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I did this a few days ago, since my muse was smacking me to draw out designs for the major characters of this story. I had no clue why, since, at the time, I hadn’t really planned on doing anything with them, but my muse was insistent. Who am I to argue with it? Better this than nothing at all.

And it’s like ‘Let’s find the odd one out!’ looking at this, since they’re all vampires, save for the one.

Name: (physical age/actual age)

Ryan Hutchinson: (16/16) Told from her point of view. Ryan’s just a normal introverted teenaged girl, trying to get by in the world, and seeking attention from her negligent family. Only one she could trust happens to be ‘dead’ now, though.

Benjamin Cartwright: (17/229) The love interest, of course. Benjamin’s trying to be normal, and is the most normal of his ‘family’. He’s sarcastic and pessimistic, but overall a good guy.

Charlotte North (Hutchinson): (16/16) Ryan’s twin sister. Charlotte is an extrovert, and one of the most popular girls at school. She’s seen as a bit shallow in life, but acts much like Ryan in death.

Caroline North (Holmes): (18/230) Thomas’ ‘fiancée’. Caroline is the sort of girl everyone envies; boys want to date her and girls want to be her. While she ignores most of the humans around her, she takes to Ryan fairly quickly, and really enjoys her company.

Thomas Cartwright: (20/232) Benjamin’s older brother. Thomas is considered a ‘bad boy’, and is deemed the worst of the family. He’s just as well natured as his brother, though, and gets the biggest kick out of annoying Ryan.

Robert North: (25/335) The patron of the family. Robert, well, I haven’t figured out what he does just yet. But he’s a kind and gentle soul who likes nothing more to live as a normal person and in peace.

Estella North: (22/332) Robert’s wife. Estella is very much like her husband, kind and compassionate. She works as a doctor, mostly so she can declare Charlotte dead while still making her into a vampire.

Jessica Cartwright (Andersen): (18/107) Um…don’t have too much on her yet. She’s just really a filler character to add more to the family. I do know that Ryan sees her future in Jessica, since Jessica fell in love with a vampire herself, which is why she was turned.

Adrian North (Wood): (19/134) Same deal with Jessica. He’s the one she fell in love with. (They’re supposed to be sort of replacements for Lily and Jayson without actually using that, if that helps any…although their history is totally different).

The general idea behind these vampires is that they’re more like walking corpses than anything else. I know that sounds a bit gross, but yeah. They look normal enough to pass as humans (and they can be out in the sunlight, since there’s not really anything supernatural about them; it’d just be like taking a corpse outside). The shadows under their eyes are due to lack of sleep, since vampires don’t have to sleep nearly as often as humans do. (Charlotte’s are lighter because she’s newly turned, and Benjamin’s are darker because he hasn’t slept in several years, maybe decades. They can still function without sleep, mind).

These vampires do have fangs, but they only extend out when feeding. And, of course, this group only drinks animal blood. That’s one reason for Charlotte’s odd eye color. Her eyes, at the moment, are red, and she’s wearing blue contacts. They’re red because she’s newly turned, and, with the absence of human blood to her diet, her eyes will eventually return to normal. (I liked the idea ~callisto-chan had of them looking dead, but they’re eyes were very much alive.)

It’s fun to reuse characters, and then totally reinvent them. (I screwed up some numbers on the image, so, ignore them. )

(And Vampire Story is my other tentative title for this, although it’s more of a placeholder description than anything else.)

Characters © ~erin-hime

Description
I did this a few days ago, since my muse was smacking me to draw out designs for the major characters of this story. I had no clue why, since, at the time, I hadn’t really planned on doing anything with them, but my muse was insistent. Who am I to argue with it? Better this than nothing at all.

And it’s like ‘Let’s find the odd one out!’ looking at this, since they’re all vampires, save for the one.

Name: (physical age/actual age)

Ryan Hutchinson: (16/16) Told from her point of view. Ryan’s just a normal introverted teenaged girl, trying to get by in the world, and seeking attention from her negligent family. Only one she could trust happens to be ‘dead’ now, though.

Benjamin Cartwright: (17/229) The love interest, of course. Benjamin’s trying to be normal, and is the most normal of his ‘family’. He’s sarcastic and pessimistic, but overall a good guy.

Charlotte North (Hutchinson): (16/16) Ryan’s twin sister. Charlotte is an extrovert, and one of the most popular girls at school. She’s seen as a bit shallow in life, but acts much like Ryan in death.

Caroline North (Holmes): (18/230) Thomas’ ‘fiancée’. Caroline is the sort of girl everyone envies; boys want to date her and girls want to be her. While she ignores most of the humans around her, she takes to Ryan fairly quickly, and really enjoys her company.

Thomas Cartwright: (20/232) Benjamin’s older brother. Thomas is considered a ‘bad boy’, and is deemed the worst of the family. He’s just as well natured as his brother, though, and gets the biggest kick out of annoying Ryan.

Robert North: (25/335) The patron of the family. Robert, well, I haven’t figured out what he does just yet. But he’s a kind and gentle soul who likes nothing more to live as a normal person and in peace.

Estella North: (22/332) Robert’s wife. Estella is very much like her husband, kind and compassionate. She works as a doctor, mostly so she can declare Charlotte dead while still making her into a vampire.

Jessica Cartwright (Andersen): (18/107) Um…don’t have too much on her yet. She’s just really a filler character to add more to the family. I do know that Ryan sees her future in Jessica, since Jessica fell in love with a vampire herself, which is why she was turned.

Adrian North (Wood): (19/134) Same deal with Jessica. He’s the one she fell in love with. (They’re supposed to be sort of replacements for Lily and Jayson without actually using that, if that helps any…although their history is totally different).

The general idea behind these vampires is that they’re more like walking corpses than anything else. I know that sounds a bit gross, but yeah. They look normal enough to pass as humans (and they can be out in the sunlight, since there’s not really anything supernatural about them; it’d just be like taking a corpse outside). The shadows under their eyes are due to lack of sleep, since vampires don’t have to sleep nearly as often as humans do. (Charlotte’s are lighter because she’s newly turned, and Benjamin’s are darker because he hasn’t slept in several years, maybe decades. They can still function without sleep, mind).

These vampires do have fangs, but they only extend out when feeding. And, of course, this group only drinks animal blood. That’s one reason for Charlotte’s odd eye color. Her eyes, at the moment, are red, and she’s wearing blue contacts. They’re red because she’s newly turned, and, with the absence of human blood to her diet, her eyes will eventually return to normal. (I liked the idea ~callisto-chan had of them looking dead, but they’re eyes were very much alive.)

It’s fun to reuse characters, and then totally reinvent them. (I screwed up some numbers on the image, so, ignore them. )

(And Vampire Story is my other tentative title for this, although it’s more of a placeholder description than anything else.)

Characters © ~erin-hime