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draculabutbackwards) wrote2021-06-12 07:24 am
draculabutbackwards) wrote2021-06-12 07:24 am
I grew up very fast.
User Name/Nick: Siobhan
User DW:fiercebadrabbit
E-mail: israfel1030@gmail.com
Other Characters: Bodhi, Ben, Fou-Lu, Entrapta
Character Name: Adrian “Alucard” Tepes
Series: Netflix Castlevania
Age: ~19
From When?: After the fight with Death at the end of S4
Warden: Living life as the brave half-human warrior who saved the world from his father and the keeper of a giant magic castle, Adrian on the surface is obnoxiously heroic and perhaps tricky to relate to. What he actually is is a teenager whose happy childhood and pleasant young adulthood went to hell without warning, who lost his mother in a horrifying fashion and had to fight his father to the death to keep the world intact, whose efforts to make friends and allies have backfired horribly as often as they’ve gone well, who considers fighting literal baby eating monsters one of his ordinary chores. He knows doing the right thing usually sucks and is a thankless task. He knows that sometimes you just have to lie on the floor for a while, and treating yourself nicely only helps a little but it does help, and that your best self is rarely present if things aren’t already going well. He gets it.
Item: Large, spooky looking book
Abilities/Powers: Half human, he avoids most of the worst side effects of being a vampire and can hang out in the sun all he wants, and has only an uncomfortable urge to eat people to pay for it. He can drink blood, but that’s not really a power. Anybody can do that. He has fangs, though? Flight and levitation and speed so incredible it's almost teleportation, shapeshifting into a wolf or a burst of bats, that’s more impressive. He’s hard to damage and very quick to heal, with strength, and enhanced senses such as are basically necessary to keep his ridiculous body together. He’s a decent spellcaster with a magic sword and has an extensive education as to magic, science, and philosophy.
Personality: Adrian is also Alucard, and his relationship to his two very different names sums up the hot mess pretty nicely. He had a positively idyllic childhood for his time and place, protected, loved, educated, and spoiled. He’s a bit of an alchemical abomination who grew to physical adulthood at a creepy speed, but he’s sure that didn’t effect him negatively. Most of his life was calm, pleasant, and interesting, and he was firmly Adrian Tepes. Then his mother died gruesomely with no one to protect her, his father chose to destroy all intelligent life rather than live without her, and he had no choice but to step into the role of Alucard, the anti-Dracula. Rather than grieve with his family, he was injured so badly he had to flee to recover for a year, and still bears the scars despite magical healing. That horrible crack in the world is at the root of him, still causing tremors and rot, and every awful thing that came after is just salt in that original wound.
Alucard is a hero, in a simple, ugly way, called on to save the world from his own father. He did that. He’s not proud of it. And he had no more help in recovering from it than he did from losing his mother. Should one call on Alucard, one will be defended, mechanically if effectively. He can kill scary things very well. He can even engage with the innocent, helpless humans he’s called on to defend.
But Alucard is deeply unstable. Find him outside a battle, where everything is simple, and you’re as likely to find him immobile in a dark room surrounded by wine bottles as out in the sun picking apples. He hates isolation, but he often chooses it anyway, from shyness and from a faint sense of deserving it. He’s indefatigably patient, but once crossed, he’s just as irrational in his anger as his father, even if he keeps it more focused on his object. The only thing he takes on faith is that everyone will leave him, by betrayal, by learning better than to put up with him, by having better things to do, by simply dying in some violent way because that’s the world he’s used to living in.
He’s brilliant and perhaps the best educated individual alive in his own world, and he can’t tell when he’s being played.
He’s a deeply traumatized teenager with no coping skills who’s seen and used as a magic sword that can walk itself around, and somehow neither violence nor dramatic outfits nor sarcasm nor sobbing on the floor has fixed that. Can’t figure it out.
All that said, he’s friendly, soft, and sweet when he allows himself to be. He remembers being Adrian the spoiled pet of an only child in a castle of wonders, Adrian the studious and quiet. His icy composure is how he avoids vulnerability when people come looking for Alucard, and also it’s funny. But he sincerely thinks that’s how a sensible, together person acts. It’s not a terribly difficult shell to pierce, but it does take work. He adopted a pack of orphans the first chance he got. He made little dolls of his friends when he got lonely. He’s a gentle, loving, delicate thing who’s had no choice but to spend the latter part of his life fighting endless waves of monsters, and also his own father. He needs a little time to relax, and to stop trying to bear the weight of the world on broken shoulders, but he’s ready to be better.
Barge Reactions: Adrian has known about things like ridiculous magic, absurd science, traveling between worlds, and so on all his life, but more importantly, he’s under the impression that he has to be cool and collected about everything or he’ll simply die, being a very insecure teenager underneath it all. He’ll definitely affect unimpressed disinterest, and in the sense that the barge at its worst has way less horrible, violent battling to the death, he will be able to relax in that sense. However, he’s fresh off considerable trauma, and will be spectacularly uncomfortable all the time, as much with the expectation that he has to live with all these people and deal with their nonsense as because of horrible magic mind control. He’ll probably take poorly to breaches and invasive floods and make it worse by pretending not to care. It may be a rocky road for a while.
Deal: He wants to make hell inaccessible. No more night creatures, no more attempting to summon back dead vampires by idiot cultists, no chance that the next generation will have to go through what he and his contemporaries did.
History: Here
Sample Journal Entry: Here
Sample RP: Here
Special Notes: His list of powers is fundamentally ridiculous and operates entirely by what looks cool at any given moment. Any toning down judged appropriate is fine, and any actual combat scenes would be negotiated.
