Post by Lady Thorn on Aug 26, 2008 20:08:27 GMT -5
Alias: Red
Real Name: Pupurea Rufilla Corvinus
Age: 2866
Gender: Female
Species: Vampire
Specialities: Swordsmanship, especially with her own sword that she carries at all times. She is a great adept at sword fighting, having been trained by the best tutor her rich, Roman parents could afford. She was also naturally skilled in this area, and loves to fight, perhaps a little too much. She is also a great hunter and tracker, possibly due to many years spent in the Black Forest of Germany, where the only sustenance she could obtain was that which she hunted and caught for herself. She is also an efficient killer, due to her lack of conscience and belief that her own kind is superior to all others, and that she is superior among her kind.
Also, if possible, aerokinesis- see History.
She has a great ability as a public speaker, able to (like so many evil people) get people to follow her, no matter what the cause and how many will get murdered horribly. Actually, her abilities are pretty substantial with all wordplay, but she never sees much use for rhetoric and the like, so her poetic skills go largely unnoticed. She is ambidextrous, and so can use her sword (or whatever other weapon she happens to pick up) in either hand, or use two, should the need arise. She is relatively strong for a female, though not excessively so, and her speed is formidable, though again not to such a point as to be spectacular.
Weakness: Terribly competitive, especially against her sister. Her arrogance causes her to submit challenges she cannot possibly win. She also is an incredibly sore loser, seeking any excuse other than herself for her loss. Her lack of conscience also means she can rarely see eye to eye with other species, thinking them nothing more than bugs which she may crush. Even vampires are often considered beneath her, especially those who, unlike her, were not born as vampires and were instead changed at some point in their lives. She thinks they are unclean and will have nothing to do with them. All of these mean she rarely has allies or friends, which is to her detriment in combat situations as she tends to go up against improbable odds. She also has a great and irrational fear of fire.
Physical Appearance: Despite her Roman ancestry, Red has strawberry-blonde hair and blue eyes, like her Scandinavian mother. She is 5'6" tall, though often appears taller due to high heels and large hair-styles. Her skin is smooth and flawlessly pale, her nose small and straight, her teeth are white and even and her face gives a general feeling of extreme prettiness... that is until you see her eyes. Though a clear and crystalline blue, something undefinable about them gives a scary glimpse of the hard and cold personality underneath. Often those who gaze into them become afraid very quickly, or transfixed with the inhumanity. She has relatively long legs and a shapely body, though more in an athletic way than a dieted way. Her hair is normally kept long, and naturally curly, but often held up in a clip or similar, so she can fight.
Personality: Borderline psychotic, and obsessive in the extreme. She always knows what she wants, and generally this involves disembowelling other people, though sometimes decapitating them is enough. She hates easily, and takes it to the extreme, especially where her sister, Lady Thorn, is concerned. She also detests anyone who doesn't agree with her ideas about life, and the way it should be lived. Since these ideas are both old-fashioned and incredibly vicious, this is almost everyone. She is seemingly incapable of the softer emotions, or has seemed so up until now. If she found another psychotic killer... who knows? Mostly, her entire life and mindset are focussed on and around fighting and death, and very little can draw her away.
History: Born to a family of wealthy Roman vampires who lived in their family lands on the hills outside the city, every comfort available was lavished upon her as a child. As the youngest of the three, she was often spoiled, especially by her mother, who saw the other two as "unworthy". She was a very pretty, if precocious, child and could easily twist others to do her will. It was soon obvious that she had inherited much more than her looks from her Norse-descended mother, and earned her name "Rufilla", the feminine in latin for "red", due to the great deal of blood she spilt. In those times, she was seen as a great asset to her family, in which many shared her views on the superiority of the vampire race. It was in this environment of indulgence and utter self-confidence that she spent most of the early centuries of her life. The only blot on the landscape, so to speak, was her sister, whom she could never best in combat, though she tried many times to do so.
When she was about five hundred, a tribe of werewolves was known to be encamped in the forests near her home. She was responsible for the slaughter of the entire tribe, save one, stopped only when her sister came and fought her off. It was after this that she vowed to never rest until she had beaten her sister.
