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kaito kagamine ⚙ 鏡音介人 ([personal profile] was_no_monster) wrote in [community profile] shamelesshookery2013-11-17 03:19 pm
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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.