Verhktar Swyft

## Appearance

### Body Shape

Muscular

Verhktar "Ver" Swyft is a male vampire sim, by Jamjars. Whilst being bisexual, Ver finds himself to be more attracted to men over women.

With one marriage and five children (all born of alien abductions) under his belt, Ver's devotion to his family is his driving personality trait. Whilst being a relaxed parent, there is nothing he wouldn't do for his children, or for his adoptive father, Parhayba. Fully aware that he's adopted, it never affected Ver's relationship with his father, in fact leading them to be closer as it was just them for many years.

Ver's love of family also extends to the family pets, of which they've had many. Ver, and his father, were particularly close with their pet fox Konecha, who sadly died when Ver was a teenager. But their enduring love of animals continued with further pet dogs and cats.

Initially a low level musical composer, Ver's success in the public eye came as his modelling and singing careers took off, an indirect consequence from the failure of his first marriage to Verxes.

## Biography

### Childhood

#### Adoption

When Ver was a baby, his mother left him (and his twin brother, Cevern) on the doorstep of a children's home in Brindleton Bay. It was unclear what led her to abandon her children at the time, but the boys were taken in by the home. Being so young, they were both quickly adopted by different families, and they never saw each other again.

Ver was adopted by a local vet turn businessman, Parhayba Swyft. For the duration of his younger years, it was just Ver and his father living in a medium-sized suburban home in Brindleton Bay.

#### Child Years

As a child, Ver was a curious but studious child. Raised in a single parent home, he learnt that he had to pull his weight. From time to time, he would accompany his father to the family vet clinic, helping him out by entertaining the patients and completing basic tasks like grooming and exercising.

   As he grew up, Parhayba impressed upon his son the importance of morality and doing the right thing, lessons which Ver took to heart as he grew older.

#### Teen Years

As Ver continued to grow and began to enter adolescence, it became clear why his mother had abandoned him. Ver began to get strange cravings, he'd find a strange urge arising in him whenever his father was cooking with raw meat. And his canines seemed to be far more extended than other peoples. It wasn't until his first shift into his Dark Form that he learnt the true nature of his condition, his vampirism.

    At first, Ver tried to suppress his urges. He ignored his bloodlust and attempted to sate his desires with rare-cooked meat. But eventually, his cravings overwhelmed him and he attacked his first victim, drinking from them in a haze of instincts and hormones.
The attack had a profound effect on Ver, conflicting so vividly with everything he'd been raised with. As a coping mechanism, he began to separate the two versions of himself; the vampire and the human. But even so, he began experiencing mood swings and hallucinations whenever his bloodlust ramped up, until he would be compelled to attack and drink again.

    As another way of coping, Ver buried a lot of his cravings in schoolwork, choosing to try and ignore his cravings by completing extra credit work or school projects. His work meant that he gradually rose to become one of the highest performers in his year, despite regularly having to be excused from gym class and other outdoor activities.

### Personal Life

#### Moving to the City

After Ver graduated high school, he spread his wings. With his father's blessing (and a bit of his money), Ver left home and rented an apartment in the Spice District of San Myshuno. Whilst he was living there, he began to work on his musical career.

One morning, whilst out busking, Ver caught the eye of a good looking man, Verxes Kenvira. After he invited Ver back to his place for a drink, Ver learnt that Verxes was living a few doors away from him in the same apartment block.

#### Moving out of the City

Unfortunately for Ver however, not long into his stay in San Myshuno, his apartment was "burgled" (the consequence of an EA apartment bug in the game at that time). His TV, computer, all his dining chairs, as well as several of his favourite pictures were taken. Spooked by the sudden theft of many of his items, Ver quickly moved out of the city and into a small new build home in Oasis Springs.

Despite moving further away from one another, Verxes and Ver continued to see each other. They went out on a couple of dates and had some fun together. But the first time they decided to sleep together, Verxes revealed to Ver that he was actually an alien. Ver was unphased by the revelation, and they continued on.

