Defining the Rosencraft: The Other Parts
In my Monday post I explained the details of what makes up the Lucifer Hawk part of the Rosencraft lineage from a macro view. Today's post will focus on the other half of the experiment that created the beings known as the Rosencraft.
When Genosa began his experiments, he was pursuing the secret to immortality. He was pursuing an ideal that he could scarcely begin to comprehend how to achieve. He happened upon the link between Humans and Hawks that made it possible for the union to become immortal... if not that their blood would probably kill each other first.
Genosa therefore devised a cocktail approach. Either the Human or Hawk blood had to be sufficiently diluted or rendered "inert" such that it didn't trigger the other to attack and so destroy each other, while at the same time allowing for the qualities of the DNA to produce the desired effect.
To solve this problem, Genosa develops the idea of adding bonding agents. He thought that there must be some kind of chemical or compound he could add to the mixture and produce the desired effects that way. From that he begins to pursue all sorts of option, eventually settling on the theory that it had to be at least mostly organic. He determines his best bet is with the DNA of other creatures.
From there Genosa tests mixtures of Hawk DNA, Human DNA, and the DNA of various other species, including demons and vampires. He administers these concoctions to pregnant woman and woman who are trying to become pregnant, believing the gestation cycle may improve results. Even in the experiment batch that produced the Rosencraft, the success rate was dismal, less than one percent, with the mother usually dying, the fetus dying in the womb, the child being stillborn, or being born severely disfigured, sick, and not immortal. Yami and the others are technically successes, but their experiment was deemed a failure because the process was just so abjectly unreliable.
As a result, the Rosencraft are not actually "half Hawk, half Human", but more along the lines of 40/40/20 - 40% Hawk, 40% Human, and 20% other.
Vampire DNA is important to this process. Vampires as creatures that feed on blood have a natural advantage where it comes to utilizing the components within blood. Thus, vampire blood acts as a sort of bonding agent, bonding the properties of the Hawk and Human blood.
Even so, this alone was not a highly stable mix. Vampire blood tends to take in and convert the blood ingested by the host and convert it to a mostly vampire blood mix. That's the reason vampires can turn humans into vampires. So, through adding various demon DNA and even dragon DNA, the processes of vampiric takeover is diminished to the point that the normal generation of other non-vampiric blood components takes place faster than the conversion process.
These experiments were vast and wide-ranging, spanning over a decade. In all he experimented on at least 12,000 humans and several times as many Hawks, not to mention unknown numbers of other creatures that he harvested DNA from.
So, that is the basic story behind the Rosencraft and how they came into existence.
Tomorrow's post will step back outside the Book of the Shadows for a little bit.
Today's soundtrack is back with anime and everything Japan. Here's today's sample track.
When Genosa began his experiments, he was pursuing the secret to immortality. He was pursuing an ideal that he could scarcely begin to comprehend how to achieve. He happened upon the link between Humans and Hawks that made it possible for the union to become immortal... if not that their blood would probably kill each other first.
Genosa therefore devised a cocktail approach. Either the Human or Hawk blood had to be sufficiently diluted or rendered "inert" such that it didn't trigger the other to attack and so destroy each other, while at the same time allowing for the qualities of the DNA to produce the desired effect.
To solve this problem, Genosa develops the idea of adding bonding agents. He thought that there must be some kind of chemical or compound he could add to the mixture and produce the desired effects that way. From that he begins to pursue all sorts of option, eventually settling on the theory that it had to be at least mostly organic. He determines his best bet is with the DNA of other creatures.
From there Genosa tests mixtures of Hawk DNA, Human DNA, and the DNA of various other species, including demons and vampires. He administers these concoctions to pregnant woman and woman who are trying to become pregnant, believing the gestation cycle may improve results. Even in the experiment batch that produced the Rosencraft, the success rate was dismal, less than one percent, with the mother usually dying, the fetus dying in the womb, the child being stillborn, or being born severely disfigured, sick, and not immortal. Yami and the others are technically successes, but their experiment was deemed a failure because the process was just so abjectly unreliable.
As a result, the Rosencraft are not actually "half Hawk, half Human", but more along the lines of 40/40/20 - 40% Hawk, 40% Human, and 20% other.
Vampire DNA is important to this process. Vampires as creatures that feed on blood have a natural advantage where it comes to utilizing the components within blood. Thus, vampire blood acts as a sort of bonding agent, bonding the properties of the Hawk and Human blood.
Even so, this alone was not a highly stable mix. Vampire blood tends to take in and convert the blood ingested by the host and convert it to a mostly vampire blood mix. That's the reason vampires can turn humans into vampires. So, through adding various demon DNA and even dragon DNA, the processes of vampiric takeover is diminished to the point that the normal generation of other non-vampiric blood components takes place faster than the conversion process.
These experiments were vast and wide-ranging, spanning over a decade. In all he experimented on at least 12,000 humans and several times as many Hawks, not to mention unknown numbers of other creatures that he harvested DNA from.
So, that is the basic story behind the Rosencraft and how they came into existence.
Tomorrow's post will step back outside the Book of the Shadows for a little bit.
Today's soundtrack is back with anime and everything Japan. Here's today's sample track.
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