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I had a couple classmates that pretended to be vampires back in elementary and middle school. They’d pretend their Koolaid was blood, complain about the sunlight, and bite their friends a lot. Not enough to draw blood, though. I haven’t kept up with most of them, but one guy is a teacher now. He seems pretty normal.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I did not have a classmate that acted like they had dark powers...

That was me.

I got past it before uni, thankfully.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I myself was enamored with vampire stuff and in high school met an online boyfriend who really committed to the shtick of being a vampire - though a significantly weakened in bloodline so he could walk in sunlight. I think at one point he was also claiming to be a vessel for the archangel Michael. Please know this was all happening in 2000/2001, so long before Supernatural!

I caught up with him briefly about 15 years after high school, and he's still claiming to be a vampire. A divorced vampire who smokes a lot of weed, but still a vampire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had a classmate who thought they were an anime character.

✔️ Naruro run
✔️ UwU
✔️ Exaggerated facial experessions
✔️ Senpai/Nani?!

Cool person though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not a supernatural creature, but I've never seen someone so committed to something, let alone pretending to be a character, like a friend I have.

So, for context, I have a friend who disagreed with his Dramatic Arts professor on how a character had to be played (or something like that) on the first class of the year, and apparently after some arguing, the professor challenged my friend to attend to any business he needed to do in the campus as normal, but portraying a character, any of his choosing, for the rest of the year. And god damn, he did. For the rest of the year, he bought a Victorian era costume, complete with cane and top hat, learned many quirks of the language at the time, and many of the behaviors of society. And Sir Marcus Godwin was born.

He went full in-character mode. He talked using the time's English, walked like a gentleman, and behaved like he was a Victorian era man who was time travelled into the present. It was really hard not to laugh, specially when he spoke, with professors trying REALLY hard not to laugh. I think the DA professor must have warned all other professors of the classes my friend had, because I'm surprised he wasn't expelled of any of them. But he made it to the end of the year nonetheless and not only did he get the max grade on that class (which apparently was nearly impossible with that professor), but also got a fuck ton of money on bets he made along the year.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I knew a guy that was CONVINCED he was a werewolf. He would refuse to go out on full moons and would bark/snarl at people in school if they got too close. He's in prison for CP now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I also had a university friend/acquaintance who claimed to be a werewolf. What's strange is that he didn't let everyone in on the secret. Just those close to him. He acted pretty normal 99% of the time, but when in the company of those who 'knew', he would sometime exhibit...well...werewolf behavior. No idea what happened to him.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Half the traffic of this post comes from people worried that they might've been mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

What? Me? No! Definitely not!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can only remember one girl in middle school who said she was a cat and would scratch and hiss at people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ever heared of the French nuns that caught a case of mass hysteria and started meowing like cats? I'll quote a section about it on Wikipedia:

In The Epidemics of the Middle Ages, an 1844 collection of works written by J. F. C. Hecker (and translated by Benjamin Guy Babington), a translator's note by Babington, citing an unnamed medical textbook, recalls the story of a nun who lived in a French convent during an unspecified time (presumably in the Middle Ages) who inexplicably began to meow like a cat, shortly leading the other nuns in the convent to meow as well. Eventually, all of the nuns in the convent would meow together for a certain period, leaving the surrounding community astonished. This did not stop until the police threatened to whip the nuns.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They just sound really bored to me lmao

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

there was a group of girls at my high school who self identified as witches
i imagine they grew up to moderate r/witchesvspatriarchy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dressed like a cowboy for awhile as a preteen. I try not to think about it too much. Though I still have a hat tucked away in my closet. Just in case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you lived south of the Mason Dixon no one would have noticed. It's so ubiquitous people forget how ridiculous it is: men who take themselves very seriously attending the office in the same outfit they wore to go trick-or-treating when they were six. I don't mean it as any kind of condemnation. I love the ridiculous, delight in the passion of people grooving in their niche, and absurdity aside western wear can be a good look. But I feel the same way about all kinds of theatrical clothes, while the stetson crowd tends to ridicule the other.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You say that. But I was south of the Mason Dixon line and I definitely stood out. Even at some country music concerts. Because I was dressing as if I was the one on-stage at any given concert. I saved and eventually had my white Stetson, quite the rotation of Garth Brooks-style (sometimes literally!) Western shirts, Wrangler jeans, boots, belt buckles, the whole nine yards.

Your average concert-goer was in a t-shirt (IF THAT) and a ball cap with a fishing hook on it.

To say nothing of dressing like that in other, still-less appropriate, non-concert settings.

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