The distant one

Like all vampires and dhampirs, D is immortal unless destroyed and does not age in the slightest. He is estimated to be at least 10,000 years old but always appears as a young man of approximately 20.

As a dhampir, D has both positives and negative aspects from both his parents. While he can consume food if he chooses, D also needs to feed on human blood semi-regularly, although through a lifetime of practise and effort he has managed to reduce his need for blood down to approximately once a week. For preference, D drinks blood capsules, a small capsule of artificial blood containing a mix of everything his body requires that can be mixed with water and ingested.

That said, D will occasionally bite and feed from people if necessary, although it's rare and he has largely done so when he plans to turn them into a thrall.

Another aspect of his vampirism is that when D is suitably angered or tastes blood (usually he'll use his own if he is doing this on purpose), he will undergo a transformation to take on a true vampiric appearance. His eyes will take on a red appearance and his fangs will lengthen considerably. This bloodlust also increases D's natural abilities significantly.

D's abilities seem to increase over time so that the books can hit ridiculous levels likely due to the fact that he was created to always be improving and becoming more powerful. So while abilities in the rest of this section get to godmode levels, it's really a sliding scale of where D is in his journey as to what maximum levels he's capable of.

Due to his heritage, and possibly a little additional genetic tampering, D is capable of surviving and regenerating from a frankly ridiculous amount of damage, including but not limited to being torn into pieces, impaled, hit with a nuclear blast, struck by a meteor, been covered in magma and then frozen... With this in mind it's probably no surprise how reckless he can be.

On top of his regeneration, D is also capable of returning to life even when other vampires would be hard-pressed to do so. Part of this is due to his connection to the parasite in his left hand, which has bought him back from being staked in the heart previously, but D appears to have some innate ability to resurrect himself as well as he has managed to do so without any aid.

D's strength is, also quite frankly, ridiculous. He's able to break and cut solid metal, stone... he even levels a mountain at one point.

Much like his strength, D's speed seems to be almost limitless. He's able to move fast enough to leave after images of himself if he chooses, regularly blocks bullets, arrows, and other missiles out of the air, and even cuts laser beams in two.

All of D's senses are incredibly heightened, allowing him to, for example, hear the sound of a carriage moving miles away in quiet conditions and sense things that others can't. Additionally, the parasite can also sense energy and seems to be able to perceive things that D can't, such as looking through seemingly solid walls to sense where an enemy is and how to get to them. This means that even if D can't sense something himself, there's a good chance that the parasite can.

TEXT

While D can walk in sunlight, too much exposure builds up in his system eventually and runs the risk of causing him to experience sun sickness. Sun sickness can hit at any time and without warning, leaving D weak and making it difficult for him to defend himself as well as running the risk of death. The cure is for D to bury himself to the neck in the earth and rest, and he continues to be vulnerable during this time.

TEXT

TEXT