Joshua York

==Summary==
Joshua York is a vampire born in provincial France in the year 1785.
His mother died in childbirth and Joshua was therefore raised by his father and servants. During the French Revolution, Joshua and his father were imprisoned, the son fled from prison but the father was beheaded by the guillotine. At only 4 years old, Joshua had to fend for himself in the streets of Paris, and traveled to several European countries.
When he was 20 years old he was first seized by the red thirst, a state that all vampires feel and that gives them a thirst for blood. After bad experiences with thirst and the fact that he does not want to kill humans, Joshua York decided to find a cure for this curse and found it after three years of research.
He then decided to find his fellows to free them from the Red Thirst. He found the two servants who worked with his father, and they told him about the origins and legends of his people, and they think that Joshua is the pale king, the chosen one who will bring them all together and bring them back to their great city of the night.
Years later, the search for his people took him back to the New World in the United States, where he decided to work with a captain, Abner Marsh, to build a wondrous and powerful ship to be able to secretly search and find his people in the Mississippi River.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: , higher via Red Thirst, even higher via Willpower
Name: Joshua York, Joshua Anton York, Captain. J.A. York, the Pale King
Origin: Fevre Dream
Gender: Male
Age: 72, almost 200 in the epilogueEpilogue
Classification: Vampire, Bloodmaster, Noble, Captain, Pilot
Powers and Abilities: Genius Intelligence, Superhuman Physical Characteristics (It is said many times that vampires are stronger and faster than humans.Chapter 13: Aboard the Steamer Fevre Dream, New Orleans, August 1857Chapter 14: Of Days Dark and DistantChapter 18: Aboard the Steamer Fevre Dream, Mississipi River, August 1857Chapter 29: Gray Plantation, Louisiana, October 1857), Bodily Weaponry (Claws and teeth: Vampire teeth are described as very longChapter 9: Aboard the Steamer Fevre Dream, Mississipi River, August 1857 and they can tear the flesh of their victims with it.Chapter 2: New Orleans, May 1857Chapter 6: Julian Plantation, Louisiana, July 1857 Child vampire nails get harder and sharper each day and they can claw through wood. Adult vampire nails are sharper and retractable, reaching up to five inches long.), Stealth Mastery (Vampires move silently, without making the slightest sound.Chapter 3: New Albany, Indiana, June 1857Chapter 5: Aboard the Steamer Fevre Dream, Ohio River, July 1857Chapter 12: Aboard the Steamer Fevre Dream, Mississipi River, August 1857Chapter 32: Julian Plantation, Louisiana, May 1870 They can bleed their victims to death with a hundred soft touches they'd hardly feel.), Enhanced Senses (Vampires can see perfectly in the dark without any problem Chapter 8: Aboard the Steamer Fevre Dream, Mississipi River, July 1857), Longevity (Vampires can live for thousands, if not millions, of yearsChapter 10: New Orleans, August 1857Chapter 17: Aboard the Steamer Fevre Dream, New Orleans, August 1857Chapter 28: On the Misssipi River, October 1857), Acrobatics (It is said twice that vampires are as nimble as cats, they can scale walls quickly for climbing on roofs or chandeliers, jump over obstacles with easy grace and take twenty-foot drops while landing on your feet without taking damage), Absorption and Blood Manipulation (After drinking it, the vampires convert the blood of their victims into their own, thickening and enriching it, at least for a time), Accelerated Development (Training, Abilities: Although he did not know the moves of chess pieces and the rules of this game, in just two days of training he reached the level of Paul Morphy, one of the greatest chess players in the history.Chapter 7: St. Louis, July 1857), Immortality (Type 3) and Regeneration (Low-Mid: Vampires can quickly heal themselves from severe organ damage, such as gunshots or sword impalements, and they can also regrow lost limbs, although it takes weeksChapter 34: Aboard the Steamer Fevre Dream, May 1870Chapter 19: Aboard the Steamer Fevre Dream, Mississipi River, August 1857), Berserk Mode and Rage Power (Red Thirst, which affects vampires once a month, renders them beastly, mindless and stronger, and gives them a thirst that can only be satisfied with blood.), Supernatural Willpower (Can survive the sun longer than other vampires with his willpower. After attempting suicide by tying himself to a wall on a sunny day to burn to death, Joshua finally decided not to die and found a strength in his resolve greater than anything he had ever known, even when the red thirst was driving him, to free himself from one of his chains despite being exposed to sunlight for hours and hours. He said he didn't know what kept him conscious, and the pain had grown so terrible he scarcely felt it anymore), Social Influencing (With their voices and their eyes, vampires can charm, captivate and quiet their natural prey) and Mind Manipulation (Unknown levels of Layers: With their eyes, vampires can bend them to their will their natural prey, sometimes even compel them to assist in their own slaughter. Joshua York likens this power to the animal magnetism and charisma of military leaders like Bonaparte.Chapter 1: St. Louis, April 1857Chapter 16: New Orleans, August 1857 This power also works on other vampires, and the vampire who submits another vampire to his will take on the title of Bloodmaster, and the latter can be defeated by a stronger vampire so that the latter himself becomes a bloodmaster, and so on.Chapter 15: Aboard the Steamer Fevre Dream, New Orleans, August 1857 Joshua York is the strongest bloodmaster who ever existed after Damon Julian, he is only superior to the latter when he is under the effect of red thirst or his supernatural willpowerChapter 31: New Orleans, May 1870), Resistance to Disease Manipulation (Joshua said that humans "die like flies as well, of little wounds and illnesses my kind shrugs off".) and Mind Manipulation (Unknown level of Layers: To become a bloodmaster you must resist the power of the eyes, aka mind control, of the opposing vampire and gain the upper hand with your own eyes. Although Damon Julian had beaten Joshua York a dozen times, forced him to kneel to him, compelled him to let him drink of his own blood, he had never been able to make him kill.Chapter 31: New Orleans, May 1870)
Attack Potency: Wall level (Can physically fight against Damon Julian. With a slap of the back of his hand he half-ripped the eye from a prizefighter's skull and broke one of his legs with a kick. Can break chains and locks.Chapter 27: Aboard the Steamer Ozymandias, Mississipi River, October 1857 Before homo sapiens came to Europe, vampire stories say that vampires, without weapons or clothes, were the masters on earth, that anything that walked on the planet with two or four legs was afraid of their race and were just food for them. This suggests that prehistoric megafauna were preyed upon by vampires. A few hundred of vampires decimated a horde of thousands humans in a great battle on the desolate shores of the Baltic a thousand years before.), higher via Red Thirst, even higher via Supernatural Willpower
Speed: At least Superhuman (Can jump quicker than a human could blink and can knock someone out so quickly a human didn't see the blow.)
