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[Character Name] D [ Dracula the Second ]
[Canon] Vampire Hunter D
[Point Taken from Canon] 6th Novel, Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane
[Age] 5000+
[Gender] Male
[Sexual Orientation] Unexplored
[Eye Color] Lavender
[Hair Color] Black/Sable
[Height] 6'7"
[Other] Talking symbiote named "Left Hand" on his left hand, said to be extremely beautiful to both men and women.
[Clothing] Thick leather bodysuit, tattered leather/cloth cape, metal shoulder armor, boots, gauntlets, shimmering scarves, utility belt, giant, wide brimmed hat, blue orb medallion, and beads/ribbons/ornaments in hair, other various jewelry upon person.
[Background]
A lot of D's history is shrouded in mystery as assumed facts. Being alive for over five thousand years tends to allow for a lot of things to be left unspoken.
According to Vampire Hunter D time line, D was most likely born around 7000 A.D. The setting of the series starts at the year 12090 A.D, far into the future. In the year of 1999, there was a nuclear war started by the United Nations, leading the world into devastation. Somehow the Nobility (the leaders of the vampires at the time), heard about the upcoming attack, and rushed to build several shelters throughout the world. When the war hit, the vampires fled to the shelters, safe. The war of course wiped out the majority of the human race, and because of this, the vampires rose to rebuild the world in their image. They repopulated at first in their shelters, forcing their numbers to grow, until they were ready to emerge out into the world.
In order to restore the world as they desire, they use a combination of modern science and magic. The era looks something like out of an RPG, set in a science-fiction, western, steam punk era. Even things like magical creatures have been engineered, and a blood substitute has been created for the vampires to feed off of. Despite this however, the vampires still prefer to feed off of humans, thus they create a world in which they can "co-exist", though the humans do so in fear. The society eventually stagnates when vampire technology perfects scientific prophecy, which determines they are at their zenith of existence and thus are doomed to fall, overthrown by humans. This leads the vampires to thinking that the only thing they can do is kill or be killed, thus the rise of vampire hunters are formed.
Very little is known about D's past, just the world he grows up in. It is mentioned, however, that he is a half-breed dhampir. The Nobles whisper that he is the product of their Sacred Ancestor, the Vampire King, Count Dracula. In the movie Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, D's mother is shown from the back, sporting long brown, beautiful hair and wearing all white. It is said that she is named Mina the Fair, who may be a reference to the character Mina Harker, the heroine in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Dracula conducted bizarre crossbreeding experiments (involving himself and numerous human women), with the only successful product of the experiments being D, before born from Dracula's 1313th bedded woman, Mina the Fair, whom was the only mentioned woman who had actually fallen in love with the Vampire King. D, wanting nothing to do with his father save for killing him, refuses to go by his true name. Instead, he shortens it to the first letter, and is known throughout the land as the fearless slayer, Vampire Hunter D.
The adventures D encounters in the novels are usually the same cookie-cutter formula--D arrives into a village, usually help is needed by the heroine of that particular novel that D's vampire hunter prowess can be used in. which each novel, D is introduced to a new set of characters, and you never hear from previous ones again (mostly due to the fact a significant span of time has passed, and the cast is human, they are dead by the turn of the next book). You do, however, hear of them.
In his adventures, D has encountered many different women and vampires, to which he had made friends and enemies. He has yet to meet absolute defeat to any of his enemies (though its not to say he is godlike in combat).
In the 1986 movie adaption, Vampire Hunter D, D first meets a woman named Doris Lang. While making her rounds, the whip-wielding seventeen-year-old Doris, daughter of a deceased werewolf hunter, is attacked by Count Magnus Lee (named for "Count Magnus" of a short story by M. R. James), the long-vanished vampire lord said to be over 10,000 years old. Out of sheer boredom, Magnus intends to make Doris his new zombie-like vampire bride, marking her with a telltale bite. Vampire Hunter D || Part 3
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[ History Continued]
Doris later encounters D (the first wandering hunter she has been unable to drive away or defeat), whom she hires to protect her from the vampires, even going so far as to offer her body to him (which he refuses, stating that the vampires would be better company in bed than him, showing off his lack of interpersonal relationships).
