DEL PALERMO, Alessandro

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Jul 19, 2010 12:05:35 GMT -8 Kai ♪ said:

[atrb=border,0,true][bg=212121] Welcome ★ FIRST LAST NAME, LYRICS OR QUOTE THAT MAY DESCRIBE YOUR CHARACTER. Personal ★ Information,

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★ AGE: 562
★ GENDER: male
★ OCCUPATION: n/a
★ RACE: Vampire
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Your ★ Beauty,

Appearance,

[/color] Alessandro has always been dashing, for lack of a better term. Born with the olive skin and dark luscious locks of his Sicilian homeland, women find him difficult to resist. His eyes are deep pits of black, and he usually keeps a carefully trimmed mustache and chin stubble on his face. A slender man, even more so since his infection, Alessandro is nonetheless well built and just under six feet tall. Over the years, he has become increasingly adept at going incognito, realizing that it isn't so much the makeup, as the way one carries oneself. Alessandro has the Medici crest tattoed on the top of both his wrists, and over the whole of his back.[/ul]

OVERALL PERSONALITY

[/color] Alessandro is, if nothing else, charming. His charisma and wit have been seducing victims for over seven centuries and counting. One of the sharpest minds one could ever meet, he is so practiced that now his intelligence and charm are largely one and the same. At the core of the Vampires beliefs, cares, and desires, is knowledge. His lust for anything that he does not yet know is all encompassing, vampire related or not. While never really an altruistic or a good person, his Vampirism sealed the deal. His knowledge had always made him somewhat conceited, and now he had yet another reason to be infatuated with himself.

As his comfort with his condition increased, Alessandro began to think of humans as less and less than equals. Unless one can match his intellectual output, he regards them as little more than sustenance. Even so, he feeds on nothing but the best and brightest. Alessandro learned a Telepathic technique in the 19th century that allows him to take pieces of the most profound memories of the victim when he feeds upon them. The memories are vivid for as long as their blood still courses in him, but it dwindles as tmie goes on. Eventually they all settle as half remembered visions that take much concentration indeed to conjure. His passion for knowledge becomes something more akin to a bloodlust as each days passes. Even his morbid humor, which itself was once something innocent, is being slowly drowned out by an apathy towards whatever will not further his cause. Alessandro is truly passionate about few things indeed. Italian cuisine, 1788 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Palermo's football club, and most recently, the music of The Dear Hunter. He has a deep and abiding weak point for woman of a sultry persuasion, and with that, an even healthier appetite for wine. The Duke will often go on heavy chain-smoking binges. It has no effect in terms of relaxation, but the oral fixation is enough for his satisfaction. From time to time he will indulge in more new age substances, and he has developed quite the taste for peyote. Hedonism is his code. [/ul]

Background ★ Info,

History,

[/color] Alessandro Medici Del Palermo was not born as such. He was born Paolo Alessandro La Vardera in the small Sicilian village of Brienzi, just outside Palermo. The son of a cobbler and a whore, the child still managed to draw attention to himself with his wits, even at a very young age. When the family would go to Palermo to shop and pay tithes to the duke, the lad was known for enchanting the nobles with his mandolin and reciting the poetry of the great roman masters. On one of these ventures, a certain Cosimo De Medici was in the city, utterly taken with the boy, who reminded him of young Lorenzo. With little effort, he was able to convince the boy to accompany him to Florence, the heart of the renaissance. Despite his parents dismay, the boy found himself in Florence and loving it. As soon as they met, Lorenzo and Paolo were like brothers. Soon enough, the boy was a staple in the Medici home, more family than half of Lorenzos siblings. Feeding off of each others passion for knowledge, both boys grew into utterly articulate and intelligent young men. Throughout Il Magnificos rise to power in Florence, Paolo was there, whispering in his ear and discussing the most pressing matters of state. All that kept him back was his bloodline, or lack thereof. Soon, this would change. One evening at a banquet thrown by the nobles of the city, Paolo struck up a conversation with an old man who seemed to be knowledge incarnate. An old mystic, with an ancient mind. The two spoke well into the night, after all others had left. The man was, in fact, a terribly powerful vampire, hailing from the days of the Roman empire. He offered young Paolo a chance at this new existence, knowing the lad could not resist. He allowed himself to be turned willingly, and the mans compulsion that night had nothing to do with his vampiric abilities. That day began the rest of his life. He struggled deeply with telling Lorenzo, but decided against it, slowly realizing the consequences of exposure. Paolo began referring to himself as Alessandro, his middle name and the name of a Favorite Florentine pundit of his.

