Can an Upyr Become Human Again

The Upir (also chosen Obir or Opir ) are one of several vampiric beings native to Ukraine likewise as beingness the only vampires seen in Hemlock Grove. They share resemblances with the Russian upyr, the Slavic upior, and the Byelorussian upor. Werewolves are their natural enemies.

Contents

• 1 Background
• 2 Origin and Physiology
• 3 Toxin
• 4 Customs
• 5 Known Upirs
• vi Advent
• 7 Powers & Abilities
  • 7.ane Total Upir
  • 7.2 Half Upir
• 8 Feeding
• 9 Psychology
• 10 Crumbling
• 11 Weaknesses

Background [ ]

This species start out as seemingly regular humans, though they seem to have a greater tolerance to pain and the power of mesmerisation. Using this power, notwithstanding, puts a visible strain on their bodies, every bit they drain each time they utilise it.

Roman afterward killing Olivia when ascension as a Full upir afterward cutting his artillery and dying

After expiry by suicide, they become full upir, biologically immortal creatures with greatly enhanced strength, accelerated healing capabilities, as well as unnatural jaw flexibility, iron-stiff teeth, toxic enzymes, predatory senses, and a nearly clamorous, rabid ambition for blood and raw tissue. Upirs can get sick or accept diseases merely on the rarest of occasions, such as having a congenital heart defect, which is fatal to them. Once a human has transformed via suicide into the immortal upir, they spend months or even years adapting to and controlling their thirst for blood or raw tissue. The new Upir has almost no self-control over their hunger and is decumbent to dangerously aggressive beliefs. Fifty-fifty as they age and acquire to do some self-control they will revert to instinct during unsafe or trigger-happy situations.

Upir are prone to fierce, barbaric, and sometimes murderous behavior whenever they do not have emotional control, a side effect of their more predatorial and aggressive nature. This tin can brand them act savage and even feral. They often act roughshod or inhumane towards others. There are instances in which their emotions tin overwhelm and debilitate them, such as cases of extreme sadness, but information technology lasts for a very brusque time. Poor feeding habits tin can cause extremely heightened, raw, intense, negative, and ambitious feelings, to the point of the upir condign dangerously short tempered and even homicidal. They will instinctively react with violence and impale if pushed to their limits. They can go on living or be killed by farthermost mutilation dismemberment of the eye, breast, or head. To brand sure an upir does non heal from mortal injury, the heart or caput is usually removed. They can as well exist killed by cremation.

Origin and Physiology [ ]

Roman's inhuman jaw strength

According to Folklore full Upirs are the spawn of witches and demons and a half-upir is 1/2 homo, 1/iv witch, and one/four demon. It tin can exist causeless that they have been around a long time. Perchance since the beginning of time. Scientifically, the upir gene is identified as a heritable retroviral anomaly. This anomaly in the certain genomes is what turns people into upir, simply it can simply be genetically inherited. It appears that those that are not full upir just are a portion of it or have stiff demonic factor in their bloodline will exist prone to develop strange deformities, such as Olivia being born with a brusque tail similar appendage on her back.

Roman attacking a guard on instinct with his enhanced jaws, protecting Annie

Olivia's corpse coming back to life with blue bloodless skin later on bleeding out and freezing in the cold, and develops fangs, which were excluded in flavor 2 and replaced with enhanced jaws and growing mouth

While not a nascency defect or deformity, Roman and Nadia were both born with a thick membrane made of a portion of the amniotic sac, or a caul over their faces. In the Polish linguistic communication, the idiom due west czepku urodzony/a ('born in a bonnet'), and, in Italian, nato/a con la camicia/a ('born with a shirt'), they both mean a person who is always very lucky. The Russian phrase родился в рубашке ('born in a shirt') refers to caul birth and figuratively means "born lucky". It is frequently practical to someone who is oblivious to a pending disaster that is avoided only through luck as if the nascency caul persists as supernatural armor throughout the persons life. Not all cultural behavior near cauls are positive. In Romanian folklore, babies born with a caul are said to become vampires upon death.

Roman bites Dr Arnold Spivak, exposing him to the Upir Toxin.

Nadia'due south inhuman blue optics are her aberrant appearance that signifies her demonic lineage.

Roman showing off his stretching oral fissure

upir claret is shown to be darker in color than human blood

When Roman transformed, he cut his arms and bled out; causing marks to form on his arms in the place of the wounds and his claret to move on its own up a wall and form a film of dragon-like wings. Upirs still produce waste and can get pregnant, as upir are still living creatures similar humans and werewolves and with similar traits to them. Roman as a full upir has shown the ability urinate and produce sweat equally upir are still living creatures. Pryce stated that he could turn an upir into a human through stalk cell research by exchanging their tissues and claret for that of a man's and remove the cells with upir genetics to that of humans. This was non demonstrated when Roman went through treatments that required his tissues beingness stripped from him and his blood drained from him, both beingness exchanged for that of humans.

