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Character Base

• Character Name: D
• Age: somewhere older than 10,000, described as appearing 18 or 19.
• Canon (Date/Year Released)/Canon Point: Vampire Hunter D novels, the most recent officially published in English was in 2020, there are other novels with no official english publication yet. Canon point will be after D has buried Mia's mother after the end of Twin-Shadowed Knight.
• Items Coming Along:
Left Hand (parasite/symbiote that lives in D's Left Hand and helps keep him socialized by talking up and being amusing/ a pest).
D's clothing and jewelry.
D's sword and sheath
D's saddle and saddlebags and their contents, but not the horse that goes with them
• Content Warnings for Character:Self mutilation, blood drinking, human experimentation, murder of infants and children, I don't mention any of the canon rape or sexual abuse in this app but it's there in several of the novels. Excessive and needless violence. mind control/loss of free will.

Character Background

• History: There's a wiki article, but it's not very good at explaining the history for people who haven't read the novels, and a lot of D's background is speculation, never explicitly stated, or just unimportant to him. The major highlights are as follows.

A long time before D was born, and possibly before the Earth and/or reality existed, there was Dracula. Regarded as the first vampire and the progenitor of the species, as well as a god. Pure blood vampires pre-dated humanity as well, which is just to say: Vampires born of other vampires instead of turned humans. A lot of people are under the impression he was simply the oldest or one of the oldest Vampires, but really he was more akin to a terrible eldritch god of perhaps the living embodiment of Dark. The Vampires and the series mostly refer to him as Sacred Ancestor, and D almost always refers to him only as 'him' or in other disrespectful manners.

At some point, the Sacred Ancestor took a human woman as a wife, said to be Mina the Fair, from the land of Angles (accidentally corrected by a copywriter to Angels, it was meant to be a play on what england might be referred to after the rise and fall of civilization).

The Sacred Ancestor became obsessed with combining the genes of Light and Dark, possessed by humanity and himself respectively. It's unclear how many failures there were before D, and how many failures there were after D, most of them killed as infants, and how many failures were full siblings as opposed to half siblings. It's also unclear if D's mother knew she had more than just D, but at some point she composed a song for him, which the Sacred Ancestor had performed before a very exclusive audience, none of whom ever met the woman who composed it.

Humanity nearly wiped itself out with nuclear war, and the vampires, forewarned to stock away supplies and technology, took over the world and reshaped it to their liking and filled it with all manner of terrible beasts. The Sacred Ancestor ruled over everything, and Vampires became known as the Nobility, referred to Nobles and the Nobility more often than Vampires.

The Sacred Ancestor was not satisfied with the imperfect paradise created under Vampire rule, and the inability of Vampires to live in the sun, and the flaws he saw in their cruelty and subjugation of humans. Shortly before vanishing from sight, the Sacred Ancestor was said to have predicted the eventual decline and extinction of vampires. But their reverence for him was so strong that his rule remained in place for a long time through a super-computer he created to relay what would have been his instructions to the Nobility and the presence of extremely devoted vampires such as the Noble Grelyancer.

The Nobility fought against both extra dimensional invaders and aliens during the course of their reign, invented a lot of very impressive technology, and were generally awful to one another and to humans and to Dhampirs in particular.

After thousands of years of rule, the Vampires began to decline. They realized they were heading towards a slow end, and began trying to fight this slow and mysterious ruin.

Eventually, the rule of the Nobility came to an end and surrendered to human forces, with humanity retaking cities, and the vampire population faced rapid decline. While there were still places where Vampires lived peacefully alongside humans and still ruled over their territory, their empire was shattered, and the Nobility went from the ruling class to a terror to be feared and hunted in the night.

Due to their deadly nature, and the terrible effects of their bite, the only people who could successfully deal with them were Vampire Hunters, and Dhampirs were particularly adept at this. They could gain the great strength and speed of a Vampire, while still having the advantage human hunters had of being able to move during daylight. Dhampirs were still hated and shunned, as they had the same insatiable thirst for blood, and their rampages were far more terrible.

