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Name: Mina Tepes Fandom: Dance in the Vampire Bund [manga canon] Gender: Female Age: Unknown, she is at least 200 years old as she was shown to be active in the 1800s. Physically she resembles someone in their early teen. Time Period: After Senin's death. Wing Color: Red History: Several hundred years before the beginning of the series, Mina's mother was killed during a war between the various warring vampire clans. As a result of this conflict, Mina was forced to become queen of the vampires and take on the responsibility of continuing the vampire race by someday conceiving an heir. To make sure of this fact, the heads of the three clans that emerged victorious in the prior war, Ivanovic, Rozenmen, and Lei, required Mina be exposed to a so-called "purity test" to make sure she remained a virgin and her ability to bear a child sometime in the future, as pure blooded vampires such as Mina can only give birth once in their lifetime.
Years of being alone as queen eventually takes it's toll on Mina, who slowly becomes increasingly depressed and begins to think she has nothing to live for. This changes when she meets the son of her servant Beowulf's son, and her future knight, Akira just after the child's birth. Seeing the innocent child grow-up gives Mina some hope for the future. The pair reunite on the day of Mina's purity test some years later, when after the test Akira finds the vampire princess crying in a field of flowers. Thinking that she had been hurt in someway, Akira promises to protect Mina from then on.
We next see princess Mina in the present day, as she works to open her Vampire Bund, a place for vampires to live in peace without fear of persecution. At the same time, Akira's 17th birthday finally arrives, as this was the day his father promised that the young boy would become Mina's servant. With Akira in tow, Mina attempts to expose her bund, and the existence of vampires in general to the outside world. In doing so she exposes herself to a mountain of naysayers, which prompts Mina to hold a press conference to answer such claims. At this event a reporter, who had been turned into a vampire upon coming to the bund, attempts to detonate a bomb hidden within her chest to kill the princess. Akira Mina's adviser Vera manage to find this out in time and destroy the offending vampire while Akira disposes of the bomb in a shaft that leads deep within the bund's core. For his actions Akira is given the title of knight officelly.
With the truth about vampires out in the open, Mina attempts to craft a normal life of-sorts for herself and enrolls at the same high school as Akira. This leads to problems, as the student council president hates the vampires presence within the school. However, as it stands, Mina had founded the school years before to eventually serve as a place that young vampires and humans could mingle. This leads a rouge group of vampires to kidnap the president without consulting Mina first. Though Mina seems to think the problem has solved itself, she goes about about with other concerns, such as getting the bill passed that would make the Bund an independent state. As the current prime minister was against the bill and refused to change his stance, Mina resorts to dirty tactics and kidnaps the prime minister's grandson and has one of her maids bite him. Using the child as a part of a trade, Mina gets the prime minister to pull his block of the bill in question in exchange for the safe return of his son.
This issues splits Akira and Mina's relationship in two as the young man begins to question if he can trust his princess. This leads Akira to rally his fellow students against the vampires that had invaded the school by walling themselves up in the campus' chapel until the next day when they would call an outdoors assembly to determine who was a vampire or not. During the night, a group of vampires ,led by the recently turned student council president, attack the chapel while Akira was away looking for weapons.
Mina catches wind of this plan and goes personally to end things. After arguing with the vampire in charge, the son of one of her advisers, Mina sparks a fight with him and in the end kills the rouge vampire. After the fight, Mina laments the fact that no one understands her, as seen by those claiming their scheming in her name, and attacks Akira, who had recently returned with weapons in hand. The pair fight in their true forms, Akira being a werewolf and Mina taking her adult form. Eventually, the conflict breaks apart a large portion of the chapel's roof, which would have crushed Mina if Akira had not defended her small frame with his own body. Seeing that Akira truly loved and care for her, Mina embraces him and realizes the truth of their relationship.
