Depending on who's stories you read, there are two ways to become a vampire. One version of the story says you just have to be bitten by a vampire to become one (Movies such as Blade or John Carpenters Vampires use this rule). Once you have been bitten, you die and then rise again as a vampire, and you must feed on blood or you will die.
The second rule states that you must be bitten by a vampire and have all of your blood drained, until you are the point of death, then, in order to become a vamp, you must drink the blood of the vampire that bit you, mixed with your own. Once this happens, your human life dies, and you are reborn as a vampire (Buffy, Interview with the Vampire, Bram Stokers Dracula use this rule.) Once again, you must rise and drink blood or you will die.
There are some other stories which have their own rules, in The Lost Boys for example, they drink the blood of a vampire, then they have to make a kill before they really turn. This is kind of silly and makes not much sense!!!
Next. How to kill one. Yet again the rules differ depending on who you listen to. Most people agree on the stake thru the heart, some say that the vamp must then be decapitated as well to make sure it's dead. Others say that silver can kill them and also daylight. Bram Stoker said that Vampires can go out in the day, but that they become weaker and can't stay out for long.
Most of the stories seem to agree that Vamps appear fairly normal until they get hungry and then when they are feeding their faces change. Even if it is just their teeth get longer they change in some way.
As stated by my idol Buffy "Only someone who has been underground for 10 years would think that is still the look!" She is of course refering to the fact that a lot of vamps are quite old and dont really move with the times. This was reinforced by Spike, The best vamp in Buffy when he said, "We don't change, not us, not demons."
They tend to be quite set in their ways, and the older a vampire gets, the more their demonic side begins to take over their body.
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