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✢ The Player
Player Name: Emily
Age: 23
LJ: iluvroadrunner6
AIM / MSN / Y!M: iluvroadrunner6 - AIM
E-mail: iluvroadrunner6@gmail.com
Other Characters: Buffy Summers - Buffyverse
✢ The Character
Character Name: Stefan Salvatore
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Canon Point: 309: Homecoming
Age: 163
Appearance: Stefan is tall, about 5’ 11”, and looks much younger than he actually is. He’s been seventeen for about a hundred and fifty years, so there you go. He has fair skin, with light brown hair that he usually wears spiked. He sticks to solid colors and jeans, and is a fan of leather jackets.
Abilities / Powers: Stefan is a vampire which means they come with a very unique set of skills. They are very strong, and very fast. They also have the ability to compel you -- a form of mind control -- they augment memories, use it to get their way, it's kind of like the Force except there's no handwaving involved -- not unless the vamp's a giant nerd. They can survive off animal blood as well as human blood, but they are stronger if they feed on the human stuff -- which is why the vampires that what the fun party tricks but don't want to hurt people will steal blood bags from a hospital/blood bank in order to feed. Their strength is also based on age -- the older a vampire is, the stronger they are. Vampire blood injested by humans heals them from all injuries, but it doesn't revive them. This is ... usually how people wind up with vampire blood in their systems.
On the other hand, they still have their weaknesses. These vampires are weakened by the sun. Some of them have daylight rings which allow them to walk in the sunlight, but a vast majority of them will be set on fire if they spend too long in the sunlight. Vervain, an herb, also will knock them out cold and prevents compulsion. They also are weakened by any kind of wood being shoved into their body, and can be killed by a stake to the heart.
Inventory:
1 - pair of heavy boots
1 - pair of socks
1 - pair of black jeans
1 - solid-colored t-shirt
1 - one leather jacket
1 - cell phone
1 - large, gaudy daylight walking ring.
Personality: Stefan Salvatore is a vampire.
It’s not a part of his life that he likes to emphasize, nor does he like to spread around. In fact, when he’s not binging on blood, he tries his best to be a normal guy. Despite the fact that he’s one hundred sixty-three, he goes to high school, or college to be among people, to make friends, start a life. When you die at seventeen, a life isn’t really something you get to have, and Stefan’s been chasing it ever since. When Stefan is on the wagon, so to speak, he only drinks animal blood, which leaves him substantially weaker than other vampires, but it also keeps him from killing people. When he’s on the wagon, the Stefan Salvatore that people meet is sweet, affectionate, and friendly-in fact, he’s probably about as close to human as a vampire can get. He is well read, eloquent, and polite, and has very few enemies based on who he is as a person.
Unfortunately for Stefan, however, he’s not very good at staying on the wagon, and technically, he shouldn’t be. Drinking human blood is in a vampire’s nature, and the fact that Stefan spends so much time fighting that part of his nature instead of learning how to balance it, he falls into these binge cycles, starting with when he was first turned into a vampire and repeating several times over the course of his life. It hasn’t really been shown what events in his life have triggered these binges, but it seems clear that it’s most likely due to some kind of overwhelming negative emotion. According to TVD lore, when a person becomes a vampire, their emotions are heightened-happiness becomes ecstasy, sadness becomes despair. Younger vampires have the ability to turn these emotions off, and often times it’s because they can’t handle the onslaught of emotions on such an intense level. In theory, his first experience with the darker side of his personality came shortly after he was turned. It wasn’t until he met a vampire named Lexi, who taught him control and how not to overindulge himself on blood that he learned how to manage his emotions and gain some sense of normalcy. It’s possible that when this normalcy is threatened, and he tips towards the side of despair, that’s when he turns his feelings off and succumbs to his desire for blood, but it’s also possible that it could be something as simple as needing to drink human blood to heal himself after a fight, and never stopped, slowly succumbing to the darker side of his personality.
Stefan at his worst is the kind of vampire who drowns himself in blood to the point where he blacks out and doesn’t remember what he’s done. He is amoral, without any kind of regard for humanity as a whole-in fact, you could even say that he despises it. He’s the kind of killer who likes the hunt. He plays games with his victims, compelling them into doing things they wouldn’t normally do. He feeds on them with reckless abandon, sometimes so violently that he tears their bodies apart, and he keeps a list of the victims that he feeds on in order to relive the kills at a later date-and that list can get to be a long one, depending on how long he goes on these binges. These situations usually ended with Lexi, Stefan’s best friend and also a vampire, locking him down and detoxing him from human blood until she forces him to feel again. It’s something that Stefan is forever grateful for-even if he curses her for it during the process.
Stefan as he’s landing in Arkham is somewhere in between these two extremes, however, unlike the earlier binges where he chose to succumb to his nature, this one Klaus forced him into. He drank the blood in the first place to save Damon’s life in order to get the cure for a werewolf bite (werewolf bites are fatal to vampires), and then Klaus compelled him to turn off his emotions, forcing him into his sociopathic “ripper” persona, destroying his relationships with everyone he cares about in the process. However, in return for saving Klaus’s life, he released Stefan from his compulsion and allowed him to have his freedom again. It’s not long after that that Stefan will be waking up in Arkham, so he will have to learn to find the balance of those emotions again, but this time on his own, without his best friend. At the same time, however, he isn’t going to want to return to the animal blood diet. He’s stronger on human blood, and given that he is in a strange place, he’s going to be on the defensive. He will want to have every advantage possible. Therefore, he’ll have to learn the thing he never learned, how to balance what he is with his lifestyle, and not let it overtake him. It’s going to be a rough road, but it has a lot of potential for growth.
History: Here, have a Wiki page.
First Person Sample: Here, have a musebox post.
Third Person Sample: When a vampire turns off his emotions, they never go away completely.
They sit on the edges of his mind, just waiting for the moment when he’ll let them in again. They bubble up when you first wake up, thinking that maybe this will be the time when he’ll acknowledge the fact that his humanity is there and that he has it. That it’s part of him. Normally, it will just get shoved back down again, blocked out, but as the day wears on and starts to weigh on him a little more, they bubble up again, reminding him how tired he is. Emotions are the only reason why he sleeps a lot of the time, because he gets tired of holding things back doesn’t want to feel, and sleep is the only way to keep them out again.
When an Original compels a vampire to turn off his emotions, however, it’s another story.
There’s no bubbling. No reminder of the person he used to be or the things he used to do. All that’s left is the cold expanse of nothing-ness that comes with feeling nothing, and caring about nothing. He looks at the people around him and feels nothing that he used to feel. He looks at Elena, and all he could see is the pulse of her juglar, pressing up against her skin with the steady thump-thump, thump-thump of her heart. To a vampire who can’t feel anything, all that’s left is blood.
And when Klaus lets him go, it all comes rushing back.
All the guilt, the pain, the anger, it floods back like an tsunami and it takes everything he has not to let it cripple him. But he holds himself together long enough to let Katherine to get him in the car, and for her to stop driving. He’s already started pushing it down again, wanting to just keep not feeling for a little while longer, because the fact of the matter is this-there’s no Lexi to bring him back this time around. There’s no one to lock him down and wait for him to burn himself out. He would have to do this on his own, and he didn’t know if he’s strong enough for that. He never has been before.
Then Katherine tells him that he needs to get mad. That she has something she needs him to do, and he can’t if he’s not angry enough. He slowly lets that bit of himself in, just a taste of the anger he has bubbling under the surface, and by the time Katherine drops him off on the side of the road to do what he needs to do, he knows this won’t be a problem.
Anger is easy. Anger he can do.
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