After a few weeks of peace, and Mina bonding with Akira's friend Yuki, her life is once more thrown into conflict as a vampire named Hysterica attacks one night. Being the one in charge of the group that had previously attacked the chapel and turned the president into a vampire, Hysterica claims to be working for a much larger group bent on bringing down everything Mina had worked so hard for. Her plan goes as follows: by using a group of vampires as bomb-carriers, she would blow up a series of buildings in order to break any trust Mina had curried with the public of Japan. After much planning, Mina attempts to stop this plot by luring Hysterica into a place where she could not signal her bombs to explode. After a prolonged fight, Mina manages to beat back her enemy until she brings the president into a perilous situation, which stalls Mina greatly. Mina answers this challenge by changing into her winged form and saving the girl which allows her foe a moment to regain her balance. Hysterica, knowing that Mina's adult form was of great interest to her masters, attempts to call those in charge to spread the news. This moment of distraction allows Mina to signal the president, whom she had regained control of by overwriting her master via a injection of her own DNA, to impale Hysterica with a sharp object. After the fight, Mina allows the president to work in her residence as a maid, as the young girl has no where else to go.
Awhile later, Mina is given the news that the heads of the three major vampire clans would soon be at her door for another purity test. However, this simple visit soon turns into much more, as the three clan heads had struck a wager in which each of them would sic an assassin on Akira and the man whose champion was alive at the end of the conflict would finally take Mina as his bride. Akira first finds this out when a shapeshifting vampire, who was acting on behalf of Ivanovic, takes Mina's form and try to pry information regarding the princess' true form. The pair fight back and forth for awhile before an exhausted Akira kills the vampire for imitating Mina's form. The fight then goes back and forth between Akira, a pair of twin vampires, an a man dressed in a sentai-styled set of power armor. During the conflict Akira is aided by a police officer named Seji Hama and the Fangless of the lower Bund, who direct him to the lowest level of the Bund in order to give him more ground to fight on and regain his strength.
Back in her throne room, Mina sees that Akira has a chance of winning the contest and throws her own bet into the mix. In short, she states that if Akira wins the contest, the three clan heads must leave her alone until such time she decides to marry. Meanwhile, back in the recesses of the Bund, Akira finds himself in an strange place painted to look like Mina's home in Romania. A man calling himself AB, who is seemingly the writer Ambrose Bierce, tells Akira that this place was built to be the princess' personal sanctuary. In a bit, the twin assassins catch up with Akira and force him into a fight once more. Realizing how their attacks work, each twin can swap places with the other instantly, Akira finally defeats the pair. The power armor wearing combatant them reveals himself to be Seji Hama, who had helped Akira earlier. However, rather the fight Akira, who was on the verge of death due to an arm injury, Seji surrenders on the basis that Akira had already won as he was fighting for the girl he loved.
When news of this reaches Mina and the others, the three clan heads attempt to attack Mina, who fights back by invoking a weapon that would flood the room with sunlight and kill everyone within. Rather then risking their own death, the clan heads back down and leave for the time being. Afterwords, Mina reunites with her beloved Akira and renew their promise from years ago to always be together.
Following the contest's end, and Mina regaining control over whom she will choose to marry in the future, the integration of the vampires into human society continues as several of the young fangless join Mina and friends in school. With the world in relative safety, Mina returns to matters of running the bund and bonding with Akira, Yuki, and her other friends.
One night, while holding a slumber party at Yuki's apartment, Akira's old partner, Angel, makes an appearance as the newest member of Mina's personal guard, which at first sparks a rather intense fit of jealously in the princess when she learns that Angel and Akira had slept together during a training mission. This fit is quickly quelled when Mina learns that Angel is in fact male and that it is simply Beowulf, the group both Akira and Angel are part of, tradition to partner with another member of the earth clan as part of the ritual bonding rites every werewolf must take part in.
On her way home from the part, Mina begins to feel odd and eventually falls under the sway of something known as the “Sleep of Death”, a coma-like state in which a vampire falls unconscious for a period of time to recover energy. However, this is not a normal state of sleep as it is revealed that a small nanomachine had infected Mina's mind and was recording her thoughts while shutting down the rest of her body. Much fretting is made over the incident, as Mina nearly died, and it is revealed that the machines were made my Mina's own servants earlier and that someone stole and modified them to act in the manner that caused Mina's collapse. When Mina awakens, following images of her beloved Akira back to the world of the living, Yuki had been arrested for having been charged of infecting Mina in the first place. Mina, knowing her friend would never do such a thing, clears Yuki of all charges made against her.
