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Full name : Drake Cromwell
Gender: Male
Age: Born in 1516 (turned when 20)
Home: English nationality (live din York). Has lived in America for the past 200 years. Has only lived in the town of Wendigo for over a month - as soon as he arribved the killings began.
Appearance: Short and somewhat messy blue-grey hair on a relatively athletic build that has the feeling it is not fully grown into itself yet. he seems to be caught mid-growth spurt: He is relatievly tall at almost 6 foot with long limbs. his boyish appearance is belied by his eyes which show his age in thier uninterested detachment. When he focuses they show intelligence but are often difficult to read. his eyes are perpetually either scab-red once he's been fed, or almost completely black when hungry. A lack of self control means that when he starts to feel hunger, he is ravenous. He dresses in loose undefined clothes, usually mirroring what has been solidly in fashion for a couple of decades. At the moment it's normal jeans and white shirts. However, in his accessories his age shows through in antique styles or items. He is often grubby, as he lives outside and unless he is on a hunt he rarely change sout of his bloodstained clothes.
Personality: Drake's personality is always seemingly second to his carnal motivations. his instincts draw him and he doesn't try to argue with them -whereever they lead him. Initially -when he was first turned- he viewed himself as a monster and to keep himself sane he tried to detach himself from what he was and so made no effort to fight his hunger for blood. soon he was ruled by it, and hsi personality seemed to fade away almost completely into nothing more than a personification of such instincts. Over the decades, he regained some control - mostly through the lesson of self preservation after suffering under some human vigilantes - and scratched back a personality. The new man he became was cruel to those he views as inferior (namely humans and the 'good' vampires who tortured him), embraced his insticts whoelheartedly and was determined to have fun. Snapping apart from the social norms, he became essentially insane - but he still retains the intelligence and wit he was born with. He lives to feed with teh ferocity fo a drug addict.
Motivation: Drake is motivated by his thrist primarily. He has spent too long under it's heel and in all pursuits of life is now motivated and pulled along by his insticts and carnal needs. in short - he does what he wants. he has been 'caught' by humans and otehr vampires befor ein his life, and his suffering under their hands has given him a motivation of revenge and contempt as well.
Occupation/Past Occupation: previously a memebr of a noble family - he has a small military career before being turned. now he is a nomad - wandering. he finances himslef through stealing form his victims.
Skills: intelligent, usual vampire advantages. His skill is that he is seemingly very difficult to kill and has a high pain threshold.His speed is impressive and betetr than hsi strength.
Weaknesses: His hunger is maddeningly consuming and he is a slave to it, to an extent that is unusual to all but newborn vampires. he feeds like its his first kill. He was brought up a Catholic christian and so he had an aversion to holy items that is more extreme than many other vampires (even protestant vamps). he cannot venture anywhere near the mass alter etc.
Weapons: His fangs. Otehr than that, he tends to improvise.
History: he was born into a noble family in Tudor England. As a young man he fought in the
pilgramage of Grace as a rebel alongside his father. As the rebellion fell he was captured. His father was executed and he was imprisoned. It was in the prison that he came across a vampire who sired him, promising their escape if he would serve him. Drake and the vampire did escape and Drake served him (although he dispised the service) until he was able to also slip past his master and escape. on the run he came to terms with his vampirism and gave himslef over to the thirst.
His large thirst gave him quite a reputation in england over the years, and soon a group of high-up vampires who killed more discreetly were after him to trya nd control his exposing feeding habits. they caught him, tortured him to teach him a lesson, but left him alive. it took him a long tiem to heal, but as soon as he was able he took the first boat to America in order to escape the country and start anew. in the New World he began again, and aside form runing foul of a few religious slayers he lived a largely well fed and unintterrupted existance as a nomad.
bored with where he used to live, he now has roamed into Little Wendigo town and is 'having fun' by picking off the villagers with almost no attempt to hide.
Other:http://dragontamer363.deviantart.com/art/Sketchdump-Vampires-Aliens-142089812
Full name : Tristen King
Gender: female (vampire)
Age: Appears 20 – was only turned 2 years ago
Home: Brought up in England until age 13 then moved to America. Has been living in Chicago.
