although i hope outer Moka does return back to normal with the rosario, i can think of an acceptable personality meld for inner moka being used. the outer appearance wont change though outer's personalities whould show up sometimes given she was wearing the rosario for 10 yrs?? or so. it may be that the outer Moka was destined to be merged with the inner Moka.
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It depends on what you refer to as 'traditional'.
Hellsing's Alucard had it pretty close, as does Shinobu from Bakemonogatari all things considered. Vampires *could* walk around in the day, but it was usually dusk or dawn hours and they just really didn't like being out there. They reference it in R+V that Moka could get easily sunburned, but it's jumbled in both Gyokuro and Kahula in how they got that tanned skin... 0.o The 'burning up thing' was put in later, as were most of the other weaknesses. Silver is a well known purifier of sorts against the supernatural, and of course being blessed also helps. But the thought of a vampire wearing a cross as a power limiter ...  yeah. They did show that the Rosario did weaken Dopple-Moka considerably with mere contact but otherwise, it was made to do that. I don't think that Moka could survive a silver cross through the chest, or any creature in R+V for that matter with the exception of Akasha and Alucard respectively.
"Wooden stake through the heart?"
"Yeah, yeah, who wouldn't that kill, huh?"
Vampire lore has been muddled, especially in recent times but especially when Christianity moved into an area and 'adjusted' many local legends and superstitions to suit the beliefs of the Church. European-based Vampires was one such that went through that 'adjustment' phase. |
a hole in the heart would be able to stop nearly any creature (barring the exception of zombies).
im not really put off that she's not traditional as theres a good balance of old and new. holy items if blessed properly could serve a limiter thought the concept is still a bit strange for a calibrated cross only limit her full powers of a shinso.
i believe R+V did try to be as traditional in charactersistics in the start but adapted it to the arc ie beach arcs. its those particular full sun sparkly skin vamps which i cant stand a bit as they are too perfect (if you can say that.)
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Ikeda's version of the vampire is a bit different from traditional folklore. The only things that are really different with his version is that the vampires can survive in sunlight, as seen when we witnessed Moka being in direct sunlight on multiple occasions in the human world, especially in the Witch and Sun arcs.
Another thing that is different is the method used to turn others into vampires, rather than drinking their blood, vampires need to injected their own blood into another through their fangs to convert others into vampires, this is the case with Tsukune Aono.
Other than that, things such as crosses, silver and water, usually anything that falls under the catagory of "Holy" harms them, which is something Ikeda decided to stick with.
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the Anne Rice series of novels does have traditional vampires in the bram stoker style though Anne decided to have vampires turn only when they're nearly drained of blood and the victim must take/feed back the blood from the vamp. there are some that are daywalkers or even low light but those are reserved to the exceptionally strong elders. a few who took the 1st vamp's blood can get a tan and survive in full sun but only due to the strength of the blood.