Blaise Cooper

Basic Information

Birth Name (Name Guidelines): Blaise Cooper
Aliases: Blaise Thompson, Tom Cooper, Alfred Cooper, Cooper Blond, and a number of others
Place of Birth: Manchester England
Agereal and apparent) (see the age breakdown for vampires*here, see the real/apparent age calculator for werewolves*here) 41, looks a bit younger 30 or so
Male/Female: Male
Current Occupation: body guard
Past Occupation: (If different from above) thug/muscle for hire

Appearance

Hair Color: medium blond
Length and Style: thick textured and chunky with varying lengths and layers a clean cut shaggy look
Eye Color: brown, flat boring mud brown
Skin Color: not fair not exactly tan, white guy who is out in the sun a bit
Height: 5ft 11in
Weight: 184
Nationality: British
Race: (I.E.*Vampire,*Werewolf,*human*etc.) vampire
Body Type: large frame very muscular (not Mr. Universe/professional body builder but close and ripped just the same)
Wolf Form (Werewolf -*please read first):* N/A

Description (if an NPC) or name of your creator/gifter(if a PC)*( Please be as specific as possible, who your*creator/gifter*was, why he chose to change you, where is he/she now?): Blaise doesn't know much about his creator. Just that he is very old, the rumors he's heard are better than 1000 and the name he goes by now, Alfred Rosenberg. He knows full well that is an allies. Alfred, from what he has picked up, seems to be at the top of or near the top of a group of vampires determined to manipulate some kind of genetic code but he doesn't know the details. He has heard the terms Anantya and Order of the Rose and Order of the Night mentioned, he knows that there is something covert about this research, and that there is both legal and illegal funding of it and that Alfred has moments where he is bat shit crazy. For as menacing as he can be there is very little memorable about him in person. He is short, maybe 5ft 7in or so, of slight build, olive skin, muddy brown hair and eyes. He does not stand out in a crowd and rather has that 98 pound weakling look to him.

Personal Questions

1. Describe your character's personality: a little brash, a little arrogant and cocky, he is a little bit reckless, his morals are a little on the flexible side he's not too clear on right and wrong, but under all that there is a nice guy and a protector, he is actually very sweet and devoted but he can't/won't let that show, he even has a good sense of humor, he might be a happy guy if he wasn't messed up in all of this, but he tries not to think about that and just deals with reality and who he needs to be to get by day to day

2. Describe how your character would appear to a stranger (I.E. typical dress, way they carry themselves etc.): left to his own devices, jeans, tee shirts, leather jacket, no stranger to chains and studs and macho leather jewelry, but he'll dress however he needs to in order to get the job done, whatever is appropriate

3.What does your character like? The color black, leather jackets, motorcycles, clubs, loud music (punk and metal esp) being a vampire

4. Dislike? The foster system, lawyers, daisies, subtitles, chocolate

5. (For humans) Describe what abilities you see your character having if they were turned. N/A

6. What are your fears?*(please choose and explain 3 minimum)

The cops/going to jail - He's been picked up more than once and wound up in juvie, in court and in jail he started out just not liking the cops but now they scare him, he knows unless Alfred comes charging to his rescue he's going to be vulnerable some how he doubts that the cops will take light sensitivity and a liquid diet into consideration if they lock him up.

Trains - running with a gang of friends/troublemakers one night after running away from yet another foster home they were headed out to try and score some beer or whatever and they cut across the tracks. It turned into a game of chicken and resulted in his friend Paul getting hit by the train and killed

Bats - totally irrational and he knows it but they are sneaky and quiet and both mammal and bird they just aren't normal

7. What is your character's strengths and weaknesses?

Strong minded - Blaise is not a sheep, he knows who he is and what he will and won't do. He might not ask too many questions but he isn't swayed by half hearted or weak arguments.

Multi tasker - Blaise is used to keeping a number of balls in the air at once, he takes care of anything Alfred tells him to do and runs his own operations on the side (book making, drugs, body guard work etc.)

Organized - you have to be to keep everything straight and not piss anyone off, he might be a border line thug but Blaise loves and uses his Google calendar, a number of filing systems and even color coordinates his socks. If the cops ever bust him they'll find anything in a heart beat but until then he's got his shit together

Problems with authority - Blaise isn't fond of 'The Man' he doesn't see a good reason to cross in a cross walk, pay his taxes, or pay that parking ticket he has to decide that a person or system is worth dealing with before he'll follow along and usually that has to do with them being stronger or scarier than he is

Lacks a formal education - he cut a lot of classes and didn't do well in the ones he did go to when they were in the foster system. When Jarrod took them in and then Alfred they didn't push Blaise to study. Cecile showed an aptitude for things and an enjoyment going on to university but Blaise didn't even graduate high school. He isn't illiterate, what he knows he knows well and is good at but it is mostly on the job training so to speak

Slow to trust - starting with his first foster parents who didn't deliver on their promise to let him see his sister Blaise has known that people lie, they tend to be out only for themselves and far too often he winds up as a pawn (his stint in juvie was a bunch of his 'friend' throwing him under the bus for a breaking and entering gig) so Blaise doesn't always believe people and trusts very few

Vampire -*

Abilities*(Listed*here) Blending and Empathy* (Empathy won't be played and won't exist unless he winds up in Evenhet as I've planned... if that changes I will discuss.)

Flaws*(Listed*here) - won't feed on children

Werewolf -

Abilities - Listed*here*(Include Tier Points) -

Flaws - Listed*here(Include Tier Points) -

Hobbies & Skills*(for more information, read*here) picks locks, short circuits security systems, rides motorcycles, good at accountancy (including cooking the books), book making, plays rugby

Cosmetic Traits(Distinct, character defining physical attributes. These should be minor and offer no real power other than to make your character appear more interesting.)

