Declan Taranto

**Declan Taranto** is the son of two vampires; Lucien Taranto and Josette Taranto - two vampires. His birth is often seen as miraculous by certain occult circles largely the vampire community as he is the only offspring between two vampires.

## History

His parents were desperate to have their own biological child but was restricted by their undead nature and so sought out a mystical solution to their problems. Over several years they had their own personal coven of witches develop a ritual and incantation to enable Josette to become pregnant by Lucien's seed.

They ventured to a small town as the ritual required them to gather in the woods at an exact angle from the moon with a stone mortar/pestle filled with the blood of a virgin human female of mature age and the blood of a "non-innocent" human male. The strongest witch of the coven channeled power from the others linking themselves together while also invoking lunar deities. She tapped into dark magic and cast an "ugly" spell; "In Unum Edito, Dominus Sae Domina. Cuplas Sino Liberos" (repeat). Suddenly, a tornado of fire erupted from the mortar before retreating back down before the coven collapsed from the effort. The couple drank the blood elixir and Lucien told Josette they had a 24hr hour window to copulate until their efforts were done in vain.

Lucien and Josette made way to a small candle-lit area of the woods complete with a luxurious bedspread and wine where they conceived Declan.

The pregnancy only lasted 5 months and during that time Josette craved massive amounts of blood with Lucien having to steal the entire supply of blood bags from several hospitals as well as numerous individuals taken from the streets at night just to suffice her hunger. She later gave birth at their estate after eight hours of labor where he was born healthy but silent and supposedly did not cry his entire infancy.

He aged rapidly and so did his mental maturity quickly becoming a typical teenager though with dark impulses. His parents enrolled him in a Manhattan school but transferred him to a private vampire boarding house after killing most of his year at a party where he lost control.

At boarding school, he met his first love "Romeo" who was his roommate. They had a date involving watching Netflix in their shared dorm which led to making out which led to intercourse. 1 week later, when his parents visited to have brunch with him he was outed as gay by his roommate by accident.

*TBA*

## Physical Appearance

He appears as a young caucasion male in his mid teens or so with brown hair that occasionally have blonde highlights, a slim build, stands at around 5 foot 7 possibly 5 foot 8 inches, and dark brown eyes.

Whenever he is overwhelmed by powerful feelings such as extreme hunger, fear, or anger his face become pale, and blood rushes into the veins surrounding his eyes, darkening them tremendously. Declan's canine teeth will extend into fangs, giving him a more predatory look to scare off or threaten his prey and the sclera of his eyes also turn blood-red.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Rapid Aging:** Despite being a few months or so years old, Declan is physically a teenager having matured exceptionally fast.
* **Day Walking/Vampire weakness Immunity:** As the first and only of his kind, Declan is uniquely capable of surving direct skin exposure to UV rays with zero harmful effects. Decapitation cannot kill him, neither can fire though Hellfire is possible, heart removal will not end him, wood bullets/stakes cannot kill him as well as dead man's blood being ineffective against him. Magical spells have little effect on Declan with him possessing a resistance toward a witches power due to the origin of his existence.
* **Super Strength:** Declan possesses vastly superior levels of physical strength compared to humans and other supernatural beings even possessing enough strength to overpower some angels and demons. It was stated that his strength may very well be comparable to that of the Alpha Vampire but it is unknown if it will grow overtime like normal vampires. While fighting Sam Winchester, Declan threw him against a concrete pole with enough force to crack it and was able to completely overpower and ragdoll the winchester despite being at the pinnacle of human fitness.
* **Blood:** His blood harbors negative side effects if ingested by witches with it negating their ability to cast spells and if a vampire consumes it their wounds will be healed signifcantly faster than on their own for unknown reasons.
	+ **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.
		- **Sire-Bond:** Whenever Declan turns a human into a vampire, a psychic and emotional bond is created between the two. The human will become sexually attracted to and have sexual dreams about him. He, in turn, will be able to sense the location, emotions and state of the newly turned. The turned Vampire cannot refuse Declan's commands.
* **Super Speed:** He is much faster than humans and other supernatural beings appearing as a visible blur in motion when running.
* **Super Agility:** As a vampire, Declan possesses more superhuman agility, flexibility, and dexterity than humans and normal vampires. He can move, jump, climb, and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion.
* **Super Durability:** Declan can take far more physical trauma than humans and other supernatural beings without experiencing much discomfort or injury.
* **Immortality:** Declan will not physically age after reaching his prime and is immune to all illnesses, toxins, poisons, and diseases.
	+ **Self-Resurrection:** Whenever Declan "dies" AKA is stabbed by wood or another traditional vampire weakness, he goes into a hibernation-like death state, where despite his heart-stopping, Declan's blood continues to flow and cells continue to function normally.
		- **Healing Factor:** Injuries inflicted onto his body heal vastly faster than humans and other monsters.

#### "Old Powers"

Despite his young age, Declan possesses numerous rare vampire powers reserved only for those centuries older than himself.

* **Dream Manipulation:** He could control dreams and one's subconscious through physical contact enabling Declan to produce and modify dreams, bestow nightmares or lucid dreaming. Other effects of this ability is the distortion of reality and trapping someone in their dreams.
* **Limited Flight:** Declan is capable fo drying gravity to leviate in the air and produce some flying ability.

## Weaknesses

1. **Invitation:** In order to enter any house owned by humans, Declan has to be invited by a resident. Once invited it cannot be rescinded unless ownership of the house is changed.
2. **Cure to vampirism:** While is is unknown what would happen if Declan took the cure to vampirism seeing as he wasn't turned as his heart naturally produces it from birth. Two scenarios have been imagined; 1. where it doesn't work and the other where it kills him. However, due to drinking blood the cure cannot work on him.
3. **The Colt:** As it can kill all but a few in existence, Declan is presumably vulnerable to the bullets fired by the colt.
4. **Witchcraft:** Despite his status and general immunity, magic can still effect him in some ways.
5. **Silver:** Weapons made of silver can harm him with them taking longer to heal. Mirrors with a backing made of silver prevent Declan's reflection from being seen.
6. **Werewolf venom:** The venom from a werewolf or werewolf hybrid is extremely lethal to vampires. It acts as an poison of sorts that will enter the bloodstream and deliver the toxin throughout the body, producing discomfort and weakness, developing uncontrollable hunger that progresses to delusions, hallucinations, rabid rage, and dementia, culminating in death. However, in Declan's case it cannot kill him but he still suffers all the other symtoms but recovers afterward.
7. **Wood:** Though it cannot kill him, he can be weakened and subdued by a wooden stake.
8. **Higher Beings:** Entities such as Primordial/cosmic beings, angels, demons, hybrids, and etc hold power over Declan being able to kill him. Though this is limited as lower angels he can overpower.
9. **Demon Blood:** Vampires including Declan are incapable of drinking the blood of demons or even humans with demonic genes as the infernal energy burns his throat upon contact.