NAME:
CHRISTOPHER ROBERT BLACKSTONE
“DO I LIKE IT? NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT. I’M PROUD OF IT SO I GUESS THE ANSWER’S YES.”

AGE:
“THAT DEPENDS WHO’S ASKING. I MIGHT BE TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY, I MIGHT JUST BE NINETEEN.”

GRADE:
NONE
“WHICHEVER WAY YOU LOOK AT IT, I’M STILL TOO OLD FOR SCHOOL”

FORM:
“ONCE AGAIN, WHO’S ASKING? IF YOU’RE IN THE KNOW, I’M A VAMPIRE. MY EYES ARE THE COLOUR THAT GOES WITH WHATEVER WAS MOST CONVENIENT TO EAT LAST TIME I HUNTED. I’M AROUND 6’ TALL, HAVE BLACK HAIR AND LOOK A LOT LIKE THIS GUY...”

PLAYBY:
CHRIS PINE
“I HEAR HE’S FAMOUS. NOT EXACTLY HELPFUL, BUT IT’S KINDA COOL-I DO HAVE AN EGO.”

BIOGRAPHY:
CHRIS AND HIS SISTER REBECCA WERE BORN IN SOUTHAMPTON ON 12TH SEPTEMBER 1788. THEIR MOTHER (MARIE ANNE BLACKSTONE) DIED GIVING BIRTH TO THEM AND ALTHOUGH THIS WAS A SAD BLOW FOR THEIR FATHER (ROBERT MALACHI BLACKSTONE), HE NEVER HELD IT AGAINST EITHER OF THEM. HE WAS THE TYPE TO SEE IT AS A MIRACLE HE HAD GAINED SOMETHING FROM HER DEATH RATHER THAN LOST SOMETHING FOR THEIR BIRTH AND SO HE TOOK GREAT CARE OF THEM, VALUING THEIR LIVES ALL THE MORE BECAUSE OF THE LOSS HE HAD ENDURED.

ROBERT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST MODERN STAGE MAGICIANS AND HIS GRASP OF ENGINEERING ON A SMALL SCALE ALLOWED HIM TO MAKE THE MACHINES AND PROPS NECESSARY TO PERFORM NEW AND NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN TRICKS. UNFORTUNATELY, WHAT HE POSSESSED IN BRAINS, HE LACKED IN SHOWMANSHIP AND SO HIS SHOW WAS NEVER REALLY RECOGNISED AND HIS GENIUS WENT UNRECORDED. ANOTHER DOWNSIDE TO HIS LACK OF EXPECTED SUCCESS WAS A PROPORTIONAL LACK OF MONEY.

CHRIS LEFT SCHOOL AT 14 TO WORK AND EARN MONEY. HE HAD BEEN WATCHING AND HELPING WITH THE SHOW AS MUCH AS HE COULD ALL OF HIS LIFE AND HE NOW BECAME A FULL TIME MEMBER OF THE CREW. IT WASN’T LONG BEFORE HE BECAME PART OF ACTS THAT REQUIRED A SMALL PERSON AND HE IMMEDIATELY DEMONSTRATED A REMARKABLE SKILL FOR THE SLEIGHT OF HAND-DISTRACTING THE ATTENTION OF AN AUDIENCE IN JUST THE RIGHT WAY. HE WAS A NATURAL AT THIS IT SEEMED AND BY THE AGE OF 17, HE HAD HIS OWN ACT IN THE SHOW WITH HIS SISTER FILLING THE PART OF BEAUTIFUL ASSISTANT, HAVING HERSELF SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN BORN INTO THE ROLE WITH ALL THE LOOKS AND TALENT TO PERFORM IT WITH AS MUCH PERFECTION AS HE DID HIS OWN. THEY WERE AN INSTANT SUCCESS AND HAD EVENTS PROCEEDED NATURALLY, THEY AND THEIR FATHER WOULD PROBABLY NOW BE RECORDED AS AMONG THE GREATEST OF MODERN STAGE MAGICIANS. THINGS DID NOT, HOWEVER, PROCEED NATURALLY.

