in a seemingly abandoned gothic castle?

* SlidingScaleOfVampireFriendliness: Despite both vampires being malicious and rather sadistic, their actions so far are not particularly monstrous. They briefly drink glasses of red liquid (probably blood), but they have not exhibited any cravings for it, have never been depicted hunting or killing their prey to get to the blood, and seem content with spending each night in the castle to which they have both laid claim on. They have twice faced each other in a struggle for dominance, but they have not so far threatened or victimized anyone else. They are not eager to recruit more vampires, and (given their track records so far) may see any other vampire only as a rival to their power. They both behave like [[SmugSuper Smug Supers]] and make it a point to bask in the act of demonstrating their superiority to their chosen rival/opponent, but don't seem to care about anyone or anything else in their world, and don't cause trouble to others. Neither of them looks human anymore, but they remain attractive-looking humanoids.

* TooDumbToLive: Missi in "The Night." An in-universe explanation for her choosing an abandoned mansion to read her book in has not yet been given, though one can reasonably deduce that she just thought it would be a cool place to read a vampire novel.

* MysteriousPast: While Duke is the elder of the two vampires, there is little to no mention of his past, other than a mention of his father [[spoiler: who looks like and may very well ''be'' Aurelio Voltaire]]. How he acquired the mystical staff and the mansion is not explained. Even less has been explained about Missi's past and why she started out by seeking refuge in an abandoned mansion at nighttime. She was carrying a schoolbag, which hints that she may have been a schoolgirl, but nothing else is known about her background, other than a prior interest in vampires, given [[Literature/{{Twilight}} the book]] she had with her. Then again, she presumably thought the mansion was abandoned, and what fan of horror literature would be able to resist the urge to read a vampire novel in a seemingly abandoned gothic castle?

* WrongGenreSavvy: Missi snuck into a seemingly abandoned Gothic castle for some atmospheric reading with ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. Little did she know, the castle was already occupied by a ClassicalMovieVampire, who is ''[[DarkIsEvil not]]'' friendly or romantic.

On November 4th, 2020, Dana released a Multiple Animators Project featuring Duke set to the tune of Voltaire's classic song [[https://youtu.be/zvqbYaFHGSM "When You're Evil"]] as a celebratory milestone for reaching 666K subscribers on [=YouTube=], though this video is non-canon to the rest of the series.

* BisexualVampire: According to WordOfGod, this is a general vampire trait but we have yet to see any evidence of it in the series. The Duke is canonically pansexual, [[AnythingThatMoves given the fact that he did it with a zombie]].

* MemeticHandGesture: Duke's self-assured straightening of his collar followed by dual finger-guns in "The Night" to denote his celebration of his imminent sexual conquest is echoed later in "Zombie Prostitute," [[ButtMonkey with decidedly less enthusiasm]].

** In “When You’re Evil”, there’s a FreezeFrameBonus of the Duke hosting a dinner-party at the 2:02 mark. Several characters from other shows attend, including [[WebAnimation/HazbinHotel Angel Dust and Alastor]], among others.

** At 2:02 in the "When You're Evil" MAP, animator Dashikibi fills Duke's dinner table with various references. Voltaire's portrait is on the back wall and his "zombie prostitute" is at the table. Angel Dust and Alastor from WebAnimation/HazbinHotel are also at the table (Cohen is one of the animators of the pilot). There are also several characters from Threnody.

* UndeathlyPallor: Duke and Missi both have chalk-white skin in their vampire forms.

* BuildingOfAdventure: The isolated vampire castle which serves as the main setting of the series and the habitat of both protagonists. With the exception of "Land of the Dead" (which mostly takes place in the Greek Underworld), every scene takes place within the castle's room or (in exterior scenes) at a short distance from its door and windows. Due to the two vampire's spells, some of the rooms and stairs have changed appearance (and Missi redecorated the dungeon) but it is always the same building.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Getting possessed by dark magic can turn you into one. However, this doesn’t turn Missi into a full vampire [[spoiler: since casting the cane away turned her back to normal. There’s also the fact that sunlight won’t kill her, but it ''does'' hurt like hell for her. In addition, she doesn’t need to sleep in a coffin and seems to still have her reflection]], unlike Duke.

* AlwaysNight: With the exception of the light of dawn [[spoiler: killing Duke]] at the end of the first episode, every scene in the series takes place at night.

