According to Trevor Belmont it’s not the religious association that’s effective is the bold right angles blocking out their vision because they’re predatory and they have tunnel vision, I guess. So it blocks their sight in a way that’s disruptive. That’s the Anime at least. Honestly it sounds very stupid, to me it would make a lot more sense to say holy items aren’t effective against vampires because of anything to do with vampires, but due to the beliefs of the one using holy items, so it’s their personal faith that gives it power, which at least makes some kind of logical sense. In a magic world the magic user provides the effects not the target.
I like to imagine that there’s no divinity or anything like that, it’s just that the vast majority of vampires fucking detest christians for one reason or another, and simply refuse to stick around when they see a crucifix.
Some are so ancient that they spoke to mohammad and are devout muslims, some just predate christianity so consider it extremely stupid, some had bad experiences with the catholic church and don’t care to distinguish sects, and some simply fell into the militant atheist rabbithole and unironically wear fedoras because obviously no one can stop them doing so.
According to Trevor Belmont it’s not the religious association that’s effective is the bold right angles blocking out their vision because they’re predatory and they have tunnel vision, I guess. So it blocks their sight in a way that’s disruptive. That’s the Anime at least. Honestly it sounds very stupid, to me it would make a lot more sense to say holy items aren’t effective against vampires because of anything to do with vampires, but due to the beliefs of the one using holy items, so it’s their personal faith that gives it power, which at least makes some kind of logical sense. In a magic world the magic user provides the effects not the target.
The same thing happens in blindsight by Peter watts. Perpendicular angles cause seizures in vampires
I like to imagine that there’s no divinity or anything like that, it’s just that the vast majority of vampires fucking detest christians for one reason or another, and simply refuse to stick around when they see a crucifix.
Some are so ancient that they spoke to mohammad and are devout muslims, some just predate christianity so consider it extremely stupid, some had bad experiences with the catholic church and don’t care to distinguish sects, and some simply fell into the militant atheist rabbithole and unironically wear fedoras because obviously no one can stop them doing so.