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User Name/Nick: Mem
User LJ: Memskitch
AIM/IM: scalpelsplease
E-mail: memlafemme@gmail.com
Other Characters: Lucian, Severen
Character Name: Louis de point du lac
Series: The Vampire Chronicles
Age: 233
From When?: In 1999, after the ghost of Claudia tells him that he was used and that she never loved him. After he gives the Dark Gift to Merrick Mayfair, Louis commits suicide by placing himself into the sun to die. Louis is brought to the barge before Lestat and Merrick rouse him.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. Louis is a vampire who for over the last 100 years has murdered countless innocent lives. There was a time where the guilt that Louis felt over the act of murdering spun him into a terrible depression where he only fed off animal blood. However, that does not make his actions any less terrible. At this point of Louis’ life he has lost his remaining humanity and now freely gives into feeding his guilt by killing indiscriminately all the while essentially living in complex meld of apathy and misery
Abilities/Powers:
Physical: Due to the power of the barge; his regular enhanced senses, strength, speed and durability will be severely weakened. As a human, Louis died in peak physical condition at the age of 25 thus his now depleted physical strength is that akin to an above average man. Louis retains his enhanced visual acuity, having been an avid reader in life. If Louis’ hair or nails are cut, they will grow back as they were when he "died" during his sleep. At times Louis may be able to glamour a human, although he is not proficient at this and sometimes happens by accident. Additionally, Louis has a strong sense of empathy that is not drawn from his vampirism, rather his own heart and will cling to the emotions of a companion.
Blood: Louis requires blood nightly. Without blood [in order of preference and sustenance: human / animal / dead human / dead animal], Louis’ will may falter due to bloodlust and he may become single-minded to the thirst. His physical appearance will also change; looking gaunt and sickly if not fed. After feeding he will flush with rosy colour and his skin will be warm to touch. For Louis, blood drinking is a sensual experience akin to sexual arousal. Louis’ blood itself does have weak healing property if applied externally. He can turn humans into other vampires successfully.
Weaknesses: Sunlight, fire, beheading. Due to the drain on the barge, any wounds will take minutes / hours to heal, rather than seconds. Louis will cry tears of blood.
Personality: [You might include how they are going to react to all this. Please write this in complete sentences, and in paragraphs as you would in any normal area of the application. Do not divide into sections and label each with adjectives. This makes it seem choppy and harder to read.]
Louis de Pointe du Lac is the epitome of the sullen, brooding vampire; deadly and romantic. Although in the same way his behaviour as a vampire is quite unique.
When Louis was first made into a vampire he felt horrendous guilt on having to take the lives of humans nightly and resorted to feeding on animals. Unfortunately this did not last and there were times when the “thirst” took over and he could not help himself from taking lives. Unable to live with himself he tries to commit suicide. However, when his maker, Lestat, tricked Louis into feeding from a sick girl and turning her together, Claudia becomes a driving force in his abandonment of killing animals for humans having to set an example for his “daughter” and keep peace in the “family unit”. After Claudia was made he returned to killing humans indiscriminately because he believed he was truly damned from now on. As a vampire he believes that he is evil, and regardless of what he does on earth will not save him in the afterlife. Additionally; when Claudia persuades him to make another vampire to be a companion he finally loses the last thread of humanity left in him. Not soon after Claudia is killed, he takes his bloodthirsty revenge on the coven that orchestrated the murder, setting the building aflame with the occupants still inside and not caring if they lived out the night. For the remaining years of his life he wanders the world aimlessly, killing any human who crosses his path chaotically when the thirst demands it.
Physically, Louis has a delicate beauty that is indescribably breathtaking as heightened by his vampirism. Although he is tall and lean, he chooses to wear dark browns, greens and blacks. He cares vary little for his physical appearance, his long dark hair unkempt and often wearing out his clothes till they dishevelled. He has no care for the world around him. His possessions and property mean nothing to him. Because he has very little pride or vanity; Louis easily became an indiscriminate attacker. He does not have any particular taste for certain classes of victim and therefore takes those who cross his path, regardless of age, physical endowments or blessings bestowed by nature or fate. Additionally he is often at odds with himself as he cannot truly satisfy his thirst without killing though he is too weak of an immortal to truly risk the death of the victim in his arms.