Gaber dying of his bite wound from Roman

Pryce said that enough of these would make him fully man. Since they are different in genotypes from human, their torso, specifically at the nervous system, they are incapable of reacting to anaesthesia, rendering it useless in their system. Also, the treatments of purging the upir gene from the upir can cause puss to come up from their ears as the trunk is primed to purge itself of anything it recognizes as the upir gene. The six treatments must be taken mean solar day after twenty-four hour period to prime the bodies genetics to take the human gene and decline the upir cistron. If one is missed, particularly the last one, then the upir will render to its original state. If the final treatment is missed, the smallest semblance of the upir cistron will become infectious in the trunk, rebinding the factor to the trunk and causing mutations with unpredictable and possibly catastrophic results. By and then, the upir factor will become incommunicable to eradicate.

upir endure from insatiable hunger that somewhen consumes them and makes them feral and suffer from hazed senses and overwhelming hunger attacks

Toxin [ ]

The Toxin being extracted from Romans rima oris.

These creatures possess a highly degenerative venom in their mouths, which is powerful enough to kill someone of their own kind. The Upir Toxin, likewise described equally Upir Neurotoxin, is shown in the form of excess sinus in the maxilla of the rima oris and is created inside a venom gland. While it has footling to no effect on humans, information technology only has negative furnishings on other upir, equally not many humans bitten by an upir in the show take shown any signs of venom. The enzyme tin be used for medicinal purposes, breaking down the immune organisation and weakening an upir's cellular defenses to let for farther treatments. It was used in Olivia's recovery after being killed by Roman, as she could not recover on her ain. Information technology was said to take almost killed her in the procedure. Information technology also caused her to become more human being, giving her tissue dystrophy, chemically enhanced emotions and empathy, which was hard to overcome, accelerated aging and decay and even homo like vulnerability to cancers, which is a possible side consequence of the accelerated aging. Olivia had severe muscular dystrophy after being drained of blood past Roman and beingness given the Neurotoxin in her treatments, all of which acquired her to get and so weak that she needed a cane to walk which she got over in months following. She took medication such as methotrexate, cyclophosphamide, carboplatin, and etoposide. This could all be immediately reversed if an afflicted Upir feeds off a Humanoid grown at the Godfrey Labs.

It should be noted that an upir's strength is the but physical power that is not affected by the Neurotoxin, as she was shown to merely be as delicate as a human, spraining herself after falling off a chair, though she still ripped out Marie Godfrey'due south throat and lifted Roman several feet above her caput with one mitt. Her immune system was shut downward, physically making her weak and making her age at an accelerated rate and develop the side effects of aging such as cancer development due to a decaying actual system. The Upir Feeding Tanks were designed to develop Humanoids, only the project just succeeded in creating plasma and tissue supplements to fully control an upir's hunger and sustain them. A fully developed Humanoid can completely repair and enhance an Upir's self-reparation capabilities to unnatural levels to help them rejuvenate and restore themselves from impairment or aberrant conditions caused by Upir Neurotoxins.

In addition, the venom was able to impale a Jarmungandr, as they are sulfur-based life form and the Upir toxin has an extremely high concentration of nitrogen oxide. Exposure to it causes a robust reaction capable of incinerating the Jarmungandr exposed to it.

Community [ ]

The picture of a Jarmungandr, also known as Omul Negru, the Upir boogeyman

Many upirs exercise not live together, having normal relations of human families, besides as leaving their parents to explore their immortal lives. They as well do not take any form of government for themselves and exercise not keep themselves in bank check in such a style. Without order, upirs become scattered across the earth blended into the human population. Alternatively, some upirs live in communities where other upirs are, sometimes forming a blazon of tribe. This tribe volition frequently compile upirs with loftier-class jobs, such as historians, physicians, professors and scientists. The tribes also seem to pass news to others, equally there were upir, who also knew about the Upir Virus, describing the events of the infected killing others every bit Upir-on-Upir violence. Some Upir are non equally social as those in a tribe, and therefore, who do not or seldom socialize with others and also are not aware of any news well-nigh their kind. The upir accept myths from, nearly prominently found from Carpathian stories. These myths are actually depictions of the Jarmungandr, known as Omul Negru to the upir. Since these creatures are seemingly older than upir, they have fallen into upir myths and legends.

The claret spilt from Roman'due south slit artillery forming a wing like picture later on his decease and during his resurrection.

Known Upirs [ ]

• Olivia Godfrey (Full)
• Roman Godfrey (Full, Formerly Half)
• Nadia Godfrey (Quarter)
• Olivia'due south Begetter (Full)
• Annie (Total)

Appearance [ ]

In a hunger induced daydream, Roman'south jaw dislocates from his skull and stretches his face as low every bit to his neck.

