"I will go wherever you need me
On the river of roses or rain"
On the river of roses or rain"
Character Chart
Character’s full name: {Nikolai Werner von Lunkhofen} | {Nikolai = Maternal Grandfather's name, Werner = Paternal Grandfather's name} | {Likes}
Character’s nickname: {Niko} | {it's shorter} | {Likes}
Birth date: Febuary 3rd 1431
Gender: Male
Sexural Orientation: Hertosexural
Age: Five Hundred Eighty Three years old
"I will follow the signs that you leave me
The mysteries of joy and of pain"
The mysteries of joy and of pain"
} Height: 5.11.25
}Weight: Average
}Hair: Dark curly
}Eyes: Brown
}Skin: pale, if not sickly looking as if he's never once seen the sun's light.
}Posture: Regal
}Health: In Good health
}Heredity: As all the males in his family, Niko was born with severe Porphyria.
"I will search for light in the darkness
Though I stumble through shadow and shade"
Though I stumble through shadow and shade"
Sociology
}Occupation: He may call himself an Entrepreneur, but in reality he's a con artist and master thief.
}Education: Some of the best schools money can buy, even at a young age Niko was among the most well educated men in the world. He was taught of the glory of the last Vampyre empire and the shame that it fell.
}Home life: He never knew his mother, she died when he was born. He was "raised" by his father although the man couldn't bare to look at his children's faces without thinking of his beloved. This left Niko, and his twin brother Rodolfus relaying on themselves for pretty much all emotional support.
}Amusements/hobbies: Reading, watching old movies, looking at art he's "collected" over the years,
"Oh if you are with me
Of whom shall I be afraid?"
Of whom shall I be afraid?"
Backstory
} "I was born in the fifteenth century, my father a nobleman of pure vampyric breeding and my mother a poor village pureblood he had taken for his wife. My mother Helga was one of many women my father Nikolai had wed in hopes of an heir. However, because Vampire pregnancies were nearly always fatal back then, the mother and child he'd never had much success in the mater. When I and my twin Rodolphus were born, he held a great feast for everyone however my mother wasn't able to join, She died that evening her insides torn apart.
As I grew, my father raised me to know the proper place of our family. He taught me to honor our breeding, he believed we were given right others weren't but he was so deranged towards the end of his life I paid little interest to his stories. At times I wish that I was more interested in his tales and stories, perhaps then I would have more fond memories of him. Alas, growing up with plagues cutting down mankind, and Vampyres shadows for their former greatness, a part of me will always remember those stories of the Vampyre age. When Science and Art were at their peeks and the world was not ruled by elves or man but us.
} When I was a young lad of a hundred or so our family home in Lunkhofen was destroyed by The Tinsley’s. My father, brother, and I barely escaped with our lives. My cousins Wilhelm and Ita weren’t as lucky. My Aunt Anya cried all that night as we made our way to Paris, where my Grandmother was living.
In Paris, I met a young girl, Renette Soula a French Vampyre with an extraordinary gift for magic. She taught me all I know of Blood Magic, how to use it to hide my existence, to shield myself from the sun, and other more personal spells. Within a year we were married, and before long she was with child. Our marriage was short lived when she was arrested for sorcery by the crown and taken to be burned at the stake. Renette never feared death, which is one of the things I admired most about her. She stood in front the executioner spitting out a curse at the flames towered high around her. I watched briefly from the safety of the indoors but looked away when the flames caught hold of her dress. I can still hear her screams, as the fire engulfed her body and our babe.
} After Renette’s death I fled the Paris streets for warmer temperatures, and found myself in Padua. There I met the heiress Calpurnia Del Guárico a notorious flirt but highly wealthy woman. The daughter of a merchant, it wasn’t long before I made my way into Calpurnia’s heart. However, unbeknownst to me, I was not the only man to do so. This being said we were married within a few weeks little did I know she was not as pure as the freshly fallen snow, and a month later she was with child. That was embracing for me; my Calpurnia who I thought loved me was using me to hide her own infidelity.
