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Player Details
Name/Nickname: Jessie
AGE: 25
Personal LJ Username: talia-of-eragon
E-mail: taliaoferagon@gmail.com
AIM/Instant Messenger(s): taliaoferagon
Time Zone: EST
Other characters in RP: Himura Tomoe, willing_sheath
How did you hear about dystopian_flux? Athy <3
Character Application
Character Name [Canonly Written]: Doris Lang
Series: Vampire Hunter D (novels)
Gender: female
The Item:: Her whip (made of specially treated werewolf hide with the ability to split into five tails)
Point with which your character has been taken from canon: Roughly a year after the end of the first novel.
Personality
If Doris Lang was going to be summed up in two words, they would be “spit fire.” She has one hell of a temper if it’s stoked in the wrong direction and she won’t hesitate to start a physical brawl under the right circumstances. She is extremely loyal to those she deems worthy of her loyalty. Unfortunately to this point in her life the number only totals four: her brother Dan, her deceased father, a deceased family friend (Dr. Ferringo), and of course, D. She is hesitant to extend herself to strangers--especially men, much like anyone from the Frontier. She lives in a world that is quite literally dog eat dog and trust is an extreme liability. She is also very determined. On the negative side of this she can be obnoxiously stubborn, on the positive side she can have unwavering conviction. It was this quality in her that made sure that she lived through the dealings with Count Lee-but unfortunately probably the reason the Count took interest in her in the first place.
Underneath the strong front Doris can be sensitive. This side of her has been ignored for years simply because she doesn’t have time to acknowledge it. She doesn’t have much of a choice other than to be strong, because she has been the only one there to keep things under control. When she’s given a rare chance to let everything sink in she actually can get fairly emotional. But she would rather tear her own eyes out of their sockets than allow anyone else to see it.
In regards to Veles, she will be perturbed for sure. Her number one concern will be for her brother being left alone on the Frontier. Considering the lengths she went through to make sure she was not left alone in such a dangerous environment. Once the initial shock has worn off, aside from the worry about her brother, she will probably like Veles on some level, for no other reason than that people will actually talk to her again, even if they learn that she was bitten by a vampire.
Powers/Abilities CANON: Doris has no special powers to speak of. She was raised by a werewolf hunter and trained in hand-to-hand combat and sharp shooting. While she is certainly not the best fighter out there, she canonically beats the crap out of men larger than her based on her fighting skills. She is an extremely accomplished marksman and rider, not to mention her skill with a whip. Being raised on a farm she is also very used to animals and hard work in general.
Powers/Abilities AU: Considering her abilities revolve around a realistic physical prowess there won’t be any change
History:
A brief history of the Frontier: Sometime in the 20th or 21st centuries nuclear war essentially destroyed the world. Mankind was almost entirely wiped out. Because they were generally unaffected by the nuclear fallout, vampires were allowed to essentially come out of the shadows and take over the world, lead by “the Sacred Ancestor,” said to be Count Dracula by those who actually knew what was going on. Over the next 10,000 years after “the great cataclysm” as it was called, society was molded by vampires-who became known as “the Nobility”-using a combination of magic and science and essentially enslaved humanity for many millennia. Eventually humans, being persistent and annoyingly good at overcoming their circumstances-rose up against the Nobility, throwing the balance of power back to the living. By the year 12,090 AD (the year the first novel was to have taken place) the world was still sparsely populated, there being one huge central city, simply known as “the Capital” and then the rest of the world, simply known as “the Frontier.” By this time most of the Nobility had been wiped out through war and the acts of individual “vampire hunters.” However, despite that fact, humans are still horrifically terrified of anything to do with the nobility (to the point that even kissing on the neck between two very human people is an extreme taboo).
That being said, Doris Lang was born on the Frontier, the daughter of a werewolf hunter. Her mother died whens he was young (for my purposes from illness when she was 11), leaving herself, her younger brother Dan (then 2) and her father (whom I have named John Lang). While her father was a renowned werewolf hunter in their sector of the frontier, the Lang family also ran a farm, so from the age of 11 Doris stepped in to raise her brother and essentially run the farm on her own during the times when her father was away. On top of this, John Lang made sure that his daughter wouldn’t fall victim to the atypical treatment of women on the Frontier by training her to be able to defend herself, and more than that, encouraging her spit-fire attitude and her unwillingness to allow people to take advantage of her. When she was 14, Doris’ father was killed on a hunt, leaving her to solely run the farm by herself and raise her brother, all the while holding the more greedy people of Ransylva back from basically taking the farm away from them.
