vampire royalty

Yeah! Unless killed they will just live forever. Lots of methods to kill vampires have been written in stories but Lukas knows that at least the wooden stake method is real (don't ask how he knows, it's not a nice subject).

However as vampires age and get past the 300 years mark if they're too isolated they'll develop what's basically vampire dementia and get very, very careless with themselves. Which ends in accidental deaths and the reason why so little ancient vampires exist. Rip Grekos.

2. Are they most active during the night?

Also yes! They are simply nocturnal and are built for the dark anyway (ex.: the sun not only burns but it also is simply too bright and they can't see that well).

The light sensitivity thing also gives them eyes that are basically like cats, pupil dilating and going needle mode depending on the time of day and the light (but I like drawing them needle-pupil all the time cuz it's cute to me)

3. Do they eat regular food?

Florian and Lukas do, but it doesn't hold any nutritional value. However, according to research and memoirs by other vampires, Lukas has concluded that going for prolonged periods of time without the taste of human food ends up making them unable to taste it at all, and it's irreversible damage. Of course it's all alleged but Lukas doesn't exactly want to test if this is true or not- sue him but he likes filet mignon too much.

TDLR: They can eat for pleasure, but only blood actually feeds them.

Also fun little lineup I did about how hunger actually changes vampires. It's a mechanism that basically assumes that the vampire will try to deny their nature by refusing to drink blood- in turn, their bodies transform to make it even harder for them to blend in with humans, and thus force them to acknowledge their hunger and feed.

(Lukas and Florian also have an added step to actually disguise as humans, specially when Finn is around).

4. Do they have vampire powers?

I feel we've only discussed compelling. Kind of a mind-fuck hypnosis, works best with eye contact and spoken commands, helps to make someone do something, or forget they ever did anything at all, like seeing something they shouldn't have.

We've discussed the idea of telepathy and I don't remember making it canon but it would be funny because I think it would be a learnt skill, and Florian and Lukas were isolated from their start as vampires so if they learnt it is because another vampire found these two overgrown fledglings that didn't even know they could chat with their minds.

The blood. Though.

I like the idea that drinking another vampire's blood kind of puts the vampire that drank it in a very susceptible state to the one they drank from. It's like the hypnosis but fully out of control for the vampire that was drank from.

It's also fun? The most basic vampire drug is drinking a buddy's blood so you feel all nice and floaty. The florilukas case is 1000000 times worse because they are disgustingly in love, so if Lukas decided to take a sippy from his husband it's gonna turn him into a puppydog for the rest of the evening until the effects pass.

But in the case of a fledgling drinking their maker's blood, the thrall is a million times more powerful, and it's absolute. All free will gone, basically a puppet. It's a terrible power imbalance.

5. Are there any more vampires?

Probably? There at least were, because Lukas has a bunch of old diaries and parchment in his office by vampires, but I think in present day it's a tiny population that stays out of each others' business (also florilukas are weirdo freaks that don't like the idea of meeting vampires or going out in general). Also making new vampires via turning is kind of a no-no because there's the idea that if you make a fledgling, when they get to their angsty vampire phase of hating immortality, they most likely will kill their maker out of resentment. It's like a given, so I imagine that a vampire tells their vampire buddies that they made a new one and their friends are like 😬😬😬"Okay man so it was very nice to know you-"

But also with Beans and Daisy we have this non-canon (at least not rn) concept of "the vampire gc" that Lukas and Florian are in and it's just basically updates on whatever old thing they do nowadays or Lukas sending PDFs about his latest essay about vampires.

Anyway the gc (once again rip Grekos):

6. The fucker that turned Florian

. Okay not really a question but I do wanna elaborate on that fucker indeed.

The vampire doctor. No name no face because we like the mystery of this figure in black, hat shadowing his face, leaning over Florian's bed. @saint-starling did make lore for him which iirc showed him to have simply been a twisted person even in life. Killed his maker also, and had fun exploiting people that were vulnerable. Florian was probably one of many other "patients" that were actually just a farm operation to have easy blood available, the illnesses not being an issue for this particular vampire.

And then, when the patients seemed too weak and the effort to bleed them didn't pay off, the doctor would just bleed them dry. The reason Florian is around for toahk to happen is because the vampire doctor thought he was... pretty. So much that he wanted to keep him (and we have to remember, a maker's blood-induced thrall is absolute. Florian as a vampire would've been both healed and easy to control). However, Lukas gets home early and-

Okay I have yapped enough I think LOL.