Next time I would suggest a "WTF?" option, as it totally would have been my pick for the question about saliva. ;)

Does Slayer blood have special powers for vamps?

Canon. Besides Spike's playful suggestion that Slayer blood is an aphrodesiac, we have Slayer blood being the only cure for the vampire poison afflicting Angel (which suggests its more powerful in its affect on vampires than regular human blood) and we see how Angel drinking from Hamilton in NFA gives him superstrength. So if a person's superstrong, than that power is somehow connected to their blood and this power can be consumed by vampires to a certain extant.


Do vampires need blood to heal?

Canon. To me saying they don't need blood to heal is kinda like saying people don't need to eat when they're injured. Just as food is the source of energy for people who need it to heal, it's the same for vampires.


Do vampires have super speed?

Canon. I don't think it's like Flash super speed, but it does seem to be heightened. We've certainly seen Angel jump in front of people quickly enough.


Do vampires have enhanced vision while in game face in the dark?

This one isn't necessarily true but I accept it as such. I guess it's technically fanon, though it makes sense to me.


Does a vampire's saliva have special healing properties?

Not canon, but fanon. It's canon in other vampire worlds, but not in the Buffyverse.


Do vamps have the ability to gain and lose weight?

Canon. Spike confirms that vampires can lose weight in The Initiative:

Spike : You know what happens to vampires who don't get to feed?

Buffy : I always wondered that. Giles, plates.

Spike : Living skeletons, mate. Like famine pictures from those dusty countries, only not half as funny.


Can a vampire sense a Slayer through some sixth-sense?

Not sure it's canon. Never anything to suggest it really. It's more like everyone recognizes Buffy, but that could just as easily be from word-of-mouth. She certainly surprised vampires as the Slayer during the first few seasons.


Can Buffy sense vampires through some sixth-sense?

Canon. But more like it's canon for some slayers. Because Giles says that Buffy as the Slayer should be able to sense them but she only seems able to sense Angel AFAIK. Isn't there some scene where she senses Spike before seeing him? But that's something that might be unrelated to her Slayer abilities. Sometimes you just have this sense. *shrugs*


Do vampires have a claiming ritual of some sort?

Not canon, but fanon. That's only present in fic!land.


Can vampires regenerate or regrow limbs?

Not canon. And I've never heard it was fanon either. Haven't stumbled across that one.


Does a vampire's hair and nails continue to grow past the length they were when they died?

Canon. All those episodes with Angel with a beard and then when Spike's hair grows out over the summer between Season 6 and 7 lay this one to rest for me.


Do vampires have the ability to jump off tall buildings without any injury?

Canon for the most part, but not sure it applies to all vamps. Even Connor has done this with no injury.


Does a vampire have any mystical or psychic control over the vampires they sire?

Not canon. I think it's more like they have a bond, but nothing that could be termed the sire bond.


Do vampires purr?

Not canon, but one of my favorite fanons. I love a purring Spike.


***I'm kinda surprised you didn't have the "Do vampires get stronger with age?" question. Hee, that was fun.

Does Slayer blood have special powers for vamps?

I said "canon, but not for all vamps," but what I was really getting at is that it is canon that Slayer blood does have a healing function (since it's the cure for Angel's poison), but there's no evidence that it has special powers beyond that particular antidote.

Do vampires need blood to heal?

Not necessarily, but I accept it as canon. It's never explicitly said that blood is necessary to heal wounds, but I don't really see how a vampire could heal without nourishment, like angearia said.

Do vampires have super speed?

Canon. I can't remember exactly where, but I am positive there are instances where vampires move faster than normal.

Do vampires have enhanced vision while in game face in the dark?

I said other, because while I do think they have enhanced vision, I don't think it has anything to do with game face. They can see just as well in human face.

Does a vampire's saliva have special healing properties?

*laughs hysterically*

Do vamps have the ability to gain and lose weight?

Canon. See angearia for details. :)

Can a vampire sense a Slayer through some sixth-sense?

Not sure. A lot of them do seem to recognize her, though. Also, Spike can clearly sense her coming in "Dead Things" (door scene!) but it's unclear if that's a Slayer thing or if it's enhanced hearing.

Can Buffy sense vampires through some sixth-sense?

I said canon, but I kind of want to go with angearia again - it is possible, according to Giles, so it's a canon Slayer power. Whether Buffy actually can or not is kind of iffy.

Do vampires have a claiming ritual of some sort?

God, no.

