Down the centuries, Nick Knight's attitude to his vampire condition has been ambivalent. Even immediately after being brought across by LaCroix, he wanted to return to mortality (as indicated in their conversation in the flashback in "Dark Knight: The Second Chapter"). On the whole, though, Nick was reasonably satisfied with his life as a vampire during the Middle Ages. Through most of the twentieth century, Nick has been the vampiric equivalent of a vegetarian, eschewing not only the hunt and the kill, but even avoiding bottled human blood.