Post by ALCIDE MCPHERSON on Aug 16, 2013 2:51:21 GMT -6
ALCIDE FIONNLAGH MCPHERSON
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i bet you're wondering who i am. well, E is the name, you see. i've been around for twenty-five years and in that amount of time, i've been rping for five years. amazing, huh? since i love flesh&&bone sooo much, i also play Azriel and Kazran[/color] here. enough about me, lets get on with the show! [/blockquote][/SIZE][/FONT]
SAW YOU THE OTHER DAY, [/FONT]
LOOKING SO UNDERMINED, ACTING LIKE IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN.[/FONT][/center]
FULL NAME
Alcide Fionnlagh McPherson
NICKNAMES
Ally, Mac -- he prefers Mr. McPherson
AGE
863 - unknown, sometime in 1150 - aged 34 when turned
GENDER
Male
SPECIES & GROUP
Vampire - Rouge
SPECIAL ABILITIES, POWERS, ETC.
Aside from the typical vampiric perks--speed, strength and regeneration--Alcide is exceptionally good at compelling humans to do his bidding.
SEXUALITY
Heterosexual, for the most part
PLAYED BY
Alexander Skarsgård
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KNOWN THE STORM WAS COMING
[/FONT]MAY AS WELL LET THE RAIN COME DOWN AND JOIN THE CIRCUS OF PEOPLE[/FONT][/center][/COLOR]
FAMILY
Moria McPherson - Sire
Angus Grahame - Sire's mate
Liam O'Connor - Younger 'brother'
Jocelyn Monroe - Progeny
APPERANCE
Eye color:
Dark green
Hair Color:
Blonde
Height:
6'4"
Weight:
195lbs
Build:
Lean, but very well toned
Tattoos:
Several small black Gaelic runes inked around both ankles, each symbol with its own specific meaning and history pertaining to Alcide's life. There's about fifty of the tiny marks on his body in all. To him, they're marks of passage of time and great events that have occurred over the course of his eight centuries on Earth.
Piercings:
He used to have his tongue and left eyebrow pierced during his "wild" phase, but has since grown out of them and currently has none.
PERSONALITY
If there was only one word to describe Alcide McPherson as he is now, it would probably be 'asshole'--although 'dick' could work equally as well. He's been alive (for lack of a better word) for a very long time, and over the years, it's made him somewhat apathetic towards humanity. His Sire has always taught him that human life is sacred, but he's begun to doubt her--he only sees the bad in mortals now. He used to be as tender-hearted as Moria, but he's gotten tired of being walked all over by other supernaturals, and he's become much more hardened. He still is able to see some of the good in the world, but it's always tainted with the inky grayness of the apathy that comes with age. He's become much more reticent and sarcastic, even if he knows that it hurts his Sire to see him that way. His heart stopped beating centuries ago, but his mind has just recently been catching up to the loss.
But as reserved and calculating as the vampire usually is, he's can occasionally have quite the sense of humor. He's been known to pull a few pranks on those that are close, but that doesn't mean he's the happy-go-lucky sort. He's definitely not an evil guy by any means, he's just world-weary and a little bit short-tempered, so much of the time his happy moods can turn sour quite quickly. He is an extremely loyal person, it just takes a lot to win his loyalty, and at the current moment, the only people who've got his loyalty are his Sire, Moria and his progeny Jocelyn. He hasn't seen the other members of his family, Angus and Liam, since their falling out, but if someone were to try and hurt them, he would probably defend them even though there's some bad blood. He used to be a much happier creature, in the earlier days of his vampirism, but anyone who'd seen as much strife as Alcide has in all his time would be as shut off as he is. He's seen those he's loved and cared for waste away and die right before his eyes, and he's just gotten to the point where he'd rather never care and never get hurt than put himself out there again.
HISTORY
The vampire Alcide McPherson was born as the human Alcide Fionnlagh in Scotland sometime around 1150, but over the years, his mortal life has grown distant and foggy at best. Every now and then, he'll remember something or other about who he used to be, but he's been a vampire so long, the predatory nature of his race has just about replaced all of his memories of humanity. In truth, he was a good man before he was turned, someone who'd never say no to helping out another. The one thing he will never in all his life forget is the day--or rather, the night--he met his Sire, Moria. She was the most beautiful creature he'd ever seen, and he followed her into the woods when she beckoned him. They talked for hours, and he never once stopped to ask her who she was or why she'd lured him into the woods. There was something haunting about her, but at the same time, he felt more at home around her than anyone else. She told him that she saw something good and ancient in him, and even though he didn't have a clue what she meant, he was happy to hear her say it. They talked until just before dawn, when she told him she had to leave and he asked her if he'd ever see her again. He remembers well the sad smile she gave him, and the words that would change his life forever. "Come with me." It was a question and an order and the most alluring invitation he'd ever received and followed her into immortality.
