#i was looking at Astarion and wondering if vampires would trigger that or if theyre “alive” enough that its fine

[missbaphomet]

Do you ever think about how a lot of people that find dead bodies describe thinking it was a mannequin (it's never a mannequin) with the implication being that a dead body no longer looks human to us and that furthermore the phenomenon of the uncanny valley makes people uncomfortable around things that are almost human but Aren't and how that's likely an evolutionary holdover that made our ancestors recognize a dead body as something dangerous (there is likely to be something threatening to life here) and that's likely in part why a fear of dead things is so pervasive.