#Do I think that Dracula could be more patient than Dio? Yes

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Does anyone want a post explaining the differences between the vampires of Dracula, and the vampires of Phantom Blood (jjba)? Because I can explain how different the vampires are between these two works.

So vampires right? Blood sucking creatures of the night, many cultures have them, and Bram Stoker decided to inspire himself from one to create our classic vampire Count Dracula, and the vampire ladies.

BUT our lord and savior Hirohiko Araki read this concept, sat in his house, and said to himself, "Impressive, very nice, but I want more flamboyance, more panache, the body horror gore? I can fix this." And made a new concept vampire for his manga jjba Phantom Blood so his main villain Dio Brando could become one.

Of course Araki made many changes to the vampire lore in Dracula to create a truly bizarre creature.

So the main differences between the vampires in Dracula and the vampires in jjba Phantom Blood are so many that one could call them two different species of the same thing.

On one hand, the vampires in Dracula are the original gothic vampire that everyone knows with their weaknesses and a few surprise powers: Ancient undead beings who feed on human blood. They have inhuman strenght, and can hide in the shadows. They are not destroyed by the sun, but weakened. They can turn into animals and control animals, control their body to turn into dust, Dracula can control the weather, they can hypnotize someone to kill them. They have inhuman agility to climb walls, and float off the ground. They HAVE to bite someone to feed on blood, and to create a new vampire the older vampire has to either kill and feed someone their blood (Lucy), or make someone drink their blood (Mina). To kill them you have to both cut their head and pierce their heart with something of belief. Their weaknesses are running water, religious holy objects, the strong belief in itself, and garlic flowers are stinky to them. Basically a classic powerful vampire with surprising powers.

On the other hand, what one can say about the vampires in jjba Phantom Blood... These are one of the most batshit takes on a vampire that I have ever read. I will have to use our main vampire and villain DIO Brando as an example because he is the only effective vampire in all of Jojo's. Vampires in Jojo's not only have superhuman strenght, and agility, and high level regeneration to the point of surviving being cleanly cut in half, anti-aging so no old looking vampires, enhanced senses, hypnosis, bodily modification, AND the ability to use their fingers as straws to suck blood which in here they do not feed on it but rather use it to heal wounds and gain back strenght so no neck bites even if they have the chompers. They can't float nor fly but it doesn't matter because of everything else. To make someone a vampire they have to use the stone mask, or receive blood from another vampire. Only sucking the blood from a victim makes them a zombie (which are also another problem because these things are like cockroaches). And in Jojo's the ONLY WEAKNESS for a vampire is the sun, that's it. This is why the only way to kill a vampire was to either use Hamon (a martial art that channels the light of the sun through breathing) or fuck them up enough with a stand then let them die in morning with the sun.

Also, in Jojos it seems that the more unorthodox powers of a vampire are created by the creativity of said vampire because Dio used all of his vampirism to create some really creative powers such as: a vaporization freezing technique to completely freeze a human body in seconds, body fusion to survive enough to fuse his head with Jonathan's body, Space Ripper Stingy Eyes, and flesh buds that are inserted right into the brain to mind control a person.

One could even describe the vampires in Phamton blood as some fucked elvoved creatures? since in Jojo's vampires are not undead. If you don't know, the stone mask used by Dio (our resident vampire) in Phantom Blood was one of the imperfect stone masks that the pillar man Kars (google this being, and see him I'm begging you) created first so he could achieve the goal of becoming a practically perfect immortal organism. It's a mask that you wet with blood so it can pierce specific parts of the brain to activate evolutionary traits in a speedrun.

So... what do you all think about this?