Moria turned Alcide the next night and he took her name as his own--a sign of undoubted loyalty to his Maker--and he met Moria's mate, Angus Grahame for the first time. There were no ill feelings between the two because, even though Alcide had found Moria to be breath-takingly beautiful, his interest in her was strictly platonic. She became a mother to him, and Angus a father, and for a while, they were happy together. They stayed away from humans for the most part, only staying in villages when they needed to feed. Moria taught Alcide to never kill his humans, but Angus was careless, and often ended up leaving several bodies behind. They were nomads for a couple centuries, roaming around the English Isles as they pleased, and for the most part, they were happy.
It was around the time Alcide turned three hundred that Angus brought home his first stray, and he turned Liam O'Connor. At first, Alcide rebelled against the idea of another member of their little family--he'd been spoiled rotten by Moria and Angus both and he had become a selfish child--but it wasn't too long before he and Liam bonded and became as close as blood brothers, and so they were happy once more. At least until clan wars began to erupt all over Scotland, and for a short while--about ten years--the family separated with Alcide and Liam running off to merrily fight and kill alongside humans and Moria and Angus traveling to Spain for refuge. The two brothers enjoyed themselves more during the fighting than any humans ever could--for them it was sport--and when the fighting finally ended, they went along to meet with their Sires. It was a bittersweet reunion for the bunch, as Moria and Angus had separated from each other over a fight that had cost the lives of many, many humans. Moria had told Angus that she was sick of his murdering--she was the most tender-hearted vampire Alcide had ever met--and Angus, being the temperamental bastard he was, retorted by slaughtering a whole village of innocent humans. At that point, Liam and Alcide parted ways as well, each going with their respective Sire on the promise that they would all meet again soon when tempers had cooled and hurt feelings had mended.
Alcide and Moria traveled across Europe and saw the most beautiful sights anyone could ever imagine, never killing as they went. The family spent two centuries apart and it wasn't until the fall of 1653 that they all reunited again. During that year, Alcide also met a human woman named Loraine LeFleur. She was a French maiden who was waited on hand and foot by all who knew her, whose beauty was positively notorious. Alcide got close to the woman posing as a Duke from England, and he soon believed himself to be in love with her. He begged Moria for permission to change her and make her his own progeny, and Moria--seeing that his love for her was nothing more than infatuation--denied him over and over again. It was unknown to both Moria and Alcide at the time, but Liam had become enamored by the same woman, and they soon discovered that he had attempted to change her without the permission of his Sire, leading to her gruesome death. Alcide nearly killed his brother, and if it weren't for gentle Moria staying his hand, Alcide most definitely would have. The vampire went out on his own after that episode and traveled alone for many years. There were several times when Moria would come after him alone and beg him to forgive his brother and return to them, but the pain he felt--even as over-dramatic as it was--was too much for him to forgive Liam.
In the 1800's, Alcide finally met a young woman who truly was the creature meant to be his progeny, and he fell in love with her in the way that he imagined Moria felt about him. To Alcide, Jocelyn Monroe was a trusted daughter and his closest friend, and when Moria saw how much she meant to her own progeny, she gave him permission to turn her. Fast-forward to 1951, where Alcide and Jocelyn found themselves in New Orleans, Louisiana. They run into Liam and Angus again, with Moria not too far behind them, having gotten caught up with some of her own old friends in Mississippi. The three men all made amends, and Liam and Angus welcomed Jocelyn to their family with open arms, and then they all had one hell of a party. Moria joined them soon after, though this wasn't the first time since Alcide had left the family that he'd seen his Sire--every once in a while she'd find him and travel with him and Jocelyn for a couple years just to make sure they were alright and then return to her mate. He let himself hope for the first time in centuries that the five of them could all be a family together.
It was in the new millennium that the first signs of trouble appeared. The family had settled in Rochester, New York where they blended in amongst the humans and led somewhat normal lives until a pack of Lycans appeared in the area and began ruthlessly and dangerously hunting the humans there. The family was not only threatened by the blatant disregard for human life, but also by the clear risk the lycans posed of revealing them. They'd made a comfortable life for themselves and they didn't care to move on, so they decided to fight the lycans for their territory. At one point during the turf war, Jocelyn and Liam were captured and held for ransom--either the remaining family members leave the area and the lycans alone, or the two vampires held captive would die. Both Alcide and Angus roared for their progenies, wanting to rip the heads off of every last lycan in the state. It was Moria, of course, who convinced them that the only way they would see their loved ones again was to leave the place they'd made home, and so they did. When word was sent to the Alpha of the pack of their surrender, he told Moria that they had no plans on releasing either of them and Angus went behind all of their backs and made a deal with the Alpha to let Liam go, telling them that they could keep Jocelyn. Of course, when Alcide found this out, he went mad with rage and he and Moria broke into the lycan's lair and killed anyone they could find and just barely managed to get Jocelyn back in one piece. She was badly injured and only just made it. Angus and Liam had fled and neither of them have been seen or heard from since.
Now, Moria travels by herself, and somehow Alcide believes that she is nearing her end. He sees the sadness in her eyes every time he is with her, and it breaks his heart that he can't do anything to help her. He and Jocelyn have settled back down in San Diego where they mostly keep to themselves.
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