The scenario:
There will be a human family and a vampire family. Single human mom meets single vampire dad. That's the only thing I've got set up so far. Really, the only necessary character is a human woman, but kids are fun too.

Currently, we've got one vampire and one male, and they're both my character. And while it would OK for Vinny to have no children, it'd be more fun.

Setting: Summer, present day.

Oh, yeah. Vampire rules. (I'm very picky, so please bear with me. I'll try to make this as short and entertaining as possible, and I'll hit the highlights so you can just skim it.)
My vampires are non-Twilight, mainly because I've never read it. Vampires do not combust in sunlight, nor do they get rashes, boils, or anything more than a particularly fast and painful sunburn. (And they definitely don't sparkle.) Vampires, as a rule, do not go out in full sun. Dawn, dusk and overcast are fine, although night is always preferable. A parasol or sun hat would be handy in a pinch. My vampires also do not have super-strength, speed, or agility. They can, however, hypnotize people (with practice) to simulate such attributes. (They do the whole vice-grip thing by weakening the subject's will to move---a handy trick.) They can turn into animals, but they usually don't. Wolf forms are preferable to bat or rat ones, because their mass and volume have to stay the same. They also turn into mist, which is a useful escape tactic. They are repelled by garlic and silver (yes, I know that's werewolves, but w/e) and crosses, along with other religious icons, but only if there is a good amount of true faith behind it. (Sue me.)

Vampires age normally. By drinking blood, they can keep themselves in a state of eternal youth. However, the farther they are in appearance from their actual age, the more blood they will have to drink to keep up that age. (So, technically, you could be sixty and go around looking seven, but you'd have to binge a lot.) And yes, this logic makes it so that a vampire wouldn't actually have to drink blood until they're of an unnatural age. Vampires could, technically, never drink blood from humans, animals, or anything. They'd just eventually lapse into a coma that they'd never come out of. And they wouldn't die, either. My vampires can't starve to death. They can starve to something close enough to death for our mortal purposes, i.e., they haven't got enough energy left to drink blood and refresh themselves, but they won't actually be dead. Which is a bit of a tough break, if you believe in an afterlife.

They can die, however, through certain means. If the brain can no longer communicate properly with the spinal cord, the vampire will die. Pretty straightforward, if you ask me. However, if the vampire can heal before this happens (oh, yeah, vampire healing. Vampires heal like normal people unless they drink blood, in which case it goes faster. Blood binge = instant healing.) then they won't die (just like if you shoot someone, and they heal before they bleed to death, they won't die.) But if you, say, cut off their head, they're dead. And they're not coming back. There are some temporary fixes, however, that will send the Count directly to hibernate mode. Wooden stake through the heart = ctrl-F4. Puts him in a coma like that, and then you can bury him in a sealed tomb of concrete, and he's as good as dead. Silver bullets'll do the same thing (yes, yes, more werewolf robbery, sorry). Burning might work, but it's not very cost-effective. Drowning would not work at all. Vampires do not need to breathe, but they do need to breathe to talk.

Oh, yeah. On appearances. Vampires are cold, but not constantly stone-cold. They're as cold as a corpse would be in an environment of the same temperature. While asleep, a vampire could be pronounced legally dead. Pale-skinned people turned to vampires become unnaturally pale for several reasons, mainly because they never go out in the sun, but also because they have a great shortage of hemoglobin in their bodies. Dark-skinned vampires do not become pale, but take on an ashy color, a grayish shade of their natural skin hue. All other facets of their appearance are the same as if they had not been turned. (Although, blonde vampires can be rather ugly, so hair dying is common.)

Vampires are usually turned by an older vampire who wants a fledgling. The term "fledgling" is not often used, because it is taken to be offensive for "dehumanizing child vampires." "Sire," however, is used to mean the vampire who turned the other vampire, and is more commonly used. "Descendant" and "ancestor" are used to refer to the who-turned-who relationship, not the biological one. Usually, if they are talking about biological families, they will specify. Words like "son," "daughter," "mother," "father," and other family words are used in a biological sense. Usually, a vampire will have a very different relationship with his sire than he would with his parents. ("Sire" is used for men or women.) Although, vampires don't often know both their sire and their parents. It is very uncommon for a vampire to have more than one fledgling at a time.

