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PLAYER INFO

PLAYER NAME » Hannah
PLAYER JOURNAL » lionheart
AGE » 22.
EMAIL » recarmdra@gmail.com
INSTANT MESSAGING » a rose tango (AIM)
OTHER METHOD OF CONTACT » plurk: scathefire
HOW MANY CHARACTERS DO YOU CURRENTLY PLAY? » 2! I am sorry I am so eager to play here okay. :C


CHARACTER INFO

CHARACTER NAME » Klaus.
FANDOM » The Vampire Diaries.
CANON-POINT » 3x09, before Stefan’s phone call.

HISTORY » Here.
PERSONALITY »

Klaus’ life seems to be steeped in how deeply he falls into his obsessions. Raised by an arrogant, controlling stepfather who hated him, Klaus developed an extremely strong relationship with his siblings and his mother. He was coerced into vampirism with the rest of his family once one of his brothers was killed by a neighboring pack of werewolves; at the time, vampirism was not the plague-like disease it appears as later. Its origin began as a spell that would allow their family to live forever. Like most witch-based warnings, it comes with a price; immortality just happens to be paid out in blood. Thus, vampirism. The son of a human and werewolf coupling, the moment Klaus made his first human kill as a vampire, his dormant werewolf bloodline was awakened. Esther, his mother, eventually placed a curse on him that would force his werewolf side dormant again.

The curse became his first obsession, practically controlling the entire millennium he has been living. Klaus has been working to break the curse, freeing his werewolf side, since it was placed on him. Here and there he has been using various people to aid him in that. Mostly without their wanting to.

Klaus becomes the definition of what he believes vampires should be. He becomes the oldest, the most powerful, the most feared. He is a cold, calculating killer who has an innate distrust of human emotion, which he finds to be both distracting and a weakness. Big surprise that Klaus is one of the most emotional vampires in the series. When Klaus is first introduced, he is basically placed in the nefarious villain archetype. He is more than willing to use anyone he comes across to get him closer to his goal – a goal which ends up with him having to sacrifice and kill three different people of three different species. Is that a concern? Nah. They’re just tools in the bigger picture. Klaus uses other people’s bodies (Alaric) to spy on his potential victims, forces others to do his building using a type of mind-control called compulsion, and blackmails the rest with murders which he usually commits anyway.

A vampire. Right. So of course he wants to get rid of that curse for power’s sake, right?

Not… really. The reason he’s so fucking obsessed with breaking the curse sealing his werewolf side? Because he’s lonely. He is the only hybrid – vampire and werewolf combined – in the world. He wants people like him. As said by Klaus’ sister Rebekah, the one thing Klaus cannot tolerate is those who disappoint him, especially when those people are family. Klaus is ruled by the love he has for his family – a love that leads to him trapping them for centuries when they disappoint him (a fate Rebekah suffered when she decided to choose one Stefan Salvatore over Klaus. Bad idea in retrospect.) Because Klaus is a little self-destructive in the way he ends the people who are on his side, his big plan is to forcibly create people who are like him so he will have someone on his side. It’s just sort of an added bonus that the hybrids he later creates are reborn with a “sire” bond, which essentially gives them an innate desire to do whatever Klaus wants, whether this includes following his orders or protecting him.

According to what is shown in the series, Klaus has only made one remarkably important connection with someone who was not his family. Stefan Salvatore, of course. While he initially dislikes what he sees as a baby vampire, Stefan’s pure delight in torturing and eating humans appeals to his inner predator. While Rebekah falls in love with Stefan, Klaus finds himself similarly enamored. Being as incredibly vampiric as Stefan is, Klaus is also one of few vampires who becomes close enough to him to find out Stefan’s strong sense of humanity in the form of a wall of names he keeps, chronicling every victim he has murdered as a vampire. The timeline is a little wonky, but presumably this friendship (occurring during the 1920’s) lasts quite a bit of time before it is inevitably broken up by a force that is hunting Klaus down. It says everything that Klaus finds Stefan worth enough of his time to compel him to forget ever having met him or Rebekah in order to protect him – as well as himself, of course.

Essentially, Klaus is the most intense parts of both a vampire and a human. He is controlled by emotion, but attempts to quell it with his vampiric side (which has a instinct to squelch emotion in order to operate guilt-free.) He is a monster who hunts and tortures his food like a cat, finding sincere enjoyment and pleasure in the chase itself. He trusts absolutely, but very rarely. When that trust is broken, it is almost reversed; the betrayal runs deep in him, and he turns absolutely vicious against anyone who wrongs him. The only few who are spared the full extent of his wrath are his family – and even then, they get to spend a few hundred years completely comatose.

ABILITIES/WEAKNESSES » God, this list is long. Okay.

