Quote Originally Posted by Tvtyrant View Post
This oddly just occured to me, but aren't vampires and Mind Flayers almost identical?

1.Live in the dark.
2. Use mind control to capture victims, kill by biting.
3. Reproduce parastically with humans.
4. Eat a weird substance that has to come from people.
5. Mysterious but see as anathema to nature.
6. Magically powerful.
7. Live in small, back stabby societies of dusty opulence.
8. Same freaking costume even.
Those are all surface level similarities.

1. Mindflayers live underground, vampires are nocturnal.
2. Mindflayers use innate psychic powers, vampires use innate charm magic and do NOT mind control.
3. Yes this is correct, they both reproduce and sustain parasitically on humans.
4. There's nothing weird about blood or brains.
5. One is not of this world the other is a perversion of this world, different kinds of unnatural.
6. Ok but so are dragons and they aren't even a little like vampires or mind flayers.
7. Vampires hide in plane sight among their victims. Mind flayers openly dominate their victims and treat them like actual cattle. VERY different.
8. Ok I'll give you that one. But there's only so many ways to dress like an edgy goth.