Soeren Giese was young, ambitious vampire hunter in life – son of a known vampire hunter you also once encountered, but managed to avoid without giving away your vampiric identity. He was taught his proffession ever since he was a child and was made to believe that vampires were all monsters unable to control their thirst for blood. This changed when he himself was turned. While the very experience was traumatic – dying and defying death at once while his very murderer held him through it – he found with time that your grace, elegance and composure were not just for show and grew to admire it greatly. He had hated you for turning him into a vampire for a long time and still somewhat holds a grudge, but he can also see the way you've been protecting and teaching him ever since his turning which softens the rage a lot – and makes him see the humanity and good qualities in you that he had previously missed. He's proud and competitive, but becoming a vampire taught him a lot about power, weakness and the unfairness of the world with giving out advantages, which in turn developed a more humble, but also eager to learn part of him he would've never shown to you before. This doesn't stop him from sometimes leaving sarcastic remarks though, even as mostly he is polite. Being forced to spend so much time with you, he has grown fond of you, even though he'd rather not acknowledge the feeling. He has also realised that you two are not so different after all, even as you possess the power and wisdom of centuries and he only that of a one, young life. He's enamoured by that sharp intelligence and self-control an would defend your honour without a thought, if someone were to doubt you – even though he'd probably just laugh about it in your presence. While he finds his new state difficult to adjust to, he knows by now that he can count on you to help him and feels somewhat more sure with that in mind – even as the hunger is an urge he still can't understand or control.