~Species~

-Chapter Two-

Dhampires

Physical Apperance

Dhampires are described as been extra ordinarily beautiful, more so that their parents and that includes the vampires. As young children from a distance they can be mistaken for Immortal Children as they are so beautiful. They are alluring and also described as been very attractive and irresistable to humans. Their beauty can be described as angelic or even god-like in apperance much like a vampire.

Been beautiful is one of the things they get from their vampire parent to be able to attract human pray more easily as they can flaunt their beauty and stun humans with their charm, grace and godly looks like any vampire is capable of.

Dhampires, also known as half vampire/ half human hybrids get a mixture of human and vampire traits off both parents. As they have blood running through their vains they look flushed like humans but less so as their skin is very hard and thick like a vampires. Their skin tone can range from that of black to almost as pale as a vampire as they can inherrate skin colour from their human parent, but will usually lack as much pigament from the vampire genes within their bodies so they may look pale in comparrison to their human parent if they are dark skinned.

Dhampires do not scare much like vampires as their skin is almost as impenitrable, the only thing that could physically scar them is venom of vampires, but if they were bitten they would die as the venom would act as a deadly poison to their systems as it would a shapeshifter.

Their eye colour generally depends on what the humans eye colour is, this can be inherrited from both parents human eye colours but on a very rare occasion the eye colour can be inherrited from the vampire father and be that of a vampire eye colour depending on the diet of the hybrid may be red, black, orange or gold. Dhampires can produce tears like humans as they have an active metabolism, this is also shown in Breaking Dawn when Renesmee begins to cry tears of sadness when she blames herself for her families destruction.

As hybrids can infact grow up until their seventh birthday and still have an active metabolism, their hair and fingernails grow at an increasingly rapid rate, a normal humans hair might grow 6 inches in a year where as a hybrids hair will grow that in a matter of two to three weeks depending on the hybrid, so to keep up a human act it is essential for a hybrid to get their hair cut at least every week to maintain a style that looks consistant.

The bodily scent of a hybrid is a perfect mixture between a vampire and a human, giving them a very sweet smell that is both delicious to humans and vampires and also smells good to shape shifters as it doe not have the over powering sickly sweet stench of a vampire.

When a Dhampire is exposed to sunlight, he or she will glow and sparkle dimly in the sun something they get from their vampire parents who will sparkle like a crystal ball. Only glowing in the sun makes it more possible for a Dhampire to blend into human society as they can go out into the sun without been seen as completely different.

Most hybrids will stop aging at the physical human age of around 18-22 or the median age of the two parents so hybrids usually appear to be quite young adults with very accelerated minds.

Nutrition

Dhampires due to their active metabolism can survive on either human food or blood as they are able to digest either.
Dhampires usually prefer to live on blood and the majority of Dhampires will drink human blood, though the known Dhampires to not drink human blood are Renesmee (as of Shooting Star as she stopped drinking it out of cups), Charlotte (Never drank human blood), Taramina (Never drank human blood) and Nahuel (As of Blue Moon when he decided to join the Cullens and befriend his daughter.)

The Cullen Dhampires reguarly practice the consumation of human food, though Renesmee doesn't really like it very much exept the more meaty side to the food and she likes eggs quite a lot. Charlotte also does not like human food very much but eats it to please her parents and grandmother. Taramina is very tollerant of human food though, whether that is because she had more human genes (though she is still a half vampire as Carlilse tested her genes and she had 24 chromosomes) due to the fact her mother was humana and her father was a Dhampire is unknown.

Teeth

Dhampires teeth are known to be as strong and indestructable as a regular vampires as they are able to tear their way our of their mother womb which is covered by a very hard layer of skin much like a vampires skin, though nobody has ever tested this theory as of yet. But presuming their teeth are as strong as vampires and are near indestructable that mean they could sever a vampires and possibly kill one.
Genetics

As a vampire has 25 chromosomes and a human has 23 chromosomes it is theorized that the Dhampires would constitute to 24 chromosomes much like that of a shapeshifter.

Abilities and limitations

A Dhampire's physical and mental abilities far exceed those of a human being. These traits vary between different Dhampires depending on their parents abilties may be as alot of Dhampires powers are complete opposites of their parents and they some how 'flip' their parents abilities to make their own.

Speed

One of the things that Dhampires inherrite from their Vampire fathers is great speed. Though they are not as fluid in their run as a vampire, they manage to keep up as they run as this is seen in many of the hunts the children have been taken on with the Cullen's and shown when they play baseball with their parents.

The only things that can match a Dhampires speed or over take one would be an actual Vampire or a Shapeshifter.

Strength

Another enhanced trait is their unstoppable physical strength that they also inherrite from their vampire fathers, though not to the exact degree of a vampire as they are slightly weaker than vampires due to their human genes. They can crush granite boulders, subdue any prey, throw cars, crush metal, and uproot trees with their bare hands much like vampires again. From birth Dhampires are much stronger than any human and their strength grows as they age up until fully grown and mature.

A diet of human blood makes a Dhampire stronger than animal blood (though only fractionally) the same as a vampire, and other factors such as the amount of food in a diet the Dhampire eats, the amount of physical activity the Dhampire does and how much the Dhampire sleeps can all effect the strength of the individual Dhampire.

Senses:

A Dhampire's senses are greatly enhanced though not to the degree of a vampire, which enables them to see, hear, smell, feel, and taste things imperceptible to humans.

Sight: Dhampires have amazing eye sight that is much like a vampires, though vampires know they see amazingly due to human memories that they describe as 'muddy.' As Dhampires were born into the world with that eye sight, they see the world as they always have so to a Dhampire, greatly enhanced sight is just a normal phemonena.

