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Name: Aamir Khatri
Age: Looks 27, technically 37
Hair: Black, unruly
Eyes: Brown
Race: Vampire
Voice: Pretty average in pitch for a guy his age, thick Australian accent. He can be quite loud when excited or taken by surprise, and his laugh is especially...distinctive. You can't miss it.
Height: 5'8"
Build: On the chubbier side. While he isn't hugely overweight, he gains it quickly and doesn't lose it easily, especially after drinking very fatty blood. However, because he has a tendency to under eat, his weight tends to just stay as it was when he was first turned.
Noticeable features?:
- His hair is usually a goddamn mess and has no real discernible parting
- His mouth is a jumble sale; his teeth are quite crooked and overcrowded, which shows when he laughs and smiles. It doesn't bother him really, unless someone's a jerk about it.
However,when he was first turned, his left fang had some trouble coming through. It made it about halfway out before getting stuck and now can't be retracted. So it's just constantly there. Just chilling out.
The fact that it isn't pointing downwards, it also means that until he can afford to get orthodontist work done and get his teeth straightened, he can't really use his fangs for their intended purpose. He gets around this by either drinking blood from a donation bag - usually with a curly straw - or by making lollipops and ice lollies out of blood. Which is as disgusting as it sounds. But hey, a guy's gotta eat.
Most often seen wearing:
- Pastel shirts over black jeans, generally paired with a loose scarf of some kind
- He likes hats a lot, usually oversized beanies or pork pie hats
- Brown doc marten boots
- He loves wrist bands and wears too many
Vampirism & the gifts it keeps on giving:
First and foremost, Aamir is not dead. He's not the cold, pulse-less creature of the night that we're all used to assuming Vampires are. He's a living being who just happens to need blood to exist - like a doughy, man-shaped mosquito. Sort of. He can go out in sunlight, he isn't repulsed by garlic or crosses or holy water. He's just a dude with (largely useless) sharpened incisors and a different diet to your average Joe.
He also does not go into a crazed frenzied hunger if he doesn't eat. He gets hungry like a regular person, then he gets hangry, and if he goes long enough without blood he'd get sick and die of starvation. As long as he stays hydrated and takes iron supplements it can keep the hunger at bay, but generally he always keeps his 'blood candy' on him at all times.
Since the blood bags he gets are stolen from hospitals or donated by a couple of his close friends whenever they want to give some to him (this is strictly voluntary on their part), he's very careful with how often he eats and as a result tends to under eat a lot of the time.
He can technically eat human food as well in very small quantities, but like if people eat a load of chocolate really fast, if he eats too much he’ll get one hell of a bellyache or make himself vomit, so…he doesn’t really tend to. He is more tolerant to liquids/drinks, however – as long as he paces himself with water or blood – coffee, tea and alcohol are all generally fine. He just feels the effects more than a regular person might, hangovers especially, good lord.
However!
- He does not need to sleep, strictly speaking. He has no idea why, and he still does sometimes out of habit, but all he technically needs to do is rest for a few hours, especially if he hasn't eaten for a while. So for him, Netflix binges are good for his health!
- He can see perfectly in the dark; something meant to make hunting easier but really it’s just great if he has a black out.
- Turning into a bat is fun, but takes a shit-tonne of energy to do. He can do it, just not often at all.
- Turning into mist is much easier and is generally his preferred way of sneaking into blood drives/hospitals to get what he needs.
- Passing through walls, he does this a lot, especially in his own home
- Enhanced senses of smell, sight and hearing, just your bog standard stuff there
- Enhanced strength and speed. He still hates running with every fibre of his being and will only do it if he’s actively being chased though.
- He can cross open water in planes or boats, but he gets ridiculously travel sick.
Personality:
- Aamir is a happy dude, or so he seems on the surface and a couple of layers under that. He’s always quick with a joke or to laugh with someone, and prefers people just get along instead of arguing.
- He can be lazy, but if it’s important something gets done, he does it as soon as he can so that he can get back to lazing around quicker. In a lot of ways this works to his advantage, as it means he gets things done early in the day and has more time to himself.
- The only time this doesn’t apply is when he’s at work. He loves his work and takes pride in it, and would rather stay late than leave something half-finished.
- Definitely an extrovert. If he’s not with friends, he’s out meeting new ones. He has no problem with breaking the ice and making small talk, and is genuinely interested in talking to people and making connections.
- He’ll try pretty much anything once; sports, food, bedroom stuff, things like sky diving, whatever. He’s very open minded about things as a general rule. As far as he’s concerned, you can fuck who you want as long as no one’s getting hurt and everyone’s able to consent, you can dress how you want, worship whoever you want, whatever! Just don’t be a dick about it and he’ll want to know more about you!
- He’s very affectionate and likes to know that everyone in his company feels happy and included. If someone’s upset, he tries to comfort them as best he can.
- He finds macabre, spooky and strange things all super interesting, and loves talking about anything morbid. This contrasts rather oddly with his love for bright colours and cute things.
