[SUDS] Modern Mythology

[Winter]

And here's a quick post reserve for my SUs simply because I can. XD

Leena

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Name: Alieena "Leena" Crowfeather
Age: A few centuries old; she kind of lost count...
Gender: Female
Race: Warlock; Immortal creatures capable of using magic due to their half human, half demon lineage, though they are consequentially incapable of having children and bear a "mark" that reveals their nature as warlocks.
Affiliation: Aileena is pro-secrecy, but does not attach herself to any one group, instead acting on her own and helping other groups when asked to
Appearance: Despite her age, Aileena doesn't look much older than twenty, with a lean body that hides her enormous magical strength, covered in clear, fair skin. Wild, almost rust-colored hair, tumbles down to her mid-back in soft waves and is rarely pulled back. Thick lashes frame pale green eyes that seem to testify that Aileena has seen quite a bit in her lifetime. Up until this point, she seems fairly normal, however a pair of large black crow wings sprout from her back, near her shoulder blades. Due to her wings, Aileena tends to wear clothing that leaves her shoulders free, and it she wears anything to cover her arms, it's just a simple pair of sleeves or connected by a little bit of material that crosses her back above her wings...meaning she's most often found wearing things like camisoles and jeans along with a pair of worn looking combat boots that she appears to have a sentimental attachment to.
Personality: Aileena isn't the most outgoing person out there, but she isn't necessarily antisocial, either. She's kind enough to offer her help where it's asked for, though it may come with a price for those who aren't friends of hers. She has a strong protective instinct, but isn't the mother figure most would think would come with that instinct. Actually, she likes sarcasm, really trusts very few, and considers even fewer her friends. She doesn't talk about her past much, and while she is on fantastic terms with her father, don't bring him up. If you value your safety, don't bring up Aileena's family without her bringing them first. She's a bit inquisitive by nature, as well as a touch solitary; preferring the company of birds to other living creatures. By the way, she also has an intolerance for idiocy.
History: Born from the unholy union between a human mother and a demon father, Aileena's had quite the life. It has been made easier from time to time by her father, particularly when she was little, but those instances have been few and far between. As her father is a demon, she's never met the "real" him, though she has very faint memories of a man with dark hair and eyes taking her to another warlock when she was little, after her mother was killed when someone discovered the girl was growing a pair of wings at ten. The warlock she was taken to was kind, and taught Aileena much of what she knows today, though she has no idea what to call the woman who raised her on mostly healing magic, as well as a bit of offensive magic.

Since her mother's death and the few discovery incidents she's lived through, Aileena has become a strong believer in keeping the existence of mythological creatures a secret. All she has ever seen from the secret being uncovered has been death and destruction, and she doesn't wish to see any more. That was why she dedicated her potentially never-ending life to protecting those who would otherwise be attacked and killed for being different, as she nearly was at several points in her life. This wish to protect has shown itself in various ways throughout her long life, but has always been a part of her life since she decided that was what she wanted to do with her immortality.
Weapons/Abilities:
Immortal-Aileena will not die from old age, in fact, she probably won't ever look older than she does now...however well-placed weapon or magic attacks will hurt her, and possibly kill her.
Crowtalon-An old halberd Aileena almost never uses, most often seen used as a wall decoration in her home that definitely shows its old age.
Mage-The demon blood running through Aileena's veins has given her access to real magic, which most often manifests itself in the form of green sparks around her hands when she taps into it to heal or use it as an offensive, where it shoots off her fingers as pale green lightning. She also uses it to keep her wings out of human sight without concealing the rest of her, something she has come to find incredibly helpful over the years. She can use more spells provided she has the right books to list the procedures and materials for her...and Leena has a lovely stash built up, but she refuses to take the books out of her house without a very, very good reason.
Crow-Lord's Daughter-Aileena has been able to understand and speak to birds ever since she was little, and it's often how she gets her information. She is capable of using her wings to fly
Other: She has a single companion one might deem "constant"; an American crow she calls Alois...and don't make him mad. He will attack you. He's also currently Leena's father's favorite way of contacting her.