Can vampires regenerate or regrow limbs?

No. We don't actually get confirmation of this that I recall, but if it were possible, then it wouldn't have been such a big deal that Spike got his hands cut off in "Damage."

Does a vampire's hair and nails continue to grow past the length they were when they died?

Canon. See Angel's mustache in "Amends" and Spike's crazy basement hair.

Do vampires have the ability to jump off tall buildings without any injury?

Not sure. I think this is one of those things that AtS vamps can do but BtVS vamps are never shown doing, lol.

Does a vampire have any mystical or psychic control over the vampires they sire?

Control? Not at all. But it is canon that Angel has a psychic connection to at least some of the vampires he's sired.

Do vampires purr?

Not sure. I've been told Spike purrs in "School Hard," but I'm not totally convinced.

Slayer Blood

I at first put not necessarily cannon, but if I could change it I would to cannon. In FFL Spike says slayer's blood is an aphrodisiac, but that could have been a vampire urban legend. Then I remembered slayer's blood being the cure for the poison Angel had, so that establishes it as cannon for me.


Hmm, was expecting a question about whether or not all vamps had a thrall of some sort.

1. Does Slayer blood have special powers for vamps?
It did heal Angell, and it helped The Master escape from the Hellmouth so it has mystical properties. And, while we don’t actually know if it does something extra Special for vampires, other than getting them horny, we can assume that it gives them strength from the fact that when Angel bit Hamilton he took his strength.

2. Does a vampire's saliva have special healing properties?
Nope. I’ve seen versions, the one where saliva heals and the one where it keeps the would open. Frankly y don’t care for either one but why would vampire’s saliva heal? I mean they’re eeeeevil why should their saliva care if the victim bleeds out or not?


3. Do vamps have the ability to gain and lose weight?
Hello Angel! Oookay maybe female vamps don’t, unless I check pics of Harmony before and after but I don’t feel like it.

4. Can Buffy sense vampires through some sixth-sense?
Well she felt Angel, and I guess she felt Spike too. According to Giles she should be able to pick a Vamp from a crowd though she relied more on fashion sense to tell a Vamp from a human. And in the movie she gets vamps when a vamp’s near.

5. Do vampires have a claiming ritual of some sort?
A)Gross. B) How can anyone idealize the idea of owning or being owned by someone? Forever???? or have your thoughts available for a free reading at anytime, or have your feelings manipulated by an icky mental connection? C) Ethically gross.

6. Do vampires have the ability to jump off tall buildings without any injury?

Not if they fall during the day :P

Seriously though, Angel fell a long fall and he survived, he got trashed but he survived. So there.

Mostly, I assumed that if we've seen a vampire do something once and we're not given an explicit on screen contradiction in another vampire at some point, then it applies to all of them. Hence my fairly large number of "canon for all vampires" answers.

Does Slayer blood have special powers for vamps?

I think it does. In addition to Spike's aphrodisiac comments and Buffy healing Angel, one tiny sip of it is enough to break the Master out of his prison. Compared to the huge quantities of average person blood that Luke was planning to consume to achieve the same goal during the harvest, that's some pretty hefty stuff.

Can a vampire sense a Slayer through some sixth-sense?

I think they can. I don't think that all of them know what a slayer is, and without that knowledge it's just alarm bells in their head telling them that a threat is around, but if you know what a slayer is and meet the slayer then you can put everything together and suss out what you're instincts are telling you.

Does a vampire have any mystical or psychic control over the vampires they sire?

I don't think that this is true in general, but when I read it it occurred to me that it's the closest thing to a plausible explanation for Darla's personality in S1 as compared to Darla's personality the rest of the time that I've ever seen. Given that only extended period of time that we've seen her with the master is in S1, I suggest that he was controlling her with his brain and that being around him took away some of her free will and ability to think for herself. If this was happening sort of naturally, it would also explain why all of the master's minions seemed so stupid in general.

I'm waiving my own rule here and not applying this to every vamp, because the plots of any episode in which Darla and Angel, Angel and Dru, Dru and Spike, ect. appeared together would have been radically different if they had that kind of influence at their disposal.

In addition to Spike's aphrodisiac comments, Buffy healing Angel, the tiny sip of it is enough to break the Master out of his prison.

Also, one tiny lick is enough to break the First influence on Spike in S7. I don't know if it's slayers blood effect on any vampire or Buffy's blood effect on Spike.

