I have one of my characters done. Would you like me to post it now or wait until my second sheet is done as well?

Whenever you like. Accepted characters will be c'd and p'd into the second post in this thread for ease of access.

Alright, here goes nothing, first character

Name: Lailaa Mary Visser
Gender: Female
Age: 26
Nationality: Dutch
Occupation: Club Dancer/Stripper/ Blood Donator
Appearance:

Personality: Lailaa is very fake when it comes to interacting with people at work. She puts on a flirty and happy personality for the people to see as a way of making more money. However, due to her history she is very depressed and hates life. She is currently working on turning her life around but still struggles daily trying to make herself really happy. She is very submissive when being told to do things and doesn’t really know how to say ‘no’. She tries to project herself in a way people want her to be and therefore, can slightly change how she acts with the people she’s with. Over all though, she tends to keep to herself and doesn’t voice her own opinions. She never acts shy at work, because that’s not the real her in her mind, but if you try and get closer she is very closed off and shy. If you try and get close she tends to close off even more and push the other person away.

Attitude to The Age of the Vampire: Lailaa is all for the vampire age and is very apart of the culture of it all. As much as she’d like to leave the night life and start to become ‘normal’ as her parents had been, part of her craves to always be a part of it without her realizing it.
Reason for being in Amsterdam: Born and raised there, stayed for work.

History: Lailaa was born and raised in Amsterdam. She had been lucky and her family didn’t have to become donators. Her mother was a teacher and her father a cop. However, she is not fully Dutch. Both her parents were born and raised in area, her mother’s father was a businessman from the USA. He came over for business trying to make some deals with the vampires of the area when he met her grandmother and never went back. It explains her more Americanized first and middle name well her last name remains Dutch.

In Lailaa’s childhood her mother tried to keep her as far away from the vampires as possible, creating a slight fear for the mystery creatures known as vampires, or ‘them’ as her family called them. It did not help her impression of them as her father spoke of them from his job when she would lay in bed trying to fall sleep. As she got older and they started to learn more about the vampires and their way of life connected with theirs, they still scared her but where so alien as they used to be. At one point they even brought a few in to talk to the class to help them understand that they were not to be feared and that they were meant to be viewed as everyone else.

It was shortly after that visit from the vampires into the school classrooms that she would really start to notice how many of the people in Amsterdam were vampires and as she got to her first year in high school she no longer noted the difference between the two races and accepted them as the same despite how her mother’s views were.

High school was when Lailaa started to real change into who she is now. She had the same views of one boy, Carlo, whom was in many of her classes in her first year. The two started to date within the first few months of their school year. However, as time went on and they started to change as all teenagers do, her Carlo started to become abusive. It started off by isolating her from her friends, and keeping in contact at all times. If she didn’t reply within five minutes of a text, he would send another, by the fifteenth message if she still hadn’t answered he’d call until she picked up. By their second year of high school he was mentally abusive to her. Telling her that she wasn’t good enough and that the was ugly if she did things he didn’t like. As a girl whom had loved for the first time she was too blind to see that he was abusive to her.

As the end of their second year, her parents finally started to step in and try and get her to break up and no longer see the Carlo. He did not like that at all and convinced her to drop out of high school and run away into the worst part of town with him. Neither of them realized how hard it’d be to live on their own, and soon enough he had her donating her blood for housing, food and more. It was only when she asked why she was the only one who had to donate that things started to get abusive. She had to be totally submissive to him and listen to everything he told her or else he’d hurt her. She started to turn to drugs and alcohol as a way to numb herself. When she turned eighteen, Carlo had become a local dealer and she was forced into the vampire night scene. She started off as a dancer, then started to strip. The deeper Carlo got into crime the lower she had to go. When she was twenty-one she started to go into the private room with clients, where she’d let them do things for the right price, the one being drinking right from her neck.

With her life hitting such a low point, where she no longer loved herself, and at twenty-two tried to kill herself and failed which only made matters worse at home. The beatings happened almost every three days, and the screaming at her every day. She didn’t know how to get out of the relationship now, but she knew now that she wanted to leave him and no longer loved him. So at the age of twenty-three she checked herself into rehab to get cleaned up. It was a long year there but it was good getting the space from him. He was pissed and came to visits her everyday and almost got kicked out every day when he started to mentally abuse her. They all tried to get her to leave him, and the city, but she couldn’t. She was too scared to and something about this city just kept pulling her in.

So when she finally left rehab clean, she moved back in with Carlo and nothing had changed. At times she thought about going back to drugs and a few times she almost did if it wasn’t for one of her vampire clients, Anthony Caito helping her stay clean. She did start to pick up drinking again and would get wasted a lot, but in her mind that was better than going back to cocaine.

Other Details: None

Let's hope something nice happens to her in the RP. :)

Anyway, I won't add her just yet because (a) I always tweak my sheet a bit even when it's submitted and I don't want to have to edit the roster post a billion times if you want to tweak yours and (b) I've already edited that post a billion times in the past hour to sort out the coding and I really don't want to have to do it again right now.