Appearance: Tristen nis naturally a red-head and has the skin complexion to show it: pale with freckles across her nose. Her hair is dyed blue and long, tied into thick deadlocks and usually tied back. She’s a standard height of around 5’ 4’’ with green eyes. She wears an ecclectic mix of clothes, usually an attept to gain repsect with older vampires by wearing tehir style of clothes. Often it’s a punky mix of waistcoats, ruffled or silky shirts and torn up jeans. She has a lot of jewellry that never seems to match and most fow hich looks homemade, and has a nosepiercing and snakebite lip piercings. Her body language is a little odd and fidgety and there’s something disjointed that pops up in her eyes quite regularily.
Personality: Tristen is a confident and headstrong, if often wary, young woman. She embrace dthe vampiric lifestyle and was taken into the powerful network of ‘official’ vampires quite quickly. She’s very intelligent and creative and interested in the occult, and vampirism has given her quite a few abilities. She’s extremly perceptive. She’s suffered from Artistic hypomania her whole life – so she’s clinically insane. This only got worse as she was sired (her sire also knew this and intended it as he was part of an ‘insane’ sect of vampires). Her Hypomania –when it strikes- creates a high and obsessive creative inspiration and manic need to express it. Her energy levels get high and she suffers from mood swings. She can cpmpletely lose control and go completly mad. When she ‘crashes’ from this state of mind she can show physical twitches and liekly gets addicted to something. Usually this is alcaholic blood. When she draws, she sees things no otehr people see. This, linked to her occult interest can sometimes be practically prophetic or telepathic. Occasionally her creativity also makes her come out with some odd turns of phrase or perceptive comments.
Motivation: Tristen has grown somewhat tired of the politics of the vampire clans in chicago – especially as she was forced into acting as a double agent for two lords. She’s trying to catch a break, but was only allowed to leave on the condition taht she look out for breaks in the ‘masquerade’ – ie vampires that are killing too many too obviously. After teh stroies of Little Wendigo, she’s decided there’s the perfect place to get a holiday. Her motivation on life is to get more credibility in teh vampire world and gain power.
Occupation/Past Occupation: Dropout student and artrist.
Skills:
*Gunmanship (sniper speciality) – Tristen got into soem bad crowds in her youth and so has a great skill in using guns
*Percetiveness – Tristen is gifted with an unusual and very perceptive way fo seeing teh world, to near-supernatural levels. This is especially when she draws.
*Occult knowledge – she’s in tune with teh occulta nd can actually sense/see /communicate with spirits occasionally
*Ambidexterous
*vampire strength and stamina. She specialises in perception and being able to conceal herself in shadows
*malkavian mind network – her clan the ‘malkavains’ are all insane, and through blood bonds and insanity are all linke dot each other’s minds. Being young and inexperienced, Tristen can only recieve messages
*has teh restraint and abilities so she can feed of humans without killing them, though it’s always touch and go because of her low self control.
Weaknesses:
*she’s insane and easily compeltely obsessed to her art where it becomes a frenzy
*she’s insane and so finds it hard to blend in and can irritate other vampires and actually pose a danger to herself and otehrs around her at times.
Weapons: Sniper gun, twin handguns, dagger and a bulletproof jacket if need be. Her fangs.
History: tristen was brought up in england – the daughter of an acclaimed artist and author for a father and successful businesswoman for a mother. At 13 her motehr got a promotion in america and so they moved there. She is very intelligent, but she always failed in school because of her inabilityt o focus and her obsession with art. She mileld around and was often truent and fell into a gang of older teenagers where she learnt to use guns. They usually used her for graffiti and kept her around for a laugh and her skill with a gun. She chopped and changed colleges in an attemptt o get art and english degrees, but never finsihed.She was never diagnosed with hypomania, but it got worse as she got older. She was soon sired itno a vampire, and dropped out fo human life altogetehr to be loyal to her ‘clan’ in the competitive world of official vampiredom (led by the worldwide organisation known as the camirilla). She occasionally phones home. As a vampire she’s made allies and mistakes. She’s recently found herself entangled in a rivalry between vampiric lords one in her hometown chicago and one operating from Las Vegas. She was forced itno acting as a double agent – as a new and weak vampire she coudlnt’ argue. She sought a break away form all this, but has been asked to report on the status of Little Wendigo.
