Post by zzz - Damon Salvatore on May 26, 2012 18:59:31 GMT -5
Damon Salvatore
---- THE BASICS
Character's Full Name: “My full name is Damon Salvatore, pleasure is all your, I assume?”
Nicknames and Aliases: “Nicknames? Uhm, Dick?”
Age: “Well, I look as if I’m still that 24 year old version of myself, but in reality I’m exactly 171 years old, soon to be 172, but who’s counting?”
Species: “Well, I am a vampire. Although not by my own choice. But those are only minor details, so who cares?”
Played By: “People keep saying I remind them off this dude called ‘Ian Somerhalder’, they all seem to find him rather attractive. So I’m rolling with it.”
Appearance:
“Well, I’m slender build while rather muscular. I’m not someone you can easily push aside, ignoring the fact that I’m a vampire, of course. I have dark brown hair, almost raven like. Piercing blue eyes that, according to numerous girls, look into the depths of your soul.” Smirks slightly as he continues on filling in his application. “I have this sideways smirk and eye thing I do? Elena keeps reminding me because it… ‘bothers’ her for some stranger reason.” Lifts his eyebrows in a fashion as if he actually spoke the words out loud, letting a small sigh escape from between his lips. “Most girls find it cute. Now, on the topic of clothes? I like to wear my jeans well fit and my shirts not baggy. Either v-neck or normal. The shades I wear are normally all in gray scale, otherwise dark tones such as dark blue and green.”
Personality:
Rose on Damon: “Listen, Damon Salvatore is a good guy consumed by this eternal inner fight against the goodness and kindness that roams free inside of him. He will not accept himself to be a good guy, because vampire’s are monsters, and monsters aren’t good. Not only does the aspect of being a vampire come up when you look at Damon’s personality, he’s a very self loathing guy, that does not and will not accept people’s love and nurturing, because in his eyes he does not deserve it. Where this comes from? Probably something that happened to him before he got turned into a vampire. Your feelings and emotions amplify and it can turn out either of two ways, the newly turned vampire learns to live with it, or they let whatever emotion it is consume them. Not to mention the fact that it wasn’t his choice to become a vampire in the first place, he had already decided on not drinking blood when is own brother pushed him into it, saying that he could not continue on without his brother. Sound like an entirely different bond now, if you’d ask me. Stefan and Damon have grown apart ever since Stefan went on his ‘ripper’ bench and destroyed towns and cities. But whatever issues they have with each others, are theirs. The fact that is that Damon is a very confused person, where he believes he’s this terrible and horrible creature that deserves no love and no gratitude, he also believes himself to be handsome and likable. But he’s never been in a full length relationship, because he does not accept someone to actually care about him. So he does something crazy to upset them, scare them or even anger them. He makes a bump in the road of the steady car to crash on. But given the chance, he’d surprise you. I’m sure of it.”
Powers and Strengths:
Alaric on Damon: “If you ever tell Damon I did this for him, I will come after you,” laughs a little while he takes a glass and fills it with whiskey. “The vampire is very impulsive, which I think could be seen as a strength. Although it could also qualify as a weakness? Well, how about the fact that he’s trained himself to be resistant against the herb vervain? You know the one that burns a vampires skin by touch? Well, Katherine Pierce, the girl he once loved, trained herself to be resistant against it and the Salvatore’s quickly followed after that. Mainly because they once got caught of guard during a party, and Damon took a very large swig of vervain lemonade. Plus, the vervain keeps it so that Klaus -- the original hybrid -- can’t compel him to do stuff against his will. Also, he never stopped drinking human blood, being it from blood bags -- or a life source, Damon never stopped feeding ‘off’ humans, so his strength level is much higher than that of the vampires who don’t feed of humans anymore. I think that is about it. Other than his usual vampire strength. Also, he used to do this thing with a crow and fog? Or so I was told…”
Vulnerabilities and Weaknesses:
Alaric on Damon: “Like I stated earlier, Damon can be very impulsive. He likes to think that his impulsive ideas are rather smart and intelligent, which they sometimes are, but he just goes about them the wrong way. He likes to joke around after a failed plan, but you can see it in his eyes that he’s actually hurt about it. Also, he’d stop at nothing to keep Elena safe or to get what he wants. So, he’ll get very unreliable when emotions are starting to get involved. Not that he’d ever stop doing what he thinks needs to be done at the cost of others. I mean, he’d kill whoever he needs to get the answers he seeks. Well, everyone except for Elena and Stefan. He’s even killed me a couple of times, so I think it’s time I warn you not to stand in his way.”
