P L A Y E R; NAME: Laure AGE: over 30 PLAYER JOURNAL: (quixotic_dreamer) TIMEZONE: CST CONTACT: reflected[.]stasis[@]gmail.com OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A
C H A R A C T E R; NAME: “Crimson-Eyed” Zelman Clock (eyes_on_fire) CANON: Black Blood Brothers POINT IN CANON: Post-manga, which picks up and goes five chapters past the anime. AGE: Looks 18, is actually over 800
APPEARANCE: Zelman is shorter than most of the other vampires in his series - only 5'7", with dark red hair layered down to just past chin length. He has smooth, ivory skin and unusual blood-red eyes that earned him the nickname of 'Crimson-eyed Prince'. Despite his usual slouch, is casual style of dress, or the laid-back air that surrounds him, he moves with a natural grace and confidence.
While we know that Zelman is well over 800 years old and the oldest vampire in the Special Zone, we don't actually know much more than that about Zelman's past. What we do know is that Zelman was alive and in Poland in the thirteenth century, when he was given the Kiss of Death at a young age, probably between sixteen and eighteen given his appearances. Unfortunately, Poland of that time was economically, socially, and religiously fragmented - full of unstable internal conflicts and plagued with civil strife, religious upheaval, and foreign invasion.
And it was during this time that the ‘Old Blood’ vampire, the “War God” Asura, sired him. It’s unknown how long he lived in Asura’s House after that, but it’s estimated that within roughly a century there was a war within this ‘Chaos’ bloodline that demanded his descendants prove their worth - as such, Zelman was the last vampire standing in the end. He is the last descendant and strongest of his bloodline, and the inheritor of the God Flames. After this, he’s been considered by the vampire world as the Hunter of the Ancient Night, the Child of the Fire God, and the Crimson-Eyed Prince.
There is little to no information about him between these events and the start of the anime - roughly 700 years’ worth of personal history, though for headcanon purposes, I will say that he spent his time traveling across Europe and Asia, building various networks and profiting off of conflict, war, and eventually organized criminal activity to stave off boredom in the lull that followed the war within his House.
And then The Kowloon Shock happened in Hong Kong.
Unfortunately for Zelman, he wasn’t there for that battle - possibly in Tibet at the time - but it was this conflict that confirmed the existence of vampires to the human population, thanks to the new and epidemic circumstances surrounding the creation of the Kowloon Children who, unlike the Old Blood vampires, don’t need to intentionally bestow the Kiss of Death (which involves feeding the human some of the vampire’s blood) in order to turn a human into a vampire. All the Kowloon need to do is bite their victim (Human OR Vampire alike) and they’ll turn - even if they were drained dry. It was in that battle between the Old Blood and the New that the Silver Blade, Jirou Mochizuki, killed the Kowloon King, whose ‘children’ were brought to the point of near-extinction before the Special Zone was created within a barrier that kept the Kowloon off of the island as a secret ‘haven’ for the remaining vampires - even as the media reported the complete eradication of vampires to cover the existence of the remaining Houses.
It was shortly after the Special Zone was established that Zelman arrived there. He didn’t waste time upon arrival - he immediately began gathering humans and vampires alike, regardless of the station or status of them. Broken bloodlines or street thugs - they’re all the same to him. Weak needing protection that he could use for his own purposes in order to create his own faction outside the main Houses: The crime syndicate called The Coven.
The Coven is notoriously lawless and his reach long through them, giving him connections on every level of society in the Special Zone, through all the Yards (districts within the zone). It was their presence and his influence throughout the city that earned him a seat with the city officials in less than ten years.
However, once The Coven was established, he lost interest in their daily mechanizations - in what I figure is a pattern for him, he simply got what he needed and got bored. Everything fell into a system of operations, there was little to no open conflict, and his attention drifted away from the mundane workings of his Coven. He found temporary amusement by taunting his human assistant, Sayuka, knowing of her desire to be the only human he fed from, though it wasn’t enough to alleviate the tedium of what life in the Special Zone had become for him.
