Human Vampire physiology Being not only a supernatural anomaly of a vampire spawned from what was originally a completely human genome, but also hailing from a mysterious albeit supposedly powerful blood line, a number of unique and powerful supernatural abilities are afforded upon the Half-Blooded Hunter's being, both physical and abstract. As the well rounded individual that he is, he uses such abilities as being both a versatile tool and a terrifyingly effective weapons of combat, in many cases, coming hand in hand. Though much is unknown of the fullest extent of his abilities, he nevertheless pushes himself to reach his limits... If they do in fact exist...
Immortality: In the case of more famous breeds, such as the common undead vampire from a directly demonic line, vampires exist in a limbo of mortality where they are animate, but not truly alive, and thus, do not deteriorate further post-mortem or have the ability to be killed by natural causes. In the case of Alexandru however, he is in fact alive. The caveat to this diverge in most vampire specimens withstanding, while he maintains a state of livelihood, he is not touched by the effects of death (be it by natural, supernatural, or conceptual causes). While food, drink, and atmospheric enrichment are commodities that he is genetically conditioned to enjoy, blood is the only substance that he requires for physical energy. Though, even when lacking it, he can still live for eons.
Supernatural Strength & Endurance: On a physiological level, Alexandru's physique for more developed and bountiful by nature that a specimen found in a human body would be, more specifically, his entire body's muscular system. In most human beings, one may find a person with mostly slow twitch fibers ("red" muscle), which can be attributed to natures such as a natural an Olympian's aptitude for running endurance. In other's, more impressive fast twitch fibers ("white" fibers), which can attribute to a muscles incredible lifting ability. In Alexandru's case, his entire body carries a developed series of pink muscle fibers (a combination of the two types) coming the form of his inhumanly muscular physique. The result combined with unknown supernatural forces being that he can easily produce and exert numerous tons of force on his environment and use them to achieve feats nothing short of superhuman, such as easily flipping cars, travelling hundreds of feet in a single leap, crushing stone and metal like tissue paper, etc. Being able to do so for hours on end before developing strain.
Supernatural Durability: As a usual counter and or compliment (depending on how it may be viewed) to the superhuman strength capacity that the Impure Blood already posses, Alexandru also demonstrates the inhuman ability to withstand physical damage that could easily kill or mutilate a human being. Unlike his physics defying strength, certain aspects of his body strongly suggest a complete explanation for this particular ability. For one, his bone structure his composed of a significantly higher number of cells than that of the average person, as well as possessing a density found in only the rarest examples of human mutation. In addition to that, all the cells his body, such as his epidermis, interlock neatly and tightly on the cellular level, forming type of bond that makes penetrating the skin alone a difficult task, and furthermore, each cellular bond appear to be naturally malleable and convert motion energy into usable mechanical fuel. The strange nature of his body making bullet falls off his skin, explosions null, falls from great heights an inconvenience, etc.
Supernatural Speed & Reactivity: An uncanny and quite frankly terrifying power of being able to move at uncanny speeds that few beings can match. It can partially be traced back to fact that his neurotransmitters of his central nervous system processes and convert information at speeds nigh-instantaneously, and furthermore, signal his mind body to the existence of external stimuli at speeds that supersedes virtually all normal human beings and even most metahumans. In response to this increased, awareness his body is capable of reacting and travelling at speeds in the range of Mach 1-8, and his mind being able to perceive the world. Moving from 0-100 seemingly instantly. But furthermore, while the Impure Blood is normally capable of travelling at speeds within the range within the super sonic, through unknown supernatural energies, Alexandru can project his physical velocities in short bursts ranging up to relativistic speeds and travel for a few meters at a time, be it the air or ground. A physically taxing maneuver that many of even the most perceptive observers confuse for teleportation. This power also includes force that allows him to move at such velocities without the normal physical consequences to himself or his environment.
Supernatural Stamina: With the incredible powers gifted to Alexandru by his unique and fascinating mutation of vampirism, it is quite easy to forget that at the end of the day, he is still a living being who requires the basic necessities that would be expected from a human being to be able to survive. The most basic of the all be usable energy required to operate the basic functions of a human body that make it possible for a person's physique to sustain life. The Living Vampire's body being the wonder and horror that it is allows the ATP (adenosine triphosphate) in his cells to not only effectively store normal energy (thermal, chemical, etc) far more efficiently than most other beings. Designed to hold and transfer all viable capsules of energy in its reserve directly to any and all activities that Alexandru demands of his body, not a single cellular bolt of energy is wasted or hiding away, depending on the activity. Furthermore, like all human beings, Alexandru's body creates fatigue toxins to indicate when his body should rest, in his case, being much slower and effective in nature.
