Some Headcanon

[boardwalkking]

 Just a few headcanon conclusions I've made about David. They may be expanded later. Keep in mind I haven't read the novel because it's ridiculously expensive.

• David has a need to be in charge (and a pretty large rebellious streak). As seen when he terrorizes people who cross him (the police officer, Max, and the Emersons) and uses people as leverage to get what he wants (threatening Star to get Michael to come with the Boys to feed). If he can't be in charge or is publicly rebuked, he lashes out with the intent to cause fear or death (Max and the police officer, respectively)
• Ironically, eternally a teenager, at least in mentality, he also has a need to have a stronger vampire nearby, and others close to him. He cares for his family, in his own way.
• As an unfilmed scene at the end of the movie was of a mural of Max from the early 1900s on the sunken hotel wall, Max was at least that old. David was turned during fighting in Europe. His jacket and medal were taken from his first kill, a fellow Allied soldier. When he returned to America and to California, he met Max, and the older vampire took on a kind of fatherly role (which David sometimes resented). David became the public "leader" of the vampires Max turned.
• David finds people who stubbornly resist him (without actually harming him or his allies) interesting, and enjoys pushing them to see how far they'll go.