It was a struggle, but Doris managed to hold things together, keep the farm running, and keep her brother in line. However, when she was 17 what would arguably be a fate worse than death to any Frontiers person happened to her. She was attacked and bitten by a vampire. Normally, vampire attack victims lose all their strength and essentially become motionless dolls content to lay about until their suitor returns to them. It would take extreme strength of body and will to even move under such an influence. Not only did Doris move, but she became instantly determined to not fall to that fate, her thoughts centered soley on what would happen to her brother if she were to be taken by the count, or if she (or the people of Ransylva) were to end her life. The treatment for vampire attack victims was different from sector to sector and town to town, but it was generally considered the honorable thing for a person to end their life if they had enough of their wits about them. Normally this was not the case, and the victim’s family or town would either end their life for them, or throw them out of town to be left for the vampire that bit them. For those with the funds to do it, some would attempt to hire a vampire hunter, but most hunters’ fees were so terribly high that more often than not one of the first two options was always taken.
Doris showed an extraordinary strength in not only pulling out of the lull of Count Lee’s bite, but in maintaining her normal strength and stamina, consumed wholly in making sure she didn’t fall to that fate and leave her brother alone entirely. With little choice, she went out to try to find a vampire hunter, waiting out on the highway that passed Ransylva. For each one that passed by she tested their strength herself by… basically attacking and robbing them, her thoughts being that if they couldn’t beat her, then there was no point in hiring them in the first place. She’d be better off facing the Count on her own. It took several days, and 8 would-be hunters, but she finally came upon one that bested her. That would have been the title character, D.
Over the next week much insanity occurred, including but not limited to: obnoxiously large breakfasts, milking cows, rampant murder, obsessive idiots, attempted rape, the destruction of cyborg horses, the epiphany and instant memory loss of garlic, near de-virgining, conveniently attacking mobs, becoming cannon fodder, and of course people dying and coming back to life. Gotta love Hideyuki Kikuchi…
In the end, D succeeded in killing Count Magnus Lee, thereby freeing Doris of the curse of “the kiss of the Nobility” and allowing her to continue on with her life.
And at this point I have to take what I know about the universe Kikuchi created and assume what happened to Doris afterward. Basically, with Count Lee dead, the townspeople couldn’t complain much about Doris remaining in her home. It was on the outskirts of town, after all, so they wouldn’t have to deal with her. However, because of that extreme paranoia of all Frontiers people to anything to do with the Nobility, Doris’ status as an attack survivor still had her marked. (Literally.) People who had known her for years would refuse to talk to her. Shop keepers would refuse to sell to her. On the occasions she would venture into town she would face animosity, and even hushed threats from the more fearful idiots of the town. After six months of this, she finally gave up, leaving any dealings in town to her brother and hoping he wouldn’t be taken advantage of because of his age (9 by then).
So bottom line, even though D saved her from either a fate worse than death or actual death, life isn’t exactly easy for her. Without the interference of the Flux Gate, she would go on to live out her life as a recluse, ever marrying or having any family to speak of.
RP Sample [First Person]:
[Is standing before the gate, very confused, very naked and VERY PISSED OFF. Shes holding her and over the left side of her neck, seemingly more concerned that it is on display than the fact she’s completely stalkers. In her right is a whip. She is literally shaking with anger and when the figures around her start closing in she sets the whip in motion with a flick of her wrist, skillfully setting the body of the whip to oscillating around her.]
All of you stay the fuck back. I said stay back!!
Now someone fucking tell me what’s going on. How the hell did I get here, what happened to my clothes, and WHERE THE FUCK IS MY LITTLE BROTHER!?! One of you bastards better give me some answers, or the first person who gets too close is having their face split like a fucking melon.