Regenerative Healing Factor: While the Living Vampire possess numerous inhuman abilities that allow him to drastically decrease the chances of injuries befalling him, his body has a series of natural defenses against a variety of damage that could take place. Should something manage to injure Alexandru's body by piercing his skin, cracking his bones, or otherwise, his cells are naturally programmed to grow at such a rapid rate that injuries such as fractures and gashes can be repaired by said cells just as quickly as they were inflicted, typically taking a span of a few seconds, to minutes, to an hour at the most, depending on the severity of the injury. Even going so far as to regrow parts of invaluable organs (e.g. stomach, liver, kidneys, etc). A system so advanced that it is hardwired in his very mutated genome for his body to locate dislocated ribs and misshapen entrails and reset as well as refit them back into their normal position. Furthermore, his body has the ability to expertly break down chemical substances as well, making poisoning or drunkenness difficult feats to achieve.
Supernatural Agility: While having impressive physical stats, Alexandru has further increased his bodily movement efficiency to inhuman levels of nimbleness and coordination by practicing various methods physical conditioning. In conjunction with the regular exercises that he partakes in, Alexandru's eyes, muscles, and joints have the advantage of being programmed to work in perfect synergy with the messages that each source of balance obtains from the supernatural intake of the body's sensory receptors. Allowing his mind a level of kinesthesia and equilibrium that is nigh-perfect. Furthermore, all of his bone structures, joints, muscles, and ligaments have been conditioned to notably exceed their already superhuman levels of efficiency and preform physical feats and achievements of agility that only outclass Olympic level acrobats, but humans, mutants, and meta-humans in general. The totality of his skill and genetic advantage allowing him to maneuver around forest-like environments with ease and be subtle enough to sneak around beings with superhuman senses.
Supernatural Senses: Like all vampires, Alexandru has innately advanced awareness of his surrounds (be it for hunting, stalking, enemy detection, tactical advantage, etc) that comes from being gifted with physically superhuman sensory abilities, and often, supernatural sensory abilities. Regardless of the origin or the particular actions that Alexandru puts into place using said abilities, his perception of his environment only increases his terrifying arsenal of powers:
Supernatural Vision - Coming from a species that are well known for their hunting activities that primarily take place at night, Alexandru's eyes are specifically designed to work with extreme efficiency even in the darkest of locations. Having an extreme amount of rods and cones, in his eye's retina's and an optic nerve that is less prone to losing information, Alexandru needs only about 1/50th the amount of light in darkness that humans need to see, and with highly developed light receptors paired with said cones, he can actually see in broad day light better than most humans. Furthermore, the abnormally deep fovea of his retina gives him eagle like visual equity, being able to see a rabbit sized object from 3 miles (4.8 km) away, with great clarity.Supernatural Hearing - The Silent Stranger posses hearing that allows him to become painfully aware of the slightest occurrences that takes place within his immediate vicinity, or at great distances. Alexandru posses ear drums that are starkly more sensitive to noises than most beings that exist on Earth, being incredibly elastic, the vibrations that they can detect can be as small as a person dropping a cloth on a rug in the next room or something as far as a dog barking from 5 miles away (8 km). Furthermore, he is able to detect sound waves as low as 1Hz to as high as 350Hz, being able to not hear more acute vibrations that most animals and well over what a moth is able to detect. His ear drums having the durability to sustain the noises they pick up.Supernatural Smell - Like any human, Alexandru has an extraordinary capacity of being able to clearly distinguish over 1 trillion different odors that both planet Earth and likely the universe at large has to offer, making in in one way far more advanced the the coveted K-9. But in his case, having the best of both worlds. Beyond having the ability to distinguish smells, Alexandru's olfactory system is enhanced with receptors far more advanced than the average person. He is capable of smelling a person over 700 feet away in open space, is able single out their scent amongst hundreds of millions of others, and is actually detect the faintest smells even after days have passed. And most impressively, distinctly remember all of them after brief exposure.Supernatural Touch - As a means of being able to detect one's surroundings even in the event that basic senses such as sight and or hearing are removed, Alexandru's ability to feel physical sensations to levels that surpasses virtually all animals and living organisms on the planet. More specifically, with two of the cutaneous receptors that are found in epidermis, mechanoreceptors (mechanical sensation) and thermoreceptors (heat). With this, his body is able to passively sense the vibrations of a human heart beat through the walls of building and even detect the warmth of a candle from dozens of feet away. His