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Vampires live suspended between life and death, their eternal half-existence fueled by the life-energy of other living things. Blood, rich in life force, is the medium of transfer. Vampires may drink from blood banks, but this is less than ideal – isolated from pulsing veins and beating heart, blood loses its strength, and a vampire which drank solely from blood banks would gradually lose condition and eventually starve into non-existence. For maximum effect, a vampire must drink from the throat of life itself – there is no alternative to live prey.
A vampire drinking to a full gorge invariably kills their victim, as they consume all of the victim's life force. But a victim who has only part of their life force drained becomes a vampire themselves, stuck between the living and the dead. A vampire could hypothetically satisfy themselves by taking only a little blood from many different victims in a single sitting, without killing each one. But this would turn each bitten victim into a vampire, and vampires try to avoid creating new ones wantonly, due to increased competition for resources.
Vampires only need to drink once a month, but they can drink 3 litres in a single sitting. The stomach expands drastically to hold the swallowed blood (see lower left), and a fresh-fed vampire often sports a bloated belly. The stretched-stomach feeling which comes with a full blood feast apparently feels like having overeaten, and is quite uncomfortable, but in a supremely satisfying way. After drinking, a vampire tends to sleep for a day or so while digestion takes place. Digestion generally takes 2-3 days.
Vampires do defecate, though it only happens once every feed cycle. The end product is generally soft and squishy.
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Posted by EmissaryOfRainbows 9 years ago Report
Ugh, I adore bloated vampires <3
Posted by Itsuune 9 years ago Report
Bloated and sloshy-bellied <3 I will have to draw lots and lots more of them now :'D
Posted by Cpt 9 years ago Report
Satisfied, stuffed vampires <3. Shes so pretty!
Posted by Itsuune 9 years ago Report
<3 <3 <3 :'D
Thank you so much! I'm glad it comes across! ><
Posted by dodoman_1er 9 years ago Report
A shame that we never really got to see vampire all bloated with a bloody meal~ Thank you so much to bring this to light! And now I crave blood pudding.
Posted by Itsuune 9 years ago Report
Blood pudding! Go for it! :'D
Posted by dodoman_1er 9 years ago Report
crunchy bits of roasted blood pudding is great on salads too~! Say will we see something similar with a male vampire too?
Posted by Itsuune 9 years ago Report
Sure, when I feel like it!
Posted by dodoman_1er 9 years ago Report
Yaaay! 8D
Posted by VertGreenHeart 9 years ago Report
Still a better love story then twilight
Posted by Itsuune 9 years ago Report
Ahhhhhh, I was saving that lineeee :'D
Posted by VertGreenHeart 9 years ago Report
0u0
Posted by Itsuune 9 years ago Report
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Posted by Apostolos 9 years ago Report
Hmm what if they had the donor open up a blood vessel and allow the blood to pour into their mouth? Would it make them become vampires as well since technically their blood was drank, and would the bloods effect decrease in potency?
Posted by Itsuune 9 years ago Report
I was thinking about how to answer just that question before you asked :'D
I would say that the blood's effect would not decrease in potency but the victim would still turn into a vampire. After all, their life force would have been drained by a vampire, which is the condition for the change.
//runs away
Posted by Apostolos 9 years ago Report
But then that would make the blood bank plan also needlessly produce vampires ending in no viable way to feed without the change occurring as the blood would still be considered part of their live force. Sorry, I get rather stingy about how people portray vampires since that horrendous twilight garbage was made... No offense to fans though.
Posted by Itsuune 9 years ago Report
...Are you secretly a vampire? Are you testing me? :'D
The key words pertaining to the blood bank are "blood isolated from pulsing veins and beating heart." Being isolated, it isn't attached to any being's life force. That's the reason why it's weak, and the reason why new vampires don't go popping up all over whenever one takes a sip from the bank.