Upirs are indistinguishable from humans. They possess an enhanced bite and jaw strength. In 1 instance,

or at least in a daydream Roman had, his lower jaw dislocated, causing nifty noises in his face and his oral cavity extended downward equally far as his neck. This fabricated his bite so big that it engulfed the entire pharynx of Miranda in said daydream. In reality, upir take inhuman jaw flexibility and strength, assuasive an upir to stretch their mouths while about to bite, though this is unremarkably seen when the upir is overwhelmed with bloodlust or hunger. Roman's mouth over again stretched and grew when he killed a guard at a claret bank to protect Annie. This instance was after Roman was on a blood loftier and overwhelmed with animalistic aggression. Roman's canine teeth briefly transformed into fangs in the first flavour, and this was an

Upir'southward only transformation until the second season changed this, making the vampiric teeth noncanon. A flashback of Olivia's enkindling as a full upir in the first flavour showed her with fanged canine teeth as well. While they practise not truly physically change and have a perfected figure due to being full upir, they experience changes in their bodies, such as dystrophy in their muscles or fifty-fifty cancer in unbelievably rare cases, as well every bit severe dystrophy, sometimes even to the point where

An upir's inhuman jaw flexibility

they demand a pikestaff to walk and develop wrinkles and signs of aging, is more often than not an issue of an Upir Neurotoxin and tin can return an upir almost mortal, giving an upir a homo lifespan and man vulnerabilities to aging and cancers. Olivia developed these symptoms some time afterward Roman drained her of claret and being an untested Upir Neurotoxin enzyme. Upir can also be impregnated by humans to take one-half upir children. It is unknown if upir tin impregnate each other and if then, what kind of

Pryces autopsy on an Upir infected with the Upir Virus

offspring would exist produced. Half upir can impregnate humans and have quarter upirs with the possibility of developing psionic powers, like Nadia's telekinetic decease stare.

Roman after losing control of his hunger and killing a homeless man named Gaber at an abandon building. He had first asked him about his family and so he could take intendance of them before he fed on him. Roman was distraught for what he had washed.

{Click to Breathing} Roman attacks Olivia and kills her, with her consent

Powers & Abilities [ ]

Click For Animation Roman, weakened by his human transference treatments is easily overpowered by Olivia.

Full upirs, possess abilities that half upirs do non. A full upir's healing and durability are strengthened by their diet and their power to recover fr most injuries can exist diminished or fifty-fifty completely taken away for months if they lose vast amounts of blood.

Full Upir [ ]

Clementine Chasseur afterwards being skinned alive by Olivia, peradventure bare-handedly

Marie Godfrey after being killed by having her neck ripped open up by Olivia

Annie bludgeoning an Upirs head with her fist

Roman choking a human with a metallic grip

Roman knocks a man unconscious with a slap to the brow

• Enhanced Strength - Upirs are arguably the strongest beings in the serial, or at least equal in force to Vargulfs and reanimated beings. Upirs are able to overpower, beat, lift, launch, incapacitate, mutilate, and impale humans bare handed and with inhuman forcefulness and ease. Upirs tin can tear off trunk parts and mutilate them, as well every bit tin bend and break bodies in lethal ways. Even so, such unnatural feats are simply possible with greater concrete try. Upirs are strong enough to bludgeon someone to decease with their bare easily, however this kind of trauma would non kill an Upir. Using maximum effort, Upirs can easily transport humans flying xx or more feet through the air, besides as overpower other beings with enhanced strength, (I.e. Johann Pryce; a human with constant hysterical strength). A full Upir is considerably stronger than a half Upir; This was made evident when Roman Godfrey, as a full Upir, casually grabbed Johann past the neck and forcibly pinned him confronting a wall, yet he had been similarly overpowered by Pryce when he was notwithstanding only a half Upir. A full Upir can fifty-fifty lift upward and rend a transformed werewolf or vargulf with fiddling try; such equally when Roman did this to Peter's wolf body to pull him out of it. Upirs besides need to exert some attempt when lifting others off the footing and sending them flight into the air, however they can easily grapple and overpower humans in a second. Upirs can pin people down with no try and great ease, and with enough attempt rip apart flesh and send people flying at the speed of a moving car. It is possible that reanimated beings such as Shelley can be equal in strength to a total upir or even surpass them in forcefulness. Olivia was briefly held in a asphyxiate hold by Norman when he tried to kill her, though she so got the upper paw when she bankrupt out of her surprised country and broke his arm and tore out his center. Some Upirs possess the force to strike with equal force and damage as a hammer; allowing Upirs to bludgeon humans or other Upirs with their fists. Upirs tin can also tear and shred flesh in a like manner to digging through sand or dirt. The Upir Virus seemingly causes an upir to be able to overpower, shove, and shred through their own kind with little to no effort.

With enough effort, Roman tin pull flesh apart. He used this to finish Peter when he finally succumb to his vargulf status

• Heightened Senses - Upirs possess heightened predatory senses. When having a hunger attack, their vision will become more saturated and their sight will focus on living creatures. They can also hear the heartbeat of a human being from a few feet abroad, and can conspicuously see the veins and blood vessels in their necks and peel. Their senses seem to exist primed to their predatory nature; focusing on prey and food. When Roman was experiencing a hunger attack, his senses were focused on peoples' heartbeats, and Olivia was unable to sense a bird that flew into a window. This suggests that Upirs' senses tin can exist controlled until they are overwhelmed with hunger, or that Upirs take no control over their heightened senses, and the enhancement to their senses is predatory, and primed by overwhelming hunger.

