I see this mistake of terms all the time in otherkin community. Vamprekin are a kind of otherkin with vampire as their kintype, people with vampirism are those who need/feel they have a need to feed on energy and/or blood. Two different things. They can certainly overlap, but they are not the same thing.



Vampirekin are individuals that are, feel, and/or believe they are in part or whole (non-physically) a vampire on an integral and personal level. An individual whose body image of their species is that of a vampire. Someone that identifies (non-physically) as a humanoid being that has a diet consisting of blood and/or has other traits sometimes (or most of the time) associated with the (fictional, mythical, folkloric, etc) vampire. Someone who psychologically has a strong personal and integral identification with a being that society would call a “vampire,” or someone who spiritually has the soul/spirit of being that society would call a “vampire.” Someone whose sense of identity fits under the common use of the term “vampire” by society. So on and so forth along the same lines of how other kinds of otherkin (draconics, therians, elfkin, etc) might describe their nonhuman identities and feelings with just “dragons/wolf/elf/etc” replaced with “vampire” in their case. Just to name of a few definitions that could define who and what vampirekin are, though the first and second definition seems to me same of the better ways of trying to define the experience. Least that I have come up with or heard from other vampirekin. Vamprekin are just another kind of otherkin. Their kinype is a vampire.



This is different than vampirism in that a vampirekin identifies their kintype being a vampire as apposed to someone who feels/needs energy or blood to remain healthy. Where there are people like sanguinarians who are people who drink blood and pranavores (or also called psychic vampires) who feed on energy; vampirekin are merely people who identity as/with vampires like other otherkin do for their kintype. No needs for blood or energy is required to be vampirekin just as with other kinds of otherkin. Being a vampirekin just required identifying as a vampire on integral and personal level like any other kind of otherkin. A vampirekin might also be a sanguinarian and/or pranavore as they could be only a vampirekin just with other kinds of otherkin, however they are not the same concept. Sanguinarians and pranavores aren’t otherkin/don’t have to be otherkin unless they also identify as such. Vampirekin is a kind of otherkin. One, at its base, is an identity while the other, at is base, is a need.



- Arron