Duke originally a human that lost his mother during childhood, he was close to her. Duke was bullied a lot by other boys, and his relationship with his father was cold and distant, that his father’s emotional or neglectful abuse of him affected Duke’s decision to become a vampire. It is heavily implied his father may have become a vampire hunter after Duke’s mother’s death, a vampire murdered her. He grew older an ran to a club of vampires, which Artemis was the one who bit him and became a vamp