Yet another idea for a book
My friend Val informed me that GJ is back up until the 30th so I went to go check on a character I had made for a game in June 2007 that didn't really last long unfortunately. It was set in a South Dakota asylum called Seine. Naturally I apped Voltaire (as Voltaire Consuelo) but since characters cannot be over 20 (the asylum is meant for young people, teenagers, and they are sent to an adult asylum when they turn 21), I made him 20 years old which makes him the youngest version of Voltaire yet.
Since GJ is shutting down and I don't know if I saved his info on the laptop, I am putting it behind a lovely cut right here ;)
PB: Voltaire
Name: Voltaire Consuelo
Nickname(s): V
Birthplace: New York, New York
DOB: January 25, 1987
Age: 20
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 180 pounds
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Disorders: schizophrenia, sado-masochism, transvestic fetishism. Recovering from Renfield Syndrome (clinical vampirism) and necrophilia.
Physical Description: Whatever he's wearing, it's mostly black and of a Gothic style. Since being institutionalized he has been prohibited woman's/girl's clothing but he'll sneak into a girl's room every chance he gets in order to steal some.
Personality: Voltaire is an oddball, as most others are with the conditions he has. He says a lot of random things, usually in a middle of a sentence (because of his schizophrenia) and has been accused of being gay because of his fetish with clothing belonging to the opposite sex. On the contrary, he is heterosexual and enjoys having sex with women (they are all now among the living) to the point of being classified as a nymphomaniac.
He has good days and bad days just like everyone else, but isn't manic. He can be a bit cheery at times and isn't appalled at the idea of having friends like some. He'll take any that can handle him.
History: Voltaire was born in New York City to Armando and Isabela Consuelo, younger than his sister Carmina by only a couple of years. Neither parent were home as often as they would have liked (both being lawyers) so they had hired a nanny to take care of their two children.
The nanny believed herself to be a vampire, quite possibly one of the few female cases of Renfield syndrome (clinical vampirism) to date but no one knew of her condition until the damage had already been done. Voltaire was six by the time she came to work for the family and she had chosen the young boy as her main target. She convinced him quite easily that she was a vampire which fascinated him so he willingly allowed her to feed off him whenever she wanted. Thinking that their close bond was a healthy one, his parents kept her on full-time but it would only get worse.
"Harmless" bloodletting eventually turned into molestation then Voltaire's "turning" at the age of thirteen which also led to his schizophrenic and sado-masochist behavior. His parents became suspicious so they had cameras installed to spy on the nanny. They were horrified with their findings, soon afterward they had her arrested and institutionalized. Voltaire, unbelieving that she did any wrong, was devastated. Breaking the nanny away from him so suddenly did more damage than good, he felt rejected and detached from women. With the belief that no living woman would ever understand him like she did, he turned to necrophilia and transvestic fetishism.
The psychiatrists couldn't seem to make a dent so with the advice of a few, the family moved away to a small town in northwest Iowa in hopes that it would help. Since he wasn't considered a danger to anyone, Voltaire wasn't institutionalized at the town's mental health facilities, he was only brought there for individual and family therapy. By the time he was sixteen Voltaire had been cured of vampirism but he seemed unwilling to let go of his other problems, especially the necrophilia. Despite his mental illnesses, he attracted the attention of several girls. This seemed to help him combat his fear of rejection until the night he tried to kill one of the girls for fear she too would leave him and he couldn't deal with that pain again.
Since he was obviously mentally ill, Voltaire escaped a prison sentence, insanity being the driving force in attempting to murder the girl. However, the institute didn't have the resources to keep him in isolation so he was sent to Seine in South Dakota where he remained separated from others until he was declared in remission recently for necrophilia. He is still institutionalized, however he is now allowed to be out and about with the other patients, under strict surveillance until he is deemed safe to the general public.
Family:
Armando (father)
Isabela (mother)
Carmina (sister)
Current Disorders:
Schizophrenia: a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality most commonly manifesting as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions or disorganized speech and thinking in the context of significant social or occupational dysfunction. Voltaire's particular symptoms include delusions (the belief that he is a vampire), hallucinations (hearing two or more voices conversing with one another in his head) and disorganized speech (will say random things in the middle of a sentence).
