What Type of Vampire is Abby?

[Lee Kyle]

The book Your Vampire Story by David Blue has an interesting discussion about various types of vampires. So what are Abby's distinctives?

1) Lives forever but remains a child (12-yr-old in 200+ yr-old body)
2) Burns in direct sunlight
3) Can fly; wing sounds indicate some sort of shape-changing
4) Needs human blood to live
5) Animal blood, banked blood, blood of dead people all useless
6) Never gets cold
7) Can't enter private residence uninvited
8) Certain amount of super-strength
9) Can't kill herself (monster won't let her)
10) Aversion to society?
11) Ability to instill devotion in others?
12) Telepathy - shares memory with Owen
13) Needs to eat every...1-2 weeks?
14) There is no cure for vampirism
15) Vampirism is a curse that nobody would want
16) Undead how? Abby still breathes, breath is warm
17) Undead how? Abby still has a conscience: I'm nothing
18) No explanation of how vampirism originated
19) No indication of whether or not other supernatural creatures exist
20) Bite turns others, transformation happens in less than a day

Other possible distinctives?

[PeteMork]

Does 5) apply to Abby? She is able to drink blood collected in a dirty plastic bottle. Since no critical length of time between 'harvest' and consumption is specified, we could infer that banked blood would also be viable. Nothing in the film seems to rule it out.
Does 9) apply to Abby? I don't recall anything in the film to suggest it.
10) Learned or instinctive? Or both?

Possible addition to 3): Her shape-changing includes her face, which changes dramatically when under the control of the parasite. She may also grow fangs and claws.

[gkmoberg1]

She both can and cannot control the vampirism. In the basement scene, she maintains control long enough to be able to get away from Owen (avoids eating him) but then succumbs to it right afterwards. She climbs a tree and at that point is completely given over to the vampire-side.

[JToede]

the first thing I thought was this.

"Yeah, I'm more a sanguinarian vampire in that I rely more on the life force energy, per se."
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/2 ... ils-to-you








Happy Trails

[soulcrusherprime]

You can also put does not travel in packs like 30 days of night vampires.

[gkmoberg1]

Does not state whether she has periods of hibernation (such as with Eli)

Likes puzzles & mental challenge toys.

[jetboy]

the first thing I thought was this.

"Yeah, I'm more a sanguinarian vampire in that I rely more on the life force energy, per se."
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/2 ... ils-to-you








Happy Trails

That was a good episode and of course Butters gets vampirism right unlike the goths.

[Lee Kyle]

It's the tone of the movie that rules out banked blood. If such a solution is possible, the entire film becomes farce. LMI's power flows flows from its core unspoken presupposition: for Abby, there is no other way.

Thanks for mentioning the other changes in her appearance (face, eyes, etc.). I forgot about those.

[Makalli]

11)

Is that to do with her vampire "type"? Maybe it's to do with being permanently 12 and (other than the murder) a nice person, not some supernatural ability.

[DavidZahir]

I presume--based on Occam's Razor as well as comments by Chloe Grace Moretz about how she approached the character as well as the direction given--that Abby "type" of vampirism is essentially identical as in the book. Namely, there's a parasite next to her heart that's attached to her central nervous system. This parasite is the vampire, and it keeps her alive so as to force her to feed it. While physical, the parasite is evidently supernatural given the restrictions and abilities it conveys.

Also, it is implied Abby cannot subsist on animal blood nor blood that isn't sufficiently fresh.

The biggest difference between Abby and the book's Eli (in terms of their vampirism) is the former's "game face" a la the demonic features that would erupt in Buffy vampires as well as those in The Lost Boys as well as undead on the t.v. show Supernatural. This seems to indicate her parasite is more proactive than Eli's.