Why do you play this character? Well… Much like Tomoe, Doris is a fairly overlooked character, mainly because… the first VHD movie is very old and a lot of people don’t even remember it, and the books are obscure so not a lot of people know them. I find the social setting she is in to be interesting, and I enjoy exploring her reaction to setting her in a different setting. She’s probably going to feel like Veles is a bit of a vacation compared to the Frontier…
Name/Nickname: Jessie
AGE: 25
Personal LJ Username: talia-of-eragon
E-mail: taliaoferagon@gmail.com
AIM/Instant Messenger(s): taliaoferagon
Time Zone: EST
Other characters in RP: Himura Tomoe, willing_sheath
How did you hear about dystopian_flux? Athy <3
Character Application
Character Name [Canonly Written]: Doris Lang
Series: Vampire Hunter D (novels)
Gender: female
The Item:: Her whip (made of specially treated werewolf hide with the ability to split into five tails)
Point with which your character has been taken from canon: Roughly a year after the end of the first novel.
Personality
If Doris Lang was going to be summed up in two words, they would be “spit fire.” She has one hell of a temper if it’s stoked in the wrong direction and she won’t hesitate to start a physical brawl under the right circumstances. She is extremely loyal to those she deems worthy of her loyalty. Unfortunately to this point in her life the number only totals four: her brother Dan, her deceased father, a deceased family friend (Dr. Ferringo), and of course, D. She is hesitant to extend herself to strangers--especially men, much like anyone from the Frontier. She lives in a world that is quite literally dog eat dog and trust is an extreme liability. She is also very determined. On the negative side of this she can be obnoxiously stubborn, on the positive side she can have unwavering conviction. It was this quality in her that made sure that she lived through the dealings with Count Lee-but unfortunately probably the reason the Count took interest in her in the first place.
Underneath the strong front Doris can be sensitive. This side of her has been ignored for years simply because she doesn’t have time to acknowledge it. She doesn’t have much of a choice other than to be strong, because she has been the only one there to keep things under control. When she’s given a rare chance to let everything sink in she actually can get fairly emotional. But she would rather tear her own eyes out of their sockets than allow anyone else to see it.
In regards to Veles, she will be perturbed for sure. Her number one concern will be for her brother being left alone on the Frontier. Considering the lengths she went through to make sure she was not left alone in such a dangerous environment. Once the initial shock has worn off, aside from the worry about her brother, she will probably like Veles on some level, for no other reason than that people will actually talk to her again, even if they learn that she was bitten by a vampire.
Powers/Abilities CANON: Doris has no special powers to speak of. She was raised by a werewolf hunter and trained in hand-to-hand combat and sharp shooting. While she is certainly not the best fighter out there, she canonically beats the crap out of men larger than her based on her fighting skills. She is an extremely accomplished marksman and rider, not to mention her skill with a whip. Being raised on a farm she is also very used to animals and hard work in general.
Powers/Abilities AU: Considering her abilities revolve around a realistic physical prowess there won’t be any change
History:
A brief history of the Frontier: Sometime in the 20th or 21st centuries nuclear war essentially destroyed the world. Mankind was almost entirely wiped out. Because they were generally unaffected by the nuclear fallout, vampires were allowed to essentially come out of the shadows and take over the world, lead by “the Sacred Ancestor,” said to be Count Dracula by those who actually knew what was going on. Over the next 10,000 years after “the great cataclysm” as it was called, society was molded by vampires-who became known as “the Nobility”-using a combination of magic and science and essentially enslaved humanity for many millennia. Eventually humans, being persistent and annoyingly good at overcoming their circumstances-rose up against the Nobility, throwing the balance of power back to the living. By the year 12,090 AD (the year the first novel was to have taken place) the world was still sparsely populated, there being one huge central city, simply known as “the Capital” and then the rest of the world, simply known as “the Frontier.” By this time most of the Nobility had been wiped out through war and the acts of individual “vampire hunters.” However, despite that fact, humans are still horrifically terrified of anything to do with the nobility (to the point that even kissing on the neck between two very human people is an extreme taboo).
That being said, Doris Lang was born on the Frontier, the daughter of a werewolf hunter. Her mother died whens he was young (for my purposes from illness when she was 11), leaving herself, her younger brother Dan (then 2) and her father (whom I have named John Lang). While her father was a renowned werewolf hunter in their sector of the frontier, the Lang family also ran a farm, so from the age of 11 Doris stepped in to raise her brother and essentially run the farm on her own during the times when her father was away. On top of this, John Lang made sure that his daughter wouldn’t fall victim to the atypical treatment of women on the Frontier by training her to be able to defend herself, and more than that, encouraging her spit-fire attitude and her unwillingness to allow people to take advantage of her. When she was 14, Doris’ father was killed on a hunt, leaving her to solely run the farm by herself and raise her brother, all the while holding the more greedy people of Ransylva back from basically taking the farm away from them.