However, during the night, Ver was woken from bed by a strange noise, almost like wind chimes. When he went out to investigate where the noise was coming from, he encountered a set of mysterious lights. Then, a beam of light engulfed him, and he was levitated into a waiting U.F.O.

When Ver returned from the U.F.O., he was quite "out of it", returning to bed and sleep. But he began feeling weird, getting strange cravings for certain foods and throwing up a lot, which was strange for him since he didn't eat very much. It wasn't until his belly began to grow that Ver realised he was pregnant!

#### Returning Home

After discovering his pregnancy, Ver did his best to continue his life normally. But as his belly grew, he began struggling to accomplish basic tasks like cleaning and cooking. Accepting that he wasn't going to be able to do it alone, he decided to move back in with his father, who was rather surprised by his son's condition.

    Ver took some time off from his career to stay at home and allow his pregnancy to progress whilst his father continued to work to support them. After another few months, Ver went into labour. The local hospital were surprisingly calm about Ver's pregnancy, and saw to him immediately and delivered the triplets that Ver was carrying, a boy and two girls. Ver named them Zeyrhok, Scaylarhey, and Yntegrhal.

### First Marriage

#### Rekindling the Romance

Once the triplets were born, Ver rekindled his romance with Verxes. Whilst they had attempted to remain close during Ver's pregnancy, he had ended up too exhausted to be able to pursue a relationship during the last trimester. But now with the triplets born, and with Parhayba to take care of them, Ver was able to start seeing Verxes regularly again.

Ver and Verxes began to see each other on dates again, spending time together and enjoying each others company. Soon, Ver decided he was ready to take things to the next level. He proposed to Verxes at the Bluffs in front of the bonfire, where Verxes said yes and moved in with them soon after.

#### Conflict at Home

When Verxes moved in with Ver and his family, it quickly began to cause friction. Ver was thrilled that Verxes had no problem with Ver's children, however it was less acceptance and more disinterest. Whilst Ver was a little upset that Verxes wasn't trying to interact with his kids, he figured that things might change as Verxes grew more comfortable around them.

Conflict also arose between Verxes and Parhayba. Verxes did next to nothing to help around the house, never cleaning up after himself. After years of single parenthood, Parhayba and Ver worked together to keep their home clean. However when Parhayba confronted Verxes about it, Verxes refused to take more responsibility and called his bluff about kicking Verxes from the household, leading to a long standing resentment of Verxes by Parhayba, which Ver noticed and found quite upsetting.

#### Long Standing Engagement

Despite getting engaged relatively quickly into their relationship, Ver and Verxes decided to elongate their engagement, the decision was partially voluntarily and partially situational.

At first, Ver had wanted to wait until the triplets were a little older and would be able to appreciate the ceremony more, and would also be require less monitoring giving him more time to focus on his groom. In the meantime, Ver and Verxes both enjoyed their time together, whilst dieting and working out, to look their best in their tuxedos. This was the first time Ver began to experiment with bleaching his hair, and whilst he wasn't convinced at first, it would soon become his signature look.

#### Second Pregnancy

After a little while of Verxes living with Ver and his family, he once again heard the strange wind chime sound. Forgetting what such a sound leads to, Ver went to investigate and was abducted by a U.F.O. again. This threw a spanner in his and Verxes' plans, given that they were gearing up to get married. But as Ver's pregnancy progressed, they both accepted that they would need to postpone their wedding a little longer until after Ver gave birth.

After another few months, and the triplets' birthday, Ver gave birth to another two children, a boy and a girl, who he named Sympt and Tynghntha.

#### Marriage

After allowing some time for the twins to become a little older, Ver and Verxes decided that they were waiting a "perfect time" to get married which wasn't going to happen. They decided they were ready to finally tie the knot, deciding to finally get married in the gardens of the Chalet in Windenburg.