Louis is a quiet contemplating vampire. He enjoys simple aesthetic pleasures; opera music, classical artwork, crickets at night, looking at the moon for hours. All of these things he will completely engross himself in and lose complete knowledge of the world around him, much to his companion’s annoyance at times. In particular; he has a fascination with fire and will sit for hours looking at candles and oil lamps finding them particularly intriguing. To Louis a fire is a thing of beauty yet a cause of great destruction. He has used arson three times in his life to solve his problems; 1) burning his plantation down to destroy the ties to his mortal life 2) burning his maker Lestat and 3) revenge against the coven that murdered his daughter and threatened to starve him in a coffin. He would much rather read and think than jump head first into an adventure without thinking of the outcome.
He is the most human of all the vampires for he continues to cling to this side of himself. Louis’s main weakness in his personality is his devotion to his loved ones. He put up with Claudia and Lestat’s horrendous and indeed monsterous need to live their lives as the very fiends vampires are portrayed as because he was bound not only by love to them but of the fear he would be left alone. By this love he would do anything to protect a loved one and lash out with extreme vengeance should anything terrible come to pass. He is the one that searches for the answers to his existence. Louis has a human tenderness, wisdom and empathy that set him apart from other vampires to which he had always had, even in life. He is the vampire who would listen and understand all your faults. After Madeline, Louis vowed he would never make a fledgling because he would never allow any human to endure the eternal pain he's felt in being a vampire. During this time he lost the meaning of life and mentally punished himself sins he has committed.
Path to Redemption:
Louis has much potential to be redeemed; there was a time where his guilt and the fear of eternal damnation steered him away from the taking of innocent lives. He felt guilt for his actions, he loved and empathised with his victims. However, as the years continued he became more distant from his human life turning more into the monster that he feared he would be (particularly after the events which led to the burning of the coven). The problem with Louis’ case is that he does not want to be redeemed for the choices he has made in his lot. Whether there is a God or not, he believes he has sinned and thus deserved to be punished.
A warden will need to convince Louis somehow that he is capable of goodness despite his vampiric state. As the main cause of Louis’ distress is the bloodlust innate to his physiology, a warden must think of a way for Louis’ bloodthirst to be sated without taking human life. His whole life he has searched for inner peace, and has only found peace when he kills. He has far more willpower than his comrades when it comes to his thirst, but unfortunately when his passions or needs bubble over the top he really does burst; either in blindly attacking someone or acting in a frenzied rage.
As an inmate he’d would not cause trouble, most likely keep to himself in the library or lock himself away in his room trying to not to kill humans.
History:
Louis’ history up to the end of Interview with the vampire.
This brings us up to 1976.
1985, Louis reads Lestat’s first novel (The Vampire Lestat) and is reunited with Lestat on the eve of Lestat's rock concert. Louis goes with Lestat to Lestat's rock concert. Vampires attack them and they are saved by Gabrielle. Akasha arrives and kills all vampires except for the ones that Lestat loves and the Children of the Millennium. Louis and the vampires gather at the Sonoma Compound where they listen to Maharet tell the history of their exisitence. Akasha arrives and Louis speaks out against her. Mekare arrives and kills Akasha, eating her brain while Maharet eats her heart, making them the new Queens of the Damned.
In the late 80’s, the vampires live together at Armand's Night Island. Louis, after listening to Jesse's meeting with Claudia's ghost, leaves for New Orleans in search of her. Lestat finds him at the Rue Royale Townhouse. They go for a walk to Louis' tomb. Then Lestat takes Louis on a flight around the world, ending up in London where Lestat meets David. Louis is in the shadows.
Louis moves back the New Orleans while Lestat and David have a trist. In 1991, while he lives on his own Lestat appears to Louis in the body of Raglan James (Tale of the Body Thief) as a mortal. He begs Louis to make him immortal again but he refuses. In a rage, Lestat burns Louis' house down. When Lestat regains his body back, he rebuilds the Rue Royale Townhouse and invites Louis to live with him which he accepts. After David is made into vampire, David goes to Louis for advice. The three of them live together at Rue Royale.