It was a struggle, but Doris managed to hold things together, keep the farm running, and keep her brother in line. However, when she was 17 what would arguably be a fate worse than death to any Frontiers person happened to her. She was attacked and bitten by a vampire. Normally, vampire attack victims lose all their strength and essentially become motionless dolls content to lay about until their suitor returns to them. It would take extreme strength of body and will to even move under such an influence. Not only did Doris move, but she became instantly determined to not fall to that fate, her thoughts centered soley on what would happen to her brother if she were to be taken by the count, or if she (or the people of Ransylva) were to end her life. The treatment for vampire attack victims was different from sector to sector and town to town, but it was generally considered the honorable thing for a person to end their life if they had enough of their wits about them. Normally this was not the case, and the victim’s family or town would either end their life for them, or throw them out of town to be left for the vampire that bit them. For those with the funds to do it, some would attempt to hire a vampire hunter, but most hunters’ fees were so terribly high that more often than not one of the first two options was always taken.
Doris showed an extraordinary strength in not only pulling out of the lull of Count Lee’s bite, but in maintaining her normal strength and stamina, consumed wholly in making sure she didn’t fall to that fate and leave her brother alone entirely. With little choice, she went out to try to find a vampire hunter, waiting out on the highway that passed Ransylva. For each one that passed by she tested their strength herself by… basically attacking and robbing them, her thoughts being that if they couldn’t beat her, then there was no point in hiring them in the first place. She’d be better off facing the Count on her own. It took several days, and 8 would-be hunters, but she finally came upon one that bested her. That would have been the title character, D.
Over the next week much insanity occurred, including but not limited to: obnoxiously large breakfasts, milking cows, rampant murder, obsessive idiots, attempted rape, the destruction of cyborg horses, the epiphany and instant memory loss of garlic, near de-virgining, conveniently attacking mobs, becoming cannon fodder, and of course people dying and coming back to life. Gotta love Hideyuki Kikuchi…
In the end, D succeeded in killing Count Magnus Lee, thereby freeing Doris of the curse of “the kiss of the Nobility” and allowing her to continue on with her life.
And at this point I have to take what I know about the universe Kikuchi created and assume what happened to Doris afterward. Basically, with Count Lee dead, the townspeople couldn’t complain much about Doris remaining in her home. It was on the outskirts of town, after all, so they wouldn’t have to deal with her. However, because of that extreme paranoia of all Frontiers people to anything to do with the Nobility, Doris’ status as an attack survivor still had her marked. (Literally.) People who had known her for years would refuse to talk to her. Shop keepers would refuse to sell to her. On the occasions she would venture into town she would face animosity, and even hushed threats from the more fearful idiots of the town. After six months of this, she finally gave up, leaving any dealings in town to her brother and hoping he wouldn’t be taken advantage of because of his age (9 by then).
So bottom line, even though D saved her from either a fate worse than death or actual death, life isn’t exactly easy for her. Without the interference of the Flux Gate, she would go on to live out her life as a recluse, ever marrying or having any family to speak of.
RP Sample [First Person]:
[Is standing before the gate, very confused, very naked and VERY PISSED OFF. Shes holding her and over the left side of her neck, seemingly more concerned that it is on display than the fact she’s completely stalkers. In her right is a whip. She is literally shaking with anger and when the figures around her start closing in she sets the whip in motion with a flick of her wrist, skillfully setting the body of the whip to oscillating around her.]
All of you stay the fuck back. I said stay back!!
Now someone fucking tell me what’s going on. How the hell did I get here, what happened to my clothes, and WHERE THE FUCK IS MY LITTLE BROTHER!?! One of you bastards better give me some answers, or the first person who gets too close is having their face split like a fucking melon.
Why do you play this character? Well… Much like Tomoe, Doris is a fairly overlooked character, mainly because… the first VHD movie is very old and a lot of people don’t even remember it, and the books are obscure so not a lot of people know them. I find the social setting she is in to be interesting, and I enjoy exploring her reaction to setting her in a different setting. She’s probably going to feel like Veles is a bit of a vacation compared to the Frontier…