"ChampandGirlie;c-17904898" wrote:
Recently, I did soften a little bit on occult play. My main issue is that I mostly play in a realistic save and I generally focus on my human sims, however, I turned Max Villareal into a vampire a long time ago. I don't want that save to be mostly about the occults. I'm not anti-occult play in the game especially for other players and if I had more time, I might have a completely occult-based save. As it is, I have a really complicated rotation going and so I focus on it. Time moves fairly slowly since I play a bunch of households and I'm now moving to freezing time a lot more to add more gameplay action than just players aging up.
Anyway, Caleb Vatore ... I ignored that household for a long time until recently. As I mentioned, a while ago, Max Villareal turned into a vampire when he was 18. He's like an 18 yr old frozen in time. It's not a story that begins with Twi and ends with light. Max had been in love with Elsa Bjergsen as a teen but when he turned, he abandoned her so she wouldn't see the monster he'd become. Instead, he consoled himself by living on the blood of beautiful women ... yes, for real. Max is more like Lestat than Edward Cullen. He's turned increasingly bloodthirsty and even though he feels guilty, he does what he likes sometimes going into frenzies. Max was turned by Vlad who is the one who also turned the Vatores.
As I play them, Vlad is an ancient vampire and is actually really antisocial and detached from humanity. I don't play Vlad because he actually doesn't want to be played (in my game - do whatever you like with him). He'll happily exist in his crypt as a loner with only the creepy sounds of a pipe organ coming from his house. When he goes out to socialize, he thinks it's a bore. He also turns very few into vampires because it's not suitable to most personalities and he doesn't want someone to ruin things for the existing vampires. As it is, the vampires are aristocratic snobs. He did turn the Vatores and Max Villareal who were all orphaned young aristocrats. (Jacques Villareal died very soon into my game and I played it that he was completely insane). Vlad in my game basically has the attitude of, "Kids, get off my haunted lawn." Despite being bored, he occasionally socializes with them and occasionally is oddly sympathetic.
Where Caleb Vatore comes in is that he befriended Max and they are legit friends. When I recently played Max, I decided to switch over to the Vatores as well. As I play them, the Vatores are from the 18th C. As mentioned, they were orphaned aristocratic children and Vlad pitied them (though he doesn't actually feel anything). Caleb Vatore is highly sociable and charming. He loves to throw parties and to entertain. Lilith annoys him when she plays the organ badly but she is his lovable sister. He thinks humans are amusing playthings and only views vampires as his equals. He does not have the same type of personality as Max. While Max is all about biting the ladies, Caleb slightly envies that but thinks it is vulgar. He is a lot less blood-thirsty, considering drinking too much blood to be ungentlemanly. He only lightly drinks blood occasionally almost as though it is a nuisance. Instead, he likes to party with spooky music with vampires and clueless humans whom he only speaks to with jokes and riddles.
I know there are a lot of ways to play that character. In my game, he has not actually fallen in love, partly because he lived in an era when he would have had an arranged marriage and he is a cerebral type. As I've played him now, he's mainly a genuine friend with Max which is kind of entertaining since they don't age or die. Lately, Max has a willing human lady living with him who follows him around. Caleb finds this amusing but doesn't totally get it. More recently, he became a fashion photographer and throws spooky parties with models. Since he sleeps in a coffin, he turned his old room into a modeling studio partly as a way to get away from Lilith's bad pipe organ-playing downstairs.
I will play with the vampires more now that Max's siblings are starting to die off of old age. I wanted it to basically be that he disappeared from society while they were alive - aside from his vampiric activities; as I played it, he never attacked his siblings and they were clueless though Hugo did think it was odd that Max never seemed to age at all, but they were the only ones who had any idea where he was and they kept it a secret. Again, anyone can do what they like with any character, that's just what I'm doing with them. I like them to all have different personalities and Caleb Vatore is like a comic gentleman who got lost from the 18th C but who is making the best of it. I actually do find it entertaining, but the exclusivity of just having a limited number of vampires in my save is important to me. I'm all for flexibility for other players.
Ooh I feel like there’s a lot of lore going on in your story! I have been thinking about maybe making vampire laws where each coven can only have so many members! Including pure blood vampires born into covens!
