Description

Personality

As mentioned before, Léonide is a narcissist who would not deny it if accused. A long history gave him the gift of charisma. When it comes to dealing with others, he much prefers to be the dominant person and hates to be argued with. Whoever dares to is often met with violence that is near primal. But do not be so quick to judge. Since it is so hard to find those to trust that aren’t groveling pigs, Léonide is very loyal and possibly too generous with the people he surrounds himself with. He is a stubborn man when it comes to making his beloved friends comfortable. Life is something to be a glutton about.

History

Born in 1152, Léonide du Origen was born in a French village untouched by the changing tides that were flowing all over Western Europe. It was a peaceful place to raise a child. For many years, no travesty touched the Origen family. But even if his home village was at peace, it did not mean the rest of Léonide’s country was.

His mother clung desperately to her son’s hand as he tried to walk towards the gathering of the village’s male youth for the march to being trained for battle. Léonide was only sixteen when he had to push away his mother, leaving her sobbing in her husband’s arms as the boy walked away to his fate. He did not know it then but that was the last day he would ever see his parents.

The troupe made it to the camp nestled in the a valley constantly covered in snow. It was the best place to harden the body and numb any compassion. At the place “of frozen death”, Léonide found out what it means to starve, bleed, and feel broken. It was a long torture. But it sculpted him into the very vision of a soldier by his twentieth year. And by the eve of the following year, war had found it’s way to Léonide.

The sights of battle scarred him. Screams haunted him. Images of death followed him wherever he went. Léonide wanted nothing more than to shut it all out. In that storm of chaos, he found a welcoming embrace. For the next few years, he lived as a deserter on the estate of a wealthy trader. During his stay, he learned new languages and domestic skills such as sewing. Yet not even those easy times lasted.

In the year 1181, Léonide was turned by the same man who saved him from the ravages of war. For several centuries after, he stayed with his “father” until his lust for independence called to him. Receiving a good portion of his father’s wealth, Léonide went out into the world, seeing it for the first time in almost five centuries with new eyes.

Not long after being on his own and establishing his own sources of income, Léonide found himself feeling lonely and vulnerable. There were several others like himself in his life, all inhabiting his home and making a nest with him. But the man longed for something to call his, that no other vampire could touch. There was no better way to stroke his ego.

In present day, Léonide lives in Greenville, Illinois after falling in love with the Western hemisphere during the Revolutionary War. There he has a small estate the he fills with the riches he accumulated during his lifetime. Politics do not interest him nor is he truly a "conservative vampire." Léonide takes to glamoring humans into donating their blood. But when he's feeling too haughty to grace Greenville with his presence, he has someone run out and buy him a pack of TruBloods. He also designs clothes, Origen Original, and uses the place as his studio.