Alexei Dragosani

I- Do not act like an entitled shithead. Nobody likes them.

II- I play in a paragraph to multi-paragraph style. I also do my best to put my best foot forward in putting forth detail and legibility. All I ask is you do your best in your efforts. As long as we're all putting in our best efforts then it's all good!

III- I play with the safety off when it comes to gaming. My character can die, yours can too. That being said, I am not a dick about it. I talk to you, the player, about what is about to happen. Like in good kink, we talk about boundaries and what is green-light, yellow-light, and red-light.

IV- This character is rated AO-17. That's ADULTS ONLY. This is my evil vampire escapist character, playing out all sorts of weird horror fantasy and eroticism fiction. If the possibility of domination by VLAD-(maidenfucking)-TEPES doesn't flick your Bic, I understand, but that is what I'm running with this character. If that DOES light your fire? Welcome!

V- This character is a big ole love letter to Vampire: The Masquerade, Vampire: The Requiem, Anne Rice, Bram Stoker, the entire history of Dracula, Wallachia, Witchcraft and Paganism, The World of Darkness, Gothic Horror, Gothic Romance, Dark Fantasy, and all things that go bump in the night. Expect organized crime, occult secrets, blood and drama, courtly vows, and political intrigue. There is sex and death and desire, all woven together with enough twists and turns to keep you intrigued. NOW ENOUGH TALK, HAVE AT YOU!

VI- This character is just that, a character. He is not my persona, he is a character. I have a life outside this collection of 1's and 0's, and I enjoy that life. If that bothers you, I recommend seeking a counselor to help sort your own life out.

VII- Have fun, and feel free to give me suggestions. I encourage talking about what is happening in the RP. I tend to play more character-driven than the overall plot, but I am not opposed to an overarching plot. Having both makes for a much more engaging story.

VIII- Character Inspiration Board

Vampires are a race of predators who feed on blood (or possibly several different ones that have grown together over time). They were once humans transformed by a conscious act of will, known as the Embrace, into powerful creatures of the night. During the Embrace, a vampire drains a candidate of all their blood and replaces it with a small amount (generally a single drop) of their own. This causes the corpse to rise as a new vampire, usually instantly. The vampire who initiates the Embrace is the Sire; the new vampire is the Sire's Childe. Amongst their culture, these vampires recognize one another by calling their kin "Kindred".

Vampires have every manner of supernatural power, such as turning into animals, flying, and wielding the strength of a dozen men. While these powers are not universal, vampires have unique abilities known as Disciplines, which can grant individual undead capabilities such as these and more. The sunlight burns vampires, however. As part of their curse, vampires recoil at the touch of the sun, its vital rays scorching their undead flesh. Vampires typically spend the daylight hours in the cold sleep of undeath, and only the most resolute can shake off the weight of the day's forced slumber for even a short time. There are potent Kindred rituals that can stave off the effects of the sun, but it is never permanent.

Vampires aren't destroyed upon being staked through the heart, they're held in stasis. A vampire's body slowly withers and turns inward while trapped in this state, desiccating and becoming ever more corpselike. Garlic and running water do not repel vampires. Such notions are nothing more than old wives' tales, cultural biases, or perhaps the banes of certain bloodlines of Kindred. They are also not repulsed by crosses and other holy symbols. But there are rumors of the devout sometimes being able to affect the Kindred with miraculous aspects of their faith. Curiously though, the Kindred don't show up like normal people on camera or in mirrors. Their features appear obscured in photographic media (including video footage) and reflexive surfaces. They can temporarily counteract this effect, but the “default” is a sort of occlusion. The same is not true for voice recordings; vampires' voices are captured normally on those.

For the Kindred, the act of feeding becomes highly sensual. The process of taking blood is euphemistically called the Kiss or feeding - and a vampire leaves little to mark her passing if she is careful, cause all a vampire must do to heal the wound left by her feeding is to lick it when she's done. The vessel feels ecstatic when the feeding happens, and the vampire undergoes a heady rush as well. Certain vampires sustain their undeath by drinking the blood of animals, but rarely for long, as either their tastes or the needs of their cursed bodies force them to seek human blood. It should be noted, that while the act of feeding replaces all physical urges, vampires can still indulge in sex and even take pleasure from it. Although vampires do not appear to age, and some survive for centuries, the Kindred use the word “undead” rather than “immortal” to describe themselves. Vampirism is a curse, not a blessing. It does carry with it great power, but the state of being a vampire also brings with it numerous detriments, not the least of which include the internalized rage of the Beast and feeding on human blood.

Vampires change considerably after the Embrace. When a vampire is Embraced, their internal organs either wither, adapt, or become entirely different altogether, and almost all their bodily fluids are replaced by blood. Vampires use blood (also called Vitae) for a variety of purposes; blood replaces most bodily fluids, so vampires will sweat blood and cry blood under certain circumstances. Blood is also used to get up and move; every night, vampires expend a certain amount of blood to rise. Once Embraced, vampires become immortal and are locked into a form of stasis. Apart from wounds, vampires are restored to their condition at the time of Embrace every time they rise up for the night. While mostly incapable of eating food, vomiting it up almost instantly, vampires who have trained to do so can hold down food for longer before they must expel it from themselves, therefore keeping their façade of humanity intact. Some bloodlines even have altered themselves to be able to consume some forms of organic food, albeit with more than a few caveats.

In addition to the physical changes, vampires experience extreme intellectual and emotional changes. The vampire is now a predator and has a raging inner monster called the Beast. The Beast reacts to a variety of stimuli, notably hunger, lust, anger, and fear. The Beast continuously assaults the character, and if the Beast's demands exceed the character's own capacity to control it, will react in a Frenzy. Vampires can permanently lose control to the Beast. In this condition, all humanity is lost and the vampire becomes a draugr, a ravenous killing machine.