A Dhampir who gave into bloodlust could kill dozens in a very short period of time, draining them dry in a feeding frenzy that rarely happened in turned Vampires, and even less often in those born as vampires. This caused Dhampirs to be ostracized, and any who were capable of doing so hid their nature to avoid discrimination and violence.

Where D was during this entire time isn't clear. What is known for certain is that he spent some amount of time living in the underground facility. He destroyed it, and left, most likely assuming his twin died in the destruction D caused, and this was around the time he acquired Left Hand, as Left Hand refers to the memory of those days as difficult and hazy, like the memory an infant has shortly after birth.

At some point after this, some portion of D's memory of the facility, his twin, or both were sealed away, almost certainly by the Sacred Ancestor.

How long after that escape until he became a Hunter was also unclear, but the nature of D's apparent relationship to his parents and the severe loss he implies is his reason for being a Vampire Hunter lean towards the idea that D started to do so as soon as humans were willing to hire him, and likely killed any Nobility he found preying upon humans before that.

There is at least one Servant of the Nobility who refers to him as a Lord, but it seems his existence was merely a rumor among most of the Greater Nobility who were old enough to be around for his birth and before the Sacred Ancestor stopped caring about what Vampires were doing. In addition to his conjoined twin, D has a number of Vampire half-siblings, and at least one Dhampir half-sibling. Several of his Vampire half-siblings were Chosen Ones whom Dracula gave special abilities, but he has always stated D was his only success.

My conjecture and interpretation based on this and other information:

The timelines are all funky about the facility. There were hybrid failures made there after the fall of the nobility, and experiments continued for the creation of Muma for at least 5,000 years. D knew his mother, and due to how often she features in mental attacks that try to turn his own mind and memory against him, her death is likely what caused him to both take up Vampire Hunting and to go out searching for his father.

According to D, hunters like him exist because they lost something that can never be replaced, and the popular speculation is the death of D's mother. This might lean towards the escape happening sooner rather than later, if not for the fact that one of the effects of the Kiss of Nobility (Being Bitten On The Neck by a Vampire) is partial immortality. Victims, as they're usually called, can retain some amount of free will while still being subjected to direct commands, and also gain any or none of of the following: A thirst for blood, vampire-like regenerative abilities, aversion to daylight, a desire to drink blood. Some may go comatose and live seemingly indefinitely until the vampire who bit them is destroyed, at which point time catches up with them.

The Sacred Ancestor's bite is particularly potent, and could have kept D's mother in this state for a very long time.

The most recent thing that we have any reference for happening in the facility is around three thousand years before the novel, and puts D's escape as likely being between 1-3 thousand years ago. The Sacred Ancestor had plans involving D, that included him discovering Muma far later than he did, and erasing D's memory was almost certainly done to produce a more favorable future in the Akashic Records, which are a complete record of the past, present, and future of this universe and every other. The Akashic Records are supposedly what allow fortune tellers to discern the future.

Some beings have the ability to use the Akashic Records to rewrite reality, but there are a few, like The Sacred Ancestor and the D twins who are untouched by fate/probability and thus while their futures can be observed, they can't be directly changed by rewriting the Akashic Record. His own immunity to the Akashic Record is likely why the Sacred Ancestor does much of what he does in linear time as 'the present moment' advances along the record.

The major point is that D has now spent several thousand years living in seclusion and being taught by his father and other people in the facility though how much of that time he remembers is unclear, and years wandering around the world hunting Vampires and having generally unpleasant encounters with the world around him. He is searching for the Sacred Ancestor for reasons which aren't clear. Luckily D hates talking about himself and very little of this information actually came from him in the first place.

While there are currently 29, only a few of them have events which actually seem to offer any progression to D's overall story and character, and even then at an almost glacially slow pace. He's a 10,000 year old demigod of Light and Dark who has already gone through many thousands of years of formative development and cementing his personality in place. While he still encounters things and situations he's never been in before, there's very little that would stand out to him at that point in his age and experience.

The highlights are:

Doris Lang, whom D cared enough about to ask how she's doing when he encounters a Doctor who met her after D left and who spoke about her.

