player information ● name: Liv ● age: 28 ● contact:chirality ● other characters: Cassandra Anderson (Dredd)
character information ● name: Jean-Claude ● canon: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter by Laurell K. Hamilton ● canon point: Early in The Killing Dance (Book 6) ● age: 500ish? We never get a solid year. He's wily that way.
● (canon) background:Wikipedia page! Gasp, actual Wikipedia.
● abilities: Jean-Claude is a vampire, which means he is immortal, has super strength, super speed, and OP mind control powers through eye contact. He's a bit ridiculous. He can be killed by having his head cut off or a stake driven through his heart, although that latter one can get questionable in achieving it with vamps his age-- AB is a fairly realistic canon in that the physical strength necessary to drive a wooden stake into someone's chest is enough that the vamp tends to kill you before you can finish it. He can also be killed by exposure to sunlight, although in Riverview, as per an FAQ response, I'd like to give him gradual acclimation to the sun as it's a different dimension. In canon, he is literally dead during the day, although Jean-Claude is powerful enough that he can wake up before sundown. He also has heightened senses and accelerated healing, like all vamps, and can turn people into being vampires by drinking from them three nights in a row and them dying on the final night, although he doesn't do this often.
Jean-Claude in particular has some more exclusive vampiric skills: firstly, wolves are his animal to call, which means he can control literal wolves and werewolves. For some vamps this is master/servant, but Jean-Claude tends to treat it as a benefactor/pet sort of relationship, or a partnership, depending on the werewolf's power level. He can also fly (more like controlled levitating) although that's not his foremost skill, which is voice manipulation. Jean-Claude can make his voice sound like a physical sensation, and provoke emotional reactions from people from the sound of his voice alone.
This all ties into his vampiric bloodline, which arises from a vampire lady named Belle Morte. Jean-Claude is insanely beautiful, naturally so, but even more when enhanced by his powers. He can seduce with a look (literally) and with a physical touch he can incite lust. He's what's known as an incubus-- he can gain power not just from blood but from sex and lust itself. Fortunately for my need to get permissions, Jean-Claude does not engage in non-consensual anything, although he can be a bit ambiguous with it at times.
He does need blood on a regular basis unless he feeds off of enough lust-- which he can do by merely being around those who are feeling lustful; he doesn't have to engage in sex, although it's stronger that way. AB vamps cannot starve to death, but they do get insane with blood craving and almost feral, given enough time. They also can't use mammalian blood as a substitute, and bagged blood is of questionable use. But Jean-Claude is a player and he usually doesn't suffer for donors of either blood or sex. At worst, I plan on handwaving that he seduced some NPCs -- all of which he'd leave having had the best night of their lives.
Finally, anyone with a religious symbol (definition unclear in canon) who has sincere faith can drive him off with it. It will light up like flaming sulphur in his presence, and will burn him severely upon direct contact, as will holy water and other things blessed by religious orders.
● strengths: → Cunning. Jean-Claude's foremost quality is probably how cunning he is. He is almost always two or three steps ahead of his enemies-- and his allies. He anticipates actions and plans for them far ahead of time, and always somehow manages to survive, even if he doesn't come out on top. He's rarely the most powerful vampire out there, but he might be the best at surviving.
→ Loyal. Despite how duplicitous he can be, and frankly high-handed, Jean-Claude is intensely loyal to those he cares for. Calling him loving doesn't quite encompass it, although he is loving; but he holds a torch for Asher centuries after they break apart and Asher grows to hate him, and he is steadfast to his devotion to Anita no matter how much she keeps rejecting him. He puts up with a lot.
→ Generous. One of his favorite things to do is pamper his loved ones and his pets (read: his wolves, regular blood donors, etc.). He goes completely over the top in gifts and accommodations. No one would ever say he's not demonstrative or appropriately appreciative to those who support him. He is the definition of extra in so many ways.
● weaknesses: → Manipulative. Saying Jean-Claude would rather ask forgiveness than permission is a vast understatement. He is practical and honest about who he is, but if that won't get him what he wants, he has no qualms about going behind someone's back or revealing selective information to them that achieves his ends best.
→ Ruthless. Vampire politics necessitate a strong hand and even cruelty at times. Jean-Claude is not often cruel, but as he tells Anita once, if he had been kind to his vampire underlings they would rebel, and he would have to punish them, which is a position neither of them would benefit from. He is a harsh master and will punish or torture or subject his servants to whatever is necessary for them to come out of it alive and obedient. That is merely who he must be to exist as a master vampire.
→ Deceitful. Frankly, he lies a lot. Constantly. Often. Directly and implicitly. This arises from a lifetime of being at the bottom of the totem pole, rented out for Belle Morte's amusement in return for her saving Asher, and his human lifetime as a whipping boy to a nobleman's son. Jean-Claude is used to having no way to defend himself or enforce boundaries, and as a result, he has gotten extremely good at lying as his only recourse. He hasn't given that up just because he's Master now.
● job skills (optional): In canon, he is primarily a businessman when he's not playing vampire politics as Master of the City. Jean-Caude is extremely professional and makes an excellent politician and CEO. He owns J.C. Corp, which operates a variety of vampire tourism businesses, including a stirp club, a danse club, a comedy club, and a circus with dark supernatural acts. I'm not sure if he could be placed anywhere, but if he isn't given a business of his own he'll likely use some shady mind powers to ensure he gets a small business loan to start a bar or something of the like, and then invite characters to perform and to visit. Given he's an actual incubus with voice powers, he is a huge showman and does fantastically at stage management.
