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Character name: Stefan Salvatore
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stefanged
Series name: The Vampire Diaries
Canon notes: 5x22 (canon point), but from a previous game (![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
savetheearth) with AU memories from that game - a combination of PG + AU?
Species: Vampire (chronologically 168 years old, but physically 21 years old)
History:"I think I still need to be drunk to understand this story." (canon write-up from TVD wiki)
However, Stefan is a carryover from STE, where everyone was reincarnated. These people were termed "the Numbered," in-universe, after the long string of numbers each of them could remember without fail.
Thus, Stefan Salvatore (now Stefan Alesci) had an uneventful life as the middle child (and second son) to an Italian father & Jordanian mother. Their household was a loving one, if somewhat complicated by his doctor parents' interfaith marriage (his father was Catholic, while his mother was a Sunni Muslim).
As the middle child, he often mediated arguments between his older brother (who was 6-7 years older than him) and his younger sister Olette (who was 3 years younger), quickly learning the fine art of humor to deal with their arguments. The year Stefan entered kindergarten, his parents accepted jobs at a Locke City hospital, and so the family settled there.
During school breaks, his family would travel around the country to visit relatives and old family friends. Stefan loved the rush of traveling, but his bustling household (and his later involvement in interfaith affairs) distracted him far too often from his studies.
When he was seventeen, his parents accepted an exchange student from Bulgaria, and she slowly but surely worked her charms on both Stefan and his older brother, pitting them against each other to win her affection. Their sibling rivalry quickly turned dangerous, right up until his older brother threatened bodily harm on Stefan. Before it could escalate, Olette brought Stefan to his senses by slapping him and demanding to know what he wanted out of life.
Stefan had stared at his kid sister - at the girl forced to play mediator - and decided that no girl was worth it. No girl would ever come between him and his siblings. Immediately breaking off his relationship, Stefan threw himself into his studies and into bonding with his siblings.
The following year, when he graduated high school, Stefan was accepted into Princeton University. He spent three years there, thriving off the culture of the surrounding township. Princeton introduced him to a wider world beyond Locke City - including an outlet for him to pursue interfaith affairs, and he immersed himself heavily into its religious community. His freshman year of college, he converted to Islam, changing his middle name from 'Giuseppe' to 'Yunas' with his family's blessing (and subsequently going by Yunas Alesci in all interfaith events).
Between his conversion and the chaos surrounding the re-incarnated souls, his extended family grew increasingly uneasy, urging the Alescis to move. His parents cashed in connections at Harvard Vanguard, and moved with Olette to Boston as soon as they could to join Stefan's older brother. While Stefan couldn't join them, he had noticed his sister's increasingly depressive mood.
After prying the truth out of her, Stefan eventually learned that she had broken up with her long-time boyfriend, Danny Masters, and that he was the cause of all her heartbreak. Stefan returned to Locke to hunt Danny down, only to learn the truth: Stefan was Numbered (and so too was Olette's ex-boyfriend).
This revelation forced him to commute between Princeton and Locke for a while. At the two-month mark, he offered his home to Xander Jarle, a fellow Numbered who needed a roommate. Xander greatly resembled Salvatore's older brother Damon, leading to several conversations between them on familial similarities and the nature of Echoes.
Stefan was constantly told that his Echoes (or the memories of his past life) didn't define him, and that he was still Stefan Alesci if he chose to be. These reminders didn't help his situation, especially as he grew more involved in Numbered-related events.
He helped host a charity run in Locke that made several citizens sympathetic to the Numbered plight, while he later traveled to Lapland to search the woods for missing children.
Around New Year, he learned that his sister was Numbered - though his memories of those days are fuzzy, as the entire world was mind-wiped between January 2nd and January 5th. In February, he offered his home to Danny after learning about the kid's living situation. Stefan may have held a grudge against the kid, but he wasn't heartless.
Xander soon lost his memories of his past life, leading Stefan to help Xander move back to his hometown. Around this time, Stefan and Xander had gained doppelgangers - shadow selves who exhibited the exact opposite personalities of their "original." (A laughable thought for Stefan, who was a doppelganger in his past life.)
While Stefan tried to live a normal life, he was too entrenched in the Numbered world to remain normal: he gained a friend and confidante in Misa Amane, a reporter from Japan who he initially distrusted. Over the course of texts and even a surprise visit on White Day, they developed feelings for the other - and Stefan couldn't allow her to fall in danger.
