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fortworeasonsMeet Laszlo Cravensworth: gentleman, artist, vampire.
the canon
So, it all starts with a little 2014 Kiwi film out of the crazed minds of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, following the adventures of four very silly vampires living in Wellington, NZ and shot in documentary-style with talking heads and shaky camera, et cetera.
Five years later, FX was like, "You know what, that's a funny concept," and thus we have What We Do in the Shadows, the television show. The premise remains the same -- we follow four different vampires living together, though these vampires live (....unlive?) in Staten Island, NY. We have Nandor the Relentless (the oldest of the group and a former Ottoman warlord), Laszlo Cravensworth and his wife, Nadja of Antipaxos, and Colin Robinson, a mysterious energy vampire. (Imagine if the guy two cubicles over actually fed on your boredom when he asked if you're "working hard or hardly working" -- that's an energy vampire.) Together this merry band of misfits stumbles through undead adventures and tries to make sense of the marvels of our modern world -- such as chain letters, small claims court, slot machines, crepe paper, and the entirely unmanageable task of laundry.
Fortunately, they have Nandor's human familiar, Guillermo, to help them with all of this and generally prevent them from maiming themselves. Maybe someday Guillermo will be made a vampire! Hasn't happened in 11 years, but you know. Maybe Nandor's saving it for a special occasion.
The show is still shot documentary-style, with cameramen (who occasionally get left behind in hostile vampire spaces, oops) and talking heads, and just wrapped up its third season! Go watch it! It's on Hulu! I'll watch with you.
the vampire
Laszlo Cravensworth was an English nobleman who was turned into a vampire sometime in the late 17th century by a beautiful woman who entered through his window and then promptly turned into a hideous monster after having sex with him. (And then he married her! Laszlo/Nadja OTP ♥.) While he was the most handsome man in his village -- which was plagued, incidentally, by leprosy and the Black Death -- he's a pretty average looking guy for modern standards, appearing to be in his middle-forties with a little bit of a tummy, thick dark hair, and a beard. He speaks in an English accent that I would honestly think was extremely fake if his actor didn't actually come from England, but it's veeeeeeery broad.
Seeing as how he is a vampire, he is very pale, and despite totally leaving the house on the regular and, thus, knowing what year it is, he tends to dress like it's the late 19th century most of the time -- lots of waistcoat action, cravats-a-gogo, long coats with a split up the back so you can ride a horse, etc.
Personality-wise, Laszlo is probably the outright friendliest of this little band of vampires. He's a guy who likes to have a good time and enjoys making friends -- however, he also often tries those friends' patience thanks to his propensity towards laziness and destruction when bored.
He is kiiiind of like a vampiric Forrest Gump in that Laszlo is responsible for at least a couple of longstanding historical mysteries -- in the 1880s, he terrorized London by killing women, only admitting to his status as Jack the Ripper in 2019 when he thought he was about to die.
And in 1977, he turned Elvis Presley into a vampire out of respect for a fellow musician, and Elvis occasionally rents a coffin with Laszlo to compose/perform music together.
Laszlo is also the original composer of a number of popular songs, which have all been tragically stolen from him over the years -- maybe best known of all was his classic 'seafaring song,' which goes, "Aruba, Jamaica, ooh I wanna take you to Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama…."
Laszlo has also held a LOT of jobs over the years! Laszlo has been an actor, an early porn actor, a musician, a bartender, the captain of the Titanic (for a few minutes), and recently revealed that he used to be a barrister, though he lost all his cases and mostly represented livestock. That's the thing about Laszlo and his revelations of what he's been doing over the years -- he's almost never good at anything. Songwriting, music, topiary, acting -- a little bit. Most everything else, he sucks at and gets by on his charm, his ability to hypnotize people into forgetting he ever embarrassed himself in front of them, and/or his threatening wife.