---- HISTORY
Born Damon Salvatore in the year 1840, he was a gentlemen at heart. Fighting for the approval of his father ever since his mother died after giving birth to his baby brother Stefan Salvatore, whom he has a very good bond with before their life took a turn for the worse. But before this major event occurred, Damon always did what felt right, or what he thought would be right in the eyes of his father Giuseppe Salvatore, the head of the council at that time. So, the blue eyed boy joined the army where he fought for his country, but even such a noble fight like that one, did not put Damon in his fathers good graces. His father always wanted the older brother to be more like his younger sibling, because where Damon seemed to not be doing everything right, his baby brother Stefan, could seem to do nothing wrong. But, this did not affect the bond the brother had, although their love for each other got tested when Katherine Pierce came to town.
Katherine Pierce was a beauty Damon had never seen before in his life. She was elegant, playful and wise beyond her years. Or so it seemed. The dark haired beauty had a few secrets of her own, of which one she shared with both brothers. She was a vampire, a creature of the night. Which fitted her just perfectly, she was a creature of elegance and grace, yet she was such a temptress and she could force both brothers to do whatever she wanted them to do. But where she compelled Stefan to drink from her, and to love her the way she wanted both brothers too. Damon did everything voluntarily. He fell in love with her, deeply and passionately. But where he was ready to give himself over to her ways, completely, she was more concerned with Stefan’s love. So, when their father drugged Stefan’s drink with vervain, he quickly came to the horrifying conclusion that Katherine was a vampire, and took her away. But he was ruined emotionally, when he caught both his sons trying to safe her. And in his anger, he shot both his boys down. Covering their deaths up, saying it were vampire attacks.
But it was not the end for Damon and his brother, because they woke up. The dark haired and blue eyes boy woke up faster than his brother, and was caught by Katherine her personal witch Emily Bennett, who had created a pair of almost identical rings for either Salvatore. A silver ring, set with the blue stone Lapiz Lazuli. And on his it had a silver D, where his brothers had a silver S. She told him it was to protect him from burning in the sun. He put it on his finger, and walked over to the lake side, where he took off his bloodied white shirt and just thought about what had happened. Katherine Pierce was dead, his brother and him where now what she was and his father’s hate towards them was at a maximum if he were to find out what they had become. Although he’d be lying if he said he wasn’t a tad bit glad that his fathers love for Stefan was on the same low as his love towards his older son.
The older Salvatore, however, had decided not to drink and end his life than and there. But his younger brother Stefan wouldn’t hear it and went to get him a young female. Telling his older brother a long story than was made short with these few words: “I cannot continue on without my brother.” That was where they hit their first bump in the road. Where Damon did not want to become a monster, or be reminded of what kind of creature his one true love was, he would now be that exact same thing. But where Damon tried to live his life while maintaining a low profile, his little brother did no such thing. Killing their father, compelling and eating numerous girls. The older boy had finally had enough when he walked in on Stefan dancing with the girl had had compelled, leaving bodies scattered all across the floor, bleeding on the carpet. But, when Damon confronted him about this, his younger brother claimed he would do better. But he knew than and there that he wouldn’t change, or not for a very long time. And he would not listen to his older brother, so what was Damon too do? He was done cleaning up after Stefan and left him in the capable hands of Lexi Branson, who soon turned into Stefan’s best friend.