So when a Kappa was attacking her hometown, he followed her there to help. He attended Parliament meetings (despite knowing no Japanese) and assisted with local relief efforts - however, anti-Numbered sentiment existed there too. Stefan was targeted by one of those protesters, and would have died in a tragic hit-and-run, had his vampirism not kicked in.
His first act as a new vampire: to feed off the girl he liked and to promptly recoil at the realization of his actions. He had gained the inability to die, but at what cost? Scaring the ones he loved?
He fled to New Jersey, though he wasn't allowed to wallow: his housemates were dealing with their own romantic drama, and Misa's friends were hunting him down, one by one. They knocked sense into him (some literally) and taught him how to cope with his newfound powers.
Just when he thought he had everything under control, aliens from another galaxy decide to invade their planet - every single Echo, every single power had led up to these moments. While others fought their invaders, Stefan remained behind with Jovan (Nathan Young), teaching the other immortal how to set up relief efforts in the wake of all this destruction.
They remained in Locke right up until the final attacks on the city, ensuring the safety of everyone that had remained behind - and just as the dust settles, Stefan heads to Jordan to check on his family. That check-up visit turns into a year-long stay in the country, with occasional visits to Tokyo and New Zealand to see Misa.
He's taken to Drift Fleet right after his college graduation. Princeton, despite its rough shape, has offered him a degree, and a spot as the class speaker for his year. Who better, they argued? So he accepted. Stefan doesn't have all of his past life's memories, nor does he have all of Salvatore's powers, but he wishes he does. It would've cleared up all his lingering doubts.
Personality: Stefan hovers precariously between his former life, Stefan Salvatore the immortal vampire, and Stefan Alesci, the human activist who strives to change the world. Logically, he knows that he is Stefan Salvatore. He just can't fully cope with the pain that accompanies those memories.
Outwardly, Stefan acts as the all-American hero: he's compassionate, empathetic, thoughtful, and selfless, with an immeasurable desire to help people as much as he can. While all of this is true, Stefan's not the clean-cut hero that he desperately wishes he was. Alesci was a true hero: Alesci helped bridge the various religious communities in Locke City, and collaborated on interfaith events for the whole city. Salvatore, on the other hand, remembers the mistakes of his past life, and as vampires are humans with amplified attributes - it's understandable that Stefan (Salvatore AND Alesci)'s desire to do good manifests itself in every action.
He struggles constantly with his two sets of memories, justifying actions as "Salvatore would do this" or "Alesci would do that." He has yet to accept that he is Stefan Salvatore, just as he is also Stefan Alesci. He doesn't like what he remembers of Salvatore - not to mention, Salvatore drank blood (and blood is most definitely not halal).
To people who remember his past life, he acts as if Salvatore is the dominant person in his brain. They knew Stefan Salvatore, so he should be Salvatore for them - but this is a facade. To everyone else, he's alright with admitting that he feels like Stefan Alesci much more than Stefan Salvatore - after all, he remembers all of Alesci's life. He sure doesn't remember all of Salvatore's memories.
Like his past life, Stefan will occasionally hold his universal truths as Word of God, and is quick to judge others for not following the same standard (see: his conversations with Damon over drinking human blood). That said, his beliefs aren't carved in stone. He can be convinced to believe otherwise, and he's willing to listen to other people's opinions, within reason.
Stefan's a selfless friend, always ready to lend a hand to one in need. (Usually is the key word: when Stefan's grieving, he often lashes out at the ones closest to him, pushing them away rather than pulling them close.) He would do almost anything for those he cares about, and he doesn't hesitate to kill anyone who dares to hurt them. Unlike most protagonists, while Stefan prefers to avoid a fight, he will not hesitate to take a life if it means saving someone he loves.
He doesn't brood as often as Salvatore would, instead preferring to make terrible jokes and puns when he converses with other people. Stefan still hates crowds, but he's no stranger to offering help and making friends with whoever's around. (Alesci, after all, loved people.) Stefan can also hold his own in a snark battle, and often has quick-witted one-liners for the situation. (see: "I still think I need to be drunk to understand this story" and "Let me name the one million people I'd rather be having dinner with.") He's often noted for his intelligence - and both Salvatore and Alesci were geniuses: Salvatore graduated from Harvard in the 70's, while Alesci just graduated from Princeton University.
Stefan holds himself to a higher standard than he holds other people, and thus is quicker to blame himself when something goes awry. Atonement runs through his veins, and it's that same desire to make things right that could eventually undo him - Stefan is far more optimistic than his brother, and far more willing to go the distance to save him, no matter the cost. (See: early S6, where Stefan crosses an anti-magic border and re-lives his death, just to retrieve Damon from it.)
