Roman Godfrey

Personality:
Outwardly, Roman personifies the stereotypical "rich boy" who shrouds his insecurities with his wealth and drugs. As the show progresses, Roman is revealed to be sensitive, as seen in how he cares for Shelley, and lonesome in nature, as seen in how he adheres to his first friend Peter. He is loyal and kind to Peter, as well as his cousin Letha, and his younger sister Shelley, and exhibits a genuine desire to be a good person throughout. He has performed multiple heroic acts, such as battling the vargulf alone after Peter is seemingly killed, as well as protecting Shelley from school bullies and saving Peter from murderous vigilantes. He helps Peter save the life of at least one child. He shows his more evil nature, when he raped a girl during a psychological break/drug overdose. He also seemingly killed his mother by ripping out her tongue, but that was mainly to protect his baby, Nadia, whom Olivia was threatening. Roman goes to great lengths to keep Nadia safe. Overall, Roman is a conflicted and severely troubled but generally benevolent character. Arguably, his biggest fault is self-loathing for being upir and the mistakes he makes on account of allowing the upir nature override his better judgment. He leads a conflicted life, continuing to try to care for and help those he loves by trying to care for Shelley however she'll let him, and conducting a relentless, obsessive search for Nadia. When Pryce is forced to flush his humane food supply by Olivia, Roman tries hard initially to avoid hunting or feeding off the living. He also tries to help Peter in a cover up to protect Peter's cousin Destiny, ultimately leading to the demise of all three characters. Unfortunately, at this same time he's succumbing to his more monstrous side progressively throughout - some examples of this are knowingly feeding on and killing a prostitute, knowingly having violently angry and incestuous (though consensual) sex with his half-sister Annie (Magdalena), choosing to snap Destiny Rumancek's neck during a physical fight (which Destiny starts on account of Peter's lies) rather then attempting to save her instead, and then lying to Peter about it, causing him to later attempt to kill his best friend in self-defense. Overall, Roman is his own worst enemy as he struggles to hold onto his humanity and kindness, but he often finds himself giving in to his inner monster by choosing to be more vicious and cruel as a means to an end. His want to do the right thing always turns into an act of evil, such as his want to save Nadia becoming about destroying Spivak, to the point where he almost forgot about his daughter. He also began to treat Shelley as Olivia did, yelling at her and even calling her ugly in his blind rage. His anger continued to control him afterward, causing him to yell at and then punch Destiny, breaking her neck and giving her severe hemorrhaging. His cruel nature made him act much like his mother, with him becoming more hostile towards others, even Shelley, as well as killing Destiny and manipulating Peter into killing others. He felt distraught at what he had become and what he had done, but believed he was to far gone to stop and did not make an effort to save himself, struggling with hating his evil self and embracing it.

Powers & Abilities:

• Enhanced Strength: Roman has used his enhanced strength countless times, once even to send a person flying 20 feet through the air while other times he has grappled with and overpowered others or choked them with one hand in an grip seemingly the strength of metal. His strength has allowed him to overpower humans, even someone like Johann Price, with little effort while performing feats such as sending people flying into the air or tearing flesh with his bare hands requires more effort. He was able to rip Peter's wolf form in half and pull him out of its shredded body.
• Mesmerization: Who ever has Romans face and eyes in their line if sight and whoever Roman has in his his line of sight, Roman can control by speaking. Roman has used his power of mesmerization countless times, he has used it to initiate sex with women, he has used it to make a cop stick a gun in his mouth and to make people lose their memory. By season 3, he demonstrates the ability to mesmerize without speaking when he wills an assassin who has infiltrated a board meeting at The White Tower to shoot himself in the head by just making eye contact.
• Enhanced Durability: Even as a half Upir Roman would constantly cut himself without feeling much pain, though he was taking drugs like cocaine at the time, after he had became a full upir his durability advanced he was able to slam his head on a mirror with great force without feeling it and without a single scratch. He was struck in the back with an metal pole when he attacked and fed on a homeless man but it landed on him like he was made of metal and did nothing to him
• Regenerative Healing: Roman can heal in a very rapid time. though not as fast as his mother and not to the point were he will be able to avoid great discomfort.
• Immortality: Because Roman is a full upir he will can not age and is immune to all diseases.

Weaknesses:
Because Roman is a full upir his weaknesses are limited:

• Decapitation: Decapitation will temporally kill him, but only burning him or removing his heart will completely kill him.
  Stabbed in the Heart: If Roman is stabbed in the heart, they will be weak enough to burn and completely kill.
• Burning: Fire is one of two things that can kill an upir. The other is complete removal of the heart.
• Desiccation: If an upir is abstained from blood for too long then, they will be weak and rabid, causing them to be reduced to a feral state and lose control of themselves.
• Physical Trauma: If he is drained of blood he will become capable of experiencing damage and pain, though only being fully burned or complete removal of the heart from the body will truly be fatal while anything else will simply bring him pain and cripple him until he feeds.