The young hunter girl becomes the pawn in a conflict between Count Lee, his daughter Ramika, the mutant servant Rei Ginsei - and Greco Rohman, the town mayor's son who wants the feisty Doris for himself, even though Doris really wants D (who is uninterested). When Doris is kidnapped by Count Lee, D battles his way into Lee's gigantic fortress to rescue her. Ramika's loyalties are torn when she becomes disgusted with her father's lack of honoro of being a noble vampire.
A long rescue with episodic battles ensues, as D races to defeat the count in time to prevent Doris' transformation into a vampire. At first, it seems Count Lee is too much for him; however, D prevails. With the count defeated, the castle crumbles, and D escapes with Doris and her brother Dan. D leaves the both of them, despite Doris' feelings, knowing that because she is a human and his a dhampir, they could never be together.
In the 2000 movie adaption, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Charlotte, a young woman, is abducted by Baron Meier Link, a vampire nobleman who is known not to harm humans needlessly. Charlotte's father hires D to find her and kill her humanely if she turns into a vampire. At the same time, her older brother also hires the notorious Marcus brothers for backup. The two parties (D and the Marcus brothers) race inexorably after Meier Link. However, Meier Link hires the Mutant Barbarois; a group of lethal mercenary body guards. They consist of Caroline, a shape shifter; Benge, a shadow manipulator; and Mashira, a werewolf.
As the story progresses, Meier Link's abduction turns out to be an escape by him and Charlotte, as they are lovers. Through the journey, D talks to Leila and tells her that she can have a life that someone like him could never have, the life of a normal human. They make a pact, if either one of them survives, the survivor can bring flowers to the other's grave.
Near the end of the movie, Meier Link goes with Charlotte to the Castle of Chaythe, where Countess Carmilla, Meier Link's patron, waits for them. Carmilla, a ghost of a vampire who died long ago, reigned supreme within the Castle of Chaythe when vampires were all-powerful and unchallenged. However, her bloodlust was so strong that Count Dracula, D's father, killed her in disgust. After going to the Castle of Chaythe, D fights Carmilla's ghost, who plotted to kill Charlotte and return to life. D, along with Leila, let Meier Link leave for the City of the Night with Charlotte's body, D allowing the comment of him 'never knowing what love is' to slide, as it is true--D has never experienced it before.
In the final scene of the movie, D arrives at Leila's funeral, watching from a distance. Leila's granddaughter greets him and invites him to stay with them for a while. D declines, saying that he simply came to "repay a favor to an old friend, who feared no one would mourn her death." He admitted he was glad she was wrong. The girl thanks him, and D replies by smiling gently at her, and leaves.
In some unknown point of time following volume three ( about 100 years later, at minimum) D comes across a man named John M. Brasselli Pluto VIII out in the middle of The Frontier desert, to where a mobile home is in danger. The only survivor after D steps in, however, is a beautiful seventeen-year-old girl named Lori Knight, whom is suffering from radiation poisoning. There is a town about three miles out, so Pluto VIII manages to rope D into helping him taking the stunning beauty to the town.
The nearest rest top, however, is merely the bridge to a floating city (named The City). It is, ironically the meeting place to where D was heading for his next job. With his beautiful face and their need for him on the job, they allow Lori, Pluto, and D aboard. While Lori is taken to see a doctor, D goes with the mayor, Mayor Ming, to go see what his job entails.
Mayor Ming's daughter, the beautiful Laura, has been bitten by a vampire. She continues to long for the vampire's kiss, as the mental and emotion pull is far too great for the young girl of seventeen to bear. D tells the mayor he will watch over her, and make sure the vampire doesn't return for another bite. During the day, he uses the time to search for more information on the mysterious vampire whom hides above in the floating city.
Dr. Tsurugi (The City's physician) takes care of Lori, whom longs to see D when he is not around, taken in my his handsome face and noncommittal voice. The radiation poisoning has left the young beauty deaf and mute, and able to only communicate by writing on a notepad. The young girl, however, used to live in the city with her parents, whom here famous chemists and scientists, whom seem to have a dark past connected with the town.
