Character Full Name: Vincent Renato

Character Age: 1000's

Character Species: Vampire

Hair color: Peppered white. Originally a dark brown.

Eye color: Pink, rimmed with a purple-ish reds. Red pupils.

Height: 6'4''

 

Personality

Above all things, Renato is an intense individual to converse with. No matter what is said nor asked of him, it almost always results in a... lengthy monologue. Are you satisfied with your life's direction? Don't you wish you had more time, to both better yourself and improve at your hobbies and skills? Well, Renato can help with that.

 

Strengths: Generous. Trusting. Loyal. Persuasive and confident.

Weaknesses: Self-sacrificial. Gullible. Possessive. Manipulative. Fanatical.

 

Loves: Humans. Immortality.

Hates: Vampires. Blood. Those that fear change.

Fears: The biological need to feed. Desperation.

Brief Biography: 

The coven Vincent was sired into was that of monsters, unmatched in both their depravity, their salacity, their thirst.

The world of humans seemed to mirror that darkness. Their capacity for evil, their wars, their cruelty—they were... shackled by mortality, ensnared in an endless cycle of sin and suffering. Their potential for growth, for goodness, their eternal souls? Cut down and obliterated by death.

Rather than grow jaded as his coven, their suffering only grew more poignant, more profound to him.

He could bring himself to feed blindly no more.

 

Vincent’s vision transcended mere survival. He sought redemption—for himself and humanity. Vampirism, paradoxically, became the path to salvation. Through immortality, humanity could seek to forever better themselves, to become themselves. 

So Vincent would leave his former coven, and delve into that hell that humanity made for themselves. And, by all that was good, he would save them. He would ransom them from their mortal coil forever, and transform all into vampires.

His new coven, "Von Blut Gerettet", devoted and fervent, would revel in this transformation. They would willingly offer themselves, their blood, and their mortality to him. Vincent’s charisma bound them, and they saw him as their savior. Yet, they too grappled with the cost of their devotion. 

 

Yet to save humanity, they must perpetuate humanity's suffering. There... wasn't an end goal, was there? Vampires need blood, human blood. Vampires couldn't exist without humanity.

There is no subsitute in his world for blood except that of humanity's. So long as that restriction exists, Renato... is and always would be a failure, to himself and to the world he longs to save. 

So, Vincent Renato journeys the Paperverse for such a substitute, and failing that, more followers for his coven.

Description: 

Renato is a frail old man, an emeaciated creature by choice. He is a vampire of immense misery, guilt, and very often, starvation. 

He hails from a world reminiscent in fashion and culture to that of late 16th-Century Germany. He wears a brightly-colored doublet with a fine white laced collar. On his legs, he wears Each of his items are intricately emboidered with patterns of flowers and vines.

 

Eternal Youth by Blood:

As vampires of his world maintain their eternal youth by the consumption of blood, this too is reflected in Renato. The aging process is similiar to a logarithmic graph, where the rapid changes in appearence slow down after about three months.

• When he was has consumed blood within the past week or so, he takes on the appearence of a 20's-something man, full of youth and vigor. He is strong, supernaturally so, yet soft in frame. Supernaturally handsome, too. His cheeks are rosy, and Renato is warm to the touch. Vampires of this meal frequency tend to be difficult to spot among humans.
• After about 40 days, Renato takes on the appearence of a middle-aged man, someone likewise in their 40's. He has begun losing his soft frame, as the fat burns away. The weight of his misery and guilt has begun entrenching itself in his wrinkled brow. 
• After 60-90 days, he now has the appearence of a much older gentleman, likely around his 60-70s. his eyes have sunken, and his cheeks are growing more gaunt. This is the standard appearence of Renato, as physical changes begin slowing down past this point. So long as he eats within the next several months, he will not progress past this point.
• After a full year's time without blood, Renato has lost most of his human-seeming appearence. All body mass has left him, leaving him a shivering, emaciated shell of a man. His strength, too, has left him, requiring the use of a cane. He appears shorter, if only from the crook in his back. His eyes and cheeks have sunken into his skull, and one could count each individual rib on his body. His clothes don't seems to fit his tiny frame any more, but he tries to hide this from his fanatical followers with a peascod-bellied doublet. It is at this point that his followers begin to fall on their knees before him, begging him to save himself. Or, failing that, to steel themselves up, in order to force-feed him