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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Samuel Henderson Age: Looks 17, is actually 27 Subject taught: School nurse. Doctor. Guy. Canon: MAI BRANE Be afraid. Canon point: I will use this space to babble at you about his world. Okay? Okay!
In the world Sam comes from, Vampires are commonly known of and feared. While most vampires prefer to simply live their lives the same as any human, it can be very difficult. Sometimes they starve, and revert to their base instincts, and kill several people. The means simply aren't there to give vampires any kind of normal life. The vampire clans and ruling council are out of touch with these 'independent' vampires, and are more concerned with them and theirs to give them any aid at all. Only the Ruthwen clan, under the influence of Katarina Ruthwen, former human vampire activist, and current vampire wife to Drakonus Ruthwen, the eldest of all, has made any attempt to help these people.
Sam's life was completely normal up until his elder brother Jared's senior year of high school. Sam and Jared's father was a high-power lawyer with a practice in downtown Chicago. He worked his way from the ground up, and expected nothing less than excellence from his boys. He laid the pressure down heavily onto the boys, expecting nothing but the best academically and in sports. Sam never really wanted for anything, aside from a break from the pressure laid on his shoulders. Science and math had been his strong suit, so when he won the 7th grade science fair, he got the closest thing to encouragement he'd ever had from his father. From that day, he focused on his grades, and every year since then he'd been at the top of his class. However, Jared was still the favored son, the basketball and track star, leading his squads to many statewide championships. Throughout the problems with their father, Jared and Sam stuck with each other, Jared occasionally intervening to get their father off Sam's back. Sam by far got the worst of it, since Jared was the first to come near their father's standards. Usually, the abuse was emotional or psychological. As the years went on, though, their father took to drinking, and it became more physical.
Their mother on the other hand, while she couldn't do much to keep her husband from being so stern on the boys, she did step in to help them pick up the pieces and she was always very loving and gentle with them. They loved her very much, and swore between the two of them that if their dad ever hurt her, that they would take matters into their own hands.
One day, early in Sam’s junior year and Jared’s senior, his father was very late coming home from the office. That was nothing unusual, especially for a Friday night. He would stumble into the house sopping drunk at about four a.m. most of those nights. Sam usually made a point of staying the night with a friend over the weekends, but this night was different for both of them. Their mother was also out of town, visiting with an ailing sister. Sam was at a typical high school party, some were drinking, but not him. He usually ended up in the nice-guy friends zone with his female friends, but his luck changed that night. She left the party early with him, and they went back to his house. In his room, the hormones took over. Sam had put music on, loud, pounding club music, of the lady’s choosing. So he didn’t hear the door slam closed at about two. But he heard the girl’s startled scream when the tall, foreboding silhouette of his father was framed in his doorway. After a slurred word of congratulations, the door was closed again. After that, the pressure was relieved. And as children in Sam’s situation tended to, when they see something the abuser likes, they occasionally overcompensate, and thus began his reputation as a teenage manwhore. Every week a different girl, and the only relevant interaction between father and his younger son was the occasional resupply of condoms. He wasn’t completely despicable about it, he was always respectful and sweet to the girls, and always used protection. Though there was no mistake about what he wanted from the girls he knew.
A few months later, the sports hero, the fatherly favorite, and little brother's idol, went missing. The friends he had been with that night had been killed by a vampire. They’d been found drained of blood with marks on their neck. Sam, his mother, and his father heard nothing for two days. Then Jared called. He said he was okay, but he couldn't talk long. That night, Sam fell victim to the worst beating of his life, with no older brother to protect him. The only thing that saved him from a head blow that would have surely put him in the hospital was a phone call being made to the house. While his father had been distracted, Sam successfully barricaded himself in his bedroom for the night. After another couple of days, Jared ended up in the care of the Ruthwen clan, the largest and oldest of the vampire clans. Jared set up a meeting with his parents and Sam. The news Jared had was that he was now a vampire. That he’d been forced to stick with the vampire that had killed his friends until the clan policing the area caught up to him. Their father demanded he come home, and attempt an experimental procedure to regain his humanity. Jared refused, the family argued, and Sam ended up running off with Jared. He begged his older brother to turn him into a vampire, and thus began their lives together as apprentices to the Ruthwen clan.
The turning process had nearly killed him, due to Jared’s inexperience with the process. But they did come out of it together, and closer than ever. Sam found his niche in medicine, studying directly under the leader in genetic study, Professor Niles Crawford. He worked hard, and studied hard. After ten years of study, medical school, and his residency, he comes into his own as a skilled surgeon, and finds a place in a Chicago ER in the country's first hospital with a department and staff trained specifically in the treatment of vampires.
However, all of this also has taken its toll on his emotional state. His hospital is constantly under threat of attack by people that would prefer the entire race of vampires were annihilated. It was also these people that were responsible for the murder of his mother. Also, his boss at the hospital has a few distinct similarities with his estranged father in his overbearing attitude and occasional drinking on the job. As young as he was during all these changes, he did not cope well. He slipped into the habit of a vampire drug known as Sunshine, a combination of morphine, methamphetamines, and cocaine concentrated to levels that are lethal to humans, and when he couldn't take the edge off everything with that, he cut himself as a form of release. Thanks to his brother, Professor Crawford, and others that loved him, including the Ruthwens' daughter, Angeline, he has overcome this, and is well on the road to recovery. He does, however still relapse to his old cutting habits when the pressures of his life combine to overwhelm him. The primary stressor is when multiple aspects of his personal life become unmanageable, not so much the stresses of his job.
But as things quieted down, and some protective legislation was passed, the pressure came off. Sam married Angeline, the woman of his dreams. Before too long, they were expecting their first child. And that's when he got taken to a weird ass school and had his memories partially wiped oops.
Personality:
He is a friendly and easy going sort of guy, and he's always eager to help when he can. He makes friends easily, and once he has, he is generally playful, and will make jokes with them. But when there's trouble, he stands with his friends, supports them, and backs them up whenever possible. He is also very intelligent, earning his Doctor of Medicine in about half the usual time. Right out of school, he got a position in the busiest ER in Chicago, as their first vampire trauma surgeon and specialist in vampirism.
However, most of this is a facade. He has severely low self-esteem, and he nearly lives and breathes for the approval of others around him, particularly authority figures. His talent as a surgeon is one method through which he gains this gratification. However, when things go wrong, and too much pressure gets put on him, this problem rears its ugly head and sends him into a depression. When this happens, he usually secludes himself to wallow in his own misery, and he needs a solid catalyst to get him out of it. On his lowest lows, he can sometimes falter in his recovery, and return to old self-harming habits. For him, it’s a release from the pressure, an avenue for the pain to take to allow him to pretend to move forward. He kind of just goes through the motions until he has some kind of gratifying experience. While this is an unexpected issue for a vampire to have, he is a very young one, and is perpetually trapped in a teenage hormonal imbalance. He gets inordinately intimidated by his much older kin, and whenever someone brings up the whole immortality thing he sometimes panics.
He uses his durability as a vampire to protect his human friends, whenever possible. Otherwise, he’s not really much of a fighter, more of a very durable meat shield. His skill as a surgeon is probably more valuable than any more direct methods, something he’ll be the first to admit. He does feel bad about this, sometimes, and he wishes he could be more well-rounded. Especially since he’s so used to being protected by his brother. He’d like to be able to stand more on his own.
Overall, he’s taking his vampirism very well. Despite his issues, he’s generally pretty well-adjusted day to day. He’s not a ball of angst and brooding. If not for the fangs, pale skin, appetite for blood, and allergy to the sun, one would think he’s just a normal guy.
Weapon:
Name: Nosferatu
Form: A silver stake, about a foot long
Upgrades:
Durability Stat Boost
Dark Element
Agility Stat Boost
Cura
Vampirism – Connecting strikes from this weapon drain the opponent's Vitality and heals the wielder for a portion of that amount.
(TW: SH FOR THIS APP) Dr. Samuel Henderson | OC
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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Samuel Henderson
Age: Looks 17, is actually 27
Subject taught: School nurse. Doctor. Guy.
Canon: MAI BRANE Be afraid.
Canon point: I will use this space to babble at you about his world. Okay? Okay!
In the world Sam comes from, Vampires are commonly known of and feared. While most vampires prefer to simply live their lives the same as any human, it can be very difficult. Sometimes they starve, and revert to their base instincts, and kill several people. The means simply aren't there to give vampires any kind of normal life. The vampire clans and ruling council are out of touch with these 'independent' vampires, and are more concerned with them and theirs to give them any aid at all. Only the Ruthwen clan, under the influence of Katarina Ruthwen, former human vampire activist, and current vampire wife to Drakonus Ruthwen, the eldest of all, has made any attempt to help these people.
Sam's life was completely normal up until his elder brother Jared's senior year of high school. Sam and Jared's father was a high-power lawyer with a practice in downtown Chicago. He worked his way from the ground up, and expected nothing less than excellence from his boys. He laid the pressure down heavily onto the boys, expecting nothing but the best academically and in sports. Sam never really wanted for anything, aside from a break from the pressure laid on his shoulders. Science and math had been his strong suit, so when he won the 7th grade science fair, he got the closest thing to encouragement he'd ever had from his father. From that day, he focused on his grades, and every year since then he'd been at the top of his class. However, Jared was still the favored son, the basketball and track star, leading his squads to many statewide championships. Throughout the problems with their father, Jared and Sam stuck with each other, Jared occasionally intervening to get their father off Sam's back. Sam by far got the worst of it, since Jared was the first to come near their father's standards. Usually, the abuse was emotional or psychological. As the years went on, though, their father took to drinking, and it became more physical.
Their mother on the other hand, while she couldn't do much to keep her husband from being so stern on the boys, she did step in to help them pick up the pieces and she was always very loving and gentle with them. They loved her very much, and swore between the two of them that if their dad ever hurt her, that they would take matters into their own hands.
One day, early in Sam’s junior year and Jared’s senior, his father was very late coming home from the office. That was nothing unusual, especially for a Friday night. He would stumble into the house sopping drunk at about four a.m. most of those nights. Sam usually made a point of staying the night with a friend over the weekends, but this night was different for both of them. Their mother was also out of town, visiting with an ailing sister. Sam was at a typical high school party, some were drinking, but not him. He usually ended up in the nice-guy friends zone with his female friends, but his luck changed that night. She left the party early with him, and they went back to his house. In his room, the hormones took over. Sam had put music on, loud, pounding club music, of the lady’s choosing. So he didn’t hear the door slam closed at about two. But he heard the girl’s startled scream when the tall, foreboding silhouette of his father was framed in his doorway. After a slurred word of congratulations, the door was closed again. After that, the pressure was relieved. And as children in Sam’s situation tended to, when they see something the abuser likes, they occasionally overcompensate, and thus began his reputation as a teenage manwhore. Every week a different girl, and the only relevant interaction between father and his younger son was the occasional resupply of condoms. He wasn’t completely despicable about it, he was always respectful and sweet to the girls, and always used protection. Though there was no mistake about what he wanted from the girls he knew.
A few months later, the sports hero, the fatherly favorite, and little brother's idol, went missing. The friends he had been with that night had been killed by a vampire. They’d been found drained of blood with marks on their neck. Sam, his mother, and his father heard nothing for two days. Then Jared called. He said he was okay, but he couldn't talk long. That night, Sam fell victim to the worst beating of his life, with no older brother to protect him. The only thing that saved him from a head blow that would have surely put him in the hospital was a phone call being made to the house. While his father had been distracted, Sam successfully barricaded himself in his bedroom for the night. After another couple of days, Jared ended up in the care of the Ruthwen clan, the largest and oldest of the vampire clans. Jared set up a meeting with his parents and Sam. The news Jared had was that he was now a vampire. That he’d been forced to stick with the vampire that had killed his friends until the clan policing the area caught up to him. Their father demanded he come home, and attempt an experimental procedure to regain his humanity. Jared refused, the family argued, and Sam ended up running off with Jared. He begged his older brother to turn him into a vampire, and thus began their lives together as apprentices to the Ruthwen clan.
The turning process had nearly killed him, due to Jared’s inexperience with the process. But they did come out of it together, and closer than ever. Sam found his niche in medicine, studying directly under the leader in genetic study, Professor Niles Crawford. He worked hard, and studied hard. After ten years of study, medical school, and his residency, he comes into his own as a skilled surgeon, and finds a place in a Chicago ER in the country's first hospital with a department and staff trained specifically in the treatment of vampires.
However, all of this also has taken its toll on his emotional state. His hospital is constantly under threat of attack by people that would prefer the entire race of vampires were annihilated. It was also these people that were responsible for the murder of his mother. Also, his boss at the hospital has a few distinct similarities with his estranged father in his overbearing attitude and occasional drinking on the job. As young as he was during all these changes, he did not cope well. He slipped into the habit of a vampire drug known as Sunshine, a combination of morphine, methamphetamines, and cocaine concentrated to levels that are lethal to humans, and when he couldn't take the edge off everything with that, he cut himself as a form of release. Thanks to his brother, Professor Crawford, and others that loved him, including the Ruthwens' daughter, Angeline, he has overcome this, and is well on the road to recovery. He does, however still relapse to his old cutting habits when the pressures of his life combine to overwhelm him. The primary stressor is when multiple aspects of his personal life become unmanageable, not so much the stresses of his job.
But as things quieted down, and some protective legislation was passed, the pressure came off. Sam married Angeline, the woman of his dreams. Before too long, they were expecting their first child. And that's when he got taken to a weird ass school and had his memories partially wiped oops.
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