Laura's beau, a young vampire, finally comes to her while D is watching. D easily slays him with the help of Dr. Tsurugi, saving Laura from his kiss, but not before finding out that there is another vampire around-the one who made him. Dr. Tsurugi decided to help D in his quest to find out whom the other vampire is. They conduct tests of people walking through the daylight, but to no avail. However, D, knows the test is not a fool-proof one, if the vampire is powerful enough or has certain unique traits to his genetics.
The search for the second vampire begins, despite the threats of bar fights and hairy biker men proclaiming they would jerk off to D's face if give the chance. The sheriff and people of the town continue to hassle D, being a dhampir, fearing for their lives. D finds out that the Knight family (as in the family Lori Knight was born from) did experiments to manufacture vampires from human test subjects. Mayor Ming had been using the humans as test subjects on his island, to which now the entire town was a floating city of death. They were eternal humans, imperfect, as Mayor Ming's own experiments were failures, unlike the Knights. They had fled from The City, fearing what their creation would cause upon The Frontier.
Once D found the plan out, he put a stop to the mayor, and Pluto VIII whom had joined the mayor's side in efforts to find the formula the Knight's had perfected. However, as The City was merely a floating vessel, there was no saving it without killing everyone aboard-which D could not do. The dhampir pulled the only humans out, Dr. Tsurugi and Lori Knight, from the floating isle, and sent them on their way, destroying the formula for human vampirism, and sending the island on its way to never be able to land upon The Frontier again.
In Volume 5 The Stuff of Dreams, D has a dream about a beautiful young girl of seventeen dancing in a lovely gown, bathed in blue light inside a lovely chateau. Upon his travels his next day he comes upon a town-whom hosts a young woman named Sybille Schmitz. The young girl has slept for almost thirty years after being the victim to a vampire's immortal kiss. As he finds no interest in a sleeping you woman, he goes to leave the town-until he is stopped by another fair maid whom captured his interest. Her name is Nan Lander, and although she is as pretty as no one's business, it is not her beauty that captures D's attention. Its the fact that she informs him of a lingering thought-the whole town has been dreaming of his appearance. For once, D's curiosity gets the better of him.
It turns out that the town is actually a dream world (oh boy, another one) conjured by Sybille. The young woman created the world where she could live in peace with all of the townspeople, humans and Nobility (the vampires) alike. However, in this dream world of thirty years, Sybille becomes tired of the same dream over and over again, and in the end it is only D whom can awaken her, but at the cost of destroying an entire world of dreams, including Nan's dreams of she and him becoming close as lovers. The price is high, and time ticks by slowly in the dream world. D, however, awakens merely two hours later from his first entrance into town, beside the corpse of Sybille. The world fo dreams? Merely created as the girl had been banished form town after her vampire bite instead of kept there like in her dream world. As she lay there in the abandoned forests, shivering from cold, hallucinating from hunger, her heart and mind seized her dying frame, and as she drew her last breath, held her in a world of happy dreams and pulled in all who passed.
D was able to escape, and then as always, continue on his way.
Some more time passes, and, in comes Volume 6, Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane. D arrives at a nameless town in order to meet a client for a job proposal. He is asked to cross the “Desert of No Return”, as D desires information about a certain someone in return. However, in order to obtain it, he must make it to the town across the desert, the village of Barnabas. Coincidentally, an old woman known as “Granny Viper, People Finder” is there with her charge, Tae, whom both need to cross the desert to get to the same town. Surely, with the help of the Great vampire Hunter D, a trek across the desert should be no problem! However, following behind them are the two hunters, the Bullow Brothers Bingo (the elder brother) and Clay, whom are determined to put an final end to the dhampir-he is, after all, competition.
As the team of five goes through the desert, lethal attacks begin ot happen. They are attacked by swarms of flesh-eating black butterflies, and even atone point picked up by a tornado and tossed off. It is at this point they lose Bingo, whom must have become lost out in the desert somewhere. With no where else to go, Clay resentfully follows the group.
The beautiful girl, Tae, is being escorted due to her being kidnap by Nobility. Now resurfaced from the castle as a hidden (which are humans taken in by vampires), she faces new challenges to fit in, as humans never trust someone hidden by them. D questions her relentlessly on her life in the castle, but to no avail.