  

  

• Regenerative Healing - Similar all other abilities possessed by full Upirs, healing and all forms of physical recovery are greatly enhanced. Upirs are able to physically recover from trauma in a matter of hours, with lilliputian to no medical handling. This allows Upirs to make a rapid and full recovery from almost any grade of injury, with the exception of decapitation, severe mutilations to the center, caput or brain, and immolation. Marks caused by self-inflicted mortal wounds that transition a half Upir into a full Upir will appear when an Upir transforms, leaving them healed. The scars, if whatever, from the physical trauma that transitioned a full Upir seem to remain; every bit Olivia notwithstanding has a scar on the small on her back where her tail like deformity had been, earlier she cut it off and bled to death. Roman awoke minutes after slicing his forearms down to the tendons and bleeding to death, with simply scars were the wounds had been, however these scars seem to take disappeared or have faded. Desiccation and some chemicals can stunt their healing. Olivia's rehabilitation fabricated it so that her natural language did not heal immediately, she also cut herself while shaving her legs and it did not heal immediately, though she stated that it would heal soon, probably in an hour or more than. Being struck in the heart while it is beingness drained of blood and tissue pieces could impale an Upir; as Destiny was able to kill an Upir infected with the Upir Virus using a trunk cavity vacuum inside a mortuary. Liquidating or heavily mutilating an Upir, especially on the inside, tin kill them, besides as vacuuming out or removing tissues and organs, such every bit the brain or heart, or grinding or shredding them. Permanent damage tin can be dealt to an Upir, though it may not exist fatal. Roman was at the take chances of being made permanently deafened when a syringe was near a tube connected to the inside of his hearing organs. If Upirs are attacked past someone or something of similar force to their own, they volition be more vulnerable to the trauma; equally Roman suffered a seizure after sustaining a concussion when attacked by a fauna stronger than himself.

  

  An Upir ripping out the chest of another and mauling him to death

  

  Romans vision blurred by his hunger

• Enhanced Durability - Upir skin is incredibly stiff and tough; making Upirs highly resilient to concrete trauma. Upirs tin survive significant trauma such as falling on hard stone and existence shot in the centre, yet, this form of trauma can daze Upirs; as Olivia was half conscious and fatigued afterward being shot in the eye by Clementine Chasseur. Trauma such equally peachy through drinking glass, or smashing their head into a mirror at full force won't even pause Upir skin. When Roman was struck with a metallic pole at full force, the blow did nothing, as though it was hitting metal; this was while Roman was feeding on a homeless human being named Gaber. Roman then able to choke the man that hit him, making cracking noises from his cervix. Upirs can survive and recover from almost any injuries inflicted on them, however they can suffer permanent injuries. The simply confirmed means of fatality are removal or devastation of the heart, decapitation, immolation, and the Upir neurotoxin.

  

  Roman being struck in the dorsum and not reacting at all

• Mesmerisation - All Upirs, half or full, take the ability to mesmerise others and gain full control over their minds, actions, and overall perception of reality. Upirs accomplish this effect past looking into a person's optics. It is shown that total Upirs are capable of using this ability on half Upirs; as Olivia used it on Roman to have him impregnate Letha Godfrey. Vargulfs are not susceptible to mesmerisation while transformed, however it remains unknown if this is the example for regular werewolves or when werewolves are in human class. Upirs can even mesmerise themselves, ordinarily by gazing into a reflection of their optics; such as when Roman made himself see Shelley in visions, like his Catabasis, which also seemed to exist some form of self-inflicted mesmerisation to put the pieces of a metaphysical puzzle together and defeat his inner demons. However, this was only when he was a half Upir.
• Immortality - An Upir can potentially live forever; while they volition mature into machismo, at some point they will cease ageing and their lifespan will be endless. Upirs are effectively invulnerable to nearly conventional causes of fatality and are allowed to all earthly diseases and illnesses. Despite this Upirs still possess certain weaknesses and limitations that are capable of killing them.

Half Upir [ ]

• Superhuman Strength- Roman was shown to be strong plenty to fend off a transformed vargulf with an axe handle, which she then threw abroad. He was easily overpowered by Johann Pryce when he was half upir, showing his limitations. Also, the elderly Magdalena, who was seemingly half upir at the fourth dimension and and so mesmerized past an Upir Nazi, was able to well-nigh rip the pharynx out of Nicolae, his running away being the only thing that saved him from death.
• Regenerative Healing - Half upirs appear to heal faster than humans. This is demonstrated by Roman, every bit he left several cuts on his body that were gone after a while. Although, half upir, while not requiring medicine, Roman did place bandages over the cut on his face. Also he felt no hurting from cuts, probably due to having cocaine in his system at the time, and was perfectly healthy throughout his life despite having consumed several drugs and heavy smoking, and perchance was likely to be at chance of 2d hand smoking, every bit Olivia was besides a heavy smoker.

