Vampires are not undead. lol We are very much alive.

If a vampire initiates a human to awaken I would consider that Turning. The vampire caused the human to awaken.

let me disagree with you...
if you could explain how we turn a human...
because i think that everybody(humans also) have a predator instinct, that is waiting to be awaken...
i don't mean we are all predators, but i just think that we just woke up early, when moust of them, not will ever awake...
my point: we don't turn them, we just need to help them to awake himselfs. some easier than others...
but we should not forget, vampires are all connected to nature, animals and eachother(i think i didn't spell it right)...
when humans don't. and sometimes help them can be fatal, for them and for us...
nature don't made them like us for a reason...

**sorry my gramatical errors.

*Haiyxa

To put it simply "yes" you can be turned. You just have to trust me on this one.

well being bitten or drinking a vampires blood, could make a gene catalyst, but you would need to bitten or drink the vampires blood over a period of time, for the immune system to accept it.

been working on that study with my donor (blood exchange) took her 2 months until last week, until the effects of AWAKENING began, its a quite interesting phenomenon, I also believe that the vampire blood has to activate an old genetic trait of an ancestral vampire

I think it can happen both ways.. I myself, was turned, and I know for a fact that you can be born a vampire. My very first vampire encounter was my old best friend, she had been born a psi-vamp., so, I think it is VERY possible for it to happen both ways.

I like your signature, so inspiring; even though the quote was changed.

Yeah humans can't be awakened. Vampires who don't know they are vampires yet, go through awakening. That is what an awakening is. I was born a vampire, so I don't know about this being turned stuff. I would have to experience for myself to truly believe it.

whoops my mistake i mean "TURNING!", not awakening, my mistake.

thanks, pal!!