I hope they're okay, feedback is always pleasant c: [b]Name:[/b] Christina van Beusenkom [b]Gender:[/b] Female [b]Actual Age:[/b] 225 (13 July 1789) [b]Physical Age:[/b] 19 [b]Nationality:[/b] Dutch [b]Occupation:[/b] Secretary at a Jan Bakers Architect bureau [hider=Appearance:] [img=https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t1.0-9/10565178_697219570331872_5117007488307261952_n.jpg] Christina always dresses elegantly, not showing too much skin but she also tries her best to follow current human fashion to prevent standing out too much. [/hider] [b]Personality:[/b] : 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. [b]Attitude to The Age of the Vampire:[/b] 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. [b]Reason for being in Amsterdam:[/b] 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. [b]Vampire Traits:[/b] 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. [b]Status:[/b] Fledged [b]Sire Name:[/b] Emile Louis Francois (he lacks a surname since he was born before the age of Napoleon) [b]Sire Details:[/b] 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. [b]Progeny:[/b] Jan Koster and Kenta Ichimaru [b]Progeny Details:[/b] 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. [b]History:[/b] 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. [b]Other Details:[/b] 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [b]Name:[/b]Yannick Bakker [b]Gender:[/b] Male [b]Age:[/b] 20 [b]Nationality:[/b] Dutch [b]Occupation:[/b] Artist [hider=Appearance:] [img=https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t1.0-9/10584012_697219483665214_3850523635885888027_n.jpg] [/hider] [b]Personality:[/b] 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. [b]Attitude to The Age of the Vampire:[/b] 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. [b]History:[/b] 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).