N A M E: Erik Livingstone || A G E: Unknown (You learn to stop counting the years) || G E N D E R: Male || S P E C I E S: Vampire
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Personality
Erik is apathetic and withdrawn from the world around him. When you have lived as long of Erik has you realise that nothing really matters at all. It doesn’t matter what he does, where he lives, who he is or who he feeds on. He lives out his life with no purpose or drive. After all, to him the human life span seems to go by in the blink of an eye, whatever he doesn’t do this lifetime he can just do it the next one. When you live forever you never really find yourself in a rush to do anything. His life is a never changing cycle. Get up, lay around, feed on someone, drink, smoke, sex with a nobody, sleep. Repeat. Repeat every day for a few hundred years.
Erik has lived far too many lifetimes, seen far too many people die, and too many events occur to ever really connect with anything or anyone. He knows a great many people but cares about hardly any of them. A few lifetimes of experience have taught him social graces. He knows what jokes to make, what stories to tell to make time spent with him enjoyable. He is a sarcastic and charmer to all that meet him. Though despite his outer appearance, for Erik he is just going through the motions, repeating a very similar social interaction he had with someone else, at some other place, in some other lifetime. To him no person or thing is ever new, only the reinvention of something older. Before he was turned, Eric used to be a very curious young man, but what do you become when all you curiosity has been filled?
Erik considers himself a watcher of life rather than a participator. Being turned into a vampire robbed him of the ability to partake in life, to grow old, connect with people, and enjoy the little things. Though his immortal life grants him the ability to watch, to live through the many civilisations that have come and gone. To watch humans make the same mistakes over and over again. Erik’s kind are the only ones who get to see how everything plays out for the human race over vast periods of time.
This is why Erik is obsessed with photography. He has lived so long and seen so many thing it is impossible for him to remember very much of it, so he documents it all through photography. He photographs everything, places, people, and actions. He has hundreds of boxes filled to the brim with photographs, his physical memory banks. All different kind of photographs too, coloured photos, black and white photos, even Polaroids. Of course photography is only a relative new invention in terms of how long Erik has been alive, before that he collected paintings and sketches of different people and places, all gathering mothballs in storage.
History
Erik doesn’t remember much about his early years since they were so long ago, only the very basics he has held onto for all these years. After a while, Erik didn’t care much for the sentiments of his former life, it was never something he felt like he had to remember. He knows he was born in Ancient Greece under another name, and after breaking the law he was forced into slavery as a mine worker. Though he can’t remember exactly what he did. He doesn’t remember being a mine worker for very long, because the mine he was working in collapsed, killing practically all the workers and nearly killing Erik. Though the bulk of the rubble crushed the entire lower part of Erik’s body.
He doesn’t remember any of the details but he must have been screaming for help because an older man came to his rescue and saved his life by turning him into a vampire. Though he can’t remember the man who turned him’s name, Erik spent a good few years travelling with him, learning all things vampire. That man had already been a vampire for many, many years and it was he who passed on his beliefs about Vampires being watchers of life and no longer participants. When Erik asked why the man had turned him, the man explained that every now and then he liked to turn people, it took away the boredom and loneliness for a little way as the people he turned would stay by his side for a little while at least. Eventually Erik left the man to travel on his own and follow his own path.
Over time, after a great many years of travelling and seeing sights, changing his name to blend in every few generations like he had been taught, he came to understand the man’s explanation of what it meant to be immortal. That was when stopped living and began watching. Erik even began turning people in the same manner as he had been turned for the same reason the man had given.
Eventually Erik found himself in Lake Grove, where others of his kind seemed to be congregated. Then the evil vampires showed up, which got Erik’s interest. This was something different after all, something he hadn’t seen before. Though before he could see much his kind were forced to flee from Lake Grove, which he did. He never really thought about Lake Grove again, until he received word that they were back, which his curiosity couldn't let him ignore.
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