John Arctangent: Nevin

Vampires: powerful creatures of the night who drink the blood of mortals and who potentially can exist forever. Wielding great power and possessing tragic curses as well, such as the tendency to get themselves destroyed by exposure to sunlight. These creatures have the ability to propagate their own kind, creating slightly weaker vampires until ... Thin Blood: the weakest of all vampires yet possessing the weakest of all the curses as well. Sunlight only gives them exceptionally bad sunburns. It is possible to actually eat food, although it generally does not come out well in the end. The hidden memories of vampires in their lineage can show up in their dreams, in the strange hours of daytime when the faintest trace of life pulses through their brains. This is the story of such a "Thin Blood."