Post by Aro on Jan 15, 2010 12:22:58 GMT -6
T H E V A M P I R E S
[/color][/size][/center]- Your Name (first only): “Carlo”
- Character Name: Aro
- Character Description (two sentences minimal) Aro is described as having almost translucent skin, and it is repeatedly compared to onion skin throughout the series. When Bella first meets Aro, she feels compelled to touch his skin to see if it is smooth and cold like Edward's or powdery like chalk. His hair is very long and jet black. When he moves, it appears as though he's floating. His eyes are a milky red color that has a tendency to unsettle people. This red is also due to his strict diet of human tourists.
- Character Image/Celeb Claim: Michael Sheen
- Character Age: 1006
- Character Coven: Volturi (leader)
- Spouse: Sulpicia
- Siblings: Didyme (deceased sister) Marcus (brother-in-law)
- Children: None
- Character History (two paragraphs):
Approximately a decade after having been transformed into a vampire, Aro also changed his sister Didyme, with hope that she would possess an ability akin to his. However, she was blessed with an ability not as useful to him; the power to make people happy. Aro's colleague Marcus fell in love with her, and she with him. However, Marcus and Didyme eventually became discontent being involved with Aro's rising organization, the Volturi. In order to prevent their leaving, Aro killed Didyme: Marcus was too integral to his plans to lose. Aro then had Chelsea use her ability to ensure Marcus remained loyal to the Volturi.
By 500 AD, the Volturi had usurped control of the vampiric world from the Romanian Coven. Aro ruled the Volturi, along with Marcus and Caius, although he generally acted as its spokesperson. The Volturi, under the three ancients' leadership, set down the laws of the vampire world and severely punished those who did not adhere to them.
Carlisle Cullen came to live with the Volturi for some time, and became close friends with Aro. However, Aro was alarmed at Carlisle's preference to "vegetarianism", and believed that this would only weaken him over time. Carlisle eventually left to find other vampires like himself.
At one point, Edward Cullen, one of Carlisle's adopted children, comes to the Volturi. Edward was deeply depressed because he believed his love, Bella Swan, had committed suicide, and as such was himself suicidal. Aro is interested in Edward’s ability to read minds from a distance, and tries to recruit him to join the Volturi instead, saying it would be a waste to kill him. He later meets Bella, after she and Alice prevent Edward's suicide attempt. He is both surprised and intrigued in Bella's ability to block Edward's powers, and even more intrigued when she resists his and Jane's powers. He allows Edward to take Bella back to Forks only after Alice shows him in a vision that Bella will eventually be transformed into a vampire.
Alice allows Aro to touch her, therefore reading her mind, so he can see the vision of the future she has had of Bella as a vampire. It is described by Edward that Aro searches through not only the vision of Bella, but much more, delving deeply into Alice's mind so he ends up "knowing her better than she knows herself." He is described as seeming "enthralled" and "delighted" by her talent, and Edward mentions in Breaking Dawn that there's nothing Aro wants more than Alice's power.
Sometime after Bella is transformed, she receives a necklace from Aro, supposedly from the English crown jewels. Alice had mailed the Volturi an announcement for Bella and Edward's wedding, and Aro in return sends Bella the necklace as a wedding gift. It is described as being extremely large and ostentatious.
Sometime later, Irina, a vampire from the Denali Coven, comes to Volterra to inform the Volturi that the Cullens had created an Immortal Child. In response to this breach of their laws, the Volturi gathered the entire guard together (including the wives) and set out for Forks to destroy the Cullens. Aro, meanwhile, intends to use the situation to try and force Edward and Alice into joining the Volturi.
When the Volturi arrive, Aro and the others are shocked to discover that the Cullens have assembled a vampiric army to oppose them, furthering Aro's belief that they'd created an immortal child. Bella also describes Aro "scanning the crowd" as though searching for a certain face - most likely Alice's - and Bella feels suddenly glad Alice isn't with them after all. The Volturi only stop launching an immediate attack when they notice the line of werewolves behind the undead army. Aro, in his usual fashion, acts as speaker for the Volturi. After reading Edward's mind and learning about Renesmee, the so-called immortal child, Aro is both astounded and delighted to discover that she is actually half human.
Despite the attempts to keep the encounter from turning violent, Aro declared that Renesmee had to be killed because they weren't sure if she would become a threat. But unknown to everyone else except Edward, his attitude changed when Bella's power was revealed. Realizing Bella's mental shield rendered all the Volturi's powers useless, Aro knew they were at a huge disadvantage and started looking for a way to get out of a fight.
Soon after, Alice and Jasper show up with another vampire half-breed named Nahuel. The knowledge that there are other half-breeds in the world gave Aro the excuse he needed to leave, and he retreats with the rest of the Volturi. - Character Personality:
Aro normally carries himself in a cheery disposition and has shown to be polite to the point of being at complete ease with even the most objectionable of situations. However, beneath this facade of optimistic giddiness, he is power-hungry and highly manipulative. He finds Bella Swan's immunity to mental powers, including Jane's "pain" power, intriguing. He invites her to be in the Volturi Guard twice after she becomes a vampire, but both times she refuses. This upsets and surprises Aro, but does not infuriate him.
He holds power over everything and is willing to go to any length to secure his status, even if it means killing those he loves, as exemplified when he murdered his sister Didyme in order to keep Marcus in the Volturi.
He has shown himself to be an avid collector of talented vampires that he finds desirable to recruit for the Volturi guard especially his personal guard, Renata, and Jane. He deeply believes that the Volturi is necessary for the survival of the vampire species, with its bylaws that hold secrecy of the existence of vampires to the utmost importance.
Due to humanity's continuously advancing technological prowess to the point where there are already weapons in existence that can kill vampires, he speculates that it is only a matter of time before they create more devastating constructs that may be able to wipe out the entirety of vampire-kind on Earth. - Sample Audition (two paragraphs minimal third person point of view):
Aro was sprawled across crimson coverlet on the massive four poster bed, his pale features marred by a heavy scowl. The thunder of humanity’s passing echoed around his chamber, intensified by his sensitive ears. If anyone made the mistake of barging into his room, they would have been greeting by a very different sight than the carefully composed creature that preened on its decorated throne.
Aro could never understand the human facination with flame and colored explosions, and wished he could retreat in time to prevent the Chinese invention of black-powder. Fast-forward to the present age, and be able to spend his New Year’s Eve in a blessedly quiet evening.
A particularly loud triple-bang shook the stone of the castle, setting Aro’s teeth on edge. Crimson eyes glared up at the ceiling, watching particles of dust waft down to rest on his bed. Further down the hall he could hear his brother-in-law, Marcus, throwing something against the walls. It soundly rather... Fleshy.
Irritated, Aro started counting the cracks in the ceiling. Pride prevented him from jamming his pale fingers into his ears (not that that would have helped) and humming. His throat burned, as it always would, and it grew slightly more irritated at the thought of the thousands of mortals packed into the streets above.