    Over the next few years, Ver continued to work through his career as a musician, taking care of his children and generally living his life. He and Verxes were together happily and he enjoyed his time with him.

#### The Affair

Several years into their marriage, one Spooky Day, the Swyfts decided to host a large party for them and their friends.

At the end of the party, Ver was walking through the house, when he came across Verxes with Jade Rosa, cuddling and whispering with one another.

At first, Ver was shocked, believing that Jade was trying to flirt with his husband. But when Verxes came to Jade's defence, Ver realised that Jade and Verxes had been seeing each other for a long time, continuing an affair with one another since before Ver and Verxes got married.

Ver was understandably devastated, he argued with Verxes until Ver gradually began to lose control of himself. His anger combining with his urges, leaving him unable to stop himself from attacking Verxes.

    Unable to change out of his dark form, Ver tried to calm himself down, but was unsuccessful so went to bed. When Verxes came around after passed out, he saw Ver in their bed in his dark form and decided that he'd be better off sleeping on the couch.

During the night, Ver regained control and returned to his normal form in his sleep, but the damage was done, he knew about Verxes' affair. The next morning, he confronted Verxes about what he'd seen. Verxes attempted to blame it on Ver and say it was his fault, bringing up the issues between him and Parhayba, attempting to leverage them over him.

Ver had had enough at the point. He told Verxes that they were through, that Verxes had to leave, their marriage was over.

#### The Breakdown

    After divorcing Verxes, Ver was laid low with depression. For days he wallowed in his bedroom, not leaving or seeing anyone. His family began to worry about him, but whenever they knocked on his bedroom door, Ver told them to go away. But, after three days of seeing nothing of his son, Parhayba decided he had to act.

    He carefully walked into the bedroom, knowing full well that an unstable vampire was not something to be messed with. When he looked around the room, he was greeted with Ver, kneeling on the floor in front of the painting he and Verxes had had commissioned, it was covered in red spray paint. When Parhayba went over to comfort his son, he saw Ver's appearance, he'd obviously not slept in days, but more obvious was his shaven head. When he coaxed Ver off the floor, he saw that Ver had covered up several of his tattoos with the same red paint, the ones he had got with Verxes or that Verxes had expressed a like towards.

### Career Advancement

#### Modelling

Ver gradually began to recover from his breakdown. His hair was beginning to grow back, and he was able to look at the tattoo which he got with Verxes without bursting into tears again. But his mental health was still poor. The one year anniversary of his divorce hit him incredibly hard. The triplets had organised to take him out and keep him busy that day, trying to help their dad get over his heartbreak, but they'd seen Verxes on the street with another woman and it had set Ver right back to square one.

After a little while, Scaylarhey decided that her dad needed to feel sexy again. She submitted a couple of old headshots of Ver to a couple of modelling agencies, hoping to hear back. Dazzle magazine sent an email back to Ver, asking him to come in for a photo shoot. After a **lot** of convincing from the triplets, Ver went to the shoot and spent the day on set.

Returning home, he felt happy for the first time since his divorce. So he continued modelling for Dazzle, as well as some other shoots for other magazines and publishers. Gradually, modelling helped him overcome his depression and come back out of his shell.

#### Singing and Performing Career

##### *Broken* Era

Having finally beaten his depression, Ver felt that he could viably tackle his feelings about Verxes and their divorce, the horrible feelings that still haunted him on his bad days.

He started by writing down simple passages, just his raw feelings, often making no sense to anyone but him. But as he continued writing, they began to form themselves into coherent sentences, then into short poems. But simply writing it down wasn't enough for Ver, he needed some way to express what he felt. His writing only presented one side, the things that could be explained, but not the dark feeling that had surrounded him for so long. Using his pianist and guitarist skills, Ver started to compose music to accompany the lyrics. After weeks of composing, he had 4 songs complete, each one detailing a different part of his emotions.