In 1994, Interview with the Vampire (the movie) opens in theaters. Brad Pitt portrays Louis, to which Lestat makes comment on in later novels. Louis returns to New Orleans to comfort Lestat after hearing about Veronica's Veil from the news. He brings Lestat to St. Elizabeth's where Lestat goes mad after seeing his eye returned. Louis begs Maharet not to chain Lestat. He then reads to Lestat in his cell and conforts him.
In 1999, Louis meets a witch called Merrick Mayfair and he falls in love with her. David asks Merrick to raise the ghost of Claudia for Louis. In a seance, Louis offers himself as the blood sacrifice along with a small locket with Claudia's only photograph in it. The ghost of Claudia tells him that he was used and that she never loved him, and he commits suicide.
Sample Journal Entry: [5-10 Sentences] (Since this is a reap I’m just posting old threads)
I first set foot on Louisianan soil in the late 1770’s. We were not Americans then, as the revolution was destined to rage on for some time. I could not tell you how old I was, for it was some time ago and I ask who can recall a clear memory of the earliest years of their lives. My father spoke to us of the battles that had weathered over the eastern territories and how the mortars of new countries were set by the blood of those who fight for it. The impoverished we saw here were not only Haitians and the less well off Creole artisans whose ventures were not prosperous, but also the few revolutionaries. Their stories of upset from across the borders made horrifying tales.
1791. I have been damned for four months. Lestat tells me the states of the East are thinking about naming the fourth of July as a day of Independence. To my fault, his blathering is lost on me as I am victim to my preternatural senses.
1803. I read the news of Louisiana’s purchase to the United States to my house. Lestat gives the French five years to reclaim the territory, but is optimistic about the growth of the city and the number of souls dwelling within it. Claudia is disinterested and plays with her porcelain dolls. We are Americans.
1804. We call July 4th Independence Day for the first time. We watch the fireworks display on the Mississippi. When the lights flash in the sky, Claudia holds my hand tight. Later that night, Lestat brings drunken revellers to the Rue Royale rabble-rousing jibes about freedom. Their souls are claimed not soon after.
1834. A wealthy socialite imports fireworks from France for a private Independence Day celebration. Claudia prefers to stay at home, I go anyway. It is my first Fourth of July without her.
1968. I return to the Mississippi for the celebrations. The lights are brighter and the crowds larger. I stand at the same spot as I had more than a hundred and fifty years ago, but there are no small ringers wringing my wrist. When I return home, Lestat will not be there having surely perished years previous due to my own actions (how wrong I was). My loneliness is most potent than it has been in an age.
Alas, it seems I am determined to ruminate. At times I feel to a creature such as myself that all that remains precious are memories. Celebrate and remember those who have gone before us. Revere those who allowed so many here to enjoy and abuse the freedoms that were not brought upon so easily.
Sample RP: [3-5 paragraphs, 3rd Person POV]
In the earlier hours after the day of drunkenness a figure appeared in front of a door he had claimed within the time construct of the barge mere months ago but, for him a century had passed. The vampire stood outside his room, unable to lift his arm to turn the door knob in fear that the weight of such an effort would be too great. The vampire's head tipped at the slightest of angle downwards, his face awash with a melancholy that teetered on the edge of breaking into one that weeps freely.
And still he lingers.
"I suffer, Father, I suffer and I wander; I know nothing, and all I once knew seems illusory! I have nothing, Father. My senses are not even a memory. I have nothing here at all."
Her voice was as fresh in his mind as it were the day he had heard the ghost speak to him. They were words he would hold with himself for the rest of his damned existence. His beloved, Claudia, unable to pass and unable to rest was destined to wander on the plains between. It was completely his fault.
He would not stand in this room. After he had broken his vow never to give any other the dark gift, the vampire had longed for death. He did not wish for forgiveness and most definitely not the chance to return to this place in some poor quest for redemption. What could this existence possibly offer a creature such as him? Be it some cruel joke that he must linger in the place where he had shared with his beloved, and now his second love he had given the dark gift to would travel the dark road as well.
Louis could not possibly stand it another second. Silently, he stepped away from his room, his footfalls unheard in the corridor like a pale ghoul that haunted the cemeteries of Lafayette. He found a room somewhere on a floor beyond and entered it, finding the darkest corner within to keep himself to and sit silently on the floor.