Re: question 14, I think I've heard Drusilla purr. Maybe it was a thing with her and Spike.

And I still don't think vamps should be able to gain or lose weight, since they don't eat or metabolize food, but obviously they do -- so that's clearly canon, I just don't understand why.

Super speed - I couldn't tell you why, but I think this one is sort of silly, and also not supported well enough in canon to force me to accept it. Angel's just gotten really good at sneaking around over the years.

Regrowth of limbs - No. However, I have an idea for a torture darkfic, which I'll likely never write, about what happens when you cut off vamp limbs and dust the limbs individually...

Jumping off tall buildings - I guess it depends on how tall, and how they land. With the superstrength and all, I have no trouble with vamps being able to safely land from greater heights than people. But I still think if you toss a vamp over the side of the Empire State Building, he's going to make crunchy, squishy splat.

Not reading comments cause I don't wanna taint my answers--

*Vampires can growl, so I'd think logically they'd be able to purr (since their growls sound tigerish, to me).

*We never see any kind of mystical/psychic bond with any of the vamps--particularly the ones who'd been together over a century, so no.

*On Ats, yes, vamps could totally leap from story high buildings to the grown and be cool. On Buffy? We never see it...so that doesn't necessarily meant they can't, but they seem enhanced on Angel, so yes.

*We've seen Spike, Angel, Harmony and Darla's hair lengths grow after being cut, so yeah. Regenerate and grow limbs? Yeah, that never happened...ever. So no. Also, if they did, I don't see why the Master would bother poking out eyes if they were just gonna grow back.

*Claiming rituals are mos def fanon. Yeah, none of that went down ever, or was ever mentioned. If it's in a fic, I'll roll with it.

*Buffy can sense vamps she's familiar with (e.g. Angel and Spike). She doesn't seem to sense the others, so much as notice if someone is stuck in the 70s or something.

*We've never seen a vampire "sense" a slayer...it was usually obvious or well known, but I'll accept it.

*Saliva? Wouldn't healing be the opposite of the desired effect? Now, anti coagulants? Okay. Saying the other will rip me out of a fic.

*Enhanced eye sight while in game face? No... That's just...no. Let's just go with that. All of their vampiric traits are the same either way.

*Well, if by fast you mean out running a slayer, than yeah. And they can do that creepy "move from one spot to another--usually behind you" really fast on Ats, so for some vamps--not all.

*Blood to heal? Well, they mos def look sickly without it--nourishes their bodies, etc. Slayer blood was specific in Angel's poision thingy in s3, and it wouldn't have been if slayer blood didn't have an extra something. I mean, they are imbued with demon spirit--gotta be something mystical in it in relation to the demon breed that lives on blood.

*

Heh heh, the "gaining weight" question gave me a bit of the giggles. I mean, since they are dead I would assume vampires would stay the same from the moment of their death barring any superficial changes (ie Spike's passion for hair dye). But the humans who play them certainly change.

Heck, look at David Boreanaz from S1 of Buffy to S5 of Angel. He went from skinny face to man face.

Then again I've always wondered about vampires having sex. Their hearts don't beat yet they can get erections?

My opinion of things such as claiming is that it's like using warp drives in a Babylon 5 fic - Trek and B5 may both have spaceships, but it doesn't mean that what works in one universe fits in the other. Ritualistic vampire stuff just throws me right out of the story because the whole point of Buffyverse vampires was that they were not the pompous Stoker-Rice vampires. You might as well have Angel sparkle. I don't care if people write it, but IMO the fic should then be marked as a Vampire the Masquerade crossover.

/end rant

(if claiming is canon, then so's my fic, too, damnit ;P)

As for the weight issue, I don't actually consider the actor gaining/losing weight as proof for canonisity of vampire's ability to lose or gain weight (though dialogue does, IMO, make it canon) because then logically vampires would also canonically grow older seeing that the actors don't certainly look the same by the end of the show as they did at the beginning. That's why I don't like fics where, for example, someone mistakes James Marsters for Spike, because in my head they don't actually look the same just like Spike wouldn't have suddenly gone through a transformation if the actor had changed in mid-series.

When it comes to vampires gaining and losing weight, I accept it as canon, and as a sort of "mystical" thing. If we assume that vampires' bodies are physiologically dead, after all, they really shouldn't be able to do anything, right? My assumption is that a vampire can do nearly all of the things humans can do--eat and drink, have sex, grow hair, and so on--and that a biologist or doctor examining them would throw up his hands in despair trying to figure out how any of it works. (I'm remembering a humorous debate about Vampire: the Masquerade vampires, in which some scientifically-minded participants pointed out that if, as White Wolf said, a vampire's only bodily fluid was blood, their eyes and mouth should be constantly red, or else absolutely dry, from the "tear" film layer over the eyes and "saliva".)

