Gilda turns Julius into a vampire in Chapter 5. This could be out of love or as Gomez may make us understand it may be much more than that. We see the Vampire life as an extended family and a love more than an exotic one. Gilda tells bird at the end when the transformation was over "We finally delivered a brother to me." This seems to make the point that the trasformation was a family based transformation and not one of a lover. Although Julius seeked love with Gilda, Gilda loved him back but in a plantonic way not as an exotic way. Gomez helps us understand that the life of a vampire has to do with a lot of sacrafices, but in return there are a lot of benifits.
Julius was lonely, and did seek companionship and he will finally get a family, one that he has forgotten for a long time now. It may be a family that he didn't expect but a vampire family seems to be much more involved in the way they come together. As Gilda may not see her vampire family for years on end they are the ones that are closest to her. For example, Bird the one that taught her seems like an intimite lover to us, but may just be that vampires show their love diffrently than mortals.
As Gilda still tries to find herself in the Vampire life she will now have a pupil to learn under her. As bird was her teacher she now becomes the mentor. This resembles the relationship between parents and their kids. As Gilda was once a child she now becomes the parent. The vampire family is long and strong and seems that all the Vampires are there to help one another except the few bad eggs that may exist, such as Elenoar and Fox. It will be interesting to see how Julius adapts to his new life as a Vampire and how his and Gilda's relationship unfolds as immortals.
Scott Swan
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