ON AUGUST 14TH 1807, THEIR AUDIENCE CONTAINED A PERSON VERY DIFFERENT TO ANY THEY HAD EVER PERFORMED TO. THEY DID NOT KNOW THIS OF COURSE AND NEITHER DID THEY NOTICE AT ANY POINT IN THE SHOW. HOWEVER, THE PERSON NOTICED THEM. IN PARTICULAR, HE NOTICED REBECCA. IT TOOK HIS SUPERIOR MIND ONLY AN INSTANT TO IMAGINE HER AS ONE OF HIS KIND AND ON HIS ARM-YOUNG AND EXCEEDINGLY BEAUTIFUL-FOR THE REST OF ETERNITY. THE IDEA PLEASED HIM AND JUST AS CHRIS AND BECCA WERE COMPLETING THE DISAPPEARING ACT ON STAGE, HE BEGAN TO PLOT HOW TO MAKE HER DISAPPEAR FOREVER.

IT WAS ALMOST THE END OF THE SHOW. CHRIS AND BECCA WERE CHANGING INTO MORE COMFORTABLE CLOTHES BACK STAGE. THE CREW WERE ALL BUSY SHIFTING EQUIPMENT AND OTHERWISE MANNING THE THEATRE, THEIR FATHER WAS ROUNDING THINGS UP ON STAGE AND THERE WAS AN EMPTY SEAT IN THE AUDIENCE NOW.

IT WAS BECCA’S SCREAM THAT ALERTED EVERYONE TO THE DANGER. IN REALITY, SHE HAD ONLY SCREAMED BECAUSE AN UNKNOWN MAN HAD ENTERED HER DRESSING ROOM BUT IT WAS ENOUGH TO BRING CHRIS AND ROBERT RUNNING. CHRIS ARRIVED FIRST TO FIND THE CREATURE SINKING ITS TEETH INTO HIS SISTER’S NECK. SENSING HIS ARRIVAL, IT DROPPED REBECCA TO THE FLOOR AND TURNED ON HIM. THE TASTE OF HER BLOOD HAD CRAZED THE VAMPIRE AND HE WAS HUNGRY NOW SO HE TURNED HIS BLOODLUST ON CHRIS. IT WASN’T MUCH OF A FIGHT OF COURSE AND SO BY THE TIME ROBERT ARRIVED, CHRIS HAD ALREADY LOST A LOT OF BLOOD THROUGH THE NEW BITE ON HIS NECK. TO THIS DAY, CHRIS COULD NOT DECIDE WHO HAD BEEN THE LUCKY ONE; HIM OR HIS FATHER. WHICHEVER THE CASE, IT WAS ROBERT WHOSE NECK THE MONSTER SNAPPED IN IMPATIENCE AND CHRIS IT LEFT ALIVE TO CONTINUE TO FEED ON.

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT DEFINITELY WAS LUCKY. NEITHER CHRIS NOR BECCA HAD EVER ENCOUNTERED A VAMPIRE BEFORE TONIGHT AND NOW THAT THEY BOTH LAY DYING, THE VICTIM OF THE FIRST, A SECOND AND THIRD ARRIVED. IT WAS PURE COINCIDENCE THAT THEY HAD BEEN AROUND TO NOTICE THE COMMOTION AND INTERVENE. THEY DROVE OFF THE VAMPIRE BUT HAD TO SACRIFICE THE KILL IN ORDER TO EVACUATE CHRIS AND BECCA BEFORE MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE OR THE BLIND STAGE CREW ARRIVED. RATHER THAN KILL THEM, THEIR RESCUERS DECIDED TO LET THE CHANGE RUN ITS COURSE AND END CHRIS AND BECCA’S LIVES IN A WAY THEY HAD NEVER IMAGINED POSSIBLE.

THEY STAYED WITH THEIR COMPANIONS FOR A FEW YEARS, BUT ONCE THE NEWBORN PREDATORS WITHIN THEM HAD BEEN TAMED AND THEY KNEW HOW TO BE VAMPIRES, THEY STRUCK OUT ON THEIR OWN, TRAVELLING ENGLAND. THEY LEARNED OF THE FEW VAMPIRES WHO DID NOT KILL HUMANS FOR FOOD BUT NEITHER OF THEM FELT ANY INCLINATION TOWARDS THAT LIFE. SOME PART OF THEM DID NOT ENJOY THE MURDER BUT THERE WAS ANOTHER PART OF THEM NOW THAT LOVED IT SO ALTHOUGH THEY WERE NICE PEOPLE, PREDATORS THEY REMAINED.