Which, yes, Laszlo is married! Nadja, his wife (and the vampire who turned him ~400ish years ago), will not be accompanying him, and there have been a lot of extramarital affairs on either side of the equation over the years so, like, don't think you're gonna miss out on this hot piece.
Like pretty much all vampires, Laszlo is openly pansexual. He says his type is 'dark-haired, with a generic accent,' which not only describes both his wife and his former roommate, but also half the island. Sorry in advance, the dude's a big horndog. He's the kind of guy who will be bringing multiple cases full of antique porn and would love nothing more than to show you, his unsuspecting new friend, all of it.
Laszlo is coming to Fandom with a vampire named Jim hot on his heels for unpaid rent on a San Diegan beach house 167 years ago. They were gonna duel it out, but Laszlo decided to run away when Jim's back was turned, and thus made his escape to Fandom after writing his wife a goodbye letter and probably grabbing his important case of antique porn and his (cursed) witch skin hat.
the powers and the weird stuff
So, Laszlo's a vampire, and all of the obvious things apply here -- sunshine's a no-no, he's susceptible to crosses and holy water, please don't stake him, he has fangs, et cetera. But this also means he totally does drink human blood! He'll likely be terrorizing the mainland a little until he figures out TruBlood is a thing, but like, hit me up if you'd like to be drunk from! Laszlo would be delighted. (Virgins preferable.) He can also turn into a bat and fly away, which he always punctuates by yelling the word, "Bat!" before transforming.
He can also run around vampire-fast and fly without being a bat:
But the big thing here is that he can and does hypnotize people into forgetting things! Usually it's embarrassing things -- sexual rejection, tripping over his own greatcoat, et cetera. Please let me know if you'd be up for having your character be hypnotized at some point! I'm not gonna do a sign-up or anything because I don't anticipate it coming up that often, but it's something to keep in mind when interacting with Laszlo and I may well hit you up via Discord or email to check if we're in a thread and he, say, hits on your character and is politely turned down.
Another thing to be aware of: Laszlo has the unique vampire ability to converse with animals and he is especially fond of cats and dogs, so let me know if he can/cannot talk to your pets. He will absolutely be talking to the raccoons and radio squirrels and teal deer and alots, though (and of course the way this looks is the funniest way -- the animal will meow/bark/ribbit/etc and Laszlo will say, "Oh, of course, tell me more about the time you met the Queen," or whatever.)
And finally, this is not a ~power~ but it is something to note: seeing as how this is a documentary-style production, still, Laszlo is bringing an NPC cameraman and a boom mic operator with him! They'll be mentioned most of the time when he's out and about. Your character can totally refuse to consent to being filmed -- there'll just be acknowledgement that they'll eventually be pixelated/blurred in the footage. I also totally am not naming this NPC crew, at least for the moment -- Laszlo certainly doesn't know their names, so don't worry about it.
Finally: enjoy this gif of Laszlo playing piano for a doll possessed by his wife's ghost while wearing an old-fashioned beanie with a propeller. That's about the seriousness level we're working with here.
Aaaaaaaaaaand the player, who doesn't need her own special section this time -- hi, it's Erin. My three girls don't really have any new info since the last time I made an infopost in August, so I figured I'd concentrate my gif power on Laz, here.
Questions? Thoughts? Virgins to drink from?
the canon
So, it all starts with a little 2014 Kiwi film out of the crazed minds of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, following the adventures of four very silly vampires living in Wellington, NZ and shot in documentary-style with talking heads and shaky camera, et cetera.
Five years later, FX was like, "You know what, that's a funny concept," and thus we have What We Do in the Shadows, the television show. The premise remains the same -- we follow four different vampires living together, though these vampires live (....unlive?) in Staten Island, NY. We have Nandor the Relentless (the oldest of the group and a former Ottoman warlord), Laszlo Cravensworth and his wife, Nadja of Antipaxos, and Colin Robinson, a mysterious energy vampire. (Imagine if the guy two cubicles over actually fed on your boredom when he asked if you're "working hard or hardly working" -- that's an energy vampire.) Together this merry band of misfits stumbles through undead adventures and tries to make sense of the marvels of our modern world -- such as chain letters, small claims court, slot machines, crepe paper, and the entirely unmanageable task of laundry.
