@ViolentViolet
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.
Name: Everett Asvirial
Age: 127
Sex: Male
Sexual Preference: Females
Race: Vampire/Pure Blood (not royalty)
House:
Family:
Michael (Father, Missing)
Noelle (Mother, Missing)
Solomon (Oldest Son, Missing)
Malic (Second-Oldest Son)
Erity (Sister-in-Law, turned vampire)
Emilia (Oldest Daughter, Deceased)
Whitney (Youngest Daughter)
Rania (Second-Oldest Daughter)
Significant Other:
None
Gifts
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.
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
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.
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.
Family:
Michael (Father, Missing)
Noelle (Mother, Missing)
Solomon (Oldest Son, Missing)
Malic (Second-Oldest Son)
Erity (Sister-in-Law, turned vampire)
Emilia (Oldest Daughter, Deceased)
Whitney (Youngest Daughter)
Rania (Second-Oldest Daughter)
Significant Other:
None
Gifts
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.
