Personality Traits

⚰️ Carmilla is not evil. She feels her actions are justified at least to some extent and she is not bothered by them.

⚰️ Self-critical.

⚰️ Seductive.

⚰️ Manipulative.

⚰️ Superficially charming.

⚰️ Afraid, lonely.

⚰️ Willing to hurt others to further her own goals.

⚰️ Self-critical and self-contradictory (especially in how she can love someone and contribute to their demise at the same time).

⚰️ Intellectual.

⚰️ Guarded and apathetic at times.

⚰️ Jealous and possessive at times.

⚰️ Paranoid.

⚰️ Emotionally volatile. She feels both passion and anger at a high intensity.

⚰️ She could project emotions like love and make it over-powering and hateful.

⚰️ Desire for love and belonging, yet twisted idea of what love is.

Important Quotes

“The time is very near when you shall know everything. You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.” -Carmilla, to Laura

“I have been in love with no one, and never shall,” she whispered, “unless it should be with you.” … I live in you; and you would die for me, I love you so.” -Carmilla, to Laura

“I felt rather unaccountably towards the beautiful stranger. I did feel, as she said, “drawn towards her,” but there was also something of repulsion. In this ambiguous feeling, however, the sense of attraction immensely prevailed. She interested and won me.” -Laura, about Carmilla

“Sometimes after an hour of apathy, my strange and beautiful companion would take my hand and hold it with a fond pressure, renewed again and again; blushing softly, gazing in my face with languid and burning eyes, and breathing so fast that her dress rose and fell with the tumultuous respiration. It was like the ardor of a lover; it embarrassed me; it was hateful and yet over-powering; and with gloating eyes she drew me to her, and her hot lips traveled along my cheek in kisses.” -Laura, about Carmilla