#cerci london. / verse. / vampire

[myhiraeth]

Circe London. / verse. / vampire 

*pls note that this loose background (as well as the rest of my kids’ supernatural-creature verses) is based mostly in vampire diaries lore. as far as I’m aware there are “vegetarian” vampires that exist mostly on animal blood so technically it’s a VD/TO/Twilight combo background lore

Born: 1862  Died/turned: 1885  Age at vampirification: 23  Aesthetic: Victorian 

Circe is an enigma as a vampire. She was born at the height of the Victorian Era and she’s not particularly concerned with hiding her leftover tics from the era, though little has ever been found about her mortal life or how she was turned. 

She’s incredibly well read, and has Bachelors in Linguistics, Anthropology, European & Russian Studies, as well as a PhD in Psychology all under various aliases. She’s fluent in English, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic. The languages were learned along her 126 years, and school was a way to pass her time once women were allowed to attend. 

Circe is a collector. Information, things, particularly dangerous things. If you need to know something or need an item, odds are she can find it for you. She 100% at one point held the white oak stake, and probably owns a collection of stakes herself alongside an impressive array of silver and iron. Circe- much like Katherine and Damon- drank vervain once she found out it was detrimental to her, and has a relative but not absolute resistance to it. She does not own a sunlight ring and stays to her home during the daylight hours. She does have an extensive supply of stolen blood from hospitals and blood banks all over the country (she loathes the mess of killing, much prefers her blood neatly in crystal stemware), and if you’re truly in a pickle and at odds with your vampiric nature, she’s happy to give you some... for a trade. 

Circe owns two estates, one in Blackpool, UK and one stateside. Both are reminiscent of the infamous Winchester home with twisting halls and many rooms, all the better to hide from sunlight or enemies, but her aesthetic is typical light colors, particularly white. 

And yes, this gets awkward when hosting hungry fellow vampires. Luckily she’s had a century and change to figure the best ways to clean blood.