Eyes

Ok, so one of the defining vampire (of my vampires, and for most literary vampires) charecteristics is the eyes. So I thought I'd say something about them 

For most vampires, most of the time, their eyes look just as they did when the were human. But when they drink human blood their eyes look like this (whichever is closest to their original color):

But the ancients are a little diffrent. Their eyes always look the ones above, and when they drink blood their eyes look like:

And then the true immortal's eyes usually look like this:

But when she gets mad or drinks human blood (which she avoids as much as possible), they look like this:

(all eye pictures courtesy of vampfangs.com, you can buy these contacts there!)

Night World by L.J. Smith

So I'm reading a new book (Night world), and the first (of three) stories is called Secret vampire, and is, obviously, about vampires.

At one point they kind of explain why vampires need to drink human blood to survive, and I thought that it made a lot of sense, so I'm going to use it for my vampires.

"Vampire blood destroy hemoglobin-the red cells-in human blood. Once it destroys enough of the red cells, you stop getting the oxygen you need to live"..."We take a little and that carries oxygen through our system until our own blood destroys it."

Doesn't that make a lot of sense?

So that and for other mystical reasons is why my vampires need human blood to survive.

the true ancient's vampiric traits and non traits

• The strength of ten men: False (she has the strengh of 100 men)
• Venom that kills instantly: False (its only venomous when she wants it to be)
• A thirst for blood: True (but she can also survive on human food)
• Beauty: True (she was comparible to an angel before she turned. Now she is a goddess)
• A longer life span: True (she lives for 10,000 years like all the other vampires)
• Doesn't have a reflection: False
• Doesn't show up in pictures: False
• Burns in the sunlight: False
• Burned by crosses/churches: False
• Drinks human blood: Ture (but also human food)
• Allergic to garlic: False
• Not being able to enter a house without being invited in: False
• Not able to water: False
• Have to have dirt from the graveyard they were buried in: False
• Cannot touch religous objects, wolfsbane, or wild roses: False, False, False
• Very pale: False (she is an alive vampire, blood still flows through her veins, she looks human)
• No soul: False
• She can shape shift: true (she can look however she wants, human or animal)
• Psychic (influential) powers: True (she can bend peoples actions to her will)
• A stake to her heart will kill her: true (her heart still works)
• Chopping off her head will kill her: True
• Fire will kill her: True

A quote from bloodline

The vampire in Bloodline said this:

"One should never shield children from darkness. For the darkness will find them anyway. And all the more easily if they are not prepared."

Joan of arc, the true ancients death

She (the true ancient) was 9,981 years old and she new she was going to die soon. She became Joan of Arc. She lived for 19 nineteen years, and was burned at the stake. She died.

One of the stories of Joan of Arc's death was that while she was burning...she was smiling. 

The true ancient, a paradox

The true ancient is, in fact, the female ancient. 

She is the true ancient vampire. Becuase she was turned diffrently she is almst invincible (she doesn't have a lot of the weaknesess that other vampires do). She can also Travel in Time.

She created the ancients, she gave suggestions for the colliseum, and the cats. She is the true ancient, the most powerful, she is the first vampire.

how the true ancient is created

As I said before, the true ancient, the first female vampire, was turned diffrently then then all the other vampires. 

Becuase the male vampire was so traumatized,  in so much agony, he was able to turn her into a vampire in a diffrent was. He basiclly transfered all of his "vampire energy" into her, turning her into a vampire. Also killing him. 

This turned her into a diffrent kind of vampire (more on this later).

dreams

I also figured out how the vampires are turned while I was reading bloodline.

Dreams. The ancients can control dreams, and if a human has a specific dream, they become a vampire. Also, it is mentally IMPOSSIBLE for a human to have this dream.

"Angel...save me"

okay, so once again, I was reading bloodline, and on the ninth page this is basiclly what happened:

There was a wounded man who had been fighting in a war. He was in a hospital (a sanitorium actually) and a nurse there knew him. He isn't responding so she starts reading his journal to him. He says stop and she takes his hand. He finally opens his eyes, looks at her, and says "angel...save me" then he falls asleep.

This gave me an idea. 

A man (a vampire) is checked into an insane asylum. His nurse was a great freind of his before he had become a vampire (she doesn't know that he is a vampire yet) and she had a huge crush on him when they were little. He looks at her and seeing her beauty says "angel...save me." She takes his hand and recognizes him. He turns her into a vampire

Bloodline=main plot?

So last night I started reading this new book, bloodline (it's about a descendant of Dracula). After I read 9 pages I came up with six great ideas, including what would be the main plot of this story I would never write! Now the question is, which one should I post first?