Vamp_Land Challenge: Casting Picspam

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One of the things that always annoyed me about Christopher Pike's The Last Vampire series is that Sita, the "last vampire" was 5000 years old, from India, and yet had blonde hair and blue eyes. It's incredibly historically inaccurate and offensive to replace what would be a character of color with a blonde woman. So when the challenge came at vamp_land to

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what i think

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Sita in the book it says she is blonde why did you go with A dark haired women , when I picture Miss Germany I picture someone who knows what they are doing someone young and well trained ......... thats just what I think but nice job on every one else thoe

Re: what i think

[xlivvielockex]

Hi there,

If you read the very top sentence, I have a huge issue with Sita being Aryan in India as old as she is supposed to be. It seems to me like Pike just wanted a beautiful blonde protagonist. So rather than cast another white girl, I decided to cast with more genuine historical accurate portrayals.

Thanks for commenting though!