Ven Versonii
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Ven Massimiliano Versonii
Vampire/Cosmic Entity ♦ Domain of Fire ♦ Drama Enjoyer
♦ Kitchen Sink World/Any Setting ♦ No AUs ♦
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Any Pronouns - Pansexual - Alarmingly Old
Phocaea - Persia - Egypt - Hibernated for Much of the Late Roman Empire - Italy
In Depth Character Sheet Here - You're on the Short Version
♢ Sauvé
♢ Affectionate
♢ Romantic
♢ Gregarious
♢ Protective
♢ Cunning
♢ Persuasive
♢ Sociable
♢ Patient
♢ Honorable
♢ Sharp-Witted
♢ Generous
☉ Bold
☉ Persistent
☉ Opportunistic
☉ Flamboyant
☉ Opportunistic
☉ Ambitious
☉ Passionate
☉ Brazen
☉ Enigmatic
☉ Hedonistic
☉ Perceptive♦ Meddling
♦ Proud
♦ Opinionated
♦ Conceited
♦ Self-indulgent
♦ Vain
♦ Impulsive
♦ Melodramatic
♦ Haughty
♦ Vindictive
♦ Unpredictable
♦ Eldritch
Appearance
Typical Appearance
Long, Slightly Wavy/Curly Black Hair - Red Eyes - Always Tall - Lithe - Pale Tawny Skin - Elongated Canines
True Shape
Currently Unknown, but probably an unsettling amount of eyes.
☉ Click to Expand Backstory
Ven masquerades most frequently as a vampire-like being when he's encountered in the wild, but the truth is much stranger. He, though the use of any gender or sex based language for Ven is cosmetic at best, is the survivor of a previous universe, one of five energy based beings who found themselves at the birth of a new universe where they could mold reality to their every whim.
This inconceivable amount of power was used to toy with the very fabric of the cosmos for nothing more than entertainment for millennia until the five eventually encountered sapient life, particularly Earth's life. Four of the five found themselves fascinated with this life, and suddenly wary of the harm their power could do if wielded incautiously. The fifth was less enamored with this new existence, and increasingly so as the other four voted to seal the majority of their power away in order to more delicately interact with the other beings around them.
This fifth energy being, Qyinn, wanted to destroy this new universe in order to recreate their own, or barring that, destroy itself and anything else that got in the way of its goal. The four other beings, which call themselves Tesseracts, came together to seal and imprison Qyinn by force to keep the multiverse at large safe. This proved ineffective when Qyinn split itself in order to escape. The four were forced to bind themselves directly to Qyinn in order to prevent disaster, an act which weakened all of them, and one they are continuing to deal with today.
On a less cosmic note, Ven first touched down on earth in Phocaea, where he formed his first physical manifestation. He spent most of this time observing humanity and traveling with their shipping fleets until the unusual luck that seemed to happen around him caused him to become viewed as a minor deity of travel, and the hearth. When the Greco-Persian Wars came to Phocaea, Ven turned many of his injured followers, making them the first of a vampiric cult known as the Suntouched. From there they fled to Egypt, where his influence and power grew, up until conflicts with the Romans began. Ven lost many, and grief caused him to hibernate until sometime around 1870, where he woke in Italy, which has been his primary home ever since.
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Skills & Abilities♢ Sanguivore
♢ Vampiric Venom
♢ Mesmerism
♢ Energy Absorption
♢ Can push up to 30,000lbs
♢ Running Speed of 80mph
♢ High Endurance
♢ Few True Bodily Functions
♢ Reality Manipulation
♢ Entirely Immune to Fire
♢ Blood has special properties
♢ Summer Months Strengthen
♢ Shapeshifter
♢ Deathless
♦ Abilities Limited Outside of Personal Sanctuary
♦ Water/Cold Magic Weakens
♦ Weak in Winter Months
♦ Invitation to Enter
♦ Currently Bound to Physical Form
♦ Hibernates if Severely Injured
♦ Must Draw from the Lifeforce of Others
♦ Strong Beliefs Affect Him
♦ Holy Symbols Can Ward Him Off
♦ Obtaining his Feathers Binds Him
♦ His Avatar is Only a Piece of his True Self
☉ Acolytes
The Suntouched
The Suntouched, the followers of The Summer King, The Unceasing Flame, were Ven's eyes and ears in the ancient world. A few were fully human, but most fell into two categories of revenant, or vampire: The Nightborn and the Drakon-ka.
Some were those already turned, who chose to band together beneath the shelter of the Summer King's fiery wings. These were the Nightborn, who Ven granted the miracle of being able to walk beneath the sun again through the offering up of his own lifeblood. The effects were temporary, and Ven could only give so much at a time, but many of them had died as part of a culture of sun worshippers, and the ability to walk within that world once more was something worthy of nothing short of devotion for most of them.
Others were individuals far stranger and rarer, turned by Ven himself. These individuals could walk freely in the sun from the start, and draw upon the energies of others through touch as well as blood. But it is said that the change also came with the price of a further part of their humanity, and many were said to have been as otherworldly as the Flame himself.
In far ancient times, The Suntouched were numerous, but after the spread of the Roman rule, their numbers dwindled. Most have been long since killed now, or are in deep hibernation in some dusty, buried tomb. The few that are not do not like to be disturbed, though they still answer to Ven’s call when he summons them on rare occasions. There is still much grief between them all for their lost brethren.
Among the Suntouched, imagery of sun motifs, serpents, and fire are common.