Breaking out of a closed dimension with Left Hand's help, which caused him to fall briefly through time/space and caused ripples which altered the past.

Allowing Mayer Ling (novel version of Meier Link from the Bloodlust Movie) to live despite being hired to kill him and the fact that D is faced with evidence of him recently biting a human.

Encountering Sybille, who was a victim of his Father gifted with immortality and the ability to create a false dream reality perfect enough to fool D.

In an uncharacteristic move in which D accepts a task that's not Hunting Vampires due to a chain of events his father set in place, D met a woman who was pregnant with his younger half-sibling, and left her with a Dhampir woman who had already raised her own part vampire child.

By the events of Journey to the North Sea, D is more willing to put up with Left Hand talking where other people can hear, and even seriously considers settling down in the village, a thought he had never entertained before even for Doris.

D, at over ten thousand years old, discovers his blood is poisonous to vampires who try to drink it.

Being hired by a Vampire (one of the other 'Chosen Ones') to help kill the Vampire's father. D sets down a rule that he'll kill Byron if he drinks from any humans from that point on, despite the fact that he spared Mayer even after he did the same. At the end of their very long journey together, Byron succeeds in killing his father, but still gives D reason to kill him.

Then some Big Stuff that seriously affects D actually happens.

An ancient Vampire Necromancer says the word 'Muma' to D, which leads to him seeking out someone capable of restoring his lost memories. This in turn leads him to his twin, and then the pair of them and Mia, a human girl with slight ability to discern the future, to seeking out Muma.

D has been in a hurry before, but nothing quite compared to the mad rush he makes from where he regains his memories to the facility where he was born. D crossed a massive distance in three days, driving several cyborg horses to exhaustion and even sprinting beside the horse as a twisted version of allowing it to rest.

D's twin, also named D, and later referred to by novel narration as Fake D, pulls a classic 'join me and we'll rule the world' and D just isn't interested in his counterpart or his plans. In fact, he's so uninterested he doesn't even care to try to stop Fake D at first. It's only after Fake D proves he's capable of sneaking past D and Mia realizes the impossibility of anyone else ever standing a chance that she decides to hire D.

Mia cuts herself to allow her blood to flow and taunts him about how she has 'Virgin Blood' and how good she would taste. This draws out D's vampiric side, his 'other face'. D had refused to be hired because 'there are no Nobles in the area', but Mia's argument was that if D has Noble blood, then so does his twin, and if they're exactly the same then that means the town is under threat from an extremely powerful Noble.

When D asks how she intends to pay him, Mia offers her blood. Although the scene fades to black, there's a distinct possibility that D accepts even though he doesn't bite her.

Fake D lures Mia into the place where they were born, and the three of them are together when they learn that some men from the town are about to enter the facility. Mia begs D to go save them, but he declines. If he leaves, he'll lose his chance to kill his twin.

Fake D turns the situation into one where Mia agrees to order D to not hurt Fake D, and D has to promise to leave for three days if even one of the group makes it out of the facility alive.

By this point, D has learned that there's an assassin who will kill anyone who knows about Muma, and between this, what he saw in the facility and it's purpose, and his twin, D is willing to do almost anything to get back in before three days pass.

At one point during their escape he's so overcome with bloodlust that he tries to attack Mia, and only Left Hand's intervention stops him. D is so far gone due to some drug or other effect that he severs his left arm at the shoulder. Left Hand uses D's Left Arm to hold him off while the humans run, and D is able to regain control of himself.

But at some point before they left, D had effectively partly killed the young man who was the only survivor from the group Fake D saved, using magical sword shenanigans to stop his heart without causing his soul to leave his body and putting him in a state D can completely reverse.

Due to that, the pair of humans are almost immediately recaptured, and D is free to go back inside on a technicality without breaking his promise, demonstrating the truly pathological lengths he is willing to go through to keep a promise.

However, he still doesn't fight Fake D. In fact, the pair work together, and while D will frequently choose to say and do nothing in response, he almost always says something whenever Fake D says something to him.

A lot of interesting conversations happen involving the twins, Mia, and Left Hand and D is unusually sociable, even if he does spend a lot of time dismissing Mia and squeezing his left hand to make the hand shut up.

