Chiropteran is the name of my species. I use the word vampire as a shortcut for getting the point across without getting too into the weeds, but we're pretty different. I only bring it up now because it matters as far as assumptions. Ones that would be reasonable for a true vampire aren't true for me.

Humans are not my ideal food source, they're what I use because I don't have much choice, it only works so well. I'm designed to drink from humans that have been turned with my blood. We call them Chevaliers.

-- I have only made two. One I made by accident, because the human that owned me at the time hadn't told me of my past, and having amnesia I had no way to know. All I had been told is that my blood healed people, so when someone I loved was in a fatal accident I fed it to him. The only other one I ever made was also to save my foster brother's life, and I had to be begged to do it even so. They both died, and I vowed never to make another one. It involves a degree of mind control and makes them devoted to me, which I couldn't be more disgusted by. Who would want to be loved because of some blood bond?