I accept purring because it's fun. ;-) It allows for amusing character moments, because most purr-favorers seem to be Spuffy fans--purring makes vampires look cute and cuddly, and Bangels apparently tend toward utterly-evil vamps. So I've done things like have Angel grouch about purring because it's semi-involuntary and he doesn't like doing it, it gives people the wrong idea.

It's clear that at least some vampires share a kind of "psychic bond" between sire and spawn, and equally clear it doesn't allow for any kind of special control. I've begun making some bizarre use of this in my fic, especially in DeadWar, since Angel is Buffy's grandsire there and Slayers also seem to share a psychic bond. As for thrall, my assumption is that it's a characteristic of "mystically-powerful" vampires, but that any vampire will eventually become "mystically powerful" if s/he survives long enough. (Presumably, though, this requires being older than Darla. Unless Darla just didn't care to use it.)

>>Do vamps have the ability to gain and lose weight?

Didn't Harmony say something about some sort of blood going to her hips? I'm not sure, though. Angel gets fat, but really, I'd have to go with David getting fat on that one. On the one hand, it's hard to divorce the actors from the characters, but on the other, it's unrealistic to expect an actor not to gain any weight in 8 years.

>>Can vampires regenerate or regrow limbs?

I've never seen this. Is it common in fic? I have seen (unfortunately) Buffy regrowing certain parts (making her a perpetual virgin).

>>Does a vampire's hair and nails continue to grow past the length they were when they died?

Crazy basement hair. Though I would have been highly amused if we had seen crazy basement beard. I guess Spike was sane enough to shave, LOL. However, we did get those flashbacks with Angelus' awful mustache.

>>Do vampires purr?

I put not canon. And if they do, I don't like it, LOL.

Vampires can jump off taller buildings without injury than humans can - probably simply because they're more damage-resistant in general than humans, in the same way as we've seen Faith jump out of a high window carrying Wesley and come out of it completely unscathed - but if one jumped off the Taipei 101 Tower or the Shanghai World Financial Centre it would break every bone in its body.

Does Slayer blood have special powers for vamps?

When Angel bit Buffy to be cured from the poison slayer blood was mentioned as a specific cure for a specific poison. No mention was ever made that slayer blood cured anything else ever in the series. I don't buy that slayer blood cured Spike from control of the First. It was tasting Buffy that caused Spike to wake himself up because he was so horrified about assaulting her again, the thing that actually drove him to get a soul in the first place. Saying it was slayer blood takes that away from Spike and minimizes him.

Do vampires need blood to heal?

It just makes sense to me and it's been hinted at throughout the series.

Do vampires have super speed?

Vampires have never been shown in any canonical way to have super speed. If they did there would have been no way for humans to kill them but humans are shown killing vampires all the time.

Do vampires have enhanced vision while in game face in the dark?

Vampires have enhanced vision in the dark regardless of whether or not they are in game face, IMO.

Does a vampire's saliva have special healing properties?

Fanon. Never once has it been shown that Joss vamp has mystical saliva.

Do vamps have the ability to gain and lose weight?

In the first episode of season 5 Sunshine(?) provokes a member of her gang by saying that all the blood she drinks has caused her to become fat.

Can a vampire sense a Slayer through some sixth-sense?

It has never been shown, although it was hinted that Spike "sensed" Buffy but IMO he just smelled her. Too many vampires have no idea who Buffy is before she kills them.

Can Buffy sense vampires through some sixth-sense?

In the movie it's mentioned as a crampy feeling and Giles, in Welcome to the Hellmouth, mentions that it's a slayer ability. There's no reason why Buffy, who has evidenced it and even shown that she can sometimes discern WHO the vampire is, wouldn't have this ability.

Do vampires have a claiming ritual of some sort?

OH HAYELL NO!!!!!111!1!11eleventymillionandeleven!!1!!!

I may have a strong opinion about this.....

Can vampires regenerate or regrow limbs?

No. If they could it wouldn't have mattered it they retrieved Spike's hands.

Does a vampire's hair and nails continue to grow past the length they were when they died?

Angel's hair has reached every length possible in the course of his series.

