Post by Vladislavs Dragula on Nov 21, 2011 11:52:35 GMT -5
COUNT VLADISLAVS DRAGULA
VLAD | VAMPIRE COUNT | ORIGINAL
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Vlad was born to a wealthy family, in Transylvania, in the year 1450. He was the second of four sons, and he had a stable and relatively relaxed upbringing, as the family business depended on his elder brother, as their father died soon after Vlad's birth, and Vladislavs wasn't expected to need to have to do anything more than sit around and look pretty for visiting Barons and so on. However, on his thirteenth birthday, his elder brother was killed in a hunting accident, and the responsibility for the family then fell on Vladislav's shoulders. He worked hard, and he kept the money coming in, and the family, thanks to his efforts, remained wealthy and well-renowned. What was the family business? They were vampire hunters, operating in the cold of the Calpathian Mountain forests, chasing the native bloodsucking clans almost to extinction.
All was well, until one night, on the eve of his fortieth birthday, Vladislavs was returning home through heavy rain, when his horse was spooked and threw him from the saddle, running away in terror. As he picked himself up, he heard someone coming towards him, and he felt a terrible sense of unease. Gathering, from years of experience, that he was being hunted, he followed protocol and made for open water, as he knew that crossing a river could shake the following vampire off of his trail. However, as he reached the river, the predator caught up with him, and he was bitten. The vampiress who bit him drank his blood and left him in the road to die, but, unknown to her, he was stronger than that and began to change.
When he came back to himself after several days of terrible pain, Vladislavs was hit by the uncontrollable thirst of the newborn vampire. He pulled himself to his feet, and made his way back to the town where he lived, following the distant scents of many humans. However, once at the gates, a different, stronger, sweeter scent reached him on the wind, and he turned to follow that trail instead. He came upon a clearing, and saw a being filled with the most incredible white light, so bright he was momentarily blinded. Driven by sheer instinct, he pounced, and drank from the being. Only afterwards, when his eyes cleared and his thirst was sated, did he realise that the perfect, pure creature dying in his arms was winged; an angel.
Stricken by remorse for what he had done, Vladislavs carried the angel to his family's castle, laying him in a bed there. The angel began to change, but it was a harsher change than Vlad's own, and Vladislavs feared that the other would die because of him. Overcome with sorrow for the angel's suffering and repulsion at his new existence, seeing himself to be a monster, Vladislavs was driven to near insanity, and, as the thirst began to rise in him again, he ripped out his own heart rather than to harm another being; and he waited in the dark to die.
But in biting the angel, he had made himself cursed.
The heart he had cut out kept beating, and Vladislavs was left hollow. He locked away the heart in a stone box, and over time, it and the lost humanity that it represented sank to the back of his mind. The angel, Peregrin, survived, and remained at his Sire's side, and the two of them over the ensuing years built up the House of Dracul, the largest and darkest of the vampire clans, ferocious immortal warriors who are feared and revered throughout the secret vampire world.
In the present day, very little of Vladislavs is still human, though Peregrin's purity keeps him somewhat on the side of goodness. He despises humans and sees them as no more than cattle, though every hundred years or so, he will take a pretty human maiden to be his Bride. He regards himself as better than other vampires, and he only sees his own House to be the purest line. Despite this, Vladislavs is a social being by nature, and he certainly seems to enjoy the company of others of his kind, throwing lavish balls and parties to show off his great wealth and the Dracul House's power.
He appears to be invincible, as due to the curse, neither stab nor shot has harmed him, yet, hope still remains for the enemies of Count Dracula, for, if they find his heart and stake it, then he will wither and die.
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THE PERSON BEHIND THIS WONDERFUL CHARACTER IS GENERALLY CALLED CLACEYJENKINSON AND SITS AT 19. SHE LIVES IN THE UK TIMEZONE. ALSO, THIS CHARACTER LOOKS PRETTY SIMILAR TO KEANU REEVES, DON'T YOU THINK?
