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CHARACTER
» Name: Khayman
» Fandom: The Vampire Chronicles
» Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khayman
» Canon Point: End of The Queen of the Damned (book).
» Gender: Male.
» Age: Roughly 6000 years or so, but appears to be a young man in his mid-twenties.
» Orientation:
» Personality: 6000 years ago, Khayman was the King Enkil and Queen Akasha's chief steward, in the kingdom of Kemet (now Egypt) which existed at around 4000BC. Even as a human he is shown to have a gentle and compassionate mind, as he went out of his way to make the witch twins Mekare and Maharet's forced trip to Kemet more bearable, bringing them food and water as well as loosening their bonds whenever he could, all the while not demanding anything from them. He felt a great deal of sympathy for them but at the same time his loyalty to the King and the Queen was undisputable, and during the period of their imprisonment in the palace he often felt conflicted between these two desires - either to help them or stay true to his lieges.
He puts a great deal of trust in other people, believing them to be as good a person as he himself seem to be, and at times this gives Khayman a rather tragi-comical air; an essentially "good" man thrown in the middle of something bigger and darker than himself, surrounded by suspicion and prejudices and ignorance and hatred. When the twins were to be let go, Khayman was ordered to rape Mekare and Maharet before the whole court to prove that they were nothing more than normal humans, no witches at all, taking the honour of doing so in the King's stead. He was extremely reluctant to the idea and was even horrified at the thought of violating them so, but he could not go against their wishes and betray them just because of his compassion for the twins. This loyalty to them turned out to be also futile and fruitless (even tragic, of sorts) as Akasha and Enkil were turned into vampires due to the curse that Mekare put on them that trapped an evil spirit within their bodies. And the Queen, unable to satisfy her lust for blood, and also to test out what Mekare has said to her that creating more of their kind will lessen the bloodlust, set upon Khayman and turned him into a vampire. Khayman, who had their confidence to help them and aid them in their "curse" even as most of other palace attendants fled in terror, Khayman, who remained their most loyal servant throughout that period of darkness and terrible ordeal of dragging corpses away from their quarters and more, was turned into a vampire against his will by the Queen despite his pleas.
This event shattered his loyalty to them and Khayman was filled with anger for them, making the twins into vampires themselves and also many more besides across the lands in his desire to create an army who will one day rise against and defeat the King and the Queen. It is said that even when he was too weak to walk, he continued to give his blood to anyone who asked for it as long as they swore to stand against the King and the Queen. This is how far his hatred and feelings of betrayal ran for the King and the Queen, who had so carelessly ignored his devotion and loyalty to them by turning him into a vampire. After being separated from the twins by an army set upon them by Enkil and Akasha, Khayman underwent a curious repression of his memories, forgetting his origins altogether and taking many aliases in many different countries (for example, to the Talamasca, the supernatural research society, he is known as Benjamin the Devil). It is said that his amnesia is due to having been through so much pain and despair, and this is what triggers the memory loss. After being separated from the twins he wandered through many lands searching for them, before he just couldn't take it anymore and "went down to the earth", as is the common term for vampiric slumber which may last for many years to even centuries. For the next 6000 years, Khayman wandered through the rise and fall of civilization with no memory of who he is or what he is, but delighting in many things, while Enkil and Akasha are eventually reduced to immobile statues in a trance-like state in their godlike cult.
Even after all these years, he remains a gentle and caring person, who is generally friendly and likes the company of humans, often inviting them to his residence and reciting poetry and indulging them in classic idea of a "vampire", an act which he embraces with a passion, it being a way to make him belong to "something", buying a suitable outfit befitting the idea and also a coffin, upon which he lets his human guests sit as he entertains them. His gentle nature and the inherent affection that he feels for humans means that Khayman cannot bring himself to feed off a human who has talked to him or made a friendly gesture, and therefore he prefers to feed off suddenly and unexpectedly the anonymous strangers in the streets -- not caring about their age nor sex nor their life and potential nor anything else apart from their blood and beating heart, and for this reason Khayman is referred to as being the most ruthless killer out of all the surviving vampires. This can also be related to his manner of feeding, which is very violent - crushing their limbs to pulps, breaking their bones and licking the marrow.
