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VIKTOR
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NAME: Viktor Remington

CANON: The World's Wimpiest Vampire

CANON POINT: flexible

AGE: ~29 during canon

SPECIES: Half-vampire/"enhanced" human

BLOOD TYPE: AB+

PRONOUNS: He/him

SEXUALITY: Bisexual

HEIGHT: 5' 11"

PB: Blair Redford (a; b; c; d)

history

		Recruited after being bitten at twelve years old, Viktor was among the best vampire hunters for the Organization for sixteen years. Like the rest of his colleagues, he believed the party line that vampires were all monsters, that the world was better off without them, and that the program they had put him through to keep him from becoming a full vampire was a gift that kept him from becoming like them.

Except little things began to seep in through the cracks, causing him to start asking questions. For a little while, he got away with keeping it to himself, but a slip on the job got him scheduled for "reconditioning". Terrified of the torture waiting for him, he was helped by a colleague and friend to escape instead, leaving him to face a life apart from everything he'd known since childhood.

Freedom from the Organization gave him the chance to research and learn more, and it wasn't long before Viktor realized how much of what he took for granted was wrong. He began to gather what connections he still could trust and mingle with the wider, less murderous parts of the vampire community, adjusting to this new weird life and remembering how to be a person instead of a job.
		
personality

		Calm, collected, and probably the most reasonable one in the room. Viktor tends to be prepared for anything, a side-effect of his training and his need to stay safe since leaving. It takes a lot to startle him enough to show it. He cares very much about people, and about the mistakes he's made, but that's a weight that's hard to drag around all the time. So he puts on an act of nonchalance more often than not, hiding his genuine thoughts until the situation is too bad to manage. It's the easiest way to pretend he has everything under control, rather than admit how lost he still feels some days.

✚ Cool-headed; prepared; curious; intelligent; caring; gentle; dependable; determined
– Performatively uninvested; pessimistic; curious; overly self-reliant; proud; traumatized; guilty
		
"enhanced"/half-vampire details

		DISCLAIMER: A solid 75% of this is headcanon, and can probably be tweaked for threading purposes, this is just how I default.

Viktor's state is stabilized somewhere between vampire and human; he is not fully either, kind of both. Human blood, in a strange way, helps remind his system what it's supposed to be; he most likely won't starve even if he doesn't get any for a long time, but it does tend to make his instincts and body go a little bit haywire after a while, the dormant vampire transformation trying to step in and not quite powerful enough to manage it. Vampire blood would send him the other way very quickly; however, once the transformation is complete, there's no going back.

Sunlight doesn't burn him, but it does irritate his eyes and start to prickle at his skin if it's been a while. After not having blood for a while, his senses get sharper; it's not vampire level, but still well above human. Reflexes and strength also get a boost. Human blood brings all these down, but even immediately after, he'll always be above a human's base level. It also stops him from growing back in his fangs, at least for now, but he's not sure if one day they'll find a way to surface despite everything they did to get rid of them.

He cannot shift forms and has no particular vampiric specialty in this state. He can eat and drink like a normal human for the most part, but he'll crave blood if he goes too long between feedings, even if he needs less than a true vampire.
		
other headcanons

		⊗ In the attack that turned him, the target was his parents; the original plan had been to get both him and his older sister, but she'd been determined when she got in the way of their mom, and she didn't end up surviving long enough to be bitten. Viktor had tried to fight back, but he'd been small and young enough that the vampire hadn't had a difficult time keeping him out of it.

⊗ Remembers extremely little about his entire family, or his life before the Organization. Some of that is age, some of it is trauma blocking out his normal life to make it easier to adjust.

⊗ The youngest successful recruit to Reuben's program; others were attempted, but no one younger survived.

⊗ While some of the older recruits were allowed to attend some kind of school, usually because they were within a year or two of graduation anyway, Viktor's age made them think he'd be a liability, too likely to slip and say something. Between that and the visible toll the conditioning had on him that young, he was basically "homeschooled" by the program, and his education is missing a lot of odd chunks due to that. He likes to read and has picked up a lot of random things over the years, but every once in a while something basic will be missing.

⊗ As of the start of the book he's been free of the Organization for about 10-11 months. The first few weeks were spent in motels, followed by a few months at the retreat, some figuring things out when he left there, and then getting his apartment three months prior. He took a supply of pills with him when he left and had been still taking them on and off, but by the time he got his apartment he'd run out.

⊗ Some of his connections are sketchier ones that he found useful as a hunter, especially once his faith in the Organization started to fade. He got back in contact with the ones he could trust not to want to work with the hunters, which got a jump on his network. He also kept in touch with a lot of vampires that came through the retreat while he was there.
		
player & preferences

contact
balsamandash; PM; Discord by request

activity/style
Central Time; irregular hours. I have several health issues, and some days I can't tag at all. If I haven't tagged back in a while and you want to make sure I got the tag or am still planning to return it, feel free to poke me. Default to present tense, but flexible and will try to match if you use past; no preference between prose or brackets, feel free to run with whichever you prefer.

offensive subjects
Player: No gore in picture prompts, no graphic descriptions of gore in tags; no eye trauma; no insects.
Character: Viktor was essentially a child soldier for a vampire hunter organization, whose family was killed by his mentor's plan when he was 12. He spent 16 years killing vampires before realizing they weren't all evil. He's got some complicated feelings about how he lived under this circumstance, what he's done, and what was done to him. He occasionally experiences choice paralysis, especially with things he's unused to. Blood and vampirism is also very likely to come up.

ooc preferences
backtags/slowtime: ✓
assumed cr: ✓ 
multiple threads: ✓ 
fake game setting/universe clashes: ✓ 
cross-canon, cross-medium, ocs: ✓✓✓

ic preferences
physical affection: ✓ -- Not something he's all that used to, but also not something he's likely to mind from people he knows.
physical violence: ✓ -- Viktor has enhanced reflexes and was trained from childhood to kill things stronger and faster than him. He doesn't really want to fight people who don't threaten him, but he won't hesitate if they do.
mindreading/psychic abilities: ✓ -- He's smart enough and used to weird stuff enough to figure it out, but has no magical way to know.
romance/smut: ✓ -- M/any. Given how he grew up and his focus on his job, he likely has next to no experience with romance at all. Sexual experience is more up in the air but probably limited if not non-existent.
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VIKTOR

Someone needs to keep you idiots from getting killed.

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