I'll get onto that. I'm currently hashing something out with someone making Thomas' sister. Wanted to throw him out there really quick, but the Bio should definitely be up as soon as she is! Just wanted to get everything right and consistent before posting that bit for them. ;o
She definitely came first, so I'm making sure to line up everything with her so as not to immediately come in with character plot holes. *sweats* I'll hold off on throwing him into the character tab until everything gets all polished up.
Name Tristan Alexander Juran Age Appears in his late twenties Sex Male Sexual Preference Pansexual
Vampire/Human/Slayer Pure Blood/Aristocrat/Turned
House Juran
Family Mother, Father, Younger Brother and Sister Significant Other None yet
Gifts: Sânge's Call Tristan is able to form blood contracts with lesser creatures, such as animals, sharing a few drops of his blood with them in order to bind them permanently to his will. Likewise any Vampire or Human who, by happenstance, comes to ingest his blood may feel compelled to obey him, though the effect is only temporary and it's efficacy is dependent on the amount of blood consumed. In Humans, prolonged exposure to this state can eventually result in more permanent results.
Iarnă's Touch Tristan also has dominion over the element of Ice. Able to freeze water into shapes, project it through the air and even call on the moisture in the air, as long as it isn't too dry out.
Personality Tristan is a confident and charming man, always at ease in a crowd and quick with a disarming smile. His charisma is the result of decades of schooling in courtly etiquette and manners, hard learned skills that allow Tristan to cover up possibly his biggest personality flaw: Tristan has little regard for anyone outside his own family. Whether humans or even other Aristocratic families, if they are not in any way related to the Juran bloodline, they are beneath him. Fortunately, as previously mentioned, he covers up this arrogant trait of his well while in the public eye. In truth the only people in the world that Tristan can truly be said love and respect are his immediate family, particularly his siblings. He tends to respond to any insult or threat against them, no matter how small, with violent action.
Biography *WIP while the Juran Family is fleshed out*
With my first character approved (yay!), I thought I'd go ahead and make her brother, Everett. I've taken a few creative liberties in fleshing out the family's more modern exploits in Everett's biography, so feel free to tell me if I've overstepped somewhere and I'll edit it until you approve of it.
"Man is so obsessed with his divinely inspired form he has long failed to improve upon it."
Appearance
Name: Everett Asvirial Age: 127 Sex: Male Sexual Preference: Females Race: Vampire/Pure Blood (not royalty) House:
The Asvirial family was founded by a pair of Pure Blood siblings that are now known as, Michael, and Noelle around a thousand years ago. At least, that’s the estimation. In truth, no one really knows how old the family is. The founders of the family are still alive, however, they have taken refuge underground to keep the eyes of the aristocrats as well as other Pure Bloods off of them.
It is said that this group of Pure Bloods hailed from egypt, having held claim to the throne of the Pharaoh for more than 2 centuries before they took their leave of it. The reason for which they left their rather content life is unknown, but it is speculated that a war broke out between their people. This war, if it truly did happen, was said to have wrought the land full of plagues, leaving it naught but a shell of what it used to be. It is unclear whether this was a civil war, or one between their empire and another’s, however, one thing is certain: When they left, they left silently. No one would see hide nor hair of them again for nearly 300 years.
By this point they had already had their first son, Solomon, another apparently on the way. At this time they were living in Asia as nobility, under the pretence of being a friend to the emperor of china at the time. At the same time that they reemerged to the Vampiric community, Asia’s wars with Genghis Khan were getting worse, and China had just begun the construction of the Great Wall. Michael was enlisted in the war effort. With his help as a general they were able to push Khan back, but it cost them a hefty price. Michael was thought to have been killed in the war. Shortly thereafter, Noelle, along with both her oldest--as well as her newly born son, Malic--disappeared.
Another 300 years passed before all four of them were spotted again on a boat to the New World. It wasn’t until Virginia was founded that they proclaimed their return to Vampire Society. Unlike most Pure Blood families, the Arvirial did not seek to become royal, or to take what power the Juran had. They sought only to live their lives as they pleased. They were strong, however, and this made them feared by others of their kind. Noelle was once quoted in saying that they went into hiding whenever they felt their lives were in danger from another Pure Blood family. She didn’t understand why they were so afraid of them. None of the family had ever said a cross word to anyone, and it was rare that they were even seen in public. So, why? Why did other families have problems with them?
It’s thought that the reason was entirely due to the fact that they didn’t try to become royalty. Some thought that they were pompous and conniving, while others who knew of their strength simply thought they were lying in wait.
A few years after they declared themselves to the public again, they had a daughter, Emelia. She was the light of their family’s world, and Solomon’s only love. When the time finally came for the two to be wed and take over their family, Emelia was kidnapped. A few months later, after tireless nights of searching, the Vampire’s corpse was found rotted at the bottom of ravine. To this day, no one knows who actually killed the girl, and Solomon disappeared shortly after her death. Michael and Noelle knew nothing about where Solomon had gone, or why he’d left, they could only imagine the pain he was going through. Even they were having trouble dealing with the loss of their daughter.