  

  One-half upir, Roman, mesmerizing a man

• Mesmerization - All upirs have the ability to mesmerise people, though half upirs endure nosebleeds and severe head pain.

Olivia'south feeding footing in the abandoned Godfrey Mill

Feeding [ ]

An gouging Upir bite wound

While upirs tin can consume regular food and potable, as well equally drugs and alcohol, without whatsoever side effects, these creatures are reliant on human or synthetic tissue and blood of any living creature, to satisfy their urges, they volition weaken and go rabid without enough. This rabid hunger is similar to substance addiction and contains withdrawal symptoms, with both symptoms of habit and withdrawal becoming worse every day of the upir'south life. They virtually often tin get blood from raw meat or os marrow or simply directly from the source as seen past both Olivia and Roman.

Roman feeding excessively on the supplement of the upir Feeding Tank before condign sick.

Upir seemingly need to adjust to their new diet of claret and raw tissue and, while adjusting, their bodies will seemingly reject the blood and crusade the upir to vomit information technology out, and sometimes go slightly feverish and develop mood swings and all other drug withdrawal type symptoms, as blood to them is like a drug in their system. They prefer their food uncooked as cooked food is not satisfying to them. This also applies to any course of sustenance they may use, whether synthetic or organic, equally when Roman is trying to eat from an Upir Feeding Tank, vomited the nutrient back out and became ill and violent for hours after.

Roman shut to losing control of his hunger when in forepart of a human.

Roman eating off a pimp named Davy when he yet had the willpower to not impale his victims by feeding on them to the point of mortal harm

Olivia'due south start treatment acquired her to almost fracture Pryce's skull, and he begged her non to kill him, which she obliged to. Their bodies mostly prefer to have claret from living sources and non preserved, every bit preserved, or synthetic food sources can cause the body to turn down it, or it may not give as much nutrition equally living sources do every bit no matter how much preserved flesh and blood Roman consumed he could not control his urges fully.

Roman choking someone as strong a Pryce

This is considering an upir's hunger grows more insatiable and unstable with each day of its immortal life causing them to lose command and become into something similar to feeding frenzies and feed until they can control themselves once more, commonly afterwards violently feeding on and killing alive creatures, especially humans. This lack of self-control is the reason that some upir were caught and killed past humans in the past. Roman eventually killed humans when he fed on them equally he did not before and besides started feeding on other living creatures like animals, merely equally Olivia fed on horses owned by her late hubby and covered it up past maxim she had them killed in the grief of the loss of her married man to not agitate suspicion. Roman also could non control his want to feed, as he also had daydreams or dreams of feeding. He also occasionally feeds off living creatures, such equally a prized horse he owned, too as drifters, degenerates, drug addicts, criminals, thugs and homeless people that he knew that people would non miss. This was the same with Olivia when her supplement was not available and most upir who cull to hunt and kill humans.

Olivia after killing Priscilla, digesting the contents of her chemic organization to rejuvenate her own bodily organisation and heal her cancers and semi mortality.

Roman'due south slight lack in morality by sometimes thinking of people as food and thinking of claret types every bit flavor

Roman when finally becoming unable to feed without killing

Somewhen, he fed in a way that killed people, as his hunger was clamorous. His hunger caused him great emotional stress whenever he had an intense hunger attack or attacked someone. He cried and wept whenever he lost control, of his hunger as he wanted to exercise not harm. Upir have been notorious for their feeding and failing to control their hunger, as they lose control in a fashion that kills several people. Eventually, the deaths that occur tin be traced to them, forcing them away for fearfulness that they will be killed by humans, especially those who know of their existence and will hunt them down.

Upir nutrient seen for the first time

Olivia saved herself and Roman from such a fate, she married J R Godfrey to constitute the scientific research to allow them to control their thirst, which eventuality resulted in the development of the Upir Feeding Tank The supplement of the feeding tank could cause associative euphoria, making Olivia call up that she had explained herself fully to Roman and that Roman loved her deeply the starting time time she fed on information technology, dissimilar Roman, who completely rejected it the first fourth dimension he tried it and it made him sickly for an hour as his metabolism was not used to the supplement. Besides, Olivia almost fractured Pryce's skull practise to a violent reaction to the supplement. Before the Feeding Tank was developed, Olivia fed at the Godfrey Mill past feeding on its transients and left several blood paintings in it, even one of a phoenix creature. She was agape when Roman, Peter and others were at the Mill, as they were on her hunting grounds. The upir Feeding Tanks was designed to develop Humanoids, but the project only succeeded in creating plasma discard and tissue supplements to better command an upir'south cravings and instinctual aggression. In a way, these were failed experiments that were being fed to Olivia. A fully developed humanoid can completely repair and enhance an upir'southward self-repairing capabilities to smashing levels to rejuvenate them from damage and abnormal conditions, like those caused by the upir neurotoxins used in Olivia's treatments.