IT WAS ON APRIL 10TH 1912, 105 YEARS SINCE THE VAMPIRE FROM THEIR AUDIENCE HAD FROZEN THEIR BODIES IN THEIR CURRENT FORM THAT HE FOUND THEM AGAIN, COMPLETELY BY CHANCE. HIS SENSES WERE BETTER THEN THEIRS AND THEY HAD NEVER FOUGHT ONE OF THEIR OWN KIND BEFORE SO IT WAS RELATIVELY EASY FOR HIM TO WAIT UNTIL THEY WERE SEPARATED AND MAKE USE OF A NEW ABILITY HE HAD DISCOVERED TO ONCE AGAIN TAKE BECCA HIS PRISONER. HIS TIMING HAD BEEN CAREFULLY PLANNED AND HE MOVED HER TO A SHIP SET TO LEAVE PORT IN A FEW HOURS. IT TOOK MOST OF THOSE FEW HOURS FOR CHRIS TO NOTICE SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED TO HER AND THE REST OF THEM TO TRACK HER DOWN. HE WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO IT ONLY SOMEWHERE IN HIS MIND HE SAW IMAGES, HEARD SOUNDS, FELT THE TOUCH OF SOME HAND THAT WAS NOT HIS AS IT TURNED THE DOORKNOB OF A SHIP’S CABIN, OPENING THE DOOR TO REVEAL A FAMILIAR VAMPIRE AND HIS SISTER LED STILL ON THE BUNK BEHIND HIM.

CHRIS BOARDED THE SHIP BOUND FOR AMERICA JUST AS IT WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE. HE HID IN ONE OF THE CARGO BAYS, TRYING TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO AS HE MONITORED BECCA AND A FEW HUNDRED OTHER SIGHTS AND SOUNDS AND SCENTS THROUGH THE EYES OF PEOPLE ALL OVER THE SHIP. HE HAD NO IDEA HOW HE WAS DOING IT, BUT ALL THAT MATTERED WAS THAT HE WAS THERE PROTECTING HER AS HE ALWAYS HAD. HE TRIED FOR SEVERAL DAYS TO THINK OF A DISCRETE WAY TO RESCUE HIS SISTER BUT NOTHING WOULD COME TO HIM, SO DISTRACTED WAS HE BY THE MULTITUDE OF SENSES HE HAD TO TRACK AND ALL THE WHILE HIS TEMPER SHORTENED UNTIL A FEW DAYS LATER, AS THE SHIP STEAMED ACROSS THE MID ATLANTIC TOWARDS NEW YORK, HE FELT THE TOUCH OF HIS SISTER’S SKIN ON THE HAND OF THE CREATURE THAT WAS HIS MURDERER AND CREATOR-THE HAND THAT HAD NO RIGHT TO TOUCH HER.

IN THAT INSTANT, CHRIS’ CONTROL OF THE BEAST INSIDE HIM GAVE WAY. HIS IMMEDIATE REACTION WAS TO LASH OUT AT THE CLOSEST SOLID OBJECT-THE SHIP. A FIST SIZED HOLE WOULD NOT HAVE SUNK IT, BUT THE SHOCKWAVE TRAVELLED THROUGH THE HULL, SHATTERING THE RIVETS HOLDING THE IRON SHEETS TOGETHER. WITHIN SECONDS, A DESIGN FLAW IN THE SHIPS CONSTRUCTION HAD THE HULL FALLING APART AND WATER GUSHED IN ALL ALONG THE EDGE OF THE ROOM.

THIS DIDN’T BOTHER CHRIS, BUT HE WASN’T THE ONLY ONE WHO’D NOTICED AND CREWMEN CAME RUSHING TO SEE IF THEY COULD STEM THE FLOW. IN HIS RAGE, CHRIS KILLED ANYONE IN HIS PATH, MADE EVEN MORE CRAZED BY THE SCENT OF ALL THE BLOOD AROUND HIM. BY THE TIME HE REACHED THE CABIN, HE WAS COVERED IN BLOOD AND BECCA’S CAPTOR WAS WAITING FOR HIM, BUT HIS EYES WERE BRIGHT RED AND HE WAS READY FOR A FIGHT.

A STRANGE THING HAPPENED AS HE OPENED THE DOOR THAT TOOK ALL THREE OF THEM BY SURPRISE. BECCA WAS STILL LED ON THE BED LOCKED ALL BUT MOTIONLESS BY SOME UNKNOWN POWER, BUT HER EYES MOVED AND SHE SAW HIM. SOMEHOW, WITHOUT EVER BREAKING THE BONDS THAT HELD HER OR MOVING THROUGH THE SPACE BETWEEN THEM, SHE HAD HER ARMS AROUND CHRIS. THEY ALL PAUSED FOR A MOMENT TO CONSIDER WHAT HAD JUST HAPPENED, BUT IT WAS CHRIS AND BECCA WHO RESPONDED FIRST. SURPRISED AS THEY WERE, THEY WERE MOSTLY JUST GLAD TO BE TOGETHER AGAIN SO THEY DIDN’T HESITATE LIKE THE OTHER VAMPIRE DID. HE REALIZED THE NUMBERS WEREN’T IN HIS FAVOUR ANY MORE AND IF BECCA COULD DO THAT AGAIN, HE WAS IN EVEN DEEPER TROUBLE. IN THE END, HIS EXTRA HESITATION DIDN’T REALLY COST HIM ANYTHING, BUT HE NEVER GOT THE CHANCE TO FIGHT BACK.

