a cat by day...

Lenore Bavarois

...a vampire by night.

Elements are being pulled from:Castlevania [Game & Animated-verse]
Vampire: The Masquerade
Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft [Dungeons & Dragons]
Encyclopedia Eorzea I & II [Final Fantasy XIV]
The absolute thought web that is my brain

About

NAME: Lenore Bavarois
AGE: 200+, Appears in early 30s
RACE: Wildwood Elezen / Dhampir [Half Elven / Half Vampire]
NAMEDAY: 3rd Sun of the 3rd Astral Moon [May 3rd]
GENDER: Female
ORIENTATION: Pansexual
HEIGHT: 5 ft / 152.4 cm
PHYSIQUE: reletively short for an Elezen, slender, pallid skin
HAIR: Red
EYES: Red
LIKES: tea, wine, cats, books
DISLIKES: fire, water
POSITIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS:
Loyal to a fault
Hopeless aristocratic romantic
Extremely curious about everything
NEGATIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS:
Extremely impulsive
Easily Distracted (often said to be "away with the fae")
Melodramatic and Needy.
HOMELAND: Ishgard
CURRENTLY RESIDES: Gridania [house], Ishgard [Apartment/Office]
JOBS: Astrologian

Lenore's Cat Form

ABILITIES:Daywalker - Lenore is able to be out in the sun without harm for longer periods than a full-blooded vampire. While the sun may not outright kill her, it still hurts and will kill her if outside long enough!Shapeshifting - Lenore has a cat formSuperhuman Senses - Being half-vampire, Lenore's senses are heightened, with her best ability being extended night-visionSpider Climb: Lenore is able to walk up walls without issue and even hang off the ceilingBlood Bond: Upon drinking someone's blood, Lenore can choose to Blood Bond with them, in which she has a heightened sense to where they are in the world and how they are feeling.WEAKNESSES:Pretty peopleForbiddance: Lenore is unable to enter a residential home without an invitation.Running Water: Water is similar to acid and it B U R N S.

Background

We begin in a pre-calamity Ishgard. Cyprian and Josseline Bavarois are expecting a child. This child becomes known as Lenore. Fire red hair of her mother, and the striking crimson eyes of her father.Cyprian was a full-fledged vampire. Eras old. Powerful. A being of taboo amid Ishgard, so he kept a low profile as to not cause a ruckus. Josseline, an Ishgardian Elezen woman, a chiurgeon serving under House Haillenarte.Lenore's childhood was largely normal, as normal as a Dhampir's childhood within a heretic-fearing city could be that is. Her parents oft played her off as a sickly child so her exposure to others was limited. Once old enough, she joined her mother in her duties mostly bringing dying or sickly patients comfort that did not otherwise have individuals to visit them. Lenore become well-renowned for her singing voice and was praised often when the dying passed peacefully to the Aetherial Sea.Years pass, something finally snaps in Cyprian. Burdened by the pressure of the small underground vampire circle to turn his wife, he chooses to slay her instead.Enraged by this, Lenore leaves Ishgard for Gridania, where she takes up studying becoming a conjurer and a botanist.The Creeping Death strikes and with it, brings a particularly handsome Alchemist from Ul'dah with a cure.Lenore becomes fascinated with him and his work that then was considered taboo, the two eventually forming a bond.Over the years, the two's bond deepens, and they eventually marry.Life is peaceful for them, until the realization of Lenore will outlive her beloved. She watches a young 24 year old man become old, grey, sickly. He does not live to see the destruction of the Seventh Umbral Calamity, and she buries him beneath the snows of Coerthas, vowing to recover and protect his work.The work slowly and surely recovered, she disguises it amid tomes she's written herself. Works that would bring many to the blush, Lenore was a master of her art, though boredom was starting to set in.Up until this point, Lenore hadn’t read any of her late husband’s research, and the tome she picked that day would turn her life upside down.She was always told she was a frail child, kept out of the sun and fed copious amounts of wine.Lenore was a vampire.This was understandably frightening and she dropped the tome to her desk. In that same vein though, it made sense.She opted for some air, Ishgard’s cold familiarity seeping into her bones. The Astrologicum was hosting divination readings, a welcome distraction. Eventually, Jannequinard convinced her to join the Astrologians. If only to cease the man who seems to like the sound of his own voice.Lenore thanked him for his time and would return later to begin training formally.Still a bit dazed, Lenore’s eyes caught an advertisement on a nearby building, an entertainment venue by the name of The Inkwell was to be opening later that week, in the evening within the Goblet. Making a mental note of it, Lenore returned to her modest dwelling. Back to pouring over studies and research. Come to find out, she could shift! Without proper training however, it was awkward and wouldn’t stick very long in the beginning.Holding the shape of a black and white fluffy cat. This form she discovered also helped avoid sun sickness. She could day walk as a cat outdoors!