She's accepted, though. :)

Haha agreed. But I thought it'd be a nice touch to have someone who works in that area who is human.

No worries and great! I may no get my other character up till tomorrow since I work at six am.

Seeing how I just have the history for my two left to do and it's getting late I'll have my sheets in sometime tomorrow.

Edit: to keep it clean.

Got my first made and Pm'ed to Jig (I wouldn't know most celebrities if you made me shake their hand and introduced me to them ;-;) though out of curiosity how many Vampires do we have at the moment or vampires in planning?

Name: Anthony Caito
Gender: Male
Actual Age: 90
Physical Age: 25
Nationality: Italian
Occupation: Lawyer
Appearance:

Personality:
Anthony can be seen as a bit cold at times, though that really isn’t the case, and he can be very nice at times. He merely prefers not to waste his time and effort on those who he feels aren’t going to listen to him in the first place. Anthony isn’t quiet, however, though he has a habit of getting annoyed and walking away. If pushed he can become violent, but prefers to come off more sophisticated, as his Sire was. He has a very dark sense of humor at times, is sometimes very blunt, and is extremely picky.

Attitude to The Age of the Vampire: At the beginning of The Age of the Vampire, Anthony felt extremely restricted. However, over the years he has gotten used to it, and has started to revel in it.
Reason for being in Amsterdam: Came here after the death of his Sire, to get away from the protests.

Vampire Traits: While Anthony isn’t a weakling when it comes to strength he prefers the agility that comes with being a vampire over strength. Which seems to bother some humans that call his agility being stealthy. However, that seems to help his job, when pushing the bonders of his legal code. He isn’t the best at manipulating as he doesn’t seem to use it much, however, he is able to protect himself from being manipulated quite well. Anthony likes blood, clearly, though it isn’t a thing he thinks about all the time. Also in that subject he is extremely picky, usually finding two or three that he likes to drink from, only for when his favorite isn’t available, because of this he is a regular at some of the night clubs.

Status: Fledged
Sire Name: Flora Devereaux
Sire Details: Flora was a very important person in Italy, she was just over two hundred when she was killed. She was a very kind woman, and despite her time, had the ears, blood, and the hearts of many. Anthony and Flora had a very strict, formal, and family like relationship. A lot of the changes to his personality as a fledgling were due to her. Flora also believed very strongly in her progeny being seen and not heard around the older vampires. All together she had eight progeny's before her death. She died very soon after the coming out of vampires in a human protest.
Progeny: Anthony has yet to make one.

History:
Anthony was born in 1949 in Italy. His human life wasn’t far from the norm of those ages, he started to work in his father’s store when he turned sixteen, being paid the same as the others that worked there. Around nineteen he started putting his money back in order to go to college, though he stayed working part time. That is where he first met Flora when he was twenty-three, she was a regular at the store and as many other men he had been slightly smitten with her. As patient as Flora was, she waited until he was twenty-five, when Anthony’s father died before turning him. It had been late at night when Flora came into the store, despite the fact that the store had been closed she was able to get him to let her in. It was there that she ended up turning him.

Flora was very strict and tended to keep Anthony and her other progenies very close at hand, even after they became fledged. Which during his time as a fledgling she had four fledged already. To his sire, he and the others she turned were like children she had never had the chance to have, therefore she had the same loving instinct as a mother, while demanding obedience and loyalty to her. She often even referred to them as "Child" when speaking directly to them. However, Anthony seemed to be one of her favorites, as the other called it, they had one of the closest relationships of her first five. While she didn’t use manipulation on Anthony quite as much as the others, she used it mainly as a form of punishment. If he were to get into a fight, speak out of turn, or do something to upset her, Flora would use manipulation to mentally knock him back down to where he belonged.

Still even after the change Anthony managed to run the store for a little while, as well as finish going to college. He even changed his major to become a lawyer as Flora wanted him to, so she would have influence in that field as well. With the reveal of vampires, however, came the death of his Sire. Only shortly after the reveal which she helped set in motion, there were protests in the area of Italy they lived in. One of which was the cause of Flora and a few of her fledglings, the humans carrying the stakes and screams things like kill the vampires. After they had killed Flora, they even had the disrespect to burn down the house with their bodies inside, showing who of the two races were the true monsters. After that happened he and a few others Sired by Flora fled to Amsterdam.

Since then he has opened up his own practice in Amsterdam, and has become a regular at one of the clubs in the red light district, mainly sticking to one of the blood donators named Lailaa Visser. Though he has a few others he drinks from when she isn’t free, Lailaa keeps his interest and has to be one of his favorites.
Other Details: None

Love Dove: accepted :)

Cthulhu: If I don't recognise them, I don't consider them a celebrity. ^^ I have no idea who that girl is.

Oh yay!! I'll have my human character as soon as I get back to my laptop and finish the history :)

Alright, second character. I hope I explained everything in how you wanted me to explained (as we spoke about in the PM) if I missed anything or anything doesn't fit or sit right let me know and I'll change it.

