Post by FantasticalWonder - Sophie on May 16, 2013 8:25:03 GMT -5
Name
Leonard Shelby
Age
Was turned at 28, but has been a vampire for over 90 years.
Clan
Rogue
Strength
Extremely organized and disciplined. Also is very good at surviving and also has a photographic memory. He's also pretty good at knowing when people are lying.
Weakness
He rarely trusts people, and as such has close to no allies. Also, if you claim to know anything of his past, that will throw him off greatly.
Purblood or Turned?
Turned
Who turned you and why?
Leonard doesn't know the name of the vampire who turned him or why, as he has no recollection of the event.
Personality
Leonard generally keeps to himself and has multiple trust issues. He's extremely cautious and meticulous, and he also is extremely single-minded and firm in his beliefs.
Back story
Leonard lived a normal, human life. He was happily married, and he had a good, solid job as an insurance investigator. Well, his life got interesting when he was asked to investigate the case of Sammy Jankis. Sammy had anterograde amnesia - or in layman's terms, short-term-memory-loss. Leonard put Sammy through a series of tests where he had to pick up certain objects. A set few of these objects would send an electrical shock through Sammy, and Leonard reasoned that Sammy would instinctively know not to pick up those objects. But Sammy never did. Leonard eventually reasoned that Sammy's case was curable, much to the relief of Sammy's wife. However, when Sammy didn't seem to get better, Sammy's wife decided to put him to the ultimate test. It was Sammy's job to administer his wife with her diabetic medicine, so she told him it was time for her daily dose.
Sammy gave it to her.
Sammy's wife waited a few minutes, set her watch back, and told Sammy it was time for her daily dose.
Again, Sammy gave it to her.
Desperate, Sammy's wife again set her watch back, and told Sammy it was time for her medicine.
And again, Sammy gave it to her.
Sammy's wife eventually died of overdose, and Sammy was locked away. Leonard couldn't help but feel guilt over what had happened, but put the case of Sammy Jankis away.
Until the accident.
It happened when Leonard got up in the middle of the night, hearing a disturbance in the house. He followed the sound to the bathroom, where he saw his wife lying on the shower floor, dead. Leonard never saw the attacker, because he was hit on the head with a strong blow, leaving him with extreme brain injuries.
The next thing Leonard remembers after that is being a vampire.
At first, Leonard didn't know what had happened. He wasn't in his home, he was in an old abandoned house in a city miles away from his home town. He was wearing a suit he didn't recall having, he had keys to a car that wasn't his, and his body was covered in tattoos that he certainly didn't have before.
After some investigation, Leonard discovered that years of his life were missing.
Leonard pieced together that after the incident, Leonard had been diagnosed with anterograde amnesia. He took to tattooing messages to himself on his body as constant reminders to himself - never answer the phone, always look people in the eye, trust your own handwriting, remember Sammy Jankis.
However, the most important message was tattooed across his chest.
John G raped and murdered my wife. FIND HIM AND KILL HIM.
After some more searching, Leonard found a bunch of Polaroid pictures that he had written on as reminders of what his car was, who his friends were, but he found nothing that told him whether he'd found John G. So, having nothing else to do, Leonard kept searching.
As Leonard no longer suffered from his memory problem, he found his travels to be less complicated, but he found that all leads led to dead-ends. All John Gs that he found as suspects were already dead. Had he killed all these John Gs, not remembering that he'd done it and still thinking that the John G was on the loose? How did he know if any of these John Gs was the real John G? Well, as decades passed, Leonard reasoned that John G, whoever he was, had to be dead by now, and so Leonard found himself without purpose.
He has been wandering ever since.
Picture
Live action actor/actress
Guy Pearce
I have to believe in a world outside my own mind.
I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them.
I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there.
We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are.
I'm no different.
Leonard Shelby
Age
Was turned at 28, but has been a vampire for over 90 years.
Clan
Rogue
Strength
Extremely organized and disciplined. Also is very good at surviving and also has a photographic memory. He's also pretty good at knowing when people are lying.
Weakness
He rarely trusts people, and as such has close to no allies. Also, if you claim to know anything of his past, that will throw him off greatly.
Purblood or Turned?
Turned
Who turned you and why?
Leonard doesn't know the name of the vampire who turned him or why, as he has no recollection of the event.
Personality
Leonard generally keeps to himself and has multiple trust issues. He's extremely cautious and meticulous, and he also is extremely single-minded and firm in his beliefs.
Back story
Leonard lived a normal, human life. He was happily married, and he had a good, solid job as an insurance investigator. Well, his life got interesting when he was asked to investigate the case of Sammy Jankis. Sammy had anterograde amnesia - or in layman's terms, short-term-memory-loss. Leonard put Sammy through a series of tests where he had to pick up certain objects. A set few of these objects would send an electrical shock through Sammy, and Leonard reasoned that Sammy would instinctively know not to pick up those objects. But Sammy never did. Leonard eventually reasoned that Sammy's case was curable, much to the relief of Sammy's wife. However, when Sammy didn't seem to get better, Sammy's wife decided to put him to the ultimate test. It was Sammy's job to administer his wife with her diabetic medicine, so she told him it was time for her daily dose.
Sammy gave it to her.
Sammy's wife waited a few minutes, set her watch back, and told Sammy it was time for her daily dose.
Again, Sammy gave it to her.
Desperate, Sammy's wife again set her watch back, and told Sammy it was time for her medicine.
And again, Sammy gave it to her.
Sammy's wife eventually died of overdose, and Sammy was locked away. Leonard couldn't help but feel guilt over what had happened, but put the case of Sammy Jankis away.
Until the accident.
It happened when Leonard got up in the middle of the night, hearing a disturbance in the house. He followed the sound to the bathroom, where he saw his wife lying on the shower floor, dead. Leonard never saw the attacker, because he was hit on the head with a strong blow, leaving him with extreme brain injuries.
The next thing Leonard remembers after that is being a vampire.
At first, Leonard didn't know what had happened. He wasn't in his home, he was in an old abandoned house in a city miles away from his home town. He was wearing a suit he didn't recall having, he had keys to a car that wasn't his, and his body was covered in tattoos that he certainly didn't have before.
After some investigation, Leonard discovered that years of his life were missing.
Leonard pieced together that after the incident, Leonard had been diagnosed with anterograde amnesia. He took to tattooing messages to himself on his body as constant reminders to himself - never answer the phone, always look people in the eye, trust your own handwriting, remember Sammy Jankis.
However, the most important message was tattooed across his chest.
John G raped and murdered my wife. FIND HIM AND KILL HIM.
After some more searching, Leonard found a bunch of Polaroid pictures that he had written on as reminders of what his car was, who his friends were, but he found nothing that told him whether he'd found John G. So, having nothing else to do, Leonard kept searching.
As Leonard no longer suffered from his memory problem, he found his travels to be less complicated, but he found that all leads led to dead-ends. All John Gs that he found as suspects were already dead. Had he killed all these John Gs, not remembering that he'd done it and still thinking that the John G was on the loose? How did he know if any of these John Gs was the real John G? Well, as decades passed, Leonard reasoned that John G, whoever he was, had to be dead by now, and so Leonard found himself without purpose.
He has been wandering ever since.
Picture
Live action actor/actress
Guy Pearce
I have to believe in a world outside my own mind.
I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them.
I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there.
We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are.
I'm no different.
