Aro - Volturi

Aro

Born: Around 1300 BC
Turned: Around 1300 BC
Creator: Unknown
Diet: Human
Eye colour: Red when well fed. Black when thirsty
Coven: Volturi

A few decades after Aro became a vampire. He turned his sister Didyme, because he thought she would have a gift that would be useful to him. She didn't have such a gift, her gift was to make people happy. Which displeased Aro. Especially since she feel in love with Marcus and wanted him to leave the Volturi. Aro's power on the other hand, was one that was very powerful, he could read the thoughts that anyone has ever had, just by touching them

This led to Aro killing Didyme, to which to this day Marcus doesn't know it was him that killed her. It was thanks to Chelsea, that Marcus was bound to the Volturi.

In 500 AD, with Aro at the front of the Volturi Coven, they were able to rule the vampire world, as the strongest and unbeatable force. The Volturi, under the three ancients' leadership, set down the laws of the vampire world and severely punished those who did not adhere to them.

Aro normally carries himself in a cheery disposition and has shown to be polite to the point of being at complete ease with even the most objectionable of situations. However, beneath this facade of optimistic giddiness, he is power-hungry and highly manipulative.

He has shown himself to be an avid collector of talented vampires that he finds desirable to recruit for the Volturi guard especially his personal guard, Renata, and Jane. He deeply believes that the Volturi is necessary for the survival of the vampire species, with its bylaws that hold secrecy of the existence of vampires to the utmost importance. Due to humanity's continuously advancing technological prowess to the point where there are already weapons in existence that can kill vampires, he speculates that it is only a matter of time before they create more devastating constructs that may be able to wipe out the entirety of vampire-kind on Earth.

Aro is very childlike in manner, like a child, is impatient and can be immature. He is also the most curious of the Volturi and is also the one with the most zeal. He is power hungry and the Volturi do abuse their power, but when it boils down, is Aro is afraid to lose that power and will do whatever it takes to protect it, himself, his family and at large the vampire world. He is akin to a frightened child, and does not feel safe without his Guard, sadly a common feeling amongst those who abuse their power. Aro is not a cruel person and will avoid a fight, or killing if he can avoid it (unlike Caius). It stands to reason that if the Volturi keep going the way they are going one does not need Alice’s powers to see that things may end badly for them, which is the last thing the Volturi would want. Perhaps Carlisle will be the one to help them soften their edges a little, teach them how they can still govern the Vampire world fairly without losing their power or influence, but leaning how to use that power wisely and effectively and govern with a firm, but kind hand, and rather than disaster for the Volturi and the Vampire world, they will earn that respect from love, as opposed to fear, Aro can grow out of the need to be called ‘master’ but without losing his unique flair and it can be one of those very special and rare happy endings he loves so much.