User DW:
fiercebadrabbitE-mail: israfel1030@gmail.com
Other Characters: Bodhi, Ben, Fou-Lu, Entrapta
Character Name: Adrian “Alucard” Tepes
Series: Netflix Castlevania
Age: ~19
From When?: After the fight with Death at the end of S4
Warden: Living life as the brave half-human warrior who saved the world from his father and the keeper of a giant magic castle, Adrian on the surface is obnoxiously heroic and perhaps tricky to relate to. What he actually is is a teenager whose happy childhood and pleasant young adulthood went to hell without warning, who lost his mother in a horrifying fashion and had to fight his father to the death to keep the world intact, whose efforts to make friends and allies have backfired horribly as often as they’ve gone well, who considers fighting literal baby eating monsters one of his ordinary chores. He knows doing the right thing usually sucks and is a thankless task. He knows that sometimes you just have to lie on the floor for a while, and treating yourself nicely only helps a little but it does help, and that your best self is rarely present if things aren’t already going well. He gets it.
Item: Large, spooky looking book
Abilities/Powers: Half human, he avoids most of the worst side effects of being a vampire and can hang out in the sun all he wants, and has only an uncomfortable urge to eat people to pay for it. He can drink blood, but that’s not really a power. Anybody can do that. He has fangs, though? Flight and levitation and speed so incredible it's almost teleportation, shapeshifting into a wolf or a burst of bats, that’s more impressive. He’s hard to damage and very quick to heal, with strength, and enhanced senses such as are basically necessary to keep his ridiculous body together. He’s a decent spellcaster with a magic sword and has an extensive education as to magic, science, and philosophy.
Personality: Adrian is also Alucard, and his relationship to his two very different names sums up the hot mess pretty nicely. He had a positively idyllic childhood for his time and place, protected, loved, educated, and spoiled. He’s a bit of an alchemical abomination who grew to physical adulthood at a creepy speed, but he’s sure that didn’t effect him negatively. Most of his life was calm, pleasant, and interesting, and he was firmly Adrian Tepes. Then his mother died gruesomely with no one to protect her, his father chose to destroy all intelligent life rather than live without her, and he had no choice but to step into the role of Alucard, the anti-Dracula. Rather than grieve with his family, he was injured so badly he had to flee to recover for a year, and still bears the scars despite magical healing. That horrible crack in the world is at the root of him, still causing tremors and rot, and every awful thing that came after is just salt in that original wound.
Alucard is a hero, in a simple, ugly way, called on to save the world from his own father. He did that. He’s not proud of it. And he had no more help in recovering from it than he did from losing his mother. Should one call on Alucard, one will be defended, mechanically if effectively. He can kill scary things very well. He can even engage with the innocent, helpless humans he’s called on to defend.
But Alucard is deeply unstable. Find him outside a battle, where everything is simple, and you’re as likely to find him immobile in a dark room surrounded by wine bottles as out in the sun picking apples. He hates isolation, but he often chooses it anyway, from shyness and from a faint sense of deserving it. He’s indefatigably patient, but once crossed, he’s just as irrational in his anger as his father, even if he keeps it more focused on his object. The only thing he takes on faith is that everyone will leave him, by betrayal, by learning better than to put up with him, by having better things to do, by simply dying in some violent way because that’s the world he’s used to living in.
He’s brilliant and perhaps the best educated individual alive in his own world, and he can’t tell when he’s being played.
He’s a deeply traumatized teenager with no coping skills who’s seen and used as a magic sword that can walk itself around, and somehow neither violence nor dramatic outfits nor sarcasm nor sobbing on the floor has fixed that. Can’t figure it out.
All that said, he’s friendly, soft, and sweet when he allows himself to be. He remembers being Adrian the spoiled pet of an only child in a castle of wonders, Adrian the studious and quiet. His icy composure is how he avoids vulnerability when people come looking for Alucard, and also it’s funny. But he sincerely thinks that’s how a sensible, together person acts. It’s not a terribly difficult shell to pierce, but it does take work. He adopted a pack of orphans the first chance he got. He made little dolls of his friends when he got lonely. He’s a gentle, loving, delicate thing who’s had no choice but to spend the latter part of his life fighting endless waves of monsters, and also his own father. He needs a little time to relax, and to stop trying to bear the weight of the world on broken shoulders, but he’s ready to be better.
Barge Reactions: Adrian has known about things like ridiculous magic, absurd science, traveling between worlds, and so on all his life, but more importantly, he’s under the impression that he has to be cool and collected about everything or he’ll simply die, being a very insecure teenager underneath it all. He’ll definitely affect unimpressed disinterest, and in the sense that the barge at its worst has way less horrible, violent battling to the death, he will be able to relax in that sense. However, he’s fresh off considerable trauma, and will be spectacularly uncomfortable all the time, as much with the expectation that he has to live with all these people and deal with their nonsense as because of horrible magic mind control. He’ll probably take poorly to breaches and invasive floods and make it worse by pretending not to care. It may be a rocky road for a while.
Deal: He wants to make hell inaccessible. No more night creatures, no more attempting to summon back dead vampires by idiot cultists, no chance that the next generation will have to go through what he and his contemporaries did.
History: Here
Sample Journal Entry: Here
Sample RP: Here
Special Notes: His list of powers is fundamentally ridiculous and operates entirely by what looks cool at any given moment. Any toning down judged appropriate is fine, and any actual combat scenes would be negotiated.