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dont-talk-to-me-im-dutch · 2 years

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I'm gonna go on a rant about how no one researched my favorite vampire boy's powers

Anyone who lands on my account knows this is about Studio100 and you probably know who I'm talking about. It's my boy Vladimir.

Not only did no one research his powers they didn't research anything. As a lot of you know vampires have a few core traits but they have 50.000.000 more that we don't appreciate enough. This man could solve literally all the problems that have ever arisen from the depths. And they did done him dirty.

The few things they gave him are invisibility, lightning speed, half-assed hypnosis. That's it.

Now I'm gonna start getting real mad because this is a comprehensive list of everything vampires can historically do.

Vampires are known for being able to easily hypnotize whom the fuck they want. And it's very hard to break free, after centuries of having this skill it should be damn near perfected.

Vampires can also turn into bats however which type of bat seems highly up to interpretation. Some stories in history say that it has to be one of the three vampire bat species, and others say it can be any bat. But no matter how you twist it Vlad should be able to turn into a bat at will, without requiring any assistance.

Vampires also have the weird power to conjure up and dispel mist, whether this is magical or natural in its occurrence.

They have heightened senses and sensitivity all throughout history as well. Often trying to hide away from the sun as much as possible and being able to sense things, magical or otherwise.

They are well known for their shape-shifting techniques, being able to not only turn into their secondary form of a bat but also that of other animals or even in some portrayals, humans.

For a little break between listing powers and giving some more lore, we now have the big 'how' question. How does one historically become a vampire? The answers tend to be bites but this seems very unlikely as he turned exactly on his 21st birthday. And there's a clear difference in age between him and his father. There's also contagion, in which vampirism kind of works like a virus, sorcery, essentially being cursed to live out your days as a vampire. Or suicide. As he seems generally liked and it doesn't travel like a virus and he hasn't been bitten, that's probably what happened. But the creators of the show just glossed over that I guess. Even though that could be like the best character development you can get in these kinds of shows.

Now we have some other ways to find out if someone is a vampire and how they were portrayed. Vampires are cool to the touch as it's essentially a living brain controlling a dead body but keeping it alive enough to keep the nerves intact and make sure the vessel it resides in doesn't rot. They have constantly red eyes and this can never be covered up, no matter what they do their eyes will remain red. And while it is touched upon in the show that he doesn't cast a reflection in the mirror, he also doesn't have a shadow and can't show up on film or photo.

Vampires cannot under any circumstances cross running bodies of water, and can never enter a house unless previously invited in.

They all seem to have some sort of OCD, constantly counting and recounting everything even for no reason. They do it because they just don't know anything else.

Back to the beginning subject of this rant.

They have unnatural healing abilities, can control animals, telepathy, telekinesis, and usually(and logically) night and heat vision.

They often encompass a strange beauty, while objectively remaining attractive they also have something that a human could never put their finger on.

They have very pointy ears, akin to those of elves.

They have the power of flight, or at least levitation.

Vampires can live perfectly mentally healthy lives other than their hereditary OCD problem, which doesn't seem to be the case after all these years but whatever.

(Nice thing to note: based on his clothes and age estimate Vlad would probably be a Slavic Victorian child. Living around Romania. And Slavic vampires are seen in their respective culture to be able to transform into butterflies)

#nachtwacht #this show is a clusterfuck #and a hidden gem #all at the same time

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dont-talk-to-me-im-dutch · 2 years

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Mandatory info thing

First of all, my full name is Edward Robin Alistair *last name*, but feel free to call me any which one you prefer.

My pronouns are he/him, xe/xir, it/its, and they/them.

I am a transman who is either bi or gay, I'm not sure yet. I reside in Belgium and thus I know my Studio100 very well.

I love my grandma for letting me watch Samson&Gert as a 6-year-old and my 3rd-grade teacher for putting on Nachtwacht for the first time.

My parents are about to divorce so just assume that they already are. The relationship we have is very complicated as they don't fully understand me being trans or gay/bi. But they try.

I'm probably gonna use Tumblr to write some Nachtwacht fics or sum, and go off about every other show I can remember. I don't wanna post to Wattpad because no child who knows Nachtwacht speaks English. And I can't get the courage to immediately post to Ao3.

I will ramble about hcs.

I fluently speak English and Dutch, am okay at French, and learning Swedish, Danish, Spanish, Romanian( will give reasons for this in a hc), Japanese, And Icelandic.

I study Classical Languages and something about social/cultural shit.

So, there's that

#not meant for you #please leave me the fuck alone

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