Most concerning, however, is his denial of himself. He represses his true emotions just when he needs them most, instead deflecting conversation onto another topic (like his massive family or the weather). He can't fully accept himself, and until he does, he will always be at war with the two lives he's led.
Overall, Stefan's an optimistic (if somewhat naive) atoner that wants to make the world a better place. He just doesn't believe that he's entitled to that better place - or, frankly, that he even deserves it.
Abilities: Stefan has yet to regain his full set of vampiric abilities. He is currently a vampire blessed with super-speed, heightened senses, and mind compulsion. (Super-senses were echoed in the year between Save the Earth and its sequel, Raise the Earth.)
Like all vampires, he requires blood to survive. Unlike all vampires, he prefers to strictly dine on animal blood. (If synthetic blood exists, he would also gladly drink that.) This, however, comes with a price - Stefan's abilities are weaker than other vampires from TVD. Paradoxically, his blood has healing and magical properties: witches can siphon it as a magic source, while nearly every other species can temporarily gain accelerated healing through drinking vampire blood. (TVD-verse vampires are also created through drinking his blood.)
His mind compulsion is the ability to persuade non-powered humans into doing whatever he asks of them, as well as to persuade them into forgetting whatever he asked. This can range from forcing someone to tell the truth to something as dire as forcing someone to commit suicide. However, compulsion works only on non-powered humans - witches, vampires, ghosts, and so forth are immune to the "soul gaze" of compulsion.
The only way to kill Stefan is through a stake to the heart, spontaneous combustion, or through a werewolf bites; all other attempts will fail. Although he wears a lapis lazuli ring that protects him from sunlight, he never echoed back that weakness in StE.
However, he is weak to the herb vervain - merely touching it or ingesting it will cause his body to violently react towards it. For the sake of in-game mechanics, he'll treat it as an allergy.
Augment Skillset: Lab Support
Sample:
1) Stefan offers Danny a permanent home (prose thread, 17 comments)
2) Stefan meets his older brother (commentspam, 67 comments)
3) Reuniting with Elena (commentspam, 32 comments)
Character name: Stefan Salvatore
Character journal:
stefangedSeries name: The Vampire Diaries
Canon notes: 5x22 (canon point), but from a previous game (
savetheearth) with AU memories from that game - a combination of PG + AU?Species: Vampire (chronologically 168 years old, but physically 21 years old)
History:"I think I still need to be drunk to understand this story." (canon write-up from TVD wiki)
However, Stefan is a carryover from STE, where everyone was reincarnated. These people were termed "the Numbered," in-universe, after the long string of numbers each of them could remember without fail.
Thus, Stefan Salvatore (now Stefan Alesci) had an uneventful life as the middle child (and second son) to an Italian father & Jordanian mother. Their household was a loving one, if somewhat complicated by his doctor parents' interfaith marriage (his father was Catholic, while his mother was a Sunni Muslim).
As the middle child, he often mediated arguments between his older brother (who was 6-7 years older than him) and his younger sister Olette (who was 3 years younger), quickly learning the fine art of humor to deal with their arguments. The year Stefan entered kindergarten, his parents accepted jobs at a Locke City hospital, and so the family settled there.
During school breaks, his family would travel around the country to visit relatives and old family friends. Stefan loved the rush of traveling, but his bustling household (and his later involvement in interfaith affairs) distracted him far too often from his studies.
When he was seventeen, his parents accepted an exchange student from Bulgaria, and she slowly but surely worked her charms on both Stefan and his older brother, pitting them against each other to win her affection. Their sibling rivalry quickly turned dangerous, right up until his older brother threatened bodily harm on Stefan. Before it could escalate, Olette brought Stefan to his senses by slapping him and demanding to know what he wanted out of life.
Stefan had stared at his kid sister - at the girl forced to play mediator - and decided that no girl was worth it. No girl would ever come between him and his siblings. Immediately breaking off his relationship, Stefan threw himself into his studies and into bonding with his siblings.
The following year, when he graduated high school, Stefan was accepted into Princeton University. He spent three years there, thriving off the culture of the surrounding township. Princeton introduced him to a wider world beyond Locke City - including an outlet for him to pursue interfaith affairs, and he immersed himself heavily into its religious community. His freshman year of college, he converted to Islam, changing his middle name from 'Giuseppe' to 'Yunas' with his family's blessing (and subsequently going by Yunas Alesci in all interfaith events).
