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[murazar]

Two questions:

1. Is a normal vampire capable of going outside in the sun if all their skin is covered? I mean how exactly does the sun destroy them.

2. The 4% percentage that is in the species info is the amount of vampires immune from the sun. Or something like that. How exactly is this possible?

[AKREE]

1. Vampires are extremely allergic to the sun. They basically die from a severe allergic reaction and it doesn’t take that long for them to get blisters and whatnot –the average vampire will feel a burning sensation just as soon the sun touched their skin and even if they are covered the heat can and will eventually get to them. Just look at it this way –people who have a severe allergy to shrimp just by smelling it will already start to feel nauseous and whatnot. It’s virtually the same concept with a vampire. Just being under the sun no matter how covered tends to bother them. And even if it is some of the very rare few who can actually stand the sun their eyes are ultra-sensitive to any source of light and not even a good pair of sunglasses can prove to be very effective. Then they probably would be able to walk under the sun but their vision would slowly but surely be deteriorating and although it wouldn’t affect them if they just went five minutes and then got back in their home progressively doing it would have the same result –loss of sight. Basically if they don’t get baked by the sun they will get their eyes baked.

2. It just happens on some really rare cases when the vampire is “mostly human.” A vampire who breeds with a human woman has a chance to conceive a human child (which is rare), let’s say this “half-human” conceives again with another human and surprise surprise their child somehow happens to be a vampire (again very rare). Basically what it means only 4% of vampires are conceived in such a way and have a chance to be without the allergy to the sun. Of course there are some extremely (even more so that the one mentioned above) where a “normal” turned vampire would happen to not be carrying that lovely allergy gene.

If you still have doubts feel free to keep asking!

[murazar]

another question to respond to those:

1. What if said person that wasn't allergic to the sun simply closed their eyes and walked without using their eyes. And they covered them completely. Would that still deteriate their eyesight?

[AKREE]

1. If you close your eyes under the sun you still see red, right? Well it still bothers vampires and I doubt they would be able to get along to well without site since that is the “best” of their senses. They would probably be bumping about and stumbling against tiny pebbles in their path –not recommended.

And because I have a feeling that what you’re probably aiming at is having a vampire walk out in the sun I’ll just say that I’m sorry but no. That’s a vampire’s Achilles’ heel and the whole point of it is to avoid vampires from walking around in sunlight plus giving werewolves the added advantage in a fight. Just think about it this way –if a vampire didn’t have all those little (or big) flaws in their genes they would be stomping around all over the place and already have kicked the wolves out of power, there’s a reason why they haven’t been able to and that’s sunlight.

[murazar]

Ah, thank you. Just some curiousity solved.

[AKREE]

If you have any other questions let me/us/dodo/me know!