I don't think Dracula could turn into a giant magical dog-esque beast and eat a god, or regenerate nearly as quickly as Mr. I'm-getting-ripped-apart-by-bullets-and-it-doesn't-even-hurt either. I mean, Alucard had similar powers to the original count, but they were all pretty over blown from the original like a million times. Which is probably why it's hard to see it as 'accurate'.
Though, honestly, I find the irony in the idea of there being ANY 'accurate depiction' of a mythical race of beings with thousands upon thousands of variations in form, function, and abilities.
On a tangential note--I've been playing Oblivion again (as that DMC4 didn't arrive on time to Wal-mart. Fuckin' Wal-mart), and I have to say that Oblivion has a damn good depiction of vampires. I mean you have Lord Hassildor of Skingrad, who, though he has a torture chamber and drains the blood out of petty criminals to sate himself, also has a wife who is in a coma, that he wishes to find peace for--humanity and the beast at once. Then you have Seridur, who is as manipulative as they come, originally even pretending to be a vampire slayer himself to throw off suspicion of his own crimes. Then there's Vincent of the Dark Brotherhood, who is kind to his 'brothers and sisters' of the night, but is also a hired assassin. The only truly tragic vampire that I've met so far has been Hassildor's wife, who is in a coma from refusing to feed--which makes more sense than the vampires who do feed but feel shitty about it.
I guess I just like the way they're written in because they have humanity in them, but they are almost all tainted rather darkly by their need to feed on live humans to survive--their minds warping with time to see humans as food.
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