YMMV / Fevre Dream

• Complete Monster:
  • Damon Julian is an ancient, powerful vampire who enjoys preying on the young and beautiful. Most vampires are slaves to the Red Thirst and don't enjoy killing humans to satisfy themselves, but Julian is so old he no longer feels the hunger at all. All his murders are committed because he enjoys it. Julian delights in tormenting and toying with his victims and keeps his human servant, Sour Billy Tipton, loyal with promises to make him a vampire—a joke for Julian's amusement as vampires must be born instead of turned. Julian has Sour Billy, who has been nothing but effective in keeping Julian alive and concealed, drink human blood and eat human flesh with false promises. When he learns another vampire named Joshua has created a serum to save vampires from the thirst, Julian steals control of the vampires from him and crushes a baby's skull in front of Joshua just to prove a point about how he can do anything he wants.
  • Sour Billy Tipton himself is a vicious slaver who swears allegiance to Damon Julian under the illusion Julian will make him a vampire. Sour Billy was long a brutal racist who abused slaves under his watch, going so far as to spite a man who disapproved of his cruelty by beating and raping a slave atop the man's grave. Upon becoming Julian's servant, Sour Billy regularly buys, kidnaps, or lures innocents to the waiting maws of Julian and his vampiric associates, bleeding and handing the victims off to be torn apart by his master. Sour Billy becomes the operator of the Fevre Dream when Julian takes command of it, and uses his authority to burn alive several of the staff; enslave and torture the black people on the boat; and become a cannibal who devours the meat and blood of several people in his quest for immortality. The ultimate enabler of Julian's evil who helped his master kill hundreds of people for his own selfish gain, Sour Billy attempts to murder Julian in the end for his inability to make Sour Billy into the vampire god he's always wanted to be.
• Magnificent Bastard: Joshua York is a vampire who seeks peace with humanity and the betterment of his whole race. With his brilliant intellect, York spent years experimenting on and studying the relationship between vampires and their thirst for human blood, avoiding suspicions for the rash of murders he commits for decades. Upon developing an elixir that serves as a substitute for blood, York begins travelling the country and swaying vampires to his new, less violent way of life, promising prosperity for human and vampire alike in the future. Though overpowered and enslaved by the elder vampire Damon Julian, York subverts Julian's schemes at every turn even from his subservient position, and as soon as the opportunity arises, York schemes with his longtime friend Abner Marsh to outwit and murder Julian once and for all. Honoring Marsh's memory long after he passes and bringing his people the peace he has so longed for by the end, York completes the prophesy among his kind foretelling of a new age and proves himself the true Pale King.
• Moment of Awesome: "To the goddamn Fevre Dream!"
  • Abner shotgunning Sour Billy Tipton.
• Moral Event Horizon: The point at which it is confirmed that Julian is pure evil and not just another vampire: when he chops off a baby's hand and then kills it just to prove a point.

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