User blog comment:Maria Trimble/Vampires in Teen Wolf Rant/@comment-71.84.16.238-20120821041722/@comment-4802762-20120823165814

Thank you for posting. I really like your ideas but I just have a few notes. In common folklore, a vampire was a human that was infected by a bat and can now shift between bat and human (or a midway form).

With sunlight, the UV Rays burn your skin. After a prolonged amount of time, your skin will LITERALLY burn, which is where the ash comes from. When the skin is heated by the sun for too long, it burns and if left there for too long afterward eventually begins to turn to ash. I don't think they should turn to ash automatically but after a while in the sun, yeah.

As for the stake through the heart, you know how when Gerard stabbed Scott and left the blade in so it wouldn't heal? That's how it would be with vampires. If you leave the stake in their hearts long enough, they'll eventually die. But I like the idea of stakes dipped in holy water.