Soon after losing Bingo, they find Lance, a young farm boy whom had been kidnapped by creatures of the desert. He forms a fast bond with Tae instantly,as well as manages to get D to talk, much to the surprise of everyone else. The young blond man instantly begins to try and help as much as he can, though he has no powers of his own.
D soon realizes that Tae is pregnant-and not just pregnant-pregnant with a dhampir. D fears, however, by the description of the vampire who took her that it is him... though who he is, is never revealed (though heavily hinted that it is D's father, thus making the child his half-brother). The desert continues to keep them from leaving, but, after a vicious fight between D and his evil twin created by the magic of the desert, and other menacing factors, the party loses Lance, whom Tae had wished to start a life with.
Granny Viper makes it to the town safely with D, whom then goes to obtain his information. The Bullow Brother's attempt to rid of D, but as usual D prevails in this fact. He slays them in front of Tae, as a lesson to her to never let her dhampir child become a hunter. Granny Viper tells D to kill the child inside of Tae so the girl can have a normal life-but that's only because she turns out to be a dhampir too. She is only 100 years old, aging like a human, though maintains a few vampire qualities, although small. She recognizes that, dhampirs are all born different, never the same, which is why D is timeless while she herself has aged significantly (truly, D is the only “success”, as his father had quoted during his childhood).
D refuses to allow Granny Vioer kill the child, and, as she goes to make the move, in the end it is D whom slays her. Tae goes to her only remaining family, whom shun her for being a hidden, to which D pays for her fare to leave the town on a carriage, stating he is unable to settle with anyone at this time. When Tae asks if she can repay him, he merely states that he only needs to hear rumor that she is doing well.
The book comes to an end of Tae raising her child through the hardships, telling him how she managed to make the dhampir, Vampire Hunter D, smile, if only just the faintest, boastful and proud. No other words are heard about the child (or is it confirmed he is D's father's kid), but it is assumed he turns out to merely be a dhampir with no amazing powers like D, and there for “not a success” for Dracula to come and check up on. And as usual, time passes in the VHD world.
[Personality]D is protrayed as a character who's view on life (or rather, his own life) is dismal. Being a dhampir, he is cursed to live a life that contains what he deems to be the bestial attributes of the vampire, but human enough to realize the faults that come with the nature, such as killing for survival. He has strong morals and believes in the preservation of human life, though because of this, other vampires see him as a traitor to their kind.
D is quiet and only speaks when needed to. This is balanced by his 'companion', Left Hand, who is often full of wise-cracks, witty one-liners, and usually holds one sided conversations that are directed at D. Usually D listens very carefully to what people have to say before coming to conclusions, as he doesn't like to be wrong and make mistakes, especially in the vampire hunter business.
When he does speak, D is soft-spoken, in fact, he at times is very hard to hear unless you're paying attention. Though he speaks quietly, it is not mumbling--all he says is very clear. He has no dialects or anything, and his speech varies from formal to informal, depending on who he's talking to. He doesn't swear. It is common for D, during a conversation, to either ask a question when is faced with a question he does not feel like answering, or ignoring the person all together, lapsing into silence and continuing on his way. In his canon he is described as extremely beautiful, his attractive attributes to great it lured both men and women. Please partake in this quote from the 9th book, the:
The traveler turned, and the clouds broke apart to allow a soft glow shine through. It fell upon his face, moonlit and beautiful, his skin taking on a rosy hue from blood not present, for that was how beautiful he seemed.
I am not even joking.
...
In most situations, D keeps a level head, even during battle.
Though D is referred to as a loner, he is not unkind. He had been seen on numerous occasions risking his life to save another's even if they are considered rivals, such as other vampire hunters. He made a promise with a hunter named Leila that when she died, he would leave flowers at her grave because she was afraid she would die and no one would ever care. When she dies over fifty years later after the OVA Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, he is seen watching over her funeral, to which he tells her granddaughter he is only there because is is "keeping a promise".
