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I enjoy the Castlevania show interpretation of vampires being evolved predators and a large geometric shape being shoved into their vision causes them to freak out. Kinda like a cat seeing a cucumber.
I'd be ok with it if they were like zombies or something, but they're intelligent so that explanation just feels like such a stretch to me. Are vampires also affected by window muntins and fences? Can I fend off a vampire attack with a suit of graph paper armour? Do they freak out at the sight of jungle gyms?
Yes, that's why they need an invitation to get on your property
Unless they have probable claws.
I mean, if you shoved a jungle gym in my face I would probably have an issue with it.
As a practical similarity, ever heard of speech-jamming? The idea is that you can play someone's own voice back to them with a slight delay and it will cause them try and listen and speak at the same time resulting in slower speaking or even the inability to speak normally.
I feel like a vampire could have unique instincts or mental processes that could be messed with in a similar way. Maybe it's like how people can see faces in very simple shapes; they see threats instead.
; - )
Speech-jamming also know as, please take me off speaker phone.
I'm intelligent, but you can still ward me off with christian rock
They straight stole that from Peter Watt's Blindsight. He has a doctorate in biology and really fleshed out the backstory on how vampires evolved.
I version I read in a book (can't remember that name of it) was whatever religus artifacts the vampire had faith in whould be the what hurt them, (Star of David hurting a Jewish vampire)
https://youtu.be/RdeG58J2kbE
Castlevania vampires would just explode in Reign: The Conquerer. The show where the whole plot was about looking for a literal magic shape.