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Vladamir "Vlad" Ruelle

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Age┊Nineteen
Gender┊Male
Sexuality┊In public he is straight, behind the scenes....he is more
Race┊Vampire

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Appearance
He stands at six foot three, with short dark brown almost black hair. His eyes are golden, while his skin is fair in nature. He has a well developed body, lined with lean muscle. He takes care of himself, his body is his temple and it shows.

Personality
Vladamir has two main sides to him. The first is the side that those in public see, the other is one that is used only when he is alone or behind closed doors. When around others, he is completely composed. Everything must be in its place, from every hair to every thread and more. In this way, when it comes to things around him, Vladamir is a perfectionist and a bit OCD. He hates when things are out of place, hates even more when he is not in control of himself and things around him. He enjoys his power, and is not afraid to use it over others to get what he wants and to keep things in line. He hates any opposition to his power and rule, any challenge to him. This is because, it threatens his control. It threatens to put things out of his power, something he does not want at all.

He is typically calm cool and collected, coming off most of the time as being aloof and uninterested in things going on around him. He acts like he cares for no one, like he could not care less at what happens to people around him. Life is trivial to him, especially the lives of those that he deems beneath him. He comes off as being cold to those around him, quick tongued and even quicker to act. He is not one to hesitate, doing what he believes needs to be done and is expected of him as par his status and position in life. He is the type to believe that the strong survive, while the weak either must submit or step aside. He does not care for anything outside of his world and his power.

On the flip side, him behind closed doors is a completely different person. He is a lot calmer and quieter person behind closed doors. He seems more relaxed, without the eyes of all upon him. He can often be found ironically setting down with a good book. He likes the peace and quiet, enjoying the silence. He relaxes with his control as well. He also enjoys a nice cup of warm tea. When it comes to his romantic life, he tends to flux at times. He is well aware that his family expects him to provide an heir. He is expected to be on point and represent his family with the upmost class and respect. So in this sense, he will not engage with anyone outside of his class. When he does show interest, he will only give attention to females. He is known to be straight by all who know him.

He does have a hidden lover side however, one that does not mind the company of men or women. He lets down his guard for awhile depending on who it is. It is during this time, that a more vulnerable side of him arises. However, immediately after, he will typically do a one eighty. His walls go back up, and he becomes colder towards his partner. He has little trouble threatening them if they dare say anything to anyone about what happened. It takes a long time for him to relax around anyone fully, to the point where he feels genuinely safe and happy around them. When he does, a genuinely kind and gentle nature comes from within him. It is surprising to most, that he is capable of real love. However, it complicates his life for him, thus at times he is one to pull back into old habits at times.

He requires patience and someone who is willing to put up with his bull. He is torn a lot of the time internally between what he desires and what is expected of him. He sees the world as two different places. What should be and what is. He is not the type to be a dreamer or believe most of the time. He thinks such things are pointless, that no one ever gets what they want in the end. He is the type to believe in the facts, preferring cold hard proof and reality over chasing something that may never happen. He is afraid to put himself out there, because in many ways he is afraid to fail. He is afraid to lose everything and in the end be left with nothing, leaving him to be one to play by the rules and tradition. He likes routine and tradition, because it is predicable and controllable, change and the unknown intimidate him.

This is not to say that he is not capable of change. He is far more capable than he allows himself to believe. He believes he needs to be an image that everyone can look up to, one that they know is in a position of power and a leader. He knows the history of his family and hopes to keep it going. Though he is capable of taking another step forward if he gave himself the real chance. He often times needs a bit of a push, a bit of guidance. Someone to keep himself guarded and set in his ways, he often finds himself actually desiring the challenge that he hates so much. Someone who will in the end break him out of his own personal prison, allowing him to become a man he can be proud of, instead of the man he is expected to be.

Powers/Abilities
Vladamire has the powers that come with being a Vampire, including enhanced senses, durability, combat skills and more. Along wit this, he has a variety of pain manipulation skills, including: Illusions, Psychic Torture, Pain Surpression, Suffering Absorption, and Suffering Empowerment. He feeds off of the pain of others, drawing it into himself. As a result, the pain and suffering of others only makes him stronger. He is able to influence pain on others, creating illusions of things around others that they fear or that will cause them pain. At the same time, he is able to induce pain on them through some kind of contact. Either through physically touching them, or by eye contact with them.

He also has skills that lay outside of his powers. Despite his prim and proper outward appearance, he knows how to fight. He is capable of handling himself in a physical fight, though he prefers to use his power to avoid dirtying his hands. He also has skills in being a leader, able to command attention and loyalty. He knows the ins and outs of the high class world, including how to manipulate people and power. He is also a master swordsman, capable of holding his own in a battle of wits as well as the blade.

Weapons/Equipment
He does not have any weapons with him at most times, other than a simple Sword, that he will use without hesitation. Other than that, he finds many of the other weapons used in life degrading and more use for those of a lower class.

Biography
Vladamir was born and raised within the throngs of the high class of the Lazrus. His father was a member of the head family, while his mother was a beautiful vampire princess whom he fell in love with. As a result, Vladamir was born of royal blood, as well as of vampire blood. From a young age, he had to get used to being a vampire, as well as being in the eye of the public. He was told from a young age, that people would be expecting much of him, and he would have to live up to those expectations. Like his mother, he became acostomed to keeping his vampire needs out of the eyes of others. This meant, he never fed from anyone in public, only partaking in blood imported in the form of wine and more. He also was taught to keep his fangs in his mouth, not to let others see. In some ways, he was convinced that his father was ashamed of his mother being a vampire, despite the love they showed towards each other.