In his meeting with the other vampires, he is as equally gentle, as polite, as friendly, as he is with the humans -- but maybe this behaviour of his is perhaps because he is one of the oldest (if not THE oldest, following the death of Akasha and Enkil) surviving vampires left in the world, that he sees even his own kind as nothing more than mortals, mere children to be looked after and indulged. He readily and openly expresses desire to get to know them (though sometimes the sentiment is not returned, either due to callousness or due to their fear of his obviously ancient powers), and his intentions and thoughts are usually very open and honest, as if even after nearly 6000 years and all that which had happened to him, he has still retained his ability to put trust in others.
Khayman, with all his gentle intentions and quiet optimism, is also not above being playfully malicious, at least from what we hear of his antics under the name 'Benjamin the Devil' and his pranks on the Talamasca scholars. He has walked the streets of Troy and he tells these facts to anyone who might ask, as calmly and as jovially as if it's as trivial as that day's shopping list, though there are times when Khayman appears to be almost sad, almost quietly despairing, almost in fear of his own fate and what the future holds for him. Sometimes he is frightened that he will be in pain, any kind of pain, and lose his memories again, lose the knowledge of who he is, who his friends are. He is frightened of being lost and not finding the way back to the people who know him.
» Appearance: He's described to be tall and lean, with black curly hair and dark big wide eyes with a "nice smiling mouth". Overall, he is described to be "a pretty young man". When he was human his skin was dark tan, but his vampirification and the subsequent 6000 years of existence, however, has turned his skin white and smooth. Khayman is described as "pale" and "luminous" and "masklike" throughout the book. His smile has a "shockingly saintly" quality to it, as described by Lestat.
» Suitability: N/A
SAMPLES
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» "amatomneslogs" Entry:
Maharet.
(her eyelids delicate wrinkled folds, as smooth as the inner curves of a shell, as he presses down against the closed lids and pushes her head to one side.)
But for my beloved Queen, I would take my pleasure of these two women. I would show that they are not witches to be feared.
(how beautiful, her red hair. long and curling and coppery streaked with gold. how beautiful, how delicate and luminous her pale skin against his dark complexion. how strange it is to remember such things, even after all these years of forgetting and remembering and forgetting again. his hand dark against her face.)
You will do this in my stead.
(that's right, he had done this, the whole court watching with their painted kohl-ringed eyes wide and silent. they looked at him he looked away, the beautiful twins. he could not meet their eyes.)
I never meant to do it. I never wanted to-
(the child, looking at him. black hair like his but her eyes, her eyes just like the green of the valley around them just like her mother's eyes, Maharet's eyes before they plucked them out of her head as easy as that. he feels them slippery and warm against the palm of his hand, feels the smooth skin of her face and feels her lips part, closing around her eyes.)
What is human must remain with the humans
(the pale face of the Queen luminous even in this darkness of the night court, twisted with rage, her finger outstretched condemning them all.)
My sovereign, you will kill me too!
You are the Queen of the Damned.
Khayman opens his eyes, the last echo of the dream fading away with the heat slowly receding from his head, from his chest. He can see that it is still light outside, the glow of the sun filtering in through the curtains, reflecting off the white marble--
Marble?
And with that, he sees that it isn't dusk after all, or even early evening, as he is sometimes wont to do. It is sunlight, the brightness of its rays making the marble floor glisten smoothly, like oil poured over pale skin. It hurts his eyes, and as he sits up on the bed (a bed, a proper one; not just a blanket on the floor, not a coffin, either) Khayman raises a hand to shield them from the sun. He is not particularly worried about it burning him, no; he was too hard and too strong (too old) for the sun to ignite the flammable blood within them all. But where was the pain, however small it was.