After they leave the facility, D makes Fake D take Mia with him, since Fake D was the one who lost their game of rock-paper-scissors to decide who would carry the unconscious human. Fake D was just as pathologically incapable of breaking his word.

Due to his head start, D is first to reach the ghost of the woman who knows the way to Muma, a woman who describes being forced to murder infants who were failures before she betrayed the Sacred Ancestor and fled. She says she'll tell him if D can destroy the cursed heart the Sacred Ancestor put in her in a dream, which binds her to this world and prevents her soul from moving on.

D is initially unable to do so, and only succeeds after Fake D and Mia arrive, and D takes Mia up on her offer of payment and cuts her wrist to spill her blood. Destroying that shadow heart created by his father may be D's first instance of using reality altering powers on his own without Left Hand's help or an extension of his ability to interact with spirits and the undead in general, or related to his ability to damage mental constructs made by others. When she 'tells' him how to reach Muma, he passes out shortly after and enters a dream reality she described as 'the Gate to Muma'. As he's passing out, D directs his twin and Mia to go north, and the pair haul his unconscious body along.

D hears his father's voice there, and the voice tells him D only found him there and hears him there because D expected him to be there, and so in this reality he made it so.

D accidentally drags Fake D into there as well, and the two begin to fight to the death before Mia briefly appears as well and they come to their senses. At the time it's not clear what happened, but with later information it may be that Mia's appearance was due to her ability to essentially peek at the Akashic Record, and therefore to view things that exist beyond time and space.

The bond between the twin becomes obvious when Fake D is only able to perform thrust attacks despite his best efforts, due to the fact that that's what D is using in the dream space to attempt to open the Gate to Muma. D actually opening the gate is probably him learning to exert his will on reality, as when he cuts through the infinitely thick wall in his dream, an entire mountain range vanishes and reveals the road to the physical location of Muma.

Despite how important their destination is to him, D is willing to risk not reaching it to save Mia and take her with him, either out of compassion, or due to her appearance in the dreamscape. Then she disappears out from under Fake D's nose while he's distracted.

D learns what his father is doing with humans and sees his latest attempt to turn humans into hybrids. D and Fake D attack separate apparitions of their father at the same time, and while together D thinks they could have killed him, Fake D pulled back at the last second.

Fake D finds Mia and takes her hostage, gives the 'join me and rule' speech once more, and when D declines threatens to kill Mia unless D cuts off his left arm, binds his sword into the sheath and throws it away from himself.

D went along with it, but despite his disadvantage after being disarmed in more ways than one, Left Hand being able to move the arm meant D was able to kill his twin.

Then the assassin showed up and killed Mia because now she knew about Muma too and was about to kill D when Mia's corpse killed the assassin. D's father had turned her, and instructed her to protect whichever twin survived. Mia thought that he knew D would survive, and that the Sacred Ancestor loved D.

Mia remained behind, D left her there as she would be unable to feed upon humans in Muma, and his father was no longer there. Rather than go back to the village near the facility where he was born, D went off to bury Mia's probably dead mother, the fortuneteller who had sent Mia to find him to begin with and forced Mia to leave her to die so he could give her a proper burial.

• Core Relationships:
In no particular order:

Left Hand: The sarcastic, grumpy, helpful parasite living in D's Left Hand has been his more or less constant companion since he left 'home'. Their relationship resembles a rather one-sided friendship, with Left Hand doing most of the talking and initiating any interaction that doesn't involve D wanting something from Left Hand.

D can silence Left Hand by making a fist and squeezing, something that's apparently painful. But he does let Left Hand say some very embarrassing things around people, even allowing it to claim D's hobby is ventriloquism and claim to be wearing perfume. Left Hand frequently encourages D to seek out companionship, pointing out positive traits in the women they meet and commenting D should get a wife like that or settle down. He also teases D about his blood drinking habit, or his lack thereof, but also intervenes when D loses control of himself to keep D from doing something he would regret.