As his name began to reform, so did he. He stayed out nights with his newfound father, learning his new life, and rarely saw his brother anymore. The boyish frivolity was replaced with a mans lust for knowledge, and even Lorenzo questioned him about it. Still, Alessandro kept his secret as well as he could. Even so, Lorenzo was his intellectual match, and thus, not likely to be hoodwinked by anyone, even Alessandro. As his skin paled, and he began to shun the daytime, Lorenzo became increasingly more suspiscious, though never confronting him due to his love and trust for his truest of brothers, even though they had begun to drift. All until that fateful night in the palazzo. The Medici family was hosting its annual gala for the richest and most powerful families and personages in the city, and many of those were less than happy with the Medici. Lorenzo, despite his status as a charismatic statesmen, spent much of the evening in solitude. The Duke mingled with guests, but often went to check in on his brother. then, after almost all others had left, he went in one last time to wish his friend a good night. He walked in to see Lorenzo struggling with an unknown assailant, almost overpowered. Without hesitiation, Alessandro used his new powers to easily overcome the attacker, as his brother looked on. He wrung the truth of the mans master out of him, the Pazzi family. A confirmation of what the Medici already knew. When Alessandro shared the secret of his power, his brother was of course revolted and surprised, even as he watched it happen, yet knew it had saved him. But his loyalty to his adopted brother won out, the city's ruler devised a plan. Being so many years ahead of his time, Lorenzo realized the truth of his predicament. In no way could he ever share this with anyone, nor would he want to oust the vampires out there still. He bestowed the name Medici upon Alessandro officially, and title of Lord of a Tuscan hill town region of Montepulciano, legally owned by the Medicis. His Sanguine father went with him there, still grooming his young protege into a master.

Alessandro ruled halfheartedly, wishing he could be back in that center of culture, even as he began secretly having rendezvous with local countesses and ladys of high standing. He even once had a tryst with Bianca Riario, daughter of one Caterina Sforza, though she never knew of his affliction. The Duke had met the charming woman once before, while traveling in Milan, and was quite taken. Even so, they could only see each other precious few times a year, and it wore on them both. He gradually began spending more time wandering the country, and invariably, feeding upon it's citizens. He essentially abandoned his post, turning it over to a lesser lord. Whispers began reaching his ears of his vampiric brethren in Florence, chaotic and warring with each other and he was not one to scorn any oppurtunity. After a decade, Lorenzo had turned into an even more effective ruler, and the city had mostly forgotten about that man next to Lorenzo all those years. Alessandro and his father returned, intent on making this court his own. As it turned out, his father was already the master of this city, and just wanted young Alessandro there to see the ways of that inner circle. For years, Alessandro learned from the master, picking up both skills of a vampire, and the subtle affairs of the political dance. For the first time since leaving Florence the last time, Alessandro was truly happy, able to see his adopted brother once more. At his fathers right hand, he became powerful far beyond his years, and his master watched with pride, while his enemies in the Florentine court watched with jealousy. Then one night, it all changed.

