You would have to look a long time before you find a vampyre or were portrayed as a good guy. We are almost exclusively portrayed as blood thirsty killers who may well be good looking, romantic, exciting etc but are above all else little more than animals when you get right down to it.
So here is the question. Is the way that kin are portrayed nothing more than human propaganda or is it a clever way to attract latent kin and begin to awaken in them a thirst to find the truth.
Think about it. You see something portrayed in a good way and it sits true and you accept it. You see something portrayed in a bad way and it just seems wrong. You dont know why it seems wrong and it just niggles at you and you have to look into it to find out more, to find the truth
This is very crudely put because I am just trying to form an idea that was someone else's but I hope you get enough of the gist to prompt some comments one way or another
I often find myself hating and loving most vampire or were movie. I love it for it's story and plot but hate it for its clever lies... I wish the world could really know about us... Like Lestat (Vampire Chronicles for those who don't know), I long to be known... I don't wish to hide in the shadows forever...
In many movies, TV series and books things are improving for the non-human's who dwell on this planet.
'Angel' is peopled with many otherkin good guys, as is 'Buffy' (Oz was a were and a good guy, Anya was a bad girl turned good,) 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' has many kin of both bad and good types, and in both 'Underworld' and 'Van Helsing' whilst kin are not exactly portrayed as good guys they are figures to have compassion for instead of merely hated and feared. 'Blood Ties' is a new series from America where a Vampire is portrayed as a good guy helping a human PI fight and defeat 'monsters' like a Succubus, a Gorgon and a Vampire Hunter (who was a human or at least he used to be), and of course 'X-Men' is choc full of good guys who are far from human, and far from wanting the destruction of mankind merely wish honestly for the chance to live in peace with them.
Whilst I agree that showing us in a way that makes you want to hunt for the truth may be beneficial for some kin, I think that there is beginning to be a good balance in the portrayal of us nowadays, that shows that some kin are good and can want good things for people, and some are not, and can wish them harm. That balance is true for every type of creature, and I think if we are to move forward with humans in any way then balance is what we should be striving for.
Not just saying "Hey we're not the bad guys you have always thought us, we are actually very nice'", but something more like the truth. Something which shows that like humans we have our good guys and our bad guys and that like humans some of us are trying to be better than our press shows us to be.
C.T.M.
You may be right, I can see that there does seem to be a movement towards making the bad guy less bad in many vampyre films and programmes. However, in the spirit of the original question (I think) ....is the un demonising of vampyres and other kin a deliberate thing, a deliberate move towards gaining more acceptance for kin...or is it merely a marketing ploy along the lines of the friendly alien and the bad guy come good story line.?