Vampire Angelique's Reflection

[Gerard]

But we don't see his clothes either.

I've always wondered about that in vampiredom.  Okay, so you can't see their reflections in mirrors, but why not their clothes?  They should all look like the invisible man.  Now, take for example, Barnabas' cane.  Does it vanish when he's holding it, but suddenly appear when he puts it down?  What about his cape-coat?  When he takes it off and hangs it up, does it appear?  What if he (or any vampire, for that matter) touches a piece of furniture?  Will it vanish?  Just what are the rules about this anyway?

Gerard

[GooberCollins]

Curtis's Law of Vampire Reflections states, "Shut up and pretend you didn't see anything."

[Taeylor Collins]

I always wondered how in the heck could Angelique see herself in mirrors once she had become a vampire? Maybe she was a bit half-witch/half-vampire and her witchy side enabled her to see herself and use Nicholas' mirror? I'm stretching here, I know.

On Charmed [spoiler] Phoebe was able to help complete a POWER OF THREE SPELL when she was half witch/half mermaid.  [/spoiler]  Maybe Angie was half and half.

[Doug]

I was wondering about that myself. Although she was a vampire, maybe Nicolas did'nt take away all
of her witching powers.

[MagnusTrask]

It wasn't a real, normal, physical mirror.   It was a magical device which didn't work by reflecting light, but by supernaturally depicting the user or the desired target.  How 'bout that one?    Anyone salutring that one?

[GooberCollins]

That works for Nicholas's Magic Mirror, but Jeff shouldn't have been able to see Angelique in the lab's mirror.

[Garth Blackwood]

Also since Angelique apparently maintained some time-travel powers after becoming a vampire, I don't see why she didn't travel back to a few weeks earlier and prevent herself from becoming a vampire. 

[JS]

That whole mirror thing needs to be revamped anyway. I can understand a vampire not have a reflection but the clothing should be there. 

[GooberCollins]

There is the possibility that some kind of anti-reflection chemical ekes out of vampires onto their clothing.

[JS]

Now there is something that I haven't thought of.

[GooberCollins]

Think of the problems that could result from Barnabas lending someone his coat. 

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Barnabas exhibited non-vampire related supernatural powers (think his Magic-Number-Of-The-Universe and using the Egyptian Book of the Dead to summon Laura Stockbridge Collins' spirit), so being a vampire doesn't preclude someone from commanding mystical powers, just as being a human doesn't (think Quentin and Stokes).

And so far as Angelique's time traveling powers went, recall that she needed Nicholas' medallion for that, so apparently the power was all in the medallion, and all someone need do was harness it.

[MagnusTrask]

That whole mirror thing needs to be revamped anyway. I can understand a vampire not have a reflection but the clothing should be there. 

Not when you're dealing with the supernatural.   The Invisible Man may have had to follow straighforward logic, but magic deals with essences, and what's meaningful and significant, not substances, light rays and molecules.   The meaningful "you" is you with characteristic clothes, you as you see yourself in the mirror, what "you" are to yourself and others.    You can't apply even simple physics to magic.

[Willie Loomis]

for all the enquiring minds: 

most of vampire lore was started by Bram Stoker in Dracula.   vampire stories legends and lore that were written before dracula never dealt with those facts.   stoker made up the rule about mirrors, daylight etc for his book.   

[GooberCollins]

As everyone knows, Dark Shadows' timeline is constantly in flux. I'm proposing that several people went back to when vampires were first created and altered their process of creation enough to change the mirror bit to "reflections on" or "reflections off," and this happened repeatedly. Plausible within the realm of DS, no?