Post by Michael Stryker on Feb 13, 2011 2:37:35 GMT -5
Name: Michael Robert Stryker
Nicknames: Robert
Age: 29//177
Species: Vampire
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Special Ability: None; Michael is unusually paternal.
Hair Description: Michael's hair was always long, especially before he was a vampire. During his human years he sometimes allowed it to grow past his chin. When he was bitten, however, his hair was approximately four inches long and messy, so he's kept it that way ever since.
Eye Description: Due to Michael's diet of animal blood, most of the time his eyes - slightly more narrow than average - are a solid gold colour. As a human they were blue, but he misses that colour now that it hasn't existed on him for over a hundred years.
Overall Appearance:Standing at 5'5 tall, Michael is relatively thin but his arms are muscled and he looks like the kind of guy you perhaps wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley. He most-always has a comic expression though, and a peculiar habit of squinting in the sun. Michael is left-handed, and on his left wrist is a crescent-shaped bite mark from a fight before Nova disappeared. His dress style consists mainly of black jeans and leather jackets, though he throws a lot of variety into the mix.
Michael has several tattoos, as follows:
- Four stars on his left fingers
- Several stars of different sizes on his left arm
- An intricate black design covering most of his upper right arm
Face Claim: Billie Joe Armstrong
Birthday: 1 May 1837, London UK.
Family:
- Belinda Stryker - mother. Decceased.
- Robert Stryker - father. Deceased.
- James Stryker - younger brother. Deceased.
- Nova Stryker - first wife. Deceased.
- Nova Hope Stryker - first daughter. Believed deceased.
- Erika Jane Stryker - second daughter. Deceased.
- Rachel Jane Stryker - second daughter.
- Kyri Ada Voda Schwartz - Relation not yet known to Michael.
Other Important People:
- Gloria Whatsername - sire.
- Frankie-Vampire-Newborn - tried to kill him.
- Gerard-Vampire-Newborn - gave him his scar. Deceased.
History:There are those moments... Those times, where you know nothing is going to be the same from here on in. Michael had never been all that interested in girls, apart from knowing his father would be unimpressed if he did not eventually marry. All in good time, he told himself. Besides, he had a younger brother. But the night he met Gloria, for one night he was completely freed of what 'his father might think'. He'd never seen her equal: not just in beauty, but in Gloria's golden eyes and ultra-pale skin. It was a natural pale - not tainted by any kind of powder - and her beauty was incredible. The young man was mesmerised from the first moment, and began to court her - of course, when he failed to find out her residence, it became difficult. He was beginning to think himself hallucinating....
Of course, she showed herself to him once more, on the early evening as he was riding his horse home. She had neither carrage nor steed; her bare feet barely made a print in the soft dirt - and believe me, he looked. Michael was still unsure whether she was even so real. She smiled, and his horse backed up of its own will, quite obviously scared of her. Michael was skeptical. Anyone who could frighten his horse was not good news. Gloria smiled, as he steadied his mount, and she reached out to touch the horse's white-on-chestnut blaze. She didn't seem phased at all about its obvious lack of affection for her. In fact, it took all the control he could muster as an accomplished horseman to keep the young Hotspur still and calm. Eventually the horse grew still, but his ears flat to his skull.
"Tomorrow," was all she said. "Sunset. Behind the cathedral."
She had that flirty tone in her voice... Like she knew just how to push his buttons. Why behind the cathedral? Didn't know, didn't care. She wanted him there, so he'd oblidge.
But he should not have... Had he not met her there, Michael would have grown old and died as a normal human would. Yet instead he found himself in the midst of this secret rendezvous. Always at night. Mostly behind the cathedral, which turned out to be 'a prominent place of my childhood' for Gloria. He didn't think to question it, or the fact that she chose only to meet him after dark. In fact, he wanted to marry her... The biggest problem was that, in not knowing where she lived, he also didn't know who her father was. He'd read the classics... Knew what could happen if he married her behind her father's will. He didn't want to dishonour her, and so he dared not try...
Eventually, it got the better of Michael. He just had to do it. So one night, on their regular meeting at the pond behind the cathedral, he asked her. He got down on one knee, and just... Said it.
Gloria looked shocked. At first he'd thought she'd say no. But then she stepped towards him, some unknown look upon her face he mistook for a smile, and moved to embrace him. Except she bit him. At first he didn't know what was going on - all he actually felt was the teeth, his skin breaking under their pressure. That itself hurt enough, but then the area spread with an intense burning sensation. Curious, he raised his hand to the bleeding area, and looked back to Gloria. Her eyes were red, and she'd leapt back away from him. She looked like she was in pain, too.
Michael screamed. Three days, he screamed. And he knew that there was a curse between them now. Gloria explained what she'd done, but it was too late. They couldn't be together. He despised her for what she'd done. But he also needed her, and need is a form of love, however twisted, so he stayed with her just for that much. She taught him most everything he needed to know - how to cover her tracks (which she herself was a master at), how to hunt, how to turn his eyes that most pleasing gold colour he'd fallen for... Basically everything that he'd originally fallen for in her, and then hated once he found out what she really was.
He eventually met Nova's mother during the first world war, and Rachel's mother around 1989. Michael kept his eyes open - he liked knowledge, and he loved two concepts more than many others. These were imagination and love. He has had plenty of experience with the vampire world including the secrets of hybrids, seeing as Michael has fathered two hybrid daughters, in his knowledge. Nova Hope and Rachel Jane Stryker.
Personality:Michael's just one of those guys who seems to think he's invincible. He knows what can't kill him, and he doesn't fear it. But if he says or does something stupid - something he's really going to regret later on - chances are he hasn't thought about it. Such is common for him. And he doesn't need to be drunk to get up to things he'll regret, either.
While he understands the possible consequences of denying his bloodlust all too well, Michael finds it amusing to see just how far he can push himself, even to the point of intense physical pain. Obviously he's more careful around Rachel, but then her blood is also less potent and so it's easier. He's not insane but he is a bit crazy - a trait passed on to both of his daughters - and Michael never really was much for following rules, so drawing a little attention truly isn't much of a thing for him.
You see, Michael never really grew up. Physically he's 29 years old, but he still acts like a little kid, always getting into things he's not supposed to. Like a teen, rebelling just for the sake of rebelling. And like a young adult, finally finding cause for his actions. Obviously he's not the kind of person to follow orders - like Nova - and tends to follow his own agenda rather than what anyone else might be thinking.
Your Name: Sarzah
Your Roleplay Experience: Two and a Half Years.
Did You Read the Rules: Yes
Template Compiled by Sarzah, with lyrics from those fabulous killjoys, My Chemical Romance.
