Post by Costin Dracula on Oct 6, 2017 8:54:00 GMT -5
Name: Costin Dracula
Age: 19
Parents: Vlad Dracula and Tulio (from the Avalon in Space AU)
Personality: Costin seems to have picked up some of the worst traits from both of the men who raised him. He has Dracula's self-assured smugness, as well as his cruelty and disregard for the feelings of essentially every other individual he interacts with. The circumstances of his life have left him used to getting what he wants when he wants it, and when that doesn't happen, he can get quite nasty.
Perhaps the most defining characteristic Costin has taken away from his raising is his resentment for the men who brought him up. They're immortal, and he has known that virtually all his life. He always assumed that he'd be changed as well once he got to an acceptable age, but now here he is, getting older by the day, and thoroughly impatient for that transformation to occur. And yet, for some reason, he's been sent to this school, very much to his dismay.
Appearance: He tends to have a rather unremarkable expression on his face. When he's angry, it's obvious, and when he's excited about something, it's equally obvious, but he has tried very hard to train himself to have a rather neutral expression the rest of the time. He hasn't perfected the vampiric gift for deception through facial expressions, but he certainly seems to think he has, because most of the time, he looks at everyone with the same blank, emotionless glare.
He stands at about six feet and holds himself like the nobility he's been adopted into. He walks like...well, like a snob. He has dark hair and brown eyes that aren't nearly as unreadable as he wants them to be. Also, he has an earring, which he thinks makes him look edgy. It's a rebellion against his parents, you see.
He doesn't know how to dress like a modern youth at all, and usually wears things vastly out of date. Anything semi-casual and up usually results in Costin being incredibly overdressed. Apparently, being raised by ages old vampires doesn't do much for a young man's sense of fashion.
History: Costin was four when his family was murdered by a pair of vampires. Fortunately for him, he doesn't remember that. He was always told that he was found as an orphan (which Dracula insists is true to this day) and taken in (primarily due to Tulio's urging and Dracula's fear of losing Tulio once more). The earliest thing he does remember is flying - there was plenty of that while he was growing up, and perhaps one of the strangest things to him is that he can't do it on his own. It feels almost as much a part of him as breathing or sleeping - both of which are things he resents greatly as they set him apart from the perfection he sees in his fathers.
He grew up knowing that Dracula and Tulio were vampires; Tulio tried to shelter him from the nastier side of their nature, but Dracula's no-nonsense approach to the dark facets of vampiric existence left him with a diminished sense of value for human life. In spite of the fact that he is still human, he considers himself superior to others, and has offended a lot of people on the assumption that he'll be a vampire someday and it won't matter what anyone else thinks of him.
The most awful thing that has ever happened to him, Costin thinks, is being sent to this school. He doesn't want to be here, doesn't think he needs to learn any of the things that are being taught, and most definitely doesn't want to be socializing with the silly human adolescents.
Age: 19
Parents: Vlad Dracula and Tulio (from the Avalon in Space AU)
Personality: Costin seems to have picked up some of the worst traits from both of the men who raised him. He has Dracula's self-assured smugness, as well as his cruelty and disregard for the feelings of essentially every other individual he interacts with. The circumstances of his life have left him used to getting what he wants when he wants it, and when that doesn't happen, he can get quite nasty.
Perhaps the most defining characteristic Costin has taken away from his raising is his resentment for the men who brought him up. They're immortal, and he has known that virtually all his life. He always assumed that he'd be changed as well once he got to an acceptable age, but now here he is, getting older by the day, and thoroughly impatient for that transformation to occur. And yet, for some reason, he's been sent to this school, very much to his dismay.
Appearance: He tends to have a rather unremarkable expression on his face. When he's angry, it's obvious, and when he's excited about something, it's equally obvious, but he has tried very hard to train himself to have a rather neutral expression the rest of the time. He hasn't perfected the vampiric gift for deception through facial expressions, but he certainly seems to think he has, because most of the time, he looks at everyone with the same blank, emotionless glare.
He stands at about six feet and holds himself like the nobility he's been adopted into. He walks like...well, like a snob. He has dark hair and brown eyes that aren't nearly as unreadable as he wants them to be. Also, he has an earring, which he thinks makes him look edgy. It's a rebellion against his parents, you see.
He doesn't know how to dress like a modern youth at all, and usually wears things vastly out of date. Anything semi-casual and up usually results in Costin being incredibly overdressed. Apparently, being raised by ages old vampires doesn't do much for a young man's sense of fashion.
History: Costin was four when his family was murdered by a pair of vampires. Fortunately for him, he doesn't remember that. He was always told that he was found as an orphan (which Dracula insists is true to this day) and taken in (primarily due to Tulio's urging and Dracula's fear of losing Tulio once more). The earliest thing he does remember is flying - there was plenty of that while he was growing up, and perhaps one of the strangest things to him is that he can't do it on his own. It feels almost as much a part of him as breathing or sleeping - both of which are things he resents greatly as they set him apart from the perfection he sees in his fathers.
He grew up knowing that Dracula and Tulio were vampires; Tulio tried to shelter him from the nastier side of their nature, but Dracula's no-nonsense approach to the dark facets of vampiric existence left him with a diminished sense of value for human life. In spite of the fact that he is still human, he considers himself superior to others, and has offended a lot of people on the assumption that he'll be a vampire someday and it won't matter what anyone else thinks of him.
The most awful thing that has ever happened to him, Costin thinks, is being sent to this school. He doesn't want to be here, doesn't think he needs to learn any of the things that are being taught, and most definitely doesn't want to be socializing with the silly human adolescents.
