Vampire Tom Riddle

Tom is the son of the most important vampire in Britain and as such he grew up with a lavish lifestyle and now that he's decided he wants a human pet he gets one without question or hesitation. He is a half-blood in the vampire community, only having a witch mother and a vampire father. One of his ancestors, on his mother's side, was Salazar Slytherin, one of the four founders of Hogwarts. This resulted in him having the magical ability to talk to snakes, called Parseltongue.

Tom Riddle had a tragic past as an orphan during World War 2. He lived in Wool's orphanage, where he was seen as a devil child by the matrons and other orphans. He was left here as a result of his mother dying giving birth to him and his father not finding him until he was grown. His father was drugged with a love potion by his mother. The matrons tried multiple times to exorcise him to remove the magic and vampiric traits from him, failing each time.

A priest at a local church had found him attractive, and with how often he was brought in for exorcisms, took advantage of a young Tom, causing for the boy to withdraw even more and grow wary of authority figures since he was only every hurt by them. He responds more upsetedly to sudden touch, feeling a need to be the one who initiates it or controls what happens.

Beneath the surface he is a roaring monster, constantly on the search for more power and prestige. He is constantly scheming within the privacy of his own thoughts and he's reluctant to reveal his own hand to potential threats.

A vampire's bite could either give the victim pain or pleasure, depending on the vampire's will. A turning bite will always result in change due to the fact that it is such a drastic change from a human body to a vampiric one. The human must first be drained of all blood before being infused with a bite of venom from their sire. While the venom will kick start the body's transformation, without being fed blood the transformation will not complete.

The anatomy of a vampire compared to a human differs a vast deal. A vampire's body will no longer produce blood. Instead, a mixture of blood drunk from victims and the vampire's venom will pump through their veins. The vampire's body develops a special organ that helps with the processing of blood. This organ lines the inside of a vampire's throat, and can become inflamed and irritated if a vampire has not fed often enough. The regular organs in a vampire's body are changed by the venom to make it easier for them to accept the nutrients that is gained from blood, though regular food will hekp sustain them.

Vampiric venom has mild paralytic abilities and a weak aphrodisiac effect. If venom lands on unprotected human skin, undiluted by blood, it will cause a mild burning feeling, leaving behind an irritated sting that lasts for 1-2 days. If the venom is ingested directly through the mouth, the paralytic and aphrodisiac effects increase greatly.

Each vampire also develops a scent from their venom. Every venom is different, varying in terms of strength, toxicity, and scent notes. A vampire's ears become pointed and their hearing is greater than that of a human's. Their sense of sight will increase to perfect vision with additional night vision, sense of smell will increase to the point that they can smell a human's blood from 10 feet away, and their sense of hearing increases to the point where they can hear minuscule changes in heartbeat from great distances. There's an added grace to a vampire's movements, prefectly smooth in an unnatural, unnerving way that can be alluring to humans. They will gain a magnetic presence from their perfect beauty and stunning grace.

A well satiated vampire has the tendency to purr, chuff, or make any other related noise to show their pleasure. A vampire only tends to feed around those they trust most as after feeding is a time when they are most vulnerable. The process of digesting the blood and turning it into a usable source of energy causes a very vulnerable state for vampires. Their pupils will dilate and their senses will be at the extremes, more sensitive to loud noises and bright lights. The skin also becomes more sensitive during this period and their muscles will go lax as their body relaxes and digests the blood. This period could last anywhere from ten minutes to hours in the average vampire.

Scent is released through specialized pores in a vampire's skin. While these pores are spread out across all the skin, there are certain spots where these pores are more concentrated. Areas like the inner wrists, sides and nape of neck, cheekbones, and inner thighs are the three most concentrated areas of scent pores. Areas with less concentration include behind the shell of the ear, inner knee, shoulder blades, and ankles.

Vampire fangs are retractable, allowing them to blend in with humanity better. Nails will lengthen and sharpen into claws, the pointed tips taking on the vampire's eye color. The skin hardens, becoming harder to pierce or slash but becomes more vulnerable to UV light. All scars will heal over into flawless skin and stay that way unless the vampire is harmed by special weapons.

After the transformation, they will keep their base eye color with additions. Example of this include: brown ryes gaining golden flecks and shifting shades of brown in their iris, blue eyes taking on a more shifting neon color with silver flecks, hazel eyes taking on shifting green and brown shades with golden flecks, grey eyes gaining silver flecks and shifting grey shades, so on and so forth. Unique features will be enhanced i.e. vitiligo, freckles, any tanning, heterochromia.

The body of a vampire is frozen in the state it was turned. Meaning that hair and nails will not grow (after the claws have formed, they will stay the same length), muscle will not be gained nor lost, the body will not physically age (hair will not grey, skin won't wrinkle, will not grow taller.)

Though vampires are mistaken as primarily solitary creatures, the opposite is true. Vampires have the natural instinct to form coven with those they trust. Covens are typically around the size of 5 to 8 though no larger than 15 vampires and/or humans. A coven typically consists of trusted family and friends.

Covenless vampires have the tendancy to "sleep" their time away; laying down within their territory and slowing down their bodily functions to enter a coma like state. Vampires without a proper coven, and those who do not sleep, are more prone to bouts of bloodlust, irrationality, hysteria, insanity, apathy, extreme mood swings, and increased sadism/cruelty.

All vampires gain a territorial instinct to find a place to settle down with their coven. Owned coven grounds are marked with the combined scent mixture of venom and blood around the edge of the territory by all the vampires and humans in the coven. Trespassing on marked coven grounds is punishable by death.

Vampires are rare to form mate bonds (stronger than coven, family, and ally bonds) as mating instincts are very particular with who is acceptable as a potential mate. The potential mate must first have an appealing scent and taste of blood to be considered. Other factors such as personality and physical characteristics are dependent on the vampire and their preferences.

Mating will start with a courting phase, where gifts are given and exchanged as the vampire proves how well they can provide for their potential mate. Gifts tend to be personalized and well thought out for the individual the vampire is courting; gifted items also have a strong scent of the courting vampire on them. Next the potential mate must either accept or decline the courting for the next phase to commence. The next stage involves the start of forming a mental and emotional bond. The mental and emotional bond is started by sharing blood or venom and over time the bond will become stronger (if both parties are willing). After this stage is the actual mating, which is sealed with a bite during. Vampiric mates instinctively understand to bite but human mates must be encouraged to initiate a bite during the mating.