Due to being a dhampir, D keeps his distance, attempting to never get close to anyone. Though most would argue he never gets involved with people and gets close to them, the numerous people he meets on his adventures prove that wrong, as he usually remains 'friends' with them until their death. As a dhampir, he never grows older, so companionship with a human is impossible, and not wanted, as vampires mating with a woman have the potential to create another dunpeal like him. Though D was born to both, he belongs to neither group, whom both reject him--the vampires are disgusted he sides with humans, and the humans are frightened because in the end, he is still a vampire. Many individuals have fallen for D (mostly women, though it has been mentioned that men are often over come by him as well), however due to the fact that he is forced to live until someone else cones along and kills him, he is unwilling to put himself in the position of potentially losing someone he cares for.
In his 5000+ years of life, D has never drank blood, though the desire is strong. It is unknown if it is just because he is a dhampir if he doesn't need to drink blood to survive, or if none of the vampire's need to, and they are unable to fight the carnal urge to and in the end give in. To vampires who do not drink blood, D does not feel the need to hunt them. Many vampires tell him he will one day want to, to which he says: "The day I drink a human's blood is the day someone else will hunt me. Simple as that.". It's possible D knows one day the desire will be uncontrollable, and he is prepared to face the consequences.
D's quiet nature is often picked on by other cast members, especially Left Hand. Being a dunpeal also gives him ridicule from the majority of the Vampire Hunter D cast.
[Specialties/Abilities] D weilds an impressive long sword in the shape of a crescent, which gives the impression it was based off of a scimitar combined with a Japanese nodachi, a two handed long sword that replicates a katana.
D also wears a mystical blue pendant, which had many magical capabilities. It neutralizes technology (such as forcing computers to short circuit, lights to flicker and turn on and off, deactivates missiles, etc), as well as allows D to concentrate his energy and send out strong blasts of it or create force fields. Whomever wears it is apparently protected by its power, and it can be seen as a good luck charm. There is some rumor it once belonged to his father.
Left Hand also gives D extra powers. He has the ability to heal, suck up large masses of energy or magic, etc, and bring D back to life as long as he intakes the four elements. He also has psychometry (which is the ability to find out information about a person psychically just by touching an object that belongs to the individual). His other abilities include inducing sleep, determining the medical condition of a victim, and the ability to size up the supernatural powers or prowess of an enemy, even beyond D's keen senses.
D has wooden needles he can throw at super speeds as well.
He also has a cyber horse that he rides--which is a normal horse but enhanced with mechanical parts. It still needs to eat and drink, as 60% of the horse is still all of it's original parts.
Due to his amount of power, D would most likely be adjusted to a sharp decrease in his strength--just enough so that his nodachi doesn't give him any problems while being wielded during any sort of sword play. The pendent on his neck would retain the same powers, but be limited to a certain degree as well--its would most likely keep its ability to neutralize electronics, but probably only to a small radius. His minor powers, such as his psychometry, sleep inducing, and status reading capabilities would remain the same.
[ After canon update ]
Now, harmful animals seem to avoid D. His powers haven't changed much, though they have grown significantly. Left Hand can now lick a substance/object, and break down the components from which it was made (example, if Lefty took a drink of soda, he would be able to easily break down the chemicals and ingredients used). The only exception to this are things in dreams, which along with the components, have a strange mixture of “dream energy”. While Lefty could still name off all the ingredients, the percentages would be void due to the presence of dream energy. D also can walk through rifts in time and space and different dimensions, as well as cut through holograms and lasers with his sword.
[Affection] D has had women force themselves on him, and he's never really stopped them until they were naked on top of him, so hugging, kissing, touching, or anything like that can happen and D won't put a stop to it. The Left Hand will totally encourage it. D, however, would not do any of those things to an individual. He general shows more affection towards children, however, usually with pats on the head.
[Fighting] Yes, I permit the fighting and injuring of my character. Killing has to be something discussed. Just remember this guys got 5000+ years of this shit in his arsenal though. D himself would never start a fight unless there are other people's lives at risk, or its a job given to him.
[Other Permissions] Telepathic characters must ask before mind reading. Fourth wallers can break, but the only information I'd like made not available is that he is in fact Dracula the Second. Or, they can know, but not going around screaming the information.
[Other Facts] Anything else can go here~