Other:
http://dragontamer363.deviantart.com/art/Aridas-Mary-b-w-47487393
[oh man this picture is ooooooooold. I must draw him again one day]Full name : Aridas Jones-Dracula (Goes by Aridas Jones)
Gender: Male
Age: Born in 1698 so 311. Looks 22
Home: Whitby, England (has travelled all his life, and lived a majority of it in America. Is now making his rounds around Europe.)
Appearance: Almost-shoulder-length curly/wavy brown hair. Completely white skin (or so pale it's pretty much albino white), pointed ears, vivid green eyes (natural), a set of 8 fangs (4 top 4 bottom. Longest ones are the canines. the others are shorter versions of the 'true blood' ones). has a fairly round face but with the classic vampire cheekbones. Isn't especially tall at 5' 6'' and doesn't look particularly strong. Has a scar on his upper arm where an old wound was cauterised. Dresses in blacks or red usually in order to 'fit in' with the gothic-freak identity he's adopted so the mortals will accept him as human. he enjoys that this allows him to keep his traditional fashion sense of open baggy pirate-shirts and calf-high boots. Always had a gold ring with a ruby-and-jet gem in it taht holds the emblem of a bat.
Personality: Aridas is generally a loner, and can be prickly to people who invade his space uninvited, but that isn't to say that he doesn't enjoy company. He thrives in preforming to people - his 'job' as a Gothic musician acts as his cover - and can be friendly, he just doesn't trust people and is prone to get self concious (which he protects hismelf through by going on an offensive). That said, he has a genuinely good heart and is making an effort to be a better person.
he scorns vampires on a whole - hating their society. Because of what he is and his extremely high generation, many more powerful vampire seek to diablarise him -ie gain his power by drinking his blood. Many others see him as a freak of nature and want him to be killed for it, or are allied to Dracula who similarly wants him dead. Mortals, however, he likes, and he'd prefer to spend time in their company, if they can get past his appearance.
Motivation: Aridas always feels out of place with the world and victimised by the vampire councils and act such always acts to resist their power. Primarily, however, he just wants to live a peaceful life and possibly get revenge on Dracula.
Occupation/Past Occupation: When he was human he worked ferrying messages and goods between the mayor of the town and the local 'legalised' pirates the man employed. Now, as a vampire that has recently come out of the woodwork, he works as a performing musician, usually haunting gothic bars.
Skills: Aridas is a seeming impossibility in the vampire world - the result of his father impregnating a mortal. (this was possible due to the vampire virus still being inherently demonic in him rather than a classic vampire evolution due to his high generation and siring by the original source- blah blah blah). At any rate he was a half vampire child and was later sired by another vampire - making a curious mix of concentrated vampirism in his blood.
Essentially, his body remained human in every respect (in both weaknesses and advantages), however the vampire in him has expressed itself in an affinity with vampiric 'magic' and an alarmingly potent bloodlust.
- he can walk in sunlight
- he needs to eat/drink etc but also feels warm to the touch etc
- he can use 'Dracula esque' 'magic' --> he can walk up vertical surfaces/dangle off the ceiling, can turn into bats, manipulate the wills of animals and even some mortal/vampire minds, with great concentration he can try to read minds. this magic is fledgling with him - he feels he has almsot unlimited potential in it,but he's still inexperienced. his less than impressive phsyical prowress also hinders him.
- he's notoriously difficult to kill if he has a blood supply nearby
Weaknesses: - he's essentially only as strong or fast as a human (which is somewhat pathetic compared to most vampires)
- he must eat normal food and sleep
- he must drink blood and cannot stop himself form killing his victims
- Holy items of all types harm him, regardless of whether he believes in
them or not (though those associated with protestant Christianity are more harmful)
- he's extremely claustrophobic
Weapons: He has a katana form his travelling around in japan half a century earlier, and knows how to use a handgun. Otherwise his main weapons are his teeth.
