(TUMBLR ATE MY POST YESTERDAY NIGHT I HAD TO WRITE IT ALL AGAIN 😭)
Finally, finally drew him. Meryamun Ankhkemet. Believe me or not designing his headshape and face was a PAIN in the ass I had to erase it 3 times until finally figuring it out
Meryamun was born in Thebes, Egypt 5000 years ago within the royal palace. Son of the royal chief embalmer priest and a royal servant, he was a normal child with his own hobbies such as his love for food, drawing and playing music instruments, but he became ambitious early determined not to become a simple servant or embalmer. So he studied assidiously law and politics, without a pause, and played bootkissers with the pharaoh whenever he could which helped since in his mid 30's he became the royal vizir. As prime minister and supreme judge, his punishments and application of the law was cruel and merciless and as the old pharaoh became older and senile he started to become an éminence grise influencing him to fight in many wars, for Meryamun loved the art of war and just wished to go there himself fight one day. Force of enjoying his newfoundpower, the vizir became even more ambitious. The pharaoh had no son, only one daughter meant to become someone's Great Royal Spouse one day. So why not him ? His asskissing once again paid and he married her, Maya, but never touched her, finding her too young and uninteresting anyway. And when the pharaoh died of old age, he finally got what he wanted : he was crowned Meryamun I
He was a well appreciated pharaoh, but was unsympathetic to the judged making no exception and found any pretext to go to war against his neighbors, rejoicing at last in battle, first line, slicing up enemies, expanding the empire and enriching it with stoleb treasures. But one day, said treasure was the one too many. In a Mesopotamian temple dedicated to Lilitu, Meryamun went himself pick up the gold idom located in the middle, but in his excitement accidentally dropped it and broke it... unleashing from it a curse which instantly turned him in a monster, a vampire, one of the very first in history ! Out of wild instincts and blinded by the new sensations, he slaughtered everyone in the temple, his own soldiers included, until being stopped by religious artifacts which now burned and stopped him and he could be locked up a cage. By order of Maya, who got the opportunity to cancel their marriage and marry a new pharaoh and erase his name from history, he was sealed inside gold sarcophagus the ankh cross on it preventing him from opening it, and was forced to dry like a mummy and hibernate inside forever... or rather 1000 years, when thieves took the beautiful ruby ank and opened the sarcophagus, to see if the mummy inside had any jewelry. One of the thieves had cut himself by opening the lid, the drop fell on the dry mummy... who immediately opened its eyes, rose, massacred them all for the blood it had been deprived from for a millenium and rose back to its former lively looking shape. Back to his senses now he was filled with enough blood and still horrified at what he did and the time that flew, everyone he knew died some of them even because of himself and his hard earned titles were stripped off him, he was forgotten, alone, a monster, he even realized when trying to get out the sunlight burned him. The sun and holy religious signs, anything representing Ra, he who adored him and prayed him everyday ! Ra abandonned him, Ra had let this pagan goddess curse him, Ra now punished him. He now grew resentment towards him the solar disc above. After everything he did for him !? Now the vampire rejected the falcon god, started to adore his enemy Apep god of chaos who tries every night to kill him, and from now on, even to this day, still wishes the end of the Sun will happen as a revenge. Still, Egypt was not safe for him anymore, and it was with reluctance he had to leave
He travelled across the world, veing able to move only at night or on cloud or rainy days or by hiding inside boats or carriages. Even taking the time to discover before their official discoveries unknown continents. His resentment to mortals in general, the sun and classic religions grew as much as, in contrast, his knowledge did thanks to all the languages he learned and cultures he witnessed. He practised many new art styles, learned to play more instruments and even realized he actually loved cooking?! This felt so relaxing, why did only women do it in his time, all the time he missed! He little by little became a great cook with all the recipes he learned across the globe. But he also grew more powerful as a vampire mastering perfectly skills he now blessed he used to loathe and became a very respectable and feared member of the vampire community whenever he came across some. He was not fully bad either, able to feel pity and spare, but he did charm most people only for their blood or hunt them down, and the loneliness and all the riches he accumulated from all these millenia and long term financial tactics making him more powerful (but still on the run) were about to turn him into an actual villain... This was when he met who would later become his wife, whom I will draw and whose biography I will write one day : Yumi
