ABILITIES | POWERS: Guillermo is a descendant of Van Helsing, which comes with certain vampire slayer instincts and abilities. He can stake a vampire like nobody's business, even by accident. Kind of especially by accident. When he's pissed off and protecting his chosen family, he can slaughter dozens of vampires at once with nothing but stakes, holy water, and some silver crucifix knuckle-dusters. He's also trained himself to be the bodyguard for Nandor and the other vampires in the house, so he can perform such feats as catching knives thrown at him, putting vampires who are far stronger than him in headlocks, and being immune to vampire hypnosis. That last one isn't due to any particular training or slayer powers - it's just because the vampires used it on him so often during his twelve-year tenure as a familiar for minor things that he eventually built up an immunity. He pretends it works anyway. It helps people underestimate him.
PERSONALITY: At first glance, Guillermo is a pudgy, softspoken guy who looks like he wouldn't hurt a fly. That assessment is brutally incorrect. As a vampire's familiar, Guillermo has to take care of the day-to-day duties for his Master, including cleaning, preventing sunlight from entering the house, and picking up takeout. Put more bluntly: finding victims for his Master (and their housemates) to eat. He finds and infiltrates groups where he thinks he'll find virgins to feed to the vampires, and he's remarkably successful at it. He just sees it as a normal thing and doesn't give it a whole lot of thought - like going to the grocery store. While he tries to claim he's not a killer and that he just "finds people who are easy to kill", the distinction is narrow enough to rattle him once he comes into contact with a friend of a victim he'd procured. He doesn't usually care about human death, but when he personally knows someone who's in danger from vampires, he'll do what he can to protect them. Even if he is the one who sold them out first. He's even run back into a house full of vampires to save the vampire hunter club he accidentally fell in with who got way over their heads - and he was the only one who managed to get any kills out of it.
Which brings us to where he really shines: kicking all sorts of vampire ass. A Van Helsing by blood, Guillermo has killed several vampires by accident (and way more on purpose), and he seems most broken up by the fact that he's killed vampires rather than when he brings humans to their deaths. He literally runs screaming into the forest after accidentally staking a vampire who was trying to kill him. As much as he hates to do it - and even apologizes to the vampires he kills - he won't hesitate to kill to protect his Master and the other assholes vampires he lives with. He considers them all to be a weird sort of chosen family, and during the course of the show they gradually respect him more and more, treating him almost as an equal rather than as a slave or a pet. Nandor even promotes him to "bodyguard" rather than "familiar", but it's more of a lateral promotion than anything. Over his time as a familiar, he built up an immunity to vampire hypnosis, so he pretends to go along with it when the vampires try and hypnotize him so he cannot use his Slayer skills to harm them. The truth comes out when he finally snaps at Nandor and puts him in a hammerlock to prove his strength (and then they have a homoerotically-charged fight because, come on, it's vampire media).
He is, ironically, a complete simp for vampires. Ever since he saw Interview With the Vampire at a tender age, he decided that he wanted to be a cool, powerful vampire like Antonio Banderas/Armand. Once he discovered that vampires were in fact real, he immediately began to pursue his goal of becoming a familiar, the usual first step to becoming a vampire. After his ten-year anniversary of service passed without his Master fulfilling the promise he'd made of turning Guillermo, he slowly started to stand up for himself and talk back to the vampires, much to their shock. Being the perfect, subservient familiar didn't get him what he wanted, so he decided that he may as well stop being a doormat in the meantime. Especially since the vampires are almost completely helpless without him; when he was gone for a week, they practically burned the house down, left blood and corpses everywhere, and didn't know how to do their own laundry. When Nandor begged him to come back after one of the many times he'd quit (this time: due to gaining a modicum of self-respect), he demanded benefits like one day off per week and a fifteen-minute break every four and a half hours. And better snacks, because ice chips are not a snack. As he gets more confident and self-assured, he begins to scheme in an almost Machiavellian way, figuring out how to manipulate the vampires' weaknesses and get what he wants from them. Most of the time, it even works. (He still hasn't managed to get Nandor to turn him, though. Someday.)
He can also be incredibly self-serving. Guillermo will do almost anything to keep their little found family together, including sabotaging plans that would make his vampire roommates happy. They are going to stick together, dammit, because he's not going to have wasted twelve years of his life with a vampire pod just to have it dissolve when they go their separate ways. He won't allow it. Does he have abandonment issues? Maybe! Especially because his Master had just run off to join a cult for a month and Guillermo had needed to go and rescue him!
His biggest weakness is his Master, Nandor. He's codependent to an absolutely unhinged degree, which he even acknowledges in an aside to the documentary crew, but doesn't do anything to change. He doesn't particularly want to. He gets insanely jealous and possessive whenever Nandor gets into a romantic relationship with anyone or when a familiar with far shorter service is turned into a vampire before him. He'll try not to show it, but he's not very good at that. He gets very, very passive-aggressive, and at one point declares himself Nandor's "heartguard" in addition to his bodyguard. It's not just that he's had a lifelong dream of becoming a vampire like Armand (representation matters, yo), but that he has genuinely come to care for his Master, and his Master has genuinely come to care for him. Show this guy some affection, promise him the moon, and he'll kill and die and dismember corpses with a circular saw for you.
INVENTORY: Sash full of wooden stakes, squeezy bottle full of holy water, squeezy bottle full of garlic powder, silver crucifix knuckle-dusters, silver crucifix necklace, and a badass trenchcoat.
NOTES: no notes but here's a cool gif
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Guillermo de la Cruz | What We Do In The Shadows
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HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: Current player!
CHARACTER: Guillermo de la Cruz
CANON: What We Do In The Shadows (TV series)
CANON POINT: s3e10 - after being thrown into the crate by Lazslo
BACKGROUND: Guillermo @ WWDITS wiki
ABILITIES | POWERS: Guillermo is a descendant of Van Helsing, which comes with certain vampire slayer instincts and abilities. He can stake a vampire like nobody's business, even by accident. Kind of especially by accident. When he's pissed off and protecting his chosen family, he can slaughter dozens of vampires at once with nothing but stakes, holy water, and some silver crucifix knuckle-dusters. He's also trained himself to be the bodyguard for Nandor and the other vampires in the house, so he can perform such feats as catching knives thrown at him, putting vampires who are far stronger than him in headlocks, and being immune to vampire hypnosis. That last one isn't due to any particular training or slayer powers - it's just because the vampires used it on him so often during his twelve-year tenure as a familiar for minor things that he eventually built up an immunity. He pretends it works anyway. It helps people underestimate him.
PERSONALITY: At first glance, Guillermo is a pudgy, softspoken guy who looks like he wouldn't hurt a fly. That assessment is brutally incorrect. As a vampire's familiar, Guillermo has to take care of the day-to-day duties for his Master, including cleaning, preventing sunlight from entering the house, and picking up takeout. Put more bluntly: finding victims for his Master (and their housemates) to eat. He finds and infiltrates groups where he thinks he'll find virgins to feed to the vampires, and he's remarkably successful at it. He just sees it as a normal thing and doesn't give it a whole lot of thought - like going to the grocery store. While he tries to claim he's not a killer and that he just "finds people who are easy to kill", the distinction is narrow enough to rattle him once he comes into contact with a friend of a victim he'd procured. He doesn't usually care about human death, but when he personally knows someone who's in danger from vampires, he'll do what he can to protect them. Even if he is the one who sold them out first. He's even run back into a house full of vampires to save the vampire hunter club he accidentally fell in with who got way over their heads - and he was the only one who managed to get any kills out of it.
Which brings us to where he really shines: kicking all sorts of vampire ass. A Van Helsing by blood, Guillermo has killed several vampires by accident (and way more on purpose), and he seems most broken up by the fact that he's killed vampires rather than when he brings humans to their deaths. He literally runs screaming into the forest after accidentally staking a vampire who was trying to kill him. As much as he hates to do it - and even apologizes to the vampires he kills - he won't hesitate to kill to protect his Master and the other
assholesvampires he lives with. He considers them all to be a weird sort of chosen family, and during the course of the show they gradually respect him more and more, treating him almost as an equal rather than as a slave or a pet. Nandor even promotes him to "bodyguard" rather than "familiar", but it's more of a lateral promotion than anything. Over his time as a familiar, he built up an immunity to vampire hypnosis, so he pretends to go along with it when the vampires try and hypnotize him so he cannot use his Slayer skills to harm them. The truth comes out when he finally snaps at Nandor and puts him in a hammerlock to prove his strength (and then they have a homoerotically-charged fight because, come on, it's vampire media).He is, ironically, a complete simp for vampires. Ever since he saw Interview With the Vampire at a tender age, he decided that he wanted to be a cool, powerful vampire like Antonio Banderas/Armand. Once he discovered that vampires were in fact real, he immediately began to pursue his goal of becoming a familiar, the usual first step to becoming a vampire. After his ten-year anniversary of service passed without his Master fulfilling the promise he'd made of turning Guillermo, he slowly started to stand up for himself and talk back to the vampires, much to their shock. Being the perfect, subservient familiar didn't get him what he wanted, so he decided that he may as well stop being a doormat in the meantime. Especially since the vampires are almost completely helpless without him; when he was gone for a week, they practically burned the house down, left blood and corpses everywhere, and didn't know how to do their own laundry. When Nandor begged him to come back after one of the many times he'd quit (this time: due to gaining a modicum of self-respect), he demanded benefits like one day off per week and a fifteen-minute break every four and a half hours. And better snacks, because ice chips are not a snack. As he gets more confident and self-assured, he begins to scheme in an almost Machiavellian way, figuring out how to manipulate the vampires' weaknesses and get what he wants from them. Most of the time, it even works. (He still hasn't managed to get Nandor to turn him, though. Someday.)
He can also be incredibly self-serving. Guillermo will do almost anything to keep their little found family together, including sabotaging plans that would make his vampire roommates happy. They are going to stick together, dammit, because he's not going to have wasted twelve years of his life with a vampire pod just to have it dissolve when they go their separate ways. He won't allow it. Does he have abandonment issues? Maybe! Especially because his Master had just run off to join a cult for a month and Guillermo had needed to go and rescue him!
His biggest weakness is his Master, Nandor. He's codependent to an absolutely unhinged degree, which he even acknowledges in an aside to the documentary crew, but doesn't do anything to change. He doesn't particularly want to. He gets insanely jealous and possessive whenever Nandor gets into a romantic relationship with anyone or when a familiar with far shorter service is turned into a vampire before him. He'll try not to show it, but he's not very good at that. He gets very, very passive-aggressive, and at one point declares himself Nandor's "heartguard" in addition to his bodyguard. It's not just that he's had a lifelong dream of becoming a vampire like Armand (representation matters, yo), but that he has genuinely come to care for his Master, and his Master has genuinely come to care for him. Show this guy some affection, promise him the moon, and he'll kill and die and dismember corpses with a circular saw for you.
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INVENTORY: Sash full of wooden stakes, squeezy bottle full of holy water, squeezy bottle full of garlic powder, silver crucifix knuckle-dusters, silver crucifix necklace, and a badass trenchcoat.
NOTES: no notes but here's a cool gif
IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT A PLOT-LIGHT OR PLOT-HEAVY CUSTOM INTRO? Whatever works best!