Between his conversion and the chaos surrounding the re-incarnated souls, his extended family grew increasingly uneasy, urging the Alescis to move. His parents cashed in connections at Harvard Vanguard, and moved with Olette to Boston as soon as they could to join Stefan's older brother. While Stefan couldn't join them, he had noticed his sister's increasingly depressive mood.
After prying the truth out of her, Stefan eventually learned that she had broken up with her long-time boyfriend, Danny Masters, and that he was the cause of all her heartbreak. Stefan returned to Locke to hunt Danny down, only to learn the truth: Stefan was Numbered (and so too was Olette's ex-boyfriend).
This revelation forced him to commute between Princeton and Locke for a while. At the two-month mark, he offered his home to Xander Jarle, a fellow Numbered who needed a roommate. Xander greatly resembled Salvatore's older brother Damon, leading to several conversations between them on familial similarities and the nature of Echoes.
Stefan was constantly told that his Echoes (or the memories of his past life) didn't define him, and that he was still Stefan Alesci if he chose to be. These reminders didn't help his situation, especially as he grew more involved in Numbered-related events.
He helped host a charity run in Locke that made several citizens sympathetic to the Numbered plight, while he later traveled to Lapland to search the woods for missing children.
Around New Year, he learned that his sister was Numbered - though his memories of those days are fuzzy, as the entire world was mind-wiped between January 2nd and January 5th. In February, he offered his home to Danny after learning about the kid's living situation. Stefan may have held a grudge against the kid, but he wasn't heartless.
Xander soon lost his memories of his past life, leading Stefan to help Xander move back to his hometown. Around this time, Stefan and Xander had gained doppelgangers - shadow selves who exhibited the exact opposite personalities of their "original." (A laughable thought for Stefan, who was a doppelganger in his past life.)
While Stefan tried to live a normal life, he was too entrenched in the Numbered world to remain normal: he gained a friend and confidante in Misa Amane, a reporter from Japan who he initially distrusted. Over the course of texts and even a surprise visit on White Day, they developed feelings for the other - and Stefan couldn't allow her to fall in danger.
So when a Kappa was attacking her hometown, he followed her there to help. He attended Parliament meetings (despite knowing no Japanese) and assisted with local relief efforts - however, anti-Numbered sentiment existed there too. Stefan was targeted by one of those protesters, and would have died in a tragic hit-and-run, had his vampirism not kicked in.
His first act as a new vampire: to feed off the girl he liked and to promptly recoil at the realization of his actions. He had gained the inability to die, but at what cost? Scaring the ones he loved?
He fled to New Jersey, though he wasn't allowed to wallow: his housemates were dealing with their own romantic drama, and Misa's friends were hunting him down, one by one. They knocked sense into him (some literally) and taught him how to cope with his newfound powers.
Just when he thought he had everything under control, aliens from another galaxy decide to invade their planet - every single Echo, every single power had led up to these moments. While others fought their invaders, Stefan remained behind with Jovan (Nathan Young), teaching the other immortal how to set up relief efforts in the wake of all this destruction.
They remained in Locke right up until the final attacks on the city, ensuring the safety of everyone that had remained behind - and just as the dust settles, Stefan heads to Jordan to check on his family. That check-up visit turns into a year-long stay in the country, with occasional visits to Tokyo and New Zealand to see Misa.
He's taken to Drift Fleet right after his college graduation. Princeton, despite its rough shape, has offered him a degree, and a spot as the class speaker for his year. Who better, they argued? So he accepted. Stefan doesn't have all of his past life's memories, nor does he have all of Salvatore's powers, but he wishes he does. It would've cleared up all his lingering doubts.
Personality: Stefan hovers precariously between his former life, Stefan Salvatore the immortal vampire, and Stefan Alesci, the human activist who strives to change the world. Logically, he knows that he is Stefan Salvatore. He just can't fully cope with the pain that accompanies those memories.
Outwardly, Stefan acts as the all-American hero: he's compassionate, empathetic, thoughtful, and selfless, with an immeasurable desire to help people as much as he can. While all of this is true, Stefan's not the clean-cut hero that he desperately wishes he was. Alesci was a true hero: Alesci helped bridge the various religious communities in Locke City, and collaborated on interfaith events for the whole city. Salvatore, on the other hand, remembers the mistakes of his past life, and as vampires are humans with amplified attributes - it's understandable that Stefan (Salvatore AND Alesci)'s desire to do good manifests itself in every action.
