Julian Dixon-Ross [ a terrible vampire indeed ] (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
domesticated) wrote2013-02-18 07:48 pm
domesticated) wrote2013-02-18 07:48 pm
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P L A Y E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Your Name shaz
OOC Journalsomerset
Under 18 no
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Characters Played at Ataraxion Cambridge x2, Durham (19th century one) and Quinlan Vos
C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name Julian Dixon-Ross
Canon original character
Original or Alternate Universe n/a
Canon Point 2010
Number rng pls
Setting
History blah blah public school boy, cricket captain, junior school prefect. Sent straight from eton in to the horrors of the trenches of wwi but got eaten by a crazy french comtesse whilst the rest of his soldier bros got slaughtered at ypres. 'missing in action' plaque in a church, lived with the crazy french comtesse until his mother moved to america, eventually sloped off back to england. mettouchingly THE REST IS HISTORY (also maybe ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
splendorocity cr memories??)
Personality On first meeting Julian one would be hard-pressed to find anything particularly vampiric about his personality. He doesn't fit the usual stereotypes one associates with vampires: for starters, he is boyish to the point of immaturity, painfully cheerful and a relentless people-pleaser.
Despite being over one hundred years old Julian still acts as though he was nothing more than the Victorian schoolboy he was when he died: he lives for the moment and he doesn't particularly seem to think things through. In addition to this he also seems to maintain a slightly Victorian mentality when it comes to chivalry, decorum and 'good form' – you'd be hard-pressed to ever hear him swear. He has spent his long lifetime involving himself in other peoples' lives rather than working to fulfil his own; indeed, this is what seems to please him most. Julian craves the domesticity of every day human life and had he survived the war there is no doubt that he would have gone on to lead a very happy family-orientated life. As such, he places a lot of emphasis on home comforts and how important it is to live a quiet, happy life surrounded by people you love and care for. As a vampire this is obviously a difficult thing to achieve: in previous years he has always made sure to furnish his house with things that, although useless to him, maintained the aura of a family home like a fully-kitted out kitchen and central heating. Julian has a peculiar love of television and finds great personal enjoyment in recording daytime shows to watch later in the night: the fulfilment he finds in watching domestic dramas or the daily news has kept him going during the darker years before he met and moved in with Rob.
Patient, forgiving and entirely without prejudice, Julian is always ready with a kind word to say about anyone and everyone he meets regardless of how they treat him in return. This is partly fuelled by his own desires for love and acceptance – Julian is determined to 'do as you would be done by' and prides himself on his ability to empathise with other peoples' situations.
Julian isn't particularly clever. Despite having over a century to his name he hasn't invested his time in arts, philosophies or sciences on account of these things not actually being very important to him. What Julian seeks most in life is the more sociable rewards of humanity: to be loved and made to feel valued is what he wants. As such, he makes himself invaluable to others. He is the first to offer to help wherever he thinks it needed. He isn't particularly brave or dashing – just a bloody nice bloke (despite the vampiristic elements, which he often reasons to himself that he can't help).
For someone who spends exactly half of his life a corpse, Julian appears to most people to have a remarkably sunny outlook on life. He claims to see the best in every person and to discount more unpleasant bits in everything – including himself - almost to the point of denial.
Unfortunately, Julian is faced with the challenge of how to reconcile his innermost desire to love and be loved by humanity with the fact that he is deemed by fate to live the life of a cold-blooded killer. This issue is incredibly contentious for him: the more unkind of his critics might point out that his desire to help and his love for humanity is an innately guilty reaction to his condition. Julian himself is in complete self-denial about this: after years of practice he believes he has mastered the fine art of feeding without having to kill his victims - but the truth of the matter is that his control of his thirst is largely dependent on how much his body needs to repair itself in its corpse state. Julian tries not to think about the darker aspects of his condition unless completely necessary: rather than keep his inner demons on a tight rein he prefers to just ignore them completely in the desperate hope that they will just disappear one day when he's not looking.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations Rather boringly, Julian lacks all the fancy superspeed/supersenses/bat transformation powers that his fictional predecessors seem to have. He is completely oblivious to any kind of temperature, be it hot or cold - the only time he believes he feels warmth is in the bodies and blood of humans. This is actually a rather elaborate side effect of his vampire instincts: he doesn't feel the physical warmth but his confused, dead brain thinks he can feel it.