* MsFanservice: Downplayed. Missi ends up getting a brothel dress within a minute of her experience with Duke, and sports it from then on. And ''boy'' does she sport it well! [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in "The Showdown," where she goes so far as to flash a panty shot at one point.

* MsFanservice: Downplayed. Missi ends up getting a brothel dress within a minute of her experience with Duke, and sports it from then on. And ''boy'' does she sport it well! [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in "The Showdown," where she goes so far as to flash a PantyShot at one point.

''The Vampair'' is a WebAnimation series made by Daria Cohen, beginning life as her final year film at Skenkar School of Design and Engineering. Centering around a young woman named [[CuteBookworm Missi]] and a vampire lord knowns only as [[OurVampiresAreDifferent The Duke of Vaults]], each episode explores their relationship and their backstories in the form of [[JukeboxMusical dark cabaret and electroswing music videos]]. The series can be viewed on her [=YouTube=] channel [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2d84LyYy5SYwewbD-WycaEaMhvL7eVox here]].

''The Vampair'' is a WebAnimation series made by Daria Cohen, beginning life as her final year film at Skenkar School of Design and Engineering. Centering around a young woman named [[CuteBookworm Missi]] and a vampire lord knowns only as [[OurVampiresAreDifferent The Duke of Vaults]], each episode explores their relationship and their backstories in the form of dark cabaret and electroswing music videos. The series can be viewed on her [=YouTube=] channel [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2d84LyYy5SYwewbD-WycaEaMhvL7eVox here]].

* AsideGlance: Duke has the power to break the fourth wall. He is the only one to do this so far [[spoiler: even after Missi gains her own vampire powers]].
* AttemptedRape: Towards the end of "The Night," it ''seems'' like this from Missi's perspective. But one thing that should be noticed is that Duke never makes a full sexual advance until ''after'' Missi begins her seduction ploy. WordOfGod has confirmed that Duke really thought Missi was willing.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Missi and Count are effectively stuck together like a married couple as of "Stuck With You". Missi could leave anytime she wants, but her hatred of Duke and her refusal to give the staff back means she's trapped with him.

* BelligerentSexualTension: Duke and Missi seem to develop this dynamic as time goes on, with the two playing increasingly elaborate mind games and trying to one-up the other. It's most pronounced in "The Showdown," where the two swing dance seductively while trying to get the drop on the other, [[spoiler:and their seductive cat-and-mouse game eventually escalates into open violence]].

* TheCameo: Music/{{Voltaire}}'s songs are already used for the majority of the animations, but "The Resurrection" reveals [[spoiler:that he's the Duke's father!]] Similarly, a few other non-musical animations featuring Duke speaking will use voice clips from the man himself!

** It also claims that Missi was originally straight, only to become bisexual after becoming a vampire, implying that it is a side-effect of the staff, [[InformedAttribute though we've yet to see any evidence of this]].

* MinimalistCast: The original short features only Duke and Missi, with no other characters. The second short features mostly Duke, with silent cameos from various creatures of the Greek Underworld, and Missi appearing on her own in a short PostCreditsScene. The third film is back to featuring Duke and Missi, with the only other characters being magically-animated gargoyles. Other than the two protagonists, and Missi’s new cat Minose, the series so far has no other recurring characters; the fifth episode features a zombie prostitute by the name of Genevieve, an entire skeleton orchestra, and a girl distributing missing person flyers of Missi, but so far, they've only appeared in that episode. The protagonists barely interact with anyone else apart from each other.
* MsFanservice: Downplayed. Missi ends up getting a brothel dress within a minute of her experience with Duke, and sports it from then on. And ''boy'' does she sport it well! But it's partly from magic, and more a case of SheCleansUpNicely than anything. [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in "The Showdown," where she goes so far as to flash a PantyShot at one point.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In "The Showdown," after [[spoiler:Duke and Missi's [[TheMasochismTango cat-and-mouse tango]] escalates into open fighting, ending with Duke losing a thumb and Missi losing an eye]], they both look horrified and embarrassed by what they've done, as they stand panting [[spoiler:and bleeding]] on the dance floor.
* MysteriousPast: While Duke seems to be the elder of the two vampires, there is little to no mention of his past, other than a mention of his father [[spoiler: who looks like and may very well ''be'' Aurelio Voltaire]]. How he acquired the mystical staff and the mansion is not explained. Even less has been explained about Missi's past and why she started out by seeking refuge in an abandoned mansion at nighttime. She was carrying a schoolbag, which hints that she may have been a schoolgirl, but nothing else is known about her background, other than a prior interest in vampires, given [[Literature/{{Twilight}} the book]] she had with her. Then again, she presumably thought the mansion was abandoned, and what fan of horror literature would be able to resist the urge to read a vampire novel in a seemingly abandoned gothic castle?