IT WASN’T LONG BEFORE HIS REMAINS WERE BURNING IN THE FURNACES OF THE SHIPS ENGINES WHICH HAD NOW BEEN ABANDONED BY THE CREW AND THE TWO SIBLINGS WERE BACK ON THE WARPATH. ALTHOUGH CHRIS HAD TAMED HIS RAGE SOMEWHAT UPON FINDING BECCA, SHE HAD BEEN EXPOSED TO THE BLOOD HE’D LEFT IN HIS WAKE AND SO BOTH OF THEM NOW SUCCUMBED TO THEIR HUNGER AGAIN. UNFORTUNATELY FOR THEM, MOST OF THE LOWER CLASS PASSENGERS HAD BEEN LOCKED BELOW DECKS AND THEY WERE EASY PICKINGS FOR THE TWO THIRSTY VAMPIRES.

IT WASN’T UNTIL THE SHIP WAS LARGELY UNDER WATER THAT THEIR BLOODLUST FINALLY CAME TO AN END AND EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD NEVER HAD A PROBLEM KILLING THEIR FOOD, THEY WERE SHOCKED BY THE DEVASTATION THEY HAD CAUSED. THEY LEFT BY BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS LOCKING THE RECENTLY DECEASED PASSENGERS ON THE LOWER DECKS AND THEY WERE OFF THE SHIP AND IN THE WATER IN TIME TO WATCH THE LAST OF THE RMS TITANIC SINK BENEATH THE WAVES. NOBODY LEFT ALIVE KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED AND THE TALK OF SURVIVORS IN THE WATER TOLD THEM THAT THE CREW SUSPECTED AN ICEBERG HAD SUNK THE SHIP. THEY SPENT THE NEXT FEW HOURS IN THE WATER, WATCHING THE REMAINDER OF THE SURVIVORS DIE AS A RESULT OF THEIR ACTIONS UNTIL A LIFEBOAT RETURNED TO THE SCENE AND PICKED THEM UP.

THEY KEPT THEIR HEADS LOW TO HIDE THEIR BRIGHT RED EYES AND PRETENDED TO SHIVER UNTIL THE LAST OF THE SURVIVORS WERE PICKED UP AND THEY WERE ABLE TO ESCAPE INTO THE SHADOWS. BY THE TIME THEY REACHED PORT, THE VOLTURI HAD SOMEHOW FIGURED OUT WHAT THEY HAD DONE AND WERE WAITING FOR THEM. THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN EXECUTED NORMALLY, BUT ARO READ ABOUT THEIR NEW POWERS IN THEIR THOUGHTS AND HAD A SUDDEN CHANGE OF HEART. HE GAVE THEM THE CHOICE OF LIVING IF THEY WOULD AGREE TO JOIN THE VOLTURI GUARD. THEY DIDN’T WANT TO PUSH THEIR LUCK, BUT CHRIS WAS ABLE TO CONVINCE ARO TO JUST HAVE THEM ON CALL WHENEVER NEEDED RATHER THAN BEING TRAPPED IN VOLTERRA.

SINCE THEN, THEY HAVE LIVED IN ENGLAND IN INCREASINGLY MORE GRAND HOUSES AS THEIR MONEY HAS BUILT UP OVER THE YEARS. THEY HAVE BEEN CALLED UPON ON MANY OCCASIONS TO BATTLE NEWBORN ARMIES, INVESTIGATE SUSPICIOUS VAMPIRES AND OTHERWISE DISH OUT VOLTURI PUNISHMENT, BUT THANKS TO THEIR ABILITIES, THEIR SPECIALITY IS HUNTING DOWN THE ONES THAT NORMAL TRACKING METHODS JUST CAN’T FOLLOW. WHERE THE VOLTURI GUARD IS LIKE THE ARMY, THEY ARE LIKE THE ASSASSINS THAT KILL AND DISAPPEAR BEFORE ANYONE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED. JUST AS JANE AND ALEC ARE KNOWN AS THE VOLTURI’S POWERFUL WITCH TWINS, THEY ARE KNOWN AS THE VOLTURI’S DEADLY ASSASSIN TWINS BUT UNLIKE JANE AND ALEC, MOST VAMPIRES ONLY KNOW THEIR REPUTATION, NOT THEM, AND WOULDN’T RECOGNISE THEM BY SIGHT OR NAME.