» Name: Khayman
» Fandom: The Vampire Chronicles
» Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khayman
» Canon Point: End of The Queen of the Damned (book).
» Gender: Male.
» Age: Roughly 6000 years or so, but appears to be a young man in his mid-twenties.
» Orientation:
» Personality: 6000 years ago, Khayman was the King Enkil and Queen Akasha's chief steward, in the kingdom of Kemet (now Egypt) which existed at around 4000BC. Even as a human he is shown to have a gentle and compassionate mind, as he went out of his way to make the witch twins Mekare and Maharet's forced trip to Kemet more bearable, bringing them food and water as well as loosening their bonds whenever he could, all the while not demanding anything from them. He felt a great deal of sympathy for them but at the same time his loyalty to the King and the Queen was undisputable, and during the period of their imprisonment in the palace he often felt conflicted between these two desires - either to help them or stay true to his lieges.
He puts a great deal of trust in other people, believing them to be as good a person as he himself seem to be, and at times this gives Khayman a rather tragi-comical air; an essentially "good" man thrown in the middle of something bigger and darker than himself, surrounded by suspicion and prejudices and ignorance and hatred. When the twins were to be let go, Khayman was ordered to rape Mekare and Maharet before the whole court to prove that they were nothing more than normal humans, no witches at all, taking the honour of doing so in the King's stead. He was extremely reluctant to the idea and was even horrified at the thought of violating them so, but he could not go against their wishes and betray them just because of his compassion for the twins. This loyalty to them turned out to be also futile and fruitless (even tragic, of sorts) as Akasha and Enkil were turned into vampires due to the curse that Mekare put on them that trapped an evil spirit within their bodies. And the Queen, unable to satisfy her lust for blood, and also to test out what Mekare has said to her that creating more of their kind will lessen the bloodlust, set upon Khayman and turned him into a vampire. Khayman, who had their confidence to help them and aid them in their "curse" even as most of other palace attendants fled in terror, Khayman, who remained their most loyal servant throughout that period of darkness and terrible ordeal of dragging corpses away from their quarters and more, was turned into a vampire against his will by the Queen despite his pleas.
This event shattered his loyalty to them and Khayman was filled with anger for them, making the twins into vampires themselves and also many more besides across the lands in his desire to create an army who will one day rise against and defeat the King and the Queen. It is said that even when he was too weak to walk, he continued to give his blood to anyone who asked for it as long as they swore to stand against the King and the Queen. This is how far his hatred and feelings of betrayal ran for the King and the Queen, who had so carelessly ignored his devotion and loyalty to them by turning him into a vampire. After being separated from the twins by an army set upon them by Enkil and Akasha, Khayman underwent a curious repression of his memories, forgetting his origins altogether and taking many aliases in many different countries (for example, to the Talamasca, the supernatural research society, he is known as Benjamin the Devil). It is said that his amnesia is due to having been through so much pain and despair, and this is what triggers the memory loss. After being separated from the twins he wandered through many lands searching for them, before he just couldn't take it anymore and "went down to the earth", as is the common term for vampiric slumber which may last for many years to even centuries. For the next 6000 years, Khayman wandered through the rise and fall of civilization with no memory of who he is or what he is, but delighting in many things, while Enkil and Akasha are eventually reduced to immobile statues in a trance-like state in their godlike cult.
Even after all these years, he remains a gentle and caring person, who is generally friendly and likes the company of humans, often inviting them to his residence and reciting poetry and indulging them in classic idea of a "vampire", an act which he embraces with a passion, it being a way to make him belong to "something", buying a suitable outfit befitting the idea and also a coffin, upon which he lets his human guests sit as he entertains them. His gentle nature and the inherent affection that he feels for humans means that Khayman cannot bring himself to feed off a human who has talked to him or made a friendly gesture, and therefore he prefers to feed off suddenly and unexpectedly the anonymous strangers in the streets -- not caring about their age nor sex nor their life and potential nor anything else apart from their blood and beating heart, and for this reason Khayman is referred to as being the most ruthless killer out of all the surviving vampires. This can also be related to his manner of feeding, which is very violent - crushing their limbs to pulps, breaking their bones and licking the marrow.