Special Notes:
User LJ: Memskitch
AIM/IM: scalpelsplease
E-mail: memlafemme@gmail.com
Other Characters: Lucian, Severen
Character Name: Louis de point du lac
Series: The Vampire Chronicles
Age: 233
From When?: In 1999, after the ghost of Claudia tells him that he was used and that she never loved him. After he gives the Dark Gift to Merrick Mayfair, Louis commits suicide by placing himself into the sun to die. Louis is brought to the barge before Lestat and Merrick rouse him.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. Louis is a vampire who for over the last 100 years has murdered countless innocent lives. There was a time where the guilt that Louis felt over the act of murdering spun him into a terrible depression where he only fed off animal blood. However, that does not make his actions any less terrible. At this point of Louis’ life he has lost his remaining humanity and now freely gives into feeding his guilt by killing indiscriminately all the while essentially living in complex meld of apathy and misery
Abilities/Powers:
Physical: Due to the power of the barge; his regular enhanced senses, strength, speed and durability will be severely weakened. As a human, Louis died in peak physical condition at the age of 25 thus his now depleted physical strength is that akin to an above average man. Louis retains his enhanced visual acuity, having been an avid reader in life. If Louis’ hair or nails are cut, they will grow back as they were when he "died" during his sleep. At times Louis may be able to glamour a human, although he is not proficient at this and sometimes happens by accident. Additionally, Louis has a strong sense of empathy that is not drawn from his vampirism, rather his own heart and will cling to the emotions of a companion.
Blood: Louis requires blood nightly. Without blood [in order of preference and sustenance: human / animal / dead human / dead animal], Louis’ will may falter due to bloodlust and he may become single-minded to the thirst. His physical appearance will also change; looking gaunt and sickly if not fed. After feeding he will flush with rosy colour and his skin will be warm to touch. For Louis, blood drinking is a sensual experience akin to sexual arousal. Louis’ blood itself does have weak healing property if applied externally. He can turn humans into other vampires successfully.
Weaknesses: Sunlight, fire, beheading. Due to the drain on the barge, any wounds will take minutes / hours to heal, rather than seconds. Louis will cry tears of blood.
Personality: [You might include how they are going to react to all this. Please write this in complete sentences, and in paragraphs as you would in any normal area of the application. Do not divide into sections and label each with adjectives. This makes it seem choppy and harder to read.]
Louis de Pointe du Lac is the epitome of the sullen, brooding vampire; deadly and romantic. Although in the same way his behaviour as a vampire is quite unique.
When Louis was first made into a vampire he felt horrendous guilt on having to take the lives of humans nightly and resorted to feeding on animals. Unfortunately this did not last and there were times when the “thirst” took over and he could not help himself from taking lives. Unable to live with himself he tries to commit suicide. However, when his maker, Lestat, tricked Louis into feeding from a sick girl and turning her together, Claudia becomes a driving force in his abandonment of killing animals for humans having to set an example for his “daughter” and keep peace in the “family unit”. After Claudia was made he returned to killing humans indiscriminately because he believed he was truly damned from now on. As a vampire he believes that he is evil, and regardless of what he does on earth will not save him in the afterlife. Additionally; when Claudia persuades him to make another vampire to be a companion he finally loses the last thread of humanity left in him. Not soon after Claudia is killed, he takes his bloodthirsty revenge on the coven that orchestrated the murder, setting the building aflame with the occupants still inside and not caring if they lived out the night. For the remaining years of his life he wanders the world aimlessly, killing any human who crosses his path chaotically when the thirst demands it.
Physically, Louis has a delicate beauty that is indescribably breathtaking as heightened by his vampirism. Although he is tall and lean, he chooses to wear dark browns, greens and blacks. He cares vary little for his physical appearance, his long dark hair unkempt and often wearing out his clothes till they dishevelled. He has no care for the world around him. His possessions and property mean nothing to him. Because he has very little pride or vanity; Louis easily became an indiscriminate attacker. He does not have any particular taste for certain classes of victim and therefore takes those who cross his path, regardless of age, physical endowments or blessings bestowed by nature or fate. Additionally he is often at odds with himself as he cannot truly satisfy his thirst without killing though he is too weak of an immortal to truly risk the death of the victim in his arms.