It's not true to say that Julian cannot die - in fact, Julian dies frequently. At every sunrise his organs are essentially shutting themselves down for the day and the process takes exactly as long as it takes for the sun to crest over the horizon. It's not particularly painful and Julian is rather used to it by now but it can be something of a shock for anyone who hasn't witnessed it before.
Julian is effectively a corpse for as long as the sun is visible in the sky. In this state his body slowly repairs any damage taken on during his waking hours, effectively restoring his body to however it looked on the day he died. No matter the damage it will always be repaired regardless of how extreme it is: ranging from the most basic hair cut to a severed limb, his body will repair itself during the day. This is what largely contributes to how thirsty Julian is when he wakes: a larger or more complex healing process will leave him needing to replenish his energy a lot more than a smaller one.
Obviously, what with not having direct sunlight/a natural diurnal cycle on board, things will be very different for Julian on board. EXPLANATION GOES HEEEERE
When it comes to feeding, Julian's got a few vampiric tricks up his metaphorical sleeve. Julian is experienced and careful enough to be able to feed from an individual without causing any lasting damage or pain. Much like other hemotaphagic species, his saliva has both anticoagulant and anaesthetic qualities - making his bites considerably less painful and physically traumatic than they could be. The resulting wound of Julian's bite is rather like a set of large, bruised mosquito bites - and often itches just as much as a mosquito bite would.
TLDR SUMMARY
- can't feel temperatures apart from what his brain tells him he should be feeling
- corpse during the day, with all corpse-y qualities entailed therein
- body repairs itself whilst dead but the toll is an increased thirst in the evening
- mosquito saliva!
Inventory
Appearance For someone who is essentially a mobile corpse Julian is startlingly life-life in how he moves and presents himself. Despite not needing to breathe and not having any of the involuntary reactions of a human, Julian is very careful to remember to do things like blink, breathe and cough. He doesn't do this for his own benefit but rather because he thinks it makes him subconsciously more likeable to other people. He is noticeably pale and his skin has the cold and unfortunately waxy texture of a corpse. When fed regularly he is significantly more human to the touch and seems to take on a more lifelike complexion in his face.
With no ability to gauge the temperature Julian is very careful to dress in accordance with how others dress: in winter he wears coats and scarves and in the summer he'll wear short-sleeved shirts – but only ever because he sees other people wearing them. In all honesty, Julian isn't the most fashion savvy. It's pretty hilarious.
Played by Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet.
Age
AU Clarification
S A M P L E S
Log Sample
Comms Sample
Your Name shaz
OOC Journal
somerset
Under 18 no
Email + IM
Characters Played at Ataraxion Cambridge x2, Durham (19th century one) and Quinlan Vos
C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name Julian Dixon-Ross
Canon original character
Original or Alternate Universe n/a
Canon Point 2010
Number rng pls
Setting
History blah blah public school boy, cricket captain, junior school prefect. Sent straight from eton in to the horrors of the trenches of wwi but got eaten by a crazy french comtesse whilst the rest of his soldier bros got slaughtered at ypres. 'missing in action' plaque in a church, lived with the crazy french comtesse until his mother moved to america, eventually sloped off back to england. met
touchingly THE REST IS HISTORY (also maybe splendorocity cr memories??)
Personality On first meeting Julian one would be hard-pressed to find anything particularly vampiric about his personality. He doesn't fit the usual stereotypes one associates with vampires: for starters, he is boyish to the point of immaturity, painfully cheerful and a relentless people-pleaser.
Despite being over one hundred years old Julian still acts as though he was nothing more than the Victorian schoolboy he was when he died: he lives for the moment and he doesn't particularly seem to think things through. In addition to this he also seems to maintain a slightly Victorian mentality when it comes to chivalry, decorum and 'good form' – you'd be hard-pressed to ever hear him swear. He has spent his long lifetime involving himself in other peoples' lives rather than working to fulfil his own; indeed, this is what seems to please him most. Julian craves the domesticity of every day human life and had he survived the war there is no doubt that he would have gone on to lead a very happy family-orientated life. As such, he places a lot of emphasis on home comforts and how important it is to live a quiet, happy life surrounded by people you love and care for. As a vampire this is obviously a difficult thing to achieve: in previous years he has always made sure to furnish his house with things that, although useless to him, maintained the aura of a family home like a fully-kitted out kitchen and central heating. Julian has a peculiar love of television and finds great personal enjoyment in recording daytime shows to watch later in the night: the fulfilment he finds in watching domestic dramas or the daily news has kept him going during the darker years before he met and moved in with Rob.