In his meeting with the other vampires, he is as equally gentle, as polite, as friendly, as he is with the humans -- but maybe this behaviour of his is perhaps because he is one of the oldest (if not THE oldest, following the death of Akasha and Enkil) surviving vampires left in the world, that he sees even his own kind as nothing more than mortals, mere children to be looked after and indulged. He readily and openly expresses desire to get to know them (though sometimes the sentiment is not returned, either due to callousness or due to their fear of his obviously ancient powers), and his intentions and thoughts are usually very open and honest, as if even after nearly 6000 years and all that which had happened to him, he has still retained his ability to put trust in others.
Khayman, with all his gentle intentions and quiet optimism, is also not above being playfully malicious, at least from what we hear of his antics under the name 'Benjamin the Devil' and his pranks on the Talamasca scholars. He has walked the streets of Troy and he tells these facts to anyone who might ask, as calmly and as jovially as if it's as trivial as that day's shopping list, though there are times when Khayman appears to be almost sad, almost quietly despairing, almost in fear of his own fate and what the future holds for him. Sometimes he is frightened that he will be in pain, any kind of pain, and lose his memories again, lose the knowledge of who he is, who his friends are. He is frightened of being lost and not finding the way back to the people who know him.
» Appearance: He's described to be tall and lean, with black curly hair and dark big wide eyes with a "nice smiling mouth". Overall, he is described to be "a pretty young man". When he was human his skin was dark tan, but his vampirification and the subsequent 6000 years of existence, however, has turned his skin white and smooth. Khayman is described as "pale" and "luminous" and "masklike" throughout the book. His smile has a "shockingly saintly" quality to it, as described by Lestat.
» Suitability: N/A
SAMPLES
» "amatomnes" Entry:
» "amatomneslogs" Entry:
Maharet.
(her eyelids delicate wrinkled folds, as smooth as the inner curves of a shell, as he presses down against the closed lids and pushes her head to one side.)
But for my beloved Queen, I would take my pleasure of these two women. I would show that they are not witches to be feared.
(how beautiful, her red hair. long and curling and coppery streaked with gold. how beautiful, how delicate and luminous her pale skin against his dark complexion. how strange it is to remember such things, even after all these years of forgetting and remembering and forgetting again. his hand dark against her face.)
You will do this in my stead.
(that's right, he had done this, the whole court watching with their painted kohl-ringed eyes wide and silent. they looked at him he looked away, the beautiful twins. he could not meet their eyes.)
I never meant to do it. I never wanted to-
(the child, looking at him. black hair like his but her eyes, her eyes just like the green of the valley around them just like her mother's eyes, Maharet's eyes before they plucked them out of her head as easy as that. he feels them slippery and warm against the palm of his hand, feels the smooth skin of her face and feels her lips part, closing around her eyes.)
What is human must remain with the humans
(the pale face of the Queen luminous even in this darkness of the night court, twisted with rage, her finger outstretched condemning them all.)
My sovereign, you will kill me too!
You are the Queen of the Damned.
Khayman opens his eyes, the last echo of the dream fading away with the heat slowly receding from his head, from his chest. He can see that it is still light outside, the glow of the sun filtering in through the curtains, reflecting off the white marble--
Marble?
And with that, he sees that it isn't dusk after all, or even early evening, as he is sometimes wont to do. It is sunlight, the brightness of its rays making the marble floor glisten smoothly, like oil poured over pale skin. It hurts his eyes, and as he sits up on the bed (a bed, a proper one; not just a blanket on the floor, not a coffin, either) Khayman raises a hand to shield them from the sun. He is not particularly worried about it burning him, no; he was too hard and too strong (too old) for the sun to ignite the flammable blood within them all. But where was the pain, however small it was.