Laura

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Name: Laura Blackwood
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Race: Human; Vampire Hunter
Affiliation: Vampire Hunters (barely), pro-secrecy
Appearance: Laura isn't exactly what you would expect for a girl who hunts down and kills rogue vampires. Coming to stand at about 5" 6' and built like an athlete, Laura tends to throw people off with her ruler-straight strawberry blonde hair that falls to her mid-back and bright blue eyes. She furthers the confusion by wearing various camisoles and shirts underneath a red and pink striped hoodie along with various skirts with shorts under them and the occasional pair of pants, with colorful shoes thrown in for good measure. Her brothers and extended family often remark that she looks like the most cheerful killer they've ever known. However, in truth, she really just hates the tight-fitting, all-black gear that she and her brothers have to wear when they go out on a kill mission...which is pretty rare since they aren't really connected to the hunter group they were raised to be members of. It's also easier for her to hide a array of weapons on her in this outfit, including nearly flat throwing daggers made of various metals (mainly silver, iron, and steel) up her sleeves and a collapsible metal bo staff hidden in a sheath attached to her thigh, under her skirts or outside her pants. She also wears a single piece of jewelry; a steel chain-link necklace from which a thumbprint-sized and egg-shaped chunk of peach selenite hangs. She's known to slip the chain and stone down her shirt front during fights.
Personality: Laura is one of those people who gets along with most others easily. Friendly but relatively calm, she often makes friends through chance meetings because of what she considers her job. While often serious, Laura enjoys a healthy dose of humor and sarcasm just like anyone else; particularly around her "family" which consists (in her eyes) of her twin brother, adopted older brother, her boyfriend, and his family, who might as well have adopted her and her brothers. Her feelings towards her birth parents can be quite easily figured out from the way she talks about them: with almost nothing but hate, particularly on the subject of her upbringing. Actually, her upbringing has given her a compulsive drive to help people in trouble, especially those put in unfair situations. She's very close to her both of her brothers, and would readily give her life for either of them...and nearly did in her twin brother's case. She's highly curious where mythological creatures are concerned rather than thinking them to be "the spawn of Hell" like many humans in her position do, rather, she thinks of them in much the same way she does people. She absolutely cannot stand intolerance between races, believing that you shouldn't stereotype a creature, but hold your judgements until you get to know them as a "person" first...and no one can say she's a hypocrite about it, considering her boyfriend and his family are vampires. And don't crack Twilight jokes about them; Laura will have your head for it.
History: Laura's childhood was more horror story than enchanting fairy tale. She was born and raised within a family of high-ranking vampire hunters alongside her twin brother, Angelo. As a child, she found herself more attracted to the boy who looked nothing like her parents and was eight years older than her--her brother by adoption, Wes, who was a more curious and gentle soul than her rigid parents. Expecting nothing short of perfection from their own children, the Blackwood parents began training Laura and Angelo in the art of hunting and killing vampires from a young age, but Laura never had the right mindset for it; her inquisitive nature drove her parents up the wall. The only one who would indulge it in the slightest was Wes, who spent his all his time in the kitchen from age thirteen on, after an incident with Laura prompted him to attempt baking brownies, which came as a surprising success to the Blackwood parents. It was Wes that became her relief from her abnormal childhood of fighting lessons, mythological studies, and lack of parental love. And when she thought it could never get any worse, it did.

Laura and her twin brother grew distant due to their varying opinions on their parents' teachings. Angelo sucked their forced information up like an eager-to-please sponge while Laura questioned things at every turn, thanks to Wes and a rather independent set of morals. When their parents decided to take then out on their first observation hunt at eleven, Laura faked illness to get out of it, but Angelo went. Laura still regards it as the worst decision she ever made, though she never could have known that her brother would be badly injured--he wasn't even supposed to come in contact with the vampire her parents were hunting, but he did, and it nearly killed him. While another hunter with them insisted upon taking the boy to the hospital, their parents considered Angelo weak and would have let him to die even in the hospital had Laura not basically offered up her freedom in return for her brother's life. They knew she didn't like the idea of her future job, yet she was the "promising" one, the "smart" one. She told them that if they let Angelo die, she would flat out refuse to continue training because they would have let him die for her mistake, however if they let him live, she would do whatever they asked of her without a fight. With Angelo now useless to them both dead or alive, they chose the path that would secure them at least one child to continue to bring glory to the family name. Angelo lived, and Laura lost most of her free will, though she considered it worth it to see her brother alive and relatively well...even if it drove a wall between her friendship with Wes.

