Vampire bat like vampires!!!
Okay so the common vampire bat is one of my favorite animals, they are so cute and so interesting and I love vampires (I am a massive nerd about both)
(All from natural geographic)
I highlighted relevant information to this on the second picture
Okay so here are some ideas I have for these vampires, I haven’t worked out all the details yet, so I will talk about concerns with these ideas after
A few very shin and sharp teeth at the front of the mouth instead of the classic fangs
That amazing saliva (my favorite feature of vampire bats)
Maybe what turns people into vampires is the saliva as well???
Vampires get fangs when they turn into vampires the way humans grow adult teeth but the process is quicker and probably pretty unpleasant
They have amazing immune systems
Completely unrelated to vampire bats as far as I’m aware but they are really prone to mental illnesses, especially ocd (might make a second post going into this)
Many vampires like cow blood???
Okay so that’s all my ideas so far, now onto my concerns
Why would vampire saliva turn people into vampires? Is vampirism more of like a disease? Why does that happen from a more scientific standpoint than I can understand because I am really mediocre at anything scientific.
What exactly would these teeth look like? Would there be tons of tiny teeth or a normal amount that are just long, are they unusually strong or is the breaking of these teeth really common because how would something like that not just snap since the proportions that work for a vampire bat wouldn’t work for a human due to idk physics stuff I don’t know
How do you just start growing new teeth your body wasn’t previously prepared for?
That’s all for now, I might add to these ideas later :3