What ethnicity are Caleb and Lillith Vatore supposed to be?

I would also say italian, and trust me @MasonGamer there's nothing german about them at all :D

"Huiiie_07;c-15926710" wrote:
...there's nothing german about them at all :D

Weird clothes, weird hair and make up on a guy...that's all fairly german :p

"CorkysPetals;c-15921492" wrote:

"BlueR0se;c-15919115" wrote:
Lilith is the hebrew (early?) religion's first woman, before Eve. She and Cain didn't work out so she left and kind of became the mother of demons or something.

The fallout between the two is what gave God the idea to make a partner out of Adams own being (his rib). Lilith was a separate creation from Adam.

And pretty sure they're intended to be Italian or some variation of it, but mainly a play on the Salvatore brothers' name.

The Lilith character from the bible is also considered dangerous, devious, evil. Nowadays it's used to indicate powerful, independent, subversive women.

In fact is independent, no wanted follow Adan's orders ;)

I consider them to be Italian or Spaniard, personally. Those nationalities seem to fit most with their characristics in my opinion.

"Nindigo;c-15926716" wrote:

"Huiiie_07;c-15926710" wrote:
...there's nothing german about them at all :D

Weird clothes, weird hair and make up on a guy...that's all fairly german :p

I already heard many cliches about germans, but never something like this :D

"Huiiie_07;c-15926710" wrote:
I would also say italian, and trust me @MasonGamer there's nothing german about them at all :D

Well Nothing really screams Italian about them either!

I didn't know where Salvatore came from... till this thread.

"MasonGamer;c-15927669" wrote:

"Huiiie_07;c-15926710" wrote:
I would also say italian, and trust me @MasonGamer there's nothing german about them at all :D

Well Nothing really screams Italian about them either!

I didn't know where Salvatore came from... till this thread.

Their surname atleast, it seems to be really common in Italy, but in India as well.

So I did some digging, and Vatore isn't a made-up name, and it is Italian. Not a common name at all, but I found some records of a few people with the surname Vatore, who were from Italy in the late 1800s/early 1900s, and they moved to the Bronx, and their kids had the name Vatore.

Their first names were things like Umbaldo Vatore, Genaro Vatore, Alberto Vatore, that sort of thing. The younger generation had more Anglicized names like George.

As for how it was pronounced, that's a good question because in the US, I have met people with the last name Malone, one of whom said it with 2 syllables to rhyme with alone, and the other with 3, to rhyme with baloney.

So even if Vatore is said with 3 syllables by Italians in Italy, American Italians may or may not have adopted an anglicized version that could as easily have been Vatore with 2 syllables to rhyme with 'afore' as with 3 syllables with the e on the end, voiced.

So I hope that solves a minor mystery: yes, the name is an actual Italian name that some Italians brought over to New York City from Italy. Whether it was a shortened form of Salvatore or not, who knows, and whether they pronounce it only with 3 syllables, or sometimes with two as happens with some other Italian names once they get here, who knows.

Lastly, Caleb and Lilith could probably be safely presumed to not be not born in Italy, because look at their first names. Caleb is an old-testament name but not Italian, and not even used in Israel due to being too similar to the word in Hebrew for dog, and Lilith could only come from hipster parents. Which makes it hard for me to try to write them as being a bit older than 90s or so. I feel like Caleb ought to be a bit older than a 90s club kid, whereas what could Lilith be, except recent, with that first name? Maybe I could pull it off if I say she was a rebellious sort who styled herself Lilith when she was originally christened Lillian. Yeah, that might work.

They are inspired by the Salvatore siblings from The Vampire Diaries, and i would say that they are italo-american.

I always assumed that Vatore was a play on Twilight's Volturi.