At times, Left Hand takes the role of acting like a disapproving parent when one of D's issues causes him to behave in a way Left Hand doesn't approve of, such as when D leaves a child to die because he refuses to go rescue him or goes to absolutely absurd lengths to keep a promise. D doesn't often engage with Left Hand's teasing, but he does give the face in his hand more consideration as a conversation partner than most people get, and is willing to listen to its suggestions and turn to it for help.

Dracula: D does nothing to hide his dislike of his father and tries to kill him and stop his plans at almost every opportunity. Despite that, and the occasional actions Dracula takes to put obstacles in D's way or pit enemies against him, Dracula does genuinely seem to want D to survive for now. Both D's compassion and ruthlessness seem to come from his father. Where D will intervene and bring salvation or ruin to people he meets in his path, Dracula will save or condemn entire villages.

Dracula finds the bloodlust and cruelty of Vampires to be unacceptable, but being what he is, he views things on a much larger scale than D, and asks D to let the Nobility quietly go extinct rather than hunt them all down. The humans who will suffer and die along the centuries or even thousands of years that would take didn't mean much to Dracula, as he usually only intervened when the greater balance or entire planet was put in danger. D, however, finds his father's apathy to the harm caused by the Nobility to be unacceptable even if D often demonstrates his fair share of apathy about the fate and suffering of people he encounters.

D has been pursuing his father for centuries, encountering fragments and remnants of his power across the planet. D's envy of humanity and his desire to see the Nobility extinct puts him at odds with his Father's desire to create a better species of Vampire, one without the bloodlust or cruelty, and one capable of standing in sunlight.

There are moments where D demonstrates knowledge of sword-fighting techniques he could only have learned from his father, or of attacks that have previously been used against his father. My interpretation is that they were once close, though not as close as D was to his mother, and that time and experience have made D look back bitterly on what were once fond memories of his family.

Whatever tragedy is in D's past, D places a large portion of responsibility for it and many other people's suffering directly on his father's hands, and will never forgive him for it.

D's Mother: We know very, very little about D's mother. Even if the nature of their relationship wasn't clear it's commonly accepted that she was very important to him, and currently her fate is the leading theory about why D does what he does.

D's mother at the very least seemed to understand that her child would be 'untouched by life and death' due to his split nature, and that this would make it hard for him to be close to anyone. In the song she wrote about him, she named him 'Distant One'.

D's awkward attempts at being close but not too close to literally anyone else: D does not have a lot of relationships for a number of reasons. While he's fond of humanity in general and occasionally forms something resembling a strong friendship, it's always short term for a few very important reasons.

D doesn't experience attraction the way humans do. When he finds someone beautiful and desirable, D doesn't want kissing or sex, he wants to sink his teeth in and drink their blood. Because of this he could never safely have a relationship with anyone, as anyone he bit would receive partial vampire traits, possibly become slavishly devoted to him, or if he was very unlucky be turned even if he didn't want any of that.

Even if he did love a human and stay by them for the rest of their lifespan, D is so long-lived that it would be nothing more than a short rest for him. And then he'll have to watch them slowly wither and D. D prefers to be in people's lives for as short a time as possible. He views it as being better for them, and it's likely much less painful for him.

D would also view his presence in someone's life as bringing them unnecessary danger. Between his reputation as a Dhampir and Vampire Hunter, his fear of eventually giving in to his bloodlust, his father's plots and machinations, and how often he sees humans around him meet a terrible fate, it isn't something he'd risk.

There's also his discomfort with the effect his supernatural beauty has on people, and the idea that it's only his hypnotically beautiful face that draws people to him.

Character Personality Through Key Moments

(2+) Positive Experiences:

•Small Acts of Kindness: While D rarely shows any emotion, and never demonstrates any real affection for anyone, he does know how to be kind in his own quiet way. D usually regards anything other than 'Hunting Vampires' as being very solidly not his problem, he will help out with other matters for people he likes and respects. Seen in things such as doing farm chores for Doris Lang or giving Dan a pep talk when he's upset. Leaving a flower for a girl to think she has a secret admirer and give her something to be happy about.

