i have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine

NAME: Nina
AGE: 25
CONTACT: supersoldier
CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A

NAME: Damon Salvatore
CANON: The Vampire Diaries
AGE: 25/172
CANON POINT: Beginning of 4.08 "We'll Always Have Bourbon Street"

BACKGROUND: Damon Salvatore on the Vampire Diaries Wikia
INCENTIVE:

Damon's initial incentive was to have the link between Klaus' life and the rest of his bloodline severed, so once he went home he could kill Klaus. He changed that almost immediately upon coming to Eudio, when Caroline told him Elena's brother Jeremy dies, to save Jeremy's life. If that incentive would already be enacted upon returning to the city, he would ask for incentive to be delayed—Elena's talked about turning human recently, and if she turns back, he will too, but he doesn't want to make the change until she does. Once he knows what she's doing, he'll come to the city with a request.

FIT:

Damon has been a vampire for 146 years at this point, and he definitely hasn't been spending all that time twiddling his thumbs and waiting for Katherine. He's slept with just as many people as he's murdered, and the idea of a city run on cuddles won't bother him much. It helps that he's already spent ten months here—Eudio and its rules are familiar to him now, and he's grown accustomed to the city. The lack of life-threatening danger every week bothers him more than the cuddles, at this point.

CONSENT:

As a rule, Damon tends not to put much stock in the idea of "consent". He's a vampire, why should he? He's messed with peoples' minds, fed on them without their approval, used compulsion to sidestep any fear his vampirism might cause, and, in the cases of Caroline Forbes and Andie Starr, all of the above. While he wouldn't call any of that rape, it's pretty clear that Damon is not afraid to violate peoples' right to choose what happens to them and their bodies—or at least, he wasn't. In canon, presented with the idea that he could be forcing Elena to love him through their "sire bond", Damon is shocked and disgusted, and does everything he can to avoid using it and get her to be able to make her own choices. When Stefan intimates that the only reason Elena slept with him was because of the bond—essentially saying that Damon used it to rape her—Damon was so angry at the implication that he punched his brother in the face. Seventy years previous, the first time someone was sire bonded to Damon, he was just as uncomfortable, and removed himself entirely from her life so that he wouldn't have to deal with it. Similarly, if he has a goal he needs to accomplish, he can play by other peoples' rules, even if he chafes at them—to get his incentive and stay with Elena, Damon would follow any rules the city set out, even if he complained about them every two seconds. Through his time here in Eudio, while he hasn't revised his stance per se, he has accepted the rules and played by them. With more distance from his life in Mystic Falls and the lack of life-threatening danger in Eudio, he's come to accept that compulsion and threats aren't the way to get things he wants—and likely won't even be an option for him in the future, Eudio or no, as he plans to turn human eventually.

SAMPLES:

Damon shares some memories
Damon is unhappy with Caroline
Damon's relationship with Caroline can probably be best described with a platonic "it's complicated"

ANYTHING ELSE?

Damon is a vampire, which means a few things: first, he subsists off of human blood. His brother has tried to get him to jump on the bunny diet, but Damon's not having it—the only concession he'll make is that he eats blood from blood bags, not straight from the vein, but he will always prefer his blood at 98.6°.

Vampires are immortal, barring a well-placed stake or a nice daytime walk on the beach. While there are a couple ways to kill a vampire, it's extremely difficult, and they will not die of old age or sickness—in fact, they won't age at all. As well as immortality, vampirism comes with a couple other perks, including enhanced strength, speed, and senses. The older a vampire is, the stronger their abilities are, and with Damon approaching the 200 mark, he's pretty strong. Compulsion is another vampire trick, though it will be nixed in Eudio—if it were working properly, it would allow him to force any human into doing, saying, remembering, or forgetting anything he wants them to. Damon relies on it to keep himself in the lifestyle to which he's grown accustomed, and he'll flounder a bit without it. As a subset of compulsion, there's also dream manipulation, which is basically used to be a dick and torment people with awful nightmares. The blood of a vampire has healing properties for any human who ingests it, causing them to instantaneously and completely recover from all but fatal wounds—and cancer. Vampire blood does not cure cancer. We learned that the hard way.

The last perk of vampirism—or maybe it's a downside—is the humanity switch. Younger vampires—how young they have to be is never really stated, but younger than five hundred years, at least—have the ability to switch their empathy/emotions on and off, so that they don't have to feel the cripplingly heightened emotions that come with vampirism. Damon's switch has been flipped since the late fifties, and has only recently come back on.

With the cool parts of being a vampire come all the downsides, too. First and foremost, sunlight is a no-go—if you get caught in the sun without a spelled piece of lapis lazuli jewelry, that's it, consider yourself flambe. Fire in general, in fact, is bad for vampires. Damon, luckily enough, owns a huge gaudy lapis lazuli ring, and so will be spared the terror of the sunlight. Invitations are also important—vampires can't enter a house unless they've been invited to do so, which in Eudio will apply to all apartments. A wooden stake to the heart can kill a vampire for good, as can just tearing out their heart or beheading them. More magical means of incapacitating a vampire, however, include the herb vervain—it burns vampires upon contact and weakens them when ingested—as well as just plain magic—witches in The Vampire Diaries are able to induce rapid-fire aneurysms in vampires to keep them down. Werewolves have a venom in their teeth that, once in the bloodstream of a vampire, rapidly drives them crazy with illness and hallucinations, and will eventually kill them. If the Original sire of a vampire's bloodline—in Damon's case, Klaus Mikaelson—dies, that vampire will also die.