BUFFY VAMPIRES - DETAILED

POSTED BY: AnonymousPoster
UPDATED: Sunday, November 7, 2004 03:27
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ANONYMOUSPOSTER

Sunday, October 10, 2004 2:08 AM

The process which a human body undergoes during that day or so that it takes to be converted into a vampire body is similar to the process of petrification that exists in nature, with certain plants. When a tree or plant becomes petrified, what happens is that over the course of years, the original biological elements of its cells are very gradually replaced by mineral elements... so gradually that the infusing minerals take on the same shape and appearance as the original biological cells. In effect, the original biological cells act as a matrix, or as a sort of "molding", for the incoming mineral deposits, and what you end up with is a gradual build up of minerals in the exact shape of a tree trunk, or a plant of some sort.

This same process, vastly speeded up, is what happens when a human body is transformed by the vampiric "curse", or infection, or mutation. Supernatural necromantic energy flows into it from an extradimensional source and replaces all the original human organic matter... but it does it gradually, and in such a way as to mimic the original cell structure. And the organic matter is not completely replaced, but is only 99.9999 percent replaced. A tiny amount of the original human cellular matter remains as a template, spread molecularly thin throughout the newly generated, unnatural vampire tissue which is made up of necromantic otherdimensional energy in more or less solid form.

This process is why vampires do not have souls. Since souls are intangible psychic organs they are not duplicated by this sort of necromantic petrification process, and as the original, natural body was transformed and replaced, the original soul attached to that body loses its adhesion and undergoes the metaphysical equivalent of evaporation into the ether.

This necromantic petrification process, explains the supernatural and superhuman powers of the vampire. A body composed of an unearthly energy we cannot rationally define within our physics can and will, by definition, defy the requirements of physics as we understand them.

This demonic, necromantic energy that makes up most of the vampire body is extremely responsive to the animating consciousness' psychic impulses.

Probably, over the course of thousands of years of existence, any vampires who 'live' that long gradually forget what actual, physical, metabolic life was like. These vampires would, theoretically, start to behave more like 'living' corpses... losing their 'human' perceptions and having them replaced by more direct psychic perceptions, ceasing to respond to purely physical stimuli, and, most likely, gaining more and more unlimited capacity for shifting the shape of their necromantic energy bodies into other forms... such as the classical vampires are supposed to be able to.

However, relatively 'young' vampires still remember very strongly what it was like to be alive, and they still respond as if alive. For example, while he a vampire's consciously aware of the fact that he doesn't 'breathe', or at least, doesn't have to, if he also subconsciously wants to smoke a cigarette while he's smoking that cigarette, the necromantic energy in the shape of his lungs 'works'. When two vampires want to have sex, their subconscious minds activate the appropriate anatomical parts, and, similarly, when a male vampire wants to have sex with a human female, his subconscious reactivates his reproductive system.

Of course, a reproductive system composed of necromantic energy is only a simulation, and no actual pregnancy would be possible without severe mystical intervention... but to all physical appearances, the male vampire would be perfectly functional. To a human lover who expected such things, there is even a convincing sensory illusion of an ejaculation, although the physical existence of the ejaculate is primarily ectoplasmic, and will just fade away or evaporate fairly quickly after the sex act is over.

Since an unnatural, extradimensional, demonic energy is the basis for vampire bodies, patterned after the human bodies they are repla

CREVANREAVER

Sunday, October 10, 2004 8:40 PM

I just want to say this is some really interesting and informative stuff you've posted AnonymousPoster, you rock!

This really explains a lot of their metaphysical aspects.

ANARKO

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 3:36 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by CrevanReaver:
This really explains a lot of their metaphysical aspects.

Indeed it does!

SPACECOWGIRL

Sunday, October 31, 2004 12:57 AM

Joss????? Is that you?

SOUPCATCHER

Sunday, October 31, 2004 1:35 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by spacecowgirl:
Joss????? Is that you?

Actually, this was originally posted on the blog of a Buffy fan back in May 2003. The post is about a third of the way down at the following link and has the header, "THE UNDEAD YET LIVE Part 2":
http://www.angelfire.com/blog/abehm/dsp/052003.html
The person who started this thread appears to have cut and paste the entry with only slight modifications.

*editted to add...
I didn't do a good job of communicating in this post so I'll edit it rather than add a new response. Looking back, I should have left off the commentary that came at the very end (since my main goal was to address the question of whether this was written by Joss, not to bring back the Anonymous Poster debate). The final sentence was unneccessary.

So here's what I should've posted:

It's not Joss, SpaceCowgirl. It's actually a fan of Buffy named Darren who posted this entry on his blog (link goes here). The title of the essay is, "The Undead Yet Live, Part 2" so it's probably a safe bet that there is a Part 1 somewhere on that site if you are interested.

There are three kinds of people: fighters, lovers, and screamers.

WILLOWY

Sunday, October 31, 2004 3:34 AM

Yes. This poster frequently posts like this.

Cribbed from another site? Probably. I still like reading these things he posts. He seems to go to a lot of trouble rounding up these highly detailed and interesting essays and statements for us.

Whatever floats your boat, AP. Keep it up if you want to, although I think credit should be given to the original source.

CREVANREAVER

Sunday, October 31, 2004 4:23 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Willowy:
Yes. This poster frequently posts like this.

Cribbed from another site? Probably. I still like reading these things he posts. He seems to go to a lot of trouble rounding up these highly detailed and interesting essays and statements for us.

Whatever floats your boat, AP. Keep it up if you want to, although I think credit should be given to the original source.

The subject of AnonymousPoster forgetting to credit the sources was brought up a while ago.

http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=7526

And because of the attacks that were leveled at AnonymousPoster, that person has left Fireflyfans.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=8&t=7537

DOCNEBULA

Saturday, November 6, 2004 7:27 AM

I don't know if anyone will ever read this, but I am the author of the article 'Anonymous Poster' put part of here.

For those obsessed enough to want to, they can find much much MUCH more of my musings on BUFFY and ANGEL at:

http://www.javapadawan.com/calliope/mv39.html
http://www.javapadawan.com/calliope/mv40.html
http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/majorattitude/buffy7.html

You can also read my rantings on various other geek topics, like superhero comic books and science fiction, at:

http://www.javapadawan.com/calliope/martian-vision.html

and

www.angelfire.com/ny3/docnebula

Be warned, I have no life and write at great and tedious length on these things. ;)

HAWK

Saturday, November 6, 2004 10:42 PM

I was this close to starting a new topic about that bullet thing.

EMBERS

Saturday, November 6, 2004 11:14 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SoupCatcher:
It's not Joss, SpaceCowgirl. It's actually a fan of Buffy named Darren who posted this entry on his blog

thank you soupcatcher...
I could never have believed it was Joss because Joss would have been MUCH funnier,
and not so wordy

actually this poster kind of irritates me that they always plagerize. I really think it would be more honest to give credit to the person they are quote (and have quotes around it). It is a form of stealing IMO

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