The first season consists of seven (and a half) episodes, which aired from 2016 to 2021. While looking for an interesting place to sit down and read, college student Missi enters a seemingly abandoned mansion only to find herself in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the house's vampiric lord. After defeating him, Missi becomes corrupted by the power of his magical cane, turning into a vampire herself and being unwilling to give up her new powers. From then on, the two have an antagonistic back-and-forth, as Missi and the Duke fight for control over the mansion and the cane, eventually ending with [[spoiler:them begrudgingly sharing the domicile and developing a blossoming romance]].

''The Vampair'' is a WebAnimation series made by Daria Cohen, beginning life as her final year film at Skenkar School of Design and Engineering. Centering around a young woman named [[CuteBookworm Missi]] and a vampire lord knowns only as [[OurVampiresAreDifferent The Duke of Vaults]], each episode explores their conflict and their backstories in the form of a dark cabaret and electroswing music videos.

The first season consists of seven (and a half) episodes exploring the beginning of their relationship. While looking for an interesting place to sit down and read, college student Missi finds herself trapped in the Duke's mansion and in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the vampire lord. After defeating him, Missi becomes corrupted by the power of his magical cane and turns into a vampire herself. From then on, the two have an antagonistic back-and-forth that, after a violent fight, ends with a them developing a blossoming romance.

The series can be viewed on her [=YouTube=] channel [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2d84LyYy5SYwewbD-WycaEaMhvL7eVox here]].

''The Vampair'' is a WebAnimation series made by Daria Cohen, which centers around the conflict between a young woman named [[CuteBookworm Missi]] and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent The Duke of Vaults]], told through a series of dark cabaret and electroswing music videos. The series began in 2016 with "The Night", which originally served as the creator's college graduation film. The series can be viewed on her [=YouTube=] channel [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2d84LyYy5SYwewbD-WycaEaMhvL7eVox here]], and consist of the following episodes:

!!!Season One
* ''The Night'' (2016): Missi, an avid bookworm, has a fateful encounter with Duke when she decides to slip into his mansion to read a book one eerie night, and a game of cat-and-mouse ensues. This ultimately results in Duke's demise, and Missi becoming a vampire herself by way of his magical cane. (Song: {{Music/Voltaire}} - "The Night")
* ''The Land of the Dead'' (2017): After being killed, the Duke is living it up as a king in the underworld. (Song: Voltaire - "The Land of the Dead")
* ''The Resurrection'' (2018): The Duke finds himself resurrected by Missy who, now boasting masterful control of the cane's powers, gleefully tortures him before throwing him out of the mansion.(Song: Music/LilyAllen - "Fuck You")
** ''Oweee'' (2018): A mini-episode set to the Voltaire short song "Oweee", as The Duke glares at Missi through the window of what was once his home.
* ''The Silent'' (2019): A Missi-focused episode where we watch her [[SanitySlippage descend into madness]] under the influence of the Duke's staff, contemplating whether she wishes to give up her newfound power, with her hatred for the Duke making her final decision. (Song: Tragic Tantrum - "The Silent")
* ''Zombie Prostitute'' (2019): Before setting the stage for his next confrontation with Missi, the Duke decides to indulge in some of his more base urges at the local cemetery. (Song: Voltaire - "Zombie Prostitute")
* ''The Showdown'' (2020): Duke and Missi's have their dance battle showdown, which becomes more "battle" and less "dance" as the night goes on. (Song: Music/CaravanPalace - "Brotherswing")
* ''Stuck with You'' (2021): Sometime after the prior episode, Duke and Missi have settled into living life like an old married couple, with all the domestic fighting that their new romance entails. (Song: Voltaire - "Stuck with You")
!!!Season Two
* ''Prologue'' (2021): The Duke, as a young boy decades prior to the start of the series, attends the funeral of his mother. (Song: ''Theatre/{{Beetlejuice}}'' - Invisible)

* ''Stuck with You'' (2021): Sometime after the prior episode, Duke and Missi have settled into living life like an old married couple, with all the domestic fighting that their new romance entails. (Song: Voltaire - "Stuck with You (ft. Amanda Palmer)")