Tony's vampy side

[silvertalon2oo6]

Hey, I have another question. I know it's irritating to keep answering me but im not a freakin social inquisitot for nothing. ;D Anywho, I'm just curious, does Tony feed similarly to charby? I mean he IS basically a cross of incubus and vampire right? Well, as I recall even the most pwerful vamps in the world have to feed...even if it is every few centuries or so. So yeah, that's my deal. Does he feed and if so what on? Blood like Charby or mental anguish or fear or what?

[Awakened]

I think it is the anguish thing. I can't remember but I don't think it was ever specifically said that he needed to feed on blood.

[Scardy G.]

Alps probaby feed off of energy, but otherwise I think he makes do with Cheetos.

[silvertalon2oo6]

mmmmm....Cheetos. *goes to hunt down Cheetos*

[Amelius]

The pressing and nightmares they seem to do mostly for fun and giggles, but they do like to suck blood if they get around to it. Usually they'll do this from the inside of the body, or oddly enough, like a vampire bat it seems they go for the nipple of their victim rather than the neck(they go for the cows in the barn in the same way, especially milk cows ^_^)
That makes for an awkward bite scene indeed....
But an alp doesn't really express so much a "need" for blood as a vampire does, they seem to just do it because they either like it or it's just there, why not. Tony for one though prefers to get it from the inside, because he's...well, respectful of privacy, I'll say. Plus it's a bother getting in someone's shirt for that (this is so awkwaaard!)
As for energy, I've not seen anything about alps using that...just the blood thing if they get around to it.

[Karuto]

Oooh, as long as this topic is about Tony, I also have a question. The Iron Nail in the hand thing. What's up with that? Are Alps intollerant to Iron or something?

[Dundee]

Pretty much most supernatural creatures are intolerant of iron. Lead works too, according to Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident. I THINK it has something to do with the history of faeries. I'm not sure. I'll look it up and see what I find.

[DarkfireTaimatsu]

Lead is poisonous anyway, so there you go. =)

[silvertalon2oo6]

indeed...tony i want to crawl inside your brain!!

[Scardy G.]

Thank you Talon, for that lovely image..

[Dundee]

Just ignore this little post, I finally found out where I had first heard of the Fae being repelled by metal: "None of the Good People can bear the touch or the sight or even the closeness of iron. The reason is that the Good People spring from the days of flint, before ever iron was invented, and all their troubles have come from the new metal. The Roman cohorts had steel swords (which is even better than iron) and that is how they succeeded in driving the old folk underground." Excerpt from The Sword in the Stone.

[Deme]

It's just an accepted part of faerie lore- iron is a good way to hurt a faerie. Various explinations are given for it, depending on the source, but iron is just a generally awful thing for any sort of faerie to run into, the way that silver's innately bad for a werewolf.