HELIAS ALBRIGHT • ATLAS HUNTER
VAMPIRE
MONTADON
SECOND IN COMMAND
ANTHEM
I CRAVE A LOVE SO DEEP, THE OCEAN WOULD BE JEALOUS.
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Name —
Helias has always preferred his own name. He was registered as Helias Albright five years ago - that's when he came back to Greenstone. Helias Albright is the name his estate in Montadon is registered to. It still exists, but Helias Albright left Greenstones two years ago. That's when he joined the Colony and became known as Atlas Hunter. He took a job at Greenstone University under that name about a year ago. Helias, originally pronounced like Élia, is the name of the infamous Lone Vampire people think can read minds. He figured it wouldn't be a great idea to join the Colony with such a powerful name, and though being the second in command, he's managed to keep a low profile.
Since he came from a family of high aristocrats in Paris, his original name was Helias de Paris and his most famous name is Helias Vanparys, as that was the name that is known to be one of the co-founders of Greenstone.
Creature —
Vampire.
Status —
Helias poses as a Loner, but he's actually the second in command of the Colony since last year.
Age —
Helias was born in 1269, which makes him 746 years old. He never really tells anybody his actual age, though. It depends on what he wants people to think of him. When asked, he usually depicts himself younger than he actually is. Helias was bitten at the age of 22, but usually acts older in order to be able to get a job.
Master —
Thorne Madison
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Subjects —
Helias has had several subjects over the years. All of them only served one purpose: experiments. Helias only turned people into vampires to figure out how far he could stretch his own physical abilities. He wanted to know what could kill and harm a Vampire without risking his own life, which means none of his subjects ever survived. He also simply didn't want any of them to get left behind. His last victim was a twenty-year old girl in the sixties.
Residence —
Montadon, Greenstone, CT, United States
Helias owns two estates in Montadon, because it would be pretty useless to keep his secrets if he only had the one he shares with Thorne. The one he shares with Thorne, is located somewhat in the middle of the district. The second house is way more to the edge of Greenstone. It's remote and big. The atmosphere in this estate is cold, because Helias rarely shares it with anyone.
Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, United States
During the twenties and the beginning of the thirties, Helias bought a fancy house in Hollywood, which had just started blooming because of its movie-industry. At the time, Helias was a share-holder of some big company and a refinded, rich businessman. Most of the money he owns contemporarily, he gained during that era. Since the thirties, he hasn't returned to the estate he shared with Ava. On one hand, this is because he does not long to be reminded of the memories he gained during that period and on the other, he hasn't had time to return anyway.
Bruges, Belgium
The house he owns in Bruges, is far smaller than all of the other pompous villa's Helias has ever lived in. That might also just be because Belgium is almost invisible on a world map. It's the house he lived in right after Thorne changed him into a vampire. During the 1970's, he actually bought it - because the family that had just moved out, hadn't discovered the ginormic wine cellar yet.
Paris, France
Even though this beautiful house in the City of Light isn't registered under Helias' name, but Thornes, still it is the place he's most likely to return to. Helias denies this is because of nostalgia and Thorne also doesn't know he often spends his days in Paris by re-visiting the Louvre again and again.
Florence, Italy
Most of Helias' lifework is stored in his estate in Florence. It holds a huge amount of books that date from the thirteenth century and are probably worth a fortune. He often returns to Florence, so he can take a stroll through the city and rewatch all of the city's beauty all over again.
MY MIND REBELS AT STAGNATION. GIVE ME WORK. GIVE ME PROBLEMS.
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Personality—
Brilliant, Stubborn, Manipulative, Callous, Sarcastic, Foul-Mouthed, Ambitious, Composed, Egocentric, Nonchalant, Charming, Cold, Ruthless, Adaptive, Resourceful, Charismatic, Articulate, Adaptable, Anticipative, Challenging, Arrogant, Courteous, Curious, Romantic, Intense, Direct, Discreet, Cynical, Rational, Abrasive, Witty, Apathetic, Cunning, Secretive.
• "The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy. They come when the mind is still."
Anybody who's ever met Helias will think the following: does this guy ever lose his cool? Helias has only twice before experienced a Tantrum and it made him only more determined never to get one again. Even though vampires are stronger when they throw a Tantrum, Helias will remain the eternal stoic and rather choose to save his own skin by using some well-chosen words right before he runs away than staying to fight. He's rarely ever underestimated someone and he does not long for the day he does.
Because of his stoic behaviour, it is extremely hard to influence Helias. He's amazingly sceptical and only believes what he's seen or experienced himself. He's not easily impressed and his reactions to something you hoped would make him seem excited, are usually those of boredom and laziness. He is arrogant in a way that when he presents you with his full atention, it is a definite miracle. It happens really very rarely.