Upirs like Annie, who take lived throughout the centuries past the Dark Ages and resist the urge to butcher, and kill humans for blood, accept normally found jobs that keep them close to sources of blood, such as the doctors, nurses, lab technicians, morticians, and EMT's. Others accept become historians, professors and scientists. Co-ordinate to Annie, half the morticians in America are upir. These upirs will piece of work in the medical field, and therefore in the Emergency Room or even a medic in the armed forces. Annie herself has worked as a armed forces nurse in many wars throughout her time every bit a full upir. To Annie, this path was like to animals living in the wild and fitting into their habitat. Commonly, upirs volition unremarkably laissez passer off as being higher course citizens in their communities. These tribes oftentimes assist each other's struggles, peculiarly with violent feeding, while likewise have friendly gatherings, sometimes with claret-based meals, 1 of these is Blood Pudding.

Blood Pudding, an meal commonly shared by Upirs living in the same community

It is said that upirs that feed on other upirs can become horribly sick, though Roman was able to bleed Olivia without any seen symptoms. Although, it is possible that this sickness is not firsthand and takes some fourth dimension to manifest itself. Alternatively, the Upir Virus causes the infected upir to become unable to feed on blood unless it is from another upir. In fact, the infected become rabid and mindlessly hunt for their ain kind, seeing their own kind as outlined in a crimson aura. They will stem their casualty animalistically earlier butchering them to death. This virus causes an upir to lose their minds, reducing them to mindless animals that only know to hunt and impale their own kind.

Olivia after feeding at the Manufacturing plant

Roman imagines himself feeding off of Miranda and being covered in blood

Psychology [ ]

Roman about to kill a Caul member

Upirs are predatory creatures and are far more vicious than their human appearance suggest. Although they can control themselves in a sophisticated and human way, duress reduces them to a more feral land. This too applies their desire for claret. The longer they abstain from claret, the less in control of themselves they will be, leading to the high possibility of attacking and killing whatsoever human they are almost.

Roman looking at a video of a surgery that causes a hunger attack for him

Roman using his seize with teeth equally a weapon in battle

Roman after eating off of a pimp named Davy to avoid eating a prostitute he liked. This was when he still had the ability to feed without killing his victims.

Upirs are capable of human being emotions, such as compassion, honey, and self-control. However, oft with age the older, they become, the less intense these emotions become. Upirs at any stage volition struggle with humanity at some bespeak in their lives, as Roman constantly did. Since they are living creatures, they have working brains with active nerves, assuasive sure drugs that would be administered to reanimated upirs, tin affect the encephalon and, therefore, change their emotions, but only when they are rehabilitating from dying or are recovering from a combination of blood loss, trauma and a coma. This only seems to work if the upir is nether the effects of blood loss as Olivia was vulnerable to the side effects of her treatments during her recovery subsequently her decease at Roman's hands and Roman was drugged by Dr Galina and was dazed. An upirs hunger tin cause them neat emotional stress whenever they had a potent hunger attack, consisting of hazed senses and being overwhelmed by sensing a great quantity of blood and flesh. Roman saw a video of surgery that triggered a hunger attack. This hunger attack included hazy and blurred vision and senses. It also acquired an upir to lose their temper easily, constantly get, impatient, jittery, agitated, angry, or even violent. Roman yelled at anybody at his workplace and threw an electronic tablet to the floor when the blueprints of Pryce's surreptitious lab was not found when he wanted it. He took his anger out on anyone he saw calling them useless to him. Roman cried and had breakdowns whenever he lost control of his hunger every bit he wanted to practice not harm anyone. If threatened, upirs usually become more prone to manic, instinctual assailment. Olivia was told past Norman that he was going to sentinel her dice horribly from her cancer and even had a knife to weaken her long enough to be killed, making her hate him and go back on her good and loving personality to her more cruel and cruel i, killing her daughters new body, Prycylla to cure herself and so ripping out Norman'south heart to make him suffer.

A half upir Roman shows no pain to the self-inflicted cutting through his chest

Aging [ ]

Upirs are immortal, and practise not physically age, remaining identical later on reaching maturity in the discovery of their powers this may happen at differing ages, for instance, Roman reached total upir status at 18; in Olivia'south case it happened when she was noticeably younger. Upir do not seem to historic period a 24-hour interval from the day they died and arose equally the immortal creatures they go once they die, though their decease must exist at their ain hand. Merely if they do age, they would stop aging when they reach their physical prime, as Olivia was a teen upon turning into a Total upir and now has the appearance of a woman in her xxx's.

Weaknesses [ ]

• Decapitation: Separating an upir's head from the rest of the body will result in its death and is ane of the mutual ways to impale them. Severe harm to the brain may as well be fatal.

Annie uses flammable gas to burn herself to decease

• Cremation: Cremation is the 2d best way to kill an upir that gets rid of any evidences that it existed.