•Merciful: Even people who come at D with the intent to kill him will often be allowed to walk away with minor to moderate injuries. He has no taste for bloodshed, and even when people hunt him down and try to kill him for murders he didn't commit, which were in fact committed by Fake D, D holds no ill will against them. Nor does he hold it against people when they hate or fear him for being a Dhampir.

•Generous with money: Despite D's insistence on charging very large sums of money and only killing Vampires when hired (though he will frequently allow people to pay him with something other than money), he doesn't have much interest in accumulating wealth. While the frequent need to replace his cyborg horse and in particular the dried blood capsules he consumes in place of food, D has no real living expenses. With his basic needs met and enough to continue funding what he needs for a long time, D frequently chooses to express his gratitude with the equivalent of handing out several $20 dollar or $100 dollar bills at a time. For anything from paying for a room that got wrecked when someone threw explosives in to try to kill him and paying many times the cost of damages, to handing over several gold coins to someone just for answering his questions.

•Unexpressive: Whether simply his nature, or due to a lot of personal self control, or both, D rarely shows much facial expression or emotion in his voice. A genuine smile from D is narrated as being something that anyone who sees will remember for the rest of their life, particularly if they're the reason he smiled.

Despite the usual lack of facial expression and usually neutral tone, D's emotional state can sometimes come across in the base level of his supernatural aura. He's sometimes described as having an air of melancholy.

(2+) Negative Experiences:

•Pathological promise-keeping: D will go to extreme lengths to not break his word and to complete a job, though there are a couple rare instances where he's gone back on that, it's extremely rare. But if he verbally promises something he will go to very extreme and unnecessary lengths to either keep that promise or get out of keeping that promise on a technicality. Such as the time when he was helping Mia and a guy from the nearby town escape the facility where he was born.

Fake D agreed to try to save them, but only on the condition that D had to promise if even one of the people he was trying to save successfully left the facility alive, he wouldn't return for three days. Mia got D to promise. Fake D saved exactly one human.

D used his ridiculous sword magic to cause a cut through the young man's torso that caused him to collapse shortly after they made it through the facility exit at the top of a mountain. Unable to safely descend the mountain because the young man collapsed, he and Mia were quickly captured and turned to the facility. As the young man was a) technically not alive as his heart was stopped and b) were once again in the facility, D felt he was free from his promise and promptly went back inside.

All of this because this is what he would rather do than break a promise he didn't want to make in the first place.

•D doesn't feel traditional human attraction but he wishes he did. D hates that he experiences desire the way Nobility do, rather than solely as a human. Part of this may factor into why D hates to see beautiful young women in distress, because the novels mention multiple times that blood flavored with fear and despair is more satisfying to a Vampire's thirst.

Instead of getting awkward boners like a young man in his late teens like D appears to be, his vampiric side comes out. His eyes turn red and give off light, and his fangs grow. D is extremely against biting humans under any circumstances, so his desire to sink his teeth in rather than get into a young woman's pants is very much a source of distress to him.

We see this in the first novel, when Doris is sobbing against D's chest because she's upset that he's going to leave. She has feelings for him, and D clearly finds her not only attractive, but worth respect and worth helping even if she can't afford to pay him. Doris had even offered to let him do anything he wanted with her body as payment since she didn't have the money for a vampire hunter. D's vampiric side came out, and he held Doris against his chest so she couldn't look up and see that side of him not out of concern she would be afraid, but because what he feared was having her offer to let him bite.

•Apathy: Despite his frequent expressions of compassion and kindness, and his seeming soft spot for children, D will still leave people to die without a second glance sometimes. In Pale Fallen Angel, D ends up with a pair of children traveling with him briefly, but at the first opportunity tells them to leave and wait for the Frontier Stage Coach to arrive and take them somewhere else. They refuse, and later when the younger brother is abducted, D refuses to make any effort to go rescue him, a huge contrast to the great lengths he goes through to rescue Dan, Doris Lang's little brother.

Deer Country Attributes

• Canon Powers:

D is an eldritch demigod who pretends he's an ordinary Dhampir and seemingly envious of humans. He has a lot of powers, but doesn't yet know the full extent of his capabilities because I'm choosing to take him before he gets even more ridiculous than he is in the first thirteen novels.

