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OOC INFORMATION
Player Name: Liisa
Are you over 18?: yes
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Other Characters in Game: N/A
IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Hector
Canon: Castlevania (Netflix)
Canon Point: between Season 3 and Season 4
Background: wiki link
Suitability:
In Season 3, Hector hit rock bottom, then hit some additional rocks he didn't know existed down below. From there, he had nowhere to go but up. In the time between Season 3 and Season 4, we find out that Hector has 1. grown up enough to admit that he fucked up pretty badly 2. decided to make amends (in the most roundabout way possible, by releasing Dracula from Hell. It seemed like a good idea at the time), and 3. taken steps to betray the Styrian Sisters using his magic. To the surprise of his primary captor (and also the audience), Hector finally proves that he can be competent, clever, and sneaky within his narrow focus.
While Hector would like to be able to just go off and be a hermit, he knows that his powers make that unlikely. He'll form alliances/join a faction by necessity (probably based on whoever makes the best impression on him). In his heart, Hector is a man of science, not a warrior. He'd prefer to aid in the faction's efforts through research or creation of soldiers through his forging ability rather than directly fight himself. He's not a leader, but he's a competent subordinate if a leader can convince him to listen. Hector's a little harder to win over now than he was a year earlier in canon, but if someone is sufficiently charismatic, flattering, and appeals to his logic, he's still likely to get on board.
Powers:
-Devil Forging: The skill for which he was recruited to Dracula's army. Hector can 'forge' (relatively fresh) corpses into Night Creatures (basically, monsters). The bodies he creates become a vessel for a soul from Hell, and are not considered 'undead'. It's a new life form, comparable to the naturally occurring Night Creatures that exist in their universe.
-Necromancy: Rather than forming a corpse into a new creature, Hector can simply revive it instead. With humans, it creates a zombie. It can retain some of the abilities it had in life (a priest he animates is able to bless a river, for example), but is seemingly unable to act independently of Hector's control. It is unknown if the soul is still present. More often, Hector prefers to revive animals as pets. Since animals don't have 'souls', the process seems to work better. His pug, for example, acts like a normal puppy that just happens to have been dead for a while. His pet revival process is probably technically a subset of the Devil Forging's 'creating new life', but without fundamentally changing the body, so it's more a reanimation than a forging of a new body.
-Other Magic: This one is kept more under wraps, but Hector is also shown as being able to perform magical spells/rituals outside of his Forging. Using enchanted objects, he creates force fields that are capable of containing vampires and night creatures. He has a strong enough understanding of magic to be able to devise a ritual to revive Dracula, and reverse engineer the binding ring used on himself for Saint Germaine to create one of his own.
-Actual Blacksmithing: Hector has the skills to forge his own magical tools, and, theoretically, other mundane objects as well.
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
Describe an important event in your character's life and how it impacted them.
I've already mentioned above how Hector reached his lowest point during Carmilla's imprisonment and Lenore's magical enslavement, so let's talk about how Hector got mixed up with vampires in the first place.
Vlad "Dracula" Tepes met Hector at some point during his travels, seeking him out to learn about his powers. Hector recalls this moment fondly. It was the first moment anyone had really acknowledged the value of his work. It was certainly a turning point for him. He'd been living in isolation in a cabin in the east of Rhodes, content to make pets and test his power. At the time, Dracula approached him without ulterior motives, just as a fellow scholar interested in Hector's studies. Until that point, Hector's magic had been met only with scorn and fear, so this moment of validation was so impactful that Hector would later be willing to leave his isolation and help commit genocide at Dracula's behest. Hector was so starved for connection and approval that he stayed by Dracula's side even when he began to see that Dracula was mad with grief and trying to do a murder-suicide with the entire world.
Does your character have a moral code, or other set of standards they try to live by?
Hector's moral code is more of a loose suggestion. He knows he is not a moral or good person, and doesn't really try to be. What he is not is cruel. He doesn't seek to do active harm to anyone who doesn't pose a direct threat to him. He lived peacefully in Rhodes for years before he left to become a general in Dracula's army. When he is conducting the campaign, he's removed from the actual fighting, only seeing the corpses that get brought back to him as fodder for new creatures. He tries to take steps to subdue humanity as quickly and decisively as possible in order to minimize the destruction and suffering, but he still DOES THE THING. He agrees to Dracula's plan so long as the remaining humans are treating 'humanely', but doesn't object to people being treated like livestock until HE gets treated like livestock in Season 3.
As for people who threaten him, Hector has no compunction against killing them. His parents are the first casualties. They abuse him and destroy his pets, so he burns their house down around them. The faceless concept of 'humanity' has rejected him, so he can be persuaded to side against them and send his Night Creatures to destroy their cities. Hector doesn't want to start shit, but he loses no sleep over FINISHING it.