Roman suffering a concussion and seizure later his caput is bashed by some other Upir's strength

• Physical Trauma: While it is ordinarily not fatal, trauma and damage to the body tin actually cause some harm to an upir, though unremarkably by causing pain or slight weakness, such as when Olivia was shot in the heart or when she cutting herself, feeling pain. Also, an upir has the same weak points equally a homo and can exist affected by strikes and impacts. Plenty strength can fifty-fifty break through their enhanced resilience and cause greater harm, as Roman suffered a concussion and seizure when his head was bashed against a wall by another upir. This caused him to require more recovery time than normal. Existence struck in the heart while it being drained of blood and tissue pieces could impale an upir as Destiny killed one infected with the Upir Virus with the use of a trunk cavity vacuum inside a mortuary, a device that is used to liquefying, grinding, and shredding tissues and organs, too as vacuum them out of the body. Therefore, liquidating or heavily mutilating an upir, particularly on the inside, tin kill them. At the aforementioned time, vacuuming out or removing tissues and organs such as the encephalon or heart, or simply grinding or shredding them, can kill upir as well. Permanent damage tin, in fact, be dealt to an upir, though it may not be fatal. Roman was at the adventure of being made permanently deaf when a syringe was almost a tube connected to the inside of his hearing organs. Even then, just heavy mutilation or removal of the head, brain or heart, will truly kill an upir. Roman also experienced the weaknesses of broken bones subsequently being tackled out his window and falling on the ground with the bear upon breaking his body and leaving him vulnerable to Peter's vargulf. He seemed to think it was permanent equally he asked Peter not leave him in such a state and to kill him instead.

• Eye Piercing: A direct strike to the eye cannot kill an upir, yet, information technology can weaken them long plenty for them to exist killed, then maybe an hr or less. Anticoagulants are seemingly capable of making the weakened period longer. The style to pierce their hearts is to aim under the sternum and so twist upward and towards the spine. Also, if the centre is destroyed, information technology tin can be fatal to an upir. Existence struck in the heart while it being drained of blood and tissue pieces could impale an Upir as Destiny killed ane infected with the Upir Virus with the use of a body cavity vacuum inside a mortuary, a device that is used to liquefying and shredding tissues and organs, besides as vacuum them out of the body.

• Heart Removal: If their center is extracted from their bodies or their chest is ripped out, an upir will die in a like fashion that they dice from decapitation.

Roman killed by his throat and heart being ripped out by Peter'south vargulf.

A slain Upir

• Suffocation: It is believed that, much as Olivia became comatose and seemingly died afterwards her attack by Roman, suffocation, either of the lungs or the claret vessels or torso parts or systems tin cause the same upshot. Pryce's and Olivia'southward plan to re-create her mind unto some other upir and leave her own body dead, every bit it was infected with the Upir Virus, involved seemingly killing, or at least making Olivia's real body seem expressionless, with a morphine overdose. Information technology is implied that removing the lungs has a loftier possibility of killing an upir, though it may just cause them pain, equally they are said to survive any damage other than severe damage, destruction or removal of the center, brain, or caput. Olivia was seemingly choking to expiry when Shelley was strangling her.

Olivia seemingly comes close to decease when existence choked by Shelley.

Roman existence unable to hold Andreas's torso on his ain while having super human strength

• Normal Stamina: Upirs, while too have the aforementioned weak points as a homo, as well cannot always sustain prolonged concrete or mental effort, unless they are feeding or on a blood high. This can limits their physical strength, as those who practise non feed as often or from the correct source can lose their enhanced resilience while they can all the same recover from any injury without complication or medicinal help regardless. Both trauma and damage can have the same painful, weakening, disorienting, or stunning effect on an upir equally it does on normal humans, though this usually is for those who exercise non feed regularly or the right amount. Permanent impairment can, in fact, be dealt to an upir, though it may not be fatal. Roman was at the risk of existence fabricated permanently deaf when a syringe was nigh a tube connected to the inside of his hearing organs.
• Hunger - Beingness deprived of blood and/or mankind non only causes an upir to weaken but also to lose their power to control their hunger and sometimes assail humans to feed on them. Theirs grows with every day they live until they attack everything with blood and flesh uncontrollably. They soon volition impale while feeding and lose their humanity to their hunger and lose all self-control. The upir Feeding Tank can successful adjourn an upir's appetite and stop their loss of control and a full grow humanoid from the lab and be fed on to help heal an upir if they develop unnatural weather condition.

Roman tempted by an open wound

Olivia's tongue later on it existence sowed back on, thought information technology still needed stitches on

Destiny kills an Upir infected with the Upir Virus past stabbing it in the torso with a claret cavity vacuum at the mortuary, effectively vacuuming its blood and some internal tissues out

• Blood-Loss: Without feeding on enough blood and flesh, upirs can be rendered nigh mortal and be vulnerable to long term furnishings of impairment that feeding cannot heal immediately and require, such as when Olivia had loss of speech, was in a coma for almost a year, and had astringent muscular dystrophy later on existence drained of blood by Roman, which caused her to become and then weak that she needed a cane to walk. This did non hinder her superhuman strength as she ripped open Marie Godfrey's neck, either with her bare easily or with her seize with teeth. Roman lost his enhanced strength and resilience due to his treatments, as seen when he fought a cultist with a knife and was slices in the arm and had to dodge attacks.
  

