Vampire Baby?

Spike Angelus

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The other night I had a dream that I was a vampire in the Buffyverse, and I fed on and sired a pregnant woman. Now, I didn't get to finish the dream, but I've been thinking, in universe, what would have happened to the baby. I know in the Marvelverse Blade was born to a mother bitten by a vamp, but how would it work in Buffy/Angel? Would the turned mother be forever pregnant with a undead baby, or would the baby die, or would something similar to Darla's pregnancy happen?
 
Hmm. I think the baby would just die and be born stillborn (or simply miscarried if the pregnancy wasn't very far along). Darla's pregnancy was very unique and unprecedented, but I'm sure some vampire somewhere must have fed on a pregnant woman before.
 
That's what I'm think, about the baby being born still born, but, I'm wondering what would happen if the baby was close to term, or if the mother was sired very close to going into labor.
Maybe there was a reason they never showed it on screen. Avoid the headache of explaining it.
 
I think the baby would die, since it wouldn't be nurtured, and I think the connection between the vampire and baby wouldn't be strong enough, even tough both the vamp and baby would feed of the same woman. Maybe if the vamp took a while killing the woman, feeding her his/her blood so they baby had time to absorb it before dying it would work.
 
Ew, ew, ew. This totally brought up a "Breaking Dawn" mental image. Do. Not. Want. ... Ever.


But I think what Skitteflickan said makes sense.
 
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Spike Angelus
What's "Breaking Dawn"?
In order to turn someone, you have to completely drain them, but at ehe point of death, you have to share your blood with them. Then they die, and resurrect as undead vampires. Since the change requires the victim to actually die, the unborn fetus would also die. Even if it were to somehow turn with its mother, since a vampire never ages, depending on how well developed it was at the time of turning, it would either remain in an embryonic state, or never develpo beyond an immaturely born infant. If, on the other hand, by some miracle the baby were taken immediately after the mother's death and put in an incubator until it had developed well enough to live on its own, then it would be completely human, with no Blade-like powers, because the powers come with the rest of the vampire package, the first requirement of which is for the host body to be completely and permanently dead. No death. No death, no vampire powers. But if it makes you any happier, you could still kill it by cutting its head off, burning it completely, or driving a wooden stake through its heart.
 
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Spike Angelus
Thank sounds like the most logical thing that would happen.
In order to turn someone, you have to completely drain them, but at ehe point of death, you have to share your blood with them. Then they die, and resurrect as undead vampires.

Are we sure that's they way it has to be?

Maybe they share a few drops of blood and the victim's neck get snapped and a few hours later, abracadabra?
 
I'm not saying that it couldn't happen as you describe, because we've never seen it done that way, which means that Joss could write it as happening without contradicting his own canon, but either way, the baby that was themain point of the discussion, would still die with its mother, and would not resurrect as a fetus-vamp.
 
Oh, what a lovely thought!
If a pregnant woman was created a vampire, would she be able to give nourishment to an unborn child?
Is blood, or the basic components that create blood passed from mother to baby?
If so, then the baby will be a vampire. If the unborn baby does become a vampire then the chances are it might want to get out. Should it get out, what will it be?
Vampire? Zombie? or best of all, a Reaver!


Maybe the move from BTVS to Serenity was like, ' the natural order '.
 
Intersting dream. I don't know for Buffy, it's all about Joss and his mind, but it would be intersting to see baby vampire. I mean someone who is born like a vampire 🙂
 
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