Following the “sleep of death” incident, Mina orders a Bund-wide blood test in order to find if any of her citizens had been infected by the so called “Pied Piper”, as the nano-machines had come to be known. During one of these tests Akira and Angel are attacked by an incredibly strong man wearing a ragged cloak and little else. Following the fight, Mina requests Akira tell her everything he knows of the killer's identity, a subject the young werewolf had been quiet about thus far. As Akira refuses to give out such information, the conversation breaks down, with Mina finally yelling “What do I mean to you?!” at her beloved. Akira responds that she is his queen, which leads Mina to request he give up the information on these grounds. Akira nearly speaks up on the subject, but not before Mina's emotions get the best of her and she storms out of the room in a fit of anger and depression.
Meanwhile, Angel had set out to lure the would-be killer into the open and confirm his identity for himself. Angel is badly hurt in the attack but is able to confirm the stalker's identity and allow Mina to bring him in for questioning. As it turns out, the rouge werewolf was in fact a boy named Sanin that had been on the same training mission as Angel and Akira were two years ago. Angel then gives Mina the whole story of what happened on that mission, Sanin had gotten into a fight with the other boy on the mission, whose name was Graham, which forced Akira to kill Graham and left Sanin missing since. The Bund's doctor then confirms that Sanin's aggression was caused by mixture of one of Graham's fangs being driven directly into his brain in the fight and the fact that someone had injected him with a type of medication that forced the user into a powerful rage.
Shortly afterwords, a “Pied Piper” infected vampire disables the Bund's security system, allowing for Sanin to escape. Unable to do anything else for his poor friend, Akira is forced into a fight with Sanin that ends when Akira forces his old friend into his human form and then kills him out of mercy. Afterwords, Akira and Mina visit Sanin's grave where Mina asks Akira that if she was ever to become in a condition like Sanin's that she'd like her beloved to kill her. Akira, says he would never do such a thing, as he would hate to loose another person close to him. He then goes on to explain that the reason that he never told Mina about the incident with Graham was that he was sure that she would think he was a monster and not the innocent boy she knew from years ago. In the end, both Mina and Akira break down crying and apologize to each other for the things they said.
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Name: Mina Tepes
Fandom: Dance in the Vampire Bund [manga canon]
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown, she is at least 200 years old as she was shown to be active in the 1800s. Physically she resembles someone in their early teen.
Time Period: After Senin's death.
Wing Color: Red
History:
Several hundred years before the beginning of the series, Mina's mother was killed during a war between the various warring vampire clans. As a result of this conflict, Mina was forced to become queen of the vampires and take on the responsibility of continuing the vampire race by someday conceiving an heir. To make sure of this fact, the heads of the three clans that emerged victorious in the prior war, Ivanovic, Rozenmen, and Lei, required Mina be exposed to a so-called "purity test" to make sure she remained a virgin and her ability to bear a child sometime in the future, as pure blooded vampires such as Mina can only give birth once in their lifetime.
Years of being alone as queen eventually takes it's toll on Mina, who slowly becomes increasingly depressed and begins to think she has nothing to live for. This changes when she meets the son of her servant Beowulf's son, and her future knight, Akira just after the child's birth. Seeing the innocent child grow-up gives Mina some hope for the future. The pair reunite on the day of Mina's purity test some years later, when after the test Akira finds the vampire princess crying in a field of flowers. Thinking that she had been hurt in someway, Akira promises to protect Mina from then on.
We next see princess Mina in the present day, as she works to open her Vampire Bund, a place for vampires to live in peace without fear of persecution. At the same time, Akira's 17th birthday finally arrives, as this was the day his father promised that the young boy would become Mina's servant. With Akira in tow, Mina attempts to expose her bund, and the existence of vampires in general to the outside world. In doing so she exposes herself to a mountain of naysayers, which prompts Mina to hold a press conference to answer such claims. At this event a reporter, who had been turned into a vampire upon coming to the bund, attempts to detonate a bomb hidden within her chest to kill the princess. Akira Mina's adviser Vera manage to find this out in time and destroy the offending vampire while Akira disposes of the bomb in a shaft that leads deep within the bund's core. For his actions Akira is given the title of knight officelly.