History: Aridas moved over to America when he was 4 years old, alongside some of the earlier colonists. He was a b*****d child to his mother within a family of 4 other children, after she had been raped/seduced by Dracula. She brought him up as her own, though his alarming physical appearance meant he was generally ostracised and bullied growing up. He fantasised about teh adventures of pirates and highwaymen, and even tried ot dress like them - a private love he still keeps. As a teenager he finally managed to get a job actually delivering messages and organising smuggling betwwen the pirates and the mayor of the town. however he was soon struck down by a vampire. form then on hsi life changed he woke up some days later to find he'd been buried alive (hence the clastraphobia). he's suffered some trauma trhoughout his years - especially when he finally met his true father and ended up getting used by him in a ritual. Now he travels and is trying to make something positive of himself
Zizzykitty's character
Full name : Judith, doesn't care to remember her last name (nicknames: Judy or Jude)
Age: turned at 24
Home: born in New York but considers Vegas her hometown(moved there at 8 )
Appearance:Very fashion forward, Judith is always dressed in the newest, hippest clothes, always looking for that next "big thing" in fashion. She is relatively short at 5'2" with platinum blonde hair cut asymetrically. She has large round dark green eyes with a somewhat round face. Judith is very curvy but has a large scar running from her right hip bone to right underneath the breast. She also has long legs and small feet.
Personality: Judith is very outgoing, very flirty. She knows the power of femenine charm and some cleavage and uses it very much to her advantage. She tends to be superficial but not stupid. She can certainly think on her feet.
Motivation: Judith battles for personal gain, sometimes thirst
Occupation/Past Occupation:Vegas showgirl and burlesque dancer
Skills: Judith comes with the typical vampire advantages but she's very quick and light on her feet. Extremely flexible and can usually squeeze herself through a tight spot. Can talk herself out of most situations.
Weaknesses: Along with the vampire weaknesses(sunlight, holy items, etc) she's got a weakness for money and handsome men.
Weapons: She usually just uses her body as a weapon but if she must she carries a small pistol with her that over the years she's learned how to use very well.
History: Judith was born in New York on April 15, 1931. She grew up in a rich area but moved to Las Vegas with her father in 1939 at the age of eight. She grew up in the town amd was courted by many men for her beauty. When she turned 19 she decided to use her assets and became a showgirl. She became very successful, always with the most handsome men. At 24 some of the other girls became jealous and tried to kill her by letting her bleed to death, thus the scar. A vampire came along enticed by the smell of blood only to find a beautiful girl. They decided rather than to kill her to instead turn her. The vampire left her in the alley after biting her to instead look for other victems. Judith woke up later to find that she was a vampire; she craved blood and was immediately off in search, forgetting for one her appearance. She has come under control of her urges now fifty years later even though she is still considered young by vampire years. As a human she didn't eat very much anyway, always worrying about her figure and appearance so her thirst as a vampire was not as strong as it may have been otherwise.
Other: [I accidentaly named her in the wrong decade. It was too late to change one I realized though. Once a character has a name for me it just sticks.]
PictureFull name: Mason Bentsen (Nicknamed Poi-Poi by Lillin, he used to be in a band and Poison was his stage name)
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Home: New York, New York
Appearance: Tall, just over 6 feet. He has piercings in his ears (gauges in both ears and an industrial in the left), right eyebrow (his right, your left) and tongue. Mason has messy jet black hair with neon green streaks in it and green-ish yellow eyes. He's got lean, wiry muscle so he doesn't look as strong as he is. Dresses like a punk.
Personality: Mason is the typical guy. He likes loud music, girls, and punk rock. He tends to be bullheaded and stubborn, though not necessarily looking for a fight he won’t back down if you try to pick one with him. He is generally good-natured, although dimwitted at times, so as long as you don't get on his bad side he’s pretty amiable.
Motivation: Protecting Lillin
Occupation/Past Occupation: Unemployed. Used to be in a band but they broke up.
Skills: He plays the guitar and does a bit of singing. Never trained in martial arts of any kind but from growing up getting into fights with other kids he’s learned how to do it.
