Vampire

## Appearance and Physical Traits

Vampires look like extremely pale humans with sharp canines and blood-red lips, and long fingernails.

As vampires don't sweat they don't have a scent nor do they need to breath.

## Socio-Cultural Characteristics

Vampires and Nosferatu share some-sort of relation either as "cousin" species or with nosferatu being an ancestor to the vampire line. While an outsider might not see much difference between these two monsters vampires, who have a Slavic aesthetic , treat nosferatu, who have more German aesthetic, with disdain. To cultivate their Slavic mystique, as is their current fashion, they use makeup to get an even more unnatural paleness, use iceboxes for an ice cold handshake, wear capes  dress in evening wear, invent fake titles, talk in fake Transylvanian accents, and shave their hairlines into razor-sharp widow’s peaks. They either practiced law or became agents and turned court case and contract negotiation into "a bizarre battle of one-upsmanship in which each vampire tried to prove he was the most mysteriously Slavic".

Their decor tend to feature standing candelabras with black candles, bookcases were stuffed with law books with pentagrams on the spine, coffins used as desks, tattered drapes hiding the blackout curtains, Dead flowers, and magazines like 'Look, Unlife, Modern Crypt'. When traveling they rest in their coffins which are kept in special holds to protect the occupants from the sun.

Vampires sleep in coffins along with grave dirt, and bat shaped wallets suitcases shaped like a coffin are all the rage amongst them.

While the new line of umbrellas called Para-sols allow vampires to go out in the daytime most like to avoid it especially the early morning since it's tougher to block the sun when it’s at an angle.

Vampires consider attractiveness for those they want to change but they're not really romantics but do a "metaphor for eating" that "only got more disturbing the more you thought about it."  However with those they wish to attack they prefer to scare first.

During the night war vampires were more vulnerable then other monster due to not not relying on traps and "sleeping like the dead" leaving their only line of defense to be any ghouls, hunchbacks, zombie manservants, or occasional hellhound in their employ. But due to legends of vampires existing before monster "came out" in the war human hunters already knew to drive a stake through the heart, behead them, and stuff the mouth with garlic, and driving nail into them while burying them at crossroads.

Vampires have a selection of hemoglobin drinks available on the market.

Following the night war the pope is now a vampire, which is admittedly weird given their phobia, but otherwise it's still the same Catholic Church, and even has human members and kept some human priests.

## Skills, Abilities and Weaknesses

**Enhanced Strength:** are stronger then human but less so then their Nosferatu  cousins.

**Short-Range Teleportation:** can seem to move without crossing the distance in between.

**Hypnosis:** can hypnotize by making eyes contact.

**Mist Form:** can turn into mist.

**Conversion:** can turn humans into Vampires.

**Death Like Sleep:** vampires (and Nosferatu) are somewhat easier to kill than some other monsters owing to that fact that they "sleep like the dead" allowing hunters to sneak up on them.

**Holy Symbols:** phobia, Holy Symbols like crosses will cause Vampires to panic and flee.

**Sunlight:** weakness, sunlight will kill a Vampire, can be somewhat mitigated by use of a parasol.

## Notable Vampires

* Bud Thirst
* Nyx Nocturne

## Trivia

* leeches is the derogatory term for Vampires.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 2118-2119)
2. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1067-1068)
3. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Locations 994-995)
4. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 2302-2303)
5. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Location 2113)
6. ↑  Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 2123-2124)
7. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1079-1081)
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1017-1034)
9. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 2029-2031)
10. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Location 2254)
11. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 2237-2238)
12. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Location 2311)
13. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 2290-2291)
14. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Locations 3939-3941)
15. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Locations 655-657)
16. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 369-371)
17. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Location 3730)
18. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 2256-2261)
19. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Locations 5599-5601)
20. ↑ The weird part was it was the same Catholic Church as before. Oh, sure, the pope was a vampire, but it was the same church. They had human members and even some holdover human priests. - Here We Come Iässailing
21. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 2299-2300)
22. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Locations 3733-3734)
23. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 74-75)
24. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1036-1037)
25. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Locations 3640-3642)
26. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Location 2256-2258)
27. ↑ City of Devils (Kindle Locations 300-304)
28. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 2086-2087)
29. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1281-1282)