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2_old_for_this) wrote2016-07-20 10:34 pm
2_old_for_this) wrote2016-07-20 10:34 pm
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Oh, boy, I have a newbie! I won't put the whole description from his app in here, so let me summarize.
Vampire!Jesus, vampire!Charlemagne, and vampire!Buffalo Bill teamed up with the UN Security Force to take down Beelzebub.
Okay, maybe I should be a little less succinct.
This is Peter Octavian.
He's from Christopher Golden's Shadow Saga: Of Saints and Shadows and the books that follow.
The Canon:
Peter comes from a world that for most people is just like ours. Or was, until about five years ago when everyone found out vampires, demons, and magic really exist, largely due to Peter and his friends.
You see, a long time ago, Earth was hunting ground for all sorts of demons and supernatural nasties from other dimensions. A vaguely divine force said "bugger this" and went down to put an end to it about two thousand years ago by inhabiting some guy, who killed the demons or forced them out of our dimension; he left a book behind with his followers that contained all the magical knowledge and spells they would need to further control and keep out said nasties: The Gospel of Shadows. Which stayed with his followers for about two thousand years, kept safe and known only to a small fraction of them, headed by one sorcerer at any given time.
However, during a fight with vampires, they bit him; normally, that would mean he'd become one of them - a really dark, wraith-like, blood-drinking, totally evil thing. But since he had the divine force in him, when he died, its influence combined with that of the true vampires and left him something that was a combination of divine, demonic, and human - a Shadow. These Shadows (him and his offspring) are what most vampiric legends are based on: former humans that need to drink blood to live, can shapeshift, and are basically no better or worse than humans.
The church doesn't know their origin, and can't control them, and really hates them. A thousand or so years ago, the church decided they were too powerful, and concocted a solution: they killed off as many as they could, and captured the rest. They brainwashed them to believe they could only shift to become "unclean" animals (wolf, bat, and rat) or mist, that garlic hurt them, that they couldn't step on holy ground or stand holy symbols, and that a wooden stake or the sunlight would kill them. Since Shadows have control over their bodies at a molecular level, this belief in these things made it so, and they've lived with those constraints ever since.
Until Peter Octavian.
We pause for another pic, because his PB is pretty.
Around the turn of the (20th) century, he decided he was tired of being a predator on humans, and that a lot of the Shadows' lives were bullshit, and he left his coven/family to set out on his own. He became convinced that sun wasn't really deadly, and tested it and made it so. He wondered a lot about what, exactly, the shadows were, and where they came from, and all sorts of existential things.
Meanwhile, the church's sorcerers became steadily more powerful and corrupt, and finally decided to wipe out all the Shadows at once, and screw worrying about collateral damage.
In a huge-ass showdown, the church let loose demons in the middle of Venice, killed a lot of people (and some Shadows), and totally broke their cover. The Shadows defended themselves, killed a lot of people, and also broke their cover. (Peter and Will Cody (aka Buffalo Bill, yes really) gave an interview on CNN.)
In the end, the church's sorcerer tried to tip the balance by summoning Beelzebub. The only way to get rid of him was to take the sorcerer to Hell, which Peter did.
Cut to five years later. Shadows are living in the open, albeit not without strife. Then that church sorcerer shows up again. With demons, and ghosts, and a Hell of a lot more power than he used to have. In search of someone to counter him, the Shadows go to Hell in search of Peter. They manage to bring him back - but Beelzebub hitches a ride in his skin, and breaks him open to escape.
And then the aforementioned battle happens. The Shadows win. But, in this version, a bit of the spell left over is going to try pulling Peter back to Hell. He's going to resist, and change course, and end up in Fandom.
Peter is going to be a bit messed up - see, five years in his world was somewhere around one thousand years in Hell. He spent that time being tortured, escaping, learning magic, and generally trying to escape and not having a very good time.
Just about Peter:
Peter was born May 29th, 1420; his name was Nicephorus Dragases. He's the bastard son of Constantine XI, the last Byzantine emperor. When the Turks were attacking and about to overrun Constantinople, a vampire came to him and offered to let him kill as many Turks as he liked, and he accepted. The vampire had a thing for renaming his coven with numbers - Una, Rolf Sechs, Alexandra Nueva, etc. So, the newest one became Peter Octavian.
He lived as a typical vampire until New Year's Eve 1900, when he finally admitted to them he'd given up on hunting humans and went off to live his own life. He hadn't killed humans for blood in just under 100 years in his world before ending up in Hell.
He's 6'4", slender, and carries himself like an old west gunslinger. He's got long brown hair and grey eyes flecked with silver; most people guess he's early- to mid-30s. He's got an adorable lopsided grin.
He's also got a total hero complex. He's a warrior, and he protects people. He's pretty patient overall (when he's not traumatized), but he'll be one of the first into battle.
His Powers:
Lots. He can shapeshift - not just into other animals and mist, but into things like fire, and steel, and wood. He can turn into a bird or sprout wings himself. This is what happens when you're really old and have full control of your body at a molecular level. He can also heal from pretty much any injury and is immune to sickness. He has sharper senses and more strength than humans.
On the magic side, he knows a lot of spells and has a lot of innate magic, too. He can call up or dismiss supernatural creatures, create portals to other places and planes, speak an insane number of languages, and heal others. He's got telekinesis. He can throw energy around (concussive and lightning-like). He can slow or speed up time in a localized area. If he can think it, he can pretty much do it.
All of these powers depend, to greater or lesser amount, on his ability to concentrate. If he's in enough pain or distraction, he can't shapeshift or manage a spell or anything. And he's still hesitant about using some of the things he learned in Hell, because they don't always come from the best state of mind and aren't always benign. But for the most part...yeah, he's not a guy to piss off.
