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[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Myra
AGE: 25
JOURNAL: agent-myra
IM: myrareldon
E-MAIL: cavetedivia[at]gmail[dot]com
RETURNING: Yes, returning player, no other characters
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Aaron Grey
FANDOM: Movie - The Breed (2001)
CHRONOLOGY: After the events of the movie, and after the last year spent in The City
CLASS: Hero
SUPERHERO NAME: N/A
ALTER EGO: Detective Aaron Grey, local police for the vampire community
BACKGROUND:
Aaron Grey, as a human, was a Polish Jew during the rise of the Nazi regime. When the move from the ghettos to the concentration camps was ordered, he decided to flee with his wife and daughter. Taking underground routes until they reached the forests, they managed to outrun the German soldiers that pursued them. It was, however, the middle of winter, and while they escaped, the wife and daughter succumbed to the freezing temperatures, and Aaron was soon to perish as well. At this time, a vampire named Freidrich Cross came across him, turning him into a vampire and sending Aaron to take revenge on the German soldiers by slaughtering them and drinking their blood.
At the time of the movie, Aaron Grey was the chief Detective of the Serenity Police department, a vampire community founded and led by Cross. The community was split over Cross’ revelation to the human totalitarian state concerning their existence. To make matters worse, it appeared that a member of the community who opposed the coexistence had made a political statement by killing women in the area and making it obvious that a vampire was doing it.
Trust was hard to come by, and there was much double-crossing and misleading in the pursuit of the murderer, while Aaron tried to work with a human cop, Grant, who thought of vampires as something to be exterminated, but as he and Aaron gained each other’s respect, he learned to trust them.
Aaron was in the end, double-crossed by Cross, who slashed his throat, bringing him within an inch of his life, and leaving him going nearly insane from lack of blood. Capturing Grant, he put Aaron on the other side of a glass door from Grant, both men imprisoned. It took every ounce of Aaron’s willpower to keep from killing Grant when the door was opened, and instead, found the strength to break out of the prison and attack Cross.
In the end, through teamwork between a nearly-dead Aaron, and a well-beaten Grant, they killed Cross using silver bullets and a grenade, and saved the last victim. While the political situation between humans and vampires was still tense, the resolution of the situation and the success of Grey and Grant had helped improve the situation.
Then Aaron was transported to The City. There, he joined the police force, and found them willing to accept a vampire to their ranks as he quickly proved his loyalty and capability. He kept mostly to himself, falling back into old habits from his time working on the vampire police force alone. This proved to be a poor situation, as a few months later, he would find himself captured and tortured at the hands of The Major. This would forever change The Major’s presence in the city, allowing him to rebuild his vampire army, if a variation of it, and invade the city on a large scale.
Aaron spent the rest of his time tracking down villains sought by the police, and trying desperately to rebuild the reputation of vampires in the city, even if his peers seemed to not hold anything against him, he felt directly responsible for the events that occurred in April 2010. Almost six months later, he’d find himself falsely accused of murder during another plot by The Major, and would willingly go to prison in hopes that the police force would be able to sort things out. He was eventually released, moved to a new apartment, and continued on with his daily life.
After Aaron was ported back home, his old life putting up with Grant and Lucy, and working to improve human-vampire relations resumed. He was given but a few precious months during his absence in which to try and undo the damage that Cross had done months earlier. It was proving a daunting task, and right when he was in the middle of an argument with Agent Grant, he found himself once again staring out from the Porter and hearing that familiar greeting.
PERSONALITY:
Experiencing the Holocaust has left Aaron a scarred man. The loss of his wife and daughter is simultaneously his most powerful, and crippling memory. His enemies have a habit of needling the issue, and while he’s had nearly 70 years to live with the memory, it has not lost its potency.
His greatest regret is not just the loss of his family, but also the way in which he exacted his revenge. It was here where he was turned to a vampire by Cross, and sought out the nearest Nazi outpost, locating the soldiers who had chased his family into the forest. He kills them all, losing his mind as he drains them of their blood savagely. He is startled by his own brutality, and his regret over the situation stays with him.
It is this haunting memory that he uses to keep from attacking Officer Grant after Cross has locked them together in a holding cell, expecting a starved Aaron to kill the man. His willpower is staggering; earning an impressed comment from Cross before Aaron breaks out of the holding cell using only his brute force, as he focuses his memories to direct his bloodlust-driven instincts for survival on escape, instead of killing Grant.
Aaron has been, and always will be a family man. Given the opportunity to know someone well, he can open up a little and show some of the compassion he had locked away after losing his wife and daughter. While he never remarried, he’s extremely dedicated to his community and is very familiar with many of the local vampires, if not on a friendly basis, then a professional one. Most of his time however is spent working alone, tracking down the deviants and criminals in service to the people he’s sworn to protect. He puts the lives of others above his own, even if he doesn’t agree with them, or thinks poorly of them. This behavior carries over into his city life. He is fastidious about keeping track of the known vampire population in the city, and feels directly responsible for any actions they take that may harm Import and Mundane citizens alike. He is a dedicated officer of the law, and a devoted friend.
He is very quick to take offense, and finds stereotypes frustrating and often infuriating, especially when others attempt to apply the label to him. He has a short fuse when this happens, but his self control and willpower allow him to maintain the appearance of composure as he warns the offender that they are treading on thin ice. If he’s pushed, he will lash out, first verbally and then physically. He has enough control not to hurt the offender, but he will shove them around.
Aaron has trouble trusting others, and as a result, has worked hard to hone his ability to detect when people are lying. He takes a professionally courteous approach when he deals with liars, but does not tolerate such antics for long, and will resort to other means of gaining information from individuals if they try his patience. He is not beyond a small measure of subterfuge to get what he needs to continue with a case, should the occasion call for it.
POWER:
Walking in Daylight - [canon] though he is a vampire, daylight only provides a minor irritation, so Aaron wears sunglasses when he finds it bothersome. There is no bursting into flames or burning of the skin.
Vampire abilities - [canon] super strength (can technically lift a truck by the fender, throwing, is not possible without extreme efforts); heightened senses (smelling when a person has been nearby, hearing a man’s heartbeat); improved speed; fast healing; climbing vertical, nearly smooth surfaces
Weaknesses - [canon] vampires in this incarnation are allergic to silver, the body will not heal properly until the bullet is removed, it can possibly bleed out and die if the wound is not tended.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
Aaron reacts to Jan’s escape from the Super Jail, and works to set up a way to find out what The Major might have planned this time.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Aaron invites Seras over to see his new apartment. They have tea, and a very serious discussion that touches on their human pasts, and gives them a better understanding of each other.
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