Name: Lacey Rain Dune
Gender: Female
Actual Age: 84
Physical Age: 28
Nationality: Canadian
Occupation: CEO of Liberal Recovery Bank
Appearance:

Personality: Lacey could be labeled as a cold hearted bitch with a god complex. She believes she is better than everyone else and thus almost untouchable. She does not take orders well and believes she should always be the one giving them. Humans in her mind are mere pieces of meat that live only to feed them. However, Lacey does understand that not everything she does is legal and thus has to go around the law to get her way. She is short tempered and very rude. There are very few people she will speak kindly to and even then she usually will have a rude comment thrown in here and there. She tries to show herself as the perfect being, no flaws, but she has many that she hides very well, for one the fact that she does have feelings and a heart. Lacey is young and untrusting, believe she is fighting the whole world by herself and thus cannot trust anyone fully.

Attitude to The Age of the Vampire: Likes the idea of vampires and humans living and knowing about each other but believes that vampires should be standing above the humans.
Reason for being in Amsterdam: Head office of the bank is currently being moved there.
Vampire Traits: Lacey may be stronger and faster than humans, but by vampire standards she really only average and tries rather easily. Lacey struggles greatly with her blood lust and almost always keeps a blood and wine mix with her to keep her from attacking someone in public. Just the smell of it in the air will drive her crazy and side track her. In this way, Lacey has to feed a lot. However, with all the blood she takes in, she has great still with manipulation of humans. She had been rather good at getting people to do what she wanted them too when she was human and she had gotten ten times better now. Lacey’s OCD issues are no different than any other vampire, however, she lacks slightly when it comes to crowded night life, too many people everywhere, making a mess and being overly noisy so she will tend to avoid it as much as she can without crippling her business.

Status: Fledged
Sire Name: Victor Ellsworth
Sire Details: Victor and Lacey’s relationship was always very strained, even when she had months of total submission to him. Victor tried to make Lacey love him and want him as much as he wanted her for the company. Lacey would come out of her ‘hazed’ state of submission to remember her real goals and would try and keep focused on getting through the fledging without him realizing what she really had planned for him.
Progeny: None
Progeny Details: None

History: Lacey was born in 1930 in the country side of Nova Scotia, Canadian. Her mother was a stay at home mom who raised Lacey. Her father was estranged to her, always keeping his distant and hardly ever home. Many would believe this was usual for the growing business man despite the depression of the 1930’s. That didn’t mean they didn’t struggle and almost lose the company at some points during the depression. For her father had started his own bank along with his father which had covered all of Nova Scotia and was starting to move into the rest of Canada before the depression hit.

The true reason for her father’s estrangement was not because of his job or the struggles that came with the times but shortly after Lacey’s mother became pregnant with the Lacey, he was turned. The man who changed him was a mystery to Lacey, but had a big hand in helping her father keep their business going well in the fledging period. He worked alongside her grandfather in her father’s place.

However, at the age of seven her mother became very ill and soon passed away leaving the young Lacey to be cared for by her vampire father, whom did not have full control of himself. This left Lacey seeing her father as a nightmare, a monster as he was. By the age of ten they had to start to travel all over Canada for business and thus she started home schooling, where this teacher became her Nanny as the same time. Two years later, her father finally sat down his daughter and explained himself to her. What he was and why he had been so distance all this time. He told her not to fear him, that with time he would be a better father but Lacey already hated her father and what he was and brushed him off.

In her teenage years she was rather rebellious since they had money to burn and she was homeschooled. She’d find ways to get in trouble but at the same time was very isolated from people almost losing all ability to interact with them. However, that didn’t stop her from going into business for university. She was sent to the best schools in both the USA and Europe and excelled in both. By the time she was finished her schooling, her father’s company was starting to try and get some locations in America.

Lacey was the early age of twenty-six when she finished school and started to work hand in hand with her father. Despite how the two did not get along, the two worked very well together and easily started to gain a market in the USA. Although it was not large they both knew with time it would grow. Her grandfather then passed away when she was twenty-seven leaving her father and her as Co-CEO’s in his will. Her father did not like this at all believe he was going to live forever, why should he share his hard work with anyone else? So he hired a Russian assassin to kill Lacey. Luckily for her, someone had set eyes on her. A man named Victor Ellsworth. He pulled her out of a death blow at the last second, letting her get hit and sent to the hospital. Well at the hospital he told her what he was and how her father had hired the assassin. He told her that he would change her so they could take over the business and become the richest of humans and vampires and change how things work. She was high off of pain killers and pissed at her father and agreed.

