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Name: Victor Frankenstein
Ancestry: Great-great-great-great-great-great Grandson of Ernest Frankenstein, the only Frankenstein to survive the Monster's original rampage.
Bio: Victor, named for his famous, or rather infamous, ancestor, has a striking resemblance to the first Victor Frankenstein. The few pictures that exist of the First are often mistaken for an archaic-style picture of Victor, the Second. The letters of Captain Robert Walton didn't reach what was left of the Frankenstein family until after Ernest had died, when his only son was thirty three years old and raising a son of his own. Robert, as he was also coincidentally named, was a Chemist, and had just the very morning the letter arrived rediscovered the secret to Greek Fire. The monster, unfortunately, was waylaid by a native hunting party before he could burn himself to death at the pole. The fracas, in which he killed all the the hunters, re-ignited his hatred of Humanity in all it's forms. He returned to ireland, systematically killing each and every person Victor had come in contact with. In ireland, in the small village where Victor was tried for murder, the entire population was murdered save a youth that had been out swimming at the time. The professors at Ingolstadt were butchered in one night, and the house were the Monster had been created was burnt to the ground. Robert, the Frankenstein, attempted to get in touch with the people mentioned in the letters, and found that one by one they stopped writing, or else he received a short letter from their relatives to the effect that they had been grisly murdered shortly before. Frankenstein knew that the monster would eventually work his way up to Victor's family, and so took his family, burnt down the Manse, and made it seem as though the family had been killed in the blaze. Graves were put up with his, his wife's, and his son's names on them, and the Frankensteins went into hiding. Robert stayed no more than a month, leaving behind his last will and testament to be opened when his son had a child of his own. Robert departed, and was never seen by his family ever again. Meanwhile, every last person detailed in Frankenstein's letters was killed. Finally, the day came when his son had a baby boy of his own. The will was opened, and inside, the fantastic story of Victor Frankenstein was detailed, along with the recipe for Greek Fire and instructions to the effect of making a specialized crossbow, which Victor later improved upon, and bolts containing Greek Fire. Robert said it was the family Frankenstein's responsibility to rid the world of the Monster's evil. The Frankenstein family fortune would be given to his son, on the condition that he use it to facilitate himself to hunt the Monster. The fortune was quite large, as ernest had founded a Swiss Bank before he died that did exceedingly well. The man left his own will, and went out to hunt the Monster. Nine generations of the Frankenstein family have died in this manner, and yet the monster still lives, announcing his presence by a grisly, audacious murder once every ten years. Victor Frankenstein the Second is the new scion of the Frankenstein family at twenty eight years old, and has been hunting the Monster for seven years. Victor is a brilliant chemist, and has quite recently rediscovered the secret that Victor the First took with him to the grave, the secret of bestowing life upon inanimate flesh.
Skill set: An accomplished Chemist, Victor is familiar with poisons, acids, toxins, and all manner of healing salves. He is even capable of creating synthetic blood, given the correct materials. Hunting the Monster for seven years has molded him into a sort of Jack-of-all-trades. A superb shot, Victor is an olympic class gymnast, and an adept engineer as well.
Weapons:Victor carries a pistol which he designed and built himself, created to shoot bullets loaded with a mixture of gunpowder and Greek Fire. He also carries an improved version of the crossbow that has been passed down through the family since Robert, improvements which he designed and implemented himself. Lastly, Victor carries a custom built blade which has a reservoir of superconcentrated Greek Fire within, with small holes along the side of the blade to bleed out small increments, making it look as if it where afire. The holes are only opened when the pommel is twisted clockwise, and closed when it is twisted back.