And then Jirou returned with his little brother Kotarou, who is the reincarnation of Alice Eve, one of the two Source Bloods for all vampires.
While the other Houses turned Jirou away, Zelman welcomed them freely and even went so far as to tell them they had a standing welcome in his House, despite his Second-in-Command attacking them openly in the middle of the crowded float market. To him, both brothers were fascinating in their own ways and Jirou the harbinger of interesting times in the foreseeable future. His offer was politely declined by Kotarou, who stated that while he liked Zelman, Zelman was a ‘bad guy’ and he and his brother would rather fight for justice! Instead. If anything, this only served to pique Zelman’s interest even more, which prompted him to leave the offer on the table and say that he was looking forward to their next meeting, regardless of whether they were enemies or not.
Later, once Cassa Warlock entered the Special Zone and attempted a second Kowloon uprising, he busied himself helping a lost Kotarou find Mimiko and stopping Cassa from biting the Compromiser. He used his flames to destroy the stockpile of tainted blood packs meant for consumption by the vampires residing in the Special Zone before Cassa made a tactical retreat, but not before she told him about her giving his Coven samples of the blood packs. More annoyed than anything, he returned to his House and proceeded to ruthlessly and coolly burn down all his members to ash, to keep the Kowloon infection from spreading.
Once he’d gotten his own House back in order, he put in a token effort to help the other Houses in the war by tracking down Cassa and intercepting them from atop a bridge as they tried to escape via boat. He held them pinned down with his Fire for a long moment, though their ability to withstand as they were, caught between the ocean and his flames amused and vaguely impressed him enough to eventually have him relent conveniently as Kain neared the scene again, with the idea that if they couldn’t catch the invaders after that, he’d just have something to taunt them with later.
After that, however, things settled down, Jirou went to work for Mimiko at the Company, and business continued on as usual for Zelman. You know, receiving unexpected gifts of weapons and humans for trafficking in order to earn his and the Coven’s protection and such. Life as usual for the Special Zone.
Zelman Clock | Black Blood Brothers
NAME: Laure
AGE: over 30
PLAYER JOURNAL: (
TIMEZONE: CST
CONTACT: reflected[.]stasis[@]gmail.com
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A
C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: “Crimson-Eyed” Zelman Clock (
CANON: Black Blood Brothers
POINT IN CANON: Post-manga, which picks up and goes five chapters past the anime.
AGE: Looks 18, is actually over 800
APPEARANCE: Zelman is shorter than most of the other vampires in his series - only 5'7", with dark red hair layered down to just past chin length. He has smooth, ivory skin and unusual blood-red eyes that earned him the nickname of 'Crimson-eyed Prince'. Despite his usual slouch, is casual style of dress, or the laid-back air that surrounds him, he moves with a natural grace and confidence.
CANON HISTORY: The Wiki
While we know that Zelman is well over 800 years old and the oldest vampire in the Special Zone, we don't actually know much more than that about Zelman's past. What we do know is that Zelman was alive and in Poland in the thirteenth century, when he was given the Kiss of Death at a young age, probably between sixteen and eighteen given his appearances. Unfortunately, Poland of that time was economically, socially, and religiously fragmented - full of unstable internal conflicts and plagued with civil strife, religious upheaval, and foreign invasion.
And it was during this time that the ‘Old Blood’ vampire, the “War God” Asura, sired him. It’s unknown how long he lived in Asura’s House after that, but it’s estimated that within roughly a century there was a war within this ‘Chaos’ bloodline that demanded his descendants prove their worth - as such, Zelman was the last vampire standing in the end. He is the last descendant and strongest of his bloodline, and the inheritor of the God Flames. After this, he’s been considered by the vampire world as the Hunter of the Ancient Night, the Child of the Fire God, and the Crimson-Eyed Prince.
There is little to no information about him between these events and the start of the anime - roughly 700 years’ worth of personal history, though for headcanon purposes, I will say that he spent his time traveling across Europe and Asia, building various networks and profiting off of conflict, war, and eventually organized criminal activity to stave off boredom in the lull that followed the war within his House.