Do vampires have the ability to jump off tall buildings without any injury?

Spike did it in the crazy Slayer episode of Angel.

Does a vampire have any mystical or psychic control over the vampires they sire?

No. Angel's life would have been a hell of a lot easier if they did, what with Dru, Penn and the navy vamp he sired whose name escapes me and I'm too lazy to look up.

Do vampires purr?

I DON'T CARE! IN MY REALITY THEY DO! ALL THE TIME!!! YOU CAN'T CONVINCE ME ANY DIFFERENT LALALALALA!!! %^D

Unlike a few other people, I have read all the comments before giving my own answers... Also, what's with all the spanking talk in the comments? Honestly, some people seem fixated on it for some reason... ;-)


1. Slayer blood
It definitely has mystical power that normal blood doesn't, as 'Prophecy Girl' showed. However, I suspect that vampire legend has built up "Slayer blood" into something far more special and powerful than it actually is, outside of a few dark rituals where it's a required component.

2. "Blood is life, lackbrain. Why do you think we eat it? It's what keeps you going, makes you warm, makes you hard, makes you other than dead." So, yes.

3. Some vampires can pluck crossbow bolts out of the air. I can't remember the episode, but on his own series Angel even does the 'standing-in-front-of-you-one-minute,-behind-you-the-next' trick at least once. So yes, they do have superspeed - but they rarely seem to use it, so I went with "canon but not for all". It's a trick only some powerful ones know, or it's something they can only do very infrequently, or something. (I've seen one theory that actually, both vampires and Slayers have superspeed, but the fight scenes are slowed down for the benefit of us human viewers. *g*)

4. I think they do, but not as extreme as some fic suggests. They spend their time walking through dark alleys without constantly bumping into things, after all... They also have a far better sense of smell than humans, of course, which also helps them find their way around. (You didn't ask, but I also believe Slayers have heightened senses compared to normal humans; this comes under the 'not canon but accept as true' category.)

5. Healing saliva is a 'Vampire:The Masquerade' thing. It has no place in the Buffyverse. (In V:tM it's there as a way for vampires to hide their existence from humanity; licking the wound after they've bitten someone hides all evidence of a vampire attack, and makes it look like plain anaemia.)

6. I think some of the weight loss and/or gain we see Boreanaz and Marsters go through comes under the "suspension of disbelief" heading, like the couple of times we see them reflected in a mirror or a pool of water by accident, or when the actors are obviously breathing. It's because this is TV, not the actual Buffyverse where these characters are real. But then again, we've got Spike's "living skeletons" comment, so they can lose weight in extreme circumstances.

7. I think they can sense humans using the regular five senses extremely well, and the Slayer is enough of a legend among them that they can guess that a young woman with fancy kung-fu skills is probably her. But it's not a sixth sense.

Whoa! The joint is jumpin'. I was like the fourth person to vote in the poll yesterday, and didn't have time for commenting, so I come back today, and - it's a party! :D

Let's see. IMO, the MAJOR obvs ones are regrowing hair/nails, and gaining/losing weight. They're supported by visual and verbal evidence on the show. (Although I think Snowy once said something about something Angel said in NFA indicating that his hair doesn't grow back? I don't read the comics, so I dunno.)

The not majorly obvs but still pretty clear to me ones are needing blood to heal, super speed, and enhanced vision. I'm fairly sure that vamps have all-around enhanced senses and physical abilities, just because that makes sense to differentiate them from regular people, and because of various examples on the show. And the needing blood to heal, as others have pointed out, makes sense in that blood equals nourishment.

Slayer blood, I'm not so sure - my gut says yeah, cause it just *seems* like Slayer blood is different and special - but I wouldn't say that's canon.

The saliva thing is effing ridiculous. RIDICULOUS.

As for sensing vampires/Slayers...I've found it to be very common in canon for Slayers to be able to sense each other, and for vampires to be able to sense each other. But it's not quite as common for vampires to sense Slayers or vice versa. So I'm not really sure - it's definitely arguable, but not completely solidly supported by canon.

Claiming is one of my absolute pet peeves. I think it's incredibly stupid and just leads to very crappy, OOC vamp/human shippy fics.

Regenerate limbs? Well, I saw it in one of Snowy's fics, where Spike cut off his own limbs and grew them back cause it reminded him of when Angel did it, but I wouldn't call it fanon, and certainly not canon. Aside from the thing with Spike's hands, it just seems too damned convenient. But I wouldn't rule it out or be squicked by it, really.

