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Isaac Bridgeport
There's such a sad love deep in your eyes. |
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The Basics
Name: Isaac "Bridgeport" is what he currently uses.
Nicknames: He doesn't do nicknames.
Age: 235, including the years before he was turned.
Birthday: Unknown. He has a birthday party every June, though, just to be fancy and show off his wealth.
Species: Vampire
Claiming Status: TBD.
Occupation: Billionaire. He maintains income various ways, his stock portfolio is impeccable, and he employs the locals, vampire and human alike, in running the local cellular phone service.
Appearance:
Isaac is a steady 5'10" and weighs about 160 pounds. In life, his eyes were brown, and when he isn't lusting particularly heavily, they can sometimes appear to be this color. His hair is a sandy mix between brown and blond, and he alternates between having his bangs brushed down or spiked up slightly. He is always dressed impeccably, there is no such thing as casual or "dressing down", when it comes to him. Every day is a business day and when you've got it, flaunt it.
Isaac has no tattoos are particularly distinguishing marks aside from a scar visible in certain light on his forehead, from having had smallpox as a human. He usually lies and comes up with extravagant stories about where it came from when it comes to women.
PB: Jason Dohring
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Personality
A kind of pale jewel, open and closed within your eyes. |
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Isaac is all over the place, although in the end he is intensely loyal to his own kind. He was raised, he feels, in an all together different world. Men treated women like queens, minors didn't dare speak up against their elders and you knew your place in society. He still sees life through those eyes, only instead of money, race now separates the societies for him.
He doesn't entirely look down on humanity though, especially the women. Human females can offer something vampire females just can't, blood. And so Isaac really never has an empty belly. He doesn't take it by force unless he's very pissed off, and he has a regular group of women that he likes to add to that are always willing donors. Because of this, he rarely, if ever claims. He does it when he feels he has good cause, especially after his first claim.
Isaac is very open to flaunting his personal wealth, but he likes to share it among the other vamps, particularly those he has any history with. His home is always open to them and while he doesn't always like it, his wallet is too. He's extremely devoted to the Council, he's not a member, there's too much responsibility there that borders on politics, but he does want to keep the humans in check, and help keep tabs on them.
He has a brilliant business mind away from his interest in blood and sex and aristocracy. There's nothing about running a business from the top that's difficult for him. He makes no attachment to employees that he hires of the street so firing them is easy if necessary, he knows good marketing and business politics, and he's known for adding little twists to everything he touches. He's articulate, well kempt, rational and not easy to fool.
Likes: Blood, parties, alcohol, the finer things in life, making money, sex, women who let him feed during sex, women in skimpy things, and just generally being an arrogant predator.
Dislikes: Humans who give lip, small children and babies, the way teenagers sound on the phone, etc.
Strengths: Isaac is exceptionally talented as a businessman. He's good at laying out realistic plans and getting together the materials and staff necessary to make them happen. He budgets money well, and he makes sure people around him get things done, even if he has to snap a few necks to make it happen. (He hasn't, but he can make someone believe that he would.) He's never late and he never fails to show up for a scheduled appointment.
Weaknesses: He's very defensive of the other vampires, and at the same time, human crime disgusts him. If he catches a human doing something unspeakable to another, rare as it may be, he loses it.
Thoughts on humans: Good source of food. Very fun to fool around with/ prank/ charge. But there is no emotional attachment.
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History
I'll place the skies, within your eyes. |
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Isaac was born in Germany in around 1775. He was raised in a farming family, and learned very early on the importance of being polite and staying in your place. In school he received higher marks than most other children growing up as farmhands and so his teachers pooled to send him to a better school in the city, where he was taught more complicated basic subjects, and, eventually, how to be a successful businessman.
At twenty-five years old he was working in a partnership with a school friend, planning to open a textile company together. It was during this time that Isaac was turned while on a trip to Bavaria, trying to acquire some funds to help get their doors open. Because of this he was never reported as dead home, and once the change was complete, he tried to return to keep going on as he had been, but he soon found that the bloodlust was too unbearable, and sold his shares in the company before leaving in a hurry with his sire.
The next several years were spent traveling Europe, learning to control his urges, killing prostitutes and peasants for meals most of the time. But Isaac quickly realized that he didn't want to live like a traveling salesman. He took the last name 'Tangiers' and opened a hotel in Austria in the 1820's, and he ran it until he couldn't hide the fact that he wasn't aging any longer, faked his death and, at a friend's urging, moved to the states.
He lived in Ohio for a while, and then New York, where he adopted the last name 'Ferndale' in the 1850's. There he learned about stocks and bonds and built up his first portfolio until the crash of the 1930's. Two new names in, thankfully, he had collected well up until then and abandoned his identity yet again to take 'Bridgeport' as his name. That's when he moved to Shadow Falls, in 1936. Seeking something different than what he had been living for all those years, Isaac set up a portfolio only after he knew the market was safe again.
For many years he simply lived in the Falls, so to speak. The vampire-run town was like a Utopia and he decided to make more permanent connections and settle his roots there. Having made friends and found a few people, humans in particular, that he disliked, Isaac saw no reason to hurry away. In the 1950's he traveled a bit for business reasons, and found a deep love for the new Rock/Doo Wop music. He even met Buddy Holly about a week before his plane crashed. And while on that trip, he met Beth.
Beth was human, bright and beautiful and far too sassy to end up as some guy's baby-machine. Isaac brought her to the falls with the intention of turning her, possibly to be a mate. Something he hadn't considered before. She was willing, and he begun it one night when he felt they had waited long enough. However on the second night something went wrong, a risk that came up when changing humans sometimes. When he stopped feeding and went to feed her his own blood, her wound did not begin healing. She bled out as he frantically tried to top it and thus, the process was never complete, and she died. He never looked into what stopped the healing agent in his saliva from closing the immediate wound. But he's heard whispers as the years have passed. The guesses mean little to him. For a long time he fed on the packaged blood only after that.
The lust for fresh blood became too overwhelming to ignore and he started his rotation of girls in the mid 1970's. In the late 1980's he started the development of the phone company after seeing a cellular phone being used in New York, and he poured millions into research and such and waited until the late 90's to pitch the idea to the council, a cellular phone company run by him. Humans pay for contracts and buy phones at discounted rates, the vampires monitor and store all the calls and later SMS, MMS and email incoming and outgoing via the SIM cards. Anything suspicious or blatantly out of line is reported, and the rest mostly is a good laugh and turns up a decent profit.
His lifestyle hasn't changed much in the last twenty or so years, the women change. He doesn't sire anymore but he has a couple of times before Beth's turning went wrong. While he's not the most important member of the town, he is very influential with the humans. He enjoys setting them up against one another just to see what happens. He likes to make the weaker ones crawl in their skins, and the prettier girls crawl on their knees, usually naked. Isaac generally scorns the idea of long-standing romance now. He can be bitter and cynical but in the end if he cares at all, he'll support anything.
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OOC Info
As the pain sweeps through, makes no sense for you. Every thrill is gone, wasn't too much fun at all. |
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I prefer to thread but random IMs are fun love! Storybook is preferred, I haven't played asterisk in a while but I'll give it a try if you can't play storybook.
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Credits & Disclaimer |
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Picture: Here! by Unknwon. Lyrics: David Bowie, "As the World Falls Down." |
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