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

I think they should be logical about it, like they are with the werewolves (to some extent). Werewolves, in Teen Wolf, are humans with wolf-like features. They're stronger, faster, and have the extra senses. They also get furry and have fangs. Simple stuff.

Vampires, should they be introduced (I hope they're not), should also follow this logic. There's lore that Vampires are actually just humans infected with a demon virus. Which would technically make them demons, only they're weaker because of the human blood. Human blood would be a life supplement to keep their vessels (human bodies) alive so they don't turn into mush. I don't think they would have enough of the demon virus inside them to be able to mantain the human body on it's own, so they would need human blood to keep themselves held together. The demon virus would essentially take over the white blood cells in the blood, and would slowly kill off the human blood in the bloodstream, forcing the vampire to repeat the process on a 24 hour or 48 hour basis (depending on how long it takes for the blood cells to be 'killed').

Sunlight turning vampires to ash has always been, in my personal opinion, a stupid theory. If they were to have better eyesight, then it should hurt their eyes (and their skin, if you want to make them overly sensative as a weakness), because even with normal 20/20 vision our eyes are sensative to light. The same should go for werewolves, but everyone seems to forget the fact that sun is harmful if over exposed to it's rays or looked at directly. A vampire wouldn't need to look at the sun directly to be harmed by it's rays beecause there vision would be better than ours and, therefore, more sensitive.

Having fangs is also stupid. Were would these fangs come from if they're just weak demons in a human vessel? Vampires would have to be messy and brutal when taking human blood because they'd be ripping out throats to get to it. Killing the victim would be essential.

They should have a natural charm that attracts their victims (that whole 'bad boy'/'naughty girl' aura that we, as human beings, find ourselves attracted to), but I don't believe it would be mind control. Maybe the more demon blood they have in them, the more powers they could have? The typical vampire, however, would be to weak to have any real control over a human. Lust should usually be the only option.

Killing them should be easy. They would heal at excelerated rates because of the demon blood/virus, but decapitation is hard to heal. I believe crosses would repel them, holy water would burn them, but a stake to the heart would do nothing. What's a stake going to do? Stop it from beating before it heals itself? Perhaps a stake dipped into holy water, yes, but not a stick of wood.

Turning another vampire would require a mutual sharing of bodily fluids. Just for a laugh, I believe the vampire virus would be comparable to an STD.

(sorry for any mistakes.)