Jean-Claude | Anita Blake | Reserved
● name: Liv
● age: 28
● contact:
● other characters: Cassandra Anderson (Dredd)
character information
● name: Jean-Claude
● canon: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter by Laurell K. Hamilton
● canon point: Early in The Killing Dance (Book 6)
● age: 500ish? We never get a solid year. He's wily that way.
● (canon) background: Wikipedia page! Gasp, actual Wikipedia.
● abilities: Jean-Claude is a vampire, which means he is immortal, has super strength, super speed, and OP mind control powers through eye contact. He's a bit ridiculous. He can be killed by having his head cut off or a stake driven through his heart, although that latter one can get questionable in achieving it with vamps his age-- AB is a fairly realistic canon in that the physical strength necessary to drive a wooden stake into someone's chest is enough that the vamp tends to kill you before you can finish it. He can also be killed by exposure to sunlight, although in Riverview, as per an FAQ response, I'd like to give him gradual acclimation to the sun as it's a different dimension. In canon, he is literally dead during the day, although Jean-Claude is powerful enough that he can wake up before sundown. He also has heightened senses and accelerated healing, like all vamps, and can turn people into being vampires by drinking from them three nights in a row and them dying on the final night, although he doesn't do this often.
Jean-Claude in particular has some more exclusive vampiric skills: firstly, wolves are his animal to call, which means he can control literal wolves and werewolves. For some vamps this is master/servant, but Jean-Claude tends to treat it as a benefactor/pet sort of relationship, or a partnership, depending on the werewolf's power level. He can also fly (more like controlled levitating) although that's not his foremost skill, which is voice manipulation. Jean-Claude can make his voice sound like a physical sensation, and provoke emotional reactions from people from the sound of his voice alone.
This all ties into his vampiric bloodline, which arises from a vampire lady named Belle Morte. Jean-Claude is insanely beautiful, naturally so, but even more when enhanced by his powers. He can seduce with a look (literally) and with a physical touch he can incite lust. He's what's known as an incubus-- he can gain power not just from blood but from sex and lust itself. Fortunately for my need to get permissions, Jean-Claude does not engage in non-consensual anything, although he can be a bit ambiguous with it at times.
He does need blood on a regular basis unless he feeds off of enough lust-- which he can do by merely being around those who are feeling lustful; he doesn't have to engage in sex, although it's stronger that way. AB vamps cannot starve to death, but they do get insane with blood craving and almost feral, given enough time. They also can't use mammalian blood as a substitute, and bagged blood is of questionable use. But Jean-Claude is a player and he usually doesn't suffer for donors of either blood or sex. At worst, I plan on handwaving that he seduced some NPCs -- all of which he'd leave having had the best night of their lives.
Finally, anyone with a religious symbol (definition unclear in canon) who has sincere faith can drive him off with it. It will light up like flaming sulphur in his presence, and will burn him severely upon direct contact, as will holy water and other things blessed by religious orders.
● strengths:
→ Cunning. Jean-Claude's foremost quality is probably how cunning he is. He is almost always two or three steps ahead of his enemies-- and his allies. He anticipates actions and plans for them far ahead of time, and always somehow manages to survive, even if he doesn't come out on top. He's rarely the most powerful vampire out there, but he might be the best at surviving.
→ Loyal. Despite how duplicitous he can be, and frankly high-handed, Jean-Claude is intensely loyal to those he cares for. Calling him loving doesn't quite encompass it, although he is loving; but he holds a torch for Asher centuries after they break apart and Asher grows to hate him, and he is steadfast to his devotion to Anita no matter how much she keeps rejecting him. He puts up with a lot.
→ Generous. One of his favorite things to do is pamper his loved ones and his pets (read: his wolves, regular blood donors, etc.). He goes completely over the top in gifts and accommodations. No one would ever say he's not demonstrative or appropriately appreciative to those who support him. He is the definition of extra in so many ways.
● weaknesses:
→ Manipulative. Saying Jean-Claude would rather ask forgiveness than permission is a vast understatement. He is practical and honest about who he is, but if that won't get him what he wants, he has no qualms about going behind someone's back or revealing selective information to them that achieves his ends best.
→ Ruthless. Vampire politics necessitate a strong hand and even cruelty at times. Jean-Claude is not often cruel, but as he tells Anita once, if he had been kind to his vampire underlings they would rebel, and he would have to punish them, which is a position neither of them would benefit from. He is a harsh master and will punish or torture or subject his servants to whatever is necessary for them to come out of it alive and obedient. That is merely who he must be to exist as a master vampire.
→ Deceitful. Frankly, he lies a lot. Constantly. Often. Directly and implicitly. This arises from a lifetime of being at the bottom of the totem pole, rented out for Belle Morte's amusement in return for her saving Asher, and his human lifetime as a whipping boy to a nobleman's son. Jean-Claude is used to having no way to defend himself or enforce boundaries, and as a result, he has gotten extremely good at lying as his only recourse. He hasn't given that up just because he's Master now.
● job skills (optional): In canon, he is primarily a businessman when he's not playing vampire politics as Master of the City. Jean-Caude is extremely professional and makes an excellent politician and CEO. He owns J.C. Corp, which operates a variety of vampire tourism businesses, including a stirp club, a danse club, a comedy club, and a circus with dark supernatural acts. I'm not sure if he could be placed anywhere, but if he isn't given a business of his own he'll likely use some shady mind powers to ensure he gets a small business loan to start a bar or something of the like, and then invite characters to perform and to visit. Given he's an actual incubus with voice powers, he is a huge showman and does fantastically at stage management.
● housing (optional): Private room, please!
● network username: jean.claude
● network sample: TDM thread with Buffy Summers
● prose/action sample: TDM thread with Steve Trevor