I say birb bc it makes it more palatable for me to make fun of it but I mean bird. They’re aliens with birdlike features. Sketchy spoiler under the cut. They’re characters in:

So you should read that… but I recognize that I am slightly a hypocrite bc I still haven’t finished it, but I have skimmed and been spoiled (upon request) so I know what happens and what they are. And…

Us @ Anne:

Anne @ us:

Sketchy and incomplete spoilers under the cut.

Again, not to go into very much detail bc I don’t know much detail, from what I gather: 

• The aliens are birdlike and are basically part of the origin story of the vampires, it goes back to the Lost City of Atlantis (actually “Atalantaya”) 
• And the bird aliens’ plan is to derive energy from humans on earth using the aliens’ own creatures, the Replimoids, 
• and idk, it’s very involved. 
• Like all great utopias, Atalantaya couldn’t last forever and was destroyed, 
• and in the act of destruction the Replimoids were scattered 
• and some of them died and their souls roamed the earth, 
• eventually, one of the souls was able to possess a human body (Akasha) in a supernatural accident that creATED THE VAMPIRES. 
• Every new vampire then got a piece of this alien’s soul. 
• So the vampires are/were in fact humans possessed/enhanced by their share of that one (sometimes dormant, sometimes cognizant and vocal) alien soul. 

I’LL GIVE HER CREDIT IN THAT IT’S DEFINITELY ANOTHER FRESH TAKE ON VAMPIRE MYTHOLOGY.