The appointed day and hour came and Lenore found herself standing before the doors of the venue. She watched several people push past her before she found her bravery and entered.The lively atmosphere shell shocked the otherwise quiet life individual but she was polite enough and thanked the host for her welcome. The surface thoughts of the patrons were overwhelming and she quickly found herself retreating to the lower floor.Here she would become face to face with Yorn Graves, an elven bard with an aura of sadness, but a man wholly dedicated to his musical craft all the same. She tucked herself into one of the back booths to listen clutching a glass of red wine ordered from one of the waitstaff.Lenore would return here weekly between her studies, eventually becoming brave enough to sit on the couch in front of the stage. Here, white eyes met crimson, and Lenore’s face soon matched her hair.The man was strikingly handsome and Lenore was soon finding feelings she thought she had buried in the snows with her first husband.The two agreed to meet alone in a later evening, they shared a kiss and Lenore would fall this man, literally and figuratively.Their courting however, was not easy. The two of them were quite frightened to love again, for completely different reasons. There was teetering of emotions, and one of them was bound to hit a nerve in the other.

Eventually though, the dam had broken, and they spoke of their troubles. Lenore was afraid of outliving someone again and Yorn was riddled of guilt, grief and anger of being used.The two spend what feels like an eternity in silence, processing what had been told between them. Tears give way to kisses, touches, lovemaking.

A few months pass and the duo settle into a comfortable routine. Yorn would go answer Ishgard’s call or to perform at the Inkwell and Lenore would find herself wandering the streets of Ishgard, peering into windows as a cat. She would bring him home stories like “Oh yeah, Ghislain is totally cheating on his wife.”Eventually Yorn would introduce his two adoptive children, Alphinaud and Alisaie. Lenore bonds almost immediately with Alisaie, but Alphinaud being a bit more reserved, took a bit more time to warm up. The twins explained the story of Yorn taking them in, and Lenore understood in a way, “Yeah, my Father was a right bastard too.” She held up her hand in an oath, “As your newly adoptive Mother, not yet by Bonding mind you, I vow to treat you with the respect you deserve.”It was at that time, Lenore finally had a loving family unit.Date night comes for the couple, and they find themselves pouring into the Forgotten Knight to get out of the cold. Gibrillont offers them drinks as they cuddle together near the fireplace.They accept graciously, and after a few moments, Yorn takes Lenore’s hand in his, proclaiming his love for her. To her shock, he assures her he makes every intention of Bonding himself to her, she would just have to wait a bit.She asks if he is certain, given his past, but he assures her his heart is true. She accepts his proposal, and as a promise he slips an Ishgardian Knights’ Ring on her finger, adorned with House Fortemps’ Unicorn sigil.It's a little big, but with some magic, it fits.Weeks later, Lenore did not make it home. A stray street dog cornered her. Bit her face. A tall, armor-clad woman with an opposing figure happening to catch the altercation, scruffed the dog with ease, sending it yelping in a panic. The frightened and bleeding cat gazed up at the armored woman, visibly weakened but she knew she couldn’t drop shape. A true test of her own training.The woman would scoop her up and bring her to the room she was renting within the Forgotten Knight, tending to the bite Lenore sustained to her face. With some rest she heals quickly and the woman finds herself being awoken by the cat yowling to be let out hours later. Curious. The woman obliges and opens the door. The cat darted back out onto the streets of Ishgard. Intrigued, the woman decides to follow her, eventually coming across a home with a window open, in which the cat climbs into, obscuring from view.There’s surface thoughts of joy and relief coming from the house. An adult and two young people.The woman then knocks on the door. A few seconds pass, and Lenore now in vampire form answers. This mysterious woman introduces herself as Striga and asks after the cat.To the woman’s shock, Lenore drops the glamour on her face, exposing the scarring. Lenore was the cat she saved. Striga then pieces together why she couldn’t read Lenore’s surface thoughts. “You’re also a child of the night.”, she said. “There’s others like me?” Lenore asks, “Not a lot, but we exist.”Lenore thanks Striga for saving her, and invites her out to the Inkwell. Perhaps it’d be a good opportunity for Lenore to learn something from an older, full-blooded being of her kind.On a particular Inkwell night, Lenore finds herself a couch companion. Striga noticing this, begins making her way over. Lenore however, raises her hand in "I'm in no threat, yet."The companion introduces herself as Skarlette Renaud, an exiled Dragonsong War Veteran. "Finally I have a face to the name Ishgard has been gossiping about..." Lenore replied sadly, a heavy frown crossing her features.Skarlette winced, preparing for more brash words, but the Dhampir simply took the other woman's hand and squeezed it, "I have no ill will against you, dear. If Ishgard found out about me..." she paused, exposing her fangs. "I'd be dead, too. As would my guardian." Lenore motions to Striga leaning against a nearby wall, looking more relaxed.The two women eventually find themselves bonding over tea and coffee biscuits, Lenore keeping Skarlette apprised of Ishgard's goings-on once she returned after the reconstruction.Skarlette shortly after would recieve word her exile was lifted, and was allowed to home in Ishgard once more.She asks Lenore and Striga to stay with her for safety and the two women agree, Lenore already having her writing office in an Ingleside Apartment anyway.

