Vampire Edd

**"Vampire Edd"** is a nameless being, or alternatively a new consciousness, that took over Edd's body after he was made the target of a vampire attack.

While the vampire makes use of a pre-owned body, he did not get to keep Edd's memories and is a clean slate.

He was first mentioned in the Ed, Edd n Eddy fanfiction, "How To Save a Life".

## Story

> One night, Edd was attacked by an ancient, dying vampiric emperor. With no biological offspring of his own to take over his crown, he went around artificially creating sons and daughters by transforming whoever he could target in his weakened last moments.
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> Though targeting humans for this purpose is an unusual practice for an emperor, his decision was linked to his desire to "glamorize" the vampire race and start a more beneficial evolution, as created vampires look relatively human, while full-bloods are ghoulish beasts that can't casually mingle with their preferred human prey. The emperor trusted that his ingrained strength would get transferred and stay mostly intact inside once mortal bodies.
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> Those who survive the mauling are deemed worthy, though the transformation process itself is heavy and ends up being too much for most to handle. While Edd is a physically weak character, he lived through the initial attack thanks to his determination of wanting to warn the others about the dangerous creature, while his high level of self-care helped him barely survive the sickness that followed.
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> Children of the emperor have much of his personality and some physical traits, as for the instinctual urge to fight and dominate others until the title of "vampire emperor" is earned. As there can be only one emperor, these children will try to find and kill each other. In "How To Save a Lover", Edd explained his destiny to Sarah and argued it to be in everyone's interest if he were killed.
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> After getting bitten and losing consciousness, he reawakened with no memory of the attack. He became ill soon after and spent the following days at home. It raised no suspicion with the other characters, who believed he had a mere flu. When Edd's transformation had completed, a new person was born within him and only slivers of his old self remained, if only because Edd was persistent in not wanting to give up his body. His vampire self began looking for food and mostly attacked animals, since they were easy practise and it would create less of an early panic.
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> Vampires born from human bodies more or less start off as inexperienced children and need time to understand what they are. The ability to speak comes later as well. To reach full maturity only takes a few days, and the inherently intelligent Edd was quick to do so.
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>    While he started off cautious, relatively speaking, the switch was flipped after his first human casualty, which made him instantly addicted to human blood. In the original story, this incident was mentioned, but the victim unspecified.
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> Marie Kanker appeared to had also been chosen by the emperor, but showed no signs of illness and deterioration, making her a dangerous rival if her transformation were allowed to be finalized. Edd managed to sense their kinship and realized the latter fact, and killing her started the chain of events that led to him getting hunted down by everyone.
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> Edd was an accidental target at first, as Ed and Eddy wanted to find "the wild animal" that was given the blame of all the previous casualties, and expected to receive a cash reward for its capture. When Marie was reported dead and her sisters testified to had heard her address Edd at their door, the insinuation wasn't taken seriously by them.
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> When no one could get a hold of Edd after the incident, and his parents began blaming Ed and Eddy for his worsened etiquette -since he left home often and never did his chores anymore- the cul-de-sac kids formed a stronger opinion about the case, which led to the formation of a hunting group.
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> Roughly a week later, they finally found him, but were jumped as if he were a rabies-infected dog the moment they dared to approach. Their numbers, but mainly luck, helped them capture him, whereafter they used Ed's room as his temporary prison. Based on what they witnessed, some of the negative opinions strengthened, though nobody could state with certainty that Edd was the culprit who terrorized Peach Creek. The majority assumed he was still sick, including Sarah, who became enticed to visit him by herself.
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> After sensing she had feelings for him, or rather the person he used to be, the vampire manipulated her into getting the keys for the locks of his constraints, resulting to his accidental release. Regretful about her actions, she used his invitation to come see him in private to try and convince him to come back. The vampire originally did so with no other purpose than to get to know her better, but ended up revealing more about himself. Sarah left with the disheartening news the real Edd only lived on as a few faint emotions the vampire felt for those once close to him, but would soon be officially dead. He asked her not to save his life if he ever were to get captured again.
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> The vampire's enjoyment in getting chased around and Edd's wish to take himself down eventually lead to this second capture. As he had victimized other humans in the meantime, the cul-de-sac kids saw no other solution but to execute him while they finally had him.
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## Personality

The vampire has a docile and an aggressive side. On the hunting grounds, he is beyond reasoning and does not waste any words on his victims, while his docile side portrays him as a generally laid-back comedian.

He always plans ahead and hardly anything he does is a random act of violence, nor does he get into situations he believes he can't handle. He can be very manipulative, but he usually trades that feature in for blatant honesty.

He doesn't care about befriending the other characters or contacting his congeners at this point in time, as they are all strangers to him and he prefers to be alone. Even so, Ed and Eddy's persistence of looking him up intrigues him. While he doesn't like his time to be wasted, he sees the whole capture-and-chase between him and the two as a game and doesn't mind playing their prisoner to spice things up, which is evidenced by the fact he was captured twice.

Besides messing with the characters' heads for fun, his life goals are unknown, though he warned Sarah about his instinctual urge to look up conflict and become a future monarch.

It's implied the real Edd is still alive inside of him to some degree, which he also told Sarah in "How To Save a Lover", explaining her emotion in one of the illustrations that was included with the original story.

Though this fact seemingly affected little, it's what prevented the vampire to kill Edd's friends and family. Nevertheless, Edd knew he was fading away and time would eventually erase all traces of him. He made sure to warn Sarah about this outcome, but also asked her not to feel enticed to stay involved with his vampiric self; who seemed to have an unfortunate crush on the preteen and give her special treatment.

The vampire did not think their age difference to be a problem, likely because the mental age of a created vampire is only loosely tied to that of the body they're born in. He's officially a few weeks old, and while he maintained most of Edd's intelligence, his new personality makes it hard to pinpoint a mental age.

## Appearance

*(Design based on Highschool Edd)*

Edd became somewhat taller and his body is rather bony, yet slightly muscular around the chest area. His hair grew at least twice the original length and part of his mullet is tied in a ponytail. Other features are his fangs, sharp nails, and the dark rings around his eyes. His eyes turned from green into a piercing light-grey, and his pupils are described to be small and unresponsive to any kind of lighting.

He wears a short black shirt and Edd's old, purple trousers.

Depending on his emotional state, he can either appear normal and thus mostly mimic the face of the original Edd, or mentally unstable, giving him a warped look that more closely resembles the vampire emperor that bit him.

## Trivia

* The vampire never gave himself a name or accepted Edd's, as it's not normal for vampires to have a name.
* While the vampire's romantic interest in Sarah is "canon", the prequel story was cancelled over it.

## See also

* How To Save a Life
* How To Save a Lover
* Ed, Edd n Eddy Highschool