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Johnathan Mayes

Name: Johnathan Mayes

Age: 25

Height: 1.8m (6ft)

Weight: 78kg

Race: Vampire (newblood)

Gender: Male

Appearance:


Sexuality: why is this a question?

Personality:
This world is a boring place, filled with boring little people. Vampires, humans, they're all just pawns in the game of life. Johnathan isn't content just being a cog in the machine, he want to run the place. He'll kill, cheat, lie and steal just to prove that he can, and he'll do it all over again just to prove it's easy to him. Everything in life is a game, nothing to be taken all too seriously, but it's a game that Johnathan intends to win. Malicious thoughts are hidden behind his smiling and calm façade as he laughs at the suffering of the world. He'll be polite to the end, smiling to your face even as he slides in the knife. Not because he hates you, and certainly not because of some silly ideology, but simply because he felt like it.

Biography:
Growing up in a world that moved too slow for him, Johnathan's youth was a boring one, especially for him. He skipped several classes and majored at a very young age. Everything seemed to come easy to him, so he decided to look for a challenge. Interested in strategy, as well as science, he joined the military. He rose through the ranks fairly quickly, demonstrating to be a good soldier and an excellent commander. It was his skills in handling strange and complicated situations that drew the attention of the Covenant, and initially caused them to accept him into their fold. While not a full member he became one of their military contacts, responsible for providing them with equipment, backup, and occasionally covering up their activities. He relished these duties, greatly enjoying the challenge of balancing his covert actions with his duties as military officer. Rising through the ranks he became an important tactician and advisor both in the standard military and to the Covenant, occasionally even directly assisting in planning missions. At one point he was even put on a government-funded team dedicated to taking care of vampire actions called Soldier. Unfortunately the initiative failed for political reasons, and the makeshift organization swiftly fell apart.

Of course, this couldn't last. On one of the missions he was involved with Johnathan's men managed to capture a live vampire, who was dragged back to his personal little 'bunker'. His behaviour got stranger and stranger as he began commissioning researchers for his own little projects. While he'd previously helped design specialist gear for the Covenant he was now doing other and stranger things, culminating in a stunning act of betrayal. One day he just vanished, taking with him all of his men and all of his equipment. Even when exerting it's not inconsiderable resources it took the Covenant a while to figure out exactly what had happened. His men were intensely loyal, and the Covenant's moles had either defected or disappeared.

About a week later a caravan of trucks with Johnathan in the lead arrived at Magnus' proverbial front gate. Unloading a large amount of military-grade hardware and several captives he demanded to be given command of Magnus' army. While nobody knows exactly how Magnus responded to this, later Covenant reports indicate that Johnathan does perform some form of command function within Magnus' forces. In addition these reports would indicate that Johnathan apparently went through Magnus' entire army finding a suitable sire to vamp him, and then had that sire killed to prevent himself from being influenced. Stories also indicate that he's working on combining vampiric bloodlines, experimenting with werewolf DNA, and designing technology to abuse the more unusual properties of vampires. At one point Johnathan sent a captured Covenant agent back to the Covenant with a letter of apology for his defection, declaring that it was getting boring, and that he intended to live forever. It was signed with ' - your future ruler, Johnathan Mayes'.

Faction/Side: Magnus' Vampires

Abilities:
When examining the different vampiric bloodlines and their abilities, Johnathan opted to become a Gabriellan vampire. His body is still 'alive' and he can be killed by severe damage to his vital organs, although he has a superhuman healing factor. While both his speed and strength are superhuman they aren't nearly as impressive as some of the older vampires. Rather the Gabriellan vampires specialize in mental abilities, and Johnathan uses this in order to psychically influence those who look into his eyes. The ancient vampire power of mesmerising their prey. Using this he can make people speak the truth, cause people to become more loyal to him, paralyze his enemies and even mind control people if they're willpower is weak.

Skills:
Highly knowledgeable in a variety of fields, usually in the natural sciences. He possesses some of the greatest knowledge of vampire and werewolf biology in the world, and has extensively studied vampire abilities. In addition to this he possesses a great strategic mind, being a dangerous opponent on the battlefield for his ability to trick and outmanoeuvre opponents. Physically speaking he has military training and is a skilled hand-to-hand combatant/marksman. Lastly but perhaps most importantly is his social aptitude, the ability to read and manipulate people with ease. It's this ability that grants him his followers.

Strengths:
Didn't I kind of go over this up there?

Weaknesses:
- Arrogant to the max
- can't use his abilities in sunlight
- Dies instantly if a wooden or cold iron stake is plunged in his heart
- Unwavering faith, especially of the religious kind, negates his influencing powers.

Likes:
- Willing Pawns
- Interesting People
- Drama
- Winning

Dislikes:
- Incompetence
- Predictable People
- People who don't know their place
- Losing

Other: Meet Stein + Johnathan, remade as a sort of Evil Sherlock. Enjoy.

The Blood Compact

@BlackPanther

Looks fine, but shouldn't his weakness be Silver? Considering Silver is a generally accepted werewolf weakness. Iron is more closely associated with demons and fey, neither of which really exist in this universe.

Dead Roleplay, Ignore

@EchoicChamber
I remain here. Waiting for a good time to interject in the scene my char is in.

The Prophecy

@TheTwistedOne
At current there appear to be only 3 Mortal characters, 1 of whom is yet to be placed in the Characters tab. Not sure if there really are enough people right now, or at least enough Mortal characters, considering the deities will be mostly window dressing.

ᴘʀᴏᴊᴇᴄᴛ: _ɢᴇɴᴇsɪs

Yeah, me too.