PERSONALITY:
AROUND STRANGERS, CHRIS WILL WEAR AN UNCARING EXPRESSION OF COOL CALCULATION-PARTICULARLY IF HE’S ON A MISSION. HE’S SELF CONTAINED, BUT NOT AT ALL SHY, AND WON’T BE EASILY DISTRACTED FROM HIS PURPOSE. HE’S THE TYPE TO KILL WITH A THOUSAND TINY CUTS RATHER THAN ONE GAPING (THOUGH THAT’S NOT TO SAY HE’S NOT CAPABLE OF BOTH) AND HIS EXPERIENCE WITH THE TITANIC TAUGHT HIM NEVER TO SACRIFICE CONTROL OF THE SITUATION TO ACHIEVE HIS GOAL. WITH FRIENDS, HE’S MUCH MORE OUTGOING. HE’S ENERGETIC, KIND, HELPFUL, FUNNY, POLITE AND CARING-ALL THE QUALITIES OF A GOOD BROTHER OR FRIEND.

HE’S ALSO SNEAKY AND INTUITIVE. HE’S EXCEPTIONALLY SKILLED AT FIGHTING. BOTH HIM AND BECCA ARE TO A VAMPIRE WHAT A BLACK BELT IS TO A STREET THUG AND IN TERMS OF HIS TRACKING AND LOCATING ABILITIES, HE’S AS GOOD AT IT FOR VAMPIRES AS A TRACKER IS FOR HUMANS. HE’S LEARNED TO FOLLOW TRAILS MOST VAMPIRES DON’T EVEN KNOW THEY LEAVE. HE’S A SLOW AND STEADY ASSASSIN WHO WILL KILL WITHOUT HESITATION, BUT NO MORE THAN NECESSARY. AFTER THE TITANIC, INCIDENT, HUMAN BLOOD DIDN’T TASTE SO SPECIAL TO HIM OR BECCA SO THEY’LL EAT WHATEVER IS AVAILABLE BUT SINCE SHE CAN’T DISGUISE HER EYE COLOUR LIKE HE CAN, BECCA IS MORE LIKELY TO GO OUT OF HER WAY TO DRINK ANIMAL BLOOD.

AFTER SO MUCH LOSS IN HIS PAST, CHRIS VALUES FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO A HUGE EXTENT. HIM AND BECCA LIKE TO PUT THE PAST BEHIND THEM SINCE NEITHER OF THEM BLAMES THE OTHER FOR IT AND ENJOY THE PRESENT INSTEAD. THEY WILL ALWAYS SHUN LIVING AS NOMADS IN FAVOUR OF BLENDING INTO A COMMUNITY WHEN POSSIBLE-SOMETHING THEIR POWERS MAKE THEM VERY GOOD AT. THEY LIKE TO TRAVEL AND MEET NEW PEOPLE AND CERTAINLY HAVE A CUSTOMARY LIKING FOR SPEED.

ADDITIONAL:
CHRIS HAS AN ENHANCED VERSION OF HIS ORIGINAL CONTROL OVER THE ATTENTION OF OTHERS FROM HIS MAGICIAN DAYS. HE WILL SEE WHAT THEY SEE, HEAR WHAT THEY HEAR AND IF HE WERE EVER TO MEET EDWARD AND JASPER HE’D BE ABLE TO PERCEIVE THE THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS OF THOSE AROUND THEM AS THEY DID. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT HE CAN ALTER THE PERCEPTION OF THESE SENSES, MAKING THEM SEE WHAT ISN’T THERE, NOT SMELL WHAT IS THERE OR BE BOMBARDED WITH SO MANY PHANTOM THOUGHTS, THEY WON’T BE ABLE TO DISTINGUISH ANYTHING FROM THEM. AT THEIR MOST DOCILE, HIS POWERS ALLOW HIM TO MAKE SOMEONE HEAR HIS VOICE WITHOUT HIM SPEAKING AND AT THEIR FULL STRENGTH, HE CAN CREATE HALLUCINATIONS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM REALITY IN EVERY SINGLE WAY.

APPROVED!