It wasn’t until later events, that led him back to Mystic Falls, that Damon ran into Stefan once again. Stefan, who had tamed himself to be a calmer and a low profile kind of vampire, asked Damon to come have a drink with him. Damon, still angry at his brother feeling betrayed and hurt, agreed to having one drink. That was when they met Sage, another vampire who took on guys in a boxing ring for money and beat them all down with great ease. She was the one that taught Damon that woman were not just for feeding, but also for pleasure. Taking him on a wild ride through Mystic Falls, showing him the ropes on how to reel in a girl and benefit from her in more than one way. That was the moment when Damon let all his morals slide, and embraced his inner demons. When he started to fight the good in him, and continued on doing so while he let everyone around him believe that he had no morals of any kind.
That was when Damon turned into the Damon people know to love and hate to this day. But when he caught wind of his brother return to Mystic Falls, he came to pay the town a visit. Bumping into the exact same copy of his once true love Katherine Pierce. But she was none of the sort, having a picture of hurt and confusion over her. Of course she looked at him differently when he called her Katherine. She was not and will never be Katherine. She was Elena Gilbert. But their first encounter was wiped from her mind, as her parents came to pick her up and Damon used his compulsion on him. Damon wasn’t planning on having anyone know he was back in town, especially his brother. And things just went from not so good to worse when Stefan found out about his brother return. Not to mention that both brothers grew kind of affectionate towards the Petrova doppelganger. But events piled up, and Damon’s inner fight with the good actually took on a second place while Elena took a statuesque first one. But, still not giving in, Damon continues on what Damon does best. Being a insecure and arrogant dick.
---- ROLE PLAY SAMPLE
Everyone around him knew, even though the blue eyed vampire would not admit it to himself, that his humanity was growing stronger with every heart beat coming from Elena’s Gilbert’s chest. That for once in his life, he found himself worthy of his footsteps on earth. Not loathing himself while looking in the mirror, making arrogant comments just to feel a speck of worth. Not many people know this, maybe not even Stefan, although that was very unlikely. But Damon Salvatore had a very low opinion of himself. Starting back when he was still a human being. Fighting for the approval of his father, the obvious love for the younger child tore into the Salvatore’s heart with great ease. Especially once their mother died, the boy was fighting for the love of his father, yet gaining none. Even when the boy put his life on the line to fight in the war, his father still paid him no respect. Stefan once told his older brother, that is was due to the fact that, whenever father would look at Damon, he would see his deceased wife looking back at him. Those same piercing blue eyes. To which Damon had replied in anger that it wasn’t his fault he had her eyes, and that it wasn’t his fault that she had died. His younger brother had tried to calm him but nothing worked, and the dark haired boy ran off into the woods.
Sprinting across small streams of water and climbing big rocks grown with moss, Damon had found himself a lake where he would take a dive to forget his troubles. And even now, at the age of 168, he still would return to that lake to forget his troubles and drink. He stood on the edge of the lake now, the tips of his boots touching the steady stream of moving water. His left hand clutched around the neck of a whiskey bottle almost as old as he was. The lid twisted off and thrown into the dirt to his left. His piercing blue eyes upon a duck, floating on the still dark water. It always calmed him. It would always calm him. Fact was that nobody knew about this place. Maybe one girl, who he would drink with at the bar on many occasions. But she had turned into an amazing friend over the past couple of months and he trusted her, so far. But his own flesh and blood, did not know if this place. And as far as the vampire was concerned, he would never find out about this place as well.
His mind trailed back to the event that led him there. The vampire was still in the process of healing, after Rebekah Mikaelson took him hostage and butchered him. Trying to bleed the vervain out of his system to compel him. For reasons, unknown to Damon, his brother came to save him. Trading the white Oak stakes for his brother life. Putting the blue eyed vampire in his debt, one again. He brought the bottle to his lips and let the liquor stream down his throat. The feeling of it making him warm from the inside out. It was the last drop he had just swallowed away. With great force he threw the bottle into the woods, watching it splinter into pieces as it hit a tree. He was angry at himself for getting captured once again. Angry that his brother had saved his life yet again, but would not admit that he cared for any living thing. Angry that despite every harsh word spoken between him and Elena he still cared deeply for her. But most of all he was angry at himself for letting his humanity in, once again.
---- THE PLAYER
Alias: Leonie
RP Experience: 10 years, 6 in English
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