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PLAYER INFO

Player Name: Tea

• Player Contact: PM, journal contact post, TeaMergency, discord if you know it
• Player Age: Adult
• Permissions

CHARACTER INFO

Character Name: Louis de Pointe du Lac

• Character Age: 61 (looks like 33)
• Character Canon: Interview with the Vampire (TV Series)
• Canon Point: end of first season (1940)
• Character History

Character Personality

• Humanity:
  Despite being a vampire with all the ferocity and hunger it insists on, he clings to his humanity. If he kills, it's out of need or reason or emotion, not just because he can. He generally doesn't want to kill, going through periods when he abstains from it, and ultimately derives no satisfaction even from his premeditated murders (like the alderman). His yearning for companionship and a relationship with humanity is part of what draws people to him. He has a great passion for the struggle between good and evil in himself, which can exasperate his more amoral vampire family. One look in his sad troubled eyes, and the entire human condition stretches out before you.
• Caring:
  He's capable of great love and nurturing towards those in his care. When he came into more money, he paid his employees better, secured better working conditions, and gave them shares to help the business fight a recent ordinance. He's affectionate with Grace and Claudia. After drifting away from his family due to his new life, he poured his affections onto Claudia, attempting to give her life advice and make sure she wanted for nothing. What started as a selfish redemption project for him quickly became more than he bargained for.
• Savvy:
  He's got book smarts and street smarts. He loves reading; it's his favorite hobby. He runs several businesses. He's climbed the social ladder enough that he can move in a variety of societies, from the streets of the red light district to a circle of white business owners.
• Passive:
  It isn't just that he's melancholy, which he cannot be blamed for. Louis perpetuates his own bad situations and refuses to leave them. He calls himself a coward for not trying to take steps to get out of leeching off the destitute, lying, stealing, drinking, watching as Lestat kills, etc. On the verge of leaving Lestat, he came back to beg him to save a girl's life, which turned out to be, in Daniel's words, a "band-aid on their shitty marriage." Despite Lestat's abuse and knowing he's "all kinds of fucked up," Louis took him back. He consistently looks for someone else to save him, whether it be Lestat or Claudia or... someone else.
• Unreliable narrator:
  Repression, baby! He paints a more flattering picture of himself concerning his morals and presentation. Not wanting to be seen as weak, he insists he is not a victim of abuse. He emphasizes the difficult situations society and Lestat put him in to excuse his complacency and inaction. He says he is a master of his instincts but still loses his temper. Only concerning Claudia is he more honest about his tenderness, but he isn't as free with information about her; she is a bittersweet subject. He hides the most sensitive things even from himself and refuses to address his trauma. He desperately needs to tell his story like a form of confession, but he edits his own narrative.
• Holier-than-thou:
  He tends to accentuate and lord his goodnesses over even those closest to him. He desperately wants to see himself (and others to see him) as a good man who has just been led astray and is doing his best. Though he willingly gave his life to Lestat, in anger he has blamed Lestat for taking it. He'd rather hurt people like an angry human being instead of like an amoral vampire. If he's repentant and suffers, like the sinners, like the martyrs, then at least he knows he's still human.
• Catty:
  If he can't (or doesn't want to) do violence on others, he can verbally snipe at them instead! When things turn sour with Lestat, he criticizes everything from his feeding habits to his literary comprehension.

Character Skills

• Running businesses
• Hiding bodies
• French

Character Inventory

• His coffin
• Cane knife
• Wool coat

Important Notes

In the spirit of putting the "horror" in "survival horror," I wish to preserve some vampire physiology.

• Bloodlust: Needs less blood than in canon (just to keep gameplay sustainable). It can be satisfied with animal blood, but this is less nourishing. Must be fresh; dead blood will kill him. It takes a good deal of control to drink just enough from a human and not kill. Deprivation leaves him a weak husk and eventually kills him.
• Food: Tasteless and not nourishing.
• Sun: Burning is still instant and noticeable, but not lethal.
• Aging: No aging maximizes the psychological damage of being immortal, an important theme in canon.
• Cosmetic: His eyes remain preternaturally pretty, nails look like glass, flesh looks more sculpted, fluids (e.g. tears) are blood.

Writing Samples

• TDM toplevel
• TDM tagin