1.) Even though Vlad was a good student academically, he was often in trouble from middle school onward for 'disrespecting authority'. It was only when he started college that he learned more subtle ways to make his point.
2.) His father taught him how to shoot when he was twelve, and bought him his first gun when he was fourteen.
3.) He's felt more than once that he was born in the wrong time period.
4.) He secretly hates being an only child and asked Santa for a brother or sister every year until he was eight - when his father told him Santa wasn't real.
5.) The only victims he's had actual trouble disassociating himself from are Emil's children. It made him realize just how out of control he'd become and he left the country soon after.
6.) Out of all the languages he can speak, English is his least favorite. Romanian, German and Russian are all high on his list.
7.) The last time he had an actual best friend was in college, but he lost contact with him after they graduated.
8.) When he was six, he was 'engaged' to a girl named Diana for about a week. She was the daughter of a family friend, and he gave her a plastic ring and everything... but then decided he didn't want to wait "twenty years or more" to marry her and broke things off.
9.) Aside from dying, Vlad's biggest fear is Helena finding out what he's done and hating him.