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Indie, headcanon based Alucard of Castlevania. Netflix based, s1-3, and video game influenced.

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By raive.

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Dracula loved his wife and son dearly, but where it was easy for him to connect with Lisa through her intense love of learning, it wasn’t quite as simple for him to connect with his child. Adrian was a smart child, the pride of his parents, quick to grasp the many things they taught him. But he was also a child–and he sought more than intellectual stimulation out of his parents. Lisa was able to provide her love and care easily. She was his constant confidant and companion when she wasn’t toiling away in her study or at the clinic. She was every bit his mother and Adrian loved her with every bit of his soul.

And he felt the same way toward his father, but their bond was different. It was a distant one. Adrian sought the man out often, seeking his praise and acceptance and never quite feeling as if he had it. The man was aloof, though he tried his best not to be. He was a hard teacher, the kind that punished for the slightest missteps. Dracula had a stern hand, and didn’t hold himself back. Adrian learned quickly that while his father loved him, he would hurt him. Not out of malice, but because the world he had been born in was cruel.

Adrian would grow to inherit the Tepes reputation, the army of vampires and night creatures his father held. He would also inherit the man’s enemies, some of which were his current allies. And so, Dracula could not be soft with his son. He had to teach him that there would be those who wanted to hurt him, and some of them would be standing next to him one moment waiting for the right moment.

That wasn’t to say they didn’t bond in other ways, that Dracula didn’t show Adrian he truly cared. Adrian learned magic and engineering and other sciences from his father with rapt attention. He listened to the many stories he accumulated over the years, the warnings against humans. Listen to your mother, Dracula would say, but be cautious. Humans are just as terrible as we are. Adrian came to him with the worries he couldn’t share with his mother and Dracula listened. They talked philosophy, they talked about the things they had in common Lisa could not ever understand.

The boy was a dhampir, not a full-blood vampire or a full-blood human. He was between worlds. Dracula worried for him, and sometimes hinted at it even with their strange relationship. Adrian loved the man, in spite of his sternness, in spite of his harsh teaching and harsher lessons. He loved him for the quiet moments sitting at the dining table, the warm laughter they all shared, the pat on the shoulder. The rare embrace.

Adrian never thought the man would cast him aside when his mother died. He didn’t believe he would turn on him so absolutely that he would almost kill him. That wasn’t his father. His father had never made him feel unsafe, even during the worst of his lessons.

It hurts him that the last memory burned into his mind would be his father turning into a blackened husk, reaching out for him. Had it been for one last embrace? Or to take his life, his last shred of consciousness solely searching for preservation?

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Mathias Cronqvist may have titled himself Lord of the Vampires, but it was no small feat. After having gained such power through the Crimson Stone and Walter’s vampiric soul, he spent the next nearly five hundred years amassing his army. He fought to keep his title and his power, making certain that the vampires all across Europe and the far East were well aware of who he was.

There were those who still tried to fight him, or allies who asked him to help in their petty squabbles. He assisted, if only because if there were other rulers who thought they could fight and win against his allies, they would think they could fight and win against him. And there were always the humans– frightened, but daringly bold.

By the time Lisa of Lupu braved his castle, Mathias had long since gone by Dracula. Count Dracula Vlad Tepes. Mathias Cronqvist was dead–the man who had lost his Elisabetha had been another person. Kinder, perhaps, than the monster who laid waste to all of Europe. Not that he cared. Even as Lisa melted the ice around his heart, forced him to remember who that man was, he still held onto his crueler nature. If he didn’t, their peace would shatter. The other vampires always seeking for a crack in his veneer would surely try and do their worst.

Which was why, despite Lisa’s distates, her reluctance, her anger, Vlad took Adrian under his wing and taught him cruelty. He taught him how to fight, how to wield magic, how to be ruthless in his attack. He taught him to be a vampire, and he did so without remorse. There were two sides to the man– Vlad the kind, if distant father, who taught the sciences and alchemy in a way that enraptured Adrian’s attention. And there was Dracula the Impaler, the one who came at him with nails swiping, and raining hell fire for Adrian to dodge or deflect. It didn’t matter that he was barely a teenager.

Adrian needed to learn that the world of the vampires was far more ruthless, far more dangerous, than the world his mother wanted to teach him. And so, Adrian had these two sides to contend with from both parents. He learned to be kind and patient and nurturing from his mother. And he learned to be cold, calculating and ruthless from his father. He never really liked being a monster, but sometimes it was necessary when the worst of his father’s court tried to claim the upperhand.

He was a young dhampir, after all. He wasn’t a full-blooded vampire. He shouldn’t be as strong as them, or as skilled. But he was. By the time he turned sixteen, most could barely touch him in a spar. Adrian had learned all of his dark magic from his father, and was capable of wielding almost as well. He had yet to beat Dracula in any duel, and that hadn’t mattered. Not until Dracula declared his genocidal claims on all of humanity after Lisa’s death when Adrian was eighteen. For a year, Adrian remained at his father’s side, trying to see if there was a way to change the man’s mind. But this was who Mathias Cronqvist had always been– another wife murdered for no reason but her kindness. First God had burned him, and now the people in the name of God.

Despite how much he loved his son, his hatred for the humans blinded him. He didn’t understand how Adrian could be so soft hearted to those that had murdered his mother right in front of him. That rage nearly pushed him to kill his boy, and so Adrian retreated for a year to sleep under Gresit.