Fortunately, they have Nandor's human familiar, Guillermo, to help them with all of this and generally prevent them from maiming themselves. Maybe someday Guillermo will be made a vampire! Hasn't happened in 11 years, but you know. Maybe Nandor's saving it for a special occasion.
The show is still shot documentary-style, with cameramen (who occasionally get left behind in hostile vampire spaces, oops) and talking heads, and just wrapped up its third season! Go watch it! It's on Hulu! I'll watch with you.
the vampire
Laszlo Cravensworth was an English nobleman who was turned into a vampire sometime in the late 17th century by a beautiful woman who entered through his window and then promptly turned into a hideous monster after having sex with him. (And then he married her! Laszlo/Nadja OTP ♥.) While he was the most handsome man in his village -- which was plagued, incidentally, by leprosy and the Black Death -- he's a pretty average looking guy for modern standards, appearing to be in his middle-forties with a little bit of a tummy, thick dark hair, and a beard. He speaks in an English accent that I would honestly think was extremely fake if his actor didn't actually come from England, but it's veeeeeeery broad.
Seeing as how he is a vampire, he is very pale, and despite totally leaving the house on the regular and, thus, knowing what year it is, he tends to dress like it's the late 19th century most of the time -- lots of waistcoat action, cravats-a-gogo, long coats with a split up the back so you can ride a horse, etc.
Personality-wise, Laszlo is probably the outright friendliest of this little band of vampires. He's a guy who likes to have a good time and enjoys making friends -- however, he also often tries those friends' patience thanks to his propensity towards laziness and destruction when bored.
He is kiiiind of like a vampiric Forrest Gump in that Laszlo is responsible for at least a couple of longstanding historical mysteries -- in the 1880s, he terrorized London by killing women, only admitting to his status as Jack the Ripper in 2019 when he thought he was about to die.
And in 1977, he turned Elvis Presley into a vampire out of respect for a fellow musician, and Elvis occasionally rents a coffin with Laszlo to compose/perform music together.
Laszlo is also the original composer of a number of popular songs, which have all been tragically stolen from him over the years -- maybe best known of all was his classic 'seafaring song,' which goes, "Aruba, Jamaica, ooh I wanna take you to Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama…."
Laszlo has also held a LOT of jobs over the years! Laszlo has been an actor, an early porn actor, a musician, a bartender, the captain of the Titanic (for a few minutes), and recently revealed that he used to be a barrister, though he lost all his cases and mostly represented livestock. That's the thing about Laszlo and his revelations of what he's been doing over the years -- he's almost never good at anything. Songwriting, music, topiary, acting -- a little bit. Most everything else, he sucks at and gets by on his charm, his ability to hypnotize people into forgetting he ever embarrassed himself in front of them, and/or his threatening wife.
Which, yes, Laszlo is married! Nadja, his wife (and the vampire who turned him ~400ish years ago), will not be accompanying him, and there have been a lot of extramarital affairs on either side of the equation over the years so, like, don't think you're gonna miss out on this hot piece.
Like pretty much all vampires, Laszlo is openly pansexual. He says his type is 'dark-haired, with a generic accent,' which not only describes both his wife and his former roommate, but also half the island. Sorry in advance, the dude's a big horndog. He's the kind of guy who will be bringing multiple cases full of antique porn and would love nothing more than to show you, his unsuspecting new friend, all of it.