Shortly after she left the hospital she went with the man to a remote part of Europe to deal with her change. This happened in the year 1958, shortly before the world learned of the vampires. Lacey had believe this would be a good place to hide well she changed and worked out the details of her father’s removal. However, the real reason she was taken so far out into the middle of nowhere was because, Victor Ellsworth was also her father’s sire. He explained this to her after the change was already in effect and he had all control. He never had to lock her away because he used his mind control on her to keep her in submission. Victor had learned of her father’s plan to kill Lacey, giving Victor the idea of gaining full control of the company without hiding behind the scenes anymore. His idea was to create Lacey into a vampire and marry her before taking out her father. Lacey had no intentions on marrying Victor. She spend the twenty years by his side at all times because he didn’t trust Lacey as far as he could throw her, despite the control he had over her. Lacey over the time had worked up her own mental powers and started to gain back some of her dominant personality against him. He should have removed that trait from her personality all together, but it was what he liked about her most. She was strong without being some crazed feminist.

Due to the time of her change, Lacey missed most of the transition from vampires being unknown to being known and came out being accepted for the most apart by society.

It was around 35 years after her change (1993) that he finally gave her more space and the two killed her father. He simply disappeared. Victor had used his control over her father to get him to leave the country and killed him somewhere in South Asia well Lacey was left in New York where the head office had been place. By this time their company had spread through Canada and the USA and parts of Britain and Germany.

After about a month Lacey finally reported him. She was questioned but never really thought to be behind the disappearance of her father and in the end deemed it a death by conversantly between humans and vampires. It was now 1994 and Victor was ready to move onto the next part of his plan and marry Lacey. However, during their time apart Lacey had grown stronger and was able to come up with a plan to kill her sire. She refused to be controlled and was to prideful to be anyone’s ‘bitch’ as she called it. Sadly, this murder didn’t go over as well as her father’s.

She just barely got away with it and by 1998 she was finally deemed innocent. It was then that she left a man in charge of the head office so she could work on taking over the rest of Europe with her company.

Today, her company has locations in most European and a new head office in Amsterdam, and a second still in New York. She spends most of her time in Amsterdam because of the high population of vampires and other wealthy people doing business there.

Other Details: Father’s name is James Dune

Nice sheet. Will add shortly.

Here is the prototype sheet for my second character. I'm going to try to use him to build connections to characters that are otherwise not too involved in the group. He is one of the cornerstones of the vampire scene in Amsterdam and one of the oldest Dutch vampires (though junior by global standards). I was thinking he may be one of Anthony's clients, Love Dove?

Name: Albert Ogthoven
Gender: Male
Actual Age: 483
Physical Age: 35
Nationality: Dutch
Occupation: Businessman, Pro-Cooperation lobbyist
Appearance:

Personality: Albert is impulsive and opportunistic. He lives from one quick moment to the next with open eyes, using instinct, rather than any real forethought to guide him. He is changeable, and adaptable, and not a little unpredictable. As a result, he has a deserved reputation of flightiness and perhaps untrustworthiness, though he is not disloyal, per se. He does not seek to deceive people intentionally, it's just that his opinion is wont to change. His permanent state of flux might imply a relaxed, easy-going nature, but this is not strictly true. He is frankly hypocritical, expecting others to remain consistent in what they say and do and, while he is generally affable and well-mannered, he is also known to be extremely impatient with a hair-trigger temper, and generally somewhat volatile toward other vampires. While he would not consider himself a snob, he is a great believer in vampire hierarchy when it suits him, expecting deference and obedience from not just his progeny, but any vampire lower down in the pecking order than himself.

Attitude to The Age of the Vampire: Albert has been an integral part of the vampire liberation movement, and so The Age of the Vampire is, in a small way, down to him. Therefore, he is very emotionally invested in human-vampire cooperation, even though, after over four hundred years under the radar with total freedom to hunt, he finds it extremely difficult to stick to The Golden Rules. However, he thinks it's vital to set a good example, and will come down like a tonne of bricks on any vampire that upsets the balance.
Reason for being in Amsterdam: He is a Dutch national, was sired in the Netherlands and has generally stayed there.
Vampire Traits: As a reasonably oldish vampire, Albert is generally fairly powerful around the board, in vampire terms. Before the Age of the Vampire, he was a big old hunter, and so blood has always been a fairly vicious, thrill-seeking mission for him. Obviously things have to be a bit more sterile now, and so blood has become a little bit boring for him, if necessary. His compulsive behaviour is a great setback for him, though he has developed techniques of distracting himself.

Status: Fledged
Sire Name: Phillipe Arizola
Sire Details: Phillipe Arizola is a Spanish vampire that Albert is no longer in contact with, who sired him as a Dutch agent to act on his own behalf.

Progeny: In his time, Albert has sired multiple progeny. Those of importance will be listed here. If you want Albert to have sired your vampire character, let me know and we can probably work it out.



History: Albert Ogthoven was born the son of a farmer just about in the Northern regions of the modern-day Netherlands (a country that did not then exist). His little life was largely without incident, and, typically of the time, inherited the farm from his father when he passed away, and continued in his exploits. The twist of fate that sucked his life into international politics still beggars belief.