Lifting Strength: Class 5 (Prehistoric megafauna were preyed upon by vampires. Can seize and fling a six-foot, three-hundred-pound man across a room effortlessly. 4-year-old Joshua York can bend rusty iron bars with his bare hands Can physically fight against Damon Julian.), higher via Red Thirst, even higher via Supernatural Willpower
Striking Strength: Wall level, higher with Red Thirst, even higher via Supernatural Willpower
Durability: Wall level, higher via Red Thirst, even higher via Supernatural Willpower
Stamina: Superhuman (Vampires can continue to fight despite wounds that would be fatal to humans)
Range: Standard Melee Range
Standard Equipment: None
Intelligence: Genius (Joshua York is an educated and cultured man, who was raised by a father who was a French minor noble. At a young age he already knew how to speak French, English, German and the gutter language, and years later he learned Polish, Bulgarian, Russian and other languages, and he could read dozens of languages. He dabbled in politics, wrote and read poetry, and he is particularly a fan of the texts of Byron (whom he has already met) and Shelley. He studied medicine, befriended a number of doctors, a leading surgeon of the time and several faculty members of a well-known medical school. He read medical texts, old and new, delved into chemistry, biology, anatomy and alchemy, and he also partly studied his own body to learn more about his race. Thanks to all this he was able to find a cure for the red thirst, which affected his race for millennia and which forced them to kill humans, in just three years of research, work and experimentation Can retain a lot of information on the first try, which makes it easier for him to learn)
Weaknesses: Vampires can be permanently killed with brain damage, drowning and fire. Sunlight weakens and gives unbearable pain to vampires and burns their skins (which can heals in one night), and kills them after four to six hours of exposure. Excessive damage to internal organs prevents vampire regeneration from working, and many female vampires die in childbirth due to damage caused by their children at birth. Suddenly pulled a vampire from his victim give him a sickening, dizzy, disoriented feeling.
== Note ==
The reason for the layers of mind control for Joshua York and Damon Julian is because they are the most powerful beings of their entire species, apex predators. All vampires have the ability to become bloodmasters, therefore a vampire is necessarily stronger than another member of its species.
In Fevre Dream, when a vampire says that another vampire is "strong" or "stronger" they are talking about the strength of their eyes, not their physical strength.
== Gallery ==
File:Joshua York.jpg|"No, we must remain hidden from your people, for our safety. But, free from the red thirst, I hope in time we can reveal ourselves to the enlightened among you, men of science and learning, your leaders. We can help each other so much, Abner! We can teach you your own histories, and from us you may learn how to heal yourselves, how to live longer. For our part, we have only just begun. I have defeated the red thirst, and with help I dream someday of conquering the very sun, so we can go abroad by day. Your surgeons and men of medecine could help our females in childbirth, so procreation need not mean death. There is no limit to what my race can create and accomplish. I realized then, listening to Simon, that I could make us one of the great peoples of the earth. But first I had to find my race, before any of it could begin."
File:Joshua york by frothmanjyu.jpg|"We have had our great leaders, Abner, bloodmasters real and imagined in ages past. We have had our Caesars, our Solomons, our Prester Johns. But we are waiting for our deliverer, you see, waiting for our Christ. Huddled in the ruins of that grim castle, listening to the wind howl outside, Simon and the others drank my liquor and told me stories and studied me from potent, feverish eyes, and I realized what they must think. Each of them was hundreds of years older than I, but I was the stronger, I was the bloodmaster. I brought them an elixir that banished the red thirst. I seemed almost half-human. Abner, they saw me as the deliverer of legend, the promised king of the vampires. And I could not deny it. It was my destiny, I knew then, to lead my race from darkness."
File:Martina-g-feberdrom-joshua-york.jpg|"In the legends of your race, my people have been made the very essence of evil. The vampire has no soul, no nobility, no hope of redemption, it is said. I will not accept that, Abner. I have killed countless times, have done many terrible things, but I am not evil. I did not choose to be the way I was. Without choice, there can be no good nor evil. My people have never had that choice. The red thirst has ruled us, comdemned us, robbed us of all we might have been."
File:Abner Marsh and Joshua York.png|"Let me say one other thing, however. In New Albany, when you showed our steamer to me, I did not feign my satisfaction. The Fevre Dream is beautiful, Abner, and that was as it should be. For the first time, a thing of beauty is come into the world because of us. It is a new beginning."
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==References==
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