I've seen Angel flying and wooshing all over the place from ridiculous heights, so sure on the jumping off tall buildings. I agree with someone else that it seems to be more of an Ats thing - which makes sense, cause Sunnydale is not so much with the tall buildings.

Mythical bond over vamp they sired? (Thank you for using that and not 'childe' - it may be the only suitable word, but I don't have to like it.) I think sorta. I absolutely hate when people take this too far and have them, like, talk in each other's heads, or say that when the sire uses their SPECIAL SIRE VOICE the other vamp has to do everything they say. But I do think there's a special connection deeper than the one between just two random vamps - somewhat beyond normal familial bonds, with a bit of mystical crap goin' on, but not too far.

Does Slayer blood have special powers for vamps?
I'm going with yes. Spike claims that slayer blood is an aphrodisiac. He also seems to get his memory back after tasting Buffy's blood in "Sleeper," so it's possible that her being a slayer had something to do with it. Also, Angel can only be healed by draining the blood of a Slayer when he is poisoned in BtVS Season 3.

Do vampires need blood to heal?
I'm going with yes. They have to have blood in order to keep healthy while undead. I say healthy because, while they can technically exist with feeding, it is canon that they physically deteriorate without it. Spike gets pale and seems kind of weak when he's first chipped and can't kill. He also mentions vamps who don't feed: "Living skeletons, mate. Like famine pictures from those dusty countries, only not half as funny." Angel seems to be on his way to this state when he's trapped in Davy Jones's locker, and Wesley feeds him pig's blood and his own human blood to revive him.

Do vampires have super speed? Do vampires have the ability to jump off tall buildings without any injury?
Speed, yes. Angel is super fast when he catches that coffee mug that that waitress girl drops in the very first AtS episode. Jumping, yes. I think I recall Angel jumping at least once. However, if they are caught by surprise and toss (Spike from the tower), I'm sure they'd have some cuts/bruises/broken bones.

Do vampires have enhanced vision while in game face in the dark?
Canonically speaking, no. However, Angel points out that Doyle is stronger when he goes Brachen than he is when human. So, I could see vamps' abilities sharpening when fangy.

Does a vampire's saliva have special healing properties?
Nuh-uh. This is purely fanon, usually anti-coagulant properties. Frankly, it makes no sense to me. Why would a vamp need to heal anybody? I'd think they'd want any prey to keep bleeding :-P

Do vamps have the ability to gain and lose weight?
I hemmed and hawed over this one. Spike does tell Xander that he "exercises" to keep fit in "Gone," and I think I remember Spike saying something about Angel's weight in AtS Season 5, but I can't find a reference. So, I'm going with yes.

Can a vampire sense a Slayer through some sixth-sense?
Um, no. The vamps don't seem to know Buffy's the Slayer until after she starts kicking their ass. Spike seems to sense Buffy (Dead Things door), but that's probably more a sensing *her* and not the Slayer. Also, how much sense would it make to have vampires sensing their killer? :-P

Can Buffy sense vampires through some sixth-sense?
Yes, she can, but that doesn't mean that she does. Giles tries to get her to hone her ability, but she mostly just recognizes them through observation than through any kind of tinglies.

Can vampires regenerate or regrow limbs?
No. They heal but that's not the same as regeneration. They can mend a broken leg, but I don't think it'd grow back if you cut it off completely. The cut part would just heal over.

Does a vampire's hair and nails continue to grow past the length they were when they died?
Three words: Crazy Basement Hair. :drool:

</i>Does a vampire have any mystical or psychic control over the vampires they sire?</i>
There is no evidence of any kind of sire control. Some vamps are able to thrall their victims (Drusilla, Dracula). So they *could* thrall their sirees, but only if they can do it to everyone else.

Do vampires have a claiming ritual of some sort?
Ahem. HELL. NO. I had never even heard of it until I started reading fanfic. It can have it's place in a well-written fic, but it's completely fanon.

Do vampires purr?
This is not canon; but, I have to say that the thought of a purring Spike really makes me wanna purrrrrr. I'm a total cat person, and the purr is the best part. I can only imagine it coming from that strong, compact, well-muscled body...

ETA: I can't believe I didn't think of the obvious proof that vamps can't regenerate limbs: Spike's hands. If they would've grown back after Dana sawed them off, no one would have bothered to put them back on :-P

Edited at 2009-05-15 12:59 am (UTC)