Basic StatisticsPhysical Traits
Hair: Dark brown; Kipling’s hair hangs down to the middle of his
back, and is pulled back into a long ponytail. His bangs are a bit long, and
he pushes them to either side of his head if they get annoying enough.
Eyes: Pale red
Complexion: Pale; although his skin is perfect, it is dead and white
Height: 6’1”
Build: Thin; despite having enormous strength, he has no muscle tone
to him, nor any real mass. His torso is longer than what it should be, making
him look unfinished.
Distinguishing Features: Besides the white skin, he also has pointed
canines that protrude over his lip, as well as four holes in each ear and an
eyebrow ring in his right eyebrow.
Mental Statistics
Strengths: Kipling is a very strong willed man who won’t bow down to anyone’s
cause without deeming it necessary himself. He follows his own course in life,
and doesn’t expect anyone else to follow. He’s eager to help people
understand him, and eager to let them form their own opinions. Loyal, he’ll
fight on any grounds if it will help those he cares about. Moreover, he’s
friendly, ready to listen to problems and help sort them out, no matter who
you are.
Weaknesses: Kipling can be a bit too trusting at times. He goes with what sounds
good, and only realizes how bad it is once he’s trapped into it. He can
find a way out of it, but his trusting nature causing him to get into one too
many situations that aren’t favorable. He also isn’t very opinionated,
never letting people know what his real opinions are, and generally just agreeing
with whoever is there. He has trouble making decisions that will effect change,
in fear that it will hurt someone in the long run.
Fears: He fears what he has become, worried that his humanity, what he has left,
will soon disappear, and he will become like the others. He fears the fact he
can’t see his own reflection, unless it’s a mirror enchanted by
a powerful mage. He fears mortality, and what it’s done to family and
friends. He’s also deadly afraid of rabbits.
Favorites:
Food: blood
Color: red
Music: Classical and anything that doesn’t hurt his ears
In General: seeing things done properly, being left to his own devices, computers
Least Favorites:
Food: anything else
Color: yellow
Music: rap and any other harsh sounding music
In General: working with others, following orders, failure
Hobbies: reading, learning computer programming, running the vampire species
Talents: programming, working with small objects, getting people to follow his
orders
Personality: Kipling, in a word, is a strong willed man who will do just about anything as long as it benefits either himself, or something close to him. He is severally loyal, and it is hard to lose his trust once you gained it. However, it is easy to gain it, because Kipling still hasn’t learned who not to trust. He’ll follow just about any scheme if you act like he’s in command. In all, though, Kipling, despite his reputation, is friendly and eager to please.
Family Statistics
Mother: Burdette Rose Korbin (née Hanecock): Born July 12,
1733 in Ardente, Vampa; died June 15, 1800. Burdette was a fairly happy woman,
eager to please and ready to do her work. She was a housewife, and that’s
all she was capable of being. She took care of her children, and loved and nurtured
them. She was quite content with her life, and her only regret was not having
a daughter.
Father: Perry Edward Korbin: Born June 10, 1730 in Ardente, Vampa;
died August 13, 1784. Born on the verge of industrial revolution, Perry was
on top of any technology that came his way. He was fascinated by anything that
moved on its own accord, and loved to take things apart. He introduced that
love to his sons when they were of the right age, and was quite pleased when
they enjoyed it as well. Late in his life, he opened a small repair shop, which
is still in the family today.
Sibling(s): Perry Lyman Korbin: Born October 11 in Ardenta, Vampa,
1753; died 1815. Lyman was born the first son, and had such privileges. While
his parents didn’t spoil him, he still had first pick of everything, and
somehow knew he was slightly better than his older brother. He created rivalries
between them that didn’t really exist. He was all too happy when his father’s
repair shop was handed down to him, and he made sure his three sons and one
daughter became interested in to craft as well.
Spouse: none
Children: none
Primary Home Language: Vampa, which is very similar to Latin.
Nationality: Vampa; born in Ardente, Vampa.
History
Kipling Perry Korbin was born to Burdette and Perry Korbin in the great city of Ardente on the Vampa peninsula on the Great Northern Continent. As such, he enjoyed a freedom that many children his age weren’t allowed to have, since the Northern Continent at the time was moving past the need for slaves and manual labor. He was the second child born, and had to endure his brother’s curious pokes and prods as a child. Still, the two remained close, even when Lyman acted superior to him.
When he entered school, his father deemed him worthy to help him learn about technology that was coming in. Mostly, it was basic machinery, but it was nothing the small town had ever seen before. While Lyman was moderately interested, Kipling was fascinated, and excelled at learning how things work even faster than his father. He could figure out gears and mechanics quickly, despite his age, and would show his father.
Technology advanced as Kipling grew older, and Lyman seemed to make it a point to show up Kipling in fields other than mechanics. Their mother watched joyfully as Lyman shined in academics where Kipling did moderately well, and Lyman was clearly the athletic son. Kipling was forced to participate in several sports activities to get him out of the house, and he, once again, did moderately well, and did enjoy himself. Some of his fondest memories are of going to the backyard, and playing various games with his brother.
However, his family became worried about him as he grew older and showed no interest in girls. All the boys his age were courting young girls, and Kipling was content on staying inside, fiddling with something, or else hanging with his male friends. Lyman wooed a gril, and married at a young age, but Kipling, while happy for his brother, saw no problem with his waiting. After all, marrying at an early age was taboo now, and young men and women were encouraged to wait.