As the Goths came and sacked Rome, she fled the burning villa, killing all who stood between her and freedom. She headed into the deep forests, hiding herself for days until she was certain the fires had past. From then until this day, she has a great fear of fire.
As the years past, she moved around Europe, honing her fighting skills by massacring those she saw as the enemies of her, now dead, family. She spent many years in the Black Forest in Germany, around 1200 AD, and it was here that she developed aerokinesis. She had been hunting the marginal areas of the forest, preying on any villager stupid enough to cross her path, when a group of hunters were called in to stop her. When they found her, it was close to dawn, and her sword was not beside her. She fought them, killing many, but the group was large and she was unable to fend them off. They locked her away in the church crypts, waiting for the next night to execute her before the village people. When the night came, they built a pyre upon which to burn her. Though in a weakened state, she fought again to free herself, killing the local priest who had tried to read her her last rights. The mob of villagers held her down and tied her to the stake, lighting the pyre, eager to see her burn. As the flames grew higher, she awoke a power that had been lying dormant in her genes, calling up aerokinesis and using it to prevent herself from burning to death. Great winds rose around her, and the clouds moved strangely as the air pressure grew and changed. The flames were fanned away from her by the growing tempest, towards the murderous villagers. As the winds raged to the point of a storm, the stake to which she was tied broke halfway down, allowing her to free herself and escape the flames. She found then that she had complete control over the air around her, using it to devestating effect, blowing away the debris from the executional pyre, and greatly damaging the houses near the square. The villagers fled, and she killed them in their hundreds, glutting herself on their blood. To this day, that area of Germany is uninhabited and barren.
After then, she stayed in Germany, though less the forests, until the 1800's, when she went to America for a while. She found it not much to her liking, so modern and unlike the time of her birth, she returned to Europe just before the first World War. There she remained until now, roaming the countrysides of the continent, always keeping her eyes open and ears pricked for news of her sister, if she did not die in the flames in Rome also.
Family:
Father: Catallus Alexander Corvinus- dead
Mother: Clavia Thalia Corvinus- dead
Elder Sister: Catalina Alexandra Corvinus (a.k.a. Lady Thorn)- alive
Elder Brother: Octavius Augustus Corvinus (a.k.a. Fabian)- alive
Real Name: Pupurea Rufilla Corvinus
Age: 2866
Gender: Female
Species: Vampire
Specialities: Swordsmanship, especially with her own sword that she carries at all times. She is a great adept at sword fighting, having been trained by the best tutor her rich, Roman parents could afford. She was also naturally skilled in this area, and loves to fight, perhaps a little too much. She is also a great hunter and tracker, possibly due to many years spent in the Black Forest of Germany, where the only sustenance she could obtain was that which she hunted and caught for herself. She is also an efficient killer, due to her lack of conscience and belief that her own kind is superior to all others, and that she is superior among her kind.
Also, if possible, aerokinesis- see History.
She has a great ability as a public speaker, able to (like so many evil people) get people to follow her, no matter what the cause and how many will get murdered horribly. Actually, her abilities are pretty substantial with all wordplay, but she never sees much use for rhetoric and the like, so her poetic skills go largely unnoticed. She is ambidextrous, and so can use her sword (or whatever other weapon she happens to pick up) in either hand, or use two, should the need arise. She is relatively strong for a female, though not excessively so, and her speed is formidable, though again not to such a point as to be spectacular.
Weakness: Terribly competitive, especially against her sister. Her arrogance causes her to submit challenges she cannot possibly win. She also is an incredibly sore loser, seeking any excuse other than herself for her loss. Her lack of conscience also means she can rarely see eye to eye with other species, thinking them nothing more than bugs which she may crush. Even vampires are often considered beneath her, especially those who, unlike her, were not born as vampires and were instead changed at some point in their lives. She thinks they are unclean and will have nothing to do with them. All of these mean she rarely has allies or friends, which is to her detriment in combat situations as she tends to go up against improbable odds. She also has a great and irrational fear of fire.
