Character Bio
Name: Pienter Gekkemen (phonetic: pee•EN•ter GECK•min)
Age: between 30-40 (he doesn’t keep track of his age anymore) - was actually in his early twenties when embraced, but looks prematurely aged due to drug-use
Gender: male
Height: tall/average – around 6’2”
Weight: average
Body Type: slender/muscular
Bloodline: Malkavian (vampire)
Face: appears Caucasian (American), with a short chin-beard
Eyes: right-eye brown, left-eye hazel
Skin: healthy-tan immediately after feeding, though more often it's just sickly/corpselike – covered in knife-fight and self-inflicted burns/cut scars and a "DNA-chain" tattoo on the right side of his torso. Pen also has a bar-code tattoo on the right side of his neck, behind the ear, and just below the skull (that tat is hardly ever visible).
Hair: dark brown ringlet curls, reaches below shoulderline/upper-back, Pen sometimes shaves his head or lops off large chunks of hair just for the hell of it (it all grows back when he sleeps)
Derangement(s): Multiple Personalities (primary = megalomaniac; secondary = hysteric; tertiary = paranoid schizophrenic)
Sexual Orientation: whatever it needs to be so he gets what he wants (pansexual)
Sexuality: primary = dominant; secondary = dominant/submissive; tertiary = submissive
Weapons: fangs and any kind of small, handheld blade ~ though he prefers to use switchblades
Personality1: obsessive, manipulative, & sadistic
Personality2: fidgety, shifty, & masochistic
Personality3: withdrawn, suspicious, & autistic
Occupation: con-artist/drug dealer/petty criminal (in and out of jail/institutions all his life)
Interests: Pen still deals drugs (bad habits die hard), but now he's got a new product to sell; "V" - his own vampire-blood.
Likes: comic books, movies, knives & the internet
Dislikes: "horror" movies (the kind with excessive, unnecessary gore), people who try to control and manipulate him, or anyone who has more power than he does, & garlic – can’t stand the stuff
Skills: He's a wizard with them switchblades, is ambidextrous, and speaks German
Special Abilities: As a vampire, Pen has super-human strength, and speed. He can sense the auras of those around him, and has superior senses of sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste. Pen can avoid being seen by slipping into shadow (even in plain sight) and he can also toy with people's minds - pulling out certain dormant insanities. He is invulnerable to everything but fire, and direct sunlight, and he is allergic to silver. A wound caused by any other means heals almost instantly. He heals faster when drinking blood.
Other Details: Pen mostly wears thrift-store bargains, Goodwill-rejects, and the like. He found that "Australian Outback" hat somewhere, and now is rarely seen without it. Right n****e is pierced, and both ears pierced several times - he tries to pierce his lip and eyebrows once in a while, but he didn't get them done before his embrace, so they just heal away as soon as the studs are removed.
Pen is claustrophobic - his second personality takes over whenever he's presented with his phobia and remains in control for a few minutes or up to a few hours after he escapes the situation. Pen cannot ride elevators, or travel in a car without the window down, and coffins are absolutely out of the question. His apartment's windows are boarded-up & thickly curtained so he can sleep on the couch. Whenever Pen sleeps he has terrible nightmares. Upon awakening, if he cannot realize he is awake, his third personality takes over and remains in control until he goes back to sleep.
He can easily pass as human, until he "vamps-out" by baring his fangs, and revealing his unnaturally bright eyes. Pen is not put off by running water, or crucifixes, and a stake in the heart will only paralyze him. He can’t stand the smell of garlic.
Pen may be drawn with Cynric Rhodes, or in a group with Ringwood
Pen + Cynric = love/hate, obsession, selfish rivalry, or shounen-ai (Pen = seme)
Pen + Ringwood = aloof indifference, dominance issues, and comrades in madness