Weaknesses: As much as he denies it; his weakness would be Lillin, also intense logical thinking, never a talent of his.
Weapons: He didn’t come expecting a fight so he brought no weapons. He’ll probably just bludgeon someone with whatever he can find.
History: Mason was adopted; he doesn’t remember much of his childhood other than he got into scraps with other children a lot. He wasn’t necessarily a troubled child; he just didn’t get along with the other kids very well. Of course the only logical solution to a ten year old boy who doesn’t like people is to hit the person until they no longer have a problem with you. He became infatuated with punk rock in his teens and made friends with “those” kids. Once he had some friends he was much easier to get along with; even though he still made people nervous with his Mohawk and tough exterior. When he was 16 he started a band with some of his friends and managed to gain local fame; sadly the band broke up two years later when Mason got caught screwing the lead singer’s girlfriend. Whoops.
In the mean time, about a month before his band breaking up Lillin saw him at the mall one day when he got his tongue pierced. He saved her from drowning in a fountain and she immediately started to investigate him. Mason was a curious boy and she wanted to know who he was. She started stalking him, we assume she had nothing better to do, and finally Mason notices a month later after the band has broken up. He talks to her a bit and they just clicked. They moved in together and are happy.
And now he’s ended up in our town following Lillin who has moved here for her job.
Other: Lillin sometimes will amuse herself by crossdressing him. When his hair was long she would curl and brain it to make him “pretty”
PictureFull name: Lillin
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Home: Kansas City originally but spent most of her teens traveling.
Appearance: Lillin is short 5’5”-ish which now that I think of it isn’t that short but compared to Mason she is, and of more compact build. He has black hair that fades into dark red tips that’s about shoulder length and purple eyes. She loves color and if given the chance will make outfits with every color of the rainbow, but Mason doesn’t let her.
Personality: Lillin is very happy-go-lucky. She thinks more in the here and now rather than in the future, though we are wondering if she is smarter than she lets on. She’s really off the wall, spacey, not really all there at times. She rarely gets angry but if she does then she becomes violent. Lillin enjoys being around people, basically she’s adorably weird.
Motivation: Protecting Mason
Occupation/Past Occupation: Self Proclaimed Private Investigator
Skills: She’s got a variety of circus-y skills, such as tightrope walking, juggling, and some knife throwing.
Weaknesses: Mason, though she is proud to say it; he just gets embarrassed. Also directions, written or verbal, she will get lost.
Weapons: Throwing knives. They weren’t brought with the intent of using them as a weapon; she just gets bored and plays with them for fun.
History: Lillin was born in a family with a very strict government working father, and a mother who died in childbirth. She had tutors and went to private schools as a child. When she was 10 she ran away from home after her father didn’t show up to her piano recital. When she ran away Lillin wandered the city, completely and utterly lost. Somehow she managed to make it into the fair grounds where, lucky for her, a circus happened to be in town. She joined them, mostly due to the fact that she refused to leave, even as they were closing and packing up.
For seven years Lillin traveled and learned the finer arts of the circus. They stopped in New York and were given time to “vacation” and check out the city. Lillin wandered around and, once again, became lost. Somehow she ended up in a mall and was window shopping until she saw a head of neon green hair. (at the time he had a long neon green Mohawk) Due to the hair and how he was dressed she decided to follow the decked out punk peacock! As she followed him mindlessly she had intentions of talking to him, until a needle went through his tongue. Startled and freaked out, Lillin bolted and tripped into a fountain in the Mall courtyard, nearly drowning. Luckily our punk-y peacock was there to save her.
For a month or so Lillin stalked him, having been left behind by her troops after saying her goodbyes. Finally Mason noticed and talked to her. Suprisingly, they hit it off rather well, aside from the obvious personality differences (opposites attract, we suppose), and she has been living with him since then.
Now they are moving to our lovely little town for Lillin’s new job.
Other: She also has juggling balls with her, I don’t know if they’d really be considered a weapon though she will throw them at people sometimes to get their attention. Since she’s been traveling with a circus for years she forgot her last name (not that she really cares); whenever she’s asked for her last name she makes one up. It’s usually long, complicated, and changes every time you ask.