And then The Kowloon Shock happened in Hong Kong.
Unfortunately for Zelman, he wasn’t there for that battle - possibly in Tibet at the time - but it was this conflict that confirmed the existence of vampires to the human population, thanks to the new and epidemic circumstances surrounding the creation of the Kowloon Children who, unlike the Old Blood vampires, don’t need to intentionally bestow the Kiss of Death (which involves feeding the human some of the vampire’s blood) in order to turn a human into a vampire. All the Kowloon need to do is bite their victim (Human OR Vampire alike) and they’ll turn - even if they were drained dry. It was in that battle between the Old Blood and the New that the Silver Blade, Jirou Mochizuki, killed the Kowloon King, whose ‘children’ were brought to the point of near-extinction before the Special Zone was created within a barrier that kept the Kowloon off of the island as a secret ‘haven’ for the remaining vampires - even as the media reported the complete eradication of vampires to cover the existence of the remaining Houses.
It was shortly after the Special Zone was established that Zelman arrived there. He didn’t waste time upon arrival - he immediately began gathering humans and vampires alike, regardless of the station or status of them. Broken bloodlines or street thugs - they’re all the same to him. Weak needing protection that he could use for his own purposes in order to create his own faction outside the main Houses: The crime syndicate called The Coven.
The Coven is notoriously lawless and his reach long through them, giving him connections on every level of society in the Special Zone, through all the Yards (districts within the zone). It was their presence and his influence throughout the city that earned him a seat with the city officials in less than ten years.
However, once The Coven was established, he lost interest in their daily mechanizations - in what I figure is a pattern for him, he simply got what he needed and got bored. Everything fell into a system of operations, there was little to no open conflict, and his attention drifted away from the mundane workings of his Coven. He found temporary amusement by taunting his human assistant, Sayuka, knowing of her desire to be the only human he fed from, though it wasn’t enough to alleviate the tedium of what life in the Special Zone had become for him.
And then Jirou returned with his little brother Kotarou, who is the reincarnation of Alice Eve, one of the two Source Bloods for all vampires.
While the other Houses turned Jirou away, Zelman welcomed them freely and even went so far as to tell them they had a standing welcome in his House, despite his Second-in-Command attacking them openly in the middle of the crowded float market. To him, both brothers were fascinating in their own ways and Jirou the harbinger of interesting times in the foreseeable future. His offer was politely declined by Kotarou, who stated that while he liked Zelman, Zelman was a ‘bad guy’ and he and his brother would rather fight for justice! Instead. If anything, this only served to pique Zelman’s interest even more, which prompted him to leave the offer on the table and say that he was looking forward to their next meeting, regardless of whether they were enemies or not.
Later, once Cassa Warlock entered the Special Zone and attempted a second Kowloon uprising, he busied himself helping a lost Kotarou find Mimiko and stopping Cassa from biting the Compromiser. He used his flames to destroy the stockpile of tainted blood packs meant for consumption by the vampires residing in the Special Zone before Cassa made a tactical retreat, but not before she told him about her giving his Coven samples of the blood packs. More annoyed than anything, he returned to his House and proceeded to ruthlessly and coolly burn down all his members to ash, to keep the Kowloon infection from spreading.
Once he’d gotten his own House back in order, he put in a token effort to help the other Houses in the war by tracking down Cassa and intercepting them from atop a bridge as they tried to escape via boat. He held them pinned down with his Fire for a long moment, though their ability to withstand as they were, caught between the ocean and his flames amused and vaguely impressed him enough to eventually have him relent conveniently as Kain neared the scene again, with the idea that if they couldn’t catch the invaders after that, he’d just have something to taunt them with later.
After that, however, things settled down, Jirou went to work for Mimiko at the Company, and business continued on as usual for Zelman. You know, receiving unexpected gifts of weapons and humans for trafficking in order to earn his and the Coven’s protection and such. Life as usual for the Special Zone.