  

  Nate, an Upir, existence mauled to death past another infected by the Upir Virus

  
  He was once durable enough to take a direct strike to the dorsum with a metal pole, and it is landing on him every bit if he were made of metal. His forcefulness was besides lessened as he needed a shovel in combat to win in a fight against cultists and to beat the cultist he fought to the floor before smashing the blade confronting the cultists head. The cultist was not fifty-fifty killed by this, even while Roman was seemingly fully exerting his force. It is unsaid that he could take been able to fight his mother on equal grounds if he were not taking the treatments only this was not demonstrated. Being struck in the heart while information technology being tuckered of blood and tissue pieces could kill an upir equally Destiny killed ane infected with the Upir Virus with the utilize of a body cavity vacuum inside a mortuary, a device that is used to liquefying, grinding, and shredding tissues and organs, also equally vacuum them out of the torso. Therefore, liquidating or heavily mutilitating an upir, especially to the heart, brain or head, tin kill them. At the same time, vacuuming out or removing tissues and organs such as the brain or heart, or simply grinding or shredding them, can kill upir equally well.

Olivia being drained of blood and left to fall into a coma past Roman

• Upir Neurotoxin: An enzyme derived from an upir's own trunk can exist used for medicinal purposes, breaking downwardly the immune system and weakening an upir'due south cellular defences to allow for further treatments. It was used in Olivia's recovery afterwards being killed past Roman, as she could not recover on her own. Information technology also acquired her to become more human, giving her tissue dystrophy, chemically enhanced emotions and empathy, which was difficult to overcome, accelerated ageing and disuse and even human-like vulnerability to cancers, which is a possible side effect of the accelerated ageing. Olivia had severe muscular dystrophy afterward being drained of blood by Roman and being given the Neurotoxin in her treatments, all of which acquired her to go then weak that she needed a cane to walk which she got over in months. She took medication such as methotrexate, cyclophosphamide, carboplatin, and etoposide. This could all exist immediately reversed if an affected upir feeds off a Humanoid grown at the Godfrey Labs. It should be noted that an upirs strength is the but physical ability that is not affected past the Neurotoxin, every bit she was shown to but be as frail as a human, spraining herself after falling off a chair, though she however ripped out Marie Godfrey'southward throat and lifted Roman several feet in a higher place her head with one paw. Her immune system was close down, physically making her weak and making her age at an accelerated rate and develop the side furnishings of ageing such as cancer development due to a decaying bodily organisation. The Upir Feeding Tanks was designed to develop Humanoids, merely the projection only succeeded in creating plasma and tissue supplements to fully command an upir's hunger and sustain them. A fully adult Humanoid can completely repair, and an enhance upir'southward self-reparation capabilities to unnatural levels to help them rejuvenate and restore themselves from impairment or aberrant conditions caused by upir Neurotoxins.

Pryce sedates an Upir scientist from behind

• Pryce'south Sedative: Pryce used a allaying on Roman as a half upir that left him comatose for days. He and so used it on a human male that he copied his consciousness onto. The sedative and so was shown to be able to render full upir unconscious for an hour or more, equally Pryce used it to copy Olivia's consciousness onto.
• Hemophilia Serum: Adult past the Godfrey Found, this enzyme inhibitor is meant to crusade astute hemophilia, preventing clotting factors and inducing excessive bleeding. The effect of information technology on a living organism was said to be "Like an atom bomb going off in the bloodstream". It would weaken or potentially almost cripple an upir long enough for them to be killed. If an upir who is going through Pryce'south cure treatments is subjected to the serum, information technology may kill them.

An Iv line with the Hemophilia Serum

Roman heavily weakened by bullets laced with Heparin

Protamine sulfate beingness used to cure Roman of the Heparin that is severely weakening him

• Anticoagulant: Drugs like Heparin, can be placed on the weapon that pierces their hearts and farther its effectiveness at weakening them, every bit their blood will be unable to jell and therefore weakening their harm reparation abilities and physical recovery. With that, they are physically react to wounds like any man would, though they have minutes before succumbing to these weaknesses, allowing them to employ their strength to fight back. Not even feeding can stop the symptoms of the anticoagulant. An injection of protamine sulfate, a clotting agent injected into the neck, can reverse the effects of the anticoagulant equally fast as the anticoagulant takes to weaken the upir.

Olivia's rust-covered torso caused by the Upir Virus

• Rare Cases: Upirs can besides become sick with diseases such as congenital centre disease, which tin can occur naturally, forth with vulnerability to cancers and the Upir Virus. While they are the but species to exist vulnerable to this infection, cancers happen to most upir whose immune system is broken downward by upir Neurotoxin. It is possible that if such a affliction is within the upir before they become full upir, information technology might survive their suicide and mayhap be able to yet damage them.

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