#vampire du'met

[tishigo]

@108garys I told you I was going to make Du'met a vampire. Thanks for the motivation ;)

[108garys]

You little devil

When your favourite trainwreak of an FBI agent is still alive and decides to take you back from the government✨

@kassiekolchek22 @delurkr @mistmoose @lonnitamongus @ivycross @maria-rayro @oblivious-troll-main @ultrabananapudding After going over the government experiment vampiric Manny Sherman lore I figured I should throw together a quick thing of his appearance and mention some of the differences between these artificially produced vampires and the naturally occurring ones(continued under cut)

Firstly Sherman isn't technically undead because he never died, his discoloration is due to previous experimentation and the fact that being the first success means it could definitely have been a smoother process

Visually there's not losing his eyebrows and pale thin scars marking wear his horns would come through(they were carved before he fully turned and remain visible)

Still warm, like I said he's not dead so a lot of those normal alive things are still functional, tho a lot are damaged due to previous experimentation(I leave it up to you just what level of "human functions" is going on here but he doesn't eat solids)

Still has the heightened strength and senses of the hoa vampire, retains speech but minimally(would be fixed in future experiments) loses a large part of what vampire horns are for socially meaning the empathetic recognition thing that I headcanon vampires get from horn contact, that and the more calming effect so vampire kisses is pure sensory information and again do with that information what you will(this deficiency could come down to Sherman having no soul to begin with lol)

Sun weakness is down graded to a sun intolerance so it hurts like hell but is less deadly(du'met's rain coat should be enough)

I'm still unclear how the process of infection happens with these government vampires and maybe I would if I read the fics on the matter but I'll assume it still retains an oral component like the original parasite transfers mouth to mouth

[108garys]

Well that escalated

@lonnitamongus Vampire John with bonus vampire Dar(a classic) and vampire Joseph with whom I took advantage of him having long hair, so pretty✨, vampire James exists... and finally Vampire Du'met again @delurkr Vampire Connie

@kassiekolchek22 @mistmoose @badideaart @tishigo @ivycross @ultrabananapudding (And whoever else because I haven't slept 😅) I started out with John who was specifically requested and then the idea of vampire Connie came up, his fangs replaced his K9s so as to not damage all the nerves in his nose that the parasite would want to keep using and then I thought "why not compare vampire john to vampire Dar and we'll I've always wanted to do an all models portrait sketch page and this is just how it went

I apparently just love drawing hoa vampires that much so let me know 😁

[108garys]

Trussed up and left out

@kassiekolchek22 @delurkr @mistmoose @tishigo @lonnitamongus @somewhereinthepines (thank the curator for that line lol)

Vampire Du'met is back for the complicit incident but with less words and more fangs 😈

Bonus, hopefully Du'met collects his new companion before sunrise

there's a few steps missing here, like the infecting and all that but two scribbles for this post seemed satisfactory

[108garys]

He got new teeth

@kassiekolchek22 @delurkr @badideaart @mistmoose @oblivious-troll @tishigo Vampire Du'met? I think his horns would pin his mask to his face so even if the straps were to break it'd stay on, bloody horns cracking his bone white mask, certainly makes "the devil in me" both more literal 😈

Bet his behavior wouldn't change much, at least in his mannerisms

[108garys]

Vampire Du'met: origin thoughts

so I still haven't read any of those hoa fics about the government experimenting with the vampire parasites(sorry), but I like the idea, to the point that in my mind this concept explains why Du'met is a vampire

Firstly in this au I consider the experimental vampires to retain certain human characteristics, my thoughts are that Manny was not in fact executed but kept for scientific experimentation and when hoa rolls around he is subject to a new endeavor becoming the governments first successful vampire, the work would continue to refine the vampires but as it stood manny mysteriously disappeared in transit when being sent for further testing.

Of course you can guess where he ended up and Du'met didn't even have to reanimate him! So Du'met keeps vampire Sherman in the same place, sometimes let's him feed off the guests and one day gets a little too close to him...

And that's how vampire Du'met came to be on his island having inherited the traits that allow him to still continue his activities despite being an animalistic monster