#dotv

[jaylos]

headcanon based on how the vampires don't know what coffins are:

when a vampire dies they crumble to dust naturally (i don't think they would routinely do cremations bc of superstitions around fire) and the remains are scattered in the wind (with help from their powers if there isn't enough wind that day)

[kyodoesstuff]

More Daywalker and Vampire headcanons because I rewatched the movie three times since the last post. Long text once more (also here's part 1).

In the previous post I said Daywalkers could look into the sun without being hurt, which is fun because in the movie a Daywalker leands Vargas some sunglasses. So. You know how Vargas calls them "portable night"?? That's straight up what they are. The Daywalkers made sunglasses not so they could stare into the sun but to simulate night. They become kinda obsolete once Z4 passes because now if Daywalkers want to see night they can either go to the Orchard or Shadyside, but then they become really popular with Vampires because they straight up can't look up while in Sunnyside for risk of burning their eyes. They're called Nightshades by Daywalkers and then Sunglasses by Vampires as their use changes (yes I know nightshade is a type of flower. It can mean two things at once >:[ )

You know how Vampires don't have reflections?? Yeah once again giving Daywalkers equal traits. Daywalkers "don't have shadows". They do have them, but they're really light, barely visible shadows. When there's a lot of bright lights pointing at you from every direction, your shadows becomes really really light because no matter which angle you stand, there's light shining down. Due to the power of the Lighstone flowing through them, Daywalkers' shadows are always near invisible, and when there's a lot of them around every one of their shadows dissapear due to all the light power. I don't know enough about how light affects reflections, but the same thing happens with Vampires: they're said to "not have reflections", but it's just that due to their powers they're barely visible, and practically nonexistent when there's a lot of them around.

This is more for funsies but I think it'd be fun if all water in Sunnyside is hot while all water in Shadyside is cold, so that when in Z4 the kids go the camp bathrooms, they're confused by the two settings of the water in the shower. Cue to them screaming when they realize the other side showers with scorching/freezing water.

Hey you know how Ray namedrops Dracula??? Yeah let's say he was the Vampire Elder (as in, the leader, like the Eldress) at the time of the separation of the clans.

The commander of the Daywalkers at that time I was thinking could be named Hyperion (the greek titan god of the sun).

As I wasn't aware Daywalkers were a thing and was introduced to them in this movie, I keep thinking of them being more technologically advanced and modern because that's how Sunnyside looked to me, meanwhile Vampires I know are supposed to be gothic and make me think of old english castles and Pride and Prejudice kinda vibes. The point is that because of that I think of the Daywalkers being a much more modern society with, again, lots of technology like videogames and scientific developments while Vampires are more tradition based and do things like theater and walks through old cathedrals, using their modern medicine for high-risk cases but using salves and herb remedies for common colds and cuts.

Keeping up with the Vampire's gothic vibes I feel Shadyside has a lot of secret passageways. Most aren't really secret-secret because everyone knows about them, but every family line knows of a few actually secret one their ancestors built, and there's even more secret ones that literally no one has discovered.

Both cities feed on completely green energy. At the start they relied on the power from the Lighstone and the Darkstone, but eventually they transitioned to solar energy and eolic energy, and now every Daywalker home and building has solar panels installed, and in the highest cliffs on the Vampire side of the mountain there's hundres of windmills, always spinning. And the cool thing is that, if by some miracle Sunnyside is cast in many cloudless days and Shadyside has no winds for a week, they can just use their powers to make up heat and storms to feed their power. They have power reserves so thay don't need to step in, and again they can always use their Stones, but I really like that they could just feed their own energy.

This one is purely self indulgent but I like to think Daywalker kids do this thing affectionally called Sun Puddles; they basically just drop in the ground and sunbathe while cuddled all tangled in each other like cats. Think about tiny Daywalker kids sprawled out in the sun and being all happy and content for all the physical contact and that comfortable feeling of being warmed by the sun while half-dozing to sleep. Think about it.

Anyways Sun Puddles are considered something kids do and as they grow up kids are expected to slowly stop and only do it with their family and partners instead of with friends or colleages, but sometimws you can still see adults making puddles. The last age where it's "ok" for people to do it is more or less when teens reach 18, so it's very common to see people doing Sun Puddles a last time with their friends when it's their eighteenth birthday. Again, they can still do it while older, but that would gain them a few funny glances, so people mostly don't.