Around this point, their second son, Malic disappeared as well. It’s thought that he went to find his brother, but no one can really be sure. When he finally returned to America, he was the husband of a turned vampire with no brother in toe. His parents, while they accepted his decision, had had another three children in his absence. Two daughters, and a son. These would be the last children they would have before they disappeared for the final time, leaving Malic to rule their house in their stead.
The Flesh-- Everett can manipulate flesh (human, animal, vampire, and otherwise), shaping it according to his own desires. This is not to be confused with shapeshifting--flesh shaping is painful, permanent, and deliberate in every detail. At first, Everett had to shape flesh with his hands much like a sculptor, manipulating bones, muscles, blood vessels, and organs to conform to a desired shape.
Then he upped the ante. He no longer is limited to touch, and in a pinch can contort a face, a limb, what have you, with a burst of mental direction and a hand gesture. This ability, however, is still limited to five feet. Intelligent vampires usually stand outside that radius, even in casual conversation.
Personality Pragmatic, competitive, and devoted, Everett is a vampire who prefers getting things done with his own hands. Confidence is so interred in his persona he doesn't even think to intimidate or be intimidated by other people. Like his sister, he is an intellectual, but unlike her, he actively puts his knowledge into direct practice, whether it's performing a surgery or punishing those who infringe upon his family's blood territory. Where his sister is the financial brains of their company, he is the face of it, his name the part of his family that puts fear and caution into those who hear it. He is not cruel for the sake of being cruel, but he is known for his unflinching demeanor and sadistic punishments that leave very, very few in vampiric society who wish to make an enemy of him.
Biography As Everett's parents began to consider leaving someday to return to their roots again, they worried for how their children would fend for themselves in the dangerous aristocratic community. Those concerns abruptly ended when a three-year-old Everett had his hand bitten by a dog and promptly turned its skull inside out. Rather than becoming the sadistic and dangerous son he could have been, his family's acceptance of his power and encouragement to refine it led him to seek out medical studies. He even learned to respect humans as he studied in the ivory leagues, who gave so freely of ground-breaking knowledge and methods while vampires jealously guarded their secrets.
It was not enough to simply be able to shape flesh. He wanted to understand it at every level, to comprehend the most minute miracles performed by the human brain. Not only that, but he wanted to step out from the shadow of his sister, who seemed to soak up knowledge so much more easily than him. Eventually he did succeed, becoming a world-class surgeon whose operations, even in the emergency room, were never fatal. Over time, he gravitated toward plastic surgery, and that salary Rania invested to great financial gain. The family was practically rolling in money, and by the time Everett's parents left, he had plans to ensure his family's prominence after the loss.
Hence the purge of Straten Island. His family had long clung to its largely invisible presence in the city, but the absence of its ancient founders made more than a few aristocrats greedy. Rogue vampires grew fat in their blood territory and derisive remarks in high society were thinly veiled threats to take over the family's claim to Staten Island. He knew there had to be violence to prove his family's prominence, but it wasn't through what most expected.
With Rania's uncanny ability to root out rogue vampire leaders and even aristocrats who had overstepped their bounds, he was able to capture only the most important people and punish them with a horrifying message to the rest of their ilk. Deformities that would put any freak circus to shame appeared one after the next, victims with misshapen heads and limbs barely able to walk their way back to safety cropping up all over the area. That was all his rivals needed, and that message alone won him silent sovereignty and a host of aristocratic and other allies who were attracted to that power. Wielding fear as carefully as his own flesh shaping power, he provided the safe and independent atmosphere his sister's intellectual society later thrived in.
Following those events, great tension arose between the royal Juran family and the remaining Asvirials. While the Asvirials remained neutral and made no claim to rulership over vampiric society, they also did not actively support the Jurans. Very tentative negotiations in recent years have put the two families in polite political alliances (for instance, the Juran family and the aristocrats beneath them are allowed to hunt in their territory and access their VIP establishments), but the Asvirials have still not recognized the Juran family as their rulers.
Other A common rumor is that Everett is not actually related by blood to the Asvirials, instead some adopted abomination from Transylvania. This is due to his lack of a family resemblance, which he explains as being due to his experimentation with flesh shaping.
@ViolentViolet I'm still around! What were you thinking about arranging? xD I'm also not sure if Everett is officially approved or not so I can move him to the character tab.
The Asvirials have an interesting position in relation to the Jurans, so I'm game for cooking up some intrigue. I do have some basic predispositions regarding the plot based on the characters that have already turned up, though.
One idea I had, for instance, was the Asvirial family throwing a big party for the youngest sister's 100th birthday. Since it'd be the first time the youngest Asvirial sibling, Whitney, is introduced into official vampire society, it would open up an opportunity for everyone's characters to be present, to mingle and connive. The vampire slayers are a little bit harder to tie in immediately, given the whole... hunting thing.
But I have ideas for that, too! The Asvirials have a series of clubs with each one aligned with a certain tier. Vampire slayers and those wishing to spy on vampires could fit into one of these tiers (middle-class humans at the bottom, human donors at the second-to-bottom, and rich humans at the third tier). One idea is for there to have been some conflict recently, one that resulted in a vampire slayer killing one of the vampiric employees. This would naturally garner interest from the Asvirial family, who would respond by capturing and disfiguring said vampire slayer. The end result is a who dunnit sort of plot, with more vampire slayers sneaking into the ranks to find out what happened and vampires watching the slayers for further signs of trouble.
