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There are all sorts of things that get referenced or mentioned on the TV shows, but which are never explored to their fullest extent. And sometimes, I do get curious:
1. Vampires, when convenient to the plot, have exceptional hearing. Is this something they can turn on and off? Do they have feedback issues? Volume filters or normalization? Do they get headaches? I saw Helmet onstage in 1994. They made my ears bleed. What would they do to a vampire?
2. Vampires and Werewolves, on occaision, happen to have heightened senses of smell. Can they turn that off? There was the vampires that are repelled from Buffy because of her Doublemeat Palace stink. How sensitive are these creatures? Can they handle walking past a gas station? Just how how painful was it for Angel to live in a friggin' sewer for two decades with his SuperScent? Could Oz survive walking through an NFL lockerroom an hour after gametime?
3. Slayer Blood seems to have special properties that make it more potent than regular human blood. If a Slayer tried out for the Olympic Team, could she pass the IOC tests for performance enhancing drugs? And even if she did, would she be able to withstand the massive scrutiny? Would she have to deliberately sandbag her performances in order to not get tested every three days?
Is it even fair for a slayer to compete against non-slayers?
4. Have you seen my bridge?
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5. Has anyone else noticed how much better turkey sandwiches taste when you mix hot sauce in with the mayo?
6. There has been much musing about the menstrual cycles of human females. And, on occaison, how that might affect a slayer. But what about the female vampire? Does she still get a 'monthly visitor'? If not, does she still have the hormonal mood swings. If no on that count as well, during those three days, how much of a trade-off is her soullessness? And does this topic, unpleasant as it might be, not demand itself a Harmony fic or what?
1. Vampires, when convenient to the plot, have exceptional hearing. Is this something they can turn on and off? Do they have feedback issues? Volume filters or normalization? Do they get headaches? I saw Helmet onstage in 1994. They made my ears bleed. What would they do to a vampire?
2. Vampires and Werewolves, on occaision, happen to have heightened senses of smell. Can they turn that off? There was the vampires that are repelled from Buffy because of her Doublemeat Palace stink. How sensitive are these creatures? Can they handle walking past a gas station? Just how how painful was it for Angel to live in a friggin' sewer for two decades with his SuperScent? Could Oz survive walking through an NFL lockerroom an hour after gametime?
3. Slayer Blood seems to have special properties that make it more potent than regular human blood. If a Slayer tried out for the Olympic Team, could she pass the IOC tests for performance enhancing drugs? And even if she did, would she be able to withstand the massive scrutiny? Would she have to deliberately sandbag her performances in order to not get tested every three days?
Is it even fair for a slayer to compete against non-slayers?
4. Have you seen my bridge?
Edited @4:55 to add some things
5. Has anyone else noticed how much better turkey sandwiches taste when you mix hot sauce in with the mayo?
6. There has been much musing about the menstrual cycles of human females. And, on occaison, how that might affect a slayer. But what about the female vampire? Does she still get a 'monthly visitor'? If not, does she still have the hormonal mood swings. If no on that count as well, during those three days, how much of a trade-off is her soullessness? And does this topic, unpleasant as it might be, not demand itself a Harmony fic or what?
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1. I got the sense that Vamps probably are more sensitive to loud noises, but perhaps don't suffer permanent hearing loss from prolonged exposure.
2. Re: vamp sense of smell...I assumed the crack about Doublemeat Palace stink was both a taunt at the Slayer (why not pile on poor put-upon Buffy to really beat the point to death that her life in Season 6 sucks) and the writers' crack at the fast food industry for some cheap laughs. If she'd been a normal person and not a lethal predator, and the vamp was hungry enough, I'd bet he wouldn't have turned his nose up at someone just for smelling like fast food. I seem to recall that OZ's sense of smell was Willow-specific.
Iunno...I'm told I have an unusually good sense of smell (compared to my family members) and can detect odors long before any of them do. But being surrounded by an odor for an extended period, after a while I stop noticing it. I would imagine the same is true of vamps who live in stinky surroundings for extended periods...They get used to it and don't notice. Or maybe I'm part vampire.
3. Re: Slayer's blood... Isn't blood doping forbidden by the IOC? If so, I guess the question is - does Slayer blood have different chemical or physical properties (as opposed to mystical ones) that might be detected as some kind of enhancement. I'm intrigued by the prospect of Buffy in the Olympics. Bet she'd make a helluva Javelin thrower. Maybe a fanfic idea for someone.
4. Don't know. Would that be the kind of bridge you wear in your mouth or the kind you drive your car across?
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6. The if the ova die when the body does, such that the vamp female is rendered unable to procreate (except Darla, of course), one would assume the normal reproductive functions no longer function. Hence, no menstruation.
That being said... I would think being vamped is a rather extreme solution to PMS.