- Super strength/speed
- Heightened senses (sight/smell/predatory things like that ok)
- Accelerated healing (aka instantaneous regeneration)
- Compulsion (mind control, basically. Klaus is an Original vampire, which means he is the only kind of vampire who has the ability to compel other vampires. It requires eye contact and spoken commands.)
- Immortality (no diseases, etc.)
- Dream manipulation

Those are his normal vampire powers. For being a werewolf-vampire hybrid, he gets:

- Werewolf bite (a bite which is fatal to vampires, one of like... three ways to actually kill a vampire)
- His blood is the only thing capable of healing said bite, or any other werewolf bite
- Transformation (can change into a wolf; because he is a hybrid, he is capable of controlling when this transformation happens unlike a regular werewolf, which is forced to turn during full moons)
- Daytime walking (normal vampires need a magic ring to not burn up in the sun. Hybrids don't need the ring.)
- Somewhat confirmed by canon, but werewolves seem to be capable of telling when humans lie or not.
- He’s capable of creating more hybrids like himself by transforming a werewolf into a vampire and feeding them the doppelganger’s (aka Elena’s) blood)

Hybrids get the combination of werewolf and vampire weaknesses, which are mostly:

- Vervain and wolfsbane. Both herbs that have acidic/poisonous qualities to supernatural creatures.
- A specific stake created from the ash of specific white oak tree. The stakes have been destroyed, so that... is moot.
- Invitations (vampires need invitations from the owner of a residence in order to come inside. This rule extends to hybrids as well. The owner has to be human.)

DREAM POWER » Since Klaus has an obsession with having a family who loves and respects him – as well as how the hybrid dynamic works with the ones he creates (where he is the pack leader and they are followers) – I want to give Klaus the ability to attract and control wolves without the aid of compulsion.

CHARACTER SAMPLES

NETWORK SAMPLE » As absolutely fascinating as I find the west – and I do, really, as I just had a nice, leisurely trip to Portland – I am also already finding this part a bit lacking. I don’t take well to cities. Not ones I do not remember coming to, at least. There’s a certain lack of familiar faces. I don’t suppose you’re brooding about some alley here, Stefan?

LOG SAMPLE »

Klaus' eyes never strayed elsewhere just as Stefan thought, not until the body was conceivably abandoned to its own devices. Klaus wasn't the one who dealt with bodies, after all. Once the life was gone out of them, they were simply something to be disposed of. Effort, perhaps.

There was reason to the Original's voyeurism, and it did not come from pleasure alone. He had caught on to Stefan's little routine, quite similar to how it had been ninety years ago - the beginning thrill, and always, always the names. At first the whole naming game had perturbed Klaus. It was too much caring for a vampire. It reeked of empathy, even of the detached, inhuman sort. Too human for his liking. Too much heart in the gesture. Over time, he had ceased to be bothered by it, recognizing it as something else. It wasn't human. It was Stefan. Irrevocably, that name taking, the writing on the wall of that little apartment in Chicago, was what made Stefan himself.

The routine, yes. There was something else there. Every time Stefan fed now, whether he recognized it or not, there would always be a period where he let go. There was no empathy in his eyes or his hold on the human, no worry about the life fading fast underneath his fangs. It was pure vampire. Every time Stefan drank, with every drop of human blood he ingested, that moment grew to be just a little bit longer.

Bones cracked in his ears and he laughed. Just once, just quietly. So little control, even now. The humans continued to pass around them, allowing them a wide berth but having no sense of why. Embarrassment, maybe. He may have spoken too soon. The idea of this body sitting here, rotting away as a festive decoration, seemed quaint. Humans made their own horrors sometimes.

“Follow me.”

Without further adieu. If Stefan wished to drink more, far be it from Klaus to stop him. Even if he did not, that was what they were going to do. Why not enjoy the festivities? Even now he could learn from Stefan if it served him to do so. This was different. To a man who had lived through a millennium, anything that was beyond the norm gained a certain significance.

Klaus led them at a human pace through the street, his eyes sweeping among the costumes, some repeats of others. There was always a pattern. The sweet, the innocent, and then the falsely deadly. The latter were always the least imaginative. Once, an older man drifted by wearing a hat with a short, sweeping brim, a ribbon wrapped around its dark base. Imitating Dillinger, maybe, as the man was not baby-faced enough to be Nelson. The cloth was cheap and flimsy, but he liked it anyway. Klaus lifted the fedora off the man's head, twisting his neck in an unnatural angle when a complaint bubbled to his lips. He collapsed in a boneless heap. Eyes drifted towards them, some in alarm. A few hearts increased their tempo. He set up the body on the curb, folded into itself like a cold drunk.

It was the least he could do.

Klaus returned to Stefan's side, placing the hat on his head with an amiable pat on top to situated it over his ridiculous hair. It fit. Convenient.

“This house.” He indicated behind him where a single house stood, its porch lights extinguished but light visibly glowing within. Not a single decoration adorned its front porch. Not even a pumpkin.

If there were to enjoy the spirit of the season, they shouldn't be alone.

“I think we should enjoy the occasion tonight properly. How about you round up an invitation for the two of us? We'll have our own private party.”

ANYTHING ELSE? » While both Klaus and Alaric are from the same canon (considering I also play the latter), I wanted to emphasize how their interaction in canon is minimal. Through almost a season of Klaus being in play, he has only directly interacted with Alaric once and has never held a conversation with him. There were definitely “intimate” moments considering Klaus was controlling Alaric’s body for a period of time, but Alaric was not aware of it and has no memories of it, and beyond that Klaus has never acted directly against him. Since Alaric is human, he barely registers on Klaus’ radar as even worthy of his time or attention, so I could easily avoid them ever interacting in game.