Things were looking up just as Kipling turned twenty. A young girl of like mind to himself, quiet and preferring to read and be by herself, caught his eye, and, following Lyman’s example, he began to court her. He had never seen his mother happier than when they discussed this girl together, and Kipling enjoyed it. His father, for his part, was just proud that his son finally found someone.
Unfortunately, it turned out there was a reason the girl kept to herself. In her youth, she had picked up a vampire suitor, and, while she didn’t want anything to do with him, he still hung around and ‘protected’ her. When he found out about Kipling and her interest in him, he immediately attacked. Kipling, taken by surprise on the dark night, didn’t put up much of a fight, and was all too quickly killed.
Somehow, though, as he was dying, he kicked the vampire in the face, breaking the skull in several places, and killing the creature instead. It slumped against Kipling, and he shoved it aside, finding blood on his fingers. He felt his life draining away, and absentmindedly licked his finger before succumbing to the darkness.
When he awoke next, he was sure he was in heaven until he realized he arched all over. It felt like all the nerves in his body were on fire, and, despite the dark, he could see everything perfectly. Startled, he sat up quickly, and found himself on his own bed. However, his room had been adorned in the traditional mourning decorations, which confused him, since, quite obviously, he was quite alive. Blinking, he got out of bed, and moved to the mirror to see the extent of the damage.
That one look told him everything, as he couldn’t see his reflection. Even with his befuddled mind, he knew what that meant, and cursed his luck. To make matters worse, his mother came in just then, crying over her dead son, only to find him staring at a blank mirror. She stuttered for a moment before running out of the room screaming. His father came dashing in, thinking someone was trying to steal his son’s body, and nearly beat his son to death again with a shovel.
While his parents were overjoyed that their son hadn’t died in the traditional sense, it was also clear that he could no longer stay in his town. Arrangements were made, and soon Kipling found himself on a boat crossing the ocean that separating the north and south continents. Apparently, the rumor that vampires can’t cross water wasn’t true.
Kipling spent several months in the southern continent, looking for a tribe of vampires he had heard lived there. Few people ran at the sight of him, several more took pity on him and took him in for a few days. No one seemed to know where to send him. Just as he was about the give up, he found a fellow vampire, a woman, in a meadow hunting a deer. She was the most beautiful creature he had ever seen, although she was several years his senior. She, like many others before, took pity on him, and took him to her village.
He was accepted instantly, and Kipling was allowed to relax. He was taught all manner of being a vampire, since he was just winging it before, and, while he had a bit of trouble taking the blood of a human, he quickly learned to ignore his distaste if he wanted to remain alive.
After a few years, he was ‘adopted’ by the woman who saved him, who acted like a mother figure to him despite his age. She was the wife of the current Vampire King, and he was allowed to follow him around and learn the ropes of what the King did. He was accepted into the royal family quite easily, although he was a human-turned instead of a born vampire like the rest of the family. Although his human half kept him from achieving the same things as his peers did, he was able to keep his image clean in the eyes of the King.
Nearly a hundred and fifty years past in this manner. The worst part of the ordeal was the lack of technology in the southern continent, as it was slow to adapt here, and he all but attacked anything brought into the village. This only caused more to come in, as it was quite evident the adopted son of the King was quite the mechanic. He was pleased, however, by the fact that no one seemed to notice he still had no interest in girls.
His whole world was shattered one night, however, with the news that the King, on a hunting trip in a nearby human habitation, took a stake to the heart, and was killed instantly. A fight broke out among the sons of the King while the Queen lay in mourning. But that was not the worst of it for Kipling, who kept his distance during the time of mourning. Several days later, a document was discovered, in the King’s handwriting, that declared Kipling heir to the throne.
This caused an outrage among the princes, the legitimate heirs to the throne, but nothing could be done. The king had spoken, and the deed was done. The villagers were more outraged by the fact that there had never been a human-turned King before, and had to succumb to his rule. Kipling, in his gentle nature, had no clue what to do.
Luckily, all those years of training with the King and his children paid off as Kipling was forced to make decisions. They all satisfied his people, and soon, the entire vampire population accepted his rule. His decrees were a bit less harsh on humans than previous Kings, but that was forgiven. As the decades went by, the people became used to his ideas on certain things, and Kipling learned the correct way to rule.
Recently, while leading an attack on the capital city of Adria, since the Mages had slowly been encroaching on their territory, Kipling was shocked by a girl, not even thirteen years old. She was clearly a Fire Mage, as Kipling had learned to spot their body temperature, but she didn’t attack him. In fact, she seemed as interested in him as he did of her.
Intrigued now by a Fire Mage who doesn’t attack a vampire, Kipling started to search out the girl to find out more about her. He encountered her several times to see how she would act, and still, it was with compassion for him. She remarked at one point that she wasn’t that good of a hand to hand fighter, so he allowed her to test a few things on him. He discovered this was very much true, and started teaching her. After all, she wasn’t always going to run into a friendly vampire.
At first, his people were rightfully outraged that their King would show mercy and befriend a Mage, much less a Fire Mage. Somehow, though, they slowly accepted his decision, and somehow, the Fire Mage came under the protection of the vampires. None would attack her, and most treated her as he did. She wasn’t aware of it, of course.
As she grew closer to his physical age, he noticed she started to become prettier,
and soon her knew he was in love. This didn’t feel at all like the first
time, and he realized now that he wasn’t in love when he was attacked.
Still, it unnerves him, as she could never love him back, since she’s
mortal.
Magical Statistics
Magical Power: Vampire King – ability to control vampires and other dead
things to do his bidding.
Weapon: Gem of the Damned; a cut black stone which is the source of his ability
to control other beings.
Accessories or Anything Else: none
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