Albert Josephus Alton- TessStats
Gender: Male Age: 27 apparent, 119 actual, M Nature: Vampire Occupation: Artist Appearance: Go to your Grandma’s house. Look at the picture of Whitebread Jesus that may be hanging somewhere on her walls. That’s pretty much what Bert looks like. He didn’t plan it that way—who gets to choose their face?-- but he’s sure made the most of it through the century. Though it’s not quite as effective as it was in the past, he must admit. |
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To be exact, he’s got shoulder-length dark brown hair with tawny highlights when the light hits it, with a neatly clipped, darker beard and mustache and soulful blue eyes. At least, they once had a soul behind them. He misplaced it over the years, he’s pretty certain. Probably late on a Friday night in April. In 1925.
Bert can dress up in utter elegance when he sees the need, but in his studio he wears jeans, boots, and some sort of plaid shirt open over a white undershirt.
Personality: Bert is hard to pin down. He’s easy-going, he’s demanding, he’s antisocial, he’s a party animal. It all depends on what mood he’s in, where he is, who he’s with and what’s the potential payoff in food, money or tail.
Ninety-two years of vampirism have warped and perverted and twisted his original personality till next to none is left behind. He can barely remember what it felt like to be human, even looking back to the time when he had his humanity.
His main income comes from mechanized, abstract sculptures that use motion, shadow and lighting to ‘dance’ in space, but painting is his first and most abiding love. Some internal motive he hasn’t bothered to work through, however, has always kept those pieces private. Perhaps he does have a fragment of a soul still, somewhere, deep down inside… Perhaps it's merely an ethereal echo from his last meal.
History: Born on March 15, 1898 to a well-to-do industrialist in the upper Midwest, Bert had an idyllic childhood. He graduated from high school early, in a time when many never got to high school at all, and went to a prestigious law school in New York City. It was, however, the Roaring Twenties, and brother, did Bert ever roar! Too many late nights and hung-over mornings meant that Bert graduated somewhere near the bottom of his class, much to his parents’ disappointed disapproval. Cut off from their support, he lived on charm and odd jobs, until the night he shared the wrong taxicab with a lovely woman. Or maybe, the right one. The driver kept driving, whistling merrily, no matter how much Bert screamed and struggled with the woman-shaped monster with Clara Bow’s eyes and Rin Tin Tin’s fangs.
From that night on, he never contacted his family or anyone who ever knew him. He kept that much humanity. It wasn’t enough, really, but it did allow all who knew and loved him to live out their natural lifespans as human beings.
Abilities: Bert a truly gifted artist. His long life has given him time to finely hone his visual sense and his aesthetic sensibilities. His shadow sculptures and mobiles, both stationary and suspended, are quite popular now, but his next career might be in some area entirely unrelated to the visual arts. Regardless, he always does his private paintings, mostly in watercolor. Regardless of his transitory personas, he always comes back to some profession in the visual arts eventually.
Weaknesses: Bert does his best to stay off the radar of those in vampiric power. While being the quiet introvert in the boondocks does have its advantages in the ruthless, literally cutthroat world of Vampire administration, it can lead to one being utilized as a pawn. Nobody cares what happens to a pawn.
His maker, Theodosia, is of the opinion that his sullen introversion is merely a phase. He is, after all, very young still in the vampiric view of a lifespan. However, if Bert does return to his reckless devil-may-care, party animal original human personality, that may not be any better for his longevity.
Quirks: Thinks an occasional Gin Rickey and Oysters Rockefeller are worth the burn and barfing.
Weapons: None, unless you count various welders and blowtorches.
Family: None
Vehicle: A nondescript, dark gray coupe, comfortably equipped. All modern cars look like identical jellybeans to Bert, so he’d have to look at the marque plaques to tell you the make and model.
Home: An old 1940s Pan-Am 4-bay service station on the outskirts of Stone Mountain (image here.) Bert uses three of the bays as his studio, and lives in the converted space of the old office and first bay.
Character image portrayed by: Jarod Leto
Bert can dress up in utter elegance when he sees the need, but in his studio he wears jeans, boots, and some sort of plaid shirt open over a white undershirt.
Personality: Bert is hard to pin down. He’s easy-going, he’s demanding, he’s antisocial, he’s a party animal. It all depends on what mood he’s in, where he is, who he’s with and what’s the potential payoff in food, money or tail.
Ninety-two years of vampirism have warped and perverted and twisted his original personality till next to none is left behind. He can barely remember what it felt like to be human, even looking back to the time when he had his humanity.
His main income comes from mechanized, abstract sculptures that use motion, shadow and lighting to ‘dance’ in space, but painting is his first and most abiding love. Some internal motive he hasn’t bothered to work through, however, has always kept those pieces private. Perhaps he does have a fragment of a soul still, somewhere, deep down inside… Perhaps it's merely an ethereal echo from his last meal.
History: Born on March 15, 1898 to a well-to-do industrialist in the upper Midwest, Bert had an idyllic childhood. He graduated from high school early, in a time when many never got to high school at all, and went to a prestigious law school in New York City. It was, however, the Roaring Twenties, and brother, did Bert ever roar! Too many late nights and hung-over mornings meant that Bert graduated somewhere near the bottom of his class, much to his parents’ disappointed disapproval. Cut off from their support, he lived on charm and odd jobs, until the night he shared the wrong taxicab with a lovely woman. Or maybe, the right one. The driver kept driving, whistling merrily, no matter how much Bert screamed and struggled with the woman-shaped monster with Clara Bow’s eyes and Rin Tin Tin’s fangs.
From that night on, he never contacted his family or anyone who ever knew him. He kept that much humanity. It wasn’t enough, really, but it did allow all who knew and loved him to live out their natural lifespans as human beings.
Abilities: Bert a truly gifted artist. His long life has given him time to finely hone his visual sense and his aesthetic sensibilities. His shadow sculptures and mobiles, both stationary and suspended, are quite popular now, but his next career might be in some area entirely unrelated to the visual arts. Regardless, he always does his private paintings, mostly in watercolor. Regardless of his transitory personas, he always comes back to some profession in the visual arts eventually.
Weaknesses: Bert does his best to stay off the radar of those in vampiric power. While being the quiet introvert in the boondocks does have its advantages in the ruthless, literally cutthroat world of Vampire administration, it can lead to one being utilized as a pawn. Nobody cares what happens to a pawn.
His maker, Theodosia, is of the opinion that his sullen introversion is merely a phase. He is, after all, very young still in the vampiric view of a lifespan. However, if Bert does return to his reckless devil-may-care, party animal original human personality, that may not be any better for his longevity.
Quirks: Thinks an occasional Gin Rickey and Oysters Rockefeller are worth the burn and barfing.
Weapons: None, unless you count various welders and blowtorches.
Family: None
Vehicle: A nondescript, dark gray coupe, comfortably equipped. All modern cars look like identical jellybeans to Bert, so he’d have to look at the marque plaques to tell you the make and model.
Home: An old 1940s Pan-Am 4-bay service station on the outskirts of Stone Mountain (image here.) Bert uses three of the bays as his studio, and lives in the converted space of the old office and first bay.
Character image portrayed by: Jarod Leto