So, I've been making progress with my story, but a snag came up. >.> What type of Vampire I'm going to be adding to the story. This is what I have so far: vampires can walk in daylight, eat and drink normal food while human blood is more like wine. If they drink too much they can become drunk. So far so go, yeah. Here's my problem, should I have vampires be a race onto themselves? They are living breathing beings that have supernatural powers because they evolved that way. OR, you get bitten/cursed and can be turned into a vampire.... or something.
>.> I'm starting to like the later a lot. Might use the former for another story...but I don't know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I would stick to the same old folklore about vampires, unless you can win at making them seem plausible.
Since vampires are technically dead when they transform, all cells die and organs give in and blood stops pumping. How or why it's possible for them to gain strength from drinking human blood is up for debate but I think we can all agree that vampires are an illogical species. The blood goes to their stomach, unless their anatomy has completely morphed from the normal human being. If you wanted to, you could say that there is something in the human blood that the vampire body is able to suck from the blood itself, kinda like nutrients and such that we absorb from the foods we eat everyday (or not, DON'T EAT MCDONALDS!) But then you'd have to go research the human blood, the types, and what sets human blood apart from say pigs blood or goats blood, and then somehow make it believable that the difference is what the vampire needs.
You can bring the dead back to life, through CPR and defribillators or major surgery or blood transfusions or whatever it is they are in need of.
But to get bitten by a vampire, die, and then come back? Unless there is something in the vampire's bite that injects some genetically enhanced DNA or some liquid venom that mutates the human genes to enable all these supernatural powers. That would be the only way.
That, and/or magic, of course, depending on what era your vampire will be created in.
Also, venturing into genetically mutated or evolution and such, you would be treading a thin line between vampire and zombie. To me they are both the same, with zombies just being a bit more cannabilistic and eratic, and with vampires being the more sophisticated of the two. That's just my perspective because I've tried to make sense of both species and their likeness to one another are near identical. Especially with movies portraying zombies evolving into smart creatures and fearing the daylight (I am Legend, anyone?) and shows like iZombie making them look pretty.
Just brainstorming here, really, and I guess this would be applicable if you went the route of them being a race onto themselves.
But I really like your idea of them getting drunk on blood. Would that be the comic relief in your story? Is it for just one by-character? Is the setting supernatural, are there other supernatural beings in play? Because I think the thought of somebody writing 'oh no, he's been out drinking again' in context of a drunk vampire would be very entertaining.