If you've read this far, it's much appreciated. Here, have another PB pic as reward:
Vampire!Jesus, vampire!Charlemagne, and vampire!Buffalo Bill teamed up with the UN Security Force to take down Beelzebub.
Okay, maybe I should be a little less succinct.
This is Peter Octavian.
He's from Christopher Golden's Shadow Saga: Of Saints and Shadows and the books that follow.
The Canon:
Peter comes from a world that for most people is just like ours. Or was, until about five years ago when everyone found out vampires, demons, and magic really exist, largely due to Peter and his friends.
You see, a long time ago, Earth was hunting ground for all sorts of demons and supernatural nasties from other dimensions. A vaguely divine force said "bugger this" and went down to put an end to it about two thousand years ago by inhabiting some guy, who killed the demons or forced them out of our dimension; he left a book behind with his followers that contained all the magical knowledge and spells they would need to further control and keep out said nasties: The Gospel of Shadows. Which stayed with his followers for about two thousand years, kept safe and known only to a small fraction of them, headed by one sorcerer at any given time.
However, during a fight with vampires, they bit him; normally, that would mean he'd become one of them - a really dark, wraith-like, blood-drinking, totally evil thing. But since he had the divine force in him, when he died, its influence combined with that of the true vampires and left him something that was a combination of divine, demonic, and human - a Shadow. These Shadows (him and his offspring) are what most vampiric legends are based on: former humans that need to drink blood to live, can shapeshift, and are basically no better or worse than humans.
The church doesn't know their origin, and can't control them, and really hates them. A thousand or so years ago, the church decided they were too powerful, and concocted a solution: they killed off as many as they could, and captured the rest. They brainwashed them to believe they could only shift to become "unclean" animals (wolf, bat, and rat) or mist, that garlic hurt them, that they couldn't step on holy ground or stand holy symbols, and that a wooden stake or the sunlight would kill them. Since Shadows have control over their bodies at a molecular level, this belief in these things made it so, and they've lived with those constraints ever since.
Until Peter Octavian.
We pause for another pic, because his PB is pretty.
Around the turn of the (20th) century, he decided he was tired of being a predator on humans, and that a lot of the Shadows' lives were bullshit, and he left his coven/family to set out on his own. He became convinced that sun wasn't really deadly, and tested it and made it so. He wondered a lot about what, exactly, the shadows were, and where they came from, and all sorts of existential things.
Meanwhile, the church's sorcerers became steadily more powerful and corrupt, and finally decided to wipe out all the Shadows at once, and screw worrying about collateral damage.
In a huge-ass showdown, the church let loose demons in the middle of Venice, killed a lot of people (and some Shadows), and totally broke their cover. The Shadows defended themselves, killed a lot of people, and also broke their cover. (Peter and Will Cody (aka Buffalo Bill, yes really) gave an interview on CNN.)
In the end, the church's sorcerer tried to tip the balance by summoning Beelzebub. The only way to get rid of him was to take the sorcerer to Hell, which Peter did.
Cut to five years later. Shadows are living in the open, albeit not without strife. Then that church sorcerer shows up again. With demons, and ghosts, and a Hell of a lot more power than he used to have. In search of someone to counter him, the Shadows go to Hell in search of Peter. They manage to bring him back - but Beelzebub hitches a ride in his skin, and breaks him open to escape.
And then the aforementioned battle happens. The Shadows win. But, in this version, a bit of the spell left over is going to try pulling Peter back to Hell. He's going to resist, and change course, and end up in Fandom.
Peter is going to be a bit messed up - see, five years in his world was somewhere around one thousand years in Hell. He spent that time being tortured, escaping, learning magic, and generally trying to escape and not having a very good time.
Just about Peter:
Peter was born May 29th, 1420; his name was Nicephorus Dragases. He's the bastard son of Constantine XI, the last Byzantine emperor. When the Turks were attacking and about to overrun Constantinople, a vampire came to him and offered to let him kill as many Turks as he liked, and he accepted. The vampire had a thing for renaming his coven with numbers - Una, Rolf Sechs, Alexandra Nueva, etc. So, the newest one became Peter Octavian.
He lived as a typical vampire until New Year's Eve 1900, when he finally admitted to them he'd given up on hunting humans and went off to live his own life. He hadn't killed humans for blood in just under 100 years in his world before ending up in Hell.
He's 6'4", slender, and carries himself like an old west gunslinger. He's got long brown hair and grey eyes flecked with silver; most people guess he's early- to mid-30s. He's got an adorable lopsided grin.
He's also got a total hero complex. He's a warrior, and he protects people. He's pretty patient overall (when he's not traumatized), but he'll be one of the first into battle.
His Powers:
Lots. He can shapeshift - not just into other animals and mist, but into things like fire, and steel, and wood. He can turn into a bird or sprout wings himself. This is what happens when you're really old and have full control of your body at a molecular level. He can also heal from pretty much any injury and is immune to sickness. He has sharper senses and more strength than humans.
On the magic side, he knows a lot of spells and has a lot of innate magic, too. He can call up or dismiss supernatural creatures, create portals to other places and planes, speak an insane number of languages, and heal others. He's got telekinesis. He can throw energy around (concussive and lightning-like). He can slow or speed up time in a localized area. If he can think it, he can pretty much do it.
All of these powers depend, to greater or lesser amount, on his ability to concentrate. If he's in enough pain or distraction, he can't shapeshift or manage a spell or anything. And he's still hesitant about using some of the things he learned in Hell, because they don't always come from the best state of mind and aren't always benign. But for the most part...yeah, he's not a guy to piss off.
If you've read this far, it's much appreciated. Here, have another PB pic as reward: