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Aaron Stefanovic was born as Sárközi Miklós to a poor family of vampires in a small village near Northern Transylvania, circa 1880. His exact year of birth is unknown, but he claims to be almost one hundred and thirty years old. He legally changed his name to Aaron Stefanovic upon moving to the United States.
His claims to being related to Dracula can be verified through genealogy that goes back to the twelfth century AD.
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Aaron was born in his home in a tiny village in Hungary, near Northern Transylvania. His father was a poor baker, and the family lived on only a few thousand florint per year. As a young boy he showed an interest in music and learned to play the violin. Because he was so poor, he couldn't afford a high quality instrument, and so he settled for a cheap fiddle he bought for a hundred florint, which was all he'd saved in his eight years of life. By his twelfth birthday in 1892, the instrument was virtually unplayable, and he gave up to pursue other things.
His mother died in 1894, and her final dying wish was for him to restore his lineage, to make his ancestors proud. His father, on the other hand, didn't want him to take any risks. He sided with his mother, and he left the village and was accepted to Cambridge University.
Aaron was the youngest student at Cambridge during his tenure. He devoted himself to his studies and became a medical doctor in 1902, and he moved back to Hungary to pursue a career as a neurologist. But his father became ill in the summer of 1903, and he returned to his home village, where he was forced to take over his father's business.
In the fall of 1903, Aaron took over the family bakery when his father was stricken by pneumonia. He hated the job, but he was the only one that his father trusted to do it.
One day, when he was about to close up, Hatvani Adrienn, a young woman from a neighboring village, came in and begged for a loaf of bread for her dying brother. She didn't have any money, and she offered to do anything for him. He felt attracted to her, and so he gave her the bread and told her to come back whenever she wanted, and he would give her one loaf of bread free of charge per visit. She didn't return for two weeks.
When she finally came back, she apologized for her desperation and offered to pay him back, but he wouldn't have it. Instead, he offered to feed her and her family free of charge. She explained that she was all alone and that she could no longer maintain her home. Aaron helped her for the next year, but after his father died, he decided it was high time he procure an heir for himself.
He proposed that she become his mate, and when she agreed, he bit her. After she was fully transformed, he got her pregnant, but her body rejected the fetus and she miscarried. He tried time and time again, but her body wouldn't keep a fetus alive, and they gave up trying to have children. She died of pneumonia in winter of 1910.
Soon after Adrienn died, Aaron sold the bakery and sought a new life away from his homeland. He settled in Hamburg, Germany with no money, no job, and nowhere to go. He became a beggar until a local baker offered him work. He worked as a baker until 1913, when he left to pursue a career in psychology.
He idolized Carl Jung and formulated his own ideas around the Swiss psychiatrist's principles. Nevertheless, he was never popular enough to remain in the black, and when he slipped into debt he left the medical business for his first trade, baking.
During the last year of First World War he fought for Germany, but when the German army was defeated he was forced back to baking once again.
In the summer of 1920, he met Olivia Schwarzkopf, much in the same manner as he had met his first mate. She immediately fell for him, and vice versa. After a year of courtship, she agreed to become his mate. She took to her new vampire state like a fish to water, and immediately bore him twin sons. She died in childbirth with her third child, Sabrina. All three children died in Auschwitz as a result of Nazi experimentation.
Olivia was the only "mate" to bear him children, though in the future his wife Faye would give him five.
After fleeing the Third Reich, Aaron sought refuge in the United States. He took immediate steps to become a citizen, and changed his name from the Hungarian Sárközi Miklós to the more easily pronounced Aaron Stefanovic. He opened a medical practice in Washington, D.C. and began searching for other vampires. When he found none, he moved west and settled in Montana, where he found several others. In Bozeman he opened the first vampire-exclusive medical clinic in the summer of 1940, and he continued operating it until it burned to the ground in a freak accident in 1964.
Aaron enlisted in the military on December 10, 1941 as a response to the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, leaving his clinic behind to defend the country that, as he put it, "saved [him] from the monsters that killed [his] children."
Aaron was with the infantry that landed on Utah Beach on D-Day. After the end of the war, he went back to his clinic until he was called upon once again to fight.
Aaron's last tour was spent in Vietnam. He was evacuated from Saigon during Operation Frequent Wind on April 29, 1975 with a chest full of bullets. He was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star.
Early in the morning on April 29, 1975, a troupe of Viet Cong ambushed Aaron's company while they were on their way to Saigon for evacuation. His commanding officer, Jonathan Kirkpatrick, was wounded, and the field medic was killed. Amidst a storm of bullets, he took the medkit and dressed Kirkpatrick's wounds, and then carried him to shelter while his fellow soldiers laid down suppressing fire on the Viet Cong. Aaron was hit several times, but didn't waver in the least.
Aaron was given an honorable discharge in March of 1977.
Aaron professes to be agnostic, but does believe that good and evil exist and that supernatural forces shape life. He is highly superstitious and believes in ghosts as the spirits of the departed.
Aaron came from a society--vampire, not Hungarian--where marriage is nonexistent. When he made an advance on Erica Lawrence, she insisted he conform to the social norms of Western tradition. At first he saw her as his prey, but gradually he fell genuinely in love with her--something he hadn't experienced in decades.
When she confessed indirectly that she loved Dominic more than him, he was heartbroken. He let her go to the man she truly loved, and then Dominic set him up with his cousin Faye, whom Aaron wound up marrying.
Aaron has the documents to prove his direct descent from Vlad the Impaler--Dracula himself. For generations before and after Vlad, his family has followed a rigorous rule that any mates must be Noble-blooded Vampires. If no noble-blooded suitor was to be found, a human could be accepted, but only after being transformed.
Aaron's mother had the unhappy burden of being the only daughter of the last living descendant of Dracula. She could not find a noble-blooded vampire, so she seduced the village baker, a strong man whom she trusted would give her a strapping son. Before she let him sleep with her, she forced him to agree to the transformation. At first he was reluctant to undergo the process, but she threatened him, while assuring him he would survive. When he still didn't want to become a vampire she forced herself on him, knocking him unconscious so that he wouldn't fight.
When he awoke, he was fully transformed, a pure-blooded vampire. She offered him her body, and he took it gladly. They remained mated until the day she died.
In spirit of the family tree, Aaron vowed to transform any mate into a pure-blooded vampire. When he married Faye Purcell, however, he didn't stay true to that vow. He left her as she was, claiming her blood was "pure enough."