History
By the way i'm not a vampire i'm a hemophage. For those of you how don't know what that is well have i got a treat for you.
Hemophagia, otherwise known as the HemoPhagic Virus
or HPV (not to be confused with Human Papilloma Virus),
is a blood disease (from the Greek word "αιμοφαγία", meaning "blood-eating" wink . Its primary symptom is an
aggressively accelerated metabolism.
It was once a rare pathogen responsible for historical
accounts of vampires, but was then modified through
genetic engineering by the U.S. government to give
individuals superhuman abilities. These modifications
also made the disease far more contagious, and it soon
escaped into the general populace, where the media
whipped it into a disease-based state of fear. To help
combat the fact that the quarantine procedures are
actually a witch hunt, the authorities have discouraged
the use of the term 'vampire' in favor of labeling
carriers of the disease "hemophages".
Hemophages are biochemically affected by the disease in
different ways and to different degrees, resulting in a
remarkably wide range of abilities. Some of the abilities
exhibited by hemophages are:
Increased strength, speed and stamina as the result of an
increased level of natural hormones similar to anabolic
steroids, as well as altered epinephrine (adrenalin) and
norepinephrine levels. As the latter produces an
aggravated fight-flight response; which affects the
sympathetic nervous system to directly increase heart
rate, release energy from fat, and increase muscle
readiness. This is the reason for the hair-trigger temper
of the more combat-oriented Hemophages.
Enhanced intelligence by increasing the potency of
neurotransmitters responsible for memory and cognition.
A similar process is responsible for enhanced senses.
Hemophages have an inconveniently high sensitivity to
light, accompanied by equally keen night vision. This
forces them to wear heavily-tinted sunglasses. The longer
they are afflicted with the disease, the more sensitive
they become to daylight.
However, every hemophage exhibits the following two
enhancements:
Slightly elongated canines, but certainly not the wolf-
like teeth of legend. They are caused by the massively
increased density of bone and dentin throughout the body.
The accelerated metabolism speeds healing.
Although the disease has many benefits, it has two side
effects: one inconvenient, one devastating:
It cripples the body's ability to regenerate blood
platelets. As a result, hemophages are pale and anemic,
and they require frequent blood transfusions to stay
alive.
All the increased cellular activity takes an unwanted
toll on the carrier's body. With their metabolisms
speeding along at unprecedented rates, the victims of
Hemophagia could expect to survive, if they were lucky,
no more than ten years after their first exposure to
disease.
The government uses the above traits to identify
hemophages from the general human population. However,
meta-suppressants can be used to temporarily suppress and
slow them down to within average human range.
