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The anatomy of the parasite that replaces the inner organs and transforms its host into a vampire still isn't entirely understood, as vampires rapidly decay into dust upon death and the vivisection required to study an intact parasite is illegal. However, some conjectures can be made.
Blue - these glands produce the various venoms vampires use to entice and paralyze victims, and keep blood from clotting as they lap it up.
Yellow - the planula larvae that travel via the vampire's saliva into the victim's bloodstream to infest them reside here.
Green - ingested blood is first stored in the crop.
Red - Blood is forced through these frond-like filters where the proteins, glucose, mineral ions, hormones, and carbon dioxide are stripped out and the remaining plasma, red and white blood cells are shunted into the vampire's blood vessels.
Purple - a series of pumps that suck in air. Because the vampire's respiratory system doesn't use negative pressure like human lungs, the chest does not rise and fall and the vampire seems not to be breathing.
Orange - excess fluid is stored in this organ.
Turquoise - an organ that synthesizes various chemicals.
Pink - intestines that digest the material extracted from fresh blood, the old cells of exhausted blood, and the occasional milk or honey the vampire imbibes.
Tan - the opening to the cloacal excretory system.
Blue - these glands produce the various venoms vampires use to entice and paralyze victims, and keep blood from clotting as they lap it up.
Yellow - the planula larvae that travel via the vampire's saliva into the victim's bloodstream to infest them reside here.
Green - ingested blood is first stored in the crop.
Red - Blood is forced through these frond-like filters where the proteins, glucose, mineral ions, hormones, and carbon dioxide are stripped out and the remaining plasma, red and white blood cells are shunted into the vampire's blood vessels.
Purple - a series of pumps that suck in air. Because the vampire's respiratory system doesn't use negative pressure like human lungs, the chest does not rise and fall and the vampire seems not to be breathing.
Orange - excess fluid is stored in this organ.
Turquoise - an organ that synthesizes various chemicals.
Pink - intestines that digest the material extracted from fresh blood, the old cells of exhausted blood, and the occasional milk or honey the vampire imbibes.
Tan - the opening to the cloacal excretory system.
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Technically, it doesn't need to be a stake. Vampires can be killed by human methods, though they are harder to kill thanks to there ability regenerate faster than humans. The old stake in the heart thing wwas just a rumor that was tested on people believed to be vampires, therefore they asumed it would work. It does work, but the stake can't be removed from the vampires body until the vampire is for surely dead. Most likely, though, is that the vampires skin would actually mould itself around the stake, pushing it further ito the heart, kiling itself.
Fire is the most definitive way. In this story universe, the parasite has a limited ability to survive in pieces and reassemble itself because it's a colony organism, so the traditional way was to stake or decapitate the vampire to prevent it from escaping, then throw it on a pyre. One of the characters is beheaded, in fact, but he gets better.
No worries. It's hard to judge tone with plain text and I'm naturally touchy and paranoid :)
With the vampire parasite, it's pretty much replaced all the organs, so the cloaca (I've since renamed it the emiction conduit) is basically just a pipe the parasite uses to get rid of the mostly liquid waste. They reproduce through an entirely different route. They don't keep much from the original human frame that they don't require, hence no need to keep the complicated mammalian urogenital equipment.
With trolls, part of their ancestry are animals with a more primtive anatomical layout, and they didn't really require anything more complex than a cloaca.
As for why . . . well, I don't really know. Perhaps it's my prudishness showing through, perhaps it just makes design sense in these cases, and they are less common so they're attractive in that way. It's certainly not a fetish.
With the vampire parasite, it's pretty much replaced all the organs, so the cloaca (I've since renamed it the emiction conduit) is basically just a pipe the parasite uses to get rid of the mostly liquid waste. They reproduce through an entirely different route. They don't keep much from the original human frame that they don't require, hence no need to keep the complicated mammalian urogenital equipment.
With trolls, part of their ancestry are animals with a more primtive anatomical layout, and they didn't really require anything more complex than a cloaca.
As for why . . . well, I don't really know. Perhaps it's my prudishness showing through, perhaps it just makes design sense in these cases, and they are less common so they're attractive in that way. It's certainly not a fetish.
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