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OUR VAMPIRES ARE DIFFERENT
SO IT OCCURRED TO ME THAT MAYBE I SHOULD DETAIL HOW OUR VAMPIRES WORK since other people wanted to play in our sandbox a little bit, haha.
SO! First of all, our vampires don't quite fit the undead bloodsucker role beyond superficially. While they're dead, yes, this is for a very specific reason: they're intended to be something of a bridge between the purely spiritual and the living world. What this means is that matters of belief and spirit strongly effect them; this is why blessed weapons work on more evil vamps, but empower the good ones. Cursed items would have the opposite effect. Weapons made of things that were formerly living material (ivory, wood— hell if you had like. a noose braided from hair or something that would work, too) effect them all; they can't quickly regenerate from wounds left by them and instead heal at a closer to human rate.
Second! They don't specifically live off of blood so much as off of life energy. Blood is the easiest way to get it, yes, but it also exists in other body fluids (hurr hurr), the liver and heart, and plants (Kaito keeps strawberry plants because of the latter. ONLY WORKS WHEN THEY ARE SUPER FRESH and he'd have to eat nonstop like a panda or something to get enough from plants but they're delicious, ok.) Blood from someone who is dead or which has been out of a body for a while won't really work well because of this. This is actually also why they're burned by the sun; the sun is the source of all that life energy and trying to stand out in it is like trying to drink from a waterfall.
Third! Vampires can transform into more than just bats; they have a canine form and can become mist as well. All transformations have something to do with mindset and belief; if you can't manage the detached, drifty state of mind mist needs or get into a properly predatory mindset for the wolf, you can't shift into them. The actual type of bat or canine also depends on personality; for example, Kaito is a black wolf-dog hybrid and a vampire bat, while Len is mostly golden retriever with a little bit of wolf and a blond flying fox. Very old, very experienced vampires can also mix their transformations to some extent; Len is capable of growing claws and wings and generally being terrifying, but he's also oooooold.
Fourth! Vampires are capable of compulsion/hypnosis, but strength is dependent on practice and age. Len couldn't command his way out of a wet paper bag, so to speak, but Kaito is fairly good at it. Generally, though, the less someone would want to do something, the harder it is to actually make the follow the command; it's easier to, say, command someone "Hey, look at that!" and then run for it than to make them forget you were there or make them flat-out go away.
SO THOSE ARE THE MAIN POINTS; beyond that they're fairly similar to most vamps in the enhanced strength/senses areas. They do have a Game Face in that adrenaline/preparing to feed/GENERAL EXCITEMENT makes their fangs come out (which can be controlled to some extent with experience; Prima, Len's dam, tends to keep hers out all the time for drama's sake), and more extreme hunger causes their eyes to turn red.
Also just because it's funny: I mentioned belief having a serious impact on them, and I meant it. Usually this doesn't manifest beyond affecting how strong they are (if they think they should be weaker then they are, then they are), but one fan of a particular book series in the US apparently got turned and started... well. Sparkling. OOPS.
SO! First of all, our vampires don't quite fit the undead bloodsucker role beyond superficially. While they're dead, yes, this is for a very specific reason: they're intended to be something of a bridge between the purely spiritual and the living world. What this means is that matters of belief and spirit strongly effect them; this is why blessed weapons work on more evil vamps, but empower the good ones. Cursed items would have the opposite effect. Weapons made of things that were formerly living material (ivory, wood— hell if you had like. a noose braided from hair or something that would work, too) effect them all; they can't quickly regenerate from wounds left by them and instead heal at a closer to human rate.
Second! They don't specifically live off of blood so much as off of life energy. Blood is the easiest way to get it, yes, but it also exists in other body fluids (hurr hurr), the liver and heart, and plants (Kaito keeps strawberry plants because of the latter. ONLY WORKS WHEN THEY ARE SUPER FRESH and he'd have to eat nonstop like a panda or something to get enough from plants but they're delicious, ok.) Blood from someone who is dead or which has been out of a body for a while won't really work well because of this. This is actually also why they're burned by the sun; the sun is the source of all that life energy and trying to stand out in it is like trying to drink from a waterfall.
Third! Vampires can transform into more than just bats; they have a canine form and can become mist as well. All transformations have something to do with mindset and belief; if you can't manage the detached, drifty state of mind mist needs or get into a properly predatory mindset for the wolf, you can't shift into them. The actual type of bat or canine also depends on personality; for example, Kaito is a black wolf-dog hybrid and a vampire bat, while Len is mostly golden retriever with a little bit of wolf and a blond flying fox. Very old, very experienced vampires can also mix their transformations to some extent; Len is capable of growing claws and wings and generally being terrifying, but he's also oooooold.
Fourth! Vampires are capable of compulsion/hypnosis, but strength is dependent on practice and age. Len couldn't command his way out of a wet paper bag, so to speak, but Kaito is fairly good at it. Generally, though, the less someone would want to do something, the harder it is to actually make the follow the command; it's easier to, say, command someone "Hey, look at that!" and then run for it than to make them forget you were there or make them flat-out go away.
SO THOSE ARE THE MAIN POINTS; beyond that they're fairly similar to most vamps in the enhanced strength/senses areas. They do have a Game Face in that adrenaline/preparing to feed/GENERAL EXCITEMENT makes their fangs come out (which can be controlled to some extent with experience; Prima, Len's dam, tends to keep hers out all the time for drama's sake), and more extreme hunger causes their eyes to turn red.
Also just because it's funny: I mentioned belief having a serious impact on them, and I meant it. Usually this doesn't manifest beyond affecting how strong they are (if they think they should be weaker then they are, then they are), but one fan of a particular book series in the US apparently got turned and started... well. Sparkling. OOPS.
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Turning: CAN'T BE DONE JUST BY BITING, you have to get vamp blood into you either via transfusion or by drinking it. It generally "takes" better if you're already near death, so usually the vamp doing the turning will mostly drain you first. A lot of them have ceremonies behind it (usually the ones who don't do it lightly).
Biting: Vampire saliva does have various painkillers etc. in it! But they only come into play if the vampire has been psyching themselves up to bite. If they're polite, they'll also basically give you a hickey first to make sure it doesn't hurt when they actually break skin; otherwise it hurts like fuck when they first bite down and then quickly goes numb. The anesthesia comes in two varieties; the first just shuts the pain off, while the second essentially flips around which nerves respond so that it feels good instead of bad. That one is pretty much solely used for sexytimes, and in fact can only be used if the vamp in question is turned on.
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Vamps are sort of wired towards polyamory/harembuilding, mostly because biting sentient beings tends to involve emotional attachment of some sort if the one doing the biting is at all decent, and also because having just one bloodsource is... not very healthy for the one being bitten... So the ones who feed off of humans tend to build themselves little circles of lovers/admirers/etc.
Vampires aren't able to keep energy stores the way most living things are (via bodyfat or whatever). Because of this, overfeeding does in fact cause a type of poisoning via too much life energy; symptoms tend to involve mania and general psychotic/sociopathic behavior, as well as a paradoxical desire for more blood to keep the high going.
How the actual biting goes tends to depend on the personal preferences of the vampire. Some do the typical teeny puncture wounds on the neck, some create slash wounds (like a vampire bat), some are assholes and GO FOR THE JUGULAR. Necks aren't really any more popular than wrists as far as spots to bite go.