On a more general note, the Asvirials don't have a lot of plot secrets to keep, since all the fun is in coordinating with everyone else. Right out the gate, I guarantee Everett will have issues with @Apoalo's Alacai. Everett's far from a defender of humans, but turning children/young adults bothers him greatly and is a powerful reason he doesn't want to align himself with the Juran family. I imagine they're not on friendly terms, though Alacai wouldn't be barred from using the top tiered clubs owned by the Asvirials.
@ViolentViolet's Viridiana may also have a difficult time earning respect from Everett, who sees naivete and softness as a weakness, especially in vampiric leaders. She'd have more luck in negotiating with Everett as head of the Asvirials, but find it difficult to win enough of his respect for him to trust her.
@ScarletQueen's Tristan probably has the best chance of having something more than neutral relations with Everett and thus, his corporation. The social savvy guy would find a lot of friends in the Asvirial's circles, so if you want to work on something there, ScarletQueen, I'm all ears!
@McHaggis's Alistair would also have a great chance of befriending Everett and his circle of aristocrats. As much as the Asvirials strive not to garner too much attention as potential rulers, they welcome allies, numbers, and houses that have values like the Queen family. If you want to flesh out actual relations between Alistair and the members of that family, I'd be happy to chat!
@HalfofLancelot's Thomas, as I mentioned, would have a lot of issues ever getting close to the pure bloods themselves, so there's two ways to go about relations if you want to have them. One, if Thomas's standards would allow (or the vampire slayer community as a whole), would be for him to have a contract with the Asvirials to hunt other vampires. Otherwise, I can provide NPC's within the Asvirial's clubs if he feels like infiltrating vampire society that way.
@Everyone Rania is generally much easier to connect to other characters. She tends to be more understanding and open as a vampiric aristocrat, so if any of you guys have interest in starting relations between her and your characters, I'm all ears.
Holy shit, I'm gonna have to crack down on that pretty hard to see what I like about it XD I'll be typing up a response to that lovely post tomorrow after noon.
(He's supposed to look younger and smaller than in the picture, more like a teenager.)
• Name: Laurent de Liberté • Age: 369 • Sex: ♂ •Sexual Preference: Men
Vampire/Human/Slayer Pure Blood/Aristocrat/Turned
• House: -Not decided yet- • Family: Unknown
• Gift
✧ Devil's seduction
Laurent has a moderate control over hormones and blood pressure, which makes him able to stir up sexual arousal in others, though that does not necessarily mean an attraction towards him. A prolonged exposure to his ability may cause effects ranging from light fever to moderate pain and sometimes even lost of consciousness.
Of french origin and british education, Marquis Laurent de Liberté was raised to succeed his father at the Court of Louis XIV.
Far from being exceptionally literate or hardworking, young Laurent found his key to success in a much more mundane gift; his physical appeal. Alluring glossy lips and blue eyes cold as ice, covered by platinum blonde locks of silk adorning an angel-like face, delicate as his thin body and round, almost feminine hips. He was a favorite at the Court and he never hesitated to use his charm to make his way up in the complicated political hierarchy of the Renaissance.
It was on a stormy night that fate wanted to put an end to his luck; after spending hours courting some fine gentleman, the man grabbed him by his wrist and dragged him out the palace. Laurent tried to break free, but the strength of the man was extraordinary. The boy got cornered in a dark alleyway, looking at his captor in the eyes. The man was like an animal. He seemed driven by an instinct much stronger than his own will, as if Laurent has woken up on him a desire for a long time asleep.
He ripped his clothes with his fangs and sliced his throat, blood splattering the wall behind them. The boy tried to fight back, uselessly. The man, or rather, the beast, fed on him until his heart almost stopped beating. This was the end, Laurent thought. But the boy would die without fighting back. He bit the hand of his aggressor trying to free himself. He could taste the man's blood. It filled his mouth and dripped from his lips. That was the first time he ever tasted blood, though he didn't know then that it wouldn't be the last.
The vampire left, leaving the boy there, thinking that he would be too weak to convert, that he would die from blood loss. Laurent fainted then, but when he woke up a few days later he knew he had lost his humanity. He had become a beautiful monster. An alluring, bloodthirsty and lustful monster like the one who attacked him that fateful night.
Following his new instincts, he left his home in France and travelled looking for others of his own kind. Far from being scared, he embraced his new nature. His heightened senses, his sinful appeal; now he could fulfill all his ambition. For once in his life, he was eager to learn. He wanted to become an elite and rule over the lowly humans as the superior creature he was now.
• Extra:
✧ As a descendant of human nobility, he doesn't accept the 'foreign' vampiric hierarchy and often challenges their authority. He still sees himself as a Lord. ✧ He's picky with food and refuses the blood donators. A prey isn't a prey if you can't seduce and kill it.
Just curious, which one is the most cruel and bloodthirsty of the houses? :3
