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3	Izabel is a Filipina call-centre agent. She bickers and banters with her millennial officemates. She handles infuriated calls from foreigners. She sets off feelings in her team leader. And she also happens to be at least 150 years older than anyone in the office, drinks blood for survival, and can't go out in the sun.
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5	That's right, ''Forever Sucks'', a Filipino UrbanFantasy webseries from Digital 5 (D5) Studios, the Internet arm of media network TV-5, centres around a 170-year-old vampire who happens to work at a call centre, and why wouldn't she? The hours are perfect for night owls like her. It doesn't make interacting with humans any easier though.
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7	The entire 3 seasons so far are available [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9A7RzOzXcuc7i-IjokE2GQ/playlists?shelf_id=13&view=50&sort=dd here]], along with the featured soundtrack.
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9	Has earned fan comparisons to ''Webcomic/OrangeMarmalade'', a Korean manhwa and later series about a vampire also adjusting to live in human society.
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12	!!Relevant Tropes:
13	* DeadpanSnarker: Nancy Jane. Comes with her "kind of a bitch" personality (as quoted by Tony in her performance review).
14	* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette / RavenHairIvorySkin: Just look at Izabel in the page image; perfect for (stereotypical) vampire complexions. It helps that her actress Jasmine Curtis-Smith is half-white (which, for better or worse, is seen as more favourable to audiences and corporate bottom lines in the Philippine entertainment industry).
15	* FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire: Izabel. She's really likeable and apologetic for any "weirdisms" borne out of the necessities of her, er, lifestyle. She won't tolerate other vampires seeing her friends as food, however.
16	* GratuitousEnglish: It's a Philippine call centre, one of the primary economic drivers of a country directly colonised by the United States, so of course. Even when not responding to foreigners' calls a lot of the characters engage in long unbroken stretches of English. TruthInTelevision particularly in urban centres like Metro Manila (where the call centre is presumably located), where it's common to codeswitch between Tagalog (or other Philippine languages) and English.
17	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Nancy Jane.
18	* MeaningfulName:
19	** Probably not intentional, but "Izabel" is a Hispanic derivative of "Elizabeth", as in reputed {{Blood Bath}}er UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory.
20	** The call centre itself in a meta sense; it's named '''Harker & Helsing''', after two of the human protagonists of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' (though strictly speaking the latter surname should be "''van'' Helsing"), but it could also remark on the fact that the rest of the call centre is filled with humans unwittingly working with a vampire (or more!), and some of them slowly discover the truth, like Jonathan Harker himself eventually did.
21	* OldDarkHouse: Izabel's home. The production crew chose what looks like a big, old, American-colonial-era house for the interiors and the front door shots. All the curtains are drawn inside, [[WeakenedByTheLight for obvious reasons]].
22	* OperatorFromIndia: From the Philippines in this case. It's Izabel's and her coworkers' day job—ahem, ''night'' job. Makes sense that if a vampire can burn up in the sun, her options are obviously limited to the night shift.
23	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Many of the standard Western vampire tropes apply to Izabel and other vampires in this series—they drink blood (duh), [[WeakenedByTheLight burn up in the sunlight]], are biologically immortal, and appear to have SuperStrength and lightning reflexes, among others. Instead of lying prone in a coffin, however, Izabel sleeps upside-down like a bat, and she and other vampires are capable of telepathic MindControl. Also, it's reasonable to think they're not affected by crosses, given they live smack dab in one of the only two overwhelmingly Catholic countries in Asia—if crosses affected them, they'd have all either died long ago or else fled to literally any other Asian country (except UsefulNotes/TimorLeste, the other overwhelmingly Catholic Asian country). Their irises can also turn red (or at least Izabel's does).
24	** Notably, they are portrayed with the abilities and habits of generically-Western vampires, instead of being like indigenous-Filipino vampire equivalents, like the ''aswang'' or ''manananggal''.
25	* PunBasedTitle: Because living forever, well, ''sucks''. [[DontExplainTheJoke Like vampires, you know, suck blood … get it? No?]]
26	* Really700YearsOld: Izabel is explicitly said to be 170, so in a series which debuted in 2016, this would put her birthdate around 1846.
27	* ShipTease: Izabel with her team leader, Tony, for much of Season 1. Also a bit with their officemates Pol and Nancy Jane.
28	* ShoutOut: Pretty blatantly in the call centre's name, '''[[Literature/{{Dracula}} Harker & Helsing]]'''.
29	* {{Tsundere}}: Nancy Jane, at least as far as Pol is concerned.
30	* UrbanFantasy
31	* VegetarianVampire: Izabel drinks from blood bags presumably taken from hospitals and blood banks, though it's not to say she's not attracted when her coworker Phyllis gets a nosebleed. Other vampires in the show have no such reservations about feeding directly on humans.
32	* VlogSeries: Not the show itself, but Phyllis tries to start a vlog in-universe and has to fend off trolls and cancerous comments. (Shades of [[WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries Laura Hollis]], perhaps?)
33	* WeakenedByTheLight: When Izabel is once forced out of her OldDarkHouse in broad daylight to help out Nancy Jane, she starts visibly smoking[[note]]and that's not meant as a euphemism for being hot, though her actress, Jasmine Curtis-Smith, sister of bigger-time Filipina celebrity Anne Curtis, is pretty attractive to begin with[[/note]].

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