I honestly didn't have twilight in my head when i designed Bell. I just... made her as she appeared in my head. If anything, i hope she deviates from the mainstream vampire stereotype!
Posted by Apostolos 9 years ago Report
While I do keep abnormally strange hours no I am not a vampire... If I was I'd be more similar to the underworld series vampire
Posted by Itsuune 9 years ago Report
I remain up at unholy hours, but I'm not one either. When I think of vampires, the first one to come to mind is Kiss-Shot from Monogatari :0
Posted by Apostolos 9 years ago Report
Kinda curious how much she would have to consume if she were pregnant though....
Posted by Itsuune 9 years ago Report
Well... they can't get pregnant :'D They're pretty much half-dead, they rely on other people's life force to keep themselves going, they can't provide for growing children.
Posted by Apostolos 9 years ago Report
Hmm okay but what if their blood were drunk while pregnant? Would the woman be perpetually pregnant or will she give birth to a vampire child?
Posted by Itsuune 9 years ago Report
She'd have a miscarriage, and turn into a vampire herself D;
Posted by Itsuune 9 years ago Report
"Perpetually pregnant" made me giggle, though XD
Posted by Apostolos 9 years ago Report
Well I'd be kinda interesting as a concept wouldn't it?
Posted by Itsuune 9 years ago Report
It would be! How would you have made it? ouo
Posted by Apostolos 9 years ago Report
Something along the lines that the baby would physically develop until it was the physical size of a 13 year old within the womb where they would either choose to keep the child within or have a c section...
Posted by AtmosRobot 9 years ago Report
I find your last little bit in the description silly. In the sense of, "Well, yeah, that's how everybody poops, isn't it?"
These are nice, and I like the coy embarrassment expressed in the center piece.
Posted by Itsuune 9 years ago Report
But poop is pretty hard sometimes! XD
Thanks! Bell's only half-embarrassed! The other half is her enjoying the attention :'D
Posted by AtmosRobot 9 years ago Report
Well, I mean, "everyone poops after a feeding cycle." Ha ha.
Posted by Itsuune 9 years ago Report
Ahah, you're definitely right there. :'D
Posted by divineBeast 9 years ago Report
i like that you drew an anatomically correct full stomach. that is goes over the intestine instead of pushing it down. found that out when i was researching the stomachs of competitive eaters!
Posted by Itsuune 9 years ago Report
You know, I had no idea that stomachs did that XD You've taught me something today!
Posted by divineBeast 9 years ago Report
oh, cool lol!
Posted by luckyB 9 years ago Report
Tomato! XD
Posted by Itsuune 9 years ago Report
Ahhhh you make me blush XD
Posted by linthia 9 years ago Report
Hmmm <3
Posted by Stunlocked 8 years ago Report
So she can't suck all the blood in a human body?
A human stomach is usually about 2 liters and a human body usually has 5 liters of blood. Those might not be accurate.
Well she is bloated so she probably drank 3 liters of blood.
Posted by Stunlocked 8 years ago Report
The maximum capasity is about 3-4 liters.
Posted by Itsuune 8 years ago Report
Yes, she can't hold all the blood in a human body, not in one go at least. There inevitably is some blood wasted ^^;
From the creator's point of view, being able to suck up five liters of blood in one go would stretch the vampire's stomach beyond believable limits. I guess it's just a matter of my personal preferences for gut size.
Posted by PopeeTheClown 6 years ago Report
every once in a while i wander through the vampire tag like the desperate weirdo i am and god i still love this interpretation so very much
the way i write such characters is...similar? but a little more exaggerated because i'm a dork like that i guess
bell is a cutie <3 i wanna brush her hairrrrr
Posted by Itsuune 6 years ago Report
Oh heck, it's you! Long time! Sorry Itsuu's vampire content kind of uh, dried up for a bit, heh. Glad you like it. And yes, comb it, brush it, tuck a flower in her ear. Distract her long enough to get a good look before she eats you. :p