So how do sires become sires? A vampire can turn a mortal (they don't call non-vampires "humans," because vampires are also humans) by drinking his blood and then having him drink her blood. This can be done in either order. If a human is bitten by a vampire and not turned or killed, they will suffer no side effects besides the loss of such-and-such amount of blood. If a human drinks the blood of a vampire (I got this from a friend of mine who got it from some game I didn't recognize, but I thought it was cool, so I'm keeping it) the vampire can sort of control them. Most do not hone this useful feature besides "come to my school and let me drink your blood every Thursday during lunch."

Etiquette:
Vampires treat the topic of drinking blood like mortals treat the topic of having sex. That is to say, gingerly. There are few verbs do describe the act of drinking blood that are socially acceptable for general use, but most people just don't talk about it at all. "Feed" is namely used by mortals, often deliberately attempting to insult a vampire. It's another of those "dehumanizing" terms that vampires don't like. They also don't really go for poetic or flowery descriptions, like using "embrace" to mean "turn into a vampire." "Turn" is more commonly used, with the "into a vampire" part implied. (Anything that could be used to mean something sexual, a subject which is treated about as delicately by vampires as it is by mortals, would not be used, for fear of being misunderstood. "What? No, I didn't get laid, you idiot, I drank her blood!" is a situation most would rather avoid.) Most commonly, "eat" is used to mean "drink the blood of," which is rather illogical in itself, but still...so are lots of mortals' euphemisms.

Vampires also have territory, of sorts. If a vampire has mortals whom he's attached to (like a step-family) and another vampire attempts to harm them, he will no doubt be met with a quick and painful termination. (Unless, of course, the marauding vampire is more pwnful than the defending vampire, in which case the defending vampire would get his rear end handed to him.)

Stuff I forgot:
Vampire men can have children if they take fertility pills, vampire women can't (unless they get all the needed organs replaced and maintained in a hospital).
If a pregnant woman is turned, the baby has pretty much a 33% chance each of being mortal, being stillborn, and being a vampire. It depends on the time of pregnancy the woman was turned. Although, if you're a Flint, you'll probably have been turned by Vincent when your mother dumped you with him. (Which she did, otherwise you'd be with her.)

I also forgot vampires' place in society, as I have been so kindly reminded of. Most vampires are able to blend into society well enough to make a living. They pass themselves off as mortal for most intents and purposes, and most mortals believe that they are not vampires. Vampires usually have a place in mortal as well as strictly vampire society (i.e., two vampires who appear to barely know each other around mortals could be lifelong buddies or mortal enemies amongst themselves; it's a split-person thing---think Spock). There are fictional accounts of vampires among the mortal world that assume ideals of vampires ranging from the true to the wildly far-fetched. There are few mortals who believe in vampires who do not know them personally. (If you play the mom, you have the option of knowing that the Flints are undead or not.)

OK, BIG chunk I left out, which sort of goes along with this. My vampires have two mindsets that they switch between. The "human" side, and the "vampire" side (in quotes because neither term is technically correct). The "vampire" side is often referred to as the animal side by mortals, which despite being more accurate than "vampire," is rarely used by vampires themselves. When the animal side is dominant, the vampire thinks along different lines, accepting different codes of conduct from other vampires. When in this state, vampires see only four kinds of people: humans they can eat, humans they can't eat, other vampires, and their vampire "family." The latter refers to a vampire's sire of fledglings. When in the animal state, vampires will not recognize their biological families as anything but other vampires, and therefore competition. That is to say, a vampire in this state will think, "That is Jimmy," but not think, "That's my son." (Awkward situations come up when, say, a daughter vampire is in the animal state and her mother is in the human state.) Vampires may do things that would be construed as really, really awkward by mortals or even other vampires when in this state. They tend to think less, and listen more to their instincts, which are radically different from those of a human. (This is what causes a vampire to attack people they seem to be very close to. Vampires will also fight other vampires for the blood of a mortal or group of mortals.)

Leetle note: Fledglings cannot be biological children. If a vampire turns his or her own children, they are not fledglings.


Well, enough prattling. If anything comes up, I'll add it to that list.

And vampires don't show up in mirrors. NO ARGUING.

tl;dr point

So, characters:
The Flints (they're the vampires):
Father: Vincent Flint (DCLXVI)
Children:
Selena (.The-Red-Queen.)
Emery (Kira Walker)

The Merles:
Mother: Lucy Merle (Marred_Shell)
Children:
Rachlie (Angleaya Z.)

