conspiracy!

[jovially]

So I was talking to my brother the other day, maybe a few weeks ago, and we were talking about (read: mocking) Twilight, and the recent (er, maybe not so recent) flood of vampire related ... stuff. Popular culture is obsessed with the idea, and I've not the foggiest why. Jacques had a few theories that he threw out there, but I've neither will,

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dont forget...

[zennhaeuser]

... the queen (who's husband doted on Snow White and "mysteriously" wound up dead), and her obsession with getting the heart cut from the girl. That's the traditional way of stopping a vampire in the old country. I'm not saying the queen was some kind of hero, I mean, once the mirror revealed Snow White to be the walking undead, it was clear that her beauty was not only superior to that of the queen's but she would also have it immortal. So the motivation for killing her might still be the same.

Also; how was Snow White able to avoid detection for so long? Why she lived with seven men (in Italian versions they are seven brigands, not dwarves). The number might be significant. Perhaps a vampire can successfully feed off seven people over a long period of time without killing any of them by employing some rotation system; like field rotation in agriculture.

[kaukomieli]

I read a reworking of the story by Neil Gaiman where Snow White really was a vampire who at first fed slowly on her father until he died and then later on the prince (who was a necrophiliac, naturally). And the queen was the only one who could kill her, but didn't really succeed.

Figures.

[jovially]

Dammit! He's always one step ahead! *amused*