Post by vulcanator on May 9, 2010 8:16:22 GMT -6
c box nameRJ
character namePaul Xavier Vulcan
character age 169
species Vampire
play-byPaul Walker
power Mental Daggers- A telekinetic power that creates knife like points that dig into human and werewolf flesh and cause the same effect as a knife wound even if Paul is across the room and unable to touch the victim. The daggers are as effective as werewolves teeth at tearing a vampire apart. Each dagger is limited to about eighteen inches of blade length and when the imaginary 'hilt' his it's end, Paul cannot force the dagger all the way through as though it was one continuous blade.
strengths
- Terrific Actor/Liar;
- lacks fear of most things that can be physically put before him;
- can cover his feeding tracks (able to prepare a body for a funeral);
- physically stronger than most vampires;
- can feed on animals if absolutely necessary;
weaknesses
- Paul is a psychopath;
- he can be irrationally violent;
- he bluntly refuses to change his ways for society;
- He does have compassion if the woman reminds him of his mother;
history
Paul Xavier Gabriel was born to a plantation owner during a dark era in American History, when the economics of the south was dependent on slave labor to function and cotton was the main crop. The option of a sheltered lifestyle would never come to pass with Paul, his father was often drunk and took it out on his 'property', his slaves. In his youth, Paul witnessed many acts of violence. He sought it out personally; he loved the idea of dominating someone to the point of their utter submission. Today a psychologist would label Paul a sociopath and a possible risk to society.
In the words of a dear friend of Mr. Gabriel, there was something that wasn’t quite about Paul, he wasn't right in the head. The boy was very young when he began to find his crimson lust. His fondness for violence came when he realized that through the act of mercilessly beating someone he could achieve the color that he insanely wanted to see, the dark red color of blood. Stephen Gabriel, utterly aware of his son's obvious psychosis, wanted to have Paul sent away to an institution where he could be locked away as the family's dark secret but Delilah would not allow it. She found favor in Paul's eyes as she defended Paul's undeniable right to live in his own home with his family. After Stephen back down from sending away their child, she began to purposely buy the boy things that were red, particularly blankets that he would keep with him until the color had faded and the fabric was torn. Stephen did not like that she was promoting his obsession, but did not dare cross her.
Paul first killed a man long before he was a soldier or a vampire. At ten, an elderly slave the belonged to Paul’s father collapsed in the fields. Paul had been taught to punish the slaves when they collapsed or refused to work. Today, there was a particular curiosity about the boy that could only be fulfilled through a trip to the now closed doctor’s office. The haggard slave could not fight the young and strong southern boy from taking him away; his exhaustion and illness made him a prime subject for Paul.
The young plantation heir brought the slave into the doctor's office, breaking in through the back as he had gone through before delivering honey to the doctor from his mother to keep him from being submitted to the same boring thing every day. He found the operation room and shut and locked the door. He laid the sickly man on the gurney and went to find the doctors equipment. The process was long and probably very painful for the victim. There was enough light for the demented Paul to see the parts of the body, and the slave never even screamed, afraid that if he did, he would get a worse punishment from the boy's father. Once satisfied with what he’d done, Paul took and disposed of the deceased body, he snuck out behind the local tavern, where the drunks could have noticed him but no one would have believed them and dug the hole just as the grave keeper had done for his grandfather's funeral, eight feet long six feet deep, the heavy traffic behind the tavern would make up for the lack of grass. Paul washed his hands clean and returned home without question from his parents.
Trouble began when the doctor arrived to the bloody mess in his office, the operating table and saw were covered in blood from an unknown source. The sheriff and all of the towns’ men were never able to track down the person who had caused the mess, as forensics at this time was near none existent. There was no body to be spoken of and even if they found the mangled corpse they wouldn't have done anymore but acknowledged it. Stephen discovered that his slave was missing early that morning when he did a count on them. Looking for a scapegoat on his wife to get rid of her anyhow, he blamed her for the missing slave, accusing her of helping with the Underground Railroad and with Paul sitting only a bit away brutally beat her until she was dead. The towns people turned their cheek to it because Mr. Gabriel was such a high figure in their society and if she had been accused and found guilty, someone would have done it anyway. Paul, who adored his mother, found a new enemy in his father. From that day forward, they would never see eye to eye.