Sadomasochism: sexual pleasure or gratification in the infliction of pain and suffering (sadism) or having pain or suffering inflicted upon themselves (masochism).
Transvestic Fetishism: any sexual behavior or arousal that is in any way connected to clothes of the opposite gender. Especially the latter is problematic, because transvestism and cross-dressing are neither a sexual fetish, nor do they necessarily have anything to do with sexual behavior or arousal. Some male transvestic fetishists collect woman's clothing (nightgowns, slips and other types of lingerie), dressing in the garments and taking photographs of themselves while living out their secret fantasies. Many love the feel of wearing silk or nylon an adore the silky fabric of woman's lingerie.
Disorders Considered To Be In Remission:
Renfield Syndrome: also known as clinical vampirism, is a mental disorder somewhat recognized by doctors in modern times as the obsession to drink blood. The term was first coined by Richard Noll and has been used in both psychiatric and fictional literature as well as on television. Sufferers are primarily male and starts with a key event in childhood which causes the experience of blood injury or the ingestion of blood to be exciting. It has often been placed in official diagnostic categories such as schizophrenia or as a variety of paraphilia.
Necrophilia: a paraphilia characterized by a sexual attraction to corpses. Theories arise as to what could be antecedents to necrophilia. In the case of Voltaire, he developed poor self-esteem, due to a significant loss. He is therefore very fearful of rejection by women and desires a sexual object who is incapable of rejecting him.
For the book I am renaming him Aurelio Consuelo and taking away the Voltaire PB (*gasp*). I don't need a million V's running around in book form (if I ever get published that is). I'm also going to make a few changes here and there to his history and where he'll be at the start of the novel. For my new website (which isn't published yet), I have written a short blurb about it.
Dead Girls
Aurelio Consuelo arrives at the Mental Health Institute (M.H.I.) in a small Iowa town with a very dark past and a number of mental instabilities to boot. No longer perceived as a danger toward living girls, he is allowed to venture out in public and has even been given permission to spend his senior year in high school. While there he meets a very peculiar girl that awakens some things from his past.
And I'm not at work right now because I have a pinched nerve (I think) which is very painful. I can barely move.
Since GJ is shutting down and I don't know if I saved his info on the laptop, I am putting it behind a lovely cut right here ;)
PB: Voltaire
Name: Voltaire Consuelo
Nickname(s): V
Birthplace: New York, New York
DOB: January 25, 1987
Age: 20
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 180 pounds
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Disorders: schizophrenia, sado-masochism, transvestic fetishism. Recovering from Renfield Syndrome (clinical vampirism) and necrophilia.
Physical Description: Whatever he's wearing, it's mostly black and of a Gothic style. Since being institutionalized he has been prohibited woman's/girl's clothing but he'll sneak into a girl's room every chance he gets in order to steal some.
Personality: Voltaire is an oddball, as most others are with the conditions he has. He says a lot of random things, usually in a middle of a sentence (because of his schizophrenia) and has been accused of being gay because of his fetish with clothing belonging to the opposite sex. On the contrary, he is heterosexual and enjoys having sex with women (they are all now among the living) to the point of being classified as a nymphomaniac.
He has good days and bad days just like everyone else, but isn't manic. He can be a bit cheery at times and isn't appalled at the idea of having friends like some. He'll take any that can handle him.
History: Voltaire was born in New York City to Armando and Isabela Consuelo, younger than his sister Carmina by only a couple of years. Neither parent were home as often as they would have liked (both being lawyers) so they had hired a nanny to take care of their two children.
The nanny believed herself to be a vampire, quite possibly one of the few female cases of Renfield syndrome (clinical vampirism) to date but no one knew of her condition until the damage had already been done. Voltaire was six by the time she came to work for the family and she had chosen the young boy as her main target. She convinced him quite easily that she was a vampire which fascinated him so he willingly allowed her to feed off him whenever she wanted. Thinking that their close bond was a healthy one, his parents kept her on full-time but it would only get worse.
