Ridley Cruz

**Ridley**, full (born) name; **Ridley** **Marcellus** **De Marigny**, chosen name **Ridley** **Cyrus** **Cruz**, was a powerful and old supernatural creature specifically a Vampire with witch heritage whose magic grew stronger in death becoming very formidable, hard to kill, and notorious throughout occult and vampiric circles.

## History

Sometime early in the year 1802, Ridley was born a secret "bastard" son of nobleman named Bernard De Marigny while he was married to Mary Ann Jones. His father had an affair with an unnamed female witch who Ridley later learnt her last name was "Cruz" thus making it his own in honour.

In the year 1811 Ridley's half brother, Antoine Jacques Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville, was born to his father's second wife and Ridley claimed he and his brother were seperated for much of the time which continued throughout his young adult life.

During the 1820s and his father's second marriage, Bernard served as President of the Louisiana State Senate; and, as there was no Lieutenant Governor, he was next in line of succession to Governor Thomas B. Robertson. His family held a lavish party complete with golden dinnerware. It was during this party where Ridley got drunk and was "whoring" himself out to the guests upstairs that he discovers his father's dirty dealings with creatures of the night where in exchange for gold Bernard would hide their vampiric secret and killings while providing them with ample opportunity for murder.

Shocked and terrified that such evil would exist, Ridley broke down crying in a panic where his step mother found him and discovered that he knew of Bernard's secret greedy mission. To offer him comfort, **Anna Mathilde Morales** gifted him a spellbook which belonged to her grandmother that contained powerful magicks.

Later, Ridley was seen entering a bathroom where male servants would attend to him ie; taking his rugged clothing off his body and pouring a hot bath before Ridley steps in and they begin to scrub him with soap. Suddenly, one of his father's vampire associates enter the room and orders the servants to leave while he clearly admires the transparent view of Ridley. Ridley recognises him from the other day and is surprised to see him, noticeably stuttering during his greeting. The vampire who is revealed to be named Ambrose sits beside the tub on the servant stool to engage in conversation stating that he knows Ridley knows their secret and that he can hear the young boys heart pounding as "if it were to jump out of you're [his] chest". Attempting to protect himself, Ridley vowed he would remain silent to which Ambrose merely commented "good... good" before biting into his neck turning the clear bathwater red. Using magic, Ridley managed to cut Ambrose slightly thereby making some of his blood drop into his mouth before his death.

However, due to dying with vampire blood in his system, Ridley was resurrected a day after being discovered by his step mother and being buried behind a red oak tree. Clawing his way out of his dirt grave, he experienced what he described as an unimaginable hunger being compelled to eat the first human he saw. Terrified and drenched in dirt and blood, he returned to his family plantation but found himself stuck at the door.

After a while seeing as his family revolted at his resurrection and wouldn't allow him to enter, Ridley fled the town and began travelling around basking in his newfound power yet limited by the daytime. As so, Ridley turned to the magical arts to find a solution and become more powerful.

According to himself, his family had erased almost all recorded proof of his existence.

At one point, Ridley challenged a local gentry to duels killing them easily with a revolver in a playful manner as though they have any chance of a fair fight. During this time, he stayed at a mansion he had killed the original owners of while sparing their sons to act as his personal servants both for entertainment purposes, for feeding, and to serve his every whim. When one of the boys attempted to stake him as Ridley slept, he retaliated by waking the others up to showcase Ridley throwing his wannabe murderer off the stairs all while naked with splinters in his chest.

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## Physical Appearance

He is a physically attractive man appearing to be around teenage years with a tall stature, blue eyes, slim yet athletic body, and light coloured hair.

## Powers and Skills

### Vampiric Nature

* **Immortality:** Once he was turned, he stopped aging and became immune to all conventional illness, diseases, viruses and infections.
	+ **Regeneration:** He possesses the ability to recover tissue from any form of physical damage to their bodies in seconds, but still feel the pain of a wound before it heals.
* **Super Strength:** As a vampire, he has greatly increased levels of physical strength being noticeably much stronger than human Hunters, werewolves (in human form), some monsters, and etc. Ridley is capable of overpowering men of larger size, break bones which include snapping necks, break bindings, and punching through bodies.
* **Super Speed:** He possesses enhanced levels of speed; able to accelerate his movements to cover short distances in an instant, faster than the human eye can see. When running across long distances, he appears as vibrating blurs of motion.
* **Super Agility:** Ridley possesses superhuman agility as he can move, jump very high, climb, and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion.
* **Siring:** Like most Vampires, he is capable of converting a human and a few other species into a vampire. He does this by draining their body of blood and feeding the person some of his own blood. The chosen then slumbers with no heart rate for any time between a few hours or a few days where upon awakening need to drink human blood.
* **Super Senses:** Ridley can see, smell, hear, taste and feel better than non-supernatural beings can.

### Magical Proficiency Level

1. Possibly 420-500.
2. Unknown

### Powers through spells

* **Magic Disruption Spell:** Using Voodoo to bind a powerful spell, he can temporarily suppress the magic of another witch or supernatural being so long as the totem remains intact. This could also be used in a more potent setting to rob a group of witches of their magic. The incantation he used was; "Arrêter majik sa à. Arrêter majik sa à. Arrêter majik sa à".
* **Shock Spell:** While he hasn't technically projected an electrical discharge, he has used "Surgere" to disrupt electromagnetic signals thereby causing cellphones to malfunction as well as lights.
* **Pyrokinesis:** Ridley had the ability to summon and control fire through gestures usually accompanied by spells. For example; " Inflammetur" was one of his most versatile spells capable of either spontenous combustion or precisely lightning candles/torches whereas "Ignari" would solely allow him to launch a fireball.
* **Possession:** Using Blood magic charged Voodoo channeled through an enchanted blade, he could transmit his soul into the body of another thus gaining control of them while the other soul is stored in his original body under the effects of a sleeping curse. The knife has to be intact for the spell to last but he could also willingly reverse the transference or if the mortal dies then his soul would return. The incantation of which was; "Cum sanguis animam deferat spasiti. Cum sanguis animam deferat spasiti. Somno". The reversal is; "Ex spiritum in takulum". A second version needed the target body to be unconscious and pumped with blood from Ridley which enabled him to utilise not only his witchcraft but also his vampire side. The incantation of which is; "Animam fit unus, sanguis recuerdo manus. De terra fieri" while the reversal was; "Anima scinditur, et reverto".
* **Blood Weapon Creation Spell:** By casting; "Krev jako sklo" and biting his arm, he could manipulate the blood to form a dagger-like weapon and harden it to become like glass.

### Abilities

* **Swordsman:**
* **Expert Artist:**
* **Multilingualism:**

## Weaknesses

1. **Stained Soul:** Due to his monster soul, when he possesses a mortal body, it would weaken and eventually decay the body resulting in death.
2. Cannot enter a house owned by the living without being invited in by a resident
3. **Wood:** Stakes or bullets made from wood, if they pierce his heart, can kill Ridley thereby making him combust and turn into ash. However, if they miss his heart no such lethal effect will be dealt but it still weakens and inflicts a great deal of pain to him even splinters.
4. Higher Beings
5. Magic
6. Stronger Witches
7. Stronger Vampires

## Quotes

> "*To commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal. It's a ritual sacrifice. With pie.*"
> ― Ridley about thanksgiving
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> "*You know how cute guys just naturally taste better?*"
> ― Ridley
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## Trivia

### Name

#### Ridley - Traditional

The name Ridley is primarily a gender-neutral name of English origin that means Reed/Wood Clearing.

Originally an English habitational surname for families who lived by a clearing in the woods.