In 1861, when Paul was almost 20, after the acts of both the Union and Confederacy, the American Civil War broke out. To get away from his father, and be a loyal Georgian, Paul joined the Confederate Army and served under General A.P Hill. Truthfully, he held no position on the issue of Slavery or popular sovereignty for that matter. He just wanted to see the colors of battle. There were two major Paul was at such battles as the Seven Days Battle, Antietam and most importantly, Gettysburg. On two years, on July 1, 1863, Paul served under the Rebel flag while standing on the low ground in Gettysburg. On the second day of combat, in an attempt to save his life, Paul stumbled away injured from the raging combat. He fell into the 5,830 Confederate soldiers that disappeared during the battle at Gettysburg. The Georgian knew very little about the geography of the Pennsylvanian woods. He wondered bleeding for hours as he could still hear the volleys in the background. A lone deer came shooting by him, frightened of something, or someone, then suddenly what felt like a solid stone wall tackled him to the ground. He felt a sharp piercing feeling in his neck and then a surge of fire through his veins, oh what he would have given for a knife to slit the throat of his attacker- he'd have gotten a nice show of blood. However, his attacker backed off almost repulsed at what he’d bitten before picking the injured soldier up and continuing to go after the deer. For the last time, as a human, Paul fell unconscious.
The three days of hell like burning and thrashing were nothing to the high he felt went he woke the third day. His body was different hard and bond for attack. He felt powerful, invincible even. The stone wall that hit him had now become him, his body was cold and smooth and his eyes could see the smallest of details as if he had been blurry all of his life. The native Georgian stood up in such speed that it shocked him that he could accomplish such a feat when injured. He felt his shoulder for the bullet and discovered no wound. Paul caught his reflection in the mirror. He discovered that his eyes were different, and were now more pleasing then the rich blue they'd one been. His eyes were dark red, the color of blood.
His attacker, however, had topaz eyes, and he seemed very elegant. He explained who he was, a vampire. He told Paul that he too was a vampire. He said that Paul need not fret about attacking humans that he would be able to live off of animal blood. Paul reluctantly went under the wing of the man who turned him and slowly became a vegetarian vampire. Paul never enjoyed hunting animals, but his master was pleased that he did so with him. He talked about forming a coven during their three years together.
After being under the man’s wing for two years, and officially being out of his new born stage, Paul decided to take matters into his own hands. He declared that he no longer wanted to drink animal blood, that he would try his own way and learn what he wanted to do from there. His master was not amused, the two argued and fought for what seemed to be days until Paul ripped him apart and set him on fire before fleeing to go home to his father for one last visit.
Stephen welcomed his missing son with open arms, realizing just how much he missed the boy when he was gone. He was shocked however, to find that his boy returned with black eyes instead of the curious blue that they had always been. Within moments, Paul was chewing through his own father’s neck, lapping up the blood, he let it cover his arms and hands and even his face as he mutilated, and killed his father until there wasn’t a drop left in his body. He went on a rampage on the plantation, killing all of the slaves and helping hands, even killing several confederate soldiers that were residing at his father’s home before escaping and going into the country side. His once amber eyes were slowly turning deep red and he was pleased again.
Paul found his ways around having to go from town to town to find nourishment. He worked as a cornier wherever he went, finding it just as easy to suck the blood from the dead as it was to take it from the living. He became very good at covering up his tracks and making the bodies seem unscathed. However, his favorites were the ones he cremated, as he could be extremely messy with them. He never cleaned that room, nor allowed anyone else in there… no one that would ever come out alive at least. Murder charges never graced Paul.
