Name: Bastien Marcel Duval (Responds to Bas or Marc)
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Pansexual, Demisexual
Class: Blood Class
Gold-Blood or Blue-Blood?: Blue-Blood
Rank: Duke (Noble if Duke is taken)
Desired Rank: Commoner kind of…? (Doesn’t want the pressure of his high rank)
Appearance: Bastien isn’t necessarily someone you’d immediately peg as a vampire. He’s still just as pale as the rest of his kind, and pink certainly isn’t a normal eye color, but he isn’t too loyal to the “dark and brooding” stereotype. His hair is naturally pure white in color, and it’s starting to show at his roots, but his hair has been dyed blonde for so long that most people don’t even know this. He’s a little short in stature, about 5’5, with a slim frame. He has a naturally friendly appearance with his round face and deep-set pink eyes. His fangs are a little on the larger side, making it a bit hard for him to close his mouth fully. As such, he seems to have a near-constant, slightly open-mouthed smile. Bastien tends to dress nicely. His casual attire typically consists of a short-sleeve shirt, usually lightly-patterned, and black pants under a light-colored jacket. He usually also wears a scarf of some sort. Tennis-shoes or boots are his go-to footwear. For more formal occasions, he prefers to wear a simple button-up shirt, dress pants, and dress shoes. He also wears earrings, switching them out every couple of weeks, though he prefers his golden studs. He has a couple of tattoos: one of a robin on his chest and a black and white one of a manticore on his left arm.
Personality: Calm, cool, and collected, like any vampire worth their salt, yet oddly empathetic for his kind. He’s also fiercely loyal to the point of being compared to a wolf. He’s usually willing to help those that need it, but not at the expense of his own health. He tends to play things by the book and does all he can to avoid breaking the rules, but push come to shove he’ll run guns blazing into the thick of things if one of his friends are in trouble. However, as good as he is at hiding it, he tends to take everything he’s told to heart. Every compliment, every insult, every jab at his pride. Quite often, he’ll make subtle changes to himself based on these comments. Paler colors after an outfit was called garish, a little foundation after a few other vampires laughed at him for somehow getting a tan… Emotionally, Bastien is very easy to hurt. It also means he’s surprisingly easy to manipulate if you know what you’re doing.
Likes: Tea, coffee, and a good book are the best three things in the world for this man. Of course, only one of those makes a very good gift. He does like fashion, so gift-wise it may be best to get him some clothes. Food-wise, well… Obviously he needs blood, but vampires can eat for pleasure too. He really likes tree fruit. Oranges, plums, pomegranates, peaches… just no lemons. Please no lemons. Or limes. He loves avocados though, weirdly enough. Yes, he will eat them raw. As for his activities, he quite enjoys sewing. Yes, sewing. Is he any good at it? No, but he tries. He also likes to garden, which he is a bit better at, though all that time in the sun can be draining even with an umbrella. Weirdly enough, he also likes the beach. Not the ocean, just the beach. Well, more the shells and creatures that live on the beach, but… gotta deal with one to see the other.
Dislikes: He made the mistake of biting into a lemon once. Never doing that again. He’s also not too fond of high temperatures, and heaven help you if it also happens to be humid. He’ll complain all day about his discomfort. And please, for the love of all that is holy, no cats. He’s allergic.
Strengths & Weaknesses:
+ Charisma: Had Bastien been a little more into the dark stereotype, he might have been considered dangerous. He can manipulate his words, tone, and body language so well that even others of his kind can have trouble telling when he’s lying. Not only is he naturally charming, he was also a drama kid for three years. He’s had training. It’s pretty easy for him to get others to listen to him.
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+ Strategy: Bastien is smart. It’s something he’s quite proud of. He always seems to know exactly what to do next. He may not be very strong, but his ability to scope out weak spots and come up with the perfect counter usually make up for that. Were he more physically-inclined, he might have made a great football player. However, most of that strategy instead gets put to use in the planning field. He likes to plot out pranks every now and then with his commoner friends.
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- Sun-shy: The sun doesn’t turn vampires into a pile of ash. That’s just an old myth. However… pale skin and harsh UV rays don’t exactly mix too well either. Add that on to his weakness to the sun for being a Blue-Blood, and that spells trouble. Bastien can get sunburned very badly, very fast. I’m not talking about a minor rash and some peeling skin, either. He’s gotten third degree burns once. He can’t stay outside in the sun very long without an umbrella or some very, very strong sunscreen.
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- Soft-skinned: There’s a reason he’s picked last in most sports. He’s not exactly frail, but he’s nowhere near athletic. Perhaps it’s because of his somewhat-privileged upbringing. He can’t dole out a punch for the life of him, and taking one is even harder. About the only physical thing he is good at is, well… running.
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- Soft-hearted: Bastien is a sucker for a sap story. If someone says they need help, whether they really do or not, and he reasonably can help them, he will. No questions asked. It’s gotten him in trouble before, and it’ll probably do so again. His kind heart, as his family says, may very well be his downfall.
Family (If Natural-Born) or Sire (If Converted): His parents are your typical vampires, personality-wise. Being of a higher upbringing, though, they are also rather cold, even towards their own children. They’re also rather well-connected, as Bastien could attest to for the sheer amount of dinner events he has had to sit through. Bastien also has six siblings. Yes, six. Two are older, the rest are still less than ten years old. The two older ones have already gone to school, though… one did not pass. She failed in her third year and never came home afterwards. He hasn’t seen her since.
Significant Other: Single Pringle
Crushes: Nope
Exes: One human, a girl from New Orleans he met while studying abroad for the first time in the United States. Sadly, his parents didn’t exactly approve of her, and he ended up outliving her.
Affiliations: None
Other: He has a pet bat. Yes, the bat has a bat. It’s a brown bat, though, not a vampire bat. It’s interesting in that it has a eight-inch wingspan (wings are 4 inches each, normal wingspan is 9-11 inches). It and Bastien can often be found outside in the shade eating a bowl of pomegranate seeds together.
(I might make a picrew of him later, but for now it's surprisingly hard to do.)