Caith 'E' Harris

"Why do you guys hate lies so much? There's only one truth, but endless possibilities for lies, y'know? And some of them are only white lies, or lies to be kind to people... If you deny all of that *just* because it's a lie... Then that means you guys are just terrible at being lied to! Seriously, the worst!"

Caith 'E' Harris is one of the members of the BloodBanners gang, known as the  'Dirty Bloodsucker' by New York civilians. He's also an antagonist-turned-main character.

Appearance
Caith has short striking white hair. He has pale skin with scarlet red wide upturned eyes that has dark bags and a small mole under his left eye. Though rarely seen and not quite visible in his current outfits, Caith has a small mole on his right collarbone and another one on his right arm. Caith, being a vampire, has a pair of sharp pointed fangs, very long claw like fingernails, and pointed ears that has multiple piercings. Caith has been seen wearing multiple differently styled clothes.

In his current outfit, Caith has his not particularly styled mid-length white hair with his fringe sweeping the right. He wears a black zip-up turtleneck tracksuit with his signature red bat logo on the right side and a white stripe lining from his shoulders to his sleeves. He wears this bare-foot and with white wide-leg lounge pants that are slightly longer than his legs.  

Personality
Caith is an attention seeker and loves mischief. He looks down on others and loves to bully and tease people. For example, he calls Aom "No breasts". Although very energetic, he is also a narcissist and a sadist. Despite his cheerful front, Caith has suffered from suicidal thoughts in his past and present, though he claims it's all just a joke.

Caith uses vulgar language at times. Caith would insult his mother (even after her death), as well as his father, and his enemies by telling them off and calling them names (always giving others nicknames). It is also noted that he eats a lot (though only if it is his favorite food). Caith stated that vampires need to drink blood to savor the taste. His favorite food is beef jerky and gets very angry if someone eats his food.

He is often portrayed smiling slyly and laughing mischievously, though he may look very harmless and innocent at first glance. He often behaves calmly and coolly in a way to torture the others, at times turning very ominous to the point of having very unsettling, downright demonic looking expressions. Sometimes, he can speak very sweetly, even flirty and claiming he loves the other person very much, while during other moments he can speak in a very crude and nasty manner and use insults which vary from quite harmless to very mean-spirited.

Fitting his appearance, Caith often acts notably child-like, with at least some of it appearing genuine while part of it also could be just his attempt to use his looks to his advantage. He is sometimes shown to have child-like excitement and innocence, as he gets very excited about "cool" new things. He often acts playful and seemingly appears more ignorant than malicious. He is also notably interested in games and often has a strong desire to be a winner and play them seriously while also having fun along with them, with one of his principles being "to have fun" with everything he does. He enjoys hard difficulty, claiming that he always plays on Hard Mode and never uses the "Run" command, and he is stated to have nerves of steel in order to accomplish this. He came up with an original theory that enjoying the extreme thrill of cornering yourself with all exits sealed is the definition of fun. However, he also enjoys more casual things like getting chased around as if it's a game, at least by people like Elizabeth, Nick, and Julian who wouldn't beat him up after catching him, and loves hide and seek. Later in the story, it's shown that he has drawn multiple childish drawings with silly fantasy concepts such as ray guns with rainbow-colored beams (along with a silly self-portrait of himself), and he apparently owns a toy helicopter and a supercar. His favorite presents include a pop electro-water gun, most likely to use for pranks, and a hammock to relax and feel like a child again.

Above all, Caith considers lying a big part of himself and a way of life, appearing either unwilling or unable to stop it and even claiming that his body is made up of 70% lies. He frequently claims something only to shortly afterward reveal that he was just lying, making it very hard to trust his word. Sometimes the lies are very obvious, but at other times it can be near impossible to tell whether or not he is telling the truth. He also tends to say whatever riles up the enemy at the moment and tries to mess up conversations without any apparent reason. Indeed, neither because of impulsivity or the need to confuse others, he lies mostly because he feels he's free to do whatever he wants whenever he wants. He has also frequently pointed out that even if he told the truth, the others wouldn't believe a liar like him, indicating that he uses his constant lying to mask his own true feelings and intentions. Furthermore, being a liar himself, he always seems to notice when and why other people are lying. Ironically, he appears annoyed if other people are lying, either to others or themselves, and he claims that he hates liars. He also dislikes it when people claim they hate lying yet they lie. He sometimes does not point out other people's lies and may even go along with them simply for the fun of it, but he seems to enjoy revealing other characters' more serious dishonest ulterior motives with near malicious glee. Notably, whenever his face and tone goes more blank and neutral, it's heavily implied that he has a rare moment of being completely genuine and honest, and he has an occasional habit to unintentionally speaking out loud what he is genuinely thinking and sometimes even does it intentionally by openly explaining it to the others.