Louis is a quiet contemplating vampire. He enjoys simple aesthetic pleasures; opera music, classical artwork, crickets at night, looking at the moon for hours. All of these things he will completely engross himself in and lose complete knowledge of the world around him, much to his companion’s annoyance at times. In particular; he has a fascination with fire and will sit for hours looking at candles and oil lamps finding them particularly intriguing. To Louis a fire is a thing of beauty yet a cause of great destruction. He has used arson three times in his life to solve his problems; 1) burning his plantation down to destroy the ties to his mortal life 2) burning his maker Lestat and 3) revenge against the coven that murdered his daughter and threatened to starve him in a coffin. He would much rather read and think than jump head first into an adventure without thinking of the outcome.
He is the most human of all the vampires for he continues to cling to this side of himself. Louis’s main weakness in his personality is his devotion to his loved ones. He put up with Claudia and Lestat’s horrendous and indeed monsterous need to live their lives as the very fiends vampires are portrayed as because he was bound not only by love to them but of the fear he would be left alone. By this love he would do anything to protect a loved one and lash out with extreme vengeance should anything terrible come to pass. He is the one that searches for the answers to his existence. Louis has a human tenderness, wisdom and empathy that set him apart from other vampires to which he had always had, even in life. He is the vampire who would listen and understand all your faults. After Madeline, Louis vowed he would never make a fledgling because he would never allow any human to endure the eternal pain he's felt in being a vampire. During this time he lost the meaning of life and mentally punished himself sins he has committed.
Path to Redemption:
Louis has much potential to be redeemed; there was a time where his guilt and the fear of eternal damnation steered him away from the taking of innocent lives. He felt guilt for his actions, he loved and empathised with his victims. However, as the years continued he became more distant from his human life turning more into the monster that he feared he would be (particularly after the events which led to the burning of the coven). The problem with Louis’ case is that he does not want to be redeemed for the choices he has made in his lot. Whether there is a God or not, he believes he has sinned and thus deserved to be punished.
A warden will need to convince Louis somehow that he is capable of goodness despite his vampiric state. As the main cause of Louis’ distress is the bloodlust innate to his physiology, a warden must think of a way for Louis’ bloodthirst to be sated without taking human life. His whole life he has searched for inner peace, and has only found peace when he kills. He has far more willpower than his comrades when it comes to his thirst, but unfortunately when his passions or needs bubble over the top he really does burst; either in blindly attacking someone or acting in a frenzied rage.
As an inmate he’d would not cause trouble, most likely keep to himself in the library or lock himself away in his room trying to not to kill humans.
History:
Louis’ history up to the end of Interview with the vampire.
This brings us up to 1976.
1985, Louis reads Lestat’s first novel (The Vampire Lestat) and is reunited with Lestat on the eve of Lestat's rock concert. Louis goes with Lestat to Lestat's rock concert. Vampires attack them and they are saved by Gabrielle. Akasha arrives and kills all vampires except for the ones that Lestat loves and the Children of the Millennium. Louis and the vampires gather at the Sonoma Compound where they listen to Maharet tell the history of their exisitence. Akasha arrives and Louis speaks out against her. Mekare arrives and kills Akasha, eating her brain while Maharet eats her heart, making them the new Queens of the Damned.
In the late 80’s, the vampires live together at Armand's Night Island. Louis, after listening to Jesse's meeting with Claudia's ghost, leaves for New Orleans in search of her. Lestat finds him at the Rue Royale Townhouse. They go for a walk to Louis' tomb. Then Lestat takes Louis on a flight around the world, ending up in London where Lestat meets David. Louis is in the shadows.
Louis moves back the New Orleans while Lestat and David have a trist. In 1991, while he lives on his own Lestat appears to Louis in the body of Raglan James (Tale of the Body Thief) as a mortal. He begs Louis to make him immortal again but he refuses. In a rage, Lestat burns Louis' house down. When Lestat regains his body back, he rebuilds the Rue Royale Townhouse and invites Louis to live with him which he accepts. After David is made into vampire, David goes to Louis for advice. The three of them live together at Rue Royale.
