Evolution of Vampire Zombie

A parasite starts its first life cycle of youth with the reproductive phase by cloning itself to infect as many people as possible without leaving any signs of its presence.

After two days the parasite starts its growth phase during which it controls the brain of the victim, making it a zombie wandering around, searching for a safe place in the darkness, where it will start to cover itself in a cocoon.

Inside the cocoon various parts of the zombies body will be absorbed and recreated in a different form.

Then the pupa will grow into an adult vampire that still has almost the same external appearance as the previous zombie/ person, but with little differences in the bone structure, muscle mass and a slightly bluish or pale white skin depending on the individual. The human-like appearance is used to fool other non-infected people into thinking they are not vampires.

A vampire has increased intelligence, strength and stamina, the vampire doesn't need to relearn everything, having some essential memories of the previous human that include language, clothing, basic tool use and geographic memory.

The vampire doesn't demand a lot of food, but after the cocoon phase it will be hungry, it starts to search for the zombies that didn't start their cocoon phase yet and eats them or if there aren't any the vampire will start to hunt humans and drink their blood while infecting them at the same time with the parasite to repeat the cycle.

The vampires can reproduce sexually and skip the parasitic phase, but they still prefer to infect other humans because both blood and zombies are great sources of food and don't require taking care of vampire kids as zombies metamorphose directly into adult vampires.

In case a vampire doesn't find any zombie, or any people around, it will start to drink the blood of other animals or eat plants. As it can only digest zombie meat, mammal blood and plants.

Other features of the parasite:

• The adult Vampire doesn't get stronger and smarter with age
• The adult vampire doesn't have a lifespan limit
• The vampire can regrow its head if decapitated, but not other limbs
• The vampire has its brain in a boned box inside the chest
• Zombies can't talk and they move incredibly slow with bad coordination
• Vampires don't sleep, but enter rest phases in which their activity is diminished
• The vampires can see in the dark
• The vampires are cold blooded for the majority of time, but can become warm blooded when needed to do so

My questions are: How did this vampire/ zombie parasite even came to existence? And why does it have so many features that are useful for individual survival, but have no apparent reason to evolve in the first place? Also, what explains its diet of eating blood, zombies and plants but not the flesh of humans and animals?

posted about 8 years ago

Charon‭

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