The historical context was the Dutch revolt, in which the Northern regions of the modern-day Netherlands broke free from their Spanish rule. What followed was a long struggle between the two parties, in which the newly-formed Dutch Republic fought back against Spain's attempts of resubjugation. All of this was of little consequence to Albert Ogthoven, until Phillipe Arizola got involved. Phillipe Arizola was a Spanish vampire, invested in Spanish victory and the defeat of the Dutch republic. The plan was simple; by siring a Dutch vampire, Phillipe would create a sleeper agent that, once fledged, could be inserted in the upper echelons of Dutch society as a spy.

The former peasant was quite content with this plan. Having been integrated into a world not mentioned in the Bible or spoken of at the church, and thrust into wealth and even some power, ideas of loyalty or religion were inconsequential. Unfortunately for Spain, the Dutch Republic went from relative strength to relative strength, and, as Albert's mission grew ever less possible, their mutual interest in one another faded. One was a Spanish aristocrat with dying interests in the Netherlands, and the other was a Dutch noble. They had nothing in common, and the whole thing had the tone of an awkward breakup.

Ultimately, Albert realised that he would have to disappear. One could not simply 'live forever', and so, having established himself as one of the four burgemeesters of Amsterdam (sort of mayor), he retired to the countryside as soon as he felt his immortal cover might be blown. He built himself a manor (originally titled De Landhuis van Ogthoven) in the country and established himself as a landlord to local farming peasants. With sympathy for the life of the peasantry, he was generally a benevolent landlord, apart from the bit where his peasants tended to 'disappear'. In the meantime, he remained his mayorship of Amsterdam with a legal mechanism that allowed him to send representatives in his stead, either people he'd bribed, or frequently progeny he'd groomed for the purpose.

Much of Albert's history follows that of the country itself, enjoying the successes of the Dutch Republic, and then fighting for survival when consumed by France. In all of these historical twists, Albert jumped from one event to the next by the skin of his teeth, before eventually retiring to his manor in complete societal isolation. He naturally had his progeny around him and ventured out to feed on peasants (in true Dracula style), but otherwise let the world go by.

Unfortunately, his literal fortune was dwindling to nothing, and he was becoming antsy and bored with sheer inactivity. As the 19th century drew to a close, he endeavoured to become a national player once again. Following the fallout of the Napoleonic Wars, the southern low countries (ie: the rest of the modern-day Netherlands and Belgium) were poised to be united as the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. Anticipating this direction, he travelled South to Belgium with the intention of snaring a local, in much the same way that he himself was acquired by Phillipe Arizola - to use that local as access to Belgium. Unfortunately, his chosen subject, Jennifer de Sauveterre, was in actuality, French. Still, he did like her as a person, and she was fluent in French, and so served some function. Over the coming years, the two developed a romance of sorts, setting rifts in the Ogthoven household. She was his favourite progeny and she was fiercely defensive of that status.

He continued to flit from event to event, bringing other well-placed humans into his flock as the fortunes of the Netherlands demanded, making sure that he had allies in both the Netherlands' huge trade market and its own industrial revolution throughout the 19th century. Unfortunately, as his small empire grew, he took on more and more progeny and had less and less time for each. His relationship with Jennifer broke down gradually, and then completely, resulting in her leaving him in the first decade of the 20th century to forge her own path - against his wishes. The two would not see one another again for almost a hundred years.

Still, he threw himself into his expansion, continuing the same old games, anticipating events and running with them. His gut instinct was usually about correct, something he now attributes to nothing more than luck, and as vampires chose sides in any given conflict, inevitably, some would be killed or be forced into exile. Through sheer chance, or some kind of sociological natural selection, he became one of the oldest vampires in the Netherlands as the others faded away. His luck ran out when Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940.

The thing with humans on the wrong side of history is that they die and they're posthumously dissected by historians, safe in the grave. Vampires don't get the same excuse, and it was Albert's calculation that Germany would win the Second World War, and he lobbied to, well, help them. This included accepting the holocaust. While vampires were somewhat more pragmatic about the mass deaths of humans, he had still picked the wrong side and he was almost destitute and cast out, with many of his progeny killed not in direct conflict during the war, or indirectly picked off by vampires seeking to undermine his influence. However, when the allies started to tip the balance, he changed tack and supported the resistance against the German occupation, salvaging some of his reputation in the aftermath of the war. In the same manner as before, some vampires older than himself were killed during this period, raising him in the Dutch hierarchy of age, even with his social standing damaged.

