From Transylvania... Claudiu Gurici!

I've created this character in early 2002, taking inspiration from a classmate. Claudiu Gurici is a funny vampire that comes from Sighişoara, the romianian city where Bran castle (know also as Dracula's castle) is located. Probably this is one of my most developed character. He is funny to draw and to move, probably for his peculiar features. Often people ask to me if Claudiu is evil or dangerous. But his look doesn't match with his nature. Claudiu is not the only vampire in Remembering the Yellow Sky. There is a community, but things will be clearer when i will do comic, first because is spoiler, also because i have to fix a pair of problem in the plot about the part with vampires.
When i drew Claudiu first, i gave him another name and i hadn't already decided he was romanian. I started to care about his origins about two years ago, when i decided it was important for him to have a romanian name, so i did researches about things related Romania (especially language) I was going mad, becaue i discovered romanian language wasn't that great and despite similarity with my first language (italian) i had difficult to understand how romanian works. I understood romanian as language but at the same time i felt it so strange that when i stopped my researches i felt exausted. Only 6 weeks later i felt more familiar with romanian, so i have been able to search a good name for my character. It was an hard work because most romanian last names end in 'escu' and 'au', instead i was looking for a pure romanian name that could be easily mistaken for an italian name (Remembering the Yellow Sky takes place in Italy). Gurici is, in fact a romanian name. In Italy, this name doesn't exist and in Romania is rather rare. An italian reader must know that the last I in the name Gurici is mute. For the rest, the name must be read as is written, just like italian. Claudiu instead is a reference to his poor health. He is one of most important character from 'Remembering the Yellow Sky'.