Cyrus (Vampire Bio)

Basic Information

Birth Name: Cyrus

Aliases: Cyrus Arslantai, Cy

Place of Birth: a Yurt in SE Asia

Age:(real and apparant) Born 873 making him over 1,130 years old. He looks 25.

Male/Female: Male

Current Occupation: Wanderer

Past Occupation: (If different from above)

Appearance

Hair Color: Black with a slight brown sheen when the light hits it right

Length and Style: Messy, not longer than his chin but cut in odd layers all about his head. The style is his own and looks messy most of the time, but can be slicked back should he need it to look nice.

Eye Color: Golden

Skin Color: Light olive tone, pale but not unearthly.

Height: 5'6" Which was considered quite tall when he was human

Weight: 153lb

Nationality: American at the moment, excellent forged papers. Was Mongol at birth.

Race: (I.E. Vampire, human etc.) Vampire

Body Type: Slightly short, lithe but musuclarly toned, he is much stronger than he looks.

Description (if an NPC) or name of your creator(if a PC): Temutai had wandered with the Mongols in Europe. He came back to visit his family who was part of Cyrus' clan. His excessive thirst drove him to kill several, when he turned Cyrus in an effort to assist himself in stopping killing. He met the dawn in 1298.

Personal Questions
1. Describe your character's personality
Cyrus is always in search of something. He travelled very lightly for the first 500 years, following his upbringing in being pastoral. Once he settled in Europe he began to collect things. This hobby has made him wealthy but he is always wandering and searching. Never quite happy.

2. Describe how your character would appear to a stranger (I.E. typical dress, way they carry themselves etc.)
Cyrus has a prowling gait, golden eyes that seem to catch everything and an uncanny knack for showing up where you least expect him. He has vaugely asian features partially obscured currently with piercings. He has embraced the goth culture and frequently wears leathers, black and silver chains.

3.What does your character like? Finding something he wants and acquiring it. Order in his home and around him. Loud pounding music, dim lights and sexy women.

4. Dislike? Fire, lit candles and dogs.

5. (For humans) Describe what abilities you see your character having if they were turned. (n/a)

6. What are your fears? Fire and extreme disorder to his home. His collections being distroyed or damaged

7. What is your character's strengths and weaknesses? Cyrus is very strong, limber as well as a good fighter. He appreciates the finer things in life but can survive without. He has very large teeth as well as deathly afraid of fire. He does not even have a single candle in his home.

Hobbies & Skills - Horsebackriding as he did for so much of his youth, wandering, knife fighting, climbing trees, collecting things, and a distinct affinity for cats of all kinds.

Abilities
Shapeshifting - Cloud Lepard (see here for more details)
Agility
Gliding
Telekinesis

Flaws
Excessive Thirst (from Temutai)
Afraid of Fire
Large teeth

Cosmetic Traits(These must be minor, see the rules)
A multitude of piercings (2 left eyebrow, nose, lip, ear and ear cartiledge, and two more hidden ones.)

Quirks and Habits worthy of mention
He likes to be up high as in sitting on counters, climbing trees, horseback. Has the annoying habit of walking on top of things from curbs, raised flower beds to fences, walls and rooftops. He wears a variety of hidden knives disguised as jewelery. Frequently he can be so extremely still that one could forget he was there.


Personal History (Please be detailed, this creates your basis for your character)
Cyrus was born to the Mongol in SE Asia in 873. His clan wandered with the herds of yak on stout horses. When he was young a clansman went with several other clans in a raiding party to Europe. Only Temutai returned to the clan, and he was changed. He had an excessive thirst that caused the death of the party as well as many in the clan upon his return. Temutai had helped train Cyrus in his youth, so upon draining him of blood he grew remorsefull and slashed open his own wrist in an effort to preserve the youth. This only carried the curse over to Cyrus. They left the clan immediately so as to not infect or kill any more.

They wandered through the clans for 400 years. Watching the invasion of Persia. Watching the rise of Gengis Khan. Temutai grew weary with an unquenchable thirst and finally met the dawn on a cold morning in 1306. Cyrus wandered alone for 100 more years, keeping to his clan's old ways as much as possible. Learning new traits. He spent years in the jungles living as a cloud leopard after developing the ability to shapeshift.

Finally he ventured to Europe to see if there were others of his kind. He found them and formed a very loose association with Anantya. He has never called their location home but has visited it upon occasion. He has travelled everywhere and seen so much and yet still finds himself searching.

He has a home that he acquired centuries ago in China. He has travelled to Nachton in hopes of strengthening his ties to Anantya and adding to his collections.

Odd Questions(To help define your character)
1. A stranger at a bar offers your character a drink, what is a typical response?
If its a beautiful woman, get her name, number and blood type, personally. Raise a brow at a male in thanks and engage him in conversation.

2. Your character finds a lost child alone on the streets. What do they do?
Sip from it then drop it off at a church or police station.

3. A barfight erupts in the nightclub your character is in, what do they do?
Move closer to the speaker and palm a blade or two.

4.What animal does your character most identify with?
Snow Leopard.