In 1994, Interview with the Vampire (the movie) opens in theaters. Brad Pitt portrays Louis, to which Lestat makes comment on in later novels. Louis returns to New Orleans to comfort Lestat after hearing about Veronica's Veil from the news. He brings Lestat to St. Elizabeth's where Lestat goes mad after seeing his eye returned. Louis begs Maharet not to chain Lestat. He then reads to Lestat in his cell and conforts him.
In 1999, Louis meets a witch called Merrick Mayfair and he falls in love with her. David asks Merrick to raise the ghost of Claudia for Louis. In a seance, Louis offers himself as the blood sacrifice along with a small locket with Claudia's only photograph in it. The ghost of Claudia tells him that he was used and that she never loved him, and he commits suicide.
Sample Journal Entry: [5-10 Sentences] (Since this is a reap I’m just posting old threads)
I first set foot on Louisianan soil in the late 1770’s. We were not Americans then, as the revolution was destined to rage on for some time. I could not tell you how old I was, for it was some time ago and I ask who can recall a clear memory of the earliest years of their lives. My father spoke to us of the battles that had weathered over the eastern territories and how the mortars of new countries were set by the blood of those who fight for it. The impoverished we saw here were not only Haitians and the less well off Creole artisans whose ventures were not prosperous, but also the few revolutionaries. Their stories of upset from across the borders made horrifying tales.
1791. I have been damned for four months. Lestat tells me the states of the East are thinking about naming the fourth of July as a day of Independence. To my fault, his blathering is lost on me as I am victim to my preternatural senses.
1803. I read the news of Louisiana’s purchase to the United States to my house. Lestat gives the French five years to reclaim the territory, but is optimistic about the growth of the city and the number of souls dwelling within it. Claudia is disinterested and plays with her porcelain dolls. We are Americans.
1804. We call July 4th Independence Day for the first time. We watch the fireworks display on the Mississippi. When the lights flash in the sky, Claudia holds my hand tight. Later that night, Lestat brings drunken revellers to the Rue Royale rabble-rousing jibes about freedom. Their souls are claimed not soon after.
1834. A wealthy socialite imports fireworks from France for a private Independence Day celebration. Claudia prefers to stay at home, I go anyway. It is my first Fourth of July without her.
1968. I return to the Mississippi for the celebrations. The lights are brighter and the crowds larger. I stand at the same spot as I had more than a hundred and fifty years ago, but there are no small ringers wringing my wrist. When I return home, Lestat will not be there having surely perished years previous due to my own actions (how wrong I was). My loneliness is most potent than it has been in an age.
Alas, it seems I am determined to ruminate. At times I feel to a creature such as myself that all that remains precious are memories. Celebrate and remember those who have gone before us. Revere those who allowed so many here to enjoy and abuse the freedoms that were not brought upon so easily.
Sample RP: [3-5 paragraphs, 3rd Person POV]
In the earlier hours after the day of drunkenness a figure appeared in front of a door he had claimed within the time construct of the barge mere months ago but, for him a century had passed. The vampire stood outside his room, unable to lift his arm to turn the door knob in fear that the weight of such an effort would be too great. The vampire's head tipped at the slightest of angle downwards, his face awash with a melancholy that teetered on the edge of breaking into one that weeps freely.
And still he lingers.
"I suffer, Father, I suffer and I wander; I know nothing, and all I once knew seems illusory! I have nothing, Father. My senses are not even a memory. I have nothing here at all."
Her voice was as fresh in his mind as it were the day he had heard the ghost speak to him. They were words he would hold with himself for the rest of his damned existence. His beloved, Claudia, unable to pass and unable to rest was destined to wander on the plains between. It was completely his fault.
He would not stand in this room. After he had broken his vow never to give any other the dark gift, the vampire had longed for death. He did not wish for forgiveness and most definitely not the chance to return to this place in some poor quest for redemption. What could this existence possibly offer a creature such as him? Be it some cruel joke that he must linger in the place where he had shared with his beloved, and now his second love he had given the dark gift to would travel the dark road as well.
Louis could not possibly stand it another second. Silently, he stepped away from his room, his footfalls unheard in the corridor like a pale ghoul that haunted the cemeteries of Lafayette. He found a room somewhere on a floor beyond and entered it, finding the darkest corner within to keep himself to and sit silently on the floor.
Special Notes: