Character Index

Name: Lexa
Age: 24
Race: human
Gender: Female
Description: Lexa is of medium height and has chestnut colored hair down to her shoulders. She has penetrating brown eyes that seem to reach beyond just the outside of a person. She usually wears loose-fitting shirts (for better range of motion), knee-high pants, traveling boots, a long but closer-fitting dark colored jacket, and a dark blue bandanna, often covered by a wide-brimmed hat.
Personality: Lexa's name means "protector of the people," and that's what she has set out to do. She's extremely determined in everything she does, and puts her heart and soul into her work. She's quick to judge, though once she gets to know someone she can be a hugely loyal ally. She's also a fierce opponent to her adversaries and even fiercer competitor in her field of work.
Backstory: Lexa, whose grandfather and father were well-known Hunters, has taken up the same occupation. Her father was leader of the Fallen Angels - a specialized branch of the Order made up of people with the ability to see into a being's mind through their eyes - but was killed by Mladen when Lexa was 12. With little family still around (only her grandparents, near whom she lives), she devotes much of her time to it. A vampire hunter for some eight years, she used to be one of the greatest - one of the few truly influential female hunters in the world. But once it became a more popular field, a young man named Andreas beat her out of her standing as the best. She challenged him to a hunting duel of sorts after he ousted her in the first place. He won, and now she lives in a small house on the Romanian border, getting by through small jobs the townspeople ask of her. Still bitter over her defeat, Lexa wants nothing more than to take back her rightful position as the greatest hunter in Romania.

Name: Andreas Liakov
Age: 24
Race: Werewolf
Description: medium height, with longish (like to his chin) curly black hair and steely blue eyes. he usually wears a tunic or loose shirt with long pants, heavy traveling boots and a thigh-length dirty brown jacket.
Personality: Basically, he's an egomaniac. He's not over-friendly, but he's no jerk either. He is as good a friend as he pretends to be, and is a very in-your-face opponent. More or less, he's a twelve-year-old in a 24-year-old's body.
Backstory: Andreas is from a wealthy Romanian family, and that is where he obtained all his equipment from. After deciding to take up Hunting when he was sixteen, his parents promptly footed the bill for anything and everything he wanted. Shortly after learning how to use everything, he erstablished himself as a real Hunter. After meeting Lexa, whom he started to really like, he thought he might impress her by showing off his Hunting skills. However, after he challenged her to a Hunting "duel" and won, she left in a huff, highly annoyed with him. Though he was proud that he won and clearly too full of himself to really get it, he was upset to see her leave. In any case, he's moved on and though he does OCCASIONALLY think of her, he's too busy being the cool kid to let it ruin his life and new career. However, when he was about fourteen, he was kidnapped late at night by a werewolf living in the area and bitten. He was knocked unconscious beforehand, and therefore has no idea what he truly is. Once a month, at the full moon, he transforms and has no knowledge of what takes place while in wolf form. No one knows that he is the werewolf, but Lexa does know that there is one that lives in his area (meaning him, but she doesn't know). This is kind of ironic because he is hell bent on finding this werewolf and killing it - he has been asked by many of the villagers to do so.

Name: Gabriel of Van Helsing
Age: ?
Race: As far as he knows, he's human. Occurrences over the last 22 years have hinted otherwise, however.
Gender: Male
Description: Same as movie, a bit worse for the wear
Personality: Gabriel no longer resents the Order. He's even learned to take pride in his work, knowing that he is protecting innocents. There are still plenty of nasty assignments to bring him down, but he's learned to try and look on the "brighter side".
Backstory: Since Transylvania, Van Helsing had begun to look at his work differently. He suffered a dark period after (-insert post film angst fic here-) but soon moved on. Through the time he spent with Anna, he began to realize that his job was ultimately more good than evil.
He's kept in touch w/ Frankenstein and he and Carl are still very close.
His daughter, Aqua has been living with him for the last thirteen years.
Gabriel comes to Romania for two reasons; the first being Order business, investigating concentrated vampire activity; and the second being to find out what happened to his old friend Frankenstein, who disappeared 3 years previous.

Name: Gene
Age: about 16
Race: half-vampire
Gender: male
Description: short blond hair, red eyes, about 5.8 feet, small build, boney structure
Personality: not so confident of who he is, represses feelings, tries to control hunger for blood, but sometimes cannot overcome meed of drinking blood
Backstory: father is a vampire and mother is not a vampire, he is a half-vampire, mother died in child-birth, Gene spends life looking or answers who he is and where he's from.

Name: Lucien d'Artois
Origin: France
Age: turned at age 25, now 437 years old
Race: Vampire
Gender: Male
Description: He is very tall and scrawny, with gaunt cheeks and a large, fine nose, with flared nostrils and a narrow bridge. His sunken and beady eyes are a cold grey, which match his pale, translucent skin and his ashen blonde hair that is pulled back into a pony tail. He wears the fashions of the times but always wears an old, frayed and yellowing handkerchief with initials A. L. B. embroidered on it.
Personality: Lucien is highly intelligent and perceptive. He is very introspective and observant, though he is polite, his shyness often is perceived as rudeness or arrogance. He has a way with words and uses his reasoning to win other's favor, he is highly persuasive. He seems cold and disconnected, but has a buried compassion for humanity. He respects strong willed people and is loyal to his friends. He does not like change and does not surrender to it easily.
Backstory: Lucien was born in the spring of 1451 to the noble French Artois family (who united France and the Netherlands 100 years prior). His wisdom and reason brought him into politics and by his 18th birthday he was an adviser to the King. By his 20th birthday he was ambassador to Marcus Corvinus, King of Hungary and the patron of a Romanian warlord who was fighting Turkish invasion, Vladislaus Dracula. They became fast friends and Lucien left his position as ambassador to become Vlad's high adviser, general and right-hand man. After Vlad's assasination in 1476, and his ascent from darkness, Lucien swore eternal service to the Dark Prince and was turned soon after--remaining his loyal servant. As far as Lucien's personal life is conscerned, he is torn between the love of his past and the love of his future.

Name: Zenevieva Katia

Age: 19

Race: Human

Origin: Răuscurest, Romania (the name of Anna Valerious' village)

Gender: Female

Description: She is extremely, almost freakishly tall for a woman of her day (5'11), she's very lanky and slender, unlike her sister who embodied the beauty of the day, with a voluptuous figure. Her skin is milky white, with hues of rose about her cheeks. Her friendly, oval face is complimented by delicate features—except her large, crystalline blue eyes, which would leave anyone enthralled as it set against her thick, violent red hair.

Personality: Zenevieva is a very sweet girl, quiet and reserved. She doesn't say her mind so often and others perceive her introverted nature as being weak or feeble. Yet, as her name indicates, she is the strength of the people and a natural born leader—quirky and unafraid to take control of a situation. She is naturally timid around men, and strangers in general, but is quite funny around those she trusts; she is sometimes struck with self doubt especially about her appearance.

Backstory: She was born one of two girls, to a horse whisperer, outside a small village in Romania. Her father raised them single handedly, and after his death, his property was divvied up and the girls were sent in opposite directions. Zenevieva, sent to serve as a servant to a bourgeois family in Bucharest, the other to the whore house outside of Răuscurest. Zenevieva ran away with money to buy her sister's freedom—only to find her sister disappeared. The madam of the brothel took her in and in return for her services as a maid, she would help pay her dowry for a proper marriage. This would never happen after a disturbing encounter with Dracula, where she found herself at the foot of the Valerious Castle damaged and broken. It is there were she met Velkan and after much resistance, they fell in love. Velkan renounced his title and after dividing the money with his sister, he married Zenevieva and began "The Dark Brotherhood", to combat all malicious and evil supernaturals. Van Helsing joined after breaking with the Holy Order over a familial issue. The two organizations have been enemies since and Zenevieva, its primary female leader.

Name: Charlotte Cameron
Age: 20 (age may change depending on what year the next topic starts in)
Race: Human
Origin: born in Transylvania, grew up mostly in Ireland and Britain

Gender: Female
Description: of average height, has dark brown hair that goes a little past her shoulders, a narrow but well-formed face, bright and intelligent brown eyes, and pale (but not vampire-pale) skin. Wears some Victorian clothing, as well as more simple clothing of the period, usually simple dresses though has a couple more elegant ones too. Prefers colors scarlet, dark blue, and white. Occasionally wears a hat, though she can't stand them for very long.
Personality: Charlotte is a smart, quick-witted Renaissance woman. She has a strong mind for a woman of the day, and there is very little about the woman's life she won't protest. She is a sort of early version of a suffragette or feminist, though it's somewhat hypocritical considering the fact that she is sometimes content to be a regular woman. She is outspoken and strong-minded, and takes all things into consideration, especially the feelings of others. She is sensitive and kind, and has a caring, motherly nature at heart. On the other hand, if anyone were to pull the old "she's just a woman" on her, she easily goes into her feminist mindset.
Backstory: Charlotte was born to a woman named Franciska Norovka from Transylvania. After the one-night-stand that resulted in her conception, her mother panicked and realized she needed to find a husband...after all, the friar who had knocked her up was long gone. Franciska began a journey towards Rome, where the friar had mentioned he lived, in order to find him. She got as far as London when she met a handsome young Irishman named Arthur Cameron. He was kind and had a substantial inheritance from his late father, and would easily be able to provide for Franciska and her still-unnamed seven-month-old child. Arthur gladly took them into his home, marrying Franciska and claiming the daughter (whom they named Charlotte) as his own. Charlotte grew up with a good education and plenty of room to grow at Longwood, the family estate, and found out about the circumstances of her birth by accident on her 19th birthday. Changing her goal from finding a husband to finding her father, Carl, she bid her parents goodbye and set off with a friend and stable boy to Rome. The only encounter she's ever had with any supernaturals was when she was getting through Verona at night, hellbent on getting as far as they could, and they came upon a badly hurt vampire in an alleyway. Though her friend bid her not to go investigate, she did anyway and so grew an innate sympathy for vampires and a hatred of werewolves.