What quality or qualities do they admire most?
Hector would say that the most admiral quality is intelligence. He is incredibly smart, and loves for people to know it. (Common sense is a different story.) Hector respects people who are well-read or clever (like Dracula and Carmilla when he first meets her) and sneers at those he sees as dumb or uneducated (Godbrand, the unwashed peasants of Wallachia). Offers of money or power mean nothing to him, but tempt him with a book of vampire philosophy and he'll fall. He is hungry for a companion with whom he can discuss his readings and the intricacies of his work, which the Vampire Sisters exploit to entrap him.
However, even more than intelligence, the trait that Hector gravitates toward without realizing it is kindness. He's so desperate for it that he'll jump for any scraps he can get. Dracula compliments his work- he'll betray humanity for him. Carmilla pets his dog- Hector decides to trust her plan. Lenore calls him pretty and takes him on walkies- yes, he'll hop into bed with her. In his mind's eye, Hector acts logically and dispassionately, but in reality, so much of how he responds to people is dependent on how nice they are to him and his pets.
Do they have a part of themselves they dislike?
Growing up, Hector's mother told him he came out "wrong". There was some quality about him that people could sense even before his necromatic powers manifested. This led to him withdrawing from society and surrounding himself with reanimated pets in place of friends. Hector tries to fill the void with his work, but those echoes of his mother's curses still haunt him. Part of the reason he is so easily able to detach himself from the rest of the world and side with vampires is this perception of himself. He tries not to care, but at his current canon point, he has enough hindsight to begin to realize that his 'wrongness' and the loneliness that stemmed from it has left him open to manipulation.
What is their sign, and why? The MAGICIAN- Hector has devoted his life to his craft, and prides himself on his mastery of it. People come and go, but his magic remains his constant companion. Other characters in the series seek to reshape the world or destroy it or save it; what Hector desires more than anything is to just be left alone to do his work. He lacks any whiff of ambition except when it comes to learning more or creating new and more interesting things.
SAMPLES & ARRIVAL
Samples: TDM Thread, Thread from Aefenglom (featuring an earlier canon point)
Arrival Scenario: Honored Guest (who may lose that status if he gets caught helping Alucard)
Player Name: Liisa
Are you over 18?: yes
Contact:
Other Characters in Game: N/A
IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Hector
Canon: Castlevania (Netflix)
Canon Point: between Season 3 and Season 4
Background: wiki link
Suitability:
In Season 3, Hector hit rock bottom, then hit some additional rocks he didn't know existed down below. From there, he had nowhere to go but up. In the time between Season 3 and Season 4, we find out that Hector has 1. grown up enough to admit that he fucked up pretty badly 2. decided to make amends (in the most roundabout way possible, by releasing Dracula from Hell. It seemed like a good idea at the time), and 3. taken steps to betray the Styrian Sisters using his magic. To the surprise of his primary captor (and also the audience), Hector finally proves that he can be competent, clever, and sneaky within his narrow focus.
While Hector would like to be able to just go off and be a hermit, he knows that his powers make that unlikely. He'll form alliances/join a faction by necessity (probably based on whoever makes the best impression on him). In his heart, Hector is a man of science, not a warrior. He'd prefer to aid in the faction's efforts through research or creation of soldiers through his forging ability rather than directly fight himself. He's not a leader, but he's a competent subordinate if a leader can convince him to listen. Hector's a little harder to win over now than he was a year earlier in canon, but if someone is sufficiently charismatic, flattering, and appeals to his logic, he's still likely to get on board.
Powers:
-Devil Forging: The skill for which he was recruited to Dracula's army. Hector can 'forge' (relatively fresh) corpses into Night Creatures (basically, monsters). The bodies he creates become a vessel for a soul from Hell, and are not considered 'undead'. It's a new life form, comparable to the naturally occurring Night Creatures that exist in their universe.
-Necromancy: Rather than forming a corpse into a new creature, Hector can simply revive it instead. With humans, it creates a zombie. It can retain some of the abilities it had in life (a priest he animates is able to bless a river, for example), but is seemingly unable to act independently of Hector's control. It is unknown if the soul is still present. More often, Hector prefers to revive animals as pets. Since animals don't have 'souls', the process seems to work better. His pug, for example, acts like a normal puppy that just happens to have been dead for a while. His pet revival process is probably technically a subset of the Devil Forging's 'creating new life', but without fundamentally changing the body, so it's more a reanimation than a forging of a new body.