The Vampire equivalent is stargazing :] Imagine with me once more. Little Vampire kids braving the hills for the first time with no supervison, climbing one of the safe no risk small cliffs, and laying there under the stars, pointing out constellations to each others, watching as the sky changes color. Both due to the magic of Mount Rayburn that casts each city's sky differenly and also due to all the natural energy and lights both clans use, the sky is starlit. There's no fog or city lights warding off the nebulas and twinkling silver stars on the heavens above. Kids see everything, and due to Vampires having good night vision, even more than we could. A lot of Vampires spend their childhoods learning about the stars, sometimes on their own with friends or requesting classes with their family or elders. Either way it's a really important part of their lives to stargaze and learn about the stars, and unlike Sun Puddles, stargazing is for all ages, though it is still considered special when you do it with your family or partners. It's very common for Vampires to study astrology once they grow up.

Nova and Victor become the counselors of Camp Rayburn after Z4, but once they have to step up as leaders of each city, Ray, Vargas and Vera take charge. While Nova and Victor focused in making games and lessons about unity and teamworking, these three menaces constantly put the kids against each other. In a friendly way, of course, and they still make sure the new campers understand that they're equals ans there's not an "evil side" that wants the other dead, but sometimes their old pride wins.

Also again for sillies, but one year Commander Bright and the Eldress ask to take charge of the Camp, and the gang is there to ensure they don't re-install their old fears and accusations, but they just get really really competitive with each other. Makes Ray, Vera and Vargas go "and you were worried about us??" to Nova and Victor with how unsubtle they're being in their wish for their side to win (Win what I hear you're asking?? Idk man they make up a fun summer competition so the campers have fun while the Stones recharge. The prize is. Blood fruit ice cream. Mayhaps).

Which makes me remember. Guys. How do we think blood fruit tastes. How. Metallic like actual blood?? I was thinking like, a really sweet and juicy taste that barely tastes metallic because Idk the conditions of how the tree grows. Also think about blood fruit foods guys. Blood juice. Blood fruit ice cream. Blood fruit cake. Roasted blood fruit. Blood fruit stuffed fish. Blood fruit......

Also in the last post I said how much blood fruit the races needed to eait and how often, but I didn't actually say what happened to them if they didn't eat it like I explained the lack of energy of their Stones. So. I imagine it as like a second health bar?? Like, stardew valley. You have the enrgy bar and the health bar. Both Daywalkers and Vampires have like, not two stomachs, but two different needs?? I'm not really good at biology or the body or anything so ignore me, but I was thinking they have normal food go one way while the nutrients of the blood fruit go another. They can starve normally and starve because of lack of blood fruit, and mostly that's what happens if they don't eat blood fruit; they starve. The difference is that also because of the lack of nutrients (because if they need to eat blood fruit to survive it's because the fruit offers them something no other food gives them that is neecesary for their survival) they become sick. I imagine it as like all the systems inside their bodies slowly stop working. Apart from just starving they slowly become sick with common things like coughs and fevers or colds, but as the days pass with no blood fruit their limbs stop responding, their senses dull (like with covid; they smell and taste less) until finally either their respiratory system fails, or their heart stops beating.

Woah ok that took a dark turn. Can we think about Sun Puddles and stargazing again.

Hmmm I really want to make Daywalker and Vampire folklore but I have no current thoughts. They probably have traditions based around the sun and the moon though.

You know how we have the zodiac and people are really superstitious about that?? Vampires have the same, except is wholly about the position and phases of the moon at your birth. Newer generations don't pay much importance to this, but some elders are really pressing about who their family youngsters befriend based on it. And also based on like, bloodlines I guess. Most everyone wanted their kids to befriend Victor when he was a child based on his right to leadership, but they stopped pressing for that when they say how much of a dreamer and a problem maker Victor was.

I said in the previous post that while Vampires take after bats, Daywalkers take after phoenix birds (because Ray made that one comment and my brain latched onto it because why that of all things what's the lore). So. There's one video I saw about two bald eagles discussing where to place a branch on their nest, and I just keep thinking "Daywalkers. Daywalker couple discussing about furniture. Like birbs."

On more serious bird traits, Daywalkers sometimes perch on stuff, and mights make bird sounds when startled or really happy. Little trills or soft croons, mostly. Some also have the urge to tilt their heads at stuff. That's as far as I'd take the bird characteristics because I don't want to make Daywalkers like, a bird-species instead of a Vampire sub-species, but. Imagine. How funny it'd be. If Daywalkers had the bird mating urge to dance/show off to impress their crushes. Imagine. Wouldn't that be hilarious?