He was well aware of other branches and such being of different races, even though they had initially started out from the same ancestor. He was also aware of the lack of happiness with their ancestors and family. People saw them as thieves, villans and more. They saw them as the enemy to the people they were supposed to be protecting and leading. His father told him this was due to the natural fact that people resisted power, the leadership that they needed rather than wanted. He was told they were doing what was best for people. If they did what everyone wanted, then the world would fall apart into chaos. As a result, his upbringing was highly strict. He was put in a routine, told what to do, when to do it, how to do it and more. He was not allowed to play or fool around, he was not allowed to show weakness or any form of cowardace. He was pushed to be strong, spending mos of his time studying and remaining by his father's side.

He was shown the ropes of the business from a young age. He was shown how to rule, how to make deals. This was because he was to be the heir of his father's line. His father's territory was a region in the North Country, the largest of the ten territories that the state had been divided into due to the regions. He would have a many people and quite a bit of space to maintain and keep control over. When he was eight, his mother was diagnosed with a rare Vampire disease, that attacked her vampiric cells. Vladamir knew that it was not contagious, the only way one could gain such an illness, was to either inherit it through the family, or by drinking contaminated blood. As a result, his father began to fear that Vladamir himself might contract it. As a result, his mother was sent away for what he was told was treatment, and he never saw her again. Part of him suspected that she had been either imprisoned or killed, but he never questioned his father or asked about her.

As a result of the illness, his father began to have him regularly tested. Each time he came back as healthy, but part of his father continued to be consumed by the fear that he would follow his mother and become ill. Because of this, his father proceeded to attempt finding another wife. Not for love, but another chance at an heir, a sort of back up plan. Vladamir knew either way as the oldest, he would be the first in line for the throne. This made people whisper however, what if he did end up coming down with the disease? The only way his father could then secure that he did not take the throne, was to get rid of him as well. Either that, or his father could wait for the disease to kill him. How long it would take would be unknown. Some found themselves having only months when the disease became full fledged, while others managed to continue on for longer. It would jeapordise the territory to simply wait around however.

To have a leader who was sick, was a sign of weakness. It would leave doubt at the family's ability to lead, which could lead to someone deciding to overthrow them, or in turn the matriarch of the family to replace them altogether. If anything, this pushed Vladamir to be more of a perfectionist and to prove that he could handle things. His father married a beautiful woman, who was of human blood when Vladamir was thirteen. This way, he would not have to worry about her coming down with any diseases. He made sure to test such things before they were married. Vladamir hated her, she made it clear to him when his father was not around, that she was the one who had his heart. She would be the one to bear him a child, and in time, she would replace him.Vladamir watched her play nice and innocent around his father, getting whatever she wanted as a result. She took to the power like second nature, walking around like she owned the place. Vladamir eventually had enough.

He caught her in the study one night, when his father was away on business. She was making it clear all she wanted was to know the status on the family's money. He enjoyed taking her down a peg or two, reminding her that she was only human. She thought she had all this power, when she really had none. There were so many out there, who could end her pathetic life with little more effort than it took to snap a twig. She was little more than a physical source of pleasure for his father, a way for him to have another child if he so willed it. After that, she never bothered him. She kept her head down, avoiding him when she could. His father returned and inquired about the reasoning for her sudden change, to which neither gave him a direct answer. She eventually became pregnant, but much to the father's dismay, it turned out to be a girl.

Vladamir only found amusement in this, while his father began to distance himself from the woman and his daughter a bit. He began to once more return his attention and more onto Vladamir, as it became discovered that due to complications of the child birth, the woman he had chosen could no longer carry safely to term. She became little more than a useless tool to him after hearing that, part of Vladamir enjoyed watching it break her. On the flip side, he came to truly adore his little half sister. She became his world as she grew. He found comfort and escape in being around her. Simply reading to her or playing with her became a pass time of his, despite their age difference. His father however, kept the daughter more or less a secret from the world. She was to him in many ways an accident, one Vladamir knew the woman was only kept around to care for. However, it did not last long.

Vladamir was sixteen at the time, when he entered his sister's room to find that her mother had done the unthinkable. She had killed herself, along with his little sister. Their bodies there within the room. It horrified him, seeing someone he cared for so much dead. His father had everything torn down. Every trace of the woman and his sister was removed from the home. Every trace they ever existed was removed from existance where he was concerned. He even had their marriage erased like it never happened. It became a blemish on his record, something he did not want getting out or to even act like it had ever happened. He refused to speak about the two, going on like the deaths had never happened. He continued to lead, pushing Vladamir to continue as well. Vladamir became colder than, more closed off. He saw any emotion or the like weakness, one he could not afford.

When Vladamir turned eighteen, he was sworn in as the new leader of the territory. Though this of course like much of the territories was a face value thing. His father was the one with the main power, control and say over Vladamir and what went on. This was how it went, until about six months later. Vladamir was waiting for his father within a meeting, when he got the news that his father had been in an accident. Meeting with some of the other consultants and such of the head family, a group of rouge fighters had attacked them. His father was among those who had been killed. Vladamir knew he should have been sad and hurt. In many ways he was, while in others, he felt relief and freedom. Services were held for the fallen man, and now without him around, full power and the weight of it fell to Vladamir. He has been led ever since.

Extra
It is because of his past love of reading to his sister, that he finds comfort in books. He also has a hidden weakness for gardening. He enjoys various plants, especially flowers, finding their beauty calming.

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Whatdya Want From Me?, Leave Out All The Rest, Monster You Made Me, Love The Way You Hate Me