I can’t undead if undeading is without you.
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Nietzsche, 1886
To be in a vampire’s thrall is to be enslaved. You become tethered to their being and your entire foundation is at their whim. I’ve never quite noticed it before Robert Eggers’ adaptation of Nosferatu, but story of Dracula has…