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Vampires are usually associated with charismatic nobles, dangerous but seductive, with a bit of the suffering bad boy trope in that their hunger for blood is usually something that they can't control, only fight. At the same time, it allows the person who has the crush to serve a something of the "understanding, compassionate lover" by willingly providing blood so that the vampire doesn't have to take it unwillingly.

It's a mix between a "bad boy I can't redeem" and "a bad boy I can save" deal. It depends on which flavor you're thirsty for, I guess.

Also some people just might be into blood play.

(It also doesn't hurt that vampires are often very sexual creatures despite being, uh, undead, in a way that you normally don't see even in the most other liberal media out there.)

As for werewolves, despite some werewolf legends actually being about vampires, they're often associated with a lower/working class or an outcast, they're often thought to become mindless beasts during a full moon, they have a surprisingly wide range of designs (from outright feral wolves to "guy obviously wearing a lowgrade fursuit"), and they're less seductive and more, uh... forceful, when they're interested in things other than food. Also, transforming into a werewolf often looks painful.

That being said, werewolves are very popular among furries, for being a more monstrous take on the anthropomorphic wolf. To the point where the same artist could draw an anthro wolf and a werewolf and they'd be visually very different. It doesn't hurt that a lot of werewolves do, in fact, have the best attributes of a male human's body (female werewolves are rarer despite the obvious symbolic synergy of the full moon) and a lot of furries happen to be bisexual or gay dudes (or bisexual or straight ladies - can't forget them either.)

As for why so many growing and grown women thirsted for Edward Cullen, uh... you got me there.
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