Dracula and the Jehovah's Witness

Blood dripped from "Dracula's" nose just as the Jehovah’s Witness handed him a Bible.

It wasn't planned; it was a spontaneous reaction to dry air, but the timing couldn't have had more meaning.

A crew-cut clean shaven Ambassador for God knocked randomly on the door of a brick ranch-style house. Standing at the open door was a black eye-lined, black dyed haired 15-year-old boy wearing a silk screened Slip Knot t-shirt.

By appearances, it would seem obvious who came to teach whom on the proper way to be.

But underneath the façade of EMO (the teenaged boy) and wholesomeness (the Jehovah’s Witness) lies the common desire to connect with others in meaningful ways.

The tool each of them uses differs only in superficialities. The message each of them is trying to convey is the same.

Many misconceptions have arisen among proper adults about the psychopathy behind teens who flock to EMO choices like black birds on an electric wire. As a subculture, though, teens and adults who are interested in an EMO appearance have more substance towards others than some of their counterparts wearing the latest brand of Air Jordan or Abercrombie and Fitch.

Most of the expression of EMO is a teenager’s attempt to individuate himself from his or her parents. Each child is different and parents shouldn't panic based on a style of dress alone.  Behaviors which might be a departure from an otherwise well-adjusted, but darkly dressed child, are more important to monitor. But based on observation, it seems a higher percentage of EMO adherents participate in Bible-based churches than do those of the general population.

In the subculture of EMO , the dark protects the light. In EMO, the affinity with black publicly acknowledges what is true about society—an obsession with death. The difference is EMO expresses it through art forms, such as music and poetry, and the general population participates in it through a vocal idolization and acting out through war, wielding of guns, and materialism. 

The Jehovah’s Witness offered the teenager, dressed in EMO, a Bible, and when the teenager's nose began to bleed, the Jehovah’s Witness backed away.