On a hill in England, during a night of early 1420's, he saw a beautiful middle aged Asian woman he sneaked on and bit. But ew !!! Werewolf blood, that was disgusting ! And of course she did not like it and summoned her pack with a howl who beat him up for her, their leader. Werewolves, vampire enemies, great, what was his luck ! But sly and in a rush to survive, he tried to compromise and find a way to arrange them, noting how most of them looked wounded and tired. Indeed, they had been spotted and were on the run and had no shelter for a while, and whenever they tried to live in the woods it of course looked suspicious to humans. Since himself was getting more and more suspicious from being a lord living inside an old castle in ruins getting out only at night, he offered a symbiosis. They get his shelter, in exchange they help each other with hunts and they get outside for him at day as his emissaries and bodyguards. This was not pleasant for any of them, but survival was ar stake so Yumi agreed. For months the pack and the vampire cooexisted, mostly with a rivalry atmosphere not helped by the vampire lord who loved to taunt and snidely comment anything they did, for he loved to annoy their leader with whom a mutual heated anbeti respectful rivalry developped. Notably fueled with how he found her pretty and how some... FURRY feels awoke in him the first time he saw her turn into a werewolf, feelings he had repressed for millenia whenever he came across a muscley anthro lady (his first fapping session as a teen was at the thought of what Sekhmet could look like for which he had felt overly shameful afterwarend), so part of him infuriating her was so that she could turn into a werewolf, a bit like Kaeloo and Mr Cat's early relationship. That and because he did notice she blushed and get even more agitated whenever he alluded at things, which he found cute and amusing all while loving (deep down since his first reflex was to be offended of course) her temper and the way she put him back in his place, which was the first in millenia someone did not cower to him, and he did respect her leader ways and her intelligence. In short it was flirt, but a way that was meant to look like rivalry since both species were meant to be enemies and none of them wanted to forget that, too prideful. But force of coexisting, knowing each other, learning about each other, fighting or hunting together, saving each other, seeing each other during vulnerable moments and under new lights thanks to the things in common they found out they have and having deep or at least enjoyable conversations with similar morals and philosophies, they ended up falling deeply in love so much one night she was in heat, the first time since they had settled in his castle, they could no longer pretend and ran into each other's arms. At first wanting to keep it secret, it could not last hidden too long from other people with a good sense of smell, and when the danger was over and it was time for them to leave and for him to leave too since staying too long always ended up becoming too dangerous wherever he was, she decides to name her beta the new alpha and followed Meryamun
Since then, they never left each other's side and travelled the world together, falling more and more in love as the years went by, and marrying in the late 1490's in Venice under the made up bame Ankhkemet. Yumi was no Maya he never gave a fuck about who disgusted him at the idea of having to make her a hair one day for how younger she was and who always berated him and ended up betraying him. Yumi meant so much more to Meryamun. Trusting each other deeply and as passionate as ever no matter the years (to this day they almost always make love once a day MINIMUM), they hide and travel with their share of hunts and kills and get an amazed reputation in both species for being so open about their interspecies relationship. Still, the fact he now got her in his life apeases him and definitively stops him from becoming a villain and he becomes cooler and more open in general as well as now grateful to have become immortal or he would have lever met her. During early 17th century, they settled in US in a little village built by vampires and had their family manor be built. They were finally settled in ; sure nowadays, the village became a district in a large human town, but it is secluded and rarely mixes with a few visitors, so the secret is kept anyway. In fact they felt so comfortable and sure to be 100% safe they made 2 children quite recently, Absinthe and Asmar
Nowadays, he is a billionaire from millenia of harvesting treasures known as Lord Meryamun Ankhkemet and is a famous chef who owns the fanciest restaurant in town. Nobody knows the family is paranormal, they just know they are discrete celebrities rarely making public appearances outside of work and he never gives any interview or accepts to pose for pics since he doesn't appear on pictures, but is generally well appreciated since he gives a lot for the community. He is a good boss who pays and treats well his employees and butler, he pampers his cat Nedjem, he has friends he is a little snobbish and innocently disdainful or menacing (he never had friends before so he doesn't know much how to interact) to but does love them and is faithful and helpful, he is a good caring loving dad who trains his daughter since she has a bigger vampire side and he adores his wife with whom he's almost in a symbiosis à la Morticia and Gomez mixed with Madame Pandora and Captain of the Dead. But that aside he can also be very cold and heartless when you don't matter to him, not minding killing you for blood or if you know his secret (in fact in a general sense he and Yumi are glad to live in a big town in whoch they are popular... so that the "livestock" is easy to collect), sometimes financing shady but legal business like wars since he ALWAYS loved wars, and still adores Apep as well as other gods in a secondary adoration anf dreams to destroy the sun and overthrow power in Egypt to return as its eternal pharaoh. Nevertheless, he is very much happy in life with his family, friends, job and hobbies which holds him back enough from having these thoughts as mere fantasies