With the truth about vampires out in the open, Mina attempts to craft a normal life of-sorts for herself and enrolls at the same high school as Akira.
This leads to problems, as the student council president hates the vampires presence within the school. However, as it stands, Mina had founded the school years before to eventually serve as a place that young vampires and humans could mingle. This leads a rouge group of vampires to kidnap the president without consulting Mina first. Though Mina seems to think the problem has solved itself, she goes about about with other concerns, such as getting the bill passed that would make the Bund an independent state. As the current prime minister was against the bill and refused to change his stance, Mina resorts to dirty tactics and kidnaps the prime minister's grandson and has one of her maids bite him. Using the child as a part of a trade, Mina gets the prime minister to pull his block of the bill in question in exchange for the safe return of his son.
This issues splits Akira and Mina's relationship in two as the young man begins to question if he can trust his princess. This leads Akira to rally his fellow students against the vampires that had invaded the school by walling themselves up in the campus' chapel until the next day when they would call an outdoors assembly to determine who was a vampire or not. During the night, a group of vampires ,led by the recently turned student council president, attack the chapel while Akira was away looking for weapons.
Mina catches wind of this plan and goes personally to end things. After arguing with the vampire in charge, the son of one of her advisers, Mina sparks a fight with him and in the end kills the rouge vampire. After the fight, Mina laments the fact that no one understands her, as seen by those claiming their scheming in her name, and attacks Akira, who had recently returned with weapons in hand. The pair fight in their true forms, Akira being a werewolf and Mina taking her adult form. Eventually, the conflict breaks apart a large portion of the chapel's roof, which would have crushed Mina if Akira had not defended her small frame with his own body. Seeing that Akira truly loved and care for her, Mina embraces him and realizes the truth of their relationship.
After a few weeks of peace, and Mina bonding with Akira's friend Yuki, her life is once more thrown into conflict as a vampire named Hysterica attacks one night. Being the one in charge of the group that had previously attacked the chapel and turned the president into a vampire, Hysterica claims to be working for a much larger group bent on bringing down everything Mina had worked so hard for. Her plan goes as follows: by using a group of vampires as bomb-carriers, she would blow up a series of buildings in order to break any trust Mina had curried with the public of Japan. After much planning, Mina attempts to stop this plot by luring Hysterica into a place where she could not signal her bombs to explode. After a prolonged fight, Mina manages to beat back her enemy until she brings the president into a perilous situation, which stalls Mina greatly. Mina answers this challenge by changing into her winged form and saving the girl which allows her foe a moment to regain her balance. Hysterica, knowing that Mina's adult form was of great interest to her masters, attempts to call those in charge to spread the news. This moment of distraction allows Mina to signal the president, whom she had regained control of by overwriting her master via a injection of her own DNA, to impale Hysterica with a sharp object. After the fight, Mina allows the president to work in her residence as a maid, as the young girl has no where else to go.
Awhile later, Mina is given the news that the heads of the three major vampire clans would soon be at her door for another purity test. However, this simple visit soon turns into much more, as the three clan heads had struck a wager in which each of them would sic an assassin on Akira and the man whose champion was alive at the end of the conflict would finally take Mina as his bride. Akira first finds this out when a shapeshifting vampire, who was acting on behalf of Ivanovic, takes Mina's form and try to pry information regarding the princess' true form. The pair fight back and forth for awhile before an exhausted Akira kills the vampire for imitating Mina's form. The fight then goes back and forth between Akira, a pair of twin vampires, an a man dressed in a sentai-styled set of power armor. During the conflict Akira is aided by a police officer named Seji Hama and the Fangless of the lower Bund, who direct him to the lowest level of the Bund in order to give him more ground to fight on and regain his strength.
Back in her throne room, Mina sees that Akira has a chance of winning the contest and throws her own bet into the mix. In short, she states that if Akira wins the contest, the three clan heads must leave her alone until such time she decides to marry. Meanwhile, back in the recesses of the Bund, Akira finds himself in an strange place painted to look like Mina's home in Romania. A man calling himself AB, who is seemingly the writer Ambrose Bierce, tells Akira that this place was built to be the princess' personal sanctuary. In a bit, the twin assassins catch up with Akira and force him into a fight once more. Realizing how their attacks work, each twin can swap places with the other instantly, Akira finally defeats the pair. The power armor wearing combatant them reveals himself to be Seji Hama, who had helped Akira earlier. However, rather the fight Akira, who was on the verge of death due to an arm injury, Seji surrenders on the basis that Akira had already won as he was fighting for the girl he loved.
