Damon Sorrentino

**Damiano Angelo Giovani "Damon" Sorrentino** is the older son of Giovanni and Liliana Sorrentino. He is the older brother to Stephen Sorrentino and older half brother to Gio Sorrentino. He was turned into a vampire in 1498.

## History

Damiano Angelo Giovani Sorrentino was born on August 31, 1472 to Conte Giovanni and Contessa Liliana Sorrentino. His father was a rich middle class man in Florence, Italy meaning Damon was born into wealth and privilege. Being the first born, Damon developed a close relationship with his mother. She died shortly after giving birth to his brother Dante from tuberculosis. Damon became resentful towards his younger brother afterwards blaming him for Liliana's death.

He was rebellious in his teenage years into young adulthood. Instead of upholding the family honor he chose to hunt and chase women.

From December 1494 to January 1498, Damon fought in the beginning of the Italian Wars. He was discharged after suffering an injury to his head and dislocating his shoulder. After returning from the war he returned to the Sorrentino estate where he met there houseguest, Katja Augustin.

## Personality

Damon is Dante's malevolent older brother. Who is often described as sinister, dangerous, sadistic, cruel, arrogant, impulsive, and cold hearted. He is seductively dark yet charming. He does not care about humans. Over the many centuries that he has lived, Damon uses whatever and whoever he can to get what he wants; not caring about who he hurts in the process. Because of his highly vain and selfish personality, Damon often resorts to either the use of manipulation, threats, direct coercion or force in order to get his own way. However, when Damon does not get his way, he resorts to anger, envy/jealousy, or intimidation. He generally acts arrogant, and constantly plays word games, especially when it comes to dancing around an issue, and even more especially when that issue involves his real, true feelings or his intentions on or about a serious subject (for example, such as his caring attitude towards humans and also, his deep, complex feelings for Elena).

## Physical Appearance

Because of their familial relation, Damon has a strong resemblance to his younger brother, Dante. Due to him becoming an immortal and therefore an eternally youthful vampire in his mid twenties, Damon has a young and vital appearance that neither old age nor death could ever touch or alter, just like Stefan. However, there is still an extremely notable difference between the two brothers: while Stefan's handsomeness has a pure, innocent, and overall haunting quality, Damon's beauty is darkly sensual, lustful, and even seductive. He also has a compelling aura and an intimidating demeanor, all of which he is perfectly aware of, and he knew exactly how to utilize all of them to lure the opposite sex to him like moths to a flame.

Damon has high cheekbones, a masculine jawline and chin. Due to his being an immortal vampire, he has a smooth and flawless complexion. Damon has thick dark jet-black hair that fell over his forehead. His eyes are dark brown almost black as the night sky.

Damon has a strong, angular, and masculine bone structure, with broad shoulders and hard muscles in his arms and chest. He stands at 6'2''.

His sense of style and fashion is as dark and dramatic as his looks, but still masculine and sophisticated. Often wearing black leather boots, dark jeans, black or grey shirt and a black leather jacket or bomber jacket. However, he has also been seen to wear white T-shirts with a black leather jacket from time to time. Like Dante, Damon also wears a large silver and lapis lazuli ring on a finger of his left hand, which was given to him by Katja, in order for him to walk around in the sunlight.

## Name's Meaning

* **Damiano:** Italian form of Damian. From the Greek name *Damianos* which was derived from Greek *damazo* meaning "to tame"
* **Angelo:** Italian form of *Angelus*. Which was derived from the name of the heavenly creature (itself derived from the Greek word *Angelos* meaning "messenger"
* **Giovanni:** Italian form of *Johannes*. The latin form of the Greek name *Joannes*, itself derived from the Hebrew name *Yochanan* meaning "Yahew is gracious", from the roots *yo* referring to the Hebrew god and *chanan* meaning "to be gracious".
* **Sorrentino:** Derived from the town of Sorrento near Naples, called *Surrentum* in Latin, of unknown meaning.

## Notes

* Damon enjoys dancing
* Damon has a passion for cars. He owns a 2010 red Ferrari he fixes himself.
* Damon hates the 'Twilight' novels and movies.

## Appearance

### **Croatoan**

* Awakened (September 2018-December 2018)
* Confined (January 2019-May 2019)
* Bonded (September 2019-December 2019)
* Cured (January 2020-June 2020)
* Hunted (August 2020-December 2020)
* Haunted (January 2021-March 2021)
* Hostage (March 2021-May 2021)
* Unseen (September 2021-February 2022)
* Unhinged (June 2022-August 2022/July 2027)
* Unmasked (October 2027-May 2028)