
- █ █ B A S I C S
█ NAME ▬ Ashling Ire
█ AGE ▬ 34.
█ NICKNAME ▬ "Ash." "Ire." "Ireland."
█ GENDER ▬ Male.
█ RACE ▬ Vampire.
█ ORIENTATION ▬ Ambiguous. [ Phobophile. ]
█ OCCUPATION ▬ Behavioral Rehabilitation (Slaver Division) ; Product Distribution and Debt Collection (Blood Nation)
█ PARTNER ▬ None.
█ STATUS ▬ In the market.
█ █ A P P E A R A N C E
█ HAIR ▬ Black. Riotously curly.
█ EYES ▬ Ice blue / grey.
█ BUILD ▬ Tall [6'4"]. Leanly muscled.
█ TATTOOS ▬ Boom.
█ SCARS ▬ None, as yet.
█ BIRTHMARKS ▬ A beauty mark at the base of his spine.
█ █ P E R S O N A L I T Y
█ THEME SONGS
█ ▬ BLOOD ON MY NAME
█ ▬ b***h BETTER HAVE MY MONEY
█ ▬ VOODOO IN MY BLOOD
█ ▬ LIGHTS OUT
█ ▬ I CAN'T DECIDE
█ ▬ THE SMALL PRINT
█ ▬ DON'T MESS WITH ME
█ ▬ THE HORROR OF OUR LOVE
█ ▬ THE FUTILE
█ ▬ I HOPE YOU DIE
█ ▬ ZYDRATE ANATOMY
█ LIKES
█ ▬ Money. Currency. Filthy lucre.
█ ▬ Culture. Order. Respect.
█ ▬ The trappings of success.
█ ▬ Proving himself to be superior.
█ ▬ Praise. Flattery. Compliments.
█ ▬ Gifts. Bribes. Baubles. Payment.
█ ▬ Tailored suits. Handmade shoes.
█ ▬ Blood with a pedigree.
█ ▬ Both of his occupations.
█ ▬ Administering violence. Or watching it.
█ DISLIKES
█ ▬ Crass, badly dressed miscreants.
█ ▬ Being driven by his impulses and cravings.
█ ▬ Being denied what he wants.
█ ▬ Thieves. Deadbeats. Cheapskates.
█ ▬ Most other races, outside Vampires.
█ PERSONALITY TRAITS
█ ▬ Posh, condescending, high-maintenance.
█ ▬ Vampire supremacist. Warped sense of humor.
█ ▬ Avaricious and materialistic. Possessive.
█ ▬ Protective of what he owns.
█ ▬ Disinclined to express sentiment.
█ ▬ Destructive and aggressive when bored.
█ █ H I S T O R Y
█ BACKGROUND
Iiiin West Philadelphia, born and raised--
Wait, no. Start again.
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
Once more, from the top.
Il etait un fois.. There was a fairly normal family, living out their fairly normal
lives in a big, mean city where slavery was legal. In this big, mean city, there
was a lot going on in the crime department, and there was a ton of racial ten-
sion because that's what happens when a bunch of different cultures have to
share apartment buildings and public parks.
Now, the thing is, Ashling is a predator. He comes from a long line of preda-
tors, because that's what Vampires are. Right up there, perched high on the
food chain. So when the government tells you that you (like the T-Rex in Jur-
assic Park) are going to get your food sent to you in allotments instead of go-
ing out and hunting it down, that's bound to piss you off. Right? Right. This
kind of thing is discrimination. It's government control. It's an outrage. Ash
grew up hearing how bullshit all of this is, listening to his parents as they e-
numerated all the virtues of Vampires and decried protective measures for
other races as fascism. Unnatural selection. Racism.
So you get together with your parents and their friends and you visit these
"meetings" in basements around the city, and you talk about how so-and-so
had their house burned down. So-and-so got sent away to prison just for feed-
ing! It was only one little human, and so-and-so gets thrown in the slammer
for murder. Can you imagine that? What a joke. It'd be funny if it wasn't a
terrifying sign of the times. Prey races were holding key positions, writing and
enforcing these laws, taking the fangs from the mouths of honest citizens who
were just going about their business!
