In the past, the main protagonist had a sexual relationship with the woman who turned him into a vampire. The language used to describe this transformation and her role in it mirrors the language of birth and motherhood. While they are not related, the relationship can easily be read as incestuous. Throughout season 2, an antagonist infiltrates the main protagonist's dreams, and while doing so, assaults him while he sleeps in the real world. He is unaware of what is actually going on. S2E4: the entire plot of this episode centers around the main cast helping a character who has repeatedly been the victim of sexual violence. A major episode revolves around domestic abuse, and a lot of women are abused. A female character is graphically hurt and almost raped by three of the main male characters, who ends up forgiven. A main male vampire threatens to rape a woman "to death", implying he has done this before.