Initially intending for the songs to be private, Ver saved them to his computer and left them there. But a few weeks later, he received an email from an agent, offering him a contract to officially publish his songs. Ver had accidentally set his songs to be public on the cloud, and they'd been doing quietly well on the internet until they'd been found by Penny Pizzazz, who had shared them and they'd gone viral within a night.

After a brief negotiation, the 4 songs were taken down and released officially by Ver as an EP, which Ver named *Broken*. The EP did incredibly well for the debut of a new artist. Ver earned a small following among many groups, and he began to considering a singing career.

##### *Hopeless Optimist* Era

After the relative success of Broken, Ver began to writing more music, and nine months later he released the lead single *Resumed* for his new album. The song focused on Ver resuming his life after his divorce, marking a turning point in his attitude to his marriage.

Two weeks after the first single, Ver dropped the second and final single from the album, *Above You*, an account of a fictional night out; seeing an ex, then proceeding to get drunk and have a good time to spite them. This single quickly began to rack up streams and hit number 7 on the San Myshuno charts, marking Ver's break into the main stream.

With the album *Hopeless Optimist* dropping quickly after the success of *Above You*, the album charted high as well. Whilst some criticised Ver's vocals on the album, they praised the composition behind many of the songs.

##### *Hopeless Optimism* Tour

*Hopeless Optimist*'s success led to many of Ver's fans to encourage him to go on a tour for his album. After running a short poll on his social media, there was overwhelming support for him to tour. Using all his savings and some of his father's, Ver managed to organise one that would visit some of the areas of his biggest support, including San Myshuno, Del Sol Valley, and Brindleton Bay. His tour consisted of 11 dates over a three-and-a-half week tour, with a cast of seven dancers, one of whom was Scaylarhey (at her request), and two back-up singers to support his vocals.

### New Romance

#### Meeting On A Photo Shoot

After the success of the *Hopeless Optimist* and its tour, Ver took some time away from writing music to recuperate and focus on the other part of his career, his modelling. He'd been offered the ambassador-ship of a menswear brand and was due on set to shoot for their adverts and catalogues.

On the shoot, he met one of the other models, Slate Tylrea. Ver knew of Slate since he was a regular appearance in one of his favourite magazines, so Ver went over to introduce himself. But Slate was initially hostile, and the two took a dislike to each other, with Ver finding him to be rude.

However, Ver and Slate were forced to work together on several occasions. With Ver being the brand's big face and Slate being another well known influencer who the brand wanted to keep on set. So Ver and Slate settled into a work colleague relationship, but they both still disliked each other, especially since a rivalry was beginning to develop between them.

#### Rivals to Friends

On their fourth shoot together, the brand wanted to play up Ver's sexuality, knowing that he was a bi man. They set the shoot up as a date between him and Slate, but the competition between the two men was palpable and the brand were unhappy with the resulting shoot. They were insistent that Ver and Slate be in the advert and play the part of the "in love" couple, so they told them to work on their chemistry together, and they'd re-shoot later.

Ver and Slate tried spending some time together but it was frosty, their rivalry stopped any advance on them being able to better portray a romance. But, determined to fulfil his role, Ver suggested that Slate spend some time with him and his family, to get to know one another a little better.

After introducing Slate to his family, Ver had to explain that he was the only father of his five children to Slate privately. Slate was impressed by Ver's commitment to his family and their commitment to him, earning him a little respect. Slate talked about his own children with Ver, expressing a sadness about not being there for them and regret at not appreciating them. The two men began to see each other's more vulnerable sides and it dulled their dislike, seeing each other for who they are, two men battling their emotions whilst working in a cut-throat industry.

Ver and Slate re-shot the date scenes for their advert a week later, and the brand commented that their chemistry had greatly improved. Even after the advert, Ver and Slate continued to spend time together, appreciating each other's company and their shared life experiences. Ver and Slate built up a friendship with one another which continued after their contracts with the brand had finished.

