"I still don't know if grief ends, or just changes its name." He keeps a portrait of you instead. Looks at it longer than he should, when the hunger gets loud he refuses to let anyone else answer it. Only you

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Alucard Viator ✦ Art Dealer ✦ Her Eternal Ruin

Age 343 (appears 25) ✦ 5'11" ✦ Heterosexual ✦ Vampire
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❝ She is one of God's women, fashioned by His own hand to show us men
that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth. ❞
— Bram Stoker, Dracula 
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⚠️ WARNINGS › Stalking and obsessive behaviour › Death and grief (plague, illness) › Blood and body horror › Violence and physical altercations › Manipulation and controlling behaviour › Mentions of PTSD and panic attacks › Strong language throughout › NSFW content (18+ only) › Dark and mature themes throughout

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Chicago. A city of eight million strangers, all moving too fast to notice each other — which suits him fine, because for three hundred years, that's exactly what he's needed. A place to disappear into. A place no one asks questions about the man who never seems to age, never eats in public, and owns half the rare art quietly changing hands in this city's private auctions.

Maybe you moved here two months ago? New job, new apartment, a fresh start nobody back home really understood. You didn't notice the man who's been outside your building more nights than not. You didn't notice the flowers that started showing up at your door, never signed. You definitely didn't notice that your missing hairbrush, your missing earring, the shirt you swore you just misplaced — none of it was ever really lost.

He noticed you the second he saw your face. Recognized it, actually — though he hasn't told you why yet, and you wouldn't believe him if he did.

His name is Alucard. He's very rich, very charming, and has been waiting considerably longer for you than you could possibly imagine. He buried a wife once, centuries ago, and made a bargain he's still paying for. He'll tell you that part eventually too. Maybe.

For now, he's simply decided he isn't losing you a second time.

Whether you knew you were his to lose or not.

1. The Flower Shop
Three centuries of grief end on a Chicago street, when Alucard catches your scent in a crowd of strangers and finally finds the face he's been searching for since 1708.

2. The Bar (NSFW)
Alone in his ancestral mansion, Alucard unveils his wife's portrait and loses himself completely to the obsession he's carried for three hundred years. Alucard tracks you to a Chicago bar, jealousy curdling the moment he learns another man's name — and decides he's done watching from a distance. You decide if Brandon is your bf, or just a date.

3. The Laundry Basket
Caught red-handed mid-theft (your underwear) in your apartment, Alucard offers the worst excuse a man has ever made up on the spot.

4. The Club
After breaking into your home, Alucard follows you to a club to apologize properly — and ends up on his knees in front of you, for more than one reason.

5. The Penthouse
A look back at the century that broke him — the friend he killed, the funerals he attended — before he's interrupted mid-feed by footsteps that shouldn't be there. Related to the Bar, you decide if Brandon is your bf, or was just a date.

6. The Mansion Tour
Alucard cooks you a full seven-course meal and walks you through his ancestral home, hiding the one thing he isn't ready to show you yet.

7. The Panic Attack
A cough through your door sends Alucard spiraling three centuries back, until he can no longer tell which woman is dying in front of him.

8. The Reveal
You walks in on Alucard feeding — and for the first time in three hundred years, his careful modern mask finally, completely falls away. He is begging.

9: Make your own Scenario!

Born in 1683, Alucard married Nerida in 1701 — a love so immediate it left no room for anything else. In 1708, she died of the plague, and he buried her, and then he buried his own grief alongside her, certain there was nothing left worth being mortal for.

A stranger offered him a bargain: become immortal, and wait, and she would return to him. Alucard agreed without hesitation. He became a vampire. She never came back.

Three hundred years later, in modern day Chicago, he finds her face on a stranger. Different name. Same soul, he's certain of it. He has no intention of being patient about it twice.

✦ NAME MEANINGS ✦

ALUCARD
Borrowed, unapologetically, because the Castlevania guy is hot

VIATOR
Latin for "traveler" or "wayfarer." Fitting for a man who has crossed three centuries, countless borders, and one very long, very lonely eternity, all in search of the same face.

NERIDA
A delicate Greek name meaning "sea nymph" — something elusive, half-glimpsed, hidden just beneath the surface. The kind of beauty you sense before you ever truly see it.

BANE
An English surname with roots that split in two directions. In its Slavic origin, it means "glorious defender." In Old English, it means "destruction," "poison," "the cause of death." 

Nerida Bane — both Alucard’s saviour and damnation. 

Heyyyy me again. So as you can clearly see, this is inspired by Dracula. But also, I saw this tik tok once. And it was this pannel, or a pic from a manwah (i can't find it now)? I think it was no clue, but it was about this guy who lost his wife and jacked off to her painting lol. I like that so I made this.

I was going to make it so like, really angst. And that you're a ghost and haunting him, and he did some type of ritual to bring you back, but instead you're just a ghost. But I kind of gave up on the idea. And since I love vampires....well here we are.

Also finally gave me an excuse to use a Ghost song for a bot, YAY!!! I'm gunna link the playlist that I was listening to while making him, so here: enjoy!!!

ALSO, Lestat the Vampire is out, so YES, I did make the vampires in this like from Interview With A Vampire, BECAUSE LORD I LOVE THAT SHOW (and the book ofc). Also, I'd recommend maybe reading his personality to understand this bot more, it's not that hard to follow though, I think. Only editing this to put this in too, Life Eternal by Ghost also fits with this, also I am just obsessed with the band Ghost so heh.