Vampires

The others

• Alden Cooper

  Full name: Alden Cooper
  
  Nationality/Ethnicity: White American
  
  Place of birth: Somewhere in the northern states of the USA
  
  Date of birth/death: 1850... ish./ 1880... ish.
  

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  Apparent age: Around 30
  
  Height: 6'3”
  
  Eyes: Dark Brown
  
  Hair: Brown, short cropped.
  
  Skin: Pretty average peachy pink. Alden isn't really overly pale at all.
  
  Build: Lanky
  
  Posture: Slightly stooped
  

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  Occupation: In mortal life Alden was a business tycoon who, like many of the era, had little concern for worker rights and prioritized efficiency and profit over the needs of his staff. He made his fortune, passing it on via shell companies and off shore accounts right into the modern day.
  

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  Physical Description: Extremely tall, Alden was a giant of a man back in his mortal days. Slender and lanky, his body shape would best be described as “elongated”, like he's been stretched.
  His dark hair is dead straight and cropped very short. He's clean shaven and dresses in a neat and tidy manner. Despite this though, there's always something a little 'off' about him, something beastial or feral in his eyes and mannerisms. Nobody could quite identify what it is, but Alden has a great knack of setting people on edge.
  
  Personality: Alden would fit the classical definition of high functioning psychopath. He lacks true empathy, doesn't really care about other people as anything other than tools or distractions and is an exceptionally good actor. Much like his childe, he's very good at pretending to be a real human being and not a monster, but a monster he most certainly is.
  Unlike Ben however, Alden has a lot more self control. He doesn't have the “itching” in his brain Ben suffers from, he's never had this compulsion to kill for any reason other than to feed.
  
  He's cunning, sneaky and always planning something. Alden is a man who is always prepared for anything.
  
  While he has no need for money, Alden takes up odd jobs to pass the time and tedium.
  Alden rather likes people, for what's a puppet master without his puppets?
  

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  Relationships:
  
  Childe: Benjamin Forester – Alden will admit that his turning of Ben was based purely on boredom. He'd grown tired of how tedious and easy sane mortals were to manipulate and grown fascinated by the broken minds of the clinically insane. Posing as an warden, a job beneath him for sure but it served its purpose, he managed to get close to the patients and here he met a young man who peaked his interest. Like himself, Ben was diagnosed as a psychopath, unlike him, Ben had certain compulsions that made him actively dangerous to the general public. Alden wondered what such a person might do with the power of immortality. He taught the boy how to tell people what they wanted to hear, not that Ben needed much help on that front and when he was released he took him under his wing. While Alden had never had much of a 'need' to kill people, he found Ben's compulsions extremely interesting and indulged them, encouraging the young man to embrace his instincts.
  Once he felt Ben had a good foundation and was ready to seize the power and control people like they deserved, Alden left the boy to it. Watching from a distance, keeping track of the boy and tracking his progress.
  Ben is Alden's current pet project, something to pass the time. Ben isn't aware of this, yet.

• Phillip Byrne

  Full name: Phillip Byrne
  
  Nationality/Ethnicity: White Irish
  
  Place of birth: Kerry, Ireland
  
  Date of birth/death: 1885/1910
  

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  Apparent age: mid to late twenties
  
  Height: 5'9”
  
  Eyes: Blue
  
  Hair: Black, long.
  
  Skin: Pale
  
  Build: slim
  
  Posture: Open, somewhat casual and carefree.
  

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  Occupation: Phillip was a laborer on a farm in his youth, and a poet and artist in his free time. He became unemployed and ultimately homeless in his early twenties. He still writes obtuse poetry.
  

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  Physical Description:
  
  Phillip perhaps wouldn't stand out that much from a crowd were it not for his unusual and eccentric mannerisms. His hair is shoulder length, shaggy and a little unkempt though he's clean shaven. His eyes are a startling shade of blue and his skin has a smattering of very faint freckles.
  
  Personality: He moves as though he's in some sort of daze most of the time, snapping to reality periodically and unsettling people with some intense insight or intimate knowledge. Phillip has a strange knack for being able to look into a person's eyes and see their deepest desires.
  Unfortunately he doesn't always seem to be that aware of reality. He claims he has visions, that voices tell him thing, that his gut has never steered him wrong.
  He lives his life on impulse, doing as his whims strike him, never thinking much about anything. He trusts his visions and voices absolutely, convinced they're some supernatural power and not a symptom of mental illness. He doesn't have an overly long attention span.
  
  Phillip is not however particularly actively dangerous, he's clearly not sane, but he lacks any real malice. He seems to be extremely happy and content, serene in his own little world.
  He hums a lot, sings to himself and speaks in vague terms about things that haven't happened yet. This said, his grasp on reality is so tenuous that there are times where his idea of what's okay aren't necessarily going to line up with other people. Sometimes people have to die. Sometimes someone has to get hurt. It's just the way it is. There's no malice in it, no forethought or planning, it just IS. He feels no guilt, guilt would require him to acknowledge his actions were wrong.
  
  He seems to lack danger sense, entrusting his continued existence to his inner voices. The real reason he hasn't got himself killed yet is because he has an incredible amount of charisma and attracts companions, who then make it their job to keep him safe.
  Phillip is a strange man, but something about his cheerful nature makes him quite pleasant to spend time with. He laughs that things nobody else finds overly funny, can be extremely compassionate and tender but he can also be frightening and unstable.
  He tends not to kill to feed, he tends not to kill at all. He has other people to do that for him.
  

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  Relationships:
  
  Childe: Eoin Callaghan – Phillip can't really articulate WHY he turned the blind kid, he just felt like he SHOULD. He'd seen the boy around town, followed him home on a whim, waited till he felt the time was right and went to talk to him. He doesn't know why, just that the boy was interesting, that he was supposed to talk to him.
  What he saw in that boy's blank eyes amused him, a bloodlust he hadn't expected in one so young. He knew what he had to do, he had to give the boy the power to achieve his desires.
  Of course, Phillip didn't really expect the kid to survive long. He didn't give much thought to what would happen once Eoin's father was dead and he was left alone with immortality and bloodlust he could barely control.
  Phillip didn't really notice, he'd already wandered off onto the next thing.