Vampire Characters
Physical characteristics:
- Pale skin
- Sensitivity to sunlight physically (i.e., sunburn easily) and/or visually
- Visual sensitivity to any light source
- Better night vision than day vision
- Eye colour changing with mood or for no apparent reason
- Heightened senses
- Unaccounted-for strength (i.e., stronger than one should be without working out) and quick reflexes
- Often feels hungry and/or thirsty despite an adequate food diet
- Extreme cravings for certain types of food or extreme cravings that can not be satisfied with food
- Often feel run down, fatigued, tired despite an adequate food diet and activity level
- Frequent headaches for no apparent reason
- Does not require very much sleep
- Able to heal quicker than others
Mental characteristics:
- Strong-willed; independent nature; confident
- Intellectual/highly intelligent
- Well-learned/educated, although not necessarily school-educated
- Predatory nature
- Dark nature
- Prefers nighttime over daytime; i.e., nocturnal nature
- Moodiness/mood swings/quick-tempered
- Mental and/or personality disorders (diagnosed by a medical doctor)
Psychic abilities (although not necessarily psychic feeding methods) and metaphysical characteristics:
- Empathy
- Telepathy
- Mind reading
- See and read auras
- Extra-sensory perception (ESP)
- Clairaudience, being able to mentally hear things from a distance
- Clairvoyance, being able to mentally see things from a distance
- Clairsentience, having knowledge that one can not explain
- Audiovoyance, being able to see and/or hear spirits and possibly communicate with them
- Telekinesis
- Invisibility, although not as in the Invisible Man kind of invisibility; the kind of invisibility where one can blend into a setting, room and/or crowd, and not be noticed by anyone looking for them.
- Precognition/visions
- Past-life memories, especially vampiric past-life memories
- Immortal soul and a belief in reincarnation
- Experience déjà vu quite frequently
- Able to sense other vampires (often referred to as "vamp radar")
- Involved in "alternative" religions (such as pagan, Wiccan, satanic, etc.) or have "alternative" spiritual beliefs
- Most are either born vampires or experience an awakening to their vampiric nature later in life, usually in their teen years but it can happen later in life
