.thecourts.

[;; kisten russell shaw]

INFORMATION !

please make sure you understand what each court consists of.. because the vampires here are not like anne rice's, laurell k hamiltons or stephanie meyers. they don't sparkle in the sun with cheesy sound effects, they have to feed off humans at least once a week and they don't have venom in their bites.
they are immortal though.

the whites and reds usually get along fine, there is no real rival but occassionally the reds will feel slight envy for the whites ability to not have to drink blood to sate their vampiric side.
the black court despise both reds and whites. they were once human and have now been turned into 'monsters' loosing all of their humanity. the other two vampire courts can still consume human food and even procreate. human attritbutes that the blacks have forever lost.
the humans are generally very human. they dislike and like whomever they please. there is no real rivalry between the greens and blues.
the vampires, if they find a blue court member suited to their tastes, will be a little more possessive over them than if that human were a green court member.

the WHITE court

vampires
the white court is possibly the most difficult to distinguish from other vampires, they look like humans with the exception of being incredibly beautiful. they feed off of lust, anger, pain, fear or grief. it is possible for them to feed off of all of those emotions but they tend to have a preferrable taste. they can, to a certain extent, invoke these emotions within others, stirring their souls to bring up the carnal instincts of their ancestors. it makes them intoxicating, if not somewhat fearful to be around and those who are somewhat emotionally unstable tend to become calmer around them. these vampires can usually be found owning asylum's, feeding off of the strong emotions without causing any harm. because if they feed too much in one go they can end up draining the life force from their victim of choice.
the white court's power takes up energy. when they tap into their power resources their eyes will lose the colour in the iris' and become true silvery, their skin will become pearlescent and to mortals and other vampires they become the living embodiment of the emotion they feed from the most. Just looking upon them will invoke the same emotion within humans and usually in other vampires. though the latter are able to shut out this ability with time and exposure.
they have two major weaknesses. if they touch anybody who's in true love or truly content with the world, themselves and their lives, the skin of the vampire will blister and become painful. it hurts them to be in the same room with such pure emotions.
a white court vampire cannot be made. they are born. i cannot stress this enough, they seem like normal humans, growing up until their power comes to them during their teen years. the first victim they feed from will die. it's inevitable and something that the white court generally try to keep quiet. they pride themselves on being able to feed with little to no physical harm to their victims. they can eat and drink human food without any major repercussions.

the RED court

vampires
they are the typical shape shifting vampire you hear about in the twisted stories of dracula. they live off of blood of animals or humans, either really. they crave blood but they generally don't need to feed every day. because the red court can procreate and have children, vampire children who grow up with the craving for blood. beautiful children who's grace and strength outranks adult humans, they grow learning to control the lust for blood. the reds can also create vampires. they do this by draining their victim and then feeding them back their blood by piercing their own veins.
these vampires, even the made ones, will continue to grow to maturity, to look around twenty-one and then stop forever. their hearts do beat, albeit sluggishly (two, three beats per minute) but they don't need to breathe.
the red court can eat normal food, like the whites, but only small amounts and not often. their weakness is diseased blood, alcohol or drugs in their victims blood stream. they can smell the purity of blood, their sense of smell much higher than any other creature on this planet.
they can change their form, but only into one carnivorous animal. it takes a lot of energy and the vampire is usually extremely vulnerable to attack after changing back again.

the BLACK court

vampires
they are the vampires who are highest in number. they are made by other members of the black court and cannot be born. they can't procreate and human food will make them vomit violently if consumed. they have to drink human blood because animals simply can't sustain them, it's this craving, this unquenchable thirst that makes this court quite possibly the most tempermental and dangerous.
they have the typical strength of a vampire and don't have many weaknesses. light will hurt their eyes more than the other courts and the Holy Word will be harmful to their ears but other than that there is nothing that can stop or physically repel them. their hearts do not beat, they do not need to breathe and they will never age. they will look the same age at which they were turned forever more.
making it taboo to turn children.
they are created in the same way that a member of the red court makes another vampire.

the GREEN court

humans
they are the large majority of the student body, most of the green court are just normal humans who have no special attributes and are accessible for any of the courts to feed upon. they are the cattle of the school and they know it. it doesn't prevent them from walking around with their head held high though, the more stubborn and lively they are the more likely they are that a vampire will take a liking to them.
in this school it's safer to have one vampire, of any court, to take a shine to them and protect them from the others, otherwise they could end up in the morgue by accident. it happens, a sad, but true fact.

the BLUE court

humans
these humans are a little more complicated. they cannot be claimed for one vampire until after they've graduated the school. their minds, or bodies are specifically more suited to a specific court and so they are generally off limits to the other courts..
for the white court; extremely emotional, perhaps even unstable students. they will find that they are more normal when around the white court. this is because the white court vampires are lowering their emotional status (feeding off of them) and reducing their emotional levels down to normal.
for the red court; students who don't drink nor do drugs of any kind. they're rare really.. especially in this school, so are definetely out of bounds for the other courts. especially the black.
for the black court; those who are fit and physically very healthy with a decent diet. they replenish blood quicker and generally are more satisfying with every mouthful than others.