If I Die By Sunrise

Character Bios (Sort Of)

Jerry Dandridge – 400 years old but is in the physical form of a man in his late thirties. Jerry often appears mysterious, dark and evil but is also handsome and very charismatic.

Jerry is the vampire that moves next door to Charley. He has evolved from a tribe that basically originated in the Mediterranean.

During the first 40 or so years of his life, Jerry met many obstacles and sad beginnings. In the 18th century he lived in the Irish town of Adrigole where at the young age of thirteen he witnessed his parents die of Yellow Fever and his younger sister Regine descend into madness.

As a result he was forced to live in Derry with his distant and often harsh Uncle Sebastian Dandridge who spent most of his days locked in his study than actually paying any attention to Jerry.

Jerry thus finds company with the handy men who live in an adjoining village. Spending time with them he learns that he has a passion for building things and loves being surrounded by worker tools.

On his nineteenth birthday, Jerry moves to England with his uncle. After a couple of months Jerry develops a growing need to explore different horizons. With the help of a crew of sailors and their Captain who offer Jerry a job on their ship Jerry's dreams come true.

However, without being under the watchful eye of his uncle's servants, Jerry finds himself adhering to a dangerous lifestyle of partying, drugs and an unlikely friendship with a crowd of thugs he meets in Tortuga.

Jerry soon finds that these friends are after his job and his (almost nonexistent) life savings. Because the Captain and the crew lose their trust in the handsome teen they leave him stranded in Egypt.

Friendless, penniless and cold Jerry attempts to commit suicide on this strange land. Fortunately, a tribe of lively, young hunters discover him almost succeeding to fulfill his wish. Afraid to lose this new found stranger, they nurse him back to health.

For many years Jerry lives with these people, known simply as the Ankh tribe, and learns their ways. He notices that he is almost worshipped though he doesn't understand why and life pretty much goes great for him.

This is until the Ankh tribe reveals to him that they would like to try an ancient ritual on him. Said to heal injuries and give everlasting life it is one of the most important rituals a Shaman can perform and they would be forever indebted if Jerry obliged.

Foolishly, but happily he does.

The ritual requires an animal sacrifice and for the subject to drink the shed blood. To Jerry's ignorance, the entire ritual is actually just a huge religious ceremony dedicated to the demon Baphomet and the tribe is actually a huge cult.

Jerry then gets stabbed through the heart but instead of really dying, his whole body starts healing itself and the transformation into a creature of the undead begins.

The reborn Jerry has an insatiable thirst for human blood. This proves a problem for the cultists who now have to figure a way to control Jerry and also satisfy his needs without unleashing him on the unexpected world.

Jerry soon becomes a 'God' and is worshipped as such by the cultists. His power and strength and also the fact that he survived a relatively dangerous process have the cultists in awe of him.

Eventually the Elders teach him how to tame his urges and sonn a new, well tamed Jerry becomes obsessed with exacting revenge on his old friends.

For every person he doesn't kill, Jerry adds them to his clan rendering him unstoppable. For over two centuries his life is grand, that is until he becomes public enemy number one by the police for the murders and kidnapping of innocent and not so innocent people.