Liberties with character making:
As of now, you can be the mother, Vincent's fledgling (if you're of a mind) or somebody's kid. Until I get a mother and at least one child, you can't be anything else.

Name:
Age: All kids must be biologically 18 and under. As in they were born some time during or after 1990. Not before. Even if they're vampires. (However, vampire children can look younger than they actually are, but you're still going to be in seventh grade if you're 13, no matter how old you look. And you can't really make yourself smaller, so once you start getting into, like, pre-puberty, you'll look kind of freakish. It wouldn't happen.)

Personality: Just a quick summary, most of this will come out in the RP

Appearance: I'd prefer a custom picture or text, but if you've got a picture that is pretty much your character, go ahead and use it

Bio: Where did you come from? If you're a Flint, you can either be a fledgling or a biological child, but he can only have one fledgling, and he'd have to be a boy. It's nothing personal, it's just that Vincent wouldn't sire a girl on purpose (if you can come up with a good enough reason, a girl fledgling may be OK). If you're a Flint, you can also have different mothers than your brothers and sisters, and either you or I can supply the story of what happened to your mother. Same goes for whoever plays the human mom; they'll call the shots on what legitimacy of children their character would have. Half brothers and sisters on the Flint side can be the same age, but either you or I will have to come up with one good explanation. (And by good, I mean entertaining.)

Wow, that's almost as long as an actual bio.

Code, for those who are lazy:

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Anyway...what am I forgetting? Ah, yes. Rules.
Rules:
Four kids per parent, but if we fill up (unlikely) you can still join as some other kind of character
Please don't overdo it with the angst.
Please don't overdo it with the step-family hate.
If you're a vampire and you want to turn one of Mom's kids, work it out with them and Mom through PMs first. If you want to turn Mom, work it out with Mom AND me.
If every character is shy and introverted, this will make for a boring RP. "Sally sat in her room listening to music." "George sat in his room playing video games." "Archie sat in his room reading."
If you want to be the sort of kid who has no respect whatsoever for his or her parents, you'll have to either be a human, or have been recently dumped on Vincent. He would make sure any kid of his wouldn't turn out like that. (Whoever plays Mom can set their own standards for allowed children, unless Mom joins after the kids, in which case she'll have to conform to that.)
ONE SET OF TWINS, MAX. However, if there's a sixteen-year-old Flint and you want to be sixteen, you can make up an "other mother" story (or ask me to make one up).
You can have two characters, but I'd prefer one, since there's limited space. If it turns out nobody wants to join, you can add a second character.
Characters can curse as much as they like, but I'd prefer if you're subtle about it. I.e., instead of saying "Jimmy said, 'Tom, you ****head, go **** yourself,'" you might say "Jimmy called Tom something rather crude and told him to to do something he'd rather not be caught doing." Readers can use their imaginations. Instead of saying, "******* mousetraps!" Ron said as he stepped on one," you might simply say, "Ron swore at the mousetraps as he stepped on one."
At least make an attempt at good grammar. I want none of this "I'm too lazy to use punctuation" nonsense.

Subsection B: Preferred post format
Please post in NORMAL SIZED AND DARK COLORED FONT. Anything else is hard for me to read. And if it's hard for me, I assume it's hard for at least one other person. Any other fancy text effects are fine.
The way I format posts is thoughts in italics, and quotes that come directly from another's post (i.e., CoolGuy87: Jack walks up to Curtis and says "Your mother wears gym shorts." RandomJoe56: Curtis turned as he heard a voice say "Your mother wears gym shorts.") Are quoted and in italics, like in that parenthetical example. Voices in your head go in italics and {braces}. Italics, boldface, ALL CAPS or a combination of the three could be used to express emphasis in narrative or dialog, but words like "gonna" or "kinda" should only be used in dialog.
ALSO:
Posts need not be long. I'd prefer a short post that says what needs to be said than a long post that dawdles around. However, if you believe yourself to be a good writer and can write an interesting wall of text, go for it. If you're talking to another character, or engaged in some other rapid-fire activity (playing a video game, etc), posts can even be one line. If your character needs to do something, but really, nothing else worth mentioning happens, one line is fine.