nociceptors (pain) however are rather normal compared to that of a human, giving him a "standard" pain tolerance to injury.Threat Awakening - One obscure although classic abilities among some of the older vampires that is seldom seen today is a phenomenon among ancient members of their culture that the Living Vampire refers to as "threat awakening". The ability of which is while not able to detect the abstract concept of danger in a pseudo precognitive manner, but rather, respond to attacks to his person that take place during his sleep by immediately awaking up and getting ready to respond to them. The fashion of which it operates is not only does it alert Alexandru when someone is attempting to attack him with a means that could actually injure him, but any means in general (e.g. a normal gun). This only working when one intentionally tries to hurt him.Abstract Sense - A less physical ability and more of a conceptual one held by Alexandru, he is capable of detecting various abstract aspects of human and inhuman beings, as well as human and inhuman behaviour. The exact way that it works while unknown nevertheless allows the Mannered Monster to be able to able to gain a vague albeit effective sense of a beings attributes, such as their moral alignment or even more directly their very spiritual nature, sensing the concept of genuine goodness in a person or the trait of the very real evil that one may posses. To take it a step further, he can even go so far as perceive beings and objects on what he calls the "sacred spectrum". Being able to determine precise holiness/unholiness, from demonic to divine. Though generally a poorly defined sensation, it does allow him to expertly recognize beings who hail from vampiric linage.Jewels of vampirism Vampiric Fangs: A staple among both vampirc lore, the iconic trait of vamprisim that the Living Vampire was destined to inherent were the pair of 1 inch long fangs that took the place of his K-9 teeth on the the creature's upper jaw. Being retractable in order to hide himself under the guise of being completely human and as well nigh-indestructible as to allow him to easily pierce through an extreme variety of durable substances (save for metals like adamantium), and include numerous traits that exist a varied purpose. Firstly, Alexandru's jaw has a gland that stores two types of venom: proteolytic and neurotoxic. The proteolytic venom when injected acts as an enzyme which breaks down component and connective tissue, while the neurotoxic venom has the job of inducing damage to the brain and nervous system that can causes hallucinations, paralysis or an like endorphin effect to decrease a victim's struggle. Each bite however is relatively painless and its effects last no more than 24/hr. And like all vampires, Alexandru has the ability to sustain himself by drinking the blood his victims through his fangs, and in some cases even bestow upon them his own DNA through his blood that he may choose to inject, giving them the potential to develop vampiric mutations. But furthermore, his bodily has the supernatural ability of temporarily gaining the attributes and powers from the beings that he consumes.
Levitation & Telekinesis: A more exotic ability that the Twilight Stalker posses, Alexandru's body is capable of projecting and invisible and unknown force that is capable of defying basic laws of physics and even going so far as to act with various pseudo psychokinetic effects. The first being that while he is not capable of powers such as true flight (at least not in this form: see Bat Transmogrification ) he is capable of levitating a few centimetres to meters from whatever plane that he was previously standing on and gliding long distances, albeit, slowly. In conjunction with this, he has the intriguing phenomenon to causally crawl and walk on walls and even ceilings like he would any other surface, similar to having a localized gravitational field on said surface. An more intriguingly he has the utilization of something akin to a telekinetic force that gives the Neo-Scavenger the ability to finely move and summon various objects via levitation. However, these abilities have limitations, as they cannot work on biological organisms and can only move objects that are property of himself.
Mental Influence: While its exact nature is largely unknown, its ability being a conduit outside of the forces of magical, psionic and otherwise psychic powers, Alexandru is capable of influencing the state of consciousness upon other beings through active and meticulous means. Naturally, this comes by the way of making direct eye contact with a person, in which case, a hue of blooded surround his eyes, as a calmness will take over the subject that will naturally put them at ease and make them feel inclined to stare directly into the vampire's eyes, locked in a highly suggestive state. Upon being captured within his gaze, Alexandru will offer verbal statements as an auditory stimuli as as means of suggesting, not forcing , the subjects mind into various states that can manifest themselves in a number of ways, such as: trance creation, mental information feedback (mind reading), memory influence, hypnotism, fatigue induction and so on. However, this process is one that requires extreme tact in precision in order to work, especially with those who already feel uneasy with the vampire, or have an extrude amount of willpower. Furthermore, it does not effect over other vampires, incorporeal entities, or beings with less than human level sentience.