#### Friends ... With More

Often meeting up for coffee, Ver and Slate began growing increasingly close, and they both became more flirtatious with one another, which surprised Ver at first since he'd not realised Slate was bi as well. Their flirtations continued to escalate until they were sleeping together regularly.

At first, they agreed that their friendship was casual. Slate had never been interested in attaching himself to anyone but enjoyed close relationships with people, and Ver still wasn't ready to love again but still wanted intimacy.

#### Falling For One Another

Carrying on their hook-ups for a while, Ver and Slate enjoyed their time with each other, visiting the gym or coffee shops together regularly. But after a work-out, Ver suggested heading out to a club together, to which Slate agreed.

Whilst Slate was getting a drink from the bar, another man started dancing with Ver quite suggestively, which Ver was happy to indulge, enjoying the attention. When Slate returned from the bar, he started dancing with Ver as well, becoming jealous and encouraging Ver to dance with him instead. It was then that Ver realised Slate had feelings more than "Just a Hook Up" about him. Likewise, Ver realised that he didn't really consider the other man as a potential partner since he felt he was "with" Slate.

The pair left the club and went to a quieter bar together, where they admitted to having feelings for one another, and were both pleased to learn that they were reciprocated. At which point, Slate suggested that they make their relationship official, to which Ver tentatively agreed, admitting that he was scared about loving, but Slate seemed to understand and promised to not hurt him.

## Appearance

### Tattoos

Ver's affinity for tattoos is partially inherited from his father. Parhayba had several tattoos himself, but they're a noticeable different style to Ver's. Where Parhayba's follow a more tribal style with black, blocky patterns, Ver's tattoos are more colourful and capture several animals.

Ver's first tattoo was the half sleeve on his left forearm, which he got after the birth of the triplets. Then, he decided to have the dragon sleeve that runs up his right arm and onto his chest, followed by the celtic knot on the back of his neck, originally in blue.

Ver and Verxes both decided to get tattoos together when they got married, they went to the same tattoo artist, rather the artist that Ver usually went to, and they had quite intricate tattoos designed for them. Verxes had a tiger whilst Ver got a snake, both incorporated with flowers. The design was more Verxes' style than Ver's, but Ver got it as an homage to their relationship. During his depression, it was the tattoo which he hated the most, since it reminded him of his shared experience with Verxes, but he learnt to dissociate the tattoo from him and learned to like it. But he would get it lasered if it weren't in such a sensitive region.

After his tattoo with Verxes, Ver went slightly crazy on his tattoos. He decided to get another joint tattoo, this time with his father. Having a similarly tribal style tattoo on the back of his right calf, as well a coloured tribal band around his left bicep, to better frame his half sleeve.

His biggest tattoo, however, was a project he'd been thinking about for some time. Across his back, in a series of sessions with one of his favourite artists, he had a giant phoenix with spread wings tattooed across his back, as well as the celtic knot at the back of his neck recoloured to better match with the phoenix.

### Hair

Ver has a complicated relationship with his hair. At birth, his hair was a light brown which continued until early adulthood, where his hair began to darken, leading to his now natural dark brunette, seen in his beard.

However, Ver had always wanted to dye his hair, much like his father who dyed his hair bright white for the majority of his life. Originally aiming to dye his hair to white like his father, Ver was unable to get quite that white due to the darkness of his original hair, instead ending up with a blond. He was unsure at first, but people often complimented him in the colour, especially Verxes. So after returning to brunette for his wedding, Ver decided to maintain his hair in its bleached blond state.

However, upon his divorce, much like his reaction to his tattoos, Ver found himself unable to separate Verxes from his hair, given that Verxes was such a fan of the blond. So in a less coherent state, he shaved off all his blond hair, returning to brunette for a short while.

However, as Ver began to separate his feelings about Verxes from his feelings about his appearance, he returned to blond. He had always liked the colour once he'd grown used to it and, similar to the way he liked his tattoos despite Verxes, he began to like the hair colour in the same way.