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nikolas ( the shadow ) : (slippingthrough) wrote,
@ 2020-10-22 19:19:00

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You'd think that I'd learn my lesson by now,
You'd think that I'd somehow figure out,
That if you strike the match,
You're bound to feel the flame.

basics ● supernatural ● appearance ● personality ● history
extra ● soundtrack ● scenes ● connections ● ooc

basics [top.]
NAME: Nikolas Alexander Tericcone.
GOES BY: As above. Some try and call him Nik but few can really get away with it.
APPARENT AGE: Early twenties.
AGE AND DOB: 436. Unknown month & day, 1573. Allows those around him to pick his birthdate generally.
SPECIES: Vampire.
CAREER: Nikolas is something like admin for the Raidan, accounts, finances that kind of thing. He does the boring day to day that no one else wants to do.
CURRENT RESIDENCE: The Ruby Curse.
MARTIAL STATUS: Single.
SEXUALITY: Bisexual.
ETHER: Of course Nikolas knows how to use the ether, it's a useful thing to know how to use and he has made sure that he is good with it, too. Nikolas is like a constant, quiet presence behind you, knowing that eyes are on you and the hair on the back of your neck rises. He's the echoing chill of an empty library after dark. He's quiet on the ether, a rasp of fingertips against old paper with the faint trace of bourbon beneath it.

supernatural [top.]
ABILITIES: None beyond the usual vampire abilities; speed, strength, heightened senses, accelerated healing etc. and of course pseudo immortality.
SKILL: His ability to go unnoticed is probably his biggest skill of all, it makes it a lot easier when he's trying to get information or stories out of people. For the most part Nikolas finds it easy to go from one era to another, he's usually fascinated in the things which crop up and usually makes sure he has time to learn them. He's a dab hand at computers. Strong of mind, which is very good against those who may want what is in his mind, Nikolas is not going to give it up easily.
LIMITATIONS: There is the obvious holy objects or places which are a serious hinderence to Nikolas and at times his movements. There is also, her, a major weakness of Nikloas' not that he'd like to admit it.
WEAPONARY TRAINING: On being turned the first thing Nikolas took up was the use of the sword; he had seen his brothers learn the way of the blade and had always desired to do the same though his weakness had forbidden him. Nikolas is an excellent swordsman, having kept up the skill through the years and he trains often even if he doesn't have that much experience of being in the heat of battle.
GROUP: The Raidan.
POSITION: The book keeper.
OPINION: Nikolas likes his place in the Raidan family and the value's that the Raidan uphold.
ALLIANCES: The Raidan.
RIVALRIES: The Watch, the Elari.

appearance [top.]
DISTINGUISHING MARKS: Tall and regal, he carries himself with a grace not seen among today's generation. It is in his strange quiet that he is striking, how he commands a room without saying a word. It is all in his presence, a calm aura which demands attention, with the slight incline of his head perhaps, the curl of his lips or how he looks at you, an appreising eye which makes you hope you are good enough. Pale skinned, the sunlight has never agreeed with him even in life. A mop of dark gold hair, thick and with a natural wave. Eyes are large giving him a rather feminine and innocent apperance, a dazzling deep green which have kept most captivated. Lips are wide, kissable and soft, poutier than most males a definite feature of his. Not overly muscular Nikolas cuts a nice enough figure, lithe and more like a dancer he is graceful and sure of foot something which has definitely come with the years of walking the earth and having risen from slave to master.

PB: Hayden Christensen.

personality [top.]
Most people think Nikolas is unremarkable, something boring about him which tends to make you skip on to the next without much thought to him. Could be true. He's quieter than most, less prone to the dramatic actions of his kind and more inclined to watch and study those around him.

history [top.]
Nikolas sometimes wishes his life was full of glory, a shining beacon of light among the masses. Alas, his short, and somewhat boring, life was not to be so. The last child of seven Nikolas was the sickly babe of the bunch. Smaller, weaker than his other brothers and even his sisters. Nikolas was his mother ray of sunlight from the get-go, her blue eyed boy. He could do no wrong in his mothers. All of his life he was taken care of by his mother, he saw his brothers find wives and his sisters husbands. He saw his father die, wither before his eyes leaving him alone with his mother.

Born in the fifteenth century italy Nikolas' life was not exactly a shining beacon of happiness. As a sickly child Nikolas found that the medical care it had to offer was not enough for him and he knew he was to die early. His mother had other plans for him though, she would not out live her children, especially Nikolas. Much of his early years were spent reading, living his life through books and stories. He had a love for geography and architecture, learning all he could about both. While his other brothers all seemed to pulled toward the physical or more political sides of life he loved to sketch out the buildings in his mind, lose himself to other worlds and stories of far away places. His mother did not enjoy this side of him much and was determind to keep him from it, not allowing him to study either and keeping him at home. She was a controlling force, stifling him and choosing everything for him. Even his death in the end.

Nikolas was twenty four when he died. When his mothers plan came to frutation. He never actually found out how she sought out the vampires, how she persuaded them to take her and make her like them. They did though, turning her into the undead. It was her plan to turn him, to make him into a vampire like her but when she took him to their little safe house, away from the world one of the immortals took a great interest in the pale waife that was Nikolas and while they certainly did turn him they didn't turn her. His mother was killed and Nikolas felt... relief, freedom from the shackles his mother had placed on his wrists and the sickly, disease of humanity. Nikolas jumped into his life of vampire-dom, this new lease of his own. He was healthy, he was strong, he was free.

For a long time he stayed with the coven, happy to stay in the little family with no desire for more. That all changed with her though, an outsider who brought him stories of the world and a thirst for more. She stayed with them for a little while, regaling him with tales of the outside world and drawing him in to her, wrapping herself around him before leaving him. Nikolas was... lost without her, direction-less and sudden the tight knit family of his coven wasn't enough for him any more, the walls to close and suffocating. So he left and he sought her out.

That was how he found the Raidan, a group of supernaturals who were tired of the darkness, of pretending to be human, playing nice so no one noticed. It didn't surprise him that she was among their number, it was so very her really. He slipped into the life of the Raidan easily, a friend of hers, watching from the sidelines and behind the scenes. It wasn't long until Nikolas found his niche in the group acting something like an accountant, keeping the books and monies and all the rest in nice order. Most people think it's boring but the simple fact is Nikolas knows a lot more than you would think, so much goes passed him that he knows most things which are going on. The vampire has a lot of secrets in that little head of his, though he's happy to keep it quiet.

extra [top.]
● Nikolas is a man who loves knowledge, he thirsts for it and that shows in his vast collections. His favourite collection would be his Book of Shadows, the books passed down from witch to witch, more and more knowledge put into their pages.
● Italian is his first language, French his second and English his last. He is fluent in all and each pepper his speaking.

soundtrack [top.]
♪ Seether; needles.

connections [top.]
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