Laszlo is coming to Fandom with a vampire named Jim hot on his heels for unpaid rent on a San Diegan beach house 167 years ago. They were gonna duel it out, but Laszlo decided to run away when Jim's back was turned, and thus made his escape to Fandom after writing his wife a goodbye letter and probably grabbing his important case of antique porn and his (cursed) witch skin hat.
the powers and the weird stuff
So, Laszlo's a vampire, and all of the obvious things apply here -- sunshine's a no-no, he's susceptible to crosses and holy water, please don't stake him, he has fangs, et cetera. But this also means he totally does drink human blood! He'll likely be terrorizing the mainland a little until he figures out TruBlood is a thing, but like, hit me up if you'd like to be drunk from! Laszlo would be delighted. (Virgins preferable.) He can also turn into a bat and fly away, which he always punctuates by yelling the word, "Bat!" before transforming.
He can also run around vampire-fast and fly without being a bat:
But the big thing here is that he can and does hypnotize people into forgetting things! Usually it's embarrassing things -- sexual rejection, tripping over his own greatcoat, et cetera. Please let me know if you'd be up for having your character be hypnotized at some point! I'm not gonna do a sign-up or anything because I don't anticipate it coming up that often, but it's something to keep in mind when interacting with Laszlo and I may well hit you up via Discord or email to check if we're in a thread and he, say, hits on your character and is politely turned down.
Another thing to be aware of: Laszlo has the unique vampire ability to converse with animals and he is especially fond of cats and dogs, so let me know if he can/cannot talk to your pets. He will absolutely be talking to the raccoons and radio squirrels and teal deer and alots, though (and of course the way this looks is the funniest way -- the animal will meow/bark/ribbit/etc and Laszlo will say, "Oh, of course, tell me more about the time you met the Queen," or whatever.)
And finally, this is not a ~power~ but it is something to note: seeing as how this is a documentary-style production, still, Laszlo is bringing an NPC cameraman and a boom mic operator with him! They'll be mentioned most of the time when he's out and about. Your character can totally refuse to consent to being filmed -- there'll just be acknowledgement that they'll eventually be pixelated/blurred in the footage. I also totally am not naming this NPC crew, at least for the moment -- Laszlo certainly doesn't know their names, so don't worry about it.
Finally: enjoy this gif of Laszlo playing piano for a doll possessed by his wife's ghost while wearing an old-fashioned beanie with a propeller. That's about the seriousness level we're working with here.
Aaaaaaaaaaand the player, who doesn't need her own special section this time -- hi, it's Erin. My three girls don't really have any new info since the last time I made an infopost in August, so I figured I'd concentrate my gif power on Laz, here.
Questions? Thoughts? Virgins to drink from?
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Date: 2021-11-11 10:03 pm (UTC)Me whenever one of my straight friends says she's getting married to the ogre she's dating.
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Date: 2021-11-11 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2021-11-11 10:22 pm (UTC)Also, I feel like this is just stating the obvious, but you know almost any of mine are literal down for anything, and I am very excited about this, just so you knooooooooow.
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Date: 2021-11-11 10:29 pm (UTC)NO ONE'S SAYING YOU CAN'T BRING HIM IN EARLIER THAN...you know. Near the end of season 3. *vagues*
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Date: 2021-11-11 10:40 pm (UTC)And also *more vagueing vagueness*
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Date: 2021-11-11 10:35 pm (UTC)Also semi-canon, semi-fanon is that trying to record Jon results in a buttload of static, so if you'd be interested in playing with that as regards the film crew, I'm all for it. :) (If not, we can visit recording him normally as needed.)
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Date: 2021-11-11 10:55 pm (UTC):D totally love this character by the way- I need to catch up on the last season!!!!
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Date: 2021-11-11 11:53 pm (UTC)BAT!
One of my favourite shows in recent years (movie is one of my absolute favourites), finally finished season 3 the other day - I uh may have also started working on an application for Guillermo to be a student.
All of my characters are good for hypnosis shenanigans. Also if he wants he can talk to Liz's cat rain :)
Is it mean if I want to offer Jo up for Laslo to drink from?
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Date: 2021-11-12 08:03 am (UTC)And talk to Issa. She's a Radchaai cat and hence she will judge him so much.