It was time to start up again. This time, he eschewed material wealth, and decided to try to take a more leading role in vampire society. When, in the '60s and '70s, the Western vampires were discussing going public, he took, this time choosing the correct side of history to write his name, the attitude that humans and vampires could and should live in harmony, in an increasingly informed world. It was no longer possible to skulk in a mansion until one was hungry. Urbanisation had seen to that. His campaign was one of the most public and influential in Europe, and, though he was well-poised to take a leading position in the new, public vampire society of the '80s, two things waylaid him. Firstly, he had made the decision to sire a vampire, a young, modern Western human to act as a posterchild and mutual insight into the two societies. To see precisely how this went wrong, check out Alexander's sheet. Secondly, and probably more importantly, he realised that perhaps he ought to lay low for a while. His support for vampire liberation was of course unwavering, but more discrete. Fortunately, the Netherlands' relationship with the vampires was fairly balanced by the mid-nineties, and it was then that he used what money he had left to establish the first vampire bar in Amsterdam, in the area that would become the new red light district. By now, he has a small chain of these establishments, but they haven't flourished as much as they might have, as he cannot decide whether to focus on them or on vampire politics. Either way, he is a cornerstone of vampire society, and is a well-respected, if hardly revered, figurehead in the community, using his power and influence to encourage (violently if necessary) vampires to coexist peacefully.

@Jig she works in a vamp bar because where better to find what she's looking for, or more specifically who. Know thy enemy...or possibly friend. Best way to find a vampire or about vampire culture is to immerse oneself in it. It's not to say its easy work for her but then she was trained to deal with not being comfortable. If the above is not acceptable I'll change it to just a bar.

Edit: surname sorted.

I hope they're okay, feedback is always pleasant c:

Name: Christina van Beusenkom
Gender: Female
Actual Age: 225 (13 July 1789)
Physical Age: 19
Nationality: Dutch
Occupation: Secretary at a Jan Bakers Architect bureau

Personality: : Christina has had her share of exciting events during her lifetime, and those have shaped her to be a serious, cautious woman (sometimes almost to the point of being paranoid) with quite the bit of self-humor and sarcasm. She tends to put things in perspective and isn't afraid to speak her mind when she thinks it's necessary. She's quite intelligent and smiles more than she used to, after all she has traveled the world and has seen so much beauty that it can slightly compensate for the other things she has seen. She has a great sense of honor, responsibility and duty and won't betray her kind, although she isn't that happy about the way some of her brethren and sisters behave.

Attitude to The Age of the Vampire: Suspicious. Although she doesn't doubt that some of her fellow Dutch are sincerely trying to establish a society where vampires are accepted, her experiences have taught her never to fully trust humans. No doubt there are some that disagree with this age, and therefore Christina tends to behave the same as she did a hundred years ago. But on the other hand, she is happy for the younger vampires who can now live without having to worry... At least not as much as before.

Reason for being in Amsterdam: After traveling the world for a long time, she decided to come back to her country. And of all the provinces and towns to settle down, she figured that the metropolis Amsterdam would be the place where she could spend another 10 years without people noticing what she really is.

Vampire Traits: For Christina, drinking blood usually has the sensation of drinking a good glass of wine. A few humans however, mostly males, provide an ecstatic feeling when drinking from them. When she drinks that kind of blood, Chris is barely able to control herself and will most likely suck the poor bastard dry. She therefore prefers to drink bottled blood.

She's particularly good at sensing other people's emotions when she's quenched, or to put it another way; she becomes extra observant and sharp eyed regarding people their body language and therefore she knows when people (especially humans) are lying or when they change from emotion.
Besides that, she also possesses the usual extra agility and is able to control human minds, although if not necessary, she prefers not to use her abilities to prevent unnecessary attention.

Her greatest weakness is that she gets drunk on blood quite easily, making her unable to stop drinking or lose her temper and destroy a few things. Luckily for her (and her house and Jan) she is physically extremely weak compared to vampire standards and wouldn't even be able to beat up a human.

Status: Fledged

Sire Name: Emile Louis Francois (he lacks a surname since he was born before the age of Napoleon)
Sire Details: Emile is about 500 years old. Little is known of his background and history, Christina only knows the things she experienced herself and some rumors she heard from his other progenies. After he became a vampire, he is said to have enjoyed his new found powers a bit too much and created quite the few scandals and vampire tales throughout Europe.

What she does know for sure is that he was one of the French that came to the Netherlands under the rule of King Louis Bonaparte. His personality is... outgoing to say the least, he lives in the moment and seems to do everything on a whim. The harem of progenies he keeps are a living proof of that. Christina detests him for his lack of feelings of responsibility and honor.

They met in 1808, three years after Christina had gotten married. With use of all of his charms, he persuaded Christina to share his bed for one night, where he bit he her, sucked her dry and turned her. She couldn't tell if he had done it on purpose or if he shared her uncontrolled drunkenness when drinking blood. After that, he gave her the address to his estate near Toulouse and provided her with an enormous amount of money, a carriage and a driver to bring her there. When she declined to stay with her husband, he explained that there was no way for her to stay with her husband in Amsterdam now that she was a vampire. When she declined again, he rolled his eyes, left the money, driver and carriage in Amsterdam, told her that she'd change her mind and disappeared. Only a few days later, she had grown too weak to even come out of bed and called out to him by telepathy. It hadn't strayed far and swiftly took her to Toulouse. He stayed there until she regained her strength, then left her in the care of his other progenies. She only saw him twice after she came to his mansion, neither were pleasant experiences.

