Daytime Walking

Daytime Walking
Blade (Marvel) is well known as a "daywalker."
Power/Ability to:	Survive in sunlight.

The power for nocturnal creatures typically unable to tolerate sunlight to be immune to its effects. Related power to Selective Invulnerability.

Also Called

• Daywalking

Capabilities

User is a nocturnal creature (typically vampires) able to withstand exposure to direct sunlight and be active during the day. This can be because they are a Dhampir, being endowed with magic or are unique physically in one way or another.

Associations

• Selective Invulnerability
• Vampire Physiology

Limitations

• May only last for a limited time.
• May be dependent on mystical artifacts.
• Sunlight may still weaken the user and/or cause discomfort.

Known Artifacts

• Enchanted Lapis Lazuli (The Vampire Diaries)
• Gem of Amarra (Angel)
• Faerie Blood (True Blood)
• Vampire King Blood (Twins Effect)

Known Users

• Dhampir (Folklore)
• Vampires (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel); via the Gem of Amarra
• Blade (Marvel Comics)
• Vampire by Night (Marvel Comics)
• Count Dracula (Dracula)
• Mina Harker (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
• Hybrids (Underworld)
• Hybrids (The Vampire Diaries)
• Vampires (The Vampire Diaries); through an enchanted Lapis Lazuli
• Kain (Legacy of Kain)
• Demitri Maximov (Darkstalkers)
• Necrolai (Power Rangers Mystic Force)
• Phantom Spy Vancuria (Mahou Sentai Magiranger)
• Alucard (Hellsing)
• Vampires (Being Human); though still uncomfortable for them
• Jericho Cross (Darkwatch)
• Drake (Blade: Trinity)
• Selene (Underworld)
• Connor (Angel)
• Vampires (Twilight)
• Fangs the Vampire Man (Dragon Ball)
• Simon Lewis (Mortal Instruments); after drinking Jace Wayland's blood
• Vampires and vampire-chameleons (Shadow Falls); though sunlight annoys them
• Vampires (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)
• Rory, Sarah and Erica (My Babysitter's a Vampire)
• Gypsy (Twins Effect); after swallowing the Vampire King's bloodstain
• Jade blooded trolls (Homestuck) can withstand the light of the harsh Alternian sun
• Warlow (True Blood)
• Vampires (True Blood); temporarily, after drinking Faerie blood
• Akasha (The Vampire Chronicles and Queen of the Damned)

Gallery

As the Queen of the Vampires, Necrolai (Power Rangers Mystic Force) is able to tolerate sunlight.

Connor (Angel)

Fangs the Vampire (Dragon Ball)

Michael Corvin (Underworld)

Nina Pryce, the Vampire by Night (Marvel Comics)

Alucard (Hellsing) is unharmed by sunlight; he "simply hates it."

Kain (Legacy of Kain)