Vlasovite

Vlasovite Vrooman Vladikoff (aka Vlaz; Skee) is a second-year college wizard and co-leader of the Wizard Dueling Club. Vlaz is a transgender holo wizard and prism vampire, and manages to be both an inveterate goofball and a top shelf emo boy. He is a cartoonist (and is currently making Katabasis Gang, an absurd-yet-accidentally-deeply-personal webcomic with a small but enthusiastic fanbase), bassist (in [band name] along with Samhain), and one half of the writing team behind Daggers in the Arcade, the defining slashfic of [Space Opera Cultural Phenomenon], along with his wizard internet best friend, Melanie. He is short, pointy, and laughs frequently, often at himself. He is prone to extended flights of fancy and hopelessly tangled anxiety-thoughts. He has rainbow hair, which he dyes black.

Vlaz has a need to share himself and the things he loves and thinks about; he does this through his art, through ridiculously long riff-tangents and performative escapades, and through dueling. However, Vlaz has an equally strong need to maintain his own privacy, and to recharge after spending time with other people, particularly after moments of vulnerability or emotional disclosure. This is partially due to Vlaz's particular personality, but is also due to the cultural expectations, norms, and beliefs that come with being a prism vampire. Vlaz has often wondered where to draw the line between them, but has thusfar concluded that drawing that line is probably impossible. It can be difficult for Vlaz to talk about this part of himself, since his need for privacy of course interferes with his ability to talk about it. He's been making enormous progress, though, particularly with the help of Wolf, Mel, and Ariadne, his fellow vamp.

This includes talking about feeding, an experience which is difficult to explain to non prism-vampires, but which is fundamental to the way Vlaz sees himself. (For further details on prism vamp feeding, please see the vamp page.) Vlaz has had a number of formative prism-feeding experiences. One of these was with the cartoonist who created his favorite comic, and who helped him to begin thinking about his own relationship with gender. Another, which occurred during the fall of his second year, was with a transgender pilot and writer. This helped Vlaz think about what it means to be comfortable in one's own particular weirdness, both as a person who makes art and as a person who's in the unfortunate position of having a corporeal form. Vlaz was able to tell Wolf about this experience, which, as he later realized, was as important as having the experience to begin with. Vlaz is only starting to piece together the similarities between feeding and embodying dueling and RPG characters, but his confidence and happiness have increased as a result of even beginning to realize that these similarities exist.

For many years, Vlaz was in training to become a diplovamp-- a prism vamp ambassador-- under the auspices of his jovial and well-meaning uncle, Bauxite Vrooman. He has only recently acted upon the fact that he doesn't actually want to be a diplovamp. Although he loves the linguistic training that's a part of being a diplovamp, he's a terrible ambassador in just about every other conceivable way. He was finally able to admit this to his Uncle B (along with the rest of his family) during winter break of his sophomore year. Vlaz has switched his major from linguistics to hologram wizardry, though he's still happily a linguistics minor.

Early in the events of Wizard Dueling Project, Vlaz developed a pivotal friendship with Wolfgang.

Vlaz's partner is Syd.

Player: Biz

Duelsonas:
 * Space: The Velvéted Prince of Night Eternàl (aka Velvét), scion of the Guardians Of The Abyss and a very prolix fellow
 * Sea: Melodica Rallentando La Roux, seedy casino mogul of the Casino Flamingàl, musician, and professional nautical nemesis
 * Noir: The Golden Spike, train thief extraordinaire and possessor of a heart and liver of gold
 * Holo: As-yet-unnamed Holo Hero

Formative Media:
 * Piston
 * [Space Opera]/Daggers in the Arcade
 * Shepherds of the Spring
 * Katabasis Gang
 * Wereidiot