Quirks and Habits worthy of mention - protective of his sister, checks any room he goes into for an alternate exit, if not undercover he always wears at least three heavy rings on his right hand (helps to do damage in a fight you know) and he always listens to Golden Earring's Radar Love -very- loudly first thing when he gets up

Personal History: Blaise and his twin sister Cecile were born in Manchester England to Thomas and Virginia Cooper. Thomas worked for Northern Rail and Virginia for the BBC. Both were happy and out going children and they probably would have continued that way except that both Thomas and Virginia were killed in a car accident when the twins were ten years old.

Without any extended family, no grandparents no aunts, uncles or even cousins, to take them in the children were placed in foster care. Unfortunately they weren't able to keep the children together. Blaise's foster parents promised he could still see Cecile on a regular base. After living them for a month and they still hadn't kept their promise, Blaise ran away. It took him several days but he did find his sister, in London, broke into her foster parents house and hid in Cecile's room. When he was found his foster parents took him back but it was the beginning of a pattern. For the next three months if they didn't think they were getting to spend enough time together one would run away and wind up with the other. Eventually both foster parents washed their hands of the twins.

This continued for years, if a foster home would take them both they wouldn't run away but Blaise would act out, typically at school where he was more than a bit of a bully. Although not much bigger than the other children he instinctively knew how to use his size and anger to intimidate and had no problem getting into more than his fair share of scuffles. He would even try these tactics with his guardians, occasionally successfully. Increasingly he seemed to keep company with the trouble makers of any school they attended. He hung around the edges of gangs learning about lock picking, breaking and entering, etc. These problems eventually got them shipped off to another foster home where his bad habits continued. It was the beginning of a cycle that Blaise has never quite broken.

Cecile had issues of her own, but Blaise was always there to bail her out. She was the only consistent in his life and Blaise did what he could to help and protect her. It was Cecile's issues that got them in over their head. She was going to break up with her boyfriend, who was at least eight years older than she was, and she had asked Blaise to be there if he got rough. Blaise got to the park when she'd said to meet him and couldn't find Cecile. After a frantic search he did find her, in an alley, pressed up against a wall with a man bitting her neck. Blaise didn't think, even at fifteen he simply launched himself at the man assaulting his sister. He doesn't remember what happened next, it is a blank to him, but when he woke up Cecile was there, unharmed, and he had a broken jaw, dislocated shoulder, black eye and stitches in his thigh.

Sitting in a shabby, run down, dimly light apartment Cecile's boyfriend, (no one was sure if he was an ex-boyfriend or not just then), Jarrod explained to them about the world of vampires. Blaise took it surprisingly in stride, during the time he'd hung out with the wrong crowd and on the street he'd seen some odd things and this explained some of it. Cecile, however, was a bit more shaken. After being reassured by Blaise they both heard Jarrod the rest of the way out and found he had some jobs for them if they were interested.

Always looking to put some coin together Blaise was totally up for it and persuaded his sister to give it a try. For him, it wasn't bad work mostly running stuff from here to there, some times knocking someone around or lifting something. After a year or two of this Jarrod introduced them to his creator, Alfred. Blaise had established himself with Jarrod, he'd proven to be steady and reliable and got better and better jobs.

Cecile immediately fell for Alfred and quickly became his lover and they both became familiars. As Blaise, didn't swing that way and Alfred couldn't use him that way Alfred took Blaise under his wing, a decision that Alfred has come to question in part because, meeting Alfred meant Blaise started over and that meant testing Alfred and his authority. It wasn't always beneficial to his health. When he pushed to hard Alfred, or Jarrod, would put the smack down on him. Alfred was the scariest. He was so fast that Blaise didn't always see him move, one second Blaise would be in Alfred's face, the next he'd be on the ground and bleeding and no matter how much damage Alfred did, he never even looked winded. Slowly Blaise learned when to push and when to ask question and when to just shut up and deal. The later he learned when Alfred made it blatantly clear Blaise's attitude was putting Cecile at risk as well. Finally learning not to stick his nose in and when to be blind Alfred moved him to then next level. In the process though, he's picked up that the man is crazy old (it is worth noting Blaise thinks 700 is crazy old) and running something rather intense and medical. Although what such an old vampire would want with something medical Blaise never has worked out.

While in Portugal Alfred had sent Blaise across town on a simple errand, he just had to pick up some blood samples that was all. Blaise stopped in a bar on the way back working a drug deal he'd set up on the side. It got out of control and Blaise wound up stabbed several times. Alfred came to his familiar's rescue quickly dispatching Blaise's attackers, and a few innocent by standers as well. Blaise's injuries were too great, he was going to die. Having put a lot of work into teaching Blaise and having promised to do so at the appropriate moment, Alfred did turn him.

Not much has changed since then, other than Alfred's temper. Things are coming apart at the seams and everyone knows it is due to the lawyer, Bao Haong, who Blaise has never met. But he's going to, eventually for now he's got other instructions to take care of in Nachton.

OOC Checklist*

Player name (online is fine) - Mike
Other Characters you play - Pak, Val, Ambrose, Reign, Marie, Eiryk, Therese, Nikhila - etc
How you came to SA (Other board, friend, etc) - seriously don't remember any more
Have you read all the*Rules? yup
Do you understand that this is an adult board with adult content (sometimes graphic and violent in nature)? yup
This board is adult only. Are you over the age of 18? yup