He struggles constantly with his two sets of memories, justifying actions as "Salvatore would do this" or "Alesci would do that." He has yet to accept that he is Stefan Salvatore, just as he is also Stefan Alesci. He doesn't like what he remembers of Salvatore - not to mention, Salvatore drank blood (and blood is most definitely not halal).
To people who remember his past life, he acts as if Salvatore is the dominant person in his brain. They knew Stefan Salvatore, so he should be Salvatore for them - but this is a facade. To everyone else, he's alright with admitting that he feels like Stefan Alesci much more than Stefan Salvatore - after all, he remembers all of Alesci's life. He sure doesn't remember all of Salvatore's memories.
Like his past life, Stefan will occasionally hold his universal truths as Word of God, and is quick to judge others for not following the same standard (see: his conversations with Damon over drinking human blood). That said, his beliefs aren't carved in stone. He can be convinced to believe otherwise, and he's willing to listen to other people's opinions, within reason.
Stefan's a selfless friend, always ready to lend a hand to one in need. (Usually is the key word: when Stefan's grieving, he often lashes out at the ones closest to him, pushing them away rather than pulling them close.) He would do almost anything for those he cares about, and he doesn't hesitate to kill anyone who dares to hurt them. Unlike most protagonists, while Stefan prefers to avoid a fight, he will not hesitate to take a life if it means saving someone he loves.
He doesn't brood as often as Salvatore would, instead preferring to make terrible jokes and puns when he converses with other people. Stefan still hates crowds, but he's no stranger to offering help and making friends with whoever's around. (Alesci, after all, loved people.) Stefan can also hold his own in a snark battle, and often has quick-witted one-liners for the situation. (see: "I still think I need to be drunk to understand this story" and "Let me name the one million people I'd rather be having dinner with.") He's often noted for his intelligence - and both Salvatore and Alesci were geniuses: Salvatore graduated from Harvard in the 70's, while Alesci just graduated from Princeton University.
Stefan holds himself to a higher standard than he holds other people, and thus is quicker to blame himself when something goes awry. Atonement runs through his veins, and it's that same desire to make things right that could eventually undo him - Stefan is far more optimistic than his brother, and far more willing to go the distance to save him, no matter the cost. (See: early S6, where Stefan crosses an anti-magic border and re-lives his death, just to retrieve Damon from it.)
Most concerning, however, is his denial of himself. He represses his true emotions just when he needs them most, instead deflecting conversation onto another topic (like his massive family or the weather). He can't fully accept himself, and until he does, he will always be at war with the two lives he's led.
Overall, Stefan's an optimistic (if somewhat naive) atoner that wants to make the world a better place. He just doesn't believe that he's entitled to that better place - or, frankly, that he even deserves it.
Abilities: Stefan has yet to regain his full set of vampiric abilities. He is currently a vampire blessed with super-speed, heightened senses, and mind compulsion. (Super-senses were echoed in the year between Save the Earth and its sequel, Raise the Earth.)
Like all vampires, he requires blood to survive. Unlike all vampires, he prefers to strictly dine on animal blood. (If synthetic blood exists, he would also gladly drink that.) This, however, comes with a price - Stefan's abilities are weaker than other vampires from TVD. Paradoxically, his blood has healing and magical properties: witches can siphon it as a magic source, while nearly every other species can temporarily gain accelerated healing through drinking vampire blood. (TVD-verse vampires are also created through drinking his blood.)
His mind compulsion is the ability to persuade non-powered humans into doing whatever he asks of them, as well as to persuade them into forgetting whatever he asked. This can range from forcing someone to tell the truth to something as dire as forcing someone to commit suicide. However, compulsion works only on non-powered humans - witches, vampires, ghosts, and so forth are immune to the "soul gaze" of compulsion.
The only way to kill Stefan is through a stake to the heart, spontaneous combustion, or through a werewolf bites; all other attempts will fail. Although he wears a lapis lazuli ring that protects him from sunlight, he never echoed back that weakness in StE.
However, he is weak to the herb vervain - merely touching it or ingesting it will cause his body to violently react towards it. For the sake of in-game mechanics, he'll treat it as an allergy.
Augment Skillset: Lab Support
Sample:
1) Stefan offers Danny a permanent home (prose thread, 17 comments)
2) Stefan meets his older brother (commentspam, 67 comments)
3) Reuniting with Elena (commentspam, 32 comments)