Nykolae Demetri Sovereign

[attr="class","appcontent2"]"You know how they tell you to hang onto your humanity? To remember the person you used to be? Well, I didn't listen. The things I had done were unforgivable and best left forgotten." Nyk has completely embraced his vampire side. As a human, he'd been ridiculed, tortured and misunderstood. Everything he'd done, had forced him to believe it was his fault; his conception, his mother's death, and the hatred of his neighbors. He felt it was only right to "shut off" his emotions when he reached "adulthood" and fully embrace the vampire he truly was. Deep inside, Nyk had always been a little "off". He had desires that, in the human world, he would never have acted on but as a vampire, felt no shame. It wasn't hard either. He had gained his mother's fine features that could turn heads anywhere he went. He played on them well. At a tender age, he had been given to the orphanage run by the nuns of his village. Even then, he'd been different. The nuns, bless their souls, tried to help him by hiding his true nature from the other children. They would give him small animals to feed from and set him upon criminals when he was feeling particularly feisty. But when he was growing faster than the other children of his age, he was forced out of the orphanage, for his own protection they'd said. But it was there Nykolae learned the hardest lessons of his young life. The men and women of the village were much smarter than abandoned whore's children. They noticed the red rings in his eyes when he got into fights and even noticed bite marks on women he hung around. He was captured, beaten, starved and tortured simply because he was different; because he was a monster. It changed Nykolae. He began to realize that being human wasn't what it was all cracked up to be. But it wasn't until the blood connection that had tied him to his biological father was broken, sending the young vampire into a dangerous downward spiral, did Nykolae fully embrace the monster he was. He left his home village and traveled the world, wooing women, drinking exotic blood and partaking in life's greatest pleasures without the least bit of worry. He had no plans, no future and certainly no one to care about. He had a natural charm that drew people to him, which worked in his favor. His mother had died to provide him life and his father, who had merely designed his existence had gone and gotten himself killed. All the vampires he'd come across had looked down their noses at him, a hybrid was garbage. Too much human blood in their veins and all the humans he'd come across he either wanted to fuck them, drain them dry or kill them. To say that Nykolae has no ambition is putting it lightly. To live an eternity is too long for him. He just wants a new challenge, a new reason to live and certainly to be left the fuck alone. In all honesty, Nykolae needs a companion. Someone who can provide him all the comforts he needs but also remind him that, though he was a vampire, he is also still human.

[attr="class","appcontent2"]To understand Mykolae's history, you have to go back to the very beginning, to his parents. His mother was a noblewoman expected to marry a wealthy nobleman on her sixteenth birthday. One night, she heard a tapping at her window and found her eighteen year old suitor playfully throwing rocks at her window to get her attention. The two, though betrothed to be married, had long since fallen in love with each other so it wasn't hard to make the decision to go on a nightly run through the vineyards above the village. But what the young couple didn't realize was that they were being targeted. A vampire by the name of Oliver had first, only decided to take the young man as his food source but when the sprightly young female attacked him, he had no choice but to kill the man and take her instead. Nyk's conception was purely accidental. The young woman fought the vampire as best as she could, even managed to latch her teeth into his hand, consuming his own blood first, before he had his way with her and disappeared back into the vineyard. She was found in the morning, drenched in blood and fighting for her life. It was assumed that Gretchen had been attacked by her lover and in self defense, had killed him but not without her own injuries.

When she wound up pregnant, the family sent her to the nunnery out of pity. She would never be wed to another. A rape victim would always be a victim. But it wasn't until her three months of pregnancy had come and she went into labor did the church know what really happened. They allowed Nykolae to be born only in the hopes of saving his mother but Nykolae killed his mother on his way out, her life blood covering the floor of the infirmary. Since the day of his birth, he had been treated different, even those who didn't know true nature. The nuns feared that the violent way he'd come into the world had effected him. He was constantly hungry, always wanting blood and had strange desires that most children didn't have. When he began to grow faster than the other children in the orphanage, the nuns sent him out into the world, for his own protection they had told him but it turned out to be hardest lesson for Nykolae, and a turning point in his life. Tortured, starved, and cursed, he was turned away from everyone. It wasn't until he left his home village and began to travel the world he came into his own. He's found himself in America, now, a place where he has free reign to sink his fangs into anything he wants and a place of endless possibilities. With no real goal or future in mind, Nykolae lives day by day.