In the early 1900s, Paul decided that Gabriel, the name of an archangel was not the last name to keep do to his feasting nature. He instead chose the name Vulcan, after the Roman god of fire and smithery. The name was to honor his favorite kinds of body preparing, cremation, as he does not have to behave taking blood from them. This name was also how he managed to avoid the young Virginia, who he had slept with in a bout of stupidity. He never saw or heard from her again, nor is he aware that he has a half vampire son that is somewhere wondering around in this world. Mr. Vulcan traveled from city to city from then on. He left with what was on his back, according to those whom lived around him. He walked through life, without a dime that he carried with him. All of the money was invested in different banks and written off into inheritance of the family with the woman that reminded him the most of his mother. Every fifty years or so after he left, he sent a letter to the bank stating that Paul Vulcan had died of a heart attack and was cremated. He’d then send fake ashes.
He participated in World War I, for a brief moment, taking a few casualties of his own to be killed by an 'animal' attack. He was also recruited for World War II and feasted on deceased soldiers before he got them ready to go home for a proper burial. War was always a scapegoat for death; he often used it to make himself look dead and then would return home through his own means. Paul has pictures of him in every uniform he dressed in. He was never significant enough to make history books, but he always looked the same. No one ever picked it up, as those who would have by the next war wouldn't be able to attend or would be deceased.
After the discovery of Forks, Paul packed up and moved out noting a significant population boom. He had no idea that when he moved to the area he would meet not only his half vampire son, but the woman that would change his life forever, Danna Deville. For the longest time, Paul was a loyal member of the Deville Coven taking one long leave of absence to bond with his son. His life with them was pleasant and for the most part he enjoyed it. It wasn’t until Danna’s oldest son, Christian, got married that Paul started to enjoy some of the benefits of being a Deville Coven member, such as sleeping with two women in one night. It was this time in his life that Paul because the father of four for the first time. He adored his children in secret, never wanting them to know just how deeply he cared for them so that they wouldn’t constantly lean on him for guidance when they would need to learn the way themselves. He took a liking to his boys and taught them much about hunting and preparation of bodies to hide what they’d done. This was not all in vain, Augustus, his son that took the most after him, became the leader of his own coven and modeled it after his father’s ideals. Paul couldn’t have been more proud but it was about this time that things started to fall apart in the home stead. Paul became insanely jealous of Jonathan Deville, who Danna had slept with and had a child with and after watching him sleep with a veggie that he impregnated; he could no longer stand the thought of being around them. He left for a coven that had once been Danna’s enemy, swearing amnesia the entire time he was with them though knowing the truth in his heart. After too long, in his own words, he returned to the Devilles and brought a torture gift for Danna. It was here that he admitted that he was in love with her, which was what drove him away in the first place, and she at first laughed at him before admitting her feelings as well. Instead of torturing the child physically, they first blindfolded her and made love in the room in front of her, letting her imagination come up with what the strange sounds were. He discovered later that Danna had become pregnant with yet another spawn, the others were older so they wouldn’t mind taking care of the new addition if it meant helping their parents. Little Lucius was the final addition to the Deville family before they left Forks to terrorize another area. Danna missed her family and eventually left them to be with them in another town. For a long time, Paul was distraught but then moved back to his home in Georgia where he quickly gained Infamy with his sons as Luc decided to stay with him. He couldn’t keep the boy forever and he left not too long after Danna did. Paul was quite proud to get word of a mister ‘Vuville’ scaring people in another town. However, Paul eventually grew lonely and knew that he would have to return to his larger family, now a Coven leader, Paul moved his children back with him and once back in Forks, he was surprised to find that Danna and crew had gone elsewhere. He returned to Georgia for a good sum of time until a business trip took him to New Orleans… he spotted the Deville industry headquarter and is currently making frequent trips back and forth hoping to spot Danna.
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