Their relationship is quite cold as Christina detests his way of 'life' and Emile has more than enough other progenies he likes better. Their mental link is therefore quite weak.

Progeny: Jan Koster and Kenta Ichimaru
Progeny Details: Jan was a childhood friend of Christina and he met her again when she returned to Amsterdam after ten years. She still wasn't quite able to control her thirst and Jan turned out to be one of the special cases where drinking made Christina feel incredibly good. She found herself unable to stop once she drank from him. Jan is a cheerful fellow and still follows Christina around to this day and helps her with all kinds of things. The only thing they disagree upon is Christina's habit of traveling. Christina keeps trying to convince him that it is for their own safety, while Jan keeps on telling her that she's running away from her past and from society. To a certain degree, going back to Amsterdam after all these years and finding a job are a way for Christina to convince Jan that she isn't running away and quite able to thrive in society and face her memories and what he calls her fears. Their bond is extremely strong and Jan behaves as her brother or as if he were her jealous lover, depending on the situation.

She met Kenta in America, just after the beginning of World War II when the Japanese became an extremely unwelcome sight America. Thirsty for blood after suppressing the urge to feed for too long, she entranced Kenta with her abilities and fed on him... Too long and too much it turned out. For the second time, she had turned a human without intending to and Christina felt disgusted with herself. Kenta traveled with her and Jan for a few years, but around 1950 on the Indonesian countryside, he was killed. After all, he looked Japanese and the Japanese had exploited the area for five years. Their bond had been quite strong, despite the circumstances and Christina never forgave herself for letting him die.

After she had turned and lost Kenta, Christina decided to never ever let herself go out of control like that again. Up until this day she has kept that promise to herself and never turned anyone again. The new system of bottled blood is perfect for her, since even if she gets drunk, she won't be putting anyone in danger.

History: Christina grew up in eighteenth century Amsterdam. The time of the industrial age in Europe, but in the Netherlands most things continued to be the way they had been during the Golden Age (17th Century) except that there weren't as much riches flowing through Amsterdam anymore. Her father was a well to do cloth merchant and at a young age she helped him as a clerk. She enjoyed a good education and excelled at languages and music. Encouraged by her father she often accompanied him on his business trip overseas to England and over road to Germany, France and Italy. At the age of sixteen, she had an engaged marriage to a rival of her father, who was thrice her age, to merge their businesses when she'd produce an heir. Unfortunately for both families and companies, it seemed that Christina's womb was barren. Her husband, who at first had been kind to a certain degree, began abusing her physically and mentally. Things didn't change for the better when he turned to alcohol, while wondering if he should divorce her or not. After all, if he did, he'd risk his newly found partnership with Christina's father. Fortunately for him, Emile solved his little problem by kidnapping his wife.

In Toulouse, Christina quickly became friends with a few of Emile's other progenies. She trained her vampiric powers and learned more about the Vampire society as well as what was going on in France. The mansion was miraculously saved during the peasant rebellions, which may have something to do with the older progenies' abilities. In 1818, a few years after Napoleon's defeat, she returned to Amsterdam to see what had become of her family. After all, Emile never had forbidden such a thing, he apparently didn't care about his progenies. It wasn't a happy thing Christina returned to. Her father had died of an unknown illness not long after she had disappeared and her mother had sailed off with a ship to America as soon as the Napoleonic forces marched in the direction of the Netherland. When she accidently turned Jan, Christina fled the city with him, confused and angry at the world and God for allowing all these horrible things to happen. At first she returned to Toulouse, where she lingered for a few decades, but with the turmoil of the Second French Revolution going on, she decided to travel through Europe, together with a three of the other progenies and Jan. Somehow Emile's financial support always managed to find its way to them and since most of them didn't food, it was more than enough to live from.

Their most pleasant stay was in Italy, where they temporarily found shelter in the estate of the Italian Noble Vampire called Flora Devereaux. In 1860 there came an end to their peaceful life when two of the other progenies were caught red handed (no pun intended) while feeding. They were killed without a fuss or trial. After all, with the Italian unification at hand, the local government had more important things at hand. The villagers were allowed to do whatever they pleased. The third progeny was killed in Russia (which is nowadays Poland), on the countryside as well.

After that, she and Jan traveled the world, usually residing in larger cities and avoiding other vampires. Using Emile's money and her own inheritance, she slowly sated her thirst of knowledge while never staying anywhere too long. Wherever they were, Christina always made sure that they kept up with the rapidly changing world. Of course she had an interest in the ideas of the French Revolution, newly formed European nations and the idea of nationality, the new technologies which slowly decreased the world's vastness (for example things such as aircraft, the telephone and finally internet). She mastered various languages and bought a violin in Mirandola, Italy in one of the years before 1860. She found some comfort in writing and playing musical pieces and after almost two hundred years, she finally returned to her place of birth. She was hired as a secretary at a an Architect bureau, still living according to the way she always had: never stick out too much for if they find you, they will kill you.

