Echo Kavanaugh

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Echo Kavanaugh

Games the Character has been involved with

One Foot in the Grave

Basics

Name: Echo Kavanaugh


Age: 172


Race: Dhampir


Gender: Male


Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual

• Appearance
• Personality
• History
• Skills
• Language/Expression

• Appearance
  
  Height: 5'10"
  
  
  Weight: 81kg
  
  
  Hair: Light brown, mid-length.
  
  
  Eyes: Green
  
  
  Attire: Usually simple jeans or trousers - on occasion he might wear bike pants - a T-shirt, a pair of black leather combat boots and a full length duster. He wears dark sunglasses whenever he's out and about during the day.
  
  
  After 160 years of combating adversaries and evading his father's cronies, Echo's physique is in no way deficient. He stands at an average 5'11, is powerful of frame and generously equipped with broad shoulders, a sturdy torso, solid arms and long, athletic legs.
  
  
  He has also been graciously blessed with an attractive face. His jowls are strong and defined, extending upward into high, sylphlike cheekbones, and down to a well formed chin. His eyes are deeply set beneath a fairly flat brow, are large and expressive, and a striking forest green in hue. His nose is of medium size, fairly straight and refined. His lips are quite full, although the lower is more predominant, behind which is concealed a sextet of needle sharp fangs where the upper lateral incisors, canines and first premolars would otherwise exist. The canine fangs are comparably larger.
  
  
  His hair is a light bay in hue, cropped to a medium length and pushed back from his face. Rarely is he seen adorning facial hair, but it's not a nonoccurrence. His body is quite clean, with only a sparse smattering of hairs over his chest.
  
  
  
• Personality
  
  Naughty, in a single word, would best describe Echo Kavanaugh. In spite of his tormented past, his persistent pursuers and an insatiable hunger for human blood, not much gets in the way of his admirably provocative attitude and sharp tongue. He lacks tact at times, and it is difficult to determine whether it's his years of solitude or a lack of concern at the root of his insolence, all the while presenting a charming and charismatic front when such traits are deemed necessary. He's a masterful seductionist and practiced deceptionist, yet can be brutality honest when a situation least calls for it, and seems to revel in causing others emotional discomfort. It would be an overstatement to hail Echo an evil creature, but he's a far cry from good all the same.
  
  
  
• History
  
  Echo was conceived of a disreputable and unlawful union between the cogent Vampire Lord Diomedes and a pauper Dhampir harlot during early Victorian Russia. Naturally, Lord Diomedes never intended for a child to come of their copulation, and when he discovered of the impure abomination of his bloodline forming within the womb of the half-blood whore Grete, he called upon his finest assassins to rid him of his shame. They did not succeed.
  
  
  Echo was born on the fourteenth of October, eighteen forty two, concealed among the people of Saaremaa, Estonia. For the first twenty six years of his life he lived under Grete's protection, before migrating South to Latvia and Belarus, then West through Poland, Germany and Belgium, before finally settling in the United Kingdom. It was in Southampton that he met a human Noblewoman, Evelyn Rose, and in a classic Romeo and Juliet fashion the young couple fell madly in love. But fate did not favor them. The moment Evelyn came of age she was betrothed by her father to a rich Nobleman, descending of a highly respected family of Londoners. Devastated by the revelation that she was not conceded to remain with Echo she conspired to flee with him. Unbeknownst to her, however, Evelyn's grand scheme was quickly unraveled by the possessive nature of her fiancee. Engulfed by a jealous rage, the Nobleman sought out the one creature capable ending her life right under the nose of the fledgling Dhampir. Thus the night prior to which they'd planned their seemingly flawless escape, Evelyn was slaughtered by none other than a Vampire.
  
  
  
• Skills
  
  Echo is beyond human in every sense of the word. He is not, however, a Vampire, and he lacks the same level of omnipotent power that his undead cousins posses. He is too much a Vampire to live as a human, yet less than Vampire, thus unwelcome within a coven. He is not as strong, nor as fast. His sense of smell is not so sensitive, his eyesight is not as clear and his hearing not as acute. His skin is not impenetrable, and his living heart still beats within his chest.
  
  
  To his credit, however, intelligence is not something acquired by Vampirism, and it is Echo's sheer cunning that has been his salvation.
  
  
  In addition, while sunlight is unpleasant, Echo is still capable of moving about freely during the day. It is taxing, however, and the more exposure to UV rays he undergoes, the more frequently he is required to feed in order to maintain his strength.
  
  
  
• Language/Expression
  
  Echo's general timbre is smooth and a little smokey. His mother tongue and accent are Estonian, and while he speaks English fluently he does have a tenancy to fluctuate between and blend both languages, remitting a rather unique, foreign elegance when he speaks (though to those who don't speak Estonian understanding him can be a little like trying to put together a verbal jigsaw-puzzle with half the pieces missing). Very rarely does he raise his voice.
  
  
  Like a Vampire he might growl or snarl bestially when experiencing some form of intense emotion or sensation, such as frustration, anger, or pain; this is instinctual - the same as a dog does bark and a cat hiss - but as the sounds can be quite fierce and somewhat alarming he does try to suppress such behaviors in the presence of human prey, so as not to scare them off or expose himself. Echo might also purr as a human might hum when content.