During the series there are times that Aidan will “slip” and accidently drain someone’s blood, killing them. “I’ve been trying to be clean…for years. Decades. There aren’t really any others like me. So I slip up, I start all over. It’s…isolating. It’s frustrating.” (Being Human). In these cases though, there is a vampire clean up service so that no one is exposed as being a monster. Aidan spends most of his time attempting to find a way to leave his vampire community behind and go back to how his life used to be. In many ways Aidan is more human than some actual human characters. In many places throughout the show Aidan speaks about how he hates who he has become, “I am filth. And you have never met anyone who has hated so much what he is” …show more content…
Most of his love attempts end with his romantic partner turning into a vampire, turning into dust, or dying. Many of his human romances make “the central love relationship between the human female and a vampire male dramatizes the trickier aspects of relating to the Other in the most intimate manner” (Nelson). This causes a large emotional toll on Aidan due to how hard he strives to find a way to be more human, to ground himself from the constant changing times. Many times in the series the characters will make light on the fact that they aren’t able to be completely normal. “I wanna be normal, but I can’t because I wanna eat people” (Being Human). In the end of the series Aidan is able to find his humanity for a few days and become human once again. When he finally accomplishes this he finds that even though his life was hard as a bloodthirsty vampire, the prospect of death was worse than he had faced as an immortal …show more content…
Josh spends his full moons locked in a storage building with a security camera watching his entire change. This placement of his changing is a way to show how Josh feels on the inside; the wolf is locked inside of him with him stuck watching from a camera instead of him being there, in the wolf. Josh feels that the wolf is not him and that he is good while his wolf is evil, he realizing throughout the series that without one half of himself, he is unable to find a way to survive with both. In season two Josh finds a love interest, Nora, who makes him feel human, but after only a few weeks together his werewolf scratches her, causing her to become a werewolf as well. Instead of him feeling more human he feels less human due to how he feels he ruined Nora’s life. To Nora being a wolf makes her feel powerful and free, she doesn’t see it as a curse and instead a way to be free from human weakness. Nora disappears from the show for a few episodes, but when she comes back she gives Josh a way to break the “curse”. The only way to break this is to kill his maker while they are both human. This dilemma caused Josh to have to choose between being a monster and losing his mind once a month for the rest of his life or becoming a monster and killing an innocent man with a family. This dilemma shows the “tensions between abstinence and indulgence among predators” (Nelson). In the end Josh ends up