Talk:Curie Drakulya/@comment-162.252.126.39-20181106210811/@comment-4370375-20181201180507

Except as someone who studies biology as a hobby, I can tell you that this is not how either viruses or reproduction work. Frankly a virus would not be capable of reanimating corpses into the Living Dead either but that's besides the point.

At most, a virus would only be capable of weakening one's digestive system restricting them to a liquid diet and more specifically a blood diet, making one's skin more sensitive to UV rays, and giving them an allergy to garlic and silver.

Presumably, the only way to conceive a bat-winged liminal is to mate with one. Bare in mind that both Lamia and Harpies reproduce by mating with other species while a Centaur can be born of a human parent.

From what I can tell, the problem is that Vampires are producing offspring that aren't inheriting the condition of vampirism meaning the virus itself is essentially what's going extinct, not bat-winged liminals.

I imagine that if Curie had transmitted the virus to Papi as Wladislaus intended, the latter would likely have become a vampiric Harpy: Gaining the traits I mentioned above while retaining her Harpy physiology as the Vampire Virus section's wording implied that bat wings aren't actually part of vampirism in MM and that the reason that both Curie and her father have them is because they're simply liminal bats that have the vampirism condition.

Historically speaking, Vampires were not always associated with bats as the Lamia was itself described as being vampiric while some accounts tie vampires to other animals, most notably wolves which incidentally can also carry rabies just like bats.

Assuming that vampirism is completely unrelated to bat-like physiology, Occam's razor would actually favor my theory since it doesn't require infecting species for Curie to then mate with since it would be the infection itself that would change Lamia, Devils, and Harpies into Vampires. Just that the resulting Vampires would have the physiology of their original species instead of being bat-like like Curie.

And speaking of bat physiology, I should also point out that Pirati is only one example of a liminal bat, she's not the be-all and end-all of how they are supposed to look. Neither Aluru nor Reshia look like the Alaune from episode eleven's bestiary, instead looking more the one from Monster Girl Report so it's entirely possible that liminal bats can have large wingspans like Curie.

Lastly, I only mentioned Envy as an example of the kind of being Doppel might be.