Somebody needed to do something. Somebody needed to remind these worms
just what they were dealing with.
The long and short of it is that Ashling's mother gets killed.
To put a finer point on it, she dies in a basement, surrounded by other mem-
bers of the movement, when the pipebomb she's building goes awry. This is
while Ash and his father are out finding someone to drink, and for years after
he has to listen to dear old dad talk about how it was a conspiracy, a setup.
Somebody blew up that building, yeah, sure. Somebody who was scared that
Vampires weren't going to take all this lying down. Somebody who couldn't
take it that Vampires were trying to make Saxon great again.
What Ash learns from this is that pipebombs are a bad idea. I mean, you can't
make a statement if you're dead.
Dad gets worse and worse as time goes on, turning into an absolutely embar-
rassing crackpot, letting everything fall to ruin around him. By this time, Ash
has finished school and has his certification, so he starts a decent job with the
Slaver Division and moves into a hole-in-the-wall apartment. It's already clean-
er than home was, but he quickly learns that the things he really wants come
with a hefty price tag.
So, when you're a vampire whose blood is basically drugs, and you live in a
part of town where a vampire gang is running blood-based drugs, and you
share a certain mindset (that other races are scum, and it's entertaining to
watch them bankrupt themselves trying to chase another fix), there are car-
eer opportunities. They aren't legal, but they're rewarding, and the money
made and connections forged can get you a lot of the things you want/need/
havetohave while you're moving up the ranks in your above-the-table job.
It's been years now, and Ashling is one of the best in his field: Behavioral
Rehabilitation (see also: brainwashing and conditioning "stubborn" slaves to
be more "pliant"). If you've bought a particularly docile, well-broken slave in
the last ten years or so, you might have Ash to thank. And if you've owed mon-
ey to a certain Vampire gang and wound up drugged with your wallet stolen,
chances are Ash had something to do with that, too. To say nothing of if you're
a needle freak, because then you probably have his business phone on speed
dial.
Bringing down other races, one vial at a time. Look, Ma. No pipebombs.
█ ABILITIES
▬ FEEDING CONNECTION: DREAMWALK
Once Ashling has fed from a person, he becomes their own personal Freddy
Krueger. That is to say, he can invade their dreams as he pleases and alter
the "terrain" of the dreamscape. While he cannot actively alter their feelings or
thoughts, and cannot physically harm a person through their dreams, it does
mean that they can't do much to get rid of him once they're asleep. Ashling is
capable of turning the dreamworld into a hellish landscape of snakes and fire
and tax forms. Or he could make it into your favorite Sunday brunch followed
by endless blowjobs. It all depends on how much he likes you.
▬ BLOOD ABILITY: ACID TRIP
Skin (or mucus membrane) contact with Ashling's blood results in.. well, a
hallucinatory experience. Much like with LSD, everyone's response is dif-
ferent. However, onset is incredibly quick, and often leaves the victim dis-
oriented or confused. They may be entirely incapable of distinguishing hal-
lucination from reality, making them dangerous to others. Ashling typically
uses this as an opportunity to inflict more hands-on damage-- or to feed from
a victim while they're unsure of what's happening.
▬ BODY IS A TEMPLE
Ashling takes very good care of his body, as much to keep it at peak func-
tionality as to appease his own vanity. He has the strength and knowledge to
do well enough in most hand-to-hand disputes, and has no issue fighting dirty,
using surrounding terrain, and improvising weapons when necessary. How-
ever, Lesson The First always applies, and Ash's preferred weapon is always
right there in his mouth.
█ EXTRA
While Ashling sees all other races as inferior to Vampires, he seems to have a
grudging respect for the sheer ferocity and capacity for damage found in
Ghouls and Werewolves.
Ashling's speaking voice is Terrance Zdunich.