Drake Bataya

### Killer Style

Vintage Victorian clothing is really my cup of tea– or should I say iced coffee. Lace and puffy sleeves and a tight-fitting vest really make me feel fangtastic!

### Monster Quirk

I simply can't stand the vampire lifestyle. Up all night and sleeping all day? No thank you!

### Pet

A pink and white dragon named Seedless! He's my bestie and confidant. I think he's privy to more gossip than Batsy and my diary combined!

### Favorite Activity

Hanging with my friends outside of classes!

### Biggest Pet Peeve

When monsters talk about each other behind each other's backs! Why not just say stuff to their faces?

### Fav School Subject

Dance! I love dancing with my fellow classmates as it feels so fun and freeing.

### Least Fav Subject

Clawculus, ugh. Don't get me wrong, I love everything about math. But the teacher made this class a nightmare!

### Favorite Color

Grapefruit pink! It's bright and brilliant, just like myself.

### Favorite Food

Iced coffee. Most vampires prefer blood, fruit vampires juice, but I'm a sucker for caffeine! A sweet pick-me-up is always the right medicine.

## Biography

### Personality

Drake is an all-around positive guy who loves to be doted upon. Confidence is key, and Drake Bataya is the locked door. The vampire spends his days laughing with friends or laughing at friends while driving around and looking for interesting things to spend his day doing. Despite his big head, Drake lacks self-control or simple intelligence when it comes to responsible things in life. This vampire is living life under his watch with no one telling him what to do.

### Appearance

Drake is a yellow vampire, taking after his father's sulfur-like appearance. He has spiky magenta hair with white streaks through it, streaks which are spotted black, similar to a dragon fruit's flesh. The tips of his nose, fingers, and ears, as well as the tips of his hair, are all touched with green, the same bright green as his eyes. He's got a pink heart underneath each eye in honor of his mother's classic look.

Drake wears a pink blouse with a darker pink vest on top of it and black pleather pants. His boots are knee-hight and covered in leather bows and straps with a high platform at the base. He’s always found with a pair of heart sunglasses either atop his head or on his eyes, regardless of the time of day.

### History

Like Draculaura and Cleo, Drake didn't start out as a monster.

Born in 310 AD, Drake was the only child of a poor family. They were happy, but money wasn’t plentiful and starvation began to take over the family. Scrambling for meals every day, it wasn’t long before Drake’s parents lost their lives trying to ensure their child would survive.

Found crying and alone in an alley, a kind woman swooped in and gifted Drake with a swift bite to the neck, granting him immortality rather than death. Henceforth, Drake was given a lush life with a wonderfully large mansion to live in, a family that welcomed him with no questions asked, plenty of food, and the promise of a safe upbringing. At least for the beginning of his un-life.

While she wasn’t born in the state, Sangria Bataya grew up in modern-day Coasta Shrieka with her half-sister, Batriana Lune. The Bataya-Lune family was blessed with a plentiful fortune. At 18, Sangria had finally labeled herself a vampire philanthropist and began blessing citizens of her hometown with the money she was gifted as her weekly allowance. She would often travel out of the country, spreading the Bataya name and fortune elsewhere as it would improve the international impression of the small vampire clan. While on a trip out of her state, Sangria came across a young boy who was on the verge of death. Love in her heart, the vampire blessed the boy with Bataya blood and welcomed him into her family as her own son.

Years would pass, and at age 21, the Bataya-Lune family would be wreaked havoc upon by some unknown force. The mansion was burned to the ground with none of the family lost but all of their belongings and the majority of their riches were gone. Once again, Drake was gifted with poor luck. Thankfully, the Bataya-Lune family knew friends in high places and contacted the Batlow family, who were quite wealthy but had one request in order to provide the Batayas their fortune: a wife for their eldest child. Sangria’s sister Batriana quickly became enamored with one of her close friends, dating him quite soon after the accident, leaving Sangria as the only other option. Sangria's mother agreed, as long as her daughter would keep her maiden name.

So a loveless marriage was born. Sangria saddled with a child she loved and a man she was forced to marry. She persisted and eventually convinced her husband to move to Transylvania to be closer to her original vampire heritage and give Drake better school options.

At 13, Drake was placed in a strict vampire boarding school that Draco Batlow was a major sponsor of. It was miserable, but Drake persisted and learned to fit in with any group, as well as learn to find joy in the little things.

At age 17, Drake was transferred to Monster High at the terms of his mother, as she thought it would benefit him to be somewhere with his fellow monsters.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Mother

Sangria Bataya is a fruit vampire with very similar characteristics to her son. She has floor-length magenta hair with the underside as white with black spots all throughout it. Her skin is a pale pink color and her eyes are bright green. She wears a deep pink and black Victorian-era gown that reaches the floor. She's a solid two feet shorter than her husband, standing at 4’2” and requiring her to often stand on a stool or box when having a family portrait taken. She is most connected with her son, having sent him letters while he was attending boarding school and making it her sole focus to transfer him to Monster High, at the permission of her husband.