Ok I'm looking at bat traits for Vampires to have and those are much more difficult, any bat expert that wants to pitch in on this please do. Hmmmm. As far as I'm seeing a few traits Vampires can have is that they're really really fast, hate being dirty and so help groom each other, they use echolocation and that they're apparently pollinators. Anyways, yeah. Pollinator Vampires who help their nightlit hills grow flowers and fruits that shouldn't be able to bloom. Ohhhh some bats hibernate. Oh that's fun. Hmm. Well, Shadyside is cold already so they wouldn't hibernate, but let's say some Vampires still get a lot more sleepy when winter hits. Also Vampires are really flexible. Those are the bat traits :]

The seasons must be really different in each city. Think about Spring in Shadyside and Winter in Sunnyside. No thoughts, just. Imagine how pretty that'd be.

Once Z4 wraps around and both cities are slowly easing into peace, the campers tend to reunite in Camp Rayburn. Most times it's not planned, they just go there and there's always a bunch of other campers there. The first time this happened, a few days after Zed, Addison, Eliza and Willa left, every single camper was there, and they started the tradition of writing down their names in a book, so that every generation would know who took part in the tradition, and for future generations to know who were the kids who managed the peace between the clans. Idk man just think about the everlasting bonds those kids made while in camp and how they were what made unity possible. There's always a camper either on Camp Rayburn or the Orchard because of the impression the place left on them, and meet ups between Daywalker and Vampire kids usually happen there, so that they go through the natural cycle of day and night without either being upset due to the light/darkness.

Vampires just. Use their powers to dry their hair/clothes. Visualize that.

Also Daywalkers can just. Cook things with their powers. Straight up place a fire up to raw meat and control the intensity of the flame to cook it up slower/faster. Visualize that too.

Let's also visualize dumb Daywalker kids trying to fry an egg on their bare skin. I think we as a community would benefit from visualizing that.

Hmmmm sun based traditions for the Daywalkers and moon based traditions for the Vampires. Maybe the passage of leadership??? Yeah that's fun. When someone steps up to be the next leader, both cities have special traditions in place, both in front of the whole city and at the sun/moon reaches it's highest point. It's very sacred and it involves a lot of fire and honor on the Daywalkers' side and a lot of lightning and solemnity on the Vampires' side.

Daywalkers can make fireworks with their powers. Fun :]

The Lightstone shard Daywalkers' have is always placed around the wrist/arm, but slowly evolves as you grow up: when a kid the shard is in a simple bracelet, when a teen a proper wrist guard, and as an adult a gauntlet. People may request to have two shards, and as so two matching gauntlets, when they're older if their job requires it or if their magis is powerful enough to warrant two shards. The decoration on gauntlets is pretty important two, and there's a whole market dedicated to the intricate designs of each gauntlet.

Meanwhile, Vampires don't have their Darkstone shards in any specific place. While it's more common to have your shards in a necklace, any piece of jewelry will do. There's also a whole market dedicated to these pieces of jewelry, though instead of making designs to appeal to the masses, the jewelry is ordered on commisions. Due to this, there's not really any changes to your jewelry as you grow up; the only important event is when you receive your shard at birth. People of higher standing, like the Eldress, are allowed (sometimes required) to carry more shards on their form. In Sunnyside, the more shards you carry are equal to your magical proficiency or a sign of a heavy-duty job in relation to fire. In Shadyside, the more shards you have are a sign of social status in relation to leadership of the clan.

I think both cities don't really have money. Vampires do trade for things they want, often offering handcrafted goods in exchange for something, while Daywalkers offer their services, everyone always ready to lend a hand in work to get what they want. Due to this, Shadyside is of course big on trade and market, with everyone pithcing in their own unique crafts, while Sunnyside relies more on the community aspect of the city, which results in everyone having a handle of every job regardless of what their actual job is.

Regardless of trade and services, in both cities housing, food and water is free; people who grow/prepare food, pump clean water, and build houses have their needs and wants attended to by the respective higher classes of each side. No homelessness in Mount Rayburn :]

Kids from both cities tend to gather seaglass from the beach, and have a "black market" of it between children. This is the closest the cities get to an actual currency.

Windsurfing is really popular in Shadyside, for obvious reasons, as is hiking and flying. Teens usually go in a "coming of age" venture where they try to fly to the highest peak, windsurf outside the reef, or hike out of the mountain.

Sunnyside holds annual sport and dance tournaments, as those are the most popular activities there. I imagine them taking place in like, the colliseum. Very dramatic, involves tons of fire and gold.

Vampire theaters and Daywalker cinemas. Think about that.

Romance and mystery are the most popular genres in Shadyside, while in Sunnyside the most popular genres are action and adventure. Both cities have an equal fondness for musicals, too.

