Eliot Durant

○ VAMPIRISM: Eliot is a form of vampire. He has a body that doesn't produce its own blood, so he is generally cold to touch and looking very pale. His style of vampire can become closer to or further from a healthy appearance depending on the amount of blood that they drink. A vampire that is well wed even becomes "superhumanly attractive," while a poorly fed vampire looks sickly. Eliot is the sickly type.

Eliot is generally hovering just above "poorly fed." His diet has been manipulated so as to keep him weak enough to be controlled. Eliot needs to drink blood at least once a month. He can supplement with any "living fluid," such as fruit juice or animal blood, but they are less effective than human blood. If Eliot does not drink enough blood, he gradually becomes more and more lethargic until he falls asleep. At which point, someone needs to force blood in his mouth to revive him.

Most of Eliot's vampiric abilities depend on how much blood he has recently consumed. Like his apparent health, they get stronger (or weaker,) depending on his state. Eliot tries not to drain his victims dry and is modest in blood consumption, so it is unlikely he will ever reach his full potential. Even in a game where he has access to blood substitutes, Eliot feels guilty for overconsuming.

○ SUPERSTRENGTH: At full health, Eliot has obnoxious superstrength. Vampires could even lift a car: It's insane, unfair, and unlikely to ever happen with this pink idiot. Eliot's typical strength is actually below the human expectation, because he doesn't drink enough blood. He's usually a twig who needs help, and is rather embarrassing. But if he were to drink blood from another character, he would quickly develop strength for the next 24 hours.

○ PRISTINE MEMORY: This is a natural talent, so is unaffected by blood consumption. Eliot's memory is as superhuman as his vampirism. He can memorize anything that he encounters in perfect detail. This includes books, movies, music, and art. Due to the nature of his job as the Living Library, Eliot has consumed and memorized a ton of art and history. He can recite many books in many languages, play musical pieces, and sketch art. He cannot replicate movies, but could recite their dialogue. He cannot reproduce famous works of art perfectly, but was trained to paint replicas. Transcribing books from memory takes him at least a day and he writes in cursive.

More than being photographic, he can almost relive an experience in his head. However, this starts driving a person crazy when they have over 300 years of traumatic vampire memories. So Eliot has developed a unique coping mechanism:

○ LIGHT HYPNOSIS: This is a mean and manipulative power, so Eliot doesn’t use it often. It does allow him to get along with most people and to sometimes force them to do his bidding, though that would require both a permissions post and Eliot having the guts to do such a thing. This ability also requires very little blood, so is constantly within his reach. Eliot typically uses it to run his businesses; He hypnotizes a stranger off the street to run his business and allows them to take a cut of the money. All the while, this “business owner” is oblivious to how they are actually just a puppet. Eliot makes sure they live comfortable lives.
At full strength, a Durant vampire can use hypnosis for much larger scale mind control. They used to wipe memories or inject fear into whole populations, just to control them. However, Eliot is a Library: It never even crosses his mind to force fake memories or feelings on someone, even if he has the potential for it.

This ability is important to Eliot, because it's also how he copes with his own memories. Eliot has trained a hypnotic reaction to the melody of his pocket watch: If the tune plays forward, Eliot begins 'forgetting' his longterm memories. This creates his spacey persona. He does not have full control over what he 'forgets,' so sometimes loses memory of people he loves or modern conveniences he needs to function, like wtf is an elevator.

However, his memories never truly disappear. He just moves them out of his conscious reach. When the melody plays backwards, Eliot remembers everything again. This control of his memories allows Eliot to preserve his sanity in his daily life, but continue to be a Living Library. Eliot prefers living in his 'human' persona... But if he had to pick one personality to keep, he would suffer with his 'vampire' persona. After all: His only use is as a Living Library, so he can't give that up.

○ IMMORTALITY / RAPID RECOVERY: A true perk of being a vampire. Firstly, Eliot’s body no longer ages. He cannot produce his own blood, which is why it’s so important that he occasionally partake in human blood, or at least a lot of animal blood. When Eliot is injured, he is able to rapidly heal his body and pull through injures that would kill a mortal. On the flip side, any blood he loses from an injury can only be replaced by feeding. If he has not fed recently, then his healing is slower and he may not recover from otherwise non-fatal injures.

O PSYCHIC POWERS: Vampires have some psychic abilities, which usually come from their specialized bloodline. In the case of the Durant family, their shiny special feature was their immortality: No other vampire bloodline had that. But they were also the "superior" Vampire bloodline. Durants had been mixing bloodlines and stealing powers for centuries. This makes Eliot a potentially very powerful psychic threat: He can manipulate objects, apply crushing pressure, mess with peoples' minds, and even create psychic blasts of energy.

But he doesn't. Or rather, he's purposefully underfed so that he can't. The current Immortal Council, and the previous, were very aware that Eliot could kill them if he was well fed. Eliot knows he has psychic powers, but he doesn't realize his own potential. If they were to be unlocked in game, then Eliot still wouldn't know how to use them. In all 300 years, he has never trained them. They would be clumsy, mostly out of his control, and dangerous to himself.

With his limited blood, Eliot can move small objects. Even that gives him a massive headache afterwards.