Vanyel - The Good Vampire

Name: Vanyel

Age: 745

Race: Vampire

Sex: Male

Hair: Mid-length black.

Eyes: Glowing white

Weight: 153 lbs

Height: 6 ft

Weapon: A long broadsword covered with elaborate designs and runes called Soul Blood. When in contact with a person, the sword can drain them of their life force and use it against them. The more life force stolen, the more powers are available to the sword. (See Skills/Magic)

Armor: Sunglasses, gauntlets, and shinguards

Strengths: As a vampire, Vanyel is abnormally strong and quick. He cannot be killed by any other means than stabbing him through the heart with a wooden stake. Vanyel is very intelligent and quick-witted. His vampire flesh heals itself shortly after the wound is caused. He has excellent hearing and eyesight. He can see in the dark as if it was day.

Weakness: His eyes are sensitive to bright light, although his shades can protect them against most light. He cannot fly over water. His good hearing can be used against him, by making extremely load noises. He is easily injured since he has no armor, although the wounds heal quickly. He cannot stand to be out in daylight. He only goes out at night.

Skills/Magic: Vanyel has all of the normal vampire skills. He can walk on ceilings, turn into a bat, fly, climb any surface, and move objects with his mind.

Sword Skills (In weakest to strongest, the stronger the attack, the more power needed.):

Soul Slice: An invisible cutting force is shot from the sword as it is swung. This force can cut through most objects. The range on this attack is fairly long.

Soulful Speed: The energy of the enemy is fed into Vanyel through the sword, greatly increasing his speed. The more energy put into him, the faster and more blurred he becomes.

Soul Shield: An invisible shield forms around Vanyel, protecting him from most attacks.

Soul Vortex: A vortex forms from the Vanyel’s blade. This vortex pulls all objects, including people, into it to be impaled on the blade.

Personality: Although a vampire, Vanyel is by no means evil or vicious. He is very caring, generous, and thoughtful, even for someone that isn’t undead. He has the famous vampire charm, but does not have the malicious intent that other vampires use with for. It often pains him when he is hunted or mistreated because he is a vampire, but he is determined to prove that not all vampires all evil. He is usually cheerful and happy, often making jokes.

He is forced to drink blood, otherwise he will die, but he will only drink enough blood to stay alive.

Appearance: Vanyel has very pale skin and sharp features, as well as two sharp fangs. His black hair hangs down over his face, no matter what he does with it. He wears stylish sunglasses to cover and protect his eyes. His body is slim, but very lean and wiry. He wears a dark blue cape, loose shirt, and baggy pants.

History: Vanyel was born to a normal family that lived in a village in rural England. He was an only child and wasn’t very close to his parents, so he was somewhat lonely. He was one of the only children his age in his village. The few that were his age often avoided him for fear of association due to the fact that the older children bullied him.

When he was 12, his village and the surrounding villages came under a long string of vampire attacks. When he was 14, he had the misfortune to receive the bite as he went out to fetch water from the well. Vanyel’s parents and the other villagers came in time to save him from complete death at the hands of the vampire, but they turned on him, determined to destroy him before he became a threat.

The young boy fled in terror, and managed to escape into the wild. He was left on his own for several weeks until an elderly couple that lived in the woods found him. They took him, despite his protests that they must keep away from him. He told them that he was a vampire, but they told him that that didn’t matter.

He lived happily with the couple away from persecution and hate for a long time. Eventually though, they died and he was once more on his own.

But he was grown now, and very well able to take care of himself. He decided that now was a good time to understand and master his new vampire powers. He spent several hundred years, using his new skills and bringing them to the point of perfection. During these years, he had lived in a deep, dark cave, seeing as his foster parents’ cottage had fallen to age.

Once he felt comfortable with his vampire-ness, he set out to see if there were any vampires like he. Vampires that weren’t evil and didn’t drink blood. Through years of searching, he finally found a hidden vampire city deep within the Underdark. However, Vanyel soon found himself as out of place here as he did in his old village.

Confronted with his goodness, the other vampires resorted to hunting him down. He once again escaped persecution, although this time for the opposite reason. He took shelter in an old abandoned mansion away from the vampire city in the Underdark. However, the mansion wasn’t as abandoned as Vanyel had thought. It was home to an ancient vampire.

The old vampire was in the throws of death when Vanyel found him. He tried to help the ancient creature, but was rebuked. Like the other vampires, the ancient beast was disgusted with Vanyel’s nature. Knowing it would most likely result in his death, the vampire attacked Vanyel.

The vampire-once-human was forced to defend himself against the magics of the old vampire. Once he had reluctantly thrown down his enemy, Vanyel decided to search the mansion of the ancient creature. In the depths of the mansion, Vanyel found Soul Blood.

He fled to the surface least the other vampires find him. As before, he found solitude in a cave atop a mountain. He stayed there several hundred more years, perfecting his use of his new sword the way he had with his vampiric powers.

Finally, he has left the confines of the dark and travels to try and show people the goodness in creatures normally thought evil. He is determined to prove that he is not evil, though he doesn’t find much luck in that area.

Hmmm......Well......I don't know exactly HOW to say this, but I suppose I must be experiencing deja-vu. This character has almost every feature of my main character, although cleverly renamed and such. Also, this character can't possibly be alive, for a vampire MUST survive on blood, or they will most assuredly die. Coupled with the earlier fact that Vanyel is too much like Maximilian and there is room for much more creativity, I declare this my first disapproval, until major changes are made. :cool:


*KA-BURNED!*

Hows that?

Maximilian Vanyel
Vampire Vampire
Long Black Hair Long Black Hair
Ectoplasm (soul) Sword Soul Sword
Walks in daylight Walks in daylight
Good Guy (basically) Good Guy
Had shades Wears shades
Orion (phantom) Phantom attack

Do I need to say more? Plus, Vanyel's attacks are way too strong, and that not needing blood thing is still not right. I'm sorry I was rude at first, maybe you didn't do it on purpose.

Ok, I changed the blood thing, got rid of the amulet, and toned down the powers.

I think what Shade is trying to point out is this sentence:

They raised him, and as they did so, Vanyel found that he didn’t have the urge or need to drink blood that he had feared.

If he's a vampire, he would indeed have the urge and the need to drink blood. It's just like us. We have the urge and the need to eat food in order to survive. In the case of a vampire, it's blood. However reluctant he is, he still has that fundamental desire and need for blood.

Anyways, just pointing that out. I'm sure if you fix that, it should be approvable.

No, I didn't mean to, although when I looked at Max, I could tell what you meant. I've changed it as much as I could to make it different from Max without totally making him something I don't want. So, ok, how about now?

I think it looks fine to me. But if Shade doesn't think so, he has my permission to override this approval. *stamps*