After the child, a boy Lucentio was born things changed between us. Though looking into those tiny eyes melted my heart to tears, Calpurnia returned to her lover’s bed as opposed to mine. She’d have nothing to do with me, no matter how I tried to woo her she would not have me. One night I lost it; I dove into her chambers in a blood rage and demanded that she give up her childish games. It didn’t go well, she laughed in my face and insisted I leave before the sun rose I was little use to anyone in the daylight. I lost control, I do not know what happened next but when I awoke I was running from the Piazza with a bundle under my arms, it was Lucentio and he cried every step I took as I made my way out of Padua.
} I raised the boy as best I could, true he wasn’t mine by blood nor was he a Vampyre but this pasty little human was an orphan and like it or not I was all he had in the world. I watched him grow, marry, and have children of his own, all from afar as the Tinley’s hunted my family.
In the late nineteenth century, a curse descended on my family. Some called her The Slayer of Hades, other's The Daughter of Hell, I, on the other hand, called her Jessamine. She was the product of a relationship I had with a lady of less than reputable reputation. A Bastard, as some humans would call her. I was not that small minded, if not a little bit foolish, I had heard of the term Dhamphir before but I believed it could be countered, even going as far as finding a positive female role model for her to look up and me a wife. Alas, when that marriage fell apart, Jessamine drifted from my guidance and now is bent on killing me and mine.
At the time I was too blinded with the thought of a child, to think of the future. My mind was full of the past, and the line of stillborn babies that claimed the grounds, along with their mothers. When she grew into a young lady, Jessamine ran away I do not know where she went but wherever it was it fueled her passion to destroy her vampire half. Around the time Jessamine vanquished my brother was killed by Lord Tinsley himself, not a day goes by I don't wish the man had killed me instead of my brother. Now I must marry Lord Tinsley's daughter or forever face my own destruction."
"You picked me up when I've fallen
Driven the ghost from my door"
Driven the ghost from my door"
Psychology
Sex life: active, he's not a ladies man or anything but he's no virgin either. He has been married before this arrangement, though never for very long.
Moral standards: "No one hurts me and gets away with it." ~ Family motto
Personal premise/ambition: To get this marriage over with and stop the feuding.
Frustrations/chief disappointments: That he couldn't save his brother before it was too late.
Temperament: pretty laid back, until the mention of his brother or daughter.
Attitude toward life: "Life is for the living so to speak"
Complexes: When he is nervous he smokes...
You have comforted me in my sorrow
Wiped my brow when I've been sick and sore
Wiped my brow when I've been sick and sore
Traits
Pessimist? | Introvert | Daredevil | Emotional
Methodical and Neat | Prefers working | Unsure of himself
Pessimist? | Introvert | Daredevil | Emotional
Methodical and Neat | Prefers working | Unsure of himself
You have shared in all of my triumphs
And bless the crops that we laid
And bless the crops that we laid
Family
Mother: Helena - Deceased
Father: Heinrich Rudolphus Von Lunkhofen - Deceased
Siblings: Rudolphus (Twin) - Deceased
Children: Jessamina
Other important family members:
Oh if you are with me
Of whom shall I be afraid?
Of whom shall I be afraid?
Abilities
"Over the years I've perfected the art of Blood Magic, a dangerous if the not taboo form of ancient magic. I can use blood as fuel to restore my magical abilities, such as my ability to transform into a dog as the sun is high in the sky as to protect my vampire form."
Weakness
"Fire, A Stake through the heart, nothing but children tales I assure you, such things would kill anyone. My Weaknesses are far more interesting. Unlike some, I have a unique intolerance to Red wine. I can't drink it without getting a severe headache. However on rare occasions, I have been seen drinking the forbidden drink, but it never ends well for me or who I am with." Not to sound too much of a stereotype, but I do suffer from Porphyria, like so many fictional characters. When my skin comes in contact with the sun it blisters and burns, though It will not kill me I tend to dress in heavy layers during the summer months.
Just to love one another that was your advice
And that keeps me it keeps me moving on
And that keeps me it keeps me moving on
