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Leon is easy going, well-organized and methodical, tho rather guarded. He always does his best to make sure those around him stay safe, especially those most vulnerable. He's also a very good cook and extremely tech savvy (unusual for a vampire his age).

This is how he looked when I did that ask meme (almost a year ago!!)

Pandorus is a revival of a story I came up with somewhere around late high school/early college about a vampire prince whose soul is revived in a human host. The story/characters have changed a lot over the years, but the core premise is still the same.

I think the idea to revisit the story came about while I was playing FFXV for the first time, combined with BG3 reigniting my love of vampires. I played around with the old character designs in my current style and started to reimagine the story, including how vampires work.

The basic hierarchy of vampires when it comes to power is vampire spawn (sometimes called former humans) at the bottom, half-vampires/dhampir in the middle, and purebloods at the top. Spawn are created traditionally, by having their blood drained by a pureblood vampire and transforming upon death. This places them under control of the vampire that turned them, but if they drink from that vampire then they will become fully fledged vampires themselves and free from control. Of course, this rarely happens.

Dhampir are half-vampires, born from one vampire and one human parent. They have more power than spawn, but less than purebloods, which is made up for by having none of the same weaknesses as either, such as sunlight and silver. However, being half human means dhampir were treated much the same as spawn in the past, usually enslaved to pureblood families using a mark tattooed on their necks known as a mark of subjugation.

Purebloods make up much of the ruling class of vampires, though none moreso than the demonic bloodlines, those whose families come from the original six vampires. In the modern era, purebloods are becoming rarer thanks to the efforts of the Vampire Hunters Association, whose policy is to kill purebloods with little to no exceptions.

Speaking of which, it's important to mention that vampires are common knowledge in this world. By the modern era most of them are either former humans or dhampir, but it's pretty well known that they practically took over Eastern Europe before the rise of the VHA. For the most part, though, world history remains pretty much the same as how we know it irl, except vampires are a thing.

The last thing I'll bring up here is that vampire hunters have a similar role as police in modern society, except they only deal with cases relating to vampires. They are sworn to bring no harm to humans and work towards freeing enslaved spawn and dhampir from any covens they find. In fact, their ranks are largely made up of freed vampires, which plays no small part in their success. However, as with all bodies of authority the VHA has its fair share of corruption and exploitation.