r/vampires • u/N8creates49 • 1d ago
Lore questions Tried doing some speculative anatomy on how fangs would work.
At very least this would be how my interpretation/version of them would work. They would have four puncture fangs and four pressure fangs, two of each on the top and bottom. The pressure fangs would sit to the outside of the puncture fangs. Curious to get feedback!
I’m trying to come up with at least a semi-realistic biological explanation for a lot of the things vampires can do, but some of it is a stretch at best. My concept for how they function metabolically is that a vampire’s digestive tract can technically break down solid food, but nowhere near as efficiently as a humans, and they still require a specific combination of nutrients found most easily in human blood.(but this can be circumvented by painstakingly getting these nutrients from elsewhere, but blood is what their body tells them because the alternative is only recent development. Plus the substitute mixture tastes… vegan) The vampire’s body then uses the blood to create and store an extremely nutrient-dense substance called ichor. The resource density of ichor allows it to be burned for rapid energy and material, allowing Vampires unnatural strength and the ability to quickly regenerate from injuries. This is about where my ideas ran out, as I can’t really come up with nonmagical explanations for levitation, withdrawing blood back into the body to conserve energy when regenerating, hypnotic eyes, or turning into mist or bats. Let alone behavior aspects like needing permission to enter private spaces/structures(Public structures like shops have implied invitation so long as they’re open for business), counting grains, or aversion to garlic and religious iconography.
As for Uv light and Silver: They both burn because they disrupt the chemical structure of ichor and cause it to metabolize prematurely, causing pain, redness, and blisters. Not entirely fatal, but by no means pleasant even for brief exposure.
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u/Realistic_Fun_6509 13h ago
La aversión al ajo podría ser que sea venenoso para su organismo como el chocolate para los perros y la hipnosis podría ser por feromonas
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u/shagan90 11h ago
Garlic is also toxic to dogs, just so you know. All alliums are. I always wondered why chocolate is famous as an allergy but not all alliums and most nuts.
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u/Anoobis100percent 12h ago edited 12h ago
I really like your concept for fangs, the concave "channel" at the back is actually an idea I've played with too, and the pressure fang is just downright brilliant.
My favorite issue to think about with them is how the biting works, as in how the vampire even gets the fangs into a vein in the first place. Cause, see, if you think about it, the human jaw doesn't actually open far enough to allow us to get our canines properly aligned with any blood vessels. You can physically try that out by attempting to line up your canines with the veins in your wrist, it doesn't really work.
So, my favorite interpretation of vampire biting also involves fangs that either protrude substantially over the lips at a foward+down angle, or the ability to straigh-up unhinge their jaws.
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The other stuff... like, feel free, but I always find vampires to be at their best when they're magic rather than scientific. Not my vibe, thus I have no real opinion, basically.
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u/shagan90 11h ago
You just made me bite my wrist and I cant tell if I've been punked lol
Of course my canines reach my wrist, now I'm confused.
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u/Anoobis100percent 10h ago
It works just about on your wrist, right? Now imagine trying to do that on someone's neck, or literally any other body part. Your chin would get in the way.
I probably should have been more specific lmao.
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u/shagan90 10h ago
I can see necks being an issue. Wrists seem pretty easy if its men biting women but i can see a woman struggling to fit a man's wrist proper.
I always logiced that vampires (except those that dont have to harm their victims like Anne Rice's or Masquerade) drink blood by tearing a wound significant enough to start blood flow, aided by an anticoagulant maybe (like leeches) and drink like a vampire bat would. They (bats) lick the blood from wounds they scratch with their teeth, but a large enough wound and it will flow like in the movies.
Works for more brutal vampires. I dont think any animal feeds through straw-like teeth (unless mosquitoes proboscis count) so that approach never worked for me. Even the ones that leave living victims behind like dracula I always assumed its suction, luck on the vein, and/or magic.
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u/Anoobis100percent 10h ago
I can see the "not actually going for a vein" thing, that makes sense.
And yeah, straw teeth are silly. But I think a subtle vertical indentation in the back of the tooth, basically just a concave tooth shape, does make sense. Kinda like in the post but less pronounced.
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u/N8creates49 7h ago
Yeah I admit I may have made the channel a bit too deep. I showed the concept to a friend of mine he compared it to how a fountain pen works, but flowing the opposite direction.
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u/N8creates49 12h ago
Yeah the more I tried to think through the scientific angle the less ideas I had. My newer concept is that instead of converting ichor into nutrients or cell energy, they burn it to produce mana or something.
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u/SandIndividual9825 11h ago
Also they pretty much work like how it’s shown in the vampire diaries but the fangs in that show were shown way to short I think .
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u/N8creates49 10h ago
I don't really consume much vampire media, I was mostly thinking about this because it's October. But cool coincidence!
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u/ThienHaTheTech 12h ago
Or maybe they just make a puncture wound using their fangs and drink it normally. Like how you would drink water