"Harmless" bloodletting eventually turned into molestation then Voltaire's "turning" at the age of thirteen which also led to his schizophrenic and sado-masochist behavior. His parents became suspicious so they had cameras installed to spy on the nanny. They were horrified with their findings, soon afterward they had her arrested and institutionalized. Voltaire, unbelieving that she did any wrong, was devastated. Breaking the nanny away from him so suddenly did more damage than good, he felt rejected and detached from women. With the belief that no living woman would ever understand him like she did, he turned to necrophilia and transvestic fetishism.
The psychiatrists couldn't seem to make a dent so with the advice of a few, the family moved away to a small town in northwest Iowa in hopes that it would help. Since he wasn't considered a danger to anyone, Voltaire wasn't institutionalized at the town's mental health facilities, he was only brought there for individual and family therapy. By the time he was sixteen Voltaire had been cured of vampirism but he seemed unwilling to let go of his other problems, especially the necrophilia. Despite his mental illnesses, he attracted the attention of several girls. This seemed to help him combat his fear of rejection until the night he tried to kill one of the girls for fear she too would leave him and he couldn't deal with that pain again.
Since he was obviously mentally ill, Voltaire escaped a prison sentence, insanity being the driving force in attempting to murder the girl. However, the institute didn't have the resources to keep him in isolation so he was sent to Seine in South Dakota where he remained separated from others until he was declared in remission recently for necrophilia. He is still institutionalized, however he is now allowed to be out and about with the other patients, under strict surveillance until he is deemed safe to the general public.
Family:
Armando (father)
Isabela (mother)
Carmina (sister)
Current Disorders:
Schizophrenia: a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality most commonly manifesting as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions or disorganized speech and thinking in the context of significant social or occupational dysfunction. Voltaire's particular symptoms include delusions (the belief that he is a vampire), hallucinations (hearing two or more voices conversing with one another in his head) and disorganized speech (will say random things in the middle of a sentence).
Sadomasochism: sexual pleasure or gratification in the infliction of pain and suffering (sadism) or having pain or suffering inflicted upon themselves (masochism).
Transvestic Fetishism: any sexual behavior or arousal that is in any way connected to clothes of the opposite gender. Especially the latter is problematic, because transvestism and cross-dressing are neither a sexual fetish, nor do they necessarily have anything to do with sexual behavior or arousal. Some male transvestic fetishists collect woman's clothing (nightgowns, slips and other types of lingerie), dressing in the garments and taking photographs of themselves while living out their secret fantasies. Many love the feel of wearing silk or nylon an adore the silky fabric of woman's lingerie.
Disorders Considered To Be In Remission:
Renfield Syndrome: also known as clinical vampirism, is a mental disorder somewhat recognized by doctors in modern times as the obsession to drink blood. The term was first coined by Richard Noll and has been used in both psychiatric and fictional literature as well as on television. Sufferers are primarily male and starts with a key event in childhood which causes the experience of blood injury or the ingestion of blood to be exciting. It has often been placed in official diagnostic categories such as schizophrenia or as a variety of paraphilia.
Necrophilia: a paraphilia characterized by a sexual attraction to corpses. Theories arise as to what could be antecedents to necrophilia. In the case of Voltaire, he developed poor self-esteem, due to a significant loss. He is therefore very fearful of rejection by women and desires a sexual object who is incapable of rejecting him.
For the book I am renaming him Aurelio Consuelo and taking away the Voltaire PB (*gasp*). I don't need a million V's running around in book form (if I ever get published that is). I'm also going to make a few changes here and there to his history and where he'll be at the start of the novel. For my new website (which isn't published yet), I have written a short blurb about it.
Dead Girls
Aurelio Consuelo arrives at the Mental Health Institute (M.H.I.) in a small Iowa town with a very dark past and a number of mental instabilities to boot. No longer perceived as a danger toward living girls, he is allowed to venture out in public and has even been given permission to spend his senior year in high school. While there he meets a very peculiar girl that awakens some things from his past.
And I'm not at work right now because I have a pinched nerve (I think) which is very painful. I can barely move.