Other Details:
It greatly annoys her when people belittle her or treat her like a youngling because of her youthful appearance. It has made it hard to find a proper job which didn't include catering, cash registers or cleaning or pointing out that she's a vampire.
Christina has a deeply rooted hate towards mirrors, not because of some sort of magic but simply because she can't stand to see how she still looks the same after all those years and it reminds her of how she used to be when she still was human.

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Name:Yannick Bakker
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Nationality: Dutch
Occupation: Artist

Personality: Yannick is quite the aloof guy. His motto is: If you don't bother me, I won't bother you. And he lives his life according to that. He isn't too talkative, especially when he's working.

Attitude to The Age of the Vampire: He has no reasons to fear or hate vampires, so he doesn't. Since his artistic style is similar to the Hague School, the old vampires provide him with enough work. After all, humans find his style quite passè the older vampires on the other hand, tend to find his work melancholic.
Reason for being in Amsterdam: After finishing his education at Minerva in Groningen, he moved to Amsterdam to start a new life, figuring that a city as big as Amsterdam must have a place and need for artists.

History: Yannick lived quite the ordinary live in a small town in the periphery of Groningen. His mother died of cancer when he was only four years old and since he didn't have any siblings, he grew quite fond of his father. His father used to be an artist and he was the one that discovered Yannick's talent. He ushered Yannick to follow an artistic education and to revive the Hague School. After all, the vampires might find that an attractive style. When and earthquake destroyed his hometown and killed his father, Yannick decided to fulfill his father's wish and study art.
At the moment he's making enough money to rent a small apartment in the suburbs of Amsterdam and he has a few vampiric and some human patrons. He isn't all too impressed by the vampires, if anything, he's a bit disgusted by them and he'll do anything not to become a 'blood donor'. But at the same time, there's something oddly fascinating about them, and he's determined to find out what exactly it is and capture it on canvas (besides, vampire patrons are the ones that usually pay the most so he doesn't really have a choice but to paint for them).

Added everybody thus far. Just waiting on a sheet from Kraft, sort out and finish Albert's sheet, and then I think we can probably get started. :)

Do there happen to be any volunteers to be Yannick's patron (beside my character Christina)? :)
I'll probably let him try to find new ones anyway, but if there are any volunteers at this point, he'll have some connections which may come in handy.

Name: Skylar Lockett
Gender: Female
Age: 22
Nationality: Irish American
Occupation: College Student/Blood Donator
Appearance:

Her hair is naturally a darker red; she dyes her hair a brighter red and adds the black streaks in.

Personality:
Skylar has what many would call an adaptable personality, meaning that she often picks up quirks and attitudes from the people she is around, which could be caused by her time in foster homes. Normally though she stays very bubbly and enthusiastic to the point of being annoying at times. Whenever she actually is sad, it’s not very hard to tell, because she isn’t able to hide it. She’ll usually get quiet, then runs away and start crying. Also, Skylar isn’t a very trusting person; she cautiously picks who she shares her feelings and history with. If asked about her family or childhood, she changes the subject as quickly as possible, and gets quiet if pushed about it.

Attitude to The Age of the Vampire: Skylar has a neutral feeling for the Age of the Vampires. She mostly sees it as a way to make a little extra money. Besides, her opinions cannot change the way the world is anyways.
Reason for being in Amsterdam: Came on a scholarship.

History:
Skylar was born in Ireland, both her mother and father were Irish, however, she moved to America when she was just a baby, and grew up there. Most of her life, she and her twin brother were raised by a single mother, who worked three jobs to support them. Other than the fact they lived the lower class life, the first part of her life was fairly good. She excelled in school and was one of the top students in her third grade class. However, after her grandfather passed away, things took a turn for the worse.

Her mother ended up having a metal break down, and shortly after turned to drugs and alcohol. Around the time Skylar turned ten, CPS was called and her mother was deemed mentally and physically unfit to take care Skylar and her brother. Though the case workers did manage to find her father, he was already married with other children and refused to accept them as he did not want to admit the fact he had cheated on his wife, and knocked up Skylar’s mother. So because of this, they both became custody of the state and put into a foster home, until their mother could be able get the two of them back.

For the first two years their mother actually did fight to get them back, visitation with supervision and working with the courts. After those two years her mother gave up, and stopped going to court, thus the two of them were forced to stay in the foster home. While her brother was adopted quickly, Skylar bounced around from foster home to foster home for the next two years until she was finally adopted at fourteen, and once again things in her life started to pick up. Skylar once again had a family, and though she never managed to find out where her brother went to, she was happy.

She had never really had many dealings with vampires being in America, until she turned nineteen, when she was given a scholarship for Musicology at the University of Amsterdam, and moved there with a few of her friends that had gotten the scholarship as well. She is currently working as a Blood Donator to earn a little extra money to survive while studying her way through college.

As I say, I'm happy for Albert to connect everybody together if nobody else wants to jump up to the plate. He has several establishments to furnish and decorate so it would make sense.