Vlad III

**Vlad III**, also known as **Vlad the Impaler**, is the legendary Voivode of Wallachia, considered to be one of the most important figures in Wallachian history and a national hero of Romania. He also serves as the inspiration behind the infamous Count Dracula in popular media.

He is a member of Zadkiel's Deck, holding the position of Queen of Clubs ♣.

## Overview

**Count Dracula** is the title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic horror novel *Dracula.* He is considered to be both the prototypical and the archetypal vampire in subsequent works of fiction. He is also depicted in the novel to have been the origin of werewolf legends. Some aspects of the character are believed to have been inspired by the 15th-century Wallachian Prince **Vlad the Impaler**, who was also known as Dracula.

## Appearance

Vlad appears as a handsome man in his 30s with exceptionally pale skin. He has cold and striking silver-blue eyes and long silk-like platinum-blond hair that faded into a teal color at the tips. He also wears two small earrings and has a goatee.

He gives off an overwhelming presence, causing ceaseless trembling to anyone wherever he happens to look. This does not stem from fear due to a violent nature, however, but rather from the revelations of those who are exposed to his cold gaze as they recognize themselves as "hopelessly weak and powerless existences before him".

He dressed in a royal fashion, consisting mainly of dark-colored clothing. He wears a black coat with gold embroideries with a long dark-blue tunic underneath, the ends of his coat and sleeves are trimmed with dark-colored fur, black dress pants, and Dragon's hide boots. According to Issei, he reminded him of a combination of a fantasy vampire, a medieval warlord, a professional model, and the godfather.

Like all Reincarnated Angels, he has multiple pairs of large, feathered wings, each with a wingspan of roughly 3-meters in length, in order to demonstrate his position among the “Angels of the Lord”. In his case, particularly, he possesses a total of six dark-blue, almost black, feathered-bat wings, similar to that of a Demon. Numerous glowing bright-blue eyes are scattered across his wings, each placed near the tip of each feather, though they are usually hidden using illusions.

According to Gasper, his current appearance is greatly different from his historical portraits back in the Tepes Faction's territory, where he was depicted as a bear-like figure, with a thin and reddish face, a strong aquiline nose with swollen nostrils, wide-opened dark-green eyes, black curly locks and bushy eyebrows that made him more terrifying, and swollen temples which increased the bulk of his head. However, Irina had explained that due to an additional power of the Brave Saints, which is to beautify the user to become what they believe to be the "epitome of beauty" in their eyes, it can be assumed that this current appearance of his was the result of his Brave Saint.

## Personality

Although there exists an aura of danger around him that alarms even the most ignorant of mundane of his presence, Vlad possesses a rather modest and considerate personality in comparison to other members of the royal Tepes Clan. Though often, his opinion and unrestrained manner of expression easily lend to the impression that he is a sociopath who has disengaged himself from the standard molds of society, which he himself acknowledged and claims that it "isn't so far from the truth".

In spite of his serious appearance, he does have a sense of humor, albeit rather dark and morbid. And due to his cold personality, most people tend to get confused on whether he is joking or not. He is also rather snarky and sarcastic, which is most obviously shown through his annoyance everytime his temmates or King do something he considers idiotic.

While only being second-in-command, he is collectively known as the actual leader of the entire Deck by both the Brave Saints and the Seraphim, including Zadkiel, much to his irritation, as while he doesn't mind leading the Brave Saints, he hates the necessary paperwork that his King pushed him to do.

As shown in Chapter XXX, he has a kinder and overprotective side to him, mostly reserved for his son and daughter, though he claims he also cares about his Deck as a family. He cares about them more than anything and puts them above all else, including him or others.

## Weaknesses

### Harming, Trapping, & Banishing

* **Witchcraft**: As witchcraft is a form of magic wielded by witches to oppose beings of heavenly nature, Dominations such as Vlad are susceptible by witchery. There are many witchery spells and rituals that can be used to trap, weaken, and hurt him, with some rituals even rumored to be capable of banishing him back to Heaven for an extended amount of time.
* **Enochian Magick**: As Enochian Magick can affect all angelic beings, regardless of their alignments, it is capable of affecting a powerful Angel like Vlad.
* **Powerful Waves of Energy**: Vlad, like many other heavenly beings, can be hurt by powerful waves of energy. However, for a Domination like him to receive serious damage from the attack, it will require what can only be described as a sun going supernova in order to generate an energy wave of such proportion.
* **Brain Penetration**: Angels like Vlad can be stunned and immobilized for several centuries by placing large spikes made out of sacred metals inside of their brain as a means of temporarily sealing them.
* **Celestial Weapons**: Weapons made out of sacred metals, such as Celestial Bronze or Imperial Gold, can be used against the majority of supernatural beings, including Angels such as Vlad. However, to make serious damage onto him, it would require a weapon made out of sacred metals of the highest quality and craftsmanship.
	+ **Demonic Weapons**: Weapons bearing the demonic traits are extremely effective against heavenly beings such as Angels and Fallen Angels, which includes a Domination like him.

### Killing

* **Destruction of Heart**: Due to him being a Reincarnated Angel and not a Pure Angel, Vlad's body still needs to rely on its heart to act as a "core" for their angelic angelic to form his corporeal form. Therefore, if his heart is destroyed through any means, his body will fade away into pure angelic power.
* **Divine Weapons**: The divine weapons of the pagan gods, which are crafted from sacred metals and are imbued with their wielder's divinity, can be used to harm heavenly beings like Vlad.
* **Enochian Weapons**: Vlad can be killed using weapons made out of Enochian metals.
	+ **Angel Blade:** Like other angelic entities, he can be killed if the user used his own Angel Blade as the weapon, incinerating his physical body and leaving a burned imprint of his twelve wings on the floor where his body lies.
	+ **Original Longinus**: As the original Longinus are the original Sacred Gears, created from the highest-quality Enochian metals and forged in the Heavenly Forges with the greatest of Enochian technology, in addition to being imbued with the Biblical God's divine light, those with enough skills and experience can absolutely and permanently killed Vlad, to the point where he can never be reborn or resurrected again.
* **Faustian Weapons**: Vlad can be killed using weapons made out of Faustian metals.
* **Primordials' Weapons**: Weapons created and wielded by primordial entities can be used to permanently and absolutely obliterate every and any being in existence but other primordial entities, erasing their entire existence from the worlds so that they can never be reborn, or resurrected again without being saved by God's omnipotence.

## Trivia

* His birthday is on November 10th.
* He likes high-quality wine, garlic bread, and knitting.
	+ He dislikes idiotic subordinates and incompetent employers above all else.
* He is the one who popularized the common vampiric weaknesses as revenge for being turned against his will.
* According to Indra, he is one of the thirteen people who had killed a god without having to result to a divine weapon or a Longinus.
* When he was alive, it was popular knowledge that his marriage with Carmilla was loveless and based entirely on mutual respect and political gains.
	+ According to him, he did, once, loved her but it soon died out due to him knowing she is a lesbian.