Physical Appearance: Despite her Roman ancestry, Red has strawberry-blonde hair and blue eyes, like her Scandinavian mother. She is 5'6" tall, though often appears taller due to high heels and large hair-styles. Her skin is smooth and flawlessly pale, her nose small and straight, her teeth are white and even and her face gives a general feeling of extreme prettiness... that is until you see her eyes. Though a clear and crystalline blue, something undefinable about them gives a scary glimpse of the hard and cold personality underneath. Often those who gaze into them become afraid very quickly, or transfixed with the inhumanity. She has relatively long legs and a shapely body, though more in an athletic way than a dieted way. Her hair is normally kept long, and naturally curly, but often held up in a clip or similar, so she can fight.
Personality: Borderline psychotic, and obsessive in the extreme. She always knows what she wants, and generally this involves disembowelling other people, though sometimes decapitating them is enough. She hates easily, and takes it to the extreme, especially where her sister, Lady Thorn, is concerned. She also detests anyone who doesn't agree with her ideas about life, and the way it should be lived. Since these ideas are both old-fashioned and incredibly vicious, this is almost everyone. She is seemingly incapable of the softer emotions, or has seemed so up until now. If she found another psychotic killer... who knows? Mostly, her entire life and mindset are focussed on and around fighting and death, and very little can draw her away.
History: Born to a family of wealthy Roman vampires who lived in their family lands on the hills outside the city, every comfort available was lavished upon her as a child. As the youngest of the three, she was often spoiled, especially by her mother, who saw the other two as "unworthy". She was a very pretty, if precocious, child and could easily twist others to do her will. It was soon obvious that she had inherited much more than her looks from her Norse-descended mother, and earned her name "Rufilla", the feminine in latin for "red", due to the great deal of blood she spilt. In those times, she was seen as a great asset to her family, in which many shared her views on the superiority of the vampire race. It was in this environment of indulgence and utter self-confidence that she spent most of the early centuries of her life. The only blot on the landscape, so to speak, was her sister, whom she could never best in combat, though she tried many times to do so.
When she was about five hundred, a tribe of werewolves was known to be encamped in the forests near her home. She was responsible for the slaughter of the entire tribe, save one, stopped only when her sister came and fought her off. It was after this that she vowed to never rest until she had beaten her sister.
As the Goths came and sacked Rome, she fled the burning villa, killing all who stood between her and freedom. She headed into the deep forests, hiding herself for days until she was certain the fires had past. From then until this day, she has a great fear of fire.
As the years past, she moved around Europe, honing her fighting skills by massacring those she saw as the enemies of her, now dead, family. She spent many years in the Black Forest in Germany, around 1200 AD, and it was here that she developed aerokinesis. She had been hunting the marginal areas of the forest, preying on any villager stupid enough to cross her path, when a group of hunters were called in to stop her. When they found her, it was close to dawn, and her sword was not beside her. She fought them, killing many, but the group was large and she was unable to fend them off. They locked her away in the church crypts, waiting for the next night to execute her before the village people. When the night came, they built a pyre upon which to burn her. Though in a weakened state, she fought again to free herself, killing the local priest who had tried to read her her last rights. The mob of villagers held her down and tied her to the stake, lighting the pyre, eager to see her burn. As the flames grew higher, she awoke a power that had been lying dormant in her genes, calling up aerokinesis and using it to prevent herself from burning to death. Great winds rose around her, and the clouds moved strangely as the air pressure grew and changed. The flames were fanned away from her by the growing tempest, towards the murderous villagers. As the winds raged to the point of a storm, the stake to which she was tied broke halfway down, allowing her to free herself and escape the flames. She found then that she had complete control over the air around her, using it to devestating effect, blowing away the debris from the executional pyre, and greatly damaging the houses near the square. The villagers fled, and she killed them in their hundreds, glutting herself on their blood. To this day, that area of Germany is uninhabited and barren.
After then, she stayed in Germany, though less the forests, until the 1800's, when she went to America for a while. She found it not much to her liking, so modern and unlike the time of her birth, she returned to Europe just before the first World War. There she remained until now, roaming the countrysides of the continent, always keeping her eyes open and ears pricked for news of her sister, if she did not die in the flames in Rome also.
Family:
Father: Catallus Alexander Corvinus- dead
Mother: Clavia Thalia Corvinus- dead
Elder Sister: Catalina Alexandra Corvinus (a.k.a. Lady Thorn)- alive
Elder Brother: Octavius Augustus Corvinus (a.k.a. Fabian)- alive