Besides lying, Caith is shown to be very intelligent in general, with he himself claiming that his head is always filled with complicated thoughts. He is capable of creating complex plans in a short amount of time. He is also very perceptive, possibly due to being a major liar in a story that has lies as one of it's themes, as he often appears to have a deeper understanding of the situations and can predict things to the point of resembling breaking of the fourth wall. Notably, he understands that in order to truly win the war you must end it, not necessarily survive it. He even gives this advice to Julian, telling him that games can be won by not playing them. Supposedly because of his intelligence, Caith strongly disliked boredom. He tends to complain about situations he finds boring and even during some bad situations he noted that it's fine because at least it's not boring. If he likes a person or finds them interesting, he tends to state that they are not boring, which is a big and rare compliment coming from him. In general, he also seems to have an interest in "useful" people and wishes to have such people around him.

While Caith claims that his arguments are simply based on logic, he appears to have some sort of trust issues. He once told Julian that he is more nervous around friends who share too much than strangers. It has been pointed out by other characters such as Nico and Asher that Caith does not like to talk about himself nor be open about his true feelings. In fact, he has a hard time expressing his feelings and he tends to get quickly jealous of anything. Caith tends to hide his true feelings with insulting words. He appears to have little trust in anyone or anything, refusing to tell anything about himself besides his questionable gang member claims and generally questioning the truthfulness of different situations. However, despite his trust issues, Caith does appear to see Julian as potentially trustworthy and wants to become his partner.

Indeed, despite all of his flaws, Caith is stated to have certain innocence which makes him hard to hate. Overall, he often appears to have good intentions, but acts on them in a harsh and confusing manner. He himself has claimed that he lies in order to entertain others and that his lies are told half out of kindness. He has also pointed out that while there is only one truth, there are countless lies, many which of are white lies and ones used for good and told out of kindness, and that the world would not have true freedom without lies. He appears a bit offended and even saddened that the other characters hate lies so much, and has once pointed out that the "truth isn't that good anyway". Even though he enjoys to lie and stir chaos, he also addresses many valid points and is occasionally the student who speaks the most sense. He sometimes harshly calls out other characters and brings up their major issues, but also appears to push them forward and improve. At one point, when he is accused of bullying, he pointed out how the others have no problem bullying and ganging up on him despite claiming to be good people. He also occasionally appears to have moments of genuine compassion. He also seems to feel strong guilt for his more notable bad actions, but he is willing to take drastic actions if he believes he has to do it, and it's implied that he wishes to spare the others from this role—at one point, he appears genuinely saddened as he points that the "role of the villain" is perfect for him, because everyone hates him. At another point, he mentions that everyone's got it all wrong and he claims that he only acts like a bad guy so that the others wouldn't get too soft. He has multiple times claimed that he always does things for everyone's sake and complained about the others not realizing it. He is well aware that he is the most disliked member of the BloodBanners since his introduction, claiming that nobody would care if he died.

In the Japanese, Caith refers to everyone, including boys, with the suffix "-chan", although it is actually a tender suffix used for soft characters which are often female. He has a habit of referring to some of the other male characters, particularly Julian, in an affectionate way as his "beloved" (in English, this habit is more inconsistent, as it is sometimes translated as "dearest" while other times replaced with different wording). He is known to use this term of people he seems to like, but it also could be sarcastic or just flattery at times—he seems to use it sarcastically for Chloe, as he claims he is "besties" with the half-vampire even though he openly considers her a "rude blonde bitch", and he also claims to love Nick and Nico seemingly simply because it is so easy to trick and make fun of them. Caith also occasionally uses childish way of speech such as saying "sowwy" instead of "sorry", valspeak type of dialogue such as "like", "totally", "omigod", and colloquial words like "wanna" and "gonna", and tends to drag out certain words such as "toootally".

