Sebastian Potkin

The Potkin Twins were born of a human woman and a vampire, Sebastian Potkin - which should not have been possible. It turns out that Sebastian is the son of Vanya Potkin, himself a Nosferatu, which made Sebastian's own birth supposedly impossible. It seems that Vanya was placed under a curse centuries ago by a vengeful witch which stated that not only would the hard-hearted Nosferatu fall in true love, but, his beloved would be fated to go insane and take her own life. Also, she would bear him a boy child - who would turn out to be everything that Vanya despised until the day Vanya would kill him... and that should Vanya be too cowardly to go through with taking the life of his only son, the curse would be passed down through the family line.

True to the curse, Vanya's lover, a British heiress named Rebecca, went mad and took her own life, just two years after Sebastian's birth. Sebastian, raised by Rebecca's doting, but somewhat dim older sister, Jane, and the apathetic and somewhat abusive household staff of his late mother's estate, grew up spoiled, avaricious and vain. he found out about his father's true nature and identity when he was twelve years old, and lived in both fear and fascination of vampires and nosferatu ever since, knowing his biological origins.

Vanya "killed' his son, Sebastian, on his 30th birthday, in self defense, as the young man fancied himself some sort of monster hunter, in anticipation of the day his errant father might come to claim him, but, at the last moment decided to "spare" him by turning him into a vampire... but it was technically too late. Sebastian was *already* everything Vanya hated - a decadent, hedonistic and vain prettyboy, which he remained for a solid century.

Worse yet, the one thing neither of the Potkin men felt they had to worry about was their family line succumbing to the curse, as Sebastian had never gotten serious about any women he'd met and, naturally, bedded in a full hundred years... until he met a bartender named Patricia Van Zant.

Patricia herself was secretly a practicioner of sorcery. A novice, sure, but still somewhat powerful. She'd taken a liking to Sebastian when he began frequenting the rather gothy nightclub where she worked. She'd slipped a few choice "herbs and spices" as she liked to call them, into Sebastian's drink. Just aphrodisiacs, but, they did their job. Sebastian was one hell of a lover, and so was she, thus, after their inital tryst, they kept coming back to each other for more. And talking. Growing close. It seemed that they'd had a lot in common. For the first time in his long life, Sebastian Potkin had fallen in true love with a living woman and somehow (the magic of the curse) impregnated her. It was almost immedately that Patricia began to act a little... off. Seeing things. Speaking to people who weren't there. Drastically attempting to change her appearance every day or two, swearing that there were unseen people spying on her. Sebastian lived in fear of the curse for nine months until his lover, Patricia Van Zant, gave birth to twins. Twin GIRLS, both of which she named after herself, as they were born at high noon, and Sebastian was unable to get to the hospital to oversee the birth. Sebastian was utterly relieved, feeling that, at least, since he'd had twins instead of an only child, both of whom were female, that the curse was broken. His relief dissipated, months later, the first time Patricia tried to kill herself by jumping from the window of her 16th floor apartment. Sebastian saved her life, but, realized that she was in the throes of the curse's madness, regardless of the birth of his children. He had her committed to an asylum in Aberdeen, Washington and, contemplated giving his girls up for adoption. Vanya convinced him to keep them for their own sake, as supernatural forces were responsible for their birth and their lives would probably never be "normal". They were, after all, his responsibility. Vanya did this, not out of family loyalty, but, secretly to torment his hated son with the difficulty of fatherhood's responsibility. Sebastian returned the favor in kind by moving out of his basement apartment in Seattle and into the shuttered suburban house that Vanya occupied, with squalling babies in tow.