#### Father

Draco Bataya is a greatly deformed and animalistic vampire with yellow fur and black, beady eyes. Some say he transformed to a bat at a young age and was never able to fully transform back. He dons a black, formal Victorian-era suit, torn at the legs and sleeves in order to accommodate his wings and oddly shaped legs. Draco was an incredibly strict parent and never developed a well-formed relationship with his son. The two rarely speak and when they do it's in short sentences and passive-aggressive remarks. Sangria has accepted the fact her husband and child will never get along and doesn't do much to help with the tension between the two.

### Friends

#### Elissabat

Living in Transylvania was a tough adjustment. Living in a private mansion for so long with a lot of isolation left Drake with few friends. Luckily, Elissabat was the daughter of a high-ranking vampire, which meant Draco allowed his son to see her. Hanging out in the shared courtyard every weekend, Elissabat and Drake became close friends quickly.

Both would complain about the duties they had to their families and Elissabat would soon share her dreams to be a Hauntlywood star and Drake would express his dream to just leave his father’s home.

As they grew apart, the pair would separate until Draculara’s discovery that Elissabat was the Vampire Queen would bring Drake and Elissabat back together, once again complaining every weekend about the expectations on their shoulders. History always seems to repeat itself.

#### Kieran Valentine

After Draculara’s Sweet 1600 fiasco, Kieran Valentine would be on his way out of Monster High before bumping into the shorter teenager, nearly avoiding his lunch as it was expelled at the stench of the emotional vampire. Arguing about each other, the angry comments soon became a conversation about what had happened, an apology meant for Draculaura, and an exchanging of iCoffin numbers so they might keep in touch while Kieran went in search of a cure for the eternal stench’s curse.

Once he met (and fell head over heels for) Spelldon Cauldronello, Kieran and Drake would text daily about their individual love lives, both glad Kieran could come to terms with his true self and find love in a monster who truly reciprocated it.

Whenever he’s in need of a pick-me-up, Drake calls up his beastie and gets advice from Kieran and his wonderful boyfriend.

#### Batsy Claro

Living in modern-day Coasta Shrieka meant Drake was bound to meet at least one other monster there and meet a monster he did! Batsy, a white vampire bat, approached young Drake one day, speaking fluent Spanish assuming the boy did, too. He didn’t. But through the power of friendship and being children, both monsters communicated mostly using gestures and some words that Drake was able to understand in both Spanish and English, as well as learning a few new words he would repeat back to his new friend.

When he eventually moved to Transylvania, Drake mourned the fact he may never see Batsy again. When he finally found her again during her exchange program at Monster High, the two were thrilled to see each other again and now be able to communicate in the same language! They’re absolute beasties and do nearly everything together. They see each other as siblings rather than friends, really.

### Romance

#### Jackson Jekyll/Holt Hyde

During his first few days at Monster High, Drake was introduced to plenty of monsters, but one that stuck out was Jackson Jekyll, who wasn’t a monster at all! Absolutely baffled at this, Drake began talking to several other students about his heritage (gossipy, yes, but asking Jackson felt too weird!) and learned he wasn’t entirely human.

Invited to Draculaura’s Sweet 1600, Drake was introduced to the DJ, Holt Hyde. Drake was informed that Jackson and Holt were one and the same, more or less. Further intrigued, Drake made his way over to Holt as the party went on and introduced himself to the monster.

The pair found a lot of similarities with each other, ending up coupled at the end of the night, dancing their hearts out on the dancefloor.

The following morning in clawculus, Jackson turned around to talk with Drake and inform him that Holt told him about Drake and that he’d be thrilled to take him on a date of some sort. Grinning, Drake happily accepted and the two (three?) went on a picnic, getting to know each other more until Jackson let Holt out and he got to tell Drake more about himself.

By the end of the month, Drake, Jackson, and Holt were in a happy sort-of-throuple with the school in unanimous support.

## Gallery

Original artwork of Drake, made by meDraco Batlow and Sangria Bataya portrait, made by meSelfie of Batsy Claro and Drake Bataya togetherFirst draft of Drake Bataya
## Trivia

* Drake speaks some Spanish after living in Costa Shrieka for the first few years of his life. Some.
* Drake is polyamorous and identifies as gay
* His name comes from a further look at the term for dragon fruit. Drake, from dragon, and Bataya from pitaya, the other name for dragon fruit, mixed with "bat" for the vampire touch
* He is distant relatives with Draculaura but her family doesn't reach out to Drake's
* His birthday is October 28th
* Drake is 5'9"
* His fingers have black nail polish on them