No, she's not youth. She's not powerful, and she's no dark beauty. She's not a vampire, nor is Anshar Seraphim.
The real Dracula, Vlad Tepesh ('tepesh' meaning 'the impaler) was actually a lot scarier than some weirdo wearing funny clothes, running around trying to bite people. He killed tens of thousands of people in the most horrible ways imaginable. Ol' Anshar there would fucking pee his pants if he ever ran into him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_III_the_Impaler
'Dracul' originally meant 'dragon', and had nothing to do with vampires either. The impaling was a very nasty business, far worse than a nice quick stake through the heart. They slid them carefully up the asses of those to be executed (tens of thousands in the few years Vlad was in power), making sure they weren't too sharp, and hoisted them right up in the air, letting gravity do the rest, very slowly. Sometimes it took a couple days to die. I suspect what they did to his brother, possibly worse than impaling if you can imagine that, had something to do with it--his hatred of the
boyars especially. Vlad was not a happy child.
But yeah it is fun to get into the mystique sometimes, especially if you aren't running with the rest of the herd animals, as some of us have figured out is the better way to live.
I wonder if the people who take it to extremes by actually drinking human blood have trouble with parasites, etc. It's not the safest thing to drink, actually. Unless I suppose you are immortal, haha!
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