LogFAQs > #934580967

I've always had a major logical problem with vampire and werewolf mythos, and it's this.

Why does silver have such power to hurt them?

Hear me out.

These are creatures that tacitly have a bad, bad relationship with the Sun. Gold is associated with the Sun universally in mythology, whereas the Moon is associated with Silver.

Gold should fuck their shit up, not Silver. If anything, Silver should boost their power by the logic of magical transference. The whole "silver hurts them" sounds like the sort of bullshit vampires and werewolves would spread as an old wives tale for their own safety.

And while we're at it, fuck zombies too. Ok, if they're like 28 days/I am legend type fast zombies with pack mentality and a hunting instinct, yeah we're fucked.

If they're the more traditional shambling corpses zombies, are you fucking kidding me? 2 years later and people are still holed up on rooftops with stairwells full of shopping carts and shit living in fear? Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit. Zombies are rotting flesh. Rotting flesh attracts scavengers. Rats, flies, seagulls, crows, ants, coyotes...you get the picture. In a fortnight we'd have a walking skeleton problem at worst, and that wouldn't even make sense without muscle and ligament. Even if there were giant herds of undead moving around, humidity would bring fungus, arid climates would dessicate flesh, and the first winter would freeze most of the bastards solid in their tracks.

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