Vampires

## Background

Vampires, or *Vamps* for short, are a race of blood-drinking supernatural creatures that were once human. However, it was once stated encountering a vampire is very rare as hunters have hunted them near to extinction. But that was proven false as many operate secretly & for their ability to reproduce by transfusion, there only needs to be one for them to repopulate.

They are immortal, allowing them to live forever with several vampires being hundreds of years of age or older. Their diet is based strictly on blood & although they prefer human blood, humans aren't the only animals that they can drink from. Some vampires will live off of animal blood or donated blood bags because they don't want to kill a living being.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Vampire Physiology**
	+ ***Accelerated** **Healing*****:** Vampires recover tissue from any form of physical damage to their bodies within seconds, though they still feel the pain of a wound before it heals. They can snap her bones back into place after they have been broken & have been seen to fully recover from gunshots, stab wounds & torso impalement very quickly, with a diet of human blood speeding the process.
	+ ***Immortality*:** Vampires stop aging once turned. Upon transformation, they become immune to all conventional illness, diseases, viruses & infections.
	+ ***Enhanced Senses***: Vampires have extremely keen senses of hearing, sight, smell & taste that far exceed those of humans & werewolves. These senses improve & grow stronger with age & experience. They can see in total darkness & hear whispered conversations, even ones in far of buildings & on phones, though most vampires typically learn how to tune out most ambient noises when it's not necessary to hear them. All vampires can also smell blood from several meters away. Her senses of taste are also enhanced to detect the presence of drugs, alcohol, or vervain in someone's blood.
	+ ***Enhanced Durability*:** Vampires can take a great amount of physical damage without being slowed down. They can not be killed by conventional methods, such as stab wounds or gunshots. Vampires have an extreme resilience to pain but still react to physical force in a human manner.
	+ ***Enhanced Strength*:** Vampires are much stronger than many supernatural beings & will only grow stronger with age. They always has the advantage of superior strength in direct combat with a human. Even new vampires who are still in transition can toss an average-size, fully-grown human across a room with great speed & force. They can single-handedly life grown men high off the ground by the throat & snap their necks, cut off a person's head with their bare hands & rip out internal organs such as hearts with little to no effort.
	+ ***Enhanced Agility*:** They can move quickly, jump very high, climb & run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion. Vampires can jump with their super speed too. Vampires that feed on human blood can jump much higher than vampires that feed on animal blood.
	+ ***Enhanced Emotions*:** Vampires experience emotions more powerfully than humans. Emotions like love, joy & happiness are magnified for her, allowing her to live life more intensely. This ability allows her to feel emotions at their peak regardless of their age. Conversely, sadness, depression, guilt, fear & anger are also amplified, causing many vampires to become so overwhelmed that they "turn off" their humanity to block out the more painful emotions.
	+ ***Telepathy*:** Vampires have a limited form of telepathy that allows them to easily enter the minds of humans & with more effort, the minds of witches, werewolves, & younger/weaker vampires.
		- ***Dream Manipulation*:** Some vampires have the power of telepathy to control dreams & the subconscious. This is an aspect of telepathy that is much easier to learn. They can produce & modify dreams, bestow nightmares & lucid dreaming, distort people's perception of reality & trap someone in their dreams.
		- ***Illusions*:** The ability to trick the minds of other younger vampires into seeing/feeling things that aren't actually happening.
	+ ***Transformation***: Not a trait all vampires possess, butt some can transform herself into a bat & mist. While their physical attributes may fluctuate during such states, a vampire's mental acuity is the same as that when they are in their human shape.
	+ ***Metamorphosis*:** A vampire's true face is the appearance they are hiding under their normal human face. When a vampire's true face is revealed, the sclera of their eyes turns blood-red, dark veins appear under their eyes as the blood pumps forcefully through them, and their canine teeth extend into razor-sharp fangs. A vampire's true face can be revealed whenever they wish, but it will appear against their will whenever they are aroused by the scent of blood, or are feeling intense emotions such as fear, anger, lust, sadness, etc. A vampire's fangs are extremely sharp which gives them the ability to tear into almost any substance (including and especially flesh) & tear off limbs.

### Weaknesses

* **Sunlight:** Sunlight is not fatal to vampire but causes a great deal of discomfort, as any bright light will.
* **Impalement:** Impaling a vampire can incapacitate a vampire until said object is removed from their body. A wooden stake impaled through the hearts can also kill some vampires.
* **Desiccation:** Vampires must drink blood to remain "alive." The best blood is human blood from the vein, than human blood bags than animal blood. If they do not feed for a prolonged period, vampires begin to desiccate in an extremely painful process
* **Magic:** Vampires are susceptible to the magic. Some feats are inducing aneurysms in their brain or muscle spasms, telekinetically ripping out their hearts or snapping their necks, magically increasing their hunger for blood to unbearable levels, setting them ablaze with a single thought, and desiccating them to the point of mummification.
* **Physical Trauma:** Minor physical injuries such as gunshots, stab wounds & broken bones will cause pain & also slow them down. However, this is momentary as they will heal completely within seconds so long as they haven't been weakened by other means such as vervain or werewolf bites.
	+ ***Decapitation*:** Dismembering the head of a vampire will result in instant & permanent death.
* **Fire:** Vampires are highly flammable & sensitive to fire. They can burn & die if the flames are not extinguished in time. It also has been proven to be useful in disposing of the remains of a dead vampire without any physical evidence.
* **Dead Man's Blood:** The use of blood from the recently deceased can also be used as a method to incapacitate vampires briefly.

## Trivia

* Demons, angels & primordial entities (i.e. The Presence) are stronger than vampires.
* Vampires tend to mate for life.

## Notes

* Their attributes come from various continuations (i.e. *Supernatural,* *The Vampire Diaries).*