You could call Helias immune to emotions, which makes it hard to be able to distract him from something. He might make you believe you did, but rarely does he ever lose sight of his target - or anything that is going on around him, for that matter. Because of this, Helias possesses a brilliant, rare intelligence. He's sudden and unexpected - it's almost scary. It's more than logical that Helias is immensely frustrated when he can't figure out something. He hates not knowing and he's scared someone will surpass him some day - or that his mind will ever abandon him when he needs it most.
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• “What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
Helias is a fascinating person that cannot be summarised with just one word. If anyone ever got this as an obliged task, the word might be the cliché and over-used mysterious. However, as soon as your lips have formed it, you'll realise that this word doesn't quite capture it. It doesn't capture it at all, to be exact. Is it better to turn to something rather like resolute? Or will you focus more on his inelligence? Strange?
Anyhow, Helias hates labels and criticises anyone who uses them. He thinks people who do, are narrow-minded and if there is one thing he's truly irritated by, it's just that: narrow-minded people. This doesn't mean he thinks anyone who isn't as smart as he is, is narrow-minded - because if he did, he could eliminate everyone right away. People who aren't mentally as strong as he is, those are amusing in Helias eyes. People who think actions hold more power than words; people who are naïve and who think acting on impulse is a definite do in this world of monsters and those who shut the monsters down. Yes, he thinks it's quite hilarious.
Helias is a master in manipulating everything and everyone. It doesn't matter what you say; as long as you project your goal clearly on another person, and as long as you can make them believe you are something you could have never been. There were only three people who could see through him only a little and Helias hate that two of them still do; doing everything in his power to keep his secrets from him. Those two people are Ava and Thorne, the third being Louise, whom he killed.
• Eyes are useless if your mind is blind.
One of his main principles is action and reaction. He'll never act without a good reason. Because of this, people think Helias is fairly easy to defeat, just because he doesn't exactly reach for all his lethal weapons right away. However, he is kind enough to let you know half a second in advance when he will strike back. A sly smile is all you'll get and even so, it's usually too late for you to try and defend yourself. Helias only knows two people who could form a match to his strategies and those two people happen to be related.
Helias will always wait and think before taking matters into his own hands. He takes his time to try and fathom a person, to form a plan inside of his brain. Not that it takes thát long for his brain to figure out patterns and form a strategy, but he'll never plunge into something without knowing. His self-control is unbelievable and it's highly unusual for him to reach the point of a Tantrum. Even in his first twenty years of being a vampire, he's only had a Tantrum once. The second time it happened, was when he reached a very low point in his life, living on the streets It was the moment he found out Thorne was his master: a sixteen year-old brat.
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"There are only two masters in this world: Fear and Pain."
Helias knows the human body just as well as he knows his own bedroom. Anatomy has no secret and it's knowledge he'll use the moment he can. He knows one hundred and three different ways to make someone bleed to death and has tried them all out in the same week. Your body has no secrets for Helias; one glance and he knows how many freckles your nose owns. One glance and he knows what kind of person you are, what your job is, whether or not you have pets and what kind of horrible things you've seen and experienced.
Sometimes, it might even seem as if Helias can read your mind - which is why he became as notorious as he has. Perhaps it's not exactly like this, but if you don't practise any control as to how you show yourself to the outside-world, Helias will know all of your secrets in only a matter of time.
Human knowledge and torture are incidentally a great way to get to certain pieces of information and sleight of hand is something he's definitely mastered.
"I wanted to end the world, but I'll settle for ending yours."
It might not at all seem like it, as if it doesn't bother him at all, but Helias is quite an ambitious person and enjoys the reputation he's acquired - even though he's trying to stay low at the moment. It's something he won't openly tell anyone, nor is it something he devotes himself to: because he is scared it will swallow him and drive him insane; longing for power.
Revenge isn't something Helias cares for. He has a very strong opinion about it: an obsession such as revenge only breaks down rationality. He's so immensly stoic that you'll start wondering if he has any emotion inside of him left. No one can form a clear answer to this question.
"Is this one of those times you need me to lie to protect your delicate emotions?"
Helias does not care. He's abrasive and acts out of sheer need for satisfaction. He's charming, all right, but rarely emotionally involved with a woman. He's actually really rude most of the time and posesses the ability of aggressive words.
The truth is, however, that Helias is capable of caring for someon. He'll just surpress that feeling and make himself believe he never has. Emotion is only something that could distract him. He's realised that years ago, which was far too late to finally get it.