Smell: Dhampires can use their great sense of smell to track pray very much like a vampire. As vampires are usually blood crazy for the first few years of life they do not realise the different 'flavors' of smells or paticularly pay attention to the small details and differences in smell as it just smells like blood to them due to their blood crazed state and their deep blood lust.

As Dhampires have a great control over their blood lust only days after birth, they can tell the differnece greatly between certain people and smells of humans alot like older vampires can. They are alot more accustomed to 'flavors' or variations within the smells of people.

Unlike a vampire, Dhampires do not smell Shapeshifters as paticularly discusting or wet doggish. They smell a little animalistic and musky to Hybrids and not like wet dog as Vampires smell them as.

Hearing: Dhampires have amazing hearing, not to the degree of vampires but their accuracy is outstanding and they can hear well past the normal frequency of any human and pin point the most mutable sounds when compared to vampires their hearing is almost three quarters as good as a vampires hearing range.

Touch: Even though hybrids have very hard skin, their skin responds to touch very similarly to vampires. Their flesh is uber sensetive and they can feel the slightest irritation on their skin or the smallest temperature change even though their skin is very hot.

Taste: A Dhampires sense of taste is more like that of a vampires more so than a humans as they often prefer the taste of blood to human food and would openly chose blood over human food due to human food tasting unappetising to the Dhampire though they can survive on human food. They can taste small dust motes in the air and taste differences in the blood of individuals much like vampires.

Sixth sense: Dhampires also have a keen sense to danger, usually from something as strong as vampires, Shapeshifters or Children Of The Moon. Sometimes, they may even detect danger before they know it consciously.

Flexibility

Dhampires are extremely athletic and can move in many ways like a vampire. They are very agile and can bend in ways a human usually cannot. They do not really need to think when they move, their body will just react to the situation like a reflex.

Venom

Only male Dhampires posess venom that is able to turn a human into a vampire and the transformation is the same as that as if a vampire had bitten the human.
Female Dhampires do not possess the venom to turn their pray into vampires, they only possess the venom within their blood and it is a mixture of blood and venom that makes the Dhampires able to be near indestructable. If a limb is torn off a Dhampire, a male can reattach the limb where as a female Dhampire would not be able to or would need help from a vampire member of her coven to use their venom to reattach the lost limb.

Special Abilities

Special abilities in Dhampires are quite uncommon as it is shown that out of the 9 known hybrids only 3 have gifts. This means on avarage a third of Dhampires are born with a gift and it is pressent from birth onwards.

In some cases the Dhampire will have the opposite power to their parent, essentially flipping the power over to do the opposite of the parent(s)

Life Styles

Dhampires are much like Vampires with the life styles they chose. Most are nomadic and feed on the blood of humans, not setting up a perminant residence anywhere, though they are able to live more efficiantly along side humans they prefer to be with vampires as they are more like them in every way.

Some Dhampires chose to live on human food and sometimes a mix of animal blood like the Cullen Dhampires chose to and they also have a semi-perminant ressidence that they live in most of the time.

Psychology

Individual characteristics: As Dhampires are born into the world they develop their own personalities over the course of their lives. One thing that seems consistant in most hybrids though is the factor that they loved their mothers even from inside the womb and alot of them feel guilty for killing their human mothers or hurting them in the process of pregnancy. Another thing that seems consistant in hybrids is that they are all very intelligent and learn very fast.

Basic instincts: Like vampires the Dhampires have a strong desire to consume blood, although most Dhampires have very good self control and due to this they can seem alot less feral and ferocious than common vampires.

They are not as wild as vampires due to their human genes and they do not snarl or hiss as much. Hybrids do not have a higher danger sense as Vampires and so can be more foolish and trusting like a human when it comes to enemies or people wanting to hunt or kill them.

Bonding factors: Dhampires are much more like humans in the way that they bond with people. Vampires are very terratorial and will usually only have a mate to travel with, where as all of the known Dhampires are in larger covens showing that they have a genuin sense of family bonding and loyalty about them.

Romantically the Dhampires are not as set in stone as vampires unless they find 'The One' as some of them do. The only known Dhampires to have mates are Renesmee (With Jacon), Charlotte (With Seth) and Nahuel (With Leah) and these are all with shapeshifers who imprinted on them. The only Dhampire that has a mate that is not a shapeshifter is Taramina (With Eddie) who is in a relationship with a Witchblood Vampire.

Birth

Dhampires are created when a male vampire has sex with a human female and he impregnates her with his sperm.

The pregnancy lasts just under a month, around 28 days and is very dangerous to the human woman as the fetus can crush her organs and snap her bones without meaning to hurt her. The fetus also drains the mothers life as she cannot live with the fetus inside of her unless she drinks blood as this will feed the fetus and make the pregnancy better for both mother and child.

The birth is very difficult as the child will rip its way through the mothers torso with its teeth. This is very violent and horrific and the survival rate of this kind of birth is zero unless the woman can get vampire venom intime and keep her heart beating so she will transform into a vampire.

Weaknesses

Hybrids cannot be killed in many ways and they are very hard to kill like a normal vampire. The only things that can kill a hybrid is decapitation as the head can rarely be reattached (unless another vampire will do it for them) or by burning the hybrid.

Children Of Dhampires

Dhampires are able to have children due to their human genes and they can also mate with many different species to create another kind of hybrid. If a hybrid were to mate with a shapeshifter then the child would be a Dhampire it's self, a Human, A Shapeshifter or A Shapeshifter/Vampire hybrid due to the genes of the two. If a hybrid mated with a vampire the child would be either a Dhampire or a Vampire Child and if it was a human the Child would be a human or a Dhampire.