Now for my charrie:

Name: Vincent Flint
Age: 87, appears in his late thirties
Personality: He's not a patient man, and greatly dislikes all children except his own. As a stranger, he seems always cross and irritable, but that's a bit of a facade he puts on to avoid stupid people trying to talk to him. As an acquaintance, he's more amiable, although he usually won't notice if he's making people uncomfortable. (And if he does, he probably wouldn't care.)

Appearance: Tall, with sharp eyes framed by black wire-rimmed glasses. He has a thin face, a pointed nose, and a long, black ponytail. His hands are rather long and thin. He doesn't usually wear anything but black clothes that fit whatever he happens to be doing, and he never wears short sleeves or pants, even on the hottest of days. (He's rather self-conscious about that, actually. But who wouldn't be if they were the color of newspaper?)

Bio: I'll allow his recent past to be shaped by those who play his children. He was born in 1922 in California and raised by the woman who sired him, an old Japanese woman named Etsuko. She taught him to respect nature, and that mankind was a plague on the gods' perfect world, and that creatures like themselves were practically the scourge of the universe. Living in America, the ideals he received from the rest of his environment were very different, especially because he was very fond of fiction featuring suppositions of vampires. He was eight years old when the Great Depression hit, and 17 when World War II started in Europe. In 1942, when he was 20, Etsuko was moved to an interment camp, Manzanar. This was not a good place to put an old vampire. Vincent never found out what really happened to her, but he was told that she hadn't harmed any of the other prisoners, but let herself starve until her instincts overruled her judgment. What that meant was never properly clarified.

Hey, I'd be interested in playing the mom for this RP, since nobody else has swooped in and claimed that spot like they should XD. But, first things first, I just have a few questions.

You have the vampires pretty much squared away physically, but socially I'd like to know some more. Have they always been part of humanity, have they only recently emerged, or are they still in hiding? If they are out in the open, how widly accepted are they by the human population? Do most humans still cringe at the sight of them, do they have their own representatives in govenrment, that kind of thing.

If we can clear some of these things up for me, and I'll be able to round out my character, and we can get started!

Looking forward to RPing with you =D,

Marred

AWESOME! A PERSON!

(Sorry, I overreact.)

Vampires place in human society. I knew I forgot something. I'll add that to the first post right away!

Are you still accepting people? If so, could I possibly be a child of the mother's? If that's alright, what kind of information do you need? (Like, can you come up with a character sheet or something?)

Thanks, looks interesting!

I'm totally still accepting people! Heck, I haven't actually got any confirmed players aside from myself and maybe Marred. And I have a character sheet...I'll go make it a little more obvious.

((If Marred doesn't post a char sheet I'll play the mom if you want, but predicting that won't happen...MY CHAR!!! ))

Name: Rachlie

Age: 15, almost 16.

Personality: Rachlie is a bit quiet and has a slight obsession with mythical creatures, as she normally has her nose in a fantasy novel. She is very curious but at the same time gets scared rather easily. She is a very sweet girl and normally has an optimistic point of view on everything, and is very polite.

Appearance: Rachlie stands at about 5'2" with dark curls that reach to her mid back. Her skin is fair, despite the time that she spends in the sun and her eyes are a beautiful innocent blue. Her overall face looks a bit young, at least it's not that of a 15 year old. She normally wears some type of dress, making her stand out from her classmates that can be seen in jeans almost everyday.

Bio: Rachlie has always had a good relationship with her mother, as she never causes too much trouble and normally does as she is told. She doesn't get along with kids her age too well, but she doesn't consider it a depressing matter. She is very good with younger kids and sometimes it seems as if those are the only people she is comfortable with. Rachlie has always enjoyed dressing up and playing pretend but, instead of the normal princess game, hers would involve vampires. She gets good grades for the most part, and does enjoy school.

Angelaya, you are my hero. Accepted times a million.

Lol, thank you for accepting me

Sorry this took so long DX I had the unspeakable horror known as school.

Name: Lucy Merle

Age: 33

Personality: As a basically kind person, life has made Lucy level-headed the hard way. But has still left her with a penchant for wild fantasies. As a peaceful person, she doesn't like conflicts, and will try to placate the parties involved, or leave the situation. Assumes the best of people despite humanity's best efforts to stamp that trait out of her. But, once bitten twice shy is her motto; when you lose her trust, it's very hard to earn it back. However, she likes to be right and will fight to prove that she is in the right, even about trivial things.

