• Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Neither, because you don’t turn into a vampire by being bitten by one (otherwise the vampire population with increase exponentially until everyone on earth is a vampire), and to become a zombie the zombie bites you.

    But I’m pretty sure this is one of those posts that are deliberately incorrect to drum up engagement.

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      3 months ago

      It really depends on the lore that you’re going with for the vampire. There are quite a few stories where just the bite of a vampire transfers into the victim. As long as they’re not fully drained.

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      3 months ago

      As I understand it, it’s not just the zombie bite that turns you but the transference of the zombie virus (zombie’s saliva getting into the zombie’s bite) I’d imagine biting a zombie would transfer the disease as well (zombie flesh inside humans mouth). Unless the virus itself is only found in the saliva but I just kind of assumed it was all throughout the zombie.

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        3 months ago

        That’s true for later versions like resident evil and 28 days/week/years, but traditional zombie films were slightly more supernatural/mysterious. At the very least they only portrayed turning via a bite

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          3 months ago

          Yeah, you’re right. It just depends on which version of the mythology you’re going with. From what I know the roots stem from voodoo in Africa where magic was used to raise the dead and turn them into a servant of sorts, so you’re version is definitely closer to the origin.