According to Caith's creator, he is "an emotional rollercoaster of a character" and "the guy who says the things no one wants to say". They believe that Caith is actually really meek if you take away his strong wish to outwit everyone, and notes that people should keep a close eye on him, to understand his character better.

Powers and Abilities
Emotional Control: Vampires have the supernatural ability to remove or dull their emotions by "turning off" or "switching off" their humanity, which is directly connected to their emotions. Doing so allows them to block out their more negative emotions, such as fear and guilt, allowing them to feed and kill without remorse, go against any opponent without fear, and relieve themselves of painful feelings such as grief, loss, depression, and shame. A vampire without their emotions is far more calculating and direct than one who keeps them on. However, the vampire can become a remorseless killer, and are almost unrecognizable from the person they truly are, as blocking out negative emotions also causes their positive emotions to become dulled or nonexistent as well. Vampires are capable of turning their humanity back on and bringing back their emotions, but it is difficult as a result of the fact that they will be bombarded with all of their repressed emotions in addition to the guilt of anything they did without their humanity (such as killing or torturing innocent people or loved ones) with enhanced intensity. This ability fades with time and vampires who are over 500 years old have said that they have lost the ability to turn off their humanity altogether.

Enhanced Emotions: Vampires experience emotions more powerfully than humans. Emotions like love, joy, and happiness are magnified for vampires, allowing them to live life more intensely. This ability allows vampires to feel emotions at their peak regardless of their age. Conversely, sadness, depression, guilt, fear and anger are also amplified, causing many vampires to become so overwhelmed that they "turn off" their humanity to block out the more painful emotions. After time and practice, the overwhelming sensations of heightened emotions fade as the vampire learns to overcome their emotions without turning off their humanity all together.

Fangs: Vampires possess a set of retractable fangs. Their teeth are superhumanly strong and can rip open a human's neck and leave huge bite marks on the corpse of the victim it has fed on.

Immortality: A vampire stops aging once turned and can potentially live forever. Upon their transformation, vampires become immune to all conventional illnesses, diseases, viruses and infections. While vampires who were cancer-free as humans will be immune to cancer after they are turned, those humans who were turned while they had cancer will not only still have it as a vampire, but their newly-enhanced healing factor will accelerate the progression of the cancer cells over two-fold, nearly always causing the cancer-stricken vampire to kill themselves to end their suffering.

Invulnerability: Vampires can not be killed by conventional methods, such as stab wounds or gunshots. Vampires have an extreme resilience to pain.

Regeneration: Vampires recover tissue from any form of physical damage to their bodies within seconds, though they still feel the pain of a wound before it heals. Vampires can snap their bones back into place after they have been broken and have been seen to fully recover from gunshots, stab wounds, and torso impalement very quickly, so long as they had consumed a regular diet of human blood prior to the injury. Those vampires who feed on animals will still heal much faster than a human, but their injuries, especially severe ones, will take much longer to heal than a vampire who feeds on human blood.

Stealth: Vampires are often shown sneaking up on their victims without making a sound.

Super Agility: Vampires possess amazing agility. They can climb up walls and jump off buildings without hurting themselves. Vampires also have greater reflexes than humans. They have shown that they can move quickly, jump very high, climb, and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion. Vampires can jump with their super speed too. Vampires that feed on human blood can jump much higher than vampires that feed on animal blood. This ability also increases with age.

Super Durability: Vampires can take a great amount of physical damage without being slowed down. Even vampires who have been shot with wooden bullets, which have a weakening effect on vampires, have been seen to continue fighting so long as they were not shot in the heart or the head. Vampires still react to physical force in a human manner, particularly young vampires, who will occasionally be affected even by human-strength-level force. Vampires can also still be stunned and dazed by strikes and trauma, though their tolerance for it will increase as they get older.

Super Senses: Vampires have extremely keen senses of hearing, sight, smell, and taste that far exceed those of humans and werewolves. They can hear whispered conversations, even ones in far off buildings and on phones, though most vampires typically learn how to tune out most ambient noises when it's not necessary to hear them. Vampires can also smell blood from several meters away, and see in total darkness. A vampire can track a human's blood over long distances. Rose once warned Elizabeth and Oliver that, "Once a vampire has your scent, it's for life." Their senses of taste are also enhanced as well, allowing them to detect the presence of drugs, alcohol, or vervain in someone's blood. Like their strength, their senses seem to increase with age.

