Ira Blood (艾勒 · 布拉德, Ài lēi· bù lā dé), a British vampire from a high ranked family, is one of the main characters of the All Saints Street manhua and donghua series.
Appearance[]
In his human form he has reddish-brown hair, and red eyes. As he's a vampire, he also has pointy ears and visible fangs, which can be seen when he smiles. Ira's outfits vary through the donghua and manhua, but he can most commonly be found wearing graphic t-shirts and sweatpants, or a tracksuit.
He's almost always seen with a hat on—in the manhua, this hat varies from chapter to chapter (though he usually wears a red cap with cat-ears). However, in the donghua its most commonly a red chullo. In addition, he has a small stubble on his chin in both the manhua and donghua, although the shape varies.
His bat form is dark grey with red eyes, similar to his human form.
Personality[]
Originally the heir of a noble vampire family, Ira now lives his life as a self-proclaimed otaku, making a living as a semi-popular online streamer.
Ira has a mischievous personality and enjoys playing a wide array of pranks on his roommates and landlord. This, coupled with his tendency to neglect chores out of laziness has cemented his spot as Lynn's most hated tenant[1].
Despite his questionable schemes and underhanded tactics, he cares deeply for his friends, feeling protective of Neil in particular due to his naivety, seeing as he can be easily exploited by himself as well as others.
As a video game streamer, he is very skilled in playing video games and enjoys playing them with friends. However, despite his skill, he has a core fanbase of less than 10k[2].
Ira attributes his choice in NEET lifestyle to Neil's encouragement, following an incident where, during one of their online game matches, Ira, conflicted about whether to stay home and inherit his family's state at the expense of his own personal freedoms, had messaged Neil inquiring about his opinion. Provided the lack of context, Neil had answered under the impression that Ira was inquiring about his character's profile in an RPG game, rather than a choice impactful to his actual life.
He seems satisfied with his current life direction as he tells Neil that he is glad to be able to wear t-shirts and eat cup noodles every day. However, Ira has been shown to harbor an inferiority complex about his inability to live up to his family's expectations, and will take to heart any reminder of his poor contributions to society. This problem is compounded by Ira's continued financial reliance on his estranged family.
It's clear that Ira has different priorities from his family and in particular, his mother. While he can be seen sometimes enjoying the garish excesses of vampire life, in retrospect, he expresses distaste towards having to spend hours preparing to simply go outside, having maids fester over his every move, and having to "use a scooter to go to the living room", due to the size of his home.
Still, given his flamboyant vampire upbringing, Ira posesses extensive knowledge of make-up and theatrics, useful to his streamer career, and does a presentation of this skill in his show, as well as when Lynn asked him, Neil, and Damao to perform a video for Christmas.
While he can be highly analytical and motivated, his convoluted ideas are often more excessive than they are useful, and rarely ever used towards a productive mean, this is evident in his love for pranks. In the donghua, after Lynn has gone missing, he is the first to device a methodical plan to locate his whereabouts, and later on, after Lynn is discovered to have become a company CEO following a case of amnesia, he is quick to propose he and his friends infiltrate the company as interns and increasingly climb up the corporate ladder in order to reach him. This is quickly shut down by the present.
His most defining trait is his general laziness, rendering him unable to consistently pursue anything other than self indulgence despite his underlying potential. At some point, he has become an acclaimed actor following a bet with Luis, overtaking the latter's success[3], but is quick to abandon it in favor of returning to gaming[4].
History[]
Trivia[]
- His favorite blood type is B.
- Only a few know he's a professional blackmailer.
- His hobbies are collecting hats and sportswear.
- His favorite foods are red dates and duck blood in chili sauce.
- He can play the piano.
- He is afraid of becoming bald.
- Ira's zodiac sign is Gemini.
- He suffers from insomnia