Relationships

Yorn Graves [Fiancé / Romantic Partner]

Do you like angsty, slow-burn relationships? THEN I HAVE THE 'SHIP FOR YOU!A Vampire "Princess" and her Knight, A Broody Bard and his ever faithful Listener.They're cute. They're awkward. They're working through stuff.You'll be at the edge of your seat as the lovebirds dance carefully around a "Will they? Won't they?"Spoiler Alert: They Do. They're Married.

Alphinaud and Alisaie Leveilleur [Family]

Lenore's adopted children through her fiancé.The twins were introduced to her one night. Alisaie warmed right up to her but Alphinaud respectfully took a bit more time.

Striga [Guardian / Friend]

Striga rescued a Cat-Lenore from a street dog one night. It was a pretty raucous battle that left scarring on Lenore's nose [that she glamours away while appearing as a Vampire.]Striga nursed the injured "cat" back to health, soon finding out Lenore's true nature when Striga asks after Cat-Lenore at the Graves residence.Soon after, Striga takes Lenore as a ward, guarding her from danger and in short, teaching the half-breed "how to vampire".

Skarlette Renaud [ Chosen Family / Friend]

An exiled Dragonsong War Veteran Lenore meets one night at the Inkwell.The two form a bond over hiding out from their homeland, eventually becoming chosen family.Skarlette often gives Lenore and Striga refuge in Ishgard when far from their own home.

Ardus Silverbane [Friend]

Ardus is one of Lenore's best friends and was one of the first people to find out about her true self.

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OOC

Kitty
30+ genderqueer they/them or she/her
EST Time Zone
Absolutely NO Minors✅ YES!
DMs
RP
SFW Collabs
WCIF Inquiries🚫 NO, THANK YOU.
ERP
NSFW Collabs
I rather keep both these things contained to my ship. thank you for understanding.character ≠ real life

Before You Follow / Do Not Interact

lf you're any kind of *phobic. I have a zero tolerance policy for your bullshitIf you use the terms "futa" or "trap" in describing your WOL / OC. Some trans people might find them okay but I personally find them to be super fetishizing and my gender identity is **NOT **a fetish!If you ship the Leveilleur twins or any underage NPC for that matter with your grown-ass adult WOL/OC/NPC