Vampires don't suck, they scrape and lick
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2026
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My impression is that the werewolf transformation is entirely magical and not governed by real-world effects: one moment, the moon is out and you suddenly grow fur, a snout and uncontrollable predatory instincts, and when it’s over, the fur recedes/disappears, your facial geometry is restored and you just feel inexplicably tired. It’s conceivable that you’d shed some hair, which presumably wouldn’t magically vanish once it’s not attached to you, though.
As for vampires, I thought they just used their incisors to puncture their victims and then just sucked their blood out. Their teeth being plumbed into a vacuum pump seems somewhat too complicated.
Depends on the media.
In The Quarry, for example, they do shed at transformstion. But they shed the human part. Violently.
…like an insect molting? O_o
More like their werewolf form bursting out of the human body like a chest burster in Alien.
i never thought the teeth were hollow... theyre like can openers.. just there to make the hole, look menacing, and prolly not covered by your dental insurance.
But why would dental insurance cover can openers? And do can openers look menacing?
But why would dental insurance cover can openers? you ever try an open a can with your teeth. its not pretty. clearly preventative
do can openers look menacing?
In some stories the werewolves shed their human skin. If you steal it you have power over them.
Do they need to find it and put it back on to transform back, or does that involve them shedding their wolf pelt and emerging in human form from within it?
They can't turn back, and depending on the story either they must now follow your commands or they will kill to get it back.
But if you don’t take their human skin, what does the transformation back look like? I’m imagining the somewhat absurd scene of a werewolf anxiously arranging its tattered human skin around itself with its rough paws for the magic to do its stuff.
That's pretty cool
I've seen some stories where vampires suck blood through their teeth, back when I read more vampire fiction, but I don't know how common those are. I think it seems a bit comedic, so it probably depended on how funny the story was supposed to be.