Name: Alexyna LeBeau (Alex/Al for short)
Origin: France
Age: unknown (looks about 20-ish)
Race: spirit/ghost
Gender: female
Description:
Height5.6 ft
Bodylean with curves in all the right places. Face is oval-shaped with small nose, rosy cheeks and full lips. She has perfectly straight teeth.
EyesThe color is sky blue. They're almond shaped. long eyelashes
Hairvery coarse, thick coiled hair down to her back. It is ashy/golden with different shades of brown to give it a "more volume" look. Styled in a bridal-styled hair-do.
Personality: When she was alive, she was a independent, giving person. Although, she was very protective of family honor/value and will do anything to protect it. She was very outgoing and treated everyone like family. She was trustworthy and very sincere. After her death, she became detached from emotions(like a robot, no show of emotions), determined, and somewhat unkind and is driven by revenge and hatred for her first love, Lucien. Although, she wants Lucien punished, she doen't want to physically hurt him or kill him, because a part of her still loves him and she would never hurt others to get justice. She doesn't like Dracula or his followers, but doesn't despise him as much as the people of her village.
ClothingShe wears a metallic red, long, flowing satin gown with puffy, black sleeves at the shoulders with silk lacy sleeves down to the joint of the elbows. The sleeves are off the shoulder, but still modest of the time. The front of the gown is gathered and trimmed with metallic silver lace around the edge of the neckline and the hemline. The waistline is laced with a bright red sash with black roses. She wears a head wreath made out of red roses and a necklace with a moon engraved with Lucien's name on it. She carries a basket fulled with seamstress tools everywhere she goes.

Backstory-She was born during the 1450's to rich parents, Susan and Richard LeBeau in the small of Louisburg, France. She was very well educated in the fine arts, although she had passion for fashion, able to create fine, rich clothing. She was Lucien's childhood friend turned sweetheart/lover. They were engaged to be married when he left to be Vlad's high advisor, general, and right-hand man. Upon Vlad's death and Lucien's turning, Alexyna's family were shunned and stripped of their title, because of suspicions of Alexyna being engaged/married to the loyal servant of the Devil's Son(Vlad). The villagers from her town are deeply religious against the Devil and all forms of evil so they found Alexyna's engagement offensive. Alexyna grew angry with Lucien's betrayal of God. After her family committed suicide, not able to bear the insults and such, she became vengeful. She knew Lucien would live forever in peace and she wouldn't allow that so she visited a well-known witch who gave her an elixir which allowed Alex's spirit to live/roam after death until her former lover was punished. She willingly drank it and committed suicide herself. Now, her spirit lives looking for Lucien. She doesn't want to murder Lucien for his betrayal, just punish him for ruining her family's honor/reputation and destroying her family's lives. She can be found strolling down the stream with her basket in hand.

Name: Catherine Elizabeth Van Helsing
Age: Looks 26, but was born in 1505
Race: Fallen Angel(and Romanian)
Gender: Female
Description: Long brown hair that has a tendancy to fall into her eyes, which are dark blue. She's kind of pale, kind of tall, and pretty. She's always wearing a black corset over a black sweater, black leggings, and lace-up black boots, which come up maybe halfway to her knees. She also has huge, dark-grey wings that come out of her shoulder blades at her will.
Personality: Often very kind and caring. Also known to fly off the handle when angry.
Backstory: Born in 1505, the younger sister of Gabriel Van Helsing. She was trained all her life as a vampire hunter, and lived with her family until one fateful All Hallows' Eve in 1531. Two men came to her family's house and killed her parents, Randolph and Cordelia. Then, while fighting with one man, she was fatally stabbed in the stomach. However, her brother-who was an incarnation of the Archangel Gabriel-saved her by bringing her soul back to Earth, making her a fallen angel. For the next 300 or so years, she fought monsters side-by-side with her brother...until he was attacked by Dracula and mortally wounded. She took him to the Vatican and left him there, and while he-the great Van Helsing-vanquished evil and became the most wanted man in Europe, she traveled Europe for eight years, biding her time, waiting to be reunited with her dear brother.