#Fangs

True Blooders and #VampireDiaries have pop (or click!) out fangs, other #vampires have their fangs permanently in place. Some fangs are the fifth teeth, some the second. Some are like knives, others like animal teeth.

For my #BloodOmen vampires I chose to have the fangs permanently in place, but put them the same place as human 'fangs' (incisors) are for a more realistic feel because, as you know, MY vampires could exist! No magic 'now-you-see-it, now-you-don't' disappearing fangs for my Llamia (born vampires)! 

And NO, my Aluka (human-turned vampire) do NOT suddenly grow fangs once they've been Turned. It's one thing to have your internal body functions change and adapt to the vampire virus, and another to grow new pointy teeth! I try to keep some biology in the realms of true possibility!

We know that Charlotte is an Aluka and so doesn't have fangs. In Blood Omen 4: Beyond #Death we learn that to find and recruit a new Abdun (blood slave), you have to pretend to be a #Llamia. Aluka want to be turned into vampires which only Llamia can do (more on Abdun in the next post), so Charlotte has these cool fake fangs which she puts in and takes out when they go clubbing.

I went on to Google to find a real person or company that could make fangs like Charlotte uses (I haven't ordered any myself yet- I'm happy with the fangs I have!) and I found this site:

http://www.fangsfx.com/

And one of my characters (no spoilers!) will use these people to make some new fangs for herself so she can find an Abdun to feed her... download Book 4 to find out who!

Extract from Blood Omen 4: Beyond Death

“How did you grow those?” 

She smiled and Lucas laughed.

“Prosthetics.”

Charlotte slid them off her real teeth and held them up.

“It's a bit early for Halloween costumes, isn't it?”

She rolled her eyes. “There's this brilliant guy we found online- a special effects make-up artist, worked on films. You take an impression of your teeth and he'll make you a set of fangs the exact colour and fit you want.”

“He's the top Aluka fang-maker in the country,” Mica added.

“If you want to find a donor, you need to look the part. You need to look like a vampire,” Lucas said.

“But I am a vampire.”

He shook his head. “Nai. You're an Aluka. Donors become Abdun only cos they want what we got.”

“Long life? Never-ending hunger?”

“Amongst other things,” Mica said with a smile.

“And Aluka are basically just carriers of the virus,” Charlotte put in quietly. “We can't transfer it.”

“Yup,” Lucas agreed. “The buck stops with you.”

“And that's no good for wannabe Abdun.”

“So we lie to them?” 

“Exactly,” Lucas affirmed. “At least until you know them well enough to introduce them to us- the ones who will really Turn them... if we like your choice.”