-Other Magic: This one is kept more under wraps, but Hector is also shown as being able to perform magical spells/rituals outside of his Forging. Using enchanted objects, he creates force fields that are capable of containing vampires and night creatures. He has a strong enough understanding of magic to be able to devise a ritual to revive Dracula, and reverse engineer the binding ring used on himself for Saint Germaine to create one of his own.
-Actual Blacksmithing: Hector has the skills to forge his own magical tools, and, theoretically, other mundane objects as well.
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
Describe an important event in your character's life and how it impacted them.
I've already mentioned above how Hector reached his lowest point during Carmilla's imprisonment and Lenore's magical enslavement, so let's talk about how Hector got mixed up with vampires in the first place.
Vlad "Dracula" Tepes met Hector at some point during his travels, seeking him out to learn about his powers. Hector recalls this moment fondly. It was the first moment anyone had really acknowledged the value of his work. It was certainly a turning point for him. He'd been living in isolation in a cabin in the east of Rhodes, content to make pets and test his power. At the time, Dracula approached him without ulterior motives, just as a fellow scholar interested in Hector's studies. Until that point, Hector's magic had been met only with scorn and fear, so this moment of validation was so impactful that Hector would later be willing to leave his isolation and help commit genocide at Dracula's behest. Hector was so starved for connection and approval that he stayed by Dracula's side even when he began to see that Dracula was mad with grief and trying to do a murder-suicide with the entire world.
Does your character have a moral code, or other set of standards they try to live by?
Hector's moral code is more of a loose suggestion. He knows he is not a moral or good person, and doesn't really try to be. What he is not is cruel. He doesn't seek to do active harm to anyone who doesn't pose a direct threat to him. He lived peacefully in Rhodes for years before he left to become a general in Dracula's army. When he is conducting the campaign, he's removed from the actual fighting, only seeing the corpses that get brought back to him as fodder for new creatures. He tries to take steps to subdue humanity as quickly and decisively as possible in order to minimize the destruction and suffering, but he still DOES THE THING. He agrees to Dracula's plan so long as the remaining humans are treating 'humanely', but doesn't object to people being treated like livestock until HE gets treated like livestock in Season 3.
As for people who threaten him, Hector has no compunction against killing them. His parents are the first casualties. They abuse him and destroy his pets, so he burns their house down around them. The faceless concept of 'humanity' has rejected him, so he can be persuaded to side against them and send his Night Creatures to destroy their cities. Hector doesn't want to start shit, but he loses no sleep over FINISHING it.
What quality or qualities do they admire most?
Hector would say that the most admiral quality is intelligence. He is incredibly smart, and loves for people to know it. (Common sense is a different story.) Hector respects people who are well-read or clever (like Dracula and Carmilla when he first meets her) and sneers at those he sees as dumb or uneducated (Godbrand, the unwashed peasants of Wallachia). Offers of money or power mean nothing to him, but tempt him with a book of vampire philosophy and he'll fall. He is hungry for a companion with whom he can discuss his readings and the intricacies of his work, which the Vampire Sisters exploit to entrap him.
However, even more than intelligence, the trait that Hector gravitates toward without realizing it is kindness. He's so desperate for it that he'll jump for any scraps he can get. Dracula compliments his work- he'll betray humanity for him. Carmilla pets his dog- Hector decides to trust her plan. Lenore calls him pretty and takes him on walkies- yes, he'll hop into bed with her. In his mind's eye, Hector acts logically and dispassionately, but in reality, so much of how he responds to people is dependent on how nice they are to him and his pets.
Do they have a part of themselves they dislike?
Growing up, Hector's mother told him he came out "wrong". There was some quality about him that people could sense even before his necromatic powers manifested. This led to him withdrawing from society and surrounding himself with reanimated pets in place of friends. Hector tries to fill the void with his work, but those echoes of his mother's curses still haunt him. Part of the reason he is so easily able to detach himself from the rest of the world and side with vampires is this perception of himself. He tries not to care, but at his current canon point, he has enough hindsight to begin to realize that his 'wrongness' and the loneliness that stemmed from it has left him open to manipulation.
What is their sign, and why? The MAGICIAN- Hector has devoted his life to his craft, and prides himself on his mastery of it. People come and go, but his magic remains his constant companion. Other characters in the series seek to reshape the world or destroy it or save it; what Hector desires more than anything is to just be left alone to do his work. He lacks any whiff of ambition except when it comes to learning more or creating new and more interesting things.
SAMPLES & ARRIVAL
Samples: TDM Thread, Thread from Aefenglom (featuring an earlier canon point)
Arrival Scenario: Honored Guest (who may lose that status if he gets caught helping Alucard)