As one might think for someone who has lived for so long, Marius is an eloquent and cultured man with a penchant for the aesthetically beautiful and a love of classical music. He is polite and charming sometimes to the point of irritation, and will stubbornly resist any attempted to push him towards anger, often resulting in the person attempting to annoy him giving up out of frustration long before the vampire’s temper takes hold. Marius will respond to most things with affability and is an inherently gentle character, perhaps a side effect of his vampirism – it is far easier to have people trust you when you treat them kindly, after all. However, he has not used this particular trait to that advantage for many years.
Marius is infinitely patient, preferring to allow things to happen as they will. He has spent many years simply watching the world change around him, and can pick up many things about a person simply through observation with almost Sherlock Holmes-like accuracy. His level of patience and attentiveness give him the ability to be meticulous about almost every part of his life, and to approach even the most difficult tasks with curiosity and calm determination. While he occasionally struggles to adjust to sudden changes, when placed in a situation that he knows nothing about he will endeavour to find out as much as he can about it, in order to make the best of what he has. There is very little that frightens him, but he doesn’t react to being startled very well.
His age, however, does come with its disadvantages. Marius has never quite got the hang of many developments in the modern world, and his increasing level of self-imposed isolation as his life has gone on has meant that there are some things that he is very unfamiliar with. Most kinds of technology, for example, elude him in terms of their functions.
Upon meeting him, if a person were to ask him immediately about his nature, he would reply honestly. Marius is under no illusions about what he is and would rather have someone know right away than find out later and accuse him of hiding it. If somebody is not going to be able to see past the fact that he’s a vampire, he would rather know right away than attempt to have any kind of friendship with them. If his nature is accepted and his friendship gained, he is incredibly loyal and can be safely depended upon to be there when needed, if his own situation allows it. He will sometimes joke about taking secrets to his grave, and will not break the trust of someone who has given it to him.
Far from the bloodthirsty creature that one might expect, Marius gives off the aura of a person who is very at peace with himself. He would credit this to his faith in God, something which left him for the first several centuries of his life but then came back in force and has sustained him since. It may seem odd for someone who reputedly has no soul to have such a strong belief in God, but for Marius, it is absolutely essential, and has kept him from losing faith in himself as the years continue to roll by. Marius is, however, far from being a pacifist. While he will not actively start fights, he will immediately defend himself if threatened, and will extend the same courtesy to any friends that he has.
[OC] | Marius Eldritch
As one might think for someone who has lived for so long, Marius is an eloquent and cultured man with a penchant for the aesthetically beautiful and a love of classical music. He is polite and charming sometimes to the point of irritation, and will stubbornly resist any attempted to push him towards anger, often resulting in the person attempting to annoy him giving up out of frustration long before the vampire’s temper takes hold. Marius will respond to most things with affability and is an inherently gentle character, perhaps a side effect of his vampirism – it is far easier to have people trust you when you treat them kindly, after all. However, he has not used this particular trait to that advantage for many years.
Marius is infinitely patient, preferring to allow things to happen as they will. He has spent many years simply watching the world change around him, and can pick up many things about a person simply through observation with almost Sherlock Holmes-like accuracy. His level of patience and attentiveness give him the ability to be meticulous about almost every part of his life, and to approach even the most difficult tasks with curiosity and calm determination. While he occasionally struggles to adjust to sudden changes, when placed in a situation that he knows nothing about he will endeavour to find out as much as he can about it, in order to make the best of what he has. There is very little that frightens him, but he doesn’t react to being startled very well.
His age, however, does come with its disadvantages. Marius has never quite got the hang of many developments in the modern world, and his increasing level of self-imposed isolation as his life has gone on has meant that there are some things that he is very unfamiliar with. Most kinds of technology, for example, elude him in terms of their functions.
Upon meeting him, if a person were to ask him immediately about his nature, he would reply honestly. Marius is under no illusions about what he is and would rather have someone know right away than find out later and accuse him of hiding it. If somebody is not going to be able to see past the fact that he’s a vampire, he would rather know right away than attempt to have any kind of friendship with them. If his nature is accepted and his friendship gained, he is incredibly loyal and can be safely depended upon to be there when needed, if his own situation allows it. He will sometimes joke about taking secrets to his grave, and will not break the trust of someone who has given it to him.
Far from the bloodthirsty creature that one might expect, Marius gives off the aura of a person who is very at peace with himself. He would credit this to his faith in God, something which left him for the first several centuries of his life but then came back in force and has sustained him since. It may seem odd for someone who reputedly has no soul to have such a strong belief in God, but for Marius, it is absolutely essential, and has kept him from losing faith in himself as the years continue to roll by. Marius is, however, far from being a pacifist. While he will not actively start fights, he will immediately defend himself if threatened, and will extend the same courtesy to any friends that he has.