Post by Damon Salvatore on Sept 20, 2012 22:30:25 GMT -5
Damon Salvatore
---- THE BASICS
Character's Full Name: Damon Salvatore
Nicknames and Aliases: Not Applicable
Age: 171 (October 17 1840, Turned at 24)
Species: Vampire
Sub-Species: Canon (Cursed)
Played By: Ian Somerhalder
Appearance: Damon like most vampires has a pale complexion though it doesn’t seem to demean his looks in any way shape or form. His high cheekbones and chiseled jaw makes for a much desirable face, and the body in of itself was kept fit throughout the years, not that he could have added a few pounds. His physical appearance never really mattered to him much in life, but it’s his mysterious look and body that gives him the confidence to approach anyone without feeling like the lesser party.
His clothing is another matter, he tends to sport dark v-neck tee-shirts, dark coloured dress shirts, and is occasionally seen wearing a leather jacket. This laid back look is what one would call deliberately chik, Damon would argue that with the fact he put it on because it just made him look good, there was no well thought out plan. The seemingly flawless style is just one of those things that is apparently Mystic Falls.
Personality: Damon’s personality is just as complex as first year Calculus but it doesn’t stop him from trying, despite the lack of faith the man has in himself to do good. It comes to no surprise that Damon is a compassionate creature underneath all of his dark bravado, but at often times to prove a point he does drive the ball home and ward people off the scent of what was once a decent human being.
Damon as a young man was always a decent human being, fought for family and country in the American Civil War and sought his father’s constant approval which he did not earn despite his accomplishments and achievements. This would have eventually led him to become a bitter old man if it weren’t for the intervention of Katherine Pierce, who indirectly taught Damon a very important lesson in the matters of approval by stringing him and his brother along in some romantic fantasy she had made out for herself. In the end he too sought her approval and love, only for it to be denied again and again until his brother was labeled as the chosen one years later.
Ever since becoming a vampire he held bitter resentment towards his brother whom not only was the one who directly caused this fate upon them but also had apparently got Katherine sealed up in a tomb (Which he would later come to find was false, and would take it to heart that she never really cared much for him.) He had the ability to switch off his emotions, and after losing his brother to the hunger of blood and leaving him to his own devices he did just that. Everything was shut off, and a dark creature slowly worked its way into molding the Damon we know today.
Ever since becoming entangled with Elena Gilbert and the Mystic Falls B-Team he’s learned to reach deep down and find that compassionate Damon once more, but the journey is hard and filled with temptingly easier routes that would bring him to ruin. He’s torn not between the love he has for Elena and the brother whom he had once fallen out of good graces with, he’s torn between two men. The man he wants to be, and the man he needs to be.
“When people see good they expect good. And I don't wanna live up to anyone's expectations.”
Powers and Strengths:
- Super Strength: Vampires are much stronger than humans and grow stronger with time. Even new vampires who are still in transition can toss a fully grown human across a room with great speed and force. Their strength is also more powerful then werewolves that are not in wolf form.
- Super Speed: Vampires can accelerate their movements to cover short distances in an instant, faster than the human eye can see. When running across long distances, they appear as vibrating blurs of motion.
- Emotional Control: The supernatural ability to control and manipulate the emotions of one's self.
- Heightened Senses: They can hear whispered conversations, even ones in far off buildings, smell blood, and see in total darkness.
- Mind Compulsion: Vampires have the ability to control minds, plague people's dreams, and alter/erase human memories.
- Immortality: A vampire stops aging once turned. Upon their transformation, vampires then on become immune to all conventional illness, disease, virus and infection. The only known disease or infection that can kill a vampire is a werewolf bite.
- Healing Factor: Vampires can snap their finger bones back into place after being broken and have been seen to fully recover from gunshots, stab wounds, and torso impalement.
Vulnerabilities and Weaknesses:
- Decapitation: The act of dismembering or removing the head of a vampire will result in permanent death.