Supernatural Empathy: Unlike the pseudo psychic abilities that his gaze affords, Alexandru has a natural gift of extraordinary emotional and empathetic empathy that exists on a tier of the emotional spectrum that most human beings only vaguely peak into, even the most sensitive of moments. While most intelligent beings are capable of interpreting and feeling the emotions of others by gauging aspects of their behavior, such as their facial expressions, mannerisms, and general demeanor, Alexandru can sense the emotions that a creature is feeling simply by being in their presence (human, animal, alien or otherwise). This acts normally as a passive trait, but with active use, can allow Alexandru to further understand more complex and conflicting emotions that exist in a being and place himself in their position. Though, this generally harder in more complex beings, and those he is unfamiliar with. And furthermore, can even use physical contact to share in the emotions that both others and himself are feeling, as a type of two way emotional link or feedback loop.
Bat & Wolf Transmogrification : Vampires have long since been associated with feared creatures of the night known as bats, and it's not difficult for one to see why. With the striking similarities of being the standard vampiric of traits of pointed ears, fangs, enhanced senses and affinity for activity darkness, it is has often been believed that the vampires hold a special domain within this aspect of the animal kingdom. This much is true for the Living Vampire. While Alexandru does not posses the ability to manipulate bats in a way that is akin to telepathy, he has an equally impressive if not superior power. At any given moment, Alexandru may choose to transmogrify himself, along with any articles of clothing or equipment that he has, into one or a swarm of vampire bats. Upon the transmogrification being complete, he would have then gained the numerous bat-esqeue and supernatural abilities such as flight, echolocation, an extend physical presence, and a hive mind. The caveat to this being the loss of his previous abilities and the total damaged received translating to his humanoid form. And furthermore, even can turn himself into werewolf like creature known as a Dire wolf, with no real tactical advantage other than surprising opponents. Unlike his bat form, he can actually retain his abilities that he would have in his humanoid form, allowing him to achieve rather abnormal feats in the process.
Darkness Domain: The extent of which the Impure Blood's powers work is not limited to only the traditional abilities that are inherent to typical vampiric lore, but powers beyond that work as an extension of his particular lineage. More particularly, Alexandru's connection to a familiar but occult power known as The Dark, allows him to achieve more abstract abilities that alludes the capabilities of most vampire species. When present in an environment of pitch black darkness (darkness that leaves the naked human eye essentially blind), Alexandru can use the raw conceptual absence of light to create a supernatural cloak of darkness that makes physically seeing him an impossible task to even the most keen and exotic of viewers. Be it man, machine. mutant, or meta-human, his physical presence would be completely invisible to the perception of all would-be observers. In this state, he is left numerous side abilities to aid him in his efforts of overcoming his opponent, such as being able to misdirect them through creating sensory illusions that would "give away" his position, and to the more weak willed, create an increasing sense of fear via his sheer environmental presence. Once more, this can only be achieved in "pitch black" darkness.
Blood Reading & Sensing: A prime vampiric trait possessed by Alexandru would relate to both and his physical and abstract abilities to wondrous power held within an otherwise mundane entity: blood. While nearly of his kind hold an inherent connection to the phenomenon, The Ageless Mortal's abilities regarding are more sophisticated, to say the least. With a single whiff of just nothing more than just a drop, he is capable of determining the not only it exact blood type, but further more, the precise chemical composition of that sample (e.g. all of the proteins, vitamins, minerals, toxins, etc, that exist within it). Even going so far as to access the health condition of the individual that it was derived from. Allowing him to easily determine whether not he should consume the substance. When having his feel when drinking blood, he can actually gain knowledge of the exact being that he consumed, and with high enough concentration, catch a glimpse back into their ancestry. Remembering every drink vivid eidetic detail. And of course, he can naturally sense blood in close proximity.
Rage of the Beast: A dangerously volatile phenomenon found quite often in even the most composed of vampires, The Twilight Stalker possess trait occasionally referred to as "The Rage of the Beast". An ungodly horror that when unleashed upon the world can result a wave of carnage and destruction of unforeseen proportions compared to what has been previously seen in the being that it had spawned from. Should Alexandru allow his anger to over take his better judgement, or his lust for blood to become to much to bear, he will enter a state of animalistic that will consume his very spirit. While it will not increase his speed strength or durability, it will result in virtually infinite stamina and the very concept of pain to be ignored. At the reigns of state, his mind will become nothing but a point of focused rage upon the target of his aggression, with the desire and insurmountable will power to see them destroyed. A state that can only be ended by the passage of time. Being able to surpass the efforts of even the most powerful forms of magic, science, and supernatural power.
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