Holy Magic: Despite being a Dhampir, D can use at least some holy magic, as he does to put the Sign of the Cross on Doris Lang's neck using magic that will make it only appear when a Vampire's breath touches that part of her skin. D is also mostly immune to the effects a Cross has on Vampires, and only takes damage from touching one directly, but it quickly heals after.

Dark Magic/Darkness Control: D does some shenanigans with his genes of Dark to be stealthier, and this may also be behind his ability to fall slowly. He can walk silently over surfaces which would make noise and even suppress all vibration caused by his steps, pass on top of snow without leaving footsteps, and cross weak surfaces which would otherwise break under his weight. He can envelop and meld himself into darkness. Detecting D when he doesn't want to be found and has nothing hindering him would be nearly impossible for anything less than a god, as D's twin, who is his match in all abilities, successfully sneaks past him while D is actively searching.

Magical Swordsmanship: D can exert some of his ridiculous magic through his sword, which he uses for cutting things that can't normally be cut (doesn't always work, see the part where he got himself impaled by a lance to get material to make a better sword). Things like ghosts and spirits and dream constructs that are usually unaffected by the physical world. And is also somehow able to cut people in a way that will stop their heart without leaving any marks or drawing any blood and which he can later reverse, effectively creating a weird suspended animation effect with a delayed onset.

Telepathy: D is extremely resistant to telepathic attacks, and while D and Left Hand can communicate via telepathy they usually choose not to. The extent of this ability is unclear, and D has not demonstrated any mind reading abilities.

Sacred Ancestor's Direct Bloodline: Being a Dhampir who is the direct offspring of Dracula has given D abilities other Dhampirs lack. His bite can cause the full range of effects caused by a Vampire bite and at a stronger level, as he can overcome even a demon to make them his thrall by biting their necks. D can also assume a full Vampire form by consuming his own blood, (which sometimes happens unwillingly when he takes damage to the torso. Either due to damage to his lungs making him cough up blood. Even a drop of his own blood sliding down his throat can cause this effect, and at least once it happens while he's effectively dead).

D's blood also has a unique quality in that it can poison those who drink it, something D didn't know for a very long time. I realize this is almost something that fits with vileblood better, but a lot of the theme regarding D is people thinking he is one thing when he's really something else. A warmblood with poisonous blood would be an extremely unpleasant surprise and I would very much like to see people suffer for this mistaken assumption.

D's blood can also be used as a weapon, something Left Hand can do to decent effect against incorporeal abilities D can't touch himself.

Unearthly Aura/Presence: D has an extremely powerful supernatural aura. It's Stronger when he's showing more of his vampire traits and strongest after he drinks his own blood, but still very strong even when D is just using it to express his displeasure. D's aura makes the air cold and manifests as a heavy, oppressive weight. Even in its mildest form, D doesn't have to worry about things like ants or mosquitos because they simply won't come within three feet of him, and animals are more susceptible to being frozen in fear.

Only well trained or supernatural beasts and monsters will willingly attack D in ordinary circumstances, but even that's not a guarantee.

Immune to Fate/Probability: D's past and future can be seen, but beings capable of warping reality cannot rewrite his past or erase him from existence. He also can't be set to any predetermined fate. D might and probably will still stumble into it in the worst way possible because that's his life, but nothing is ever certain with him.

enhanced physical abilities: D's speed, particularly in short bursts, is absurd. His reflexes are fast enough that he can split a laser with his sword or deal with attacks that happen at light speed or the speed of sound. And can also do things that shouldn't be physically possibly like deflecting an arrow from a bow so it hits the person who shot it. But he can still be surprised with an unexpected stake in the heart if he wasn't anticipating an attack and his attention was elsewhere. D also has extreme super strength, and ridiculous endurance. Despite his endurance and speed, D has a strong preference for traveling by horseback and conserving his own strength and abilities.

Given the events where he drives a succession of cyborg horses to death from exhaustion rather than simply run all the way, there are limits. In short bursts he could match super heroes whose main power is speed, but he'd never be able to hold it over long bursts, and D has a terrible tendency to try to avoid using more effort than necessary against a given foe. Both to keep his abilities hidden and to conserve his strength in case he encounters a greater threat.

