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Can't they, just split and find someone else? Not all myths say new vampire is bound to who turned them.
There's also the community angle. If you're immortal, you're going to want an immortal support network pretty desperately at times
Your progenitor isn't just a partner, they're a gateway to immortal society. How long would it take to make connections that would survive a breakup? It'd be one thing if there were vampire nightclubs going on, but that's a pretty bad way to maintain secrecy
Some interesting power dynamics come into play
Turn others into your support structures
I see what you did there 🤣
That is probably the best option, if it is an option, and it opens some interesting implications for some vampire lore
So a new coven of young vampires is a threat to both existing power structures as well as secrecy, so there's some lore that vampires will hunt down unaffiliated vampires. Young vampires who turn many others could mean exponential population growth, and any rogue new vampire is a potential outbreak
I also like the implications of that for trope that romantic relationships are forbidden between progenitor and the progeny... It makes way more sense than hedonistic immortals have some inbuilt vampiric incest taboo
Exactly this situation makes way more sense
There's some interesting stories that could be written with this premise... It's the classic socially forbidden romance
Underground nightclubs are totally fine unless a half vampire with swords shows up, and what're the odds of that?
One sword? Maybe ... Multiple swords???? They would never.
Tell me about it, went to a blood club once and this guy shows up with FUCKING FLYING KNIFE BOOMERANGS
Oh my gawd you met Batman????
In the World of Darkness ttrpg is implied that Vampiric love lasts usually some centuries unless blood bonds and used and even sometimes then they can be broken.