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[reachfortheskies]

So, the character I'm thinking of apping is A Vampire™! A couple of quick questions:

1. In her canon, vampires usually look completely human. But! When hungry/feeding/angry/fighting/showing off, their canines extend into fangs. This can be either conscious or unconscious. Could this be something that carries over or is it too close to transformation?

2. Again, her eyes usually look human. But! When hungry or feeding etc, they take on an ethereal silvery glow.They also function like a nocturnal predator's, giving her vastly better eyesight in general, the ability to see in the dark, and eyeshine. Would any of this carry over?

3. I imagine she won't need blood anymore? I know she won't have her superhuman strength or speed, or her healing factor. I'm also guessing that supernaturally good hearing wouldn't carry over either.

[imepro]

She will not carry over any transformative or significantly advantageous qualities. She can have fangs that do not retract, or she can have flat teeth according to your discretion. Similarly, while her eyes will not glow and she will not have nocturnal vision, they could still have reflective eyeshine. Her senses cannot be superhuman, but can be left at above average by human standards (or they can be average or below average, whichever you would prefer to play).

As for the blood, you can play her as eating normal human food now, or you could play her as retaining the same nutritional needs as a vampire. Because the free rations provided in the kitchen are individually nutritionally balanced, if you decide you would rather play her as still drinking blood, her share of rations will still be edible to her! But like everyone else's, they will be totally unsatisfying to eat. Think like the blood pills from Vampire Knight, possibly. More appetizing blood would be available in the point shop and also in the bodies of most other people in the game.

[reachfortheskies]

Commenting here with another question as it's still relevant! If I go with her still needing blood, would there be any risk of her falling into bloodlust if she didn't feed (because she didn't realise she needed to or whatever)? Bloodlust would basically just be, awful cramps and feeling like she can't breathe, etc.

Thank you!

[imepro]

Rations are provided to be 100% nutritionally tailored to the person, and so vampires such as Bluebird would also be given rationed blood even if she does not realize she needs to consume blood. On that note, it sounds like the symptoms are just the same as human symptoms of hunger and starvation - are these symptoms taken to a noticeably stronger degree than human hunger symptoms are, or are there differences that would otherwise separate bloodlust from human hunger symptoms?

[reachfortheskies]

Blood functions for her both as nutrition and, essentially, a carrier of oxygen. No blood, no breathing. (It's technically also a lifeforce/power thing, with blood from sentient beings giving her more energy - I'll be nerfing that to it just, tasting better.) I guess the biggest difference between her hunger and a human's is that if she went for long enough without blood in her original setting -- i.e. more than two days at most -- she'd basically snap and jump on the first living creature she sensed.

It probably wouldn't come up anyway BUT just in case!!

[imepro]

This would be fine to play out.