Okay fuck it I'm sharing my OCs and y'all have to deal with it.
(art by @suddenly-frankenstein) This is Father Elias D'Arcy, a Catholic priest who was forcibly turned into a vampire in the 1800s as a cruel joke by one of the excommunicated parishioners of the church he was raised in and eventually chosen to preside over. After he's turned, the church fears his power too much to cast him out, choosing instead to hide him and move him from church to church across the country whenever the parishioners grow too close to discovering what he is or when he fucks up majorly and they have to do a quick coverup.
(art by @suddenly-frankenstein) This is Jacob McCarthy, one of the parishoners of a church Elias presides over in the mid 1950s. He's gone his whole life convincing himself he can be straight, marries a girl he grew up in the church with, has a couple kids, ya know the heteronormative works. The oldest of four and the only son, he was expected to carry on the family legacy, take over his father's law practice, and overall be the perfect representation of a good Catholic. Then he met Elias.
(art by @suddenly-frankenstein) It was love at first sight for both of them, forever changing the course of their lives, and for the next few years, they have a passionate and loving affair. It's the happiest either of them is in their entire lives. Jacob finds out about Elias' vampiric nature and loves him despite it, and even admires him more for holding to his faith despite what he's become when others would've turned their back on their faith and blamed God for allowing it to happen. But of course...ya know something is gonna go wrong.
(art by @suddenly-frankenstein) Elias starts to neglect his hunger, finding himself drawn closer to his humanity again because of Jacob. Jacob gives him a little of his own blood every now and then, but never too much that it's harmful to him. Until one night Elias hasn't fed in a few days, and in the throes of passion he takes too much, putting Jacob on the brink of death. In his final moments, Elias begs Jacob to let him turn him, but Jacob refuses, knowing it would mean never seeing his family again and having to live as one of the walking damned. But he forgives Elias for what's happened to him, and even as he lays dying, only smiles and tells him he's happy to have experienced true love even if it led to his death. He dies in Elias' arms, leaving him alone and empty in his painful eternity once again, forced to flee in the middle of the night.
(art by @sarahp_draws on Instagram) As the years go by, Elias is haunted by Jacob's death, on occasion believing he sees the actual ghost of his lover, wishing only to join him and having no heart in his faith anymore. He only stays with the church because it's the only life he ever knew for nearly 200 years and he promised Jacob on his death bed he would continue in his servitude. In the era of the Satanic panic, he's moved to a church with another priest with sinful thoughts of his own, Elias only wanting to help the young man who sees demons and hears voices with a sexual fascination for the divine. But when he discovers Elias' true nature, he betrays him, outing him to the parish and claiming he was attacked. In the early hours of the morning, they find Elias before the church can help him escape, dragging him down the steps of the church and into the light of the morning where he's reduced to ashes, and in a way, finally free.
(art by @jalattes)
That's just a quick summary about them, if y'all would be interested in hearing more, I'd be more than happy to share. I literally love them both so much and have thought WAY too much about their back stories and their story together I needed somewhere to put this.
