Reiji Sakamaki

**Reiji Sakamaki** (*Sakamaki Reiji*) is the second eldest son of the Sakamaki household. Reiji and his older brother, Shu, are the sons of Beatrix, second wife of Karlheinz, the Vampire King.

## Appearances

Reiji is a tall, slender young man with his hair being a shade of
purple-black with lighter purple-gray gradients. It is almost an inch
away from being shoulder length and it is neatly combed. Reiji's eyes
are a light red. He wears glasses.

Reiji usually wears suit-like attire to match his seemingly
polite personality. In Haunted Dark Bridal, he wears a grey vest with a
black one over a white dress shirt. He wears it with black pants and a
black belt.

In **MORE,BLOOD,** he wears a black military trench coat with a white dress shirt underneath and black pants.

In **DARK FATE,** Reiji grows his hair out.

His school uniform consists of the black school jacket with a
buttoned red vest over a black dress shirt with a perfect red tie. He
wears it with along with the black uniform pants and black dress shoes.

According to Cordelia, if Reiji weren't so stiff, he would look
just like his father from back when she first met him. She says that
even his eyes are just like Karl's.[1]
 She actually says that solely to tease Reiji giving him the biggest
compliment and making him more vulnerable, since he admires his father
and dreams to be "him".

## Personality

Reiji has refined manners. Even though he might have a polite,
sophisticated way of speaking (which the creators describe to be
"butler-like"), his words tend to come with a biting edge. He values
rules and demands that they are followed by others, but he creates many
strange rules. Despite how rigid he may seem, he still has some sense of
 humor (albeit a dry one).

Although Reiji is the second son, he takes it upon himself to
keep the house tidy, to manage household affairs and funds, and to keep
his brothers in line. His role in the family combined with his seemingly
 polite, gentlemanly posture often causes him to appear more like the
eldest instead of his older brother Shu.

Shown by how he values rules, Reiji is a strict person towards
both himself and those around him. He is an arrogant, prideful person
who demands perfection and dislikes submitting to weakness. His
personality takes after his mother Beatrix, as he has admired her
throughout his entire life as being a perfect lady in his eyes, even
though she completely neglected him, or telling him to become a good
servant for Shu. However after he finds out she can quiver and be weak
because of Cordelia, he loses respect and cannot forgive her, which is
his trigger to destroy her by himself and prove her his worth above her.

Though his words may be harsh, they shouldn't always be taken at
face value. He is an extreme sadist like the rest of his brothers, (but
also has a surprising extremely masochistic side if triggered right) and
 his particular phrase is schadenfreude (German for "happiness in the
misfortune of others"). Sometimes he does or says something in order to
get a reaction that amuses him.

Along with his passion for experimenting and making potions/drugs
 and poisons, he loves to collect tea sets and kitchenware. His brothers
 sometimes use Reiji's love for kitchenware to coerce him into cooking
for them by saying that they'll use the kitchen themselves - his
brothers have a penchant for destroying it when they use it. Ayato is
the one that loves to tease Reiji the most with endless pranks but
usually hide and try to put the blame on someone else. Kanato is the one
 to boss Reiji around like his butler, and if he tries to ignore him,
Kanato would blackmail him emotionally with his tantrums.

## History

Reiji is the second born son to the Sakamaki family. Since his overly
 ambitious and emotionally frigid mother Beatrix wished to usurp
completely Cordelia's place as the main wife, she focused completely
over her first born Shu. Beatrix neglected Reiji even though unlike Shu
he was ambitious just like her. Beatrix would only encourage him to do
better so one day to become a better servant for her first born son when
 he inherits the throne.

While Shu hated the restrictions and attention given to him,
Reiji craved his mother's attention, leading him to burn down an entire
human village and killing Shu's human friend, Edgar. He killed Edgar in
an attempt to impress and aid his mother and to punish and teach Shu who
 continuously ran away from his responsibilities and made Beatrix upset.
 Reiji's hatred for his mother continued to grow when Edgar's murder
didn't impress her and Shu became more withdrawn. Eventually, he hired Seiji (the heroine's father), a vampire hunter, to kill Beatrix, thinking that his mother would finally acknowledge him.

Unfortunately, he was left with regret and disappointment as he
watched Beatrix at peace: she would finally be free from her own unhappy
 endless existence full of competitions, and she was proud to witness
Reiji's growth (for the vampires, killing an "opponent" is considered a
mark of becoming a grown, but most of all it is a symbol of ultimate
love.) Reiji tried to find a way to resurrect her by claiming that he
wanted to kill Beatrix in a way that would cause her unbearable
suffering by his own hands.

## Abilities

Like all vampires, he has an inhuman strength as well as increased
speed, increased vision and hearing, and smell. Being a vampire, he also
 has fast healing and healing saliva.

### **Teleportation**

He appears to be capable of teleporting from nowhere in an instant.

### **Swordsmanship**

He has swordsmanship talent, as seen in Shu's third ending in Haunted Dark Bridal.

### **Other**

Since he is a pure born vampire, he can only die if his head is cut
off, however if his body is too damaged to heal fast enough it might
also be life threatening even if not directly.

As one of his passions is potion making, he is able to create poisonous potions.

He has basic knowledge in healing/treating vampires.

## Trivia

* He is good in chess.
* Reiji means 'courteous child'
* He is right-handed
* His foot size is 27cm.
* He can play the piano.
* He can cook very well.
* He is fluent in German.