Super Speed: Vampires can move at greater speeds than humans. It is possible that a vampire's speed, like their strength, increases with age. Vampires can accelerate their movements to cover short distances in an instant, usually faster than the human eye can see. When running across long distances, they appear as vibrating blurs of motion allowing them to appear or vanish quickly and quietly. Their reflexes and dexterity are similarly heightened, allowing them to catch certain projectiles such as arrows and thrown stakes in the air with ease.

Super Stamina: Despite their hunger, vampires don't tire easily.

Super Strength: Vampires possess strength that is greater than humans. Young vampires experience a formidable increase in physical strength; able to lift heavy objects and overpower grown humans. Older vampires, however, can overpower their own makers and other creatures. They always have the advantage of superior strength in direct combat with a human. Even new vampires who are still in transition can toss an average-size, fully-grown human across a room with great speed and force. Their other feats include single-handedly lifting grown men high off the ground by the throat and snapping their necks, cutting off a person's head with their bare hands, and ripping out internal organs such as hearts with little to no effort. Their strength allows them to jump higher and further than any natural creature.

Telepathy: Vampires have a limited form of telepathy that allows them to easily enter the minds of humans, and with more effort, the minds of other supernatural beings. Other ways to weaken a vampire is to use telepathy on them are to starve them or drain them of blood, inject them with vervain, or expose them to werewolf venom. It is one of the hardest abilities to master, and because of this, it is usually the last of the mind-control-related abilities a vampire learns after becoming proficient in mind compulsion. Normally, this ability works through tactile contact, usually by the vampire placing the palms of his or her hands on the temples of the vampire whose mind they want to enter. The vampire then closes their eyes and focuses on the information they wish to seek, allowing them to sort through their victims' memories until they see what they're looking for. Like their physical attributes, a vampire's mental strength increases with age, making it difficult for a vampire to invade the mind of an ancient vampire.

True Face: A vampire's true face is the appearance they are hiding under their normal human face. When a vampire's true face is revealed, the sclera of their eyes turns blood-red, dark veins appear under their eyes as the blood pumps forcefully through them, and their canine teeth extend into razor-sharp fangs. On some occasions, a vampire's fang teeth can include both their canines and their lateral incisors. A vampire's true face can be revealed whenever they wish, but it will appear against their will whenever they are aroused by the scent of blood, or are feeling intense emotions such as fear, anger, lust, sadness, etc. A vampire's fangs are extremely sharp which gives them the ability to tear into almost any substance and tear off limbs. A vampire's true face will appear for the first time either while they drink human blood for the first time or shortly afterward. With the fangs come the darkened veins under the eyes as well.

Wealth of Power: This largely forgotten and shunned ability enables a Vampire to be able to change their shape into almost any form that they wish, such as a wolf, mice, bats, mist, and/or other forms known to folklore. Despite its tremendous potential, the Vampires obsession with creating and sustaining an aesthetically-pleasing appearance has led to the abandonment of this innate skill.

Intelligence, acting and lying: Being a very talented liar, he is shown to be very intelligent, skilled in detecting people's lies and good at acting. In fact, Caith is one of the most intelligent gang members. He has explained to the others that if you want to expose a liar you have to corner them psychologically and he has referred the process of elimination. With his notable acting skills, Caith is capable of hiding his true intentions and lie so well that the other characters can never tell what he is truly thinking. As a notable exception, the other characters almost never believe Caith's obvious crocodile tears, though it's likely that he just uses them to annoy others and doesn't really even try to use them to trick others. It's also possible that he uses the dramatic crying as an outlet to let out some genuine strong emotions he is feeling yet is unwilling to show sincerely. Being a vampire, he occasionally needs a small moment to control his true feelings and put his mask back on while suffering from shock, which is portrayed by having his face being darkened by a shadow. He also occasionally seems to just show his true emotions more openly, knowing that the others wouldn't believe them anyway, while during some other moments he seems to accidentally speak out loud what he is really thinking. Most notably, whenever his voice and face goes blank, it's heavily implied that he is being genuine and honest, and taking the current situation very seriously. Being a skilled liar himself, Caith can tell whenever other people are lying, though he occasionally acts like he didn't notice or claims the other person is lying even though he knows they aren't. He can also notice when people are lying to themselves, which is a trait he considers "not good". Ironically, he claims to hate lies and liars. While Caith's ability to sense lies is often accurate, it is not flawless nor supernatural.