- All this being said, he does have his share of skeletons in his closet. His family had no issue with hunting and killing people for blood, and after he was turned, he joined them. But it wasn’t something he enjoyed or took any pleasure in; hurting others isn’t something that comes naturally to him, and as soon as he was able to move away he stopped hunting completely. He harbours a lot of guilt about the people he’s killed and hurt, and so tries to atone for that in whatever way he can.
- However, the fact that he has to steal blood from people that potentially need it doesn’t help the guilt factor at all.
In a nutshell, he thinks he’s generally not a great person but hides that under layers of stupid humour and attempts to be decent.
Background info:
- Given up for adoption at the age of 2, Aamir has no real memories of his birth family. His name is the only real clue he has as to where he might be from.
- He was quickly adopted by a family in Perth who already had two other adopted children, although they were both older than Aamir by quite a few years. As he grew up, his parents also fostered numerous children in the system. It wouldn’t be until he was nearly thirty that he’d find out the secret that his parents were both pure blood vampires – pure blood being that they were born that way instead of being turned – and that most of the kids and teenagers they’d brought into their home were young vampires, kicked out by their families.
- It was during a family gathering when he was 27 that he got into an argument with one of his foster brothers, which turned into a fight, and ended up with Aamir being fatally wounded. Not wanting to lose him, his parents decided to turn him instead.
- After that he stayed with them for a year or so as he got used to what he was – this is a time of his life he never talks about, and hates being reminded about.
- Eventually he moved across country to Perth, slowly but surely cutting ties with his family and deciding to build his own support network of friends in the city, soon after finding work with a new funeral home and continuing his career as a mortuary assistant.
Hobbies, interests, misc (I will continue to add to throughout November as his Nanowrimo story is written!):
- Aamir loves music and singing, and he plays the piano, the violin and is currently learning the ukulele.
- While he loves stories and fiction, he tends to stick to audiobooks as he is severely dyslexic. This is also to blame for his terrible handwriting, but he does try to make it legible when he needs to. Autocorrect is his favourite thing, it's saved him more times than he'd like to count.
- He has two Corgis called Apollo and Incorgnito – Polly and Corgs/the Corgster for short.
- He also loves languages! He speaks French and German – the latter taught by his father. He’s also neck deep in learning Italian.
- Painting brings him a lot of joy and it’s one of the only things other than watching Netflix that he will stay sat down for more than ten minutes doing.
- He’s quite stylish and loves fashion! His fashion sense can be a little quirky, but he always manages to look good, especially when he’s out at bars or at parties!
Age: Looks 27, technically 37
Hair: Black, unruly
Eyes: Brown
Race: Vampire
Voice: Pretty average in pitch for a guy his age, thick Australian accent. He can be quite loud when excited or taken by surprise, and his laugh is especially...distinctive. You can't miss it.
Height: 5'8"
Build: On the chubbier side. While he isn't hugely overweight, he gains it quickly and doesn't lose it easily, especially after drinking very fatty blood. However, because he has a tendency to under eat, his weight tends to just stay as it was when he was first turned.
Noticeable features?:
- His hair is usually a goddamn mess and has no real discernible parting
- His mouth is a jumble sale; his teeth are quite crooked and overcrowded, which shows when he laughs and smiles. It doesn't bother him really, unless someone's a jerk about it.
However,when he was first turned, his left fang had some trouble coming through. It made it about halfway out before getting stuck and now can't be retracted. So it's just constantly there. Just chilling out.
The fact that it isn't pointing downwards, it also means that until he can afford to get orthodontist work done and get his teeth straightened, he can't really use his fangs for their intended purpose. He gets around this by either drinking blood from a donation bag - usually with a curly straw - or by making lollipops and ice lollies out of blood. Which is as disgusting as it sounds. But hey, a guy's gotta eat.
Most often seen wearing:
- Pastel shirts over black jeans, generally paired with a loose scarf of some kind
- He likes hats a lot, usually oversized beanies or pork pie hats
- Brown doc marten boots
- He loves wrist bands and wears too many
Vampirism & the gifts it keeps on giving:
First and foremost, Aamir is not dead. He's not the cold, pulse-less creature of the night that we're all used to assuming Vampires are. He's a living being who just happens to need blood to exist - like a doughy, man-shaped mosquito. Sort of. He can go out in sunlight, he isn't repulsed by garlic or crosses or holy water. He's just a dude with (largely useless) sharpened incisors and a different diet to your average Joe.
He also does not go into a crazed frenzied hunger if he doesn't eat. He gets hungry like a regular person, then he gets hangry, and if he goes long enough without blood he'd get sick and die of starvation. As long as he stays hydrated and takes iron supplements it can keep the hunger at bay, but generally he always keeps his 'blood candy' on him at all times.
Since the blood bags he gets are stolen from hospitals or donated by a couple of his close friends whenever they want to give some to him (this is strictly voluntary on their part), he's very careful with how often he eats and as a result tends to under eat a lot of the time.