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SENTIMENT IS A CHEMICAL DEFECT FOUND IN THE LOSING SIDE.
Appearance —
Helias is not your typical hulk type of guy who can rip a dictionary in half in only one fraction of a second - anyhow, that's not what he seems like. He's not into power training or anything of the sort, but the fact he's a Vampire and possesses supernatural strenght, makes it a whole lot easier for him. Funnily enough, Helias is a partisan of sports. There isn't really one kind of sport he absolutely devotes himself to, but there are two he practises quite frequently: swimming and sprinting and though not a lot of people know this, he has a sports area in his house. There's been a time where Helias loved rowing a whole lot, but now he's grown rather bored of it. Sailing, as well as the weekly street fight, mountaneering and even golf are examples of sports he likes practising whenever he has the time and right surroundings to do so.
Winning in a fight with Helias is, to say it in a simple manner, extremely hard. There's no hunter who's ever survived a fight with him and even though he is cautious, Helias is pretty confident no Vampire could defeat him either - unless they're in a tantrum.
His skill in fighting isn't something that's caused by only his power, but also because of his extraordinary knowledge of the human body. He's capable of paralysing a person for twenty minutes with one simple twitch of his hand.
Basically, Helias has the body of someone who runs a lot and it doesn't really show he swims a lot as well. He's slim and athletically built, with a height of 188 centimetres, which is highly unusual for someone born in the thirteenth century. He's got certain expensive brands he often wears and is usually dressed rather dark. It rarely happens you see him walk around with a simple T-shirt and a pair of jeans, though his style is quite casual - but still expensive.
Helias has intimidating, green eyes and blond hair that's always in perfect shape without him having to do anything for it. Sometimes it's a little messy, though. Helias doesn't seem like anything special when you take your first glance at him, but there is something - except for the fact he's a Vampire - unfathomable about him you can't really seem to get a handle on right away. He has quite the conceited posture and knows perfectly well how to trick a person with just his body language.
IF HUMAN BEINGS WERE SHOWN WHAT THEY'RE REALLY LIKE, THEY'D KILL ONE ANOTHER AS VERMIN, OR HANG THEMSELVES.
Biography —
• Family
Father: Louis de Paris // 66 // Deceased
Mother: Isabelle de Paris // 51 // Deceased
Brother: Atlas de Paris // 17 // Deceased
The family was very keen on their social position and wanted to keep it that way. This means that in several branches of the family tree, there has been incest, but Helias never cared for his family name so he never looked into it.
• Biography
• 1269: Helias was born in Paris on the sixteenth of January 1269. His parents and other family members belonged to the high-class aristocracy of France and he hated it from the very moment he could think. Their catholic habits didn't make any sense to him and their obsession with their family remaining pure of blood, disgusted him. This is why Helias wasn't exactly acknowledged by his family, especially because his criticism to their beliefs and uses, wasn't exactly a secret - something that wasn't exactly his brightest idea, he realised later on.
• 1291: Helias can't remember much of this faithful night, only a sharp pain that filled up his head and a metallic taste in his mouth. The pain seemed everlasting, and eventually it stopped, a manic hunger taking its place. He was lost for quite a while after that, moving to Flanders where he tried to lay low. He stole money that was inside of his parents' estate and used it to rent his own home in Bruges.
• 1301: After ten years of having been a vampire and more or less setting his life in order, Helias returned to France and slaughtered his family. The only reason he ever needed to do it, was hatred. He didn't really hate his brother, but he decided it would be best if he didn't stay behind alone and saved him from insanity because of what he'd just witnessed. Helias did not have a Tantrum the moment it happened: he was completely conscious doing it. The only Tantrum he'd had before, was right after he'd been turned, because he had no idea what happened. He's still kind of surprised he survived his first ten years without guidance.
• 1386: Everything went downhill since he murdered his family. Helias didn't have a place to live and murdered random people out on the street in a haze of wanting more blood. He made sure he never experienced a Tantrum, because he hated the feeling of not having control over his body, but the fourteenth century was probably the lowest point in his life. He was chased by witch-hunters and by the Church and for some reason ended up in the Holy Roman Empire (Germany at the time). There, he met Thorne for the first time in his life and he was more than angry finding out his Master was a sixteen year-old brat. He had already been grumpy and hungry and this only made it worse: it was the second and last time he ever reached the point of a Tantrum and it's the only time Thorne's ever influenced him with the telepathic power he has over Helias - which only made him angrier. This moment is why he decided to make his own Subjects and experiment on them. He stayed with Thorne for nine years, and then the split up again.