D's senses are likewise extremely powerful, and he possesses a sixth sense which is nearly impossible to evade. He may not always be able to determine someone's exact location, and the range of this sixth sense isn't clear. And his mastery of his body is also to an extreme level, he can notice when something causes his heart to beat even 1/1000th faster than it should.

Being reborn and having different blood is really going to mess with him for a while, and his carefully perfected control of his vampiric traits.

Dhampir Weaknesses: D suffers from something called sunlight syndrome which affects him every few years and requires him to bury himself to recover from it. He's also vulnerable to running water like streams and rivers, and to a lesser extent rain if it's heavy enough. D is naturally more alert after sunset and his messed up biorhythm and sleep habits from hunting make being active during the day less pleasant. D avoids sleeping all day because he views it as a bad habit to get into as a Dhampir and that it will just make his life harder.

D is also damaged if he comes into contact with a cross, but is otherwise unaffected and even uses crosses to mark grave sites. Being staked in the heart will instantly drop D even though he could shrug off massive amounts of damage like being shot full of bullets or impaled.

He does need to breathe, but if he absolutely had to and the sun wasn't shining on him directly he could assume full vampire form to get out of suffocating.

Regeneration/Self-Resurrection: D can regenerate from most damage fairly quickly if he's not weakened or starving. It's not so rapid that the injuries stop being a problem during the fight that caused them, but if he walks away from the fight he'll get better eventually. He can and regularly does lose and re-attach his left limb. Since he has new squid self-resurrection rebirth powers I'm just going to do away with his original ridiculous brand of doesn't stay dead, including the one that involves help from Left Hand.

Left Hand: Left Hand comes with its own set of ridiculousness. Living in D's left hand, the two are very intertwined. Left Hand normally has no control over any part of D's body, and can only make its own face appear or disappear. D can voluntarily yield control of his hand or arm, but Left Hand can exert control on its own. We only see this really happen when Left Hand is severed, or when D loses control of himself.

Among Left Hand's known powers is making people fall asleep, removing the sensation of pain/temporarily numbing people, forcing unconscious and even dying people awake.

Left Hand gains energy by consuming the four primal elements, earth, fire, wind, water. It can work with less than all four, but big things will require extra quantities of three of them to make up for the missing fourth. Left Hand is capable of drinking D's blood without problem, and D frequently uses his blood as a substitute for water. Or just presses his left hand to a bleeding wound and allows Left Hand to drink and put pressure on the wound to stop the bleeding faster.

After consuming enough energy, Left Hand can also temporarily enhance D's physical abilities and senses.

Left Hand can swallow some types of magic and spells as well as malevolent spirits, but not everything. It can also serve as a handy portable chemical analyzer or a way to check what kind of magic is in something, though Left Hand doesn't always know what he's 'tasting', he can usually give some general idea.

Lastly, Left Hand can help D break through dimensional barriers such as those that create a closed dimension. Not something to be done lightly, as it's just as likely to result in D's death or something worse. But it's better than being stuck on an empty road for eternity, suffering from slow painful starvation but never dying. The one time D has done this in the novels he fell through time and space and caused the past to be rewritten a little. I honestly don't expect this to ever come up, but just in case there's an opportunity I love to have extra tools to make everything more horrible than it already is.

Even if Left Hand needs to be nerfed, Lefty really is an important part of D's ability to socialize with people and for keeping conversations moving. And who wouldn't want to cut off D's left arm in a fight and be surprised when the left arm attacks on its own.

• Blood Type: Warmblood
• Omen: crow
• Blessed Day: December 1st
• Patron Pthumerian: Dorothea
• Blood Power Manifestation: warmblood, so just the omen. I may want to explore changing D to a vileblood later on, but for now he has enough blood related issues for me to have a lot of fun with. Particularly how blood corruption interacts with his blood drinking and difficulty with self control when he has to be near large amounts of spilled and tasty-smelling blood for extended periods of time.

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