Ok I lied with the animal traits, let's bring them back. Imagine Daywalkers making nests in their cloud beds :[ and Vampires building houses inside caves and liking to hang upside down from trees :[

Since coffins are considered beds for Vampires, they don't use them for burying (or maybe they do, and just call them ceremonial beds or something). So, headcanon that they're buried bare into the earth; no caskets or headstones, they're lowered into the earth in only their clothes and shards. Fun fact, plants absolutely can and do eat meat, as long as they're in reach of their roots. Vampires aren't marked by headstoned but instead by trees, which grow above their corpses, feeding off their remains. Due to the power in Vampires, these trees grow different than normal; maybe their roots are wholly black and their leaves red. The patch of land dedicated for this is sacred ground, and is heavily protected from animals, bugs and pests, and tended to by it's own special force of botanists.

Daywalkers, on the other hand, burn their dead into ashes, which then are kept in a hall open for everyone, so that people can see and read about the generations long past. Alternatively, their remains are burned into diamonds, and each family line keeps them guarded in separate safes as a sacred family heirloom.

Both cities are fishing communities. They do have wild game in the forests, plenty of berries and vegetables, farm animals and of course blood fruit, but they rely very heavily on fish, crabs and aquatic animals. They don't hurt the enviroment though, as both cities, though not small, aren't as big as other cities due to being secluded from the rest of the world.

Those are all the Thoughts for now :] Once again all these headcanons are silly and not to be taken too seriously <3

[arendclles]

zed and addison 💚🩷

[corrodedbattery]

Finished my drawing of Tarquin having a little roof snack. Thanks to my partner for letting me use them as reference

[bendita9-6]

Weird Idea 15

Imagine if a Spanish production of Tanz der Vampire was made? That would be pretty cool.

[citrine-elephant]

the creation of bane. a [rough] idea i need to get out of my brain:

he’s blended in with the bandits. he’s close to the twins, but not really on a friend-to-friend basis. they value his fighting skills. they recognize him as a powerful killer. but they’ve not really appointed him to anything official. it was inevitable that his hiding would turn this way. he was just too good of a fighter. but tyreen and troy knew there was something off about him. he may have fought like a bandit. acted like a bandit. but there was something about him.

they knew.... and it leads to a bar fight.... and that leads to an improvised harpoon in his spine. it burns the fuck out of his back and leaves him mostly paralyzed. the most they get out of him is a twitch of his fingers and a groan. (this may not be entirely realistic, of course).

“ugh, come on!” tyreen whines, “i told you dumbasses to catch him, not break him!” “now he’s useless” she sighs as her tattoos light up.

she moves for zane, ready to feast, until troy stops her.

“ty, wait! hold on, remember...?” he says, gesturing his hands towards his own chest.

“right.” tyreen smiles, “you there!” she points to one of her loyal fans, “get [name of a high-ranking bandit surgeon and/or tells the bandit to kidnap a good doctor lol] 

“well, there, ‘bane’,” tyreen mocks, “looks like you will be useful after all!”

soon enough, he’s fitted with an external spine and tossed into a prison. instead of killing him on the spot, the twins figure he’s a great soldier to have. knowing his tendency to turn on his employers for cash, and knowing he had no other choice but to flee to pandora... what’s a little brainwashing, imprisonment, and torture, then, eh? it’s... enough to make a loyal little soldier, obviously. [more details involving the healing process, recovery, and the mental conditioning]

[eyes-like-the-night]

You want to know the only things from DotV that are actually good and can be applicable to Tanz and would be a good addition for an English translation if we have to change something?

the professor treating Alfred well and seeing him as a son

Rebecca having a larger part and showing up in act 2. While it does make sense that she isn’t going to the castle because she just lost her daughter and husband, and Magda, and the town attitude of “absolutely not” concerning it. It’s still nice to see. It’s done atrociously in DotV. Rebecca and Magda, unbitten, show up last second to prevent Alfred from staking Chagal and plan to stake him themself. Not what happens they both get bit and I’m just gonna leave it at that.

But, say something like you keep act one the same but act 2 crypt scene after Alfred and the professor leave you keep it going for a bit, the exact same but have Rebecca show up after a minute and either add in a quick lil line or imply that Magda turned her before going to the castle herself. So Magda and Rebecca finish up the reprise while chasing off Chagal with the discarded stake and hammer. It’s been a minute since I’ve looked at the lyrics but I don’t think you’d have to change all that much and it’d just be a change in staging and tweaking it a little bit so it still flows well. Of course still include Koukol but probably absolutely not caring that the women want to stake Chagal once he realizes that’s what they want to do, and then carry on with the show.

[just-l-o]

It's not my favorite character, actually. He's funny though. I did this because I was very strongly requested.