Darius Kleiza

Darius Kleiza (Character roleplayed by Sugar)

**Darius Kleiza** is a Vampire of Lithuanian and Columbian descent. He was raised in the Viceroyalty of New Granada (currently Columbia) as the son of two people pretending to be human. He's been living in the mortal world keeping the secret of his vampirism for over 200 years working as a Nocturnist.

## Biography

### Early childhood

Darius Kleiza was born to Austra Palencia and Tauras Kleiza, two vampires who kept their supernatural abilities a secret. They attended Olympus Academy and despite warnings about the human world they entered it willingly. Darius is the youngest child of five. He has one brother and three older sisters. Darius and Dalia are the second set of twins after eldest twins; Marius and Monika. He was born into a family of animal lovers, from activists to breeders the Kleiza's come in every form. His father trained police and service dogs and his mother was an emotional support animal trainer specifically.

He found out about supernatural beings before he found out his parents were vampires and he was as well. His bloodline was rife with supernaturals, on both sides, from shifters and nymphs to families of telepaths. Most were given away as babies and adopted into similar families, their names forever lost to the Kleiza dynasty. Darius was not the first in his immediate family to show abilities due to his supernatural inheritance, his siblings were. His elder sister Irene was the first to display any level of bloodlust. The children had been kept satiated by Austra secretly dosing any "meal" with blood.

In 1825 Irene began stalking and killing for herself. She was partial to animals which was unnerving to her parents. They preferred to do the killing as they were far more skilled at it. However nothing could be done once the children learned what they were. Darius and the rest of his siblings followed suit and began to hunt and kill for themselves as well. They badly needed the experience if they ever hoped to survive in the mortal world as their parents had chosen to do. The efforts of the Kleiza children left their parents to make excuses for the messes they always left behind. Irene was the worst of their troubles.

### Olympus Academy Years

He attended Olympus Academy as his parents had many, many years ago. Her felt unwelcome due to his partiality to doing human activities and behaving as one. At Olympus Academy Darius learned to better hone his abilities, he also learned his parents had taught him nothing. He was shunned by other Vampires including the fledglings. He was mocked for all of his human interests and he was labeled as an outcast for his lack of skill and knowledge. He made up for his short coming by studying harder than everyone else. He worked intensely to prove that he was meant to be at Olympus Academy and when he graduated he was top of his class.

## Adult Life

After Olympus Academy he began his enrollment into a University that would be accepting of his unique situation. His sister Irene became mentally incapacitated from wrestling injuries sustained while working for an amateur women's wrestling promoter in Lithuania. She suffered from numerous injuries that left her without the use of her limbs her refusal to take in human blood being the reason. Darius had completed his entrance exams prior to receiving the news. His studies at Columbia University had already begun and he had a long way still to go in his six year long stint to become an attorney.

Irene's diagnosis motivated him to work harder in school, he intended to learn specifically what the law could do for his elder sister. He graduated from Columbia University and used his degree to secure financial support for his sister in the human world. Following his lone effort of have his ailing sister provided for he went on to study medicine at Harvard in the hopes that he could find some sort of way of healing her the mortal way. He secretly began dosing Irene with human blood the way his parents had done for him and his siblings as they were growing up. It did wonders for her and she was able to recover.

## Physical description

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**Species:**
Vampire

**Gender:**
Male

**Height:**
6' 1"

**Hair colour:**
Brown

**Eye colour:**
Blue/Green

**Skin colour:**
Light Medium

## Personality and traits

Darius has always been more friendly with animals than with people. He finds all of his creature companions much easier to understand than even his own siblings. He in under the impression he can commune with them telepathically, despite that he speaks to animals directly and by name out loud as one would with another human person. He gets caught up in his work and he can be absentminded. He'll never forget to keep up with his hygiene, but he does forget to eat. He can be terrible with dates and he'd likely forget his own birthday if he didn't have one or more of his siblings wishing him a happy personal new year. He's very professional, he always dresses to impress no matter who he's trying to gain favor with. He even wears his fanciest garb while he's working with animals knee or even neck deep in mystery muck. He was taught about his impression on others and the importance of a well put together ensemble.

## Magical abilities and skills

* Vampiric Abilities

* Medical Knowledge
* Legal Knowledge
* Fish Breeding
* Animal Care
* Gardening

## Possessions

* Pocket Watch
* Pets: Dog & Tiger
	+ Dog: Jacin Beagal
	+ Tiger: Toni Bengal Tiger

## Etymology

* Darius: Etymological English transliteration of the Persian name Dariush meaning "he possesses" or "rich and kingly".
* Kleiza: Lithuanian word for “flax”.