When news of this reaches Mina and the others, the three clan heads attempt to attack Mina, who fights back by invoking a weapon that would flood the room with sunlight and kill everyone within. Rather then risking their own death, the clan heads back down and leave for the time being. Afterwords, Mina reunites with her beloved Akira and renew their promise from years ago to always be together.
Following the contest's end, and Mina regaining control over whom she will choose to marry in the future, the integration of the vampires into human society continues as several of the young fangless join Mina and friends in school. With the world in relative safety, Mina returns to matters of running the bund and bonding with Akira, Yuki, and her other friends.
One night, while holding a slumber party at Yuki's apartment, Akira's old partner, Angel, makes an appearance as the newest member of Mina's personal guard, which at first sparks a rather intense fit of jealously in the princess when she learns that Angel and Akira had slept together during a training mission. This fit is quickly quelled when Mina learns that Angel is in fact male and that it is simply Beowulf, the group both Akira and Angel are part of, tradition to partner with another member of the earth clan as part of the ritual bonding rites every werewolf must take part in.
On her way home from the part, Mina begins to feel odd and eventually falls under the sway of something known as the “Sleep of Death”, a coma-like state in which a vampire falls unconscious for a period of time to recover energy. However, this is not a normal state of sleep as it is revealed that a small nanomachine had infected Mina's mind and was recording her thoughts while shutting down the rest of her body. Much fretting is made over the incident, as Mina nearly died, and it is revealed that the machines were made my Mina's own servants earlier and that someone stole and modified them to act in the manner that caused Mina's collapse. When Mina awakens, following images of her beloved Akira back to the world of the living, Yuki had been arrested for having been charged of infecting Mina in the first place. Mina, knowing her friend would never do such a thing, clears Yuki of all charges made against her.
Following the “sleep of death” incident, Mina orders a Bund-wide blood test in order to find if any of her citizens had been infected by the so called “Pied Piper”, as the nano-machines had come to be known. During one of these tests Akira and Angel are attacked by an incredibly strong man wearing a ragged cloak and little else. Following the fight, Mina requests Akira tell her everything he knows of the killer's identity, a subject the young werewolf had been quiet about thus far. As Akira refuses to give out such information, the conversation breaks down, with Mina finally yelling “What do I mean to you?!” at her beloved. Akira responds that she is his queen, which leads Mina to request he give up the information on these grounds. Akira nearly speaks up on the subject, but not before Mina's emotions get the best of her and she storms out of the room in a fit of anger and depression.
Meanwhile, Angel had set out to lure the would-be killer into the open and confirm his identity for himself. Angel is badly hurt in the attack but is able to confirm the stalker's identity and allow Mina to bring him in for questioning. As it turns out, the rouge werewolf was in fact a boy named Sanin that had been on the same training mission as Angel and Akira were two years ago. Angel then gives Mina the whole story of what happened on that mission, Sanin had gotten into a fight with the other boy on the mission, whose name was Graham, which forced Akira to kill Graham and left Sanin missing since. The Bund's doctor then confirms that Sanin's aggression was caused by mixture of one of Graham's fangs being driven directly into his brain in the fight and the fact that someone had injected him with a type of medication that forced the user into a powerful rage.
Shortly afterwords, a “Pied Piper” infected vampire disables the Bund's security system, allowing for Sanin to escape. Unable to do anything else for his poor friend, Akira is forced into a fight with Sanin that ends when Akira forces his old friend into his human form and then kills him out of mercy. Afterwords, Akira and Mina visit Sanin's grave where Mina asks Akira that if she was ever to become in a condition like Sanin's that she'd like her beloved to kill her. Akira, says he would never do such a thing, as he would hate to loose another person close to him. He then goes on to explain that the reason that he never told Mina about the incident with Graham was that he was sure that she would think he was a monster and not the innocent boy she knew from years ago. In the end, both Mina and Akira break down crying and apologize to each other for the things they said.