Dayaw is my Castlevania OC; he is a vampire who is known as an "aswang" in his homeland, the Philippines. He is many types of aswang at once: shapeshifter, bloodsucker, liver-eater and body-separator. Generally, he is a vampire. His placeholder name - or rather, honorific - was "Manong" (big brother) for a little while, that's why some of the artworks here address him as Manong.

He has a spirit of a rebel—a revolutionary—so much so that he jumpstarted major revolutions more than once just by shapeshifting and manipulating. Example 1: he shapeshifted into Marie-Antionette just to say "Let them eat [brioche]." and watch the whole domino/snowball effect happen. Example 2: he was one of the (indirect) causes of American revolution and used that as a smokescreen so he could save as much trafficked people as he can in the background. He didn't do this alone, though, he worked with many vampires who joined his cause because he believes anything can be achieved through teamwork, but he can work alone at times.

Dayaw can be impulsive at times, but as a shapeshifter he is the master at playing pretend. He may have a noble cause, but he isn't benevolent. In his free time, he likes to ruin interpersonal relationships between people, families and friends—specifically in white communities. (given the time period, he has a valid reason to despise them) He likes to infiltrate churches that are abandoned by their God and mess with nuns and priests, also because it's easy to enter them when there is no God to prevent him from entering.

No one knows he's doing all this because they only know him by his title/honorific "Manong", and no one truly knows what the "Manong" looks like.

vampire

shapeshifter

supernatural

filipino

pinoy

castlevanianocturne

castlevania

aswang

mandurugo

mananaggal

netflixvania

nocturne

Dayaw and his gems

Dayaw

Dayaw on Unvale

Dayaw

Gallery

Dayaw and his gems

Comments

Favorited by

Writing

No writing uploaded yet!

Traits