He can technically eat human food as well in very small quantities, but like if people eat a load of chocolate really fast, if he eats too much he’ll get one hell of a bellyache or make himself vomit, so…he doesn’t really tend to. He is more tolerant to liquids/drinks, however – as long as he paces himself with water or blood – coffee, tea and alcohol are all generally fine. He just feels the effects more than a regular person might, hangovers especially, good lord.
However!
- He does not need to sleep, strictly speaking. He has no idea why, and he still does sometimes out of habit, but all he technically needs to do is rest for a few hours, especially if he hasn't eaten for a while. So for him, Netflix binges are good for his health!
- He can see perfectly in the dark; something meant to make hunting easier but really it’s just great if he has a black out.
- Turning into a bat is fun, but takes a shit-tonne of energy to do. He can do it, just not often at all.
- Turning into mist is much easier and is generally his preferred way of sneaking into blood drives/hospitals to get what he needs.
- Passing through walls, he does this a lot, especially in his own home
- Enhanced senses of smell, sight and hearing, just your bog standard stuff there
- Enhanced strength and speed. He still hates running with every fibre of his being and will only do it if he’s actively being chased though.
- He can cross open water in planes or boats, but he gets ridiculously travel sick.
Personality:
- Aamir is a happy dude, or so he seems on the surface and a couple of layers under that. He’s always quick with a joke or to laugh with someone, and prefers people just get along instead of arguing.
- He can be lazy, but if it’s important something gets done, he does it as soon as he can so that he can get back to lazing around quicker. In a lot of ways this works to his advantage, as it means he gets things done early in the day and has more time to himself.
- The only time this doesn’t apply is when he’s at work. He loves his work and takes pride in it, and would rather stay late than leave something half-finished.
- Definitely an extrovert. If he’s not with friends, he’s out meeting new ones. He has no problem with breaking the ice and making small talk, and is genuinely interested in talking to people and making connections.
- He’ll try pretty much anything once; sports, food, bedroom stuff, things like sky diving, whatever. He’s very open minded about things as a general rule. As far as he’s concerned, you can fuck who you want as long as no one’s getting hurt and everyone’s able to consent, you can dress how you want, worship whoever you want, whatever! Just don’t be a dick about it and he’ll want to know more about you!
- He’s very affectionate and likes to know that everyone in his company feels happy and included. If someone’s upset, he tries to comfort them as best he can.
- He finds macabre, spooky and strange things all super interesting, and loves talking about anything morbid. This contrasts rather oddly with his love for bright colours and cute things.
- All this being said, he does have his share of skeletons in his closet. His family had no issue with hunting and killing people for blood, and after he was turned, he joined them. But it wasn’t something he enjoyed or took any pleasure in; hurting others isn’t something that comes naturally to him, and as soon as he was able to move away he stopped hunting completely. He harbours a lot of guilt about the people he’s killed and hurt, and so tries to atone for that in whatever way he can.
- However, the fact that he has to steal blood from people that potentially need it doesn’t help the guilt factor at all.
In a nutshell, he thinks he’s generally not a great person but hides that under layers of stupid humour and attempts to be decent.
Background info:
- Given up for adoption at the age of 2, Aamir has no real memories of his birth family. His name is the only real clue he has as to where he might be from.
- He was quickly adopted by a family in Perth who already had two other adopted children, although they were both older than Aamir by quite a few years. As he grew up, his parents also fostered numerous children in the system. It wouldn’t be until he was nearly thirty that he’d find out the secret that his parents were both pure blood vampires – pure blood being that they were born that way instead of being turned – and that most of the kids and teenagers they’d brought into their home were young vampires, kicked out by their families.
- It was during a family gathering when he was 27 that he got into an argument with one of his foster brothers, which turned into a fight, and ended up with Aamir being fatally wounded. Not wanting to lose him, his parents decided to turn him instead.
- After that he stayed with them for a year or so as he got used to what he was – this is a time of his life he never talks about, and hates being reminded about.
- Eventually he moved across country to Perth, slowly but surely cutting ties with his family and deciding to build his own support network of friends in the city, soon after finding work with a new funeral home and continuing his career as a mortuary assistant.
Hobbies, interests, misc (I will continue to add to throughout November as his Nanowrimo story is written!):
- Aamir loves music and singing, and he plays the piano, the violin and is currently learning the ukulele.
- While he loves stories and fiction, he tends to stick to audiobooks as he is severely dyslexic. This is also to blame for his terrible handwriting, but he does try to make it legible when he needs to. Autocorrect is his favourite thing, it's saved him more times than he'd like to count.
- He has two Corgis called Apollo and Incorgnito – Polly and Corgs/the Corgster for short.
- He also loves languages! He speaks French and German – the latter taught by his father. He’s also neck deep in learning Italian.
- Painting brings him a lot of joy and it’s one of the only things other than watching Netflix that he will stay sat down for more than ten minutes doing.
- He’s quite stylish and loves fashion! His fashion sense can be a little quirky, but he always manages to look good, especially when he’s out at bars or at parties!
