Post by zonks on Jul 4, 2007 13:30:33 GMT -5
zonks
fully powered Master Vampire
childe
- hodges
current and former clan memberships:
- Castle of Shadows (former)
Physical appearance:
- 6'2", otherwise what is shown on his signature picture, the black tatoo actually a scar he has created himself, using a mix of Holy Water and some ingrediences he knew would insure coloring of the tissue without it healing back to its original. It has a personal meaning to him, symbolizing his rise to vampirism, whilst the pain creating it was meant as a punishment for his failure to protect his family. The scar still often burns.
Human age at time of Turning: 22
Personality:
Stern, often appearing cold and without emotion, even though he does feel many things, but he locks most of it away, not even admitting to himself that he feels those things.
Never forgets, never forgives, but he can stay loyal to those he loves, despite not forgiving them if they have hurt or disappointed him.
Tends to keep to himself, quietly observing rather then storming a place.
History before the Turning:
zonks had been the apprentice of an old man dabbling in the mysteries of alchemy, although he had mainly been that old man's run-around-boy, getting stuff for the guy and keeping the place tidy. Unfortunately the old man had made himself suspicious, and neighbours soon began to whisper about his activities, scared of him being a 'witch', which ultimately led to them forming a mob and killing the old man.
Not stopping there, the mob moved on, determined to rid their neighbourhood of all 'devil worshippers', and when zonks returned to his family home -he had been getting ingrediences for the old guy from the other end of the city- he found his wife and little daughter locked into their burning house, the mob still gathered. He was grabbed and made to listen to them scream, then beaten until the crowd believed he was dead.
When he woke, indeed dying, his body broken, his mind shattered.. the mob was gone, his home in ashes, but he found a woman kneeling beside him. She showed kind symphathy, and after he had told her what had happened, she explained to him that if he wished, she could give him eternal life.
zonks, knowing he was dying, but determined to take revenge on those who had killed his family, accepted - and thus was turned into a vampire.
Those who had burned his house down and killed his family, all died within a few nights following their gruesome act. He never drank a drop of their blood. He just turtured them to death slowly.
History after the Turning:
The name of the woman who had turned him was Anjana. She took him into her home and he became a member of the clan called the Castle of Shadows. It was not a big clan, the members mainly just enjoying the company of each other, not overly interested in what else was happening in the city. A bloodline clan, Kevan a ghost they would never come to meet, but Anjana the matriarch of their house, even if she rejected to be seen as such.
Those had been the good times. Evilluv, Skye Wolf, Dreamcatcher, Alucardi, Neilmister, Chiru, Mirage, Mistress Jaded, Grimpuppy, and hodges - those he had truly seen as blood and friends. Countless nights filled with laughter, which had helped him to forget his human past, but then all had turned sour. A new member, not bound into the family line, albeit it had been the plan to tie her to the family, destroyed it all through betrayl and deceit. The clan split, and even though most wished not to leave, Anjana sent them away, told them to find a new home, the woman's mind broken from the pain the betrayl had caused her. Only a few stayed on, those she truly trusted, those who had been closest to her, and even though the clan began to grow again after a while, for zonks the split of the original clan had been the beginning of the end. After that, nothing had ever made him feel as safe and at home again, the way he had felt when the original family had still been together.
That safety lost, the good times gone, those times he had loved.. his human past had begun to haunt him again. Dreams of his wife and child dying in the flames, and the feeling it had all been his fault, as he had worked for that old man.. began to first haunt his days, then the images began to even invade his waking state at night.
Next Anjana severed from all of her childe, the woman herself tortured and haunted by her own ghosts, but still, he would never forgive her for taking from him that last safety he had felt.
He stayed on, yes, he was still a Shadow, a member of the CoS, but he was silent, withdrawn, just watching, not interacting much with anybody anymore. He was basically just a protector, fully powered and armed now, following up attacks on clan members if he was asked to do so, bound to the castle by oath and love, but a love that found its roots in the past of the clan, not its presence. He knew the clan was heading for its doom. He could see it in her eyes that she would once more let her own ghosts win, and thus it did not really surprise him when she left, vanished into the night, and even though the clan had never known leadership as such, in truth most of them had seen her as the leader, and when she was gone, it was only a matter of time and the clan broke apart for good.
zonks had been nothing more than a name on the clan list, maybe a passing face, for most of the new members anyway, and he felt no obligations to them. His oath lay with those he still saw as his family, even if the severing had torn them all apart, and most of all with the castle itself. He wasn't stepping inside anymore, but he knew a secret entrance to the extensive cellers of the castle, dark and moist catacombes, most did not even know existed, and there he rested during daylight, surfacing at night to either keep watch over the castle grounds, or to venture into the city for blood and news. He kept himself informed about Skye Wolf's 'rise' in the vampiric society, reading in papers or overhearing talks in the street, same as he heard of Chiru's joining the House of Heorot and her bonding to a guy called Nightwalker. He did not know what had become of the others. He sensed some were still moving within the city, but as they did not contact him, he did not contact them, and even though he still felt the blood ties, he did not even go to find hodges, maybe because he felt it too painful to face any of them.
The past was dead... And he felt like having become the graveguard to its resting place.....
Additionally:
zonks was able to rescue almost all of the old man's scripts and books, as they had been hidden in an underground study. He has read them all and accumulated a considerable amount of knowledge in regards to magic spells, but over the decades his interest in magic has faded away, as well as that using magic raises memories of his human past within him, therefore he avoids it.
"This castle is my home, embedded deep within its rocks rest the memories of the times when I was happy amongst my blood. Now its stones are my childe, the walls built from them, my family, and I shall be its defender even beyond the reach of eternity..."
[Disclaimer: The history of the CoS is portrayed as seen from zonks' view. It is a personal account of the events, in no way meant to infringe on any 'official' history that might already exists in written form, as composed by the owner of the actual square within the city.]