Setting and Backstory Info
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forrestertailorFirst of all Luka is out of his mind. Second of all, he’s a very old vampire. Third of all, he loves woodworking.
He works and lives in a three story Victorian townhome he built himself. The edifice is red stone, there is a second storey marble balcony that spans the front of the building and shades the carved marble portico above the front door. There is a tower room with a brass onion roof, another balcony accessible only from Luka’s private bedroom, clusters of chimneys at the front and back, and the whole house is a masterwork of turn of the century masonry. Like everyone who builds their own house and everything in it, Luka is by turns blasé and disdainful of the building but to the average visitor it is undoubtedly beautiful.
The ground floor is dedicated to his tailorshop, where he sells the obsessively embroidered clothes he’s made for centuries. The upper floors are for private living, jam packed with antiques, custom made furniture, trinkets and baubles and art pieces from several lifetimes of world travel. The storefront has large bay windows but the upper floors only have windows on the dark side of the house, facing the neighboring buildings or the dark street. There is a loft in the third storey attic and the basement is stone and steel behind a perpetually locked door.
Out back there is a patio, a small garden and a hole in the ground holding the pine box Luka sleeps in. The box is filled with dirt and he sleeps for weeks at a time, waking up and stay conscious for months in between. When he is ‘sleeping’ he is just stone dead out in his garden.
The closest thing he has found to real sleep is the meditative peace of making clothes. Born broad and tall long before readymade fashion, he has been making clothing since the Iron Age. He especially enjoys embroidery because it gives him hours of meditative calm and something lovely and finely made as a result.
Although he stays very well fed as a vampire he tends to be private about his meals, and takes them alone in the basement.
He is extremely unprivate about every other aspect of his life. Gossip, drama, and especially scandalous affairs are his raison d’être. He’s got excellent hearing but more than that he’s nosy and selfish. If he thinks he can come up with a better, more melodramatic story than what’s really going on he will absolutely start that rumor and swear it’s true.
He is generally friendly and upbeat. Through the centuries he has fought in most of the classic sword and sandal wars, usually at a very high ranking due to his enthusiasm for battle and his general unkillability. This means he is foolhardy and fearless, which makes him more apt to stick his nose where it doesn’t belong.
Because Luka is the first of his line and also black he is immune to sunlight. He still doesn’t like it but it won’t toast him the way it would a younger vampire. Melanin gives him an extra layer of protection.
At the end of the day he is a peppy, messy gossip who likes to stir the pot because he’ll get bored otherwise.
He is stern about manners and can be very chivalrous, and he enjoys people who share these qualities. You’ll know he really likes you if he starts making you things. He can make everything, everything do you hear me?!
He works and lives in a three story Victorian townhome he built himself. The edifice is red stone, there is a second storey marble balcony that spans the front of the building and shades the carved marble portico above the front door. There is a tower room with a brass onion roof, another balcony accessible only from Luka’s private bedroom, clusters of chimneys at the front and back, and the whole house is a masterwork of turn of the century masonry. Like everyone who builds their own house and everything in it, Luka is by turns blasé and disdainful of the building but to the average visitor it is undoubtedly beautiful.
The ground floor is dedicated to his tailorshop, where he sells the obsessively embroidered clothes he’s made for centuries. The upper floors are for private living, jam packed with antiques, custom made furniture, trinkets and baubles and art pieces from several lifetimes of world travel. The storefront has large bay windows but the upper floors only have windows on the dark side of the house, facing the neighboring buildings or the dark street. There is a loft in the third storey attic and the basement is stone and steel behind a perpetually locked door.
Out back there is a patio, a small garden and a hole in the ground holding the pine box Luka sleeps in. The box is filled with dirt and he sleeps for weeks at a time, waking up and stay conscious for months in between. When he is ‘sleeping’ he is just stone dead out in his garden.
The closest thing he has found to real sleep is the meditative peace of making clothes. Born broad and tall long before readymade fashion, he has been making clothing since the Iron Age. He especially enjoys embroidery because it gives him hours of meditative calm and something lovely and finely made as a result.
Although he stays very well fed as a vampire he tends to be private about his meals, and takes them alone in the basement.
He is extremely unprivate about every other aspect of his life. Gossip, drama, and especially scandalous affairs are his raison d’être. He’s got excellent hearing but more than that he’s nosy and selfish. If he thinks he can come up with a better, more melodramatic story than what’s really going on he will absolutely start that rumor and swear it’s true.
He is generally friendly and upbeat. Through the centuries he has fought in most of the classic sword and sandal wars, usually at a very high ranking due to his enthusiasm for battle and his general unkillability. This means he is foolhardy and fearless, which makes him more apt to stick his nose where it doesn’t belong.
Because Luka is the first of his line and also black he is immune to sunlight. He still doesn’t like it but it won’t toast him the way it would a younger vampire. Melanin gives him an extra layer of protection.
At the end of the day he is a peppy, messy gossip who likes to stir the pot because he’ll get bored otherwise.
He is stern about manners and can be very chivalrous, and he enjoys people who share these qualities. You’ll know he really likes you if he starts making you things. He can make everything, everything do you hear me?!