Designing and drawing: Caith has a habit of drawing very simple and childish sketches, including a silly self-portrait on his whiteboard and several boxes full of documents of fantasy weapons like rainbow ray guns and beam swords. However, while investigating his room, Rose quickly realized that this was likely a cover to hide the truly important blueprints meant for Jane to use. Rose eventually found one blueprint he drew seriously and it turned out to be an extremely detailed and realistic ("too detailed" according to Rose) design of a bugvac that was fully functional when transferred to real life by Jane.

Trivia

 * The name Caith means 'From the battlefield' in Irish. The name Eilif means 'Immortal' in Scandinavian. The surname Harris is a derivation of Henry, meaning "home-ruler."
 * Caith has a pig plush that was given to him by his father. He used to sleep with his pig when he was a kid.
 * Caith hates raw cuttlefish and calls them disgusting.
 * When Julian first met Caith, he commented that Caith is a handsome and attractive young man.
 * He has admitted to liking Rock Music.
 * Caith appears to love video games and states he's been playing them his whole life.
 * He appears to have a fear of insects. He describes the sight of them crawling around as "nasty". He is also heard screaming in terror when Jane forces him to be closer with a massive amount of bugs. According to Jane, he then foamed at the mouth and passed out, and was so exhausted the next morning. When discussing Jane and her bugs, Caith mentions that he cannot understand why would anyone would like "these creepy things".

Quotes

 * "Trick the entire world, and it will become the truth. The real truth isn't that great anyway."
 * "The world could be tricking you right now, and you wouldn't even know it. ...But, I could also be lying about that."
 * (To Julian) "But y'know...if you're into some craaazy kinks, even I won't be able to keep up."
 * "Are you mad because I toyed with you? Don't worry. I'm always thinking about you! You're always trying your best to catch me. I really have to give it my all to win."
 * "...That was a lie. Y'know...since I'm a liar. But, when I said I wanted to catch me... That was definitely not a lie. It means...you can do whatever you want to me. And that's the truth. Come... Play with me... let's do a lot more together..."
 * "Watching documentaries makes my heart ache... Why can't these people ever think about giving, instead of taking from each other? The world could be so peaceful if people just changed themselves... That makes me so sad..."
 * (To Julian) "Wow, Ian. I was just thinking the same exact thing. Reality is more important than movies. That's so true. I can't believe we thought about something so useless at the same exact time... Maybe you and I were lovers in a past life!"
 * (To Julian) "Maaan, when I'm with you, I have so much fun that it makes me lie even more!"
 * "But I'm a weirdo! When someone tells me to stop, I just wanna do it more! With that said... I'm gonna resign from lying! From this point on...I swear to the sun that I won't tell bad lies, or even good lies, anymore!"
 * "You're so close-minded. Don't get your panties in a bunch from a couple of lies."
 * "Who can say? I've been lying so much lately that I can't even tell what's true or not anymore."
 * "If I don't have lies, then I don't have anything else! My body is made up of 70% lies!"
 * "Hey, don't lie! That's my thing!"
 * "If we're gonna play, we might as well play at the hardest difficulty, right?"
 * "Doesn't sound like a bad ideal, y'know? It's easier to exact justice when there's evil. If I ruin society and you fix it...then you'd be able to change the world much faster, right?"
 * "Well, that was a lie. Y'know, one of those lies to make us more united or whatever. Did you know half my lies are actually told with good intentions?"
 * "Besides, even friends don't share *everything* with each other!"
 * "I'm more nervous around friends who share too much than strangers, really."
 * "...I hadn't thought that such a thing as a 'special existence' existed in this world."
 * (To Julian) "Don't look at anyone else. You belong to me."
 * (To Julian) "Oh no, why are you shivering? You're not scared, are you? Whenever you feel frightened come seek me out. I'm willing to teach you, over and over again until you know me most intimately. I need for you to feel me from head to toe, and pursue me heart and soul. I will not be denied. Understand this, you belong to me forever."
 * (To Julian) "After I said I'd kill you, I was on your mind the whooole time, right? You thought about whether or not I was serious, or why I would say something confusing... Ha, even now! You're concerned about me from the bottom of your heart! Nee-heehee... Now, you'll never *ever* forget me for the rest of your life. I stole your heart, so now I'm satisfied! I don't need to steal your life anymore!"