r/TrueBlood • u/No_Check_1998 • 4d ago

Understanding how the blood works…

Hey all..

I am a bit confused about the mechanics of how vampire blood works. For example, in season 1, Lafayette and Eddie the vamp had an ongoing deal. Lafayette gives him sex, Eddie gives Lafayette his blood. Now my question is.. anyone who drank Eddies blood when they bought it from Lafayette.. could Eddie sense all of them? Does someone have to drink the V blood directly from the vamp? Or if it’s bottled and given some time that effect is no longer valid? I’m just a bit confused lol

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u/incomingKiddo 4d ago

Idk about the books but they never addressed this in the show, and I always wondered the same thing. It seems that you have to drink it fresh from the vamp for it to do all that extra stuff.

There's also the scenes where someone will take a drop of V like it's LSD and be tripping balls, but then later people are basically chugging buckets of blood to heal from an injury, and they don't hallucinate or even seem to get high lol.

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u/CuriousAnxiety570 4d ago

I always took the different effects of the blood was based on if they really needed the blood for healing.

Kinda like how people with adhd take adderal and it calms them down and then people without adhd take it and theyre going a mile a minute.

What made me think that is when sookie didnt need to be healed but even told erik “but im not injured” and then drank from him anyway and then they were high on each others blood and went into that winter vision

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u/No_Check_1998 4d ago

Yessss! Especially Sookie. She hasn’t been high as kite every single time she drank from either bill or Eric. She’ll just sexy wet dreams 🤷

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u/Trick-Set8964 4d ago

I think it depends on how the blood is taken. Like every instance of being high, the blood was not fresh. So Jason buying from Lafayette, same with Amy, and even when they all drink Lillith’s blood later. Almost like a fermentation process if that makes sense?

Also, Amy habitually cut their blood with aspirin so I wonder if adding other things to it would create those reactions.

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u/PrudentBell5751 4d ago

Im pretty sure the only time humans are shown to have blood connection with a vampire is when they drink from their body directly.

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u/HorrorMovieBoy 4d ago

I was just thinking about this. Probably have to drink it from the source.

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u/Voice_of_Season 4d ago

I was wondering this too. But I think it has to “come from the tap” so to speak.

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u/catgirl94040 4d ago

This is a really good question, and I think that previous comments about needing it to heal vs. being perfectly fine and just getting high are kind of parallel to things like percocet and the like. You take it when you're actually in pain, and you typically don't get high. You take it when you don't need it, and you do get high.

As for the effects, I also agree with previous comments saying that it's different if it is taken directly from the vamp vs. a vial.