Doodling vladd (Patreon)

He’s got a little bit of a rework, from my vampire bio session. Mostly it’s similar.
the one good thing about vampires, in order to be more efficient, they reuse their uterine lining, a lot like many other mammals. no cramps, which is very envious to humans.
He’s an athlete that requires lots of blood 3-4 times in a day. They are large filling meals. he’s been able to do some endurance work, which is a lot harder to do than humans, who are built for endurance. Vladd and his species are more fast hunters, feed fast and dip when it’s dangerous. They don’t need or desire to kill prey, so they aren’t built to ambush, but they can if in groups.  When he became chronically I’ll, from early life, genetics, and his over working self, he needed a feeding tube. His stomach started to spaz when he drinks, and it quickly makes him hurl. It’s an early sign of Death.
the tube helps mitigate the worse of the spasms, with special formula and nutritional dense blood. Medication additions allowed him to eventually drink again, but never the same or even enough to survive without the tube. Blood is so important in his species that this was considered an immediate emergency. if he Could no longer drink blood, he’ll die very soon.
(Unlike humans, who can Survive no food for a long time, they just need water) being an athlete, makes it worse, as your body is even more metabolically active, requiring even more food. If  he’s lean, that means he doesn’t have much fat stores, and his primary blood sac isn’t filled with a healthy amount Of  that fatty lining. it was dangerous, once he knew that nothing he ate could be swallowed.  if he had this, it’s likely his sisters will too, albeit a little later in life than him.
he also knows that life is harder, he has designated times to eat, rest and digest or else he’ll feel sick. Sterilization (sterile field to tube feed)  and rashes are often on his mind, and doctor visits too. Fatigue sets quickly and he can no longer retain his athletic lifestyle the same. No sprinting, boxing, ballet, even lifting for long. the regain of some of his skills didn’t help that the reality is, that now and forever he’ll have fatigue and days in bed. a cycle of growth and regress. Hurts his pride not gonna lie.  he does have support but it feels very lonely, when everything has to be just right for him to go anywhere.  he used to be able to ignore or even scurt by this early in his tube days, but as he kept overworking himself in the storyline, the damage became worse and irreversible.  He’s happy at the end of the story I swear, just tired  And learning to just be, life is a walk rather than run for him and thats okay.

also it’s so counterintuitive to have that secondary blood sac, but it’s reproductive attractiveness beats the odds. Also also, pure-bloods have a bigger sac, while vampires have a smaller one.  So they (pblood)  really are a dying breed.