Alucard/Tropes

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Our Vampires Are Different: In the context of the Sun Trilogy, Vampires seem to be a pick-and-choose of common weaknesses and strengths, as well as additions of Darkrai's own unique flavor. Using Alucard as a basis, they still feed on blood (humans only), they are still undead; their hearts no longer beat, blood however continues to flow due to the unique way magical energy flows in the vampires body. They have the weakness to sunlight so infamously introduced in the German Film Nosferatu, however, it's implied to be non-lethal and particularly long-lived vampires adapt after a millenia or so. They do have fangs, but not as noticeable as one would expect; they do have a reflection. While garlic doesn't affect them perse, the sense of smell a vampire has is enough to make them flinch at the particularly strong scent of anything, not simply Garlic. Holy symbols do about as much to them as any human, silver however (despite not applying at all in the original folklore of Europeans or North Americans), is poisonous to them, it slows the regeneration factor of the vampire body. Running water does nothing to them, in fact, vampires swim as well as any human and can hold their breath for far longer. The most unique thing about the vampires featured in the Sun Trilogy is the amount of punishment a vampire body can take. A vampire must be completely destroyed to kill it, no beheading, no staking, nothing of the sort, such damage can be easily regenerated. Chopped of limbs can be reattached, destroyed limbs regenerate as easily the rest of the body. They can even completely alter their body and assume new shapes; Alucard has taken several different forms over her lifetime, the one she is currently in being her newest.