- Fire or Sunlight: The act of exposing a vampire to fire or sunlight will result in permanent death.
- The Gilbert Device: The Gilbert Device is a powerful tool enchanted to bring excruciating pain upon vampires.
- Heart Extraction: The act of extracting or removing the heart of a vampire will result in permanent death.
- Invitation: Vampires cannot enter a home without an invitation by the owner.
- Magic: Vampires are susceptible to the powers of witchcraft.
- Starvation: Vampires who abstain from blood for extended amounts of time will eventually desiccate into mummification.
- Vampire Bloodline: If an Original vampire dies, all vampires descended from their bloodline will slowly perish.
- Vervain: The act of exposing or ingesting a vampire with vervain causes a vampire to become severely feverish and weak. Also, if a vampire's skin is exposed to vervain, it can result in burning them. Also vampires can’t compel anyone on vervain.
- Werewolf Bite: The bite of a werewolf is extremely lethal to vampires.
- Wood: The act of wounding a vampire with wood will cause the vampire to become severely weak and if a vampire takes a wooden stake through its heart it will result in permanent death.
---- HISTORY
Wikipedia History for Damon Salvatore
---- ROLE PLAY SAMPLE
RP Sample taken from an RP Sample on a different board, given a bank robbery scenario this is what was posted: Damon stood in line, shades propped up covering his eyes from the assaulting sunlight. Vampire or not, if you drink heavily the night before and you're forced to withdraw money from the bank first thing in the morning before it closes the sun will effect you all the same. It was a tedious chore, one Damon doesn't really like doing but keeping a vault of bills in the basement of the house wasn't particularly a reasonable plan.
Folding his arms he had to hear a lady go on about her son to another woman in line, talking ridiculously loud that even her son that's probably at school right now can hear her and feel embarrassed. Not that the kid's embarrassment was within Damon's worries, but he was within arm's reach to tear the woman's throat out to keep her from talking. Oh, and her cackle, that godforsaken cackle.
It was by some act of god that several dark clad men wearing ski masks marched through the front door, wrapping it up in a chain locking it and then proceeded to walk through the line to the front desk and demanded all of the money behind the counter. Which in Damon's many years of living or un-living if that's how you want to look at it, he has grown to know that this is possibly the best way to go about a bank robbery. Very stereotypical, very droll, and looking at his watch-- Very annoying. His day was becoming sourly wasted. At least the woman shut up. Well, for a little bit. He was now faced with hysterical crying.
"Everyone, on the ground now!" Obviously, between the hysterically crying woman and the whimpering of all the other stay at home moms the bank robbers were getting a little anxious to be on their way. However, as every man, woman, and small child got onto the floor Damon remained standing watching as the faces of many became one with the floor. No one could see what Damon was about to do.
Have a little fun.
"I said everyone down pal? Or are you deaf? Don't try and play hero."
"Hero? Man if you only knew the irony in that." Damon with his Vampire speed emerged to stand before one of the bank robbers, grabbing him by the scruff of his collar he hurled him towards the thick window expecting him to go through but was surprised when the body smacked the glass with a dull thud leaving a rather web looking splotch of blood in it's wake. Seems like the glass was thicker than Damon had anticipated. He guess that this was a bank after all.
"That was unfortunate," Damon looked at the other two that seemed to be rather shaken up by the act of robber tossing, Damon gave them one look that literally told them to "Turn themselves over to the police." which in a hurry they left the bank to do just that.
Already annoyed that this was taking so long he assumed that it'd be even longer now that police had to be involved, but it couldn't be helped either way. Damon instead took the full bag of cash the robbers had collected and started walking out of the bank, as he was out the door he shouted back.
"You can all stand up now!"
---- THE PLAYER
Alias: Slenderman, Slender Man, Slender
RP Experience: Roughly a decade now.
Contact:Shooting me a PM is probably best, or replying to a plotter if I have one.