I had a couple classmates that pretended to be vampires back in elementary and middle school. They’d pretend their Koolaid was blood, complain about the sunlight, and bite their friends a lot. Not enough to draw blood, though. I haven’t kept up with most of them, but one guy is a teacher now. He seems pretty normal.
Not a supernatural creature, but I’ve never seen someone so committed to something, let alone pretending to be a character, like a friend I have.
So, for context, I have a friend who disagreed with his Dramatic Arts professor on how a character had to be played (or something like that) on the first class of the year, and apparently after some arguing, the professor challenged my friend to attend to any business he needed to do in the campus as normal, but portraying a character, any of his choosing, for the rest of the year. And god damn, he did. For the rest of the year, he bought a Victorian era costume, complete with cane and top hat, learned many quirks of the language at the time, and many of the behaviors of society. And Sir Marcus Godwin was born.
He went full in-character mode. He talked using the time’s English, walked like a gentleman, and behaved like he was a Victorian era man who was time travelled into the present. It was really hard not to laugh, specially when he spoke, with professors trying REALLY hard not to laugh. I think the DA professor must have warned all other professors of the classes my friend had, because I’m surprised he wasn’t expelled of any of them. But he made it to the end of the year nonetheless and not only did he get the max grade on that class (which apparently was nearly impossible with that professor), but also got a fuck ton of money on bets he made along the year.
Increadible.
wow, that’s dedication. As a teacher, I can understand why he got the highest possible grade
A girl I knew in high-school thought she was Napoleon Bonaparte reincarnated.
She sometimes wore that French military coat and have her hand tucked. She would speak in what little French she knew.
I hooked up with her. She went on to do CS and is pretty wealthy
With that backstory, hopefully making a tinder competitor - Bone-a-tart.
I knew a guy that was CONVINCED he was a werewolf. He would refuse to go out on full moons and would bark/snarl at people in school if they got too close. He’s in prison for CP now.
That sounds like everyone ignored the very obvious giant red flags of his deteriorating mental health
I also had a university friend/acquaintance who claimed to be a werewolf. What’s strange is that he didn’t let everyone in on the secret. Just those close to him. He acted pretty normal 99% of the time, but when in the company of those who ‘knew’, he would sometime exhibit…well…werewolf behavior. No idea what happened to him.
I had a kid in one of my classes in middle school who was trying to convince people The Undertaker (as in Mark Calaway, professional wrestler for WWF/WWE) was his uncle and that his powers were real and he had totally seen them and he was training him to do the whole lightning thing. Mmhmm yes’siree.
Pretty sure this kid ate paint too from the look of him.
I swear that kid was at every school. They did a great version of that kid in 8-Bit Christmas.
I myself was enamored with vampire stuff and in high school met an online boyfriend who really committed to the shtick of being a vampire - though a significantly weakened in bloodline so he could walk in sunlight. I think at one point he was also claiming to be a vessel for the archangel Michael. Please know this was all happening in 2000/2001, so long before Supernatural!
I caught up with him briefly about 15 years after high school, and he’s still claiming to be a vampire. A divorced vampire who smokes a lot of weed, but still a vampire.
i hope you check in with him in another 15 years to see what kind of vampire activities he’s up to
there was a group of girls at my high school who self identified as witches
i imagine they grew up to moderate r/witchesvspatriarchyNot a classmate but when I was in 6th grade I discovered I could make a weird noise, idk I though I sounded like a whale or a dying cow or something. It was a weird sound.
Anyway I started doing it randomly in like the middle of class but it kept seeming like no one could even hear it like no one responded at all so I just kept doing it all the time in the middle of like dead silent math classes.
I think eventually the teacher like glared at me after one and I was like oh shit they can hear it and stopped? I don’t remember.
I had a teacher with Vertigo so she had a couch in her room. Naturally, I would sleep on it of we had nothing to do.
He literally put in those fake plastic vampire teeth and bit me while I slept…yeah.
I really, REALLY wanted to be a ninja turtle when I was like 7 or 8. I didn’t let anyone in on that, but I thought if I wanted it enough I might change into one overnight.
I also folded black t-shirts to make a ninja hood and snuck around at night
I dressed like a cowboy for awhile as a preteen. I try not to think about it too much. Though I still have a hat tucked away in my closet. Just in case.
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I used to pretend I was bionic. Convinced the other kids that the visible blue veins in my wrist were wires, and would go above and beyond to exert myself so as to always appear stronger and faster than the other kids. I don’t remember how long it went on, but it was for a while. I was like 7 or 8 maybe. I’m not sure how much I actually “believed” it, I think I was probably more like a method actor that took things way too seriously for a while, :-p
I did not have a classmate that acted like they had dark powers…
That was me.
I got past it before uni, thankfully.