A brutal attempted coup, a seizure of power that would have worked, had Alessandro not felt the whispers of discontent brewing for some time. His master was arrogantly powerful, perhaps his only flaw, and it nearly killed him. He believed no one would even attempt an assassination, and thus was very ill prepared. Alessandro, as his right hand man, could have told him, could have warned him, but he didnt. his Vampiric brethren didn't want power, simply a change from the tyranny. For almost fifty years, Alessandro had been the voice of a softer tone within that circle, though just as menacing. He still commanded respect, because the clan knew that he would listen and analyze as an utterly neautral and calculated source. In those years, they had come to him as a counsel, not their Lord. As the mutineers came at him to finish their work, he simply smiled at them. With an ease that cowed his betrayers, he overpowered his mortally wounded father with little difficulty, then brutally dismembered him. Seeing his fellows look on with satisfaction, he realized his choice. Looking at the body of his father, his emotions were rather mixed, but postive on the whole. His cool logic won out. Tyranny hadn't worked out well for his predecessor. They gave Alessandro the title Grand Duke of the Vampire Court of Florence and Greater Tuscany, almost for affect. He found it rather amusing.He ruled with a subtle but firm hand for the next years, making himself not only respected but admired by most of his underlings. The Duke began to see his brother Lorenzo far more again, close to death as he was, and together, they ruled the living and undead in the city with utter control. But the Duke stayed youthful as his friend and brother aged older and older. Until one night, Lorenzo simply gave in to death. With the advent of the monk Savonarola coming to Florence, Alessandro saw the time was ripe for another change. His brother had named one of his sons after Alessandro, and as kind as the gesture was, it wasnt about to make him any less conspicuous.

After his companions death, he could take Italy no longer, appointing a young and bright and successor from the court, much as he was then, or still was. For the next hundred years, he wandered eastern Europe and Asia, seeking out and learning from the brightest minds he could find, including one Vlad Tepeš and Elizabeth Bathory. He sought out the Mystical and the mundane alike, considering the quest for knowledge too vast a demand to be taught only by one group. His powers expanded exponentially, and soon Alessandro was brimming with learning from dozens of schools of thought from all over the world. After participating in the French revolution, even going a bit feed crazy in all the chaos of those days. His more gruesome murders did nothing to improve the temperament of the already furious masses. and more than once, the papers declared a hunt for a psychotic serial killer loose in Paris. This experience was something of a revelation. Realizing that not only would he be there too see the future's history with his own eyes, he would able to play his part, tiny as it may be, within it all. It was like a fantasy for Alessandro, an even more intimate way to turn his elusive passion into a pastime He has since turned up in many of the worlds defining wars and turning points, simply for the sake of being there. Since murdering and replacing a high ranking 33rd degree freemason in the early 19th century, He has managed to stay a step ahead of the worlds plans for itself, for the most part anyway. Even he hasn't seen it all coming, such is the beauty of history.

Alessandro still travels the world extensively, ever questing for more, his travels taking him all over the world, At least for a while. Though in his heart, he always longs for the beauty of his Italian homeland. He speaks over a dozen languages, all with little trace of accent anymore after so much practice, though he does fancy his Sicilian lilt from time to time. Disguise and persona have become second nature to him. Alessandro has taken from the world many crucial citizens, and some times, become them. The world knew him at one point or another as an Archbishop, Concert Cellist, Actor, General, Duke, Fashionista, and Casanova, among countless other guises. His fervent mission for knowledge goes ever onward, as do his conquests.
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Sorry for taking ages to get to your app! Thanks for joining us though.

Before I really take a look at your app, I did notice a few things that will need correcting! First, the icons need to be changed to ones of your character (the same one for all three, please). Next, as you did notice yourself, the age is unfortunately beyond the year we accept! If possible, please adjust the character's age down. And then finally, make sure to remove the quote tags. I know that's kind of a bother but ... sadly that's how our code works. :/

Anyway, I know it took me forever to get to you and I do apologize for the wait, but once you make those corrections I'll jump back on it ASAP. Just give a shout in the cbox or reply here when you've made the corrections. Thanks!