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Dracula named himself Lord of the Vampires, and it was true. His jurisdiction could extend across Europe as, due to his immense strength and knowledge, he could best the lower ranking vampires if they so much as dared to fight him. His main center of influence, however, was definitely Wallachia. That said, his castle could move wherever he so wished it to, and he traveled the world.

Throughout Adrian’s youth and teenage years, they did travel with the aid of said castle. His father wished for him to see the different parts of the world before he decided to heed Lisa’s wish and travel the world as a man. It also served another purpose: introducing Adrian to the vampires under Dracula’s rule. Lisa may have not wanted him to fight humans, but she knew very little of the world that her husband really came from. Sometimes she had to concede to his expertise and that meant putting Adrian in situations she would have preferred he avoided.

With his father, Adrian met many of the vampire generals, learned from them if they were willing to teach. He picked things up far quicker than most would have expected, and despite being a dhampir, some actually liked him. At least, so long as he kept his opinions to himself.

Dracula often left the castle under Adrian’s rule once he decided the boy was ready. Sometimes, his father had to leave for one reason or another, and someone needed to keep things in order. Lisa, smart as she was and strong as she was–was still a human. Adrian was sixteen years old and due to his vampiric traits was physically a little older and mentally more mature. He had learned everything his father could teach him and then some, spending a lot of time in Dracula’s library. He knew his magic. He knew how to fight. And so he was ready to be the lord of the castle while his father was away. He took control of his father’s estate: the skeleton servants, the night creatures, the less influential vampires that were part of Dracula’s castle guard.

Adrian learned a lot about military strategy and the enemies his father possessed. More than once he had to protect the castle on his own while Dracula was gone. Power was always changing hands when it came to the other vampire rulers, and that meant Dracula’s forces needed to intervene on occasion. Allied powers and agreements and all that. Adrian knew how to deal with these things almost as well as Dracula himself.

Had he remained with his father and agreed with his reign of terror on the humans, he would have been the foremost commanding general–and the other vampires would have been even more enraged.

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There are three ways to become a vampire:

You’re either born, turned via vampire blood, or magically turned.

It’s not really certain who the first vampire was, but there is an idea that they were also naturally created by hell, or evolution. These vampires have a very long lineage and are considered the Full Bloodied vampires. These vampires try to maintain their blood line by only breeding with other full blooded vampires. Occasionally they might stray with someone who was turned, but that dilutes the bloodline.

Turned vampires tend to be less strong and less influential in the community than those who are full blooded. It depends, though, because the older a vampire is, the stronger they can become and so if a turned vampire is a thousand years older than a full-blooded vampire, they would still have the advantage. Turned vampires are the most numerous of them, despite being the least powerful overall. Despite that, they have made names for themselves in some parts of the world, and some actually have become leaders in their respective nations.

Dracula is the most powerful magically turned vampire there is due to the Crimson Stone and Death’s assistance. Vampires of his caliber are rare, but are often magically turned. This is because the magic used to turn the human into a vampire is usually very powerful, very dark, and so all that energy is converted into the vampire’s being. Magically turned vampires are so rare they tend to be on par with full bloodied vampires due to their magic

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Adrian’s accent varies when he speaks English. He’s been around for a long time upon the dawn of the newest century and has travelled a lot. He knows a lot of languages. His accent hints at Romanian, though most think it’s Russian, sometimes it sounds a little more British after spending quite a few decades in the UK. Someone even said he sounded slightly German once, but they couldn’t really pin it down. Definitely European, is all anyone can ever agree upon.

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Adrian works as an agent for an internationally recognized secret intelligence organization known as The Augurs. He’s one of the four founders, but much prefers actively working out on the field compared to doing administrative work. The Augurs has a vast network of both human and supernatural persons. Their work is to maintain the balance and peace between the world of the supernatural and the world of the humans as magic becomes less and less known in the modern world.

It’s still there, of course, and those who know how to use it, still use it. But it’s more myth and legend, now, just as vampires and the like. Unless you have a high enough security or are unfortunate to fall prey to those wishing to do harm. The Augurs are in every government of the world, even down to the smallest little place. Every human settlement is prone to having a supernatural entity somewhere nearby, whether malevolent or otherwise.

The Augurs mostly catalog creatures, grade whether they are harmful or not. Vampires, werewolves and all other sorts who are sentient may agree to communicate with The Augurs, thereby becoming one of those who are vouched by the agency when human governments try to encroach on territory or blame for some violence. If they do not agree to form a correspondence, The Augurs set them on a watch list and if they step out of line, they will take action.

The Augurs take care of the most harmful creatures and work through local law enforcement to keep things as secret as possible.

Adrian is part of as many law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies as they exist and has clearance to “pretend” to be one of these people. The reason for this is no one is meant to know about The Augurs. No one is meant to know about the supernatural except for those with the highest clearance–and sometimes not even then.

#hc #the augurs

fine. one day ill watch nocturne.

#raive speaks #tbd #hes so pretty it makes me mad

Name: Adrian Fahrenheit Tepes

Alias: Alucard

Age: physically appears in his late 20s to 30s, immortal being.

Birth date: July 20th, 1456

Nationality / ethnicity: Chinese / Romanian

Occupation:

Lord of Castle Dracula (1500s onward, modern day still claims the title)

Scientist / inventor & government agent (modern)

Influencer, artist, model (part time)

Skills: master hand-to-hand combatant, master swordsman, genius intellect, magic user.

Languages: polyglot; Chinese, Romanian / transylvanian, English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Japanese. Several dead languages and can read certain kinds of runes.

Weapons: magic sword, which he is capable of manipulating through telekinesis

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