Patient, forgiving and entirely without prejudice, Julian is always ready with a kind word to say about anyone and everyone he meets regardless of how they treat him in return. This is partly fuelled by his own desires for love and acceptance – Julian is determined to 'do as you would be done by' and prides himself on his ability to empathise with other peoples' situations.
Julian isn't particularly clever. Despite having over a century to his name he hasn't invested his time in arts, philosophies or sciences on account of these things not actually being very important to him. What Julian seeks most in life is the more sociable rewards of humanity: to be loved and made to feel valued is what he wants. As such, he makes himself invaluable to others. He is the first to offer to help wherever he thinks it needed. He isn't particularly brave or dashing – just a bloody nice bloke (despite the vampiristic elements, which he often reasons to himself that he can't help).
For someone who spends exactly half of his life a corpse, Julian appears to most people to have a remarkably sunny outlook on life. He claims to see the best in every person and to discount more unpleasant bits in everything – including himself - almost to the point of denial.
Unfortunately, Julian is faced with the challenge of how to reconcile his innermost desire to love and be loved by humanity with the fact that he is deemed by fate to live the life of a cold-blooded killer. This issue is incredibly contentious for him: the more unkind of his critics might point out that his desire to help and his love for humanity is an innately guilty reaction to his condition. Julian himself is in complete self-denial about this: after years of practice he believes he has mastered the fine art of feeding without having to kill his victims - but the truth of the matter is that his control of his thirst is largely dependent on how much his body needs to repair itself in its corpse state. Julian tries not to think about the darker aspects of his condition unless completely necessary: rather than keep his inner demons on a tight rein he prefers to just ignore them completely in the desperate hope that they will just disappear one day when he's not looking.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations Rather boringly, Julian lacks all the fancy superspeed/supersenses/bat transformation powers that his fictional predecessors seem to have. He is completely oblivious to any kind of temperature, be it hot or cold - the only time he believes he feels warmth is in the bodies and blood of humans. This is actually a rather elaborate side effect of his vampire instincts: he doesn't feel the physical warmth but his confused, dead brain thinks he can feel it.
It's not true to say that Julian cannot die - in fact, Julian dies frequently. At every sunrise his organs are essentially shutting themselves down for the day and the process takes exactly as long as it takes for the sun to crest over the horizon. It's not particularly painful and Julian is rather used to it by now but it can be something of a shock for anyone who hasn't witnessed it before.
Julian is effectively a corpse for as long as the sun is visible in the sky. In this state his body slowly repairs any damage taken on during his waking hours, effectively restoring his body to however it looked on the day he died. No matter the damage it will always be repaired regardless of how extreme it is: ranging from the most basic hair cut to a severed limb, his body will repair itself during the day. This is what largely contributes to how thirsty Julian is when he wakes: a larger or more complex healing process will leave him needing to replenish his energy a lot more than a smaller one.
Obviously, what with not having direct sunlight/a natural diurnal cycle on board, things will be very different for Julian on board. EXPLANATION GOES HEEEERE
When it comes to feeding, Julian's got a few vampiric tricks up his metaphorical sleeve. Julian is experienced and careful enough to be able to feed from an individual without causing any lasting damage or pain. Much like other hemotaphagic species, his saliva has both anticoagulant and anaesthetic qualities - making his bites considerably less painful and physically traumatic than they could be. The resulting wound of Julian's bite is rather like a set of large, bruised mosquito bites - and often itches just as much as a mosquito bite would.
TLDR SUMMARY
- can't feel temperatures apart from what his brain tells him he should be feeling
- corpse during the day, with all corpse-y qualities entailed therein
- body repairs itself whilst dead but the toll is an increased thirst in the evening
- mosquito saliva!
Inventory
Appearance For someone who is essentially a mobile corpse Julian is startlingly life-life in how he moves and presents himself. Despite not needing to breathe and not having any of the involuntary reactions of a human, Julian is very careful to remember to do things like blink, breathe and cough. He doesn't do this for his own benefit but rather because he thinks it makes him subconsciously more likeable to other people. He is noticeably pale and his skin has the cold and unfortunately waxy texture of a corpse. When fed regularly he is significantly more human to the touch and seems to take on a more lifelike complexion in his face.
With no ability to gauge the temperature Julian is very careful to dress in accordance with how others dress: in winter he wears coats and scarves and in the summer he'll wear short-sleeved shirts – but only ever because he sees other people wearing them. In all honesty, Julian isn't the most fashion savvy. It's pretty hilarious.
Played by Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet.
Age
AU Clarification
S A M P L E S
Log Sample
Comms Sample