Quote Originally Posted by Lady_Silvermoon View Post
My favorite part is that you realize their are plenty of stories that contradict your point, but you dismiss them as simply being wrong. To that I say...

Nuh-uh.

Vampires throughout fiction have represented desire, power, disease, alienation, mental illness, addiction and much, much more. The monster vampire is only one use for them among hundreds. And every living being lives at the expense of other living beings. Life if brutal and harsh. You and I are the most dangerous predators on the planet. And while all life feeds on life, as intelligent creatures we do try to carve out an exemption for things like ourselves. So the question is were the Endless people and they were and they made it several hundred years feeding off the aether of those who died of natural causes. It seems given what there were there were a multitude of ways to change their dietary needs (or eliminate them completely) that we didn't bother to explore because it was time for a trial.
I was not born yesterday, I know there are many subversions and twists on the vampire concept, and they are not all valid to begin with. You really want to push this idea that the writers did you an injustice by putting their foot down that the Endless can only be fueled by the death of the living, like they reject your weird moral quandary that maybe 3 AAA batteries might had been enough actually. The message was not "The endless had a flawed energy production!", that would be utterly asinine way to take the story. Get real.