Speculative Question re Vampires

[deird_lj]

So. If you invite a vampire into your house, they can come in.

If you then move house, and someone else buys it, the vampire can't come in anymore.

But... If you have two people living in the house (person A and person B), and A invites the vampire in - so the vampire can come in - and then A moves house (and B is still living there), and then person C moves in, and after B and C have shared the house for a while, B moves out, so that C is living there alone...

...at that point, can the vampire still come in?

Comments

[carlos-v-b.livejournal.com]

My personal theory is that it'll take everybody in one household generation moving out before the invitation resets. Think of it in terms of Korner household naming conventions; 8 or 10 years on, the Barn is still called the Barn, and so in a way it's still the same household.

But if everybody currently there moves out, then another group of people will move in, probably call it something like "Joel and Mattie's place", and Joel and Mattie won't be prey to the vampires that most of Korner has had issues with for the last 10 years.

In other words, C still has the problem, but if C moves out, and then D moves in, then that will reset it. I'm not sure though how disconnected C & D have to be though. If C & D are friends, and D inherits a lot of old furniture from C, and C & D go to all the same parties, then there might be an issue, but I think D should be fine.

It's not really a logical or scientific thing; perhaps it's best to think of it in terms of "If A gave V (oooh, subtle Chris...) a permanent standing invitation to come in whenever V likes, when does that invitation end?". These days those sort of invites may be considered to end when A moves, but for big, borderline communal households, then maybe they last a bit longer. It gets more interesting if A is the head of a household, and after A dies E inherits the land and house. Then V can probably turn up whenever V feels like it and E has to live with it ("of course I couldn't throw him out! Grandfather gave him a permanent invitation, and that has to mean something!")

Of course, the real answer is "Whatever the damned scriptwriters wish to use to move their plot along. You think we came up with all the hard and fast rules before we started writing the series? HA!"