Since I have been asked about the lore behind Vampire's Bit a couple of times recently I decided to organize my ideas a little and post them here.

When I started working on Vampire's Bit my main goal was to recreate the feeling of early ARCADE/NES games, since keeping it as simple as possible both in gameplay and graphics was a main priority, considering it was my first time taking part on a game jam, and my first time working under a very tight deadline too.
This minimalistic approach would also reference heavily some of those old games that I used to play a lot in the past and that were a big inspiration for this project, like Bomberman, Pac-man, Berzek and Lode Runner.

Since most games from that era couldn't rely on a story heavily due to technical limitations I decided to keep Vampire's Bit a little bit vague and mysterious too, as I'd love to see other people filling the blanks with their imagination, and coming up with different stories and interpretations based on it, in the same way most people would come up with their own ideas, stories, and even their own character designs based only the small amount of information those old games could provide them. 
As time went on and I kept working on the game I deviated a lot from that initial view and style, and while that's something I have been struggling with recently, I'll address it with more detail in another post later on.

So, for the lore aspect itself, let's list all the details I have set on stone:
The main character of the story is a vampire called Elizabeth, a name both her family and her friends usually shorten to Elzie afectionally, and that I also use often when talking about her.
As you can imagine her name is an obvious reference to Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed, who has become popularly associated with vampires, and also as a reference to one of the stories from the book "Vampires Are" by author and vampirologist Stephen Kaplan. In that story Kaplan is approached by a woman named Elizabeth who claims to be a real vampire, and not only manages to evade all his trick questions, but also introduces him to a very interesting and detailed account on how a vampire survives in our current times.
As for Elzie's appareance she was inspired by romanian strigoi mythology, which noted people with red hair and blue eyes as someone suspicious of being or becoming a vampire.

The events in Vampire's Bit take place during the Victorian era (1830~1900) and Elzie has been a vampire for some time already.  She's quite experienced with her vampire powers, and the only thing drawing her back is that as she was quite young when turned into a vampire, she is very short and thin physically, and also not very strong. This part of her characterization also takes heavy inspiration from other famous vampires from popular literature like Claudia from "Interview with the Vampire" by Anne Rice, and Eli from "Let the Right One In", by John Ajvide Lindqvist.
Before becoming a vampire, she probably was the spoiled daughter of a rich family, something we can see small hints of not only in her bratty attitude but also on her taste for fancy looking places and fancy looking dresses.

And this lead us to analyze her personality with more detail. If I had to choose a word to describe Elzie I'd say mischevious is a good one.
At first glance she will be antagonistic without any doubt, as I thought that a game where you play as "the villian" was a very interesting twist on what we usually get from vampire themed games.
Growing up as a rich and spoiled girl, she is quite used to things always going the way she wants them to go, and using her unnatural powers gives her an extra advantage to do whatever it takes her to ensure that's exactly what happens. But deep inside she is not really evil, and a big amount the questionable things she does, she does out of necessity, such as killing people, because she needs to feed herself, or out from boredom and lonelyness, leading her to sometimes keep people as pets or slaves, or doing risky and dangerous things just get a thrill, like dancing outside at the brink of sunrise.
In the same way  Pendleton Ward's "Adventure Time" explained Marceline, their own vampire character, Elzie is not actually evil, but very very old and has "lost track of her moral code".

At some point in the future we will have a couple of chances to see Elzie interact with other characters, like Layna, the main character from Paradoxigent's "Project Light Spirit", which will give us a better insight on her personality, and how she relates and interacts with others.
But that's also something for a different post too.

So, this is pretty much al the lore I always had in mind for Vampire's Bit, and more specifically for Elizabeth as a character. With this as a starting point let your imagination fly and feel free to come up with anything you want, and of course, please share it with me too, as I love to see different interpretations of her and the game.

Just as a final note to this post, have an old doodle of Elzie, dressed in modern clothes, inspired by her description from one of the small fanfics I received a long time ago.