Appearance: Auburn hair that is just wavy enough to cause a problem, usually held back in a braid while she works on anything. If not, she lets it down, where it falls to her shoulders. Her eyes are light brown, and she's generally smiling. Of a medium build, she wears bright jewel colored clothing to satisfy her desire for color and noelity.

Bio: Born the third child of ex-flower-power hippies, all throughout her childhood Lucy (named for the song that was playing at her parents wedding) was provided with a lot of affection, but not a lot of structure. Most of her childhood was spent outside in the Southern Oregon sun, playing with her two older brothers.

It was during this time she listened a little too much to her uncle, who always told her stories of mythical creatures that may or may not exist. She was totally taken away by the possibility that these creatures might exist, even forming a Supernaturals Club in her high school. They lived near an area of California where Bigfoot sightings were prevalent, so she organized an expedition to Mt. Shasta during her senior year. They didn't find Bigfoot, but that was when her first daughter was conceived. Her parents were supportive, helping with raising her daughter while she trained to become a nurse. Even though the men in her life came and went, her children and her parents were the pillars of her life to whom she is devoted.

Yeah...33 year old mom, 16 year old kid...I was wonder how you'd work that one out. Awesome. (And you get points for naming your character Lucy.)

Yays points! Points are always good!. Yeah.. that was a problem, since at least some of the kids were going to be older, and the mom couldn't be a cougar. Bigfoot hunting totally = babies. So if there is nothing you'd like me to change, should we start discussing plot, like how they meet, ect?

Waimin...

What counts as a cougar? I thought they were, like, over-fifties...Mom could be, like, in her mid-forties.

I'd like to join...I think I'd like to be human, though. Or I could be a vamp kid...or both, if I feel so inclined...is that alright?

One of each would work if there's space...
That reminds me, I've got to update that first post.

Lovely. Accepted!

Man, some boys would be nice...

I've added a giant chunk to the first post which I just realized I forgot, btw.

Right now I'm just waiting on a friend of mine who said she might join, then I'll make the IC thread. I don't think we'll get many more people on here in a hurry...

Sounds like fun i think I'll give this human thing a shot

Name: Alexander Caleb Merle

Age: 7

Personality: Has a short attention span he can focus when he wants to but he sees no point. Is very self centered and thinks that the whole world is based around him,
in his mind if it doesn't involve him its not important. Loves going outdoors especially when its raining when he can play in the mud, he's not against being clean he just prefers
being dirty. Gets along well with other people as long as they can except the fact that he's always right and they're always wrong. Doesn't believe in anything magical or mystical
if he can touch it then its real otherwise its a hoax.

He never really enjoyed reading books or being told stories because in fairy tales the story was never about him.He did well in school for a while until people stopped thinking of
him as the new kid, since then he's always hated going to school and is always trying to convince his mother to take him out of school and let him stay home it hasn't worked yet
but each failed attempt just encourages him to try harder. He hates the name Alexander and is trying to change his first name to Caleb.

Appearance: Short for his age not by much but enough to make a difference,kind of skinny even though he love's eating anything he can get his hand's on. Has short dark
brown hair that he hates combing down. Has brown eyes that make it seem like he's always hiding something. Has light skin that's almost always covered in dirt. He wears whatever
clothes his mother buys him, he doesn't care how he looks and thinks that everyone else is crazy for caring how they look.

Bio: Alex has had a pretty ordinary life except for a few incidents here and there the first one was occurred when he was two, he was playing with a ball and he rolled it
down a small set of stairs when he went after it he tripped and fell down the stairs, he wasn't hurt badly but he did like the attention everyone gave him. the worst one was
when he was five. He was climbing a tree to get his kite back when a sudden gust of wind startled him and he fell out of the tree, he managed too catch himself but when he
started to climb back down he lost his footing and fell seven feet to the ground and landed on his back, once again he was fine and loved the attention it got him.

What kind of machine are you posting on?
The character looks good, but something is messing with the formatting of your posts.

it looks just like any of your posts do to me

Well, aside from that, I have some grammar standards I'd like this roleplay to adhere to, so unless you improve that, I don't want to let you join.

Speaking of this roleplay, unless Kira gets her rear in gear and posts her character soon, I'm going to start the IC without her. I'll send a PM to anyone who I've already accepted, just because this is kind of old now.