FULL NAME
Leland Baxter Stoll.
NICKNAME(S)
(He doesn't tend to enjoy pet versions of his actual names, though he'll tolerate them).
GENDER
Cis Male.
PRONOUNS
He/Him.
AGE
52.
BIRTHDAY
05 August 1983.
BIRTH PLACE
Black City, WA.
CURRENT CITY
Black City, WA.
ROMANTIC ORIENTATION
Demiromantic.
SEXUALITY
Pansexual.
RELATIONSHIP STATUS
Single.
CLASS
Upper Class.
OCCUPATION
New-hire physician at the
BETTERHEALTH clinic under
Dr. Leon. Covers home visits (typically wealthier patients).
HEALTH NOTES
Blood Moon Vampire: Requires Magi blood every 3 months; becomes hostile and cold during blood moons.
POWER (only for Redbloods)
Biokinesis (others).
All standard vampir abilities.
LIMITATIONS (only for Redbloods)
All standard vampir weaknesses.
Redblood standard weaknesses (increased sensitivity to sunlight, shorter windows between requiring blood).
Blood moon weaknesses (requiring Magi blood every 3 months; becoming hostile and cold during blood moons).
HEIGHT
6'2".
BODY TYPE
Long, lean.
HAIR
Honey-blond.
EYES
Steel blue.
SKIN DETAILS
N/A.
NOTABLE FEATURES:
Clean presentation; confident, sunny nature.
PERSONALITY
Dignified, determined, buoyant, confident, practical, intelligent, somewhat extroverted, can't always intuit others. Light Academia energy.
LIKES
His family, brother Dorian, career path, and good fortune. The arts (broadly, influenced by family). Botanical gardens. Coffee shop aesthetic. Light socializing. Positive, grounded outlooks.
DISLIKES
His requirement for Magi blood. Illegal activities. Chronic negativity. Too much exposure to hybrids or other species (discomfort inherited by family & cultural views). Sprites (ever since a swarm of them ruined his university's gorgeous gardens).
STRENGTHS
Perseverence, resiliant, dextrous hands, focus, comfort with social networking within polite society, bouyant nature.
WEAKNESSES
Not great at reading people. His positive outlook and good fortune can make him (fairly) seem out of touch with people and their general hardships. He isn't blindly naive, though. He'll listen to and accept the facts about people's lives; but between his nature and focus on going forward in his own life, Leland just doesn't innately lean toward the negative nor immediately recognize moments for empathy.
BACKGROUND
Leland wasn't always a member of the Stoll family. His biological mother was a Silverblood, Clara, who did not survive the pains of a blood moon childbirth. Heartbroken, his Redblood biological father,
Halo Al Nuaimi, assisted in finding a home for his newborn son that he felt would better care for him than he could in the wake of his mother's loss. Halo made arrangements with the upper class Stoll family, though he did not bid farewell forever. No, the Stolls and Halo maintained periodic correspondence with Halo, open about the adoption and Clara's death. The Stolls had experienced tragedy in the year prior to Leland's birth - as they'd lost a young child and still felt the pains of that. Their loss helped to shape the Stolls belief that they were fated to adopt Leland - born a Redblood thanks to the blood moon.
Between Leland's determined optimism and his enriched upbringing, he had a confident foundation upon which to build his life. And although he admired his older brother,
Dorian, their age difference and Dorian's more focused life pursuits set a divide between the two. A young Leland held on to a hope that Dorian would accept him one day. Dorian mainly interacted with Leland when their parents made them spend time together. The sittings were awkward, with clunky attempts at conversation, but it'd been enough to satisfy their parents. It'd been
Lionel, a darkling libitine no less, who'd invested in Leland's childhood. He became more of a brother at the time than Dorian. That said, Dorian put on a disconnected show of affection for Leland when Lionel was around, but no one genuinely bought it.
Leland's Redblood biokinesis lent him well toward medicine, which he ultimately pursued. When he moved across Cervia for school, he and Dorian finally connected as adults. Maybe it was maturation in both of them, and maybe it was something of the distance, too - but somehow, their misaligned pieces came together. And maybe it had something to do with the realization that they were each a piece of the Stoll family puzzle that didn't quite form into the full picture properly, even if Leland felt loved and uplifted where Dorian previously had not. It also helped that Dorian had become more established in life by then, too, lending a little more time to forming a bond to begin with.
The fact that Leland requires Magi blood to
survive is the biggest burden upon him. Throughout his life, he's had clandestine arrangements with Magi - which the Stolls helped him learn to set up on his own as he got older. It usually just came with steep financial costs (and polite threats not to expose the exchanges). Leland dislikes illegality in general, and had never fully come to terms with this survival
need. Other vampires could
choose their delicacies - Leland would die without this one.
During his fellowship, he established a new arrangement with a researcher,
Yume Kazama, in New Tokyo, CA. It was a removed enough site from his university and his home back in Black City that there was less risk of someone possibly recognizing him approaching these meetings, as secretive as they were set to be. The arrangement benefited both - Leland wouldn't die, and Yume received both finances and access to esoteric information that supported her projects. The arrangement carries on to the present day, with meetings every three months.
After years away, with periodic visits back home and to wherever friends and relatives scattered, Leland had completed his medical training and set his eyes home toward Black City, WA. There, he acquired a position at
Dr. Leonidas Gallegos' clinic,
BETTERHEALTH.
His path home leads through Julian City, SK to visit Dorian, then toward Black City. There, on top of starting his new job, he plans on arranging a meeting with Halo, something he largely feels positive about. His biological father never imposed over his adoptive parents, but instead, through their written correspondence over the years, provided another father-figure in Leland's life nonetheless.
Overall, Leland feels fortunate for his life and how it has turned out, regardless of any notes about his life that some might degredate.
