Story time! Below cut because it’s long.
Growing up I never felt like I really belonged anywhere. For the longest time I thought it was because my family was constantly moving to different states. It wasn’t until I was in 3rd grade that we finally settled.
Here in this town that I discovered my alterhumanity. What I thought I was is very different to what I am now, but only physically. I still have a connection to nature, even the sun (will delve into that and my vampirism more in a moment). However when I was leaving the town at 20 and moving to a major city I began suppressing everything about myself that wasn’t human to better fit in.
From 20-29 I fought to keep my mask up until it became too much. When I began healing it started with writing, letting my desires of what I wish I could be come back to the surface. This time without others around to push me to be what they wanted. I allowed myself for the first time in nearly a decade to be me.
When I realized that I was a serpent of some kind I thought that meant I was a Naga. I wouldn’t say it’s a wrong term to describe me if we’re going for a TLDR into what I am. They’re beings that have divine powers and are sometimes associated with nature/storms.
Then as I wrote more and began watching my comfort show from my teenage years, when my shifts felt the most frequent yet not fully my own (yay for masking/chameleon shifts) I felt a connection to the vampires, more so the vampoids.
They’re not discussed much in how they’re connected to the vampires. With smaller bodies and scales over their abdomen and necks, minus Meru and his men, they seem more like a subspecies.
And then there’s Sh’lainn and Valra. Valra is the first known case of a vampire biting a banshee, and the only reason she did so was to make herself genetically compatible with Sh’lainns life force, allowing the vampire to absorb her powers.
Doing so gives her both energy powers like the banshee as well as immunity to the sun. Instead the sun now empowers her and offers an alternative to feeding off of humans (however she still prefers blood).
Sh’lainn is turned by the process as well and lacks the additional scales that the vampoids have. And much like Valra she is shown to be unharmed by sunlight. She also is able to fight off Valras control and stop herself from feeding from her human partner Nick. I believe that she only reacted violently to him in the first place after her transformation is because such a process would take a massive toll on the body, and therefore need a lot of food to recover all that spent energy.
She also fully transformed as the sun was setting, meaning the safest way she could gather energy had little effect on her. Meaning now she needed to feed via human blood.
Anway with that small information out of the way, this is what I believe I am. I thought that I might have the additional scales but it just never felt right. Not to mention their scales are all red whereas mine is white with some pink on the underbelly, similar to Hanek and his family. Sh’lainn also took on Valras tail coloration instead of having red scales. The only difference in their appearance tail wise was that Sh’lainn was smaller like a vampoid.
Nature has always been friendly with me as well. The only issue I have is the sun, but that could be a drawn back to a banshee turned vampire, which I am dubbing as a “Vampshee”. My guess is that when we lose some of our power and gain the vampires sensitivity to the sun, but we also don’t fully fall under their control.
A fair exchange in my opinion, especially when it’s done against the banshees will.
Anyway! Thank you for reading my ramble. I’ve been putting off making a post because I felt like it was gonna be long and I wanted to make sure I had time to actually get my thoughts in order and write this.