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@Kazemitsu
As I'm probably more aware of the lore of this thing than Shikaru is, I'll answer this one. Old-time player here, this is a so-manieth reboot of a rather old series of roleplays.

Within this universe, Lycans are seen to be exclusively wolf-based, and exist in packs that hunt far from civilisation. They possess a culture separate from that of humans, and often choose not to mingle in the affairs of humans. Due to their isolation it is unknown if there are non-wolf lycans, but such a being would be the exception to the rule. It's often implied throughout the series that Lycans were driven to near extension due to conflict with humans and/or vampires. It is known that Lycans can either be 'turned' from a human or can be naturally birthed by two Lycan parents. It is also known that Lycans can occasionally possess exceptional traits, mutations, which can have various effects such as changing their fur colour, or in very rare cases granting them additional supernatural traits.

In general Lycans possess immense speed and strength in Wolf Form, on average they are even stronger than vampires. In addition they possess a slow regeneration factor, allowing them to close wounds in a matter of minutes, heal broken bones in hours, and regrow entire limbs over the course of days. To balance this out, a limited lifespan (approximately human) often provides Lycans with inferior skills and knowledge, as well as a more primitive outlook on society and technology. In a previous roleplay one player played an exceptional Lycan who possessed the power to control plants, and who was worshipped as a deity by other Lycans.

Also, half-vampire half-werewolves are usually impossible. Werewolf regen prevents them from being turned, vampire bodies are immune to the lycanthropy virus and even when it works the result is usually twisted and broken, dying soon. Only in rare and exceptional cases can a proper hybrid be created, and these hybrids are always considered with universal disdain by vampires, and general disdain by werewolves, as the two species have no love for each other.

Epic City: Starburst

@Bluetommy@Old Amsterdam

As the options were laid out in front of her, Guilt considered her position. Anybody could just claim to be connected to the High, and that couldn't be considered some kind of get-out-of-jail-free card. Based on his words Guilt didn't think this strange figure was lying, but it was hard to tell with such a distorted creature. So her options were either to fight these people, both Epics, potentially angering one of the High in the process, or to leave and allow whatever happened here to just happen. And that was ignoring the possibility of this Freak, supposedly a dangerous mass murderer, escaping in the chaos. Sighing, Guilt lamented the need to make yet another choice, which would define the way she interacted with this city.

But it didn't appear she would get the chance to make a choice at all. Like a flash of human lightning the one referred to as 'Comet' blasted forward, shattering the sound barrier in the process. For a millisecond Guilt considered intervening, putting a wall in the way or blasting them both. But inaction got the better of action - her indecisiveness made the choice for her. Comet quickly killed the Freak, who had apparently been known as Nudd, thus concluding their business here. Sighing, Guilt decided that she'd just have to live with this. Whether it had been the right decision was arbitrary, at this point.

Turning around, she moved away from the conflict. "If you lied, you're dead." A last warning, more as a token defiance than a real threat. She had been defeated by her own inability to make a choice, and completely lost control of the situation. It seemed that she was still a better soldier than a hero, and she'd have to correct that mistake. With a slight flash of purplish energy she vanished, to reappear at some other location in the city.

Epic City: Starburst

@Regitnui
Sort of? Being unable to just teleport people she saw was necessary to make her not-unstoppable, so I figured I'd build her weakness based on that. And she was trained to fight Freaks and Epics, so it makes sense her weakness would be Normals.

Again, if you would like her to have a different weakness, or an additional weakness, I can change it.

Epic City: Starburst

@Old Amsterdam@Bluetommy

The figure who had previously appeared to vanish reappeared moments after Guilt made her presence clear, and addressed her directly even as the other ranted incoherently in the background. It was clear who was the brains of this duo. Although that Mach 200 number was most certainly worrying, that level of speed was more than Guilt was likely to be able to keep up with in most situations. Even more worrying was this mention of the High Venom. Even as a relative newcomer in this city Guilt was well aware of the High, the legendary figures who ruled Epic City through their immense power. While the abilities of the High were more Myth than fact, nobody could garner that kind of reputation without possessing truly immense strength, and Guilt had no intention of messing with any of the High unless absolutely necessary. It was not the type of encounter she was likely to survive.

However, despite this, she remained cynical. "Any member of the High would be able to end this with ease, assuming there was any reason to go after this particular Freak in the first place." She remained on her guard when addressing the blurry figure. While the other had foolishly revealed his ability, this stranger's abilities were an unknown. At first she had believed he merely turned invisible or teleported, but neither were likely. Her mask was equipped with infrared in order to find invisible enemies and fight in the dark, and this guy had just disappeared. But if he'd teleported, he wouldn't have been aware of what happened here. More likely he had some ability to turn completely incorporeal, no longer interacting with this world on any spectrum of light. "Is there any way of proving that you represent the High Venom's interests?" If these random folks really did represent such a powerful figure then there was little Guilt could do but step out of the way.

While waiting for an answer, Guilt gestured at the spider that had attempted to sneak up on her. The advantage of her current state of hyper-awareness, coupled with the infrared capabilities of her mask, was that it became very hard to sneak up on her. And it was quite obvious who here had the power to manipulate bugs. With a small bang wind exploded outwards above the spider, instantly smashing it to pieces and cracking the cement below it. A large quantity of air, highly compressed, formed an excellent weapon. Storing such things in Void gave her the ability to maintain her airbending illusion.

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@ayzrules
Yes, but the universe also incorporates the idea of different 'bloodlines'. Different 'families' of vampires possess different abilities, and can have different methods of 'siring' people. Some might even reproduce in a more natural fashion.