Rigel

Rigel (full name: Rigel Neustadt) is a cis male vampire in the Monsterverse. He considers himself German, though he was born in Monaco. He has an incredibly intimidating air that causes people to be afraid of him even when they should probably trust him.

Appearance
Rigel has light brown skin and very short, blond hair. He has gray eyes and wears small, round wire-rimmed glasses. He often wears a dark red pullover hoodie, which makes him look much bulkier than he is. His canine teeth are very sharp, giving him a classic vampire look. He is 6'0" tall.

Behavior
Rigel usually intimidates people due to his academic manner of speaking, but he wasn't always a bookworm. There was a point in time where he actually had fun.

He is actually much less domineering than his height and scary face would suggest. He prefers instead to observe most things from the sidelines and try to predict how others will act.

Rigel has a pretty comprehensive knowledge of pretty much every kind of first aid. It's pretty difficult to die around him, but he has issues with people dying. He will do nearly anything to save someone important to him, up to and including turning them into a vampire.

Rigel really just wants a lot of hugs from cute boys, like, is that too much to ask? He craves intellectual and emotional interaction from those he's close to and doesn't waste time on people he considers unintelligent. I never said he was a nice person.

History
Rigel was born in Monaco in 1812. His father was Moroccan and his mother Greek.

He was turned by Emir in 1831, when he was 19 years old.

He fell in love with Adélaïde in Paris in the 1920s. When she died, he convinced Kieran to help him try to convert her into a vampire anyway. After he was certain it hadn't worked, he began studying many kinds of medicine in even more depth than he had before. He and Kieran then went to England and worked with some other vampires to discover what might have gone wrong. At this point, Rigel and Melisende Swift discovered carrier vampirism.

Trivia

 * Rigel's namesake, the star Rigel or Beta Orionis, is the brightest star in the constellation Orion. It's the seventh-brightest star visible from Earth.
 * He has a tattoo to protect against demon possession.
 * His associated color is red.