FORKNI-L
Digest - 24 Jun 2006 to 25 Jun 2006 (#2006-172)
Sun, 25 Jun 2006
There are 4 messages totalling 129 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. the quick cure-all? (3)
2. re vampirism
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Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 05:00:16 -0700
From: Megan Hull <mistrydder@y.......>
Subject: the quick cure-all?
This one just crossed my mind, we know that vampire blood will cure even
severe neurological and physical injuries or illnesses (as seen in Idol Worship and
the one with Tracy's blind friend), but what about congenital problems such as
color blindness or epilepsy, or multiple schlerosis or just regular physical
problems? Thoughts?
-Megan
"Eternal nights too short,
How quickly melt away,
With all the love we shared once,
Forever in a Day."
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Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 06:02:28 -0700
From: April French <daomir_darkfell@y.......>
Subject: Re: the quick cure-all?
There doesn't seem to be a clear consensus in FK about what vampire blood
really can and can't cure. Example: it cured Tracy's blind friend and obviously
halts all degenerative physical aging... but it doesn't cure, say, male pattern
baldness. And why does Aristotle need to wear glasses? They don't exactly make him
look any less nerdy.
Personally, I don't think vampire blood can cure what's been there from the
beginning. I think a lot of it -- like a lot of the vampire condition in this
show -- is very much an extension of the person's mental state. Example: In my
own stories --Spoiler Alert!
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In my SoL series, I have one character who is cured of a very serious
physical deformity by becoming a vampire, but the change reverses when he is
confronted with a major choice (I won't say any more!) Also, Kai is quite blind, but
becoming a vampire didn't fix that, because regaining his eyesight would have
diminished his psychic abilities.
I'm not trying to blow my own horn here, just saying that FK gives us a lot
of leeway in determining what vampire blood can and can't do. I don't think any
of it is really canon.
~April
Megan Hull <mistrydder@y.......> wrote:
This one just crossed my mind, we know that vampire blood will cure even
severe neurological and physical injuries or illnesses (as seen in Idol Worship and
the one with Tracy's blind friend), but what about congenital problems such as
color blindness or epilepsy, or multiple schlerosis or just regular physical
problems? Thoughts?
-Megan
"Eternal nights too short,
How quickly melt away,
With all the love we shared once,
Forever in a Day."
~Knightwalker: Forever Knight Fan Fiction
-- http://www.geocities.com/knightwalker1228/index.html
~The Corvina: Original Fiction, Poetry and Fan Fiction
-- http://www.geocities.com/runeshard/index.html
"I move the stars for no one." -- LaCroix (via David Bowie)
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Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:28:20 +0930
From: Dorothy <jennii35@i.......>
Subject: re vampirism
multiple schlerosis
Isn't that what Jody had wrong with her....in Blind Faith....Dot
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Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:57:29 +0100
From: Linda Hepden <kezia.hepden@n.......>
Subject: Re: the quick cure-all?
Megan Hull wrote:
>but what about congenital problems such as color blindness or epilepsy, or
> >multiple schlerosis or just regular physical problems? Thoughts?
I think a lot of it may have to do with other factors apart from whether the
condition is congenital - colour blindness seems to be something that is
coded into the cells (or rather, not coded), for instance. I doubt
vampirism can give you something you never had, any more than it will change
hair or eye colour.
Illnesses such as epilepsy have a more 'curable' factor, such as the
electrical short-circuits in the brain which trigger the fits and that may
well be something vampire blood can cure.
Hmm... does this mean that vampirism is a cure for migraine, believed by
some researchers to have an electrical root cause? But perhaps *not* for
hayfever or other allergic reactions - like colour blindness, it's genetic
mis-coding at a cellular level. Seem to recall a piece of fanfiction about
Nick suffering from severe hayfever - may not be so far-fetched after all!
So I'd have to say that it depends on whether the condition is based on a
genetic mis-coding, which I for one very, very much doubt can be cured by an
infusion of vampire blood, or based on a physical defect or mis-function,
which may well be curable by vampirism.
Cousin Kezia
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