“This need. This…is the need, the need to bleed.”

Name: Willamar “Will” Shriver

Age: 28

Appearance:
Good looking enough, stands a few inches above six feet, one arm is heavily scarred.

Occupation: Instructor

Short bio (+Personality): Father being a doctor and scientist in various conjoining fields, Will was diagnosed early on to have a condition that abnormally increases the production of red blood cells in his body (Polycythemia). Plainly speaking, there was too much blood the boy’s body, and over time it would come to affect his overall health and comfort. Some of Willamar’s earlier nightmares were of being bled by his father, or having his blood drunken by some monster…not quite understanding the necessity of such a thing till it affected him in his teens, some years after his father’s death.

Continuing the ritual bleeding in order to maintain his health, most of his colleagues seems to assume melancholia when they see the scars, assume a false bravado of happiness…but they simply do not understand, do not know. Most who meet him come to know him as a man who thinks quite positively, and works hard towards his interests, earnestly helping to support the interests of his friends and colleagues.

Name: Viktor Cruor
Blood: Pureblood
Age by Appearance: 20
Immortal Age: 915
Appearance: [link]
House: The House of Malkavian
Rank: Prelate
History: Born in the early years after the formation of Kievan Rus', Viktor was the third son of a captain of the fleet. As a young boy, he spent much of his life on ships with his father and brothers, and grew up feeling at home on the water. When he came of age, he took a more active role in the navy of his fatherland. When Prince Igor of Kiev's fleet attacked the Byzantine Empire during the invasion of Bithynia in 941AD, Viktor was twenty years of age, and was proud to sail and fight in his Prince's name. When the fleet was decimated by the Byzantine's own, Viktor's ship was destroyed, and he washed ashore, almost drowned on a beach off the coast of the black sea, in modern day Turkey.

It was on this beach that he was discovered by a beautiful woman, with the face of a young lady, but the wisdom in her eyes of a being more ancient than any Empire. She saved Viktor's life, at the price of his mortality and his homeland. Viktor lived in the Byzantine Empire for many decades after this, living and working in Constantinople under many names, in many different capacities. At different times he was a general, a blacksmith, an advisor, a farmer, a captain of the guard, under many different Emperors.

Viktor left the grand city of Constantinople shortly before its fall to the Fourth Crusade in 1204, and travelled Europe for many years, before eventually settling in England in the late 16th Century, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He returned to the seas once more during the Spanish Armada, serving under Sir John Hawkins, in an overwhelming English Victory. It was nearly a century later that he finally settled in London, finding more of his own kind, and joining the House of Malkavian, where he rose steadily through the ranks, until eventually he was ranked just below the House's Elder, a position he treasured and respected greatly.

• Name: Naomi Kaplan
• Blood: Pure
• Age by appearance: 20
• Immortal age: 100
• Appearance: here
• House: Ventrue
• Rank: Kyres
• Short bio (+personality):

Naomi grew up in a low income, conservative household with two younger sisters. Her father was a minister and her mother was a housewife. Naomi always dreamed of becoming a doctor and has held on to this dream her entire life. Her parents, however, discouraged this dream, planting the idea in her head that women were meant to be mothers and housewives and not professionals. Naomi hid her quest for medical knowledge, often hiding encyclopedias in her room. She was turned and joined the house of Ventrue not too long after her 20th birthday and has spent the last 100 years adding to her medical knowledge, hoping to use her skills to benefit her House.

Naomi is outspoken and assertive. She enjoys people and is stimulating company. Outgoing, social, and open, but often attention seeking. She can be insensitive and is always joking. She’s creative, resourceful, and intellectually quick. She enjoys debating issues and gets caught in a spirit of one-upmanship. She’s talented at presentation and gets excited about new ideas and projects. She has a great ability to understand concepts and apply logic to find solutions. She considers herself a rule breaker, risk taker, and thrill seeker. Comfortable in unfamiliar situations, Naomi appreciates strangeness and counterculture. She is adaptable but messy, easy going and adventurous. She is quite an aggressive experience junky. Not easily offended, carefree, dangerous, fearless, and careless. She is emotionally stable and a spontaneous improviser. She’s considered a flirtatious player, wild and crazy, and dominant.