Valentine Rand Lansen
We don't read and write poetry because its cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, business, engineering, law, these are noble pursits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "Oh me, Oh Life, of trains filled with the faithless, of cities filled with the foolish, what good among these, Oh Me, Of Life?" Answer, that you are here, that life exists, and identity. That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse...
What will your verse be?
~Mr. Keatings, Dead Poets Society
Name - Valentine Rand Lansen
DOB - August 14, 1900 (DOD - 1918)
age - Mortal age - 101, Apparent age - 20
POB - Maine
Allegiance - Vampires
Nationality - American
Hair - very straight long blonde hair
Eyes - emerald green
Languages - English, French
Appearance - Valentine is about 5'11" tall, he is very handsome. He has long straight blonde hair,
goes down to about his shoulders. He has deep emerald green eyes. His gift of allure gives him a
decided claim to the title of sex symbol.
Personality - Val is rather protective of those he loves. He will put others before himself,
especially his daughter. He tends to blame himself for things going wrong. He likes to dance and
has natural rhythm and grace. His daughter inherited this from him.
History - Valentine was born in 1900 to two working class parents. He fell in love with music
when he was just four years old. His parents took him to a county fair and he was able to see a
folk singer playing an acoustic guitar. Even at the age of four he knew that he wanted to do that.
He actually cried when his parents made him leave and he couldn't watch the guitar player any
longer. Once he started school he began to stay after school to play with the music teacher who
let him play her piano. His parents could not afford, nor would they permit him to take piano
lessons. So he taught himself how to play the piano and every single instrument they had in the
music room. His dream was to one day save up enough money to buy an acoustic guitar, which
to him seemed like an almost insurmountable amount of money.
His parents tried to dissuade him from pursuing his interest in music. They saw music as
a dead end road that he was headed down. They wanted a better life for him than they had. Both
of them were manual laborers and it’s a wonder where Val got his good looks and natural
charisma. His parents were, if anything, rather plain. When he turned fifteen Valentine got a job
and he saved up enough to buy his first acoustic guitar. He dropped out of High School when he
was 16 in order to pursue music, he wanted more time to write and play his music. His parents
were horrified and tried to force him to go back to school. He refused and they told him that he
could either go back to school or else move out. Valentine packed a backpack full of clothing
and his guitar and left.
He never felt bitter towards his parents, they just could never understand why his music
was so important to him. He made his way in the world by playing at bars where he could and
performing right in the streets if he had to. When he was 18 (1918) he had been performing in a
club and had probably drunk a little too much. A vampire woman fell so in love with his music,
his voice, and his good looks that she lured him back to her room and made him a vampire. To
preserve forever the beauty in him she said. She gave him a large amount of money and stayed
with him for three months to teach him about his new nature.
He met Elizabeth in 1919. Also performing in a club. He fell in love with her almost on
sight. They were married one year later in 1920. They both wanted a child but vampires have a
difficult time conceiving and so Elizabeth had many miscarriages before they were finally able to
have a child in 1928. Elizabeth was certain that it would be a girl and named her Bethany.
The Council of Slayers heard of Bethany and they issued an order that the child be
retrieved for testing purposes. They killed Elizabeth and took Bethany. Valentine returned to
find his wife slain and went nearly mad with grief. He hunted down all six of those slayers and
killed each one of them. He never knew that they had taken his daughter. He had thought
Bethany to be dead along with Elizabeth. He buried his wife and set up 2 headstones for them.
Years later he found Bethany in Colys' basement and rescued her. Needless to say he is a touch bitter after having allowed Bethany to languish in Colys' care for so many years. Valentine is fiercely protective of Bethany, to a fault. He worries about her all the time.
Gift - He has the gift of Allure, and a gift of a strange kinesis as well.
Theme Songs - Who wants to Live Forever by Queen, Hanging by a Moment Lifehouse, Piano
Man by Billy Joel, Flames by Vast
Favorites:
Color - green
Music - Almost anything excepting Rap which he considers noise in most of its forms.
Movie - Mr. Hollands Opus, Dead Poets Society, Finding Forrester
Book - The Great Gatsby, The Oresteia, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Season - Winter
Hobbies - Writing and playing music, swimming in the ocean, surfing actually, Day dreaming
Likes - Writing Music, Listening to Music, Driving a little too fast, Bethany, Talori, His Studio
Dislikes - Colys Abernathy, Overly Organized Offices, Lawyers, Most record Labels
Phobias - Being unable to protect the people he cares about, Losing Music
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