• 1395: After they split up, Helias started focussing on the things he actually wanted to do now that he had realised being immortal knew no boundaries. He was lonely, most of the time, but he almost spend all his time reading and collecting books. He moved to Italy, because he wanted to see what was left of the Roman Empire and read every books he could get his hands on. He learned new languages and new dialects and gained some power in Europe by finally using his brilliance to his advantage. After there were no more books to read, he devoted himself to music.
• 1486: He met Thorne again and they traveled to America together. Helias wanted to see more of the New World, but Thorne didn't like the new continent and they split up again after 45 years. After that, Helias began to make a name for himself as a notorious Vampire. He noticed he liked the power, but he did make sure it didn't swallow him. After having lived over a century in America, he traveled back to the main land and visited countries he hadn't been to yet - he did go back to America around the 1700's. He actually founded the city of Greenstone alongside the others. Not a lot of people know about this.
• 1779: He was in Paris again around the time he met Thorne again. The French Revolution started and they both held a lot of power during that era. They stayed together for a long while - not because of friendship, though, but because of usefulness. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Helias moved to Switzerland and hereby left Thorne. They still held contact, though.
• 1918: When the end of the war seemed to come, Helias went back to America, where he bought an estate in the flashing town of Hollywood. The Roaring Twenties started and he had a ticket at the front row, being a wealthy business man and attending a lot of parties. Helias never cared for love, but Avalina seemed to shift that vision if only slightly. They met each other at a fancy party, and later on, he saw her again at one of her dance performances. Ava seemed like an interesting person to him and she might have won him over - if it wasn't for Louise.
YOU'RE NOT AFRAID OF THE DARK.
You're afraid of what's in it.
• 1930: During the year of 1929, Helias had spent a week in Paris and had met a peculiar woman. He was stupid enough to fall in love with her. She had an interesting mind, one that could match his own. Interesting beliefs and habits. She was bold and she had a love for jazz and old books. She was also insane.
Helias had left Ava for Louise; had cut off the power and hot water and simply left her in the middle of the night, to catch his plane back to Paris. You can call it ironic how Helias was the one who was cheating and ended up being cheated on himself. You see, he caught the woman in bed with someone else and it turned out she had been manipulating him to see how people worked. She didn't contain her brilliance: it had driven her insane; a schizophrenic nymphomaniac who slept with anyone who seemed interested. He killed her not long after, not feeling any regret, only a slight disappointment he pushed away right the moment he felt it creep up in his skull.
In reality, he did get hurt. And that hurt has penetrated itself deep into Helias soul, but he denies it and that only makes him all the more the callous man he is today. He doesn't know how it feels to devote yourself completely to someone. Relationship are only a matter of usefulness to him.
• 1950: As from the fifties, Helias started travelling a lot again. He went back to Paris a couple of times and fell in love for the very last time with Edith Piaf; denying the fact it was only because the music reminded him of Louise. At the end of the 1960's, he returned to America. It wasn't until the 1980's though, he returned back to Greenstone for the first time since it was founded and bought two houses because for some reason, one isn't enough. After having lived there for about two years, he left again and went to New York instead.
• 2013: Helias did eventually return to Greenstone after he'd gotten word of a Colony forming in the suburbs. He changed his name for the first time in forever and joined the Colony. A year later, he became the second in command without anyone knowing who he actually is. Now, he's one of the most powerful Vampires in all of America and no one knows exactly who he is and what he looks like. When Thorne came back to Greenstone, he did everything he could so he wouldn't be in his way; sending him to school and taking over as legal guardian under a different name than he actually lives by.
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Extra —
Helias was originally left-handed, but he became ambidextrous because people hit his fingers whenever he tried writing with his left hand when he was younger. He's mastered perfect pitch and is an amazing musician. He plays the piano, the violin, the guitar, the accordion, the flute, the saxophone and the cello. You might often hear him whistling Je Ne Regrette Rien by Édith Piaf, something he does subconsciously. When you're at his house, you'll often find Helias cleaning up things, because he hates chaos and secretly likes cleaning. Helias is able to speak eight different languages and adapts his accent to wherever he lives. He's fluent in English, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Russian and can basically speak Latin and Ancient-Greek if he freshens it up again. He's generally quick at picking up other languages.
Helias is an extreme perfectionist and excellent at multitasking. His personality type is INTJ, the Architect.
• Likes: Books, music, women, order, rain storms, fire, Paris, Ava, the smell of wood, Italian food.
• Disikes: Ava, animals, obnoxious people, narrow-minded people, people, hangnails, not knowing.
Relationships —
IN A WORLD OF LOCKED ROOMS, THE MAN WITH THE KEY IS KING.
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[ bericht aangepast op 13 dec 2015 - 17:26 ]
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