Well, until she got caught by one of her targets. One thing stressed in her line of work? Don't ask questions. After six years of being trained to become a career killer with a single purpose, Laura had learned to shut her objections out; they didn't matter. All that mattered to her was Angelo, that her brother was alive, even if she hated her job and her strict parents and the fact Wes always gave her the cold shoulder. So when she was handed a picture of an innocent looking young man who appeared to be the same age as her and told to kill him, she didn't ask why or what he had done to land him kill orders, though she wanted to. She knew the agency that issued kill orders didn't often look into the claims made against those they issued kill orders against, as many simply believed vampires to be a plague against humans that needed to be wiped from the face of the earth, though she had ignored the up until now. The picture bothered her--assignments rarely came with pictures, and this one had obviously been covertly taken while the boy was out with friends--he was smiling and looked not the slightest bit like the insane mass-murderers and lawbreakers that she had killed before. When she finally tracked him down, her doubts had grown to the point that she hesitated in delivering the killing blow long enough for her target to disarm her and begin demanding to know why she'd been sent after him. Upon admitting that she didn't know and telling him that she was just as in the dark as he was, the vampire's curiosity seemed to get the better of him and he began questioning Laura further while keeping her pinned to the ground. Through the course of this questioning, Laura realized her target was actually about as much of a threat to most humans as a kitten, and when he decided to use her as a cooperative hostage to have his kill orders looked into and removed, Laura didn't mind. She spent two weeks with the vampire and his family, during which time her parents essentially disowned her, Wes took her brother and moved out of her parents house, and Laura became friends with the vampires she found herself living with, as well as their few hired humans. When her now awkward living situation was discovered by her new vampire friends, they took Laura and her brothers in. She eventually began dating the vampire boy who had once been her target while taking it upon herself to continue taking out vampires who posed a danger to humans and the secret of the mythological creatures existence. Things haven't changed much since then; she lives happily among "good" vampires with her brothers takes out "bad" vampires for a living, and hasn't seen or heard from her parents since.
Weapons/Abilities: As mentioned before, Laura carries iron, silver, and steel blades on her at almost all times, as well as her collapsible bo staff. She knows how to use all of them, as well as her body, in a fight. She's got fantastic athletic abilities for a human thanks to all the training she endured as a kid as well as above-average observational skills, but other than that, she's nothing special, just an ordinary human.
Other: She may occasionally be seen accompanied by her vampire "family" members on assignments, but it's rare. Typically she insists on going out alone.

Reine

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Name: Reine Gisela
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Race: Yuki-onna (An ice woman from Japanese mythology known to freeze stray travelers)
Affiliation: Pro-secrecy, however she also believes the mythological creatures should work harder to coexist with humans...hence her day job
Appearance: Reine Gisela (also commonly called "Reine" or "Gisela", depending on which you prefer) is marked with fairly few traits that give away her true nature before she puts on her human disguise. One would have to be her skin, which is incredibly pale, and even sometimes translucent or iridescent in appearance, mixed with slightly blue-tinted lips and almost perpetually frost-coated lashes. Her eyes are often considered her most striking feature, being large and a funny color that seems like a kind of watered-down mix of gray and blue that manages to just barely stand apart from the whites of her eyes, and almost always hold a distant sadness, and sometimes even aloofness to them. Her strawberry blonde hair is surprisingly untouched by frost and falls to her mid-back, though it's often more caught up in two incredibly loose braids, one falling over either shoulder, a simple crown of ice frozen into place slightly askew stop her head. She is often seen wearing a square-necked, pale periwinkle blue dress with sleeves that reach her elbow and would have belled out in a calla lily shape had they not been cut open, though a more wrinkled purple material gives her complete long sleeves that extend past her wrists to cover her palms. The skirt of the dress is floor length, hiding bare feet, though the periwinkle is interrupted in another cut straight up the front that reveals a full purple skirt underneath, and the dress in its entirety is known to glimmer when hit by direct light, as though its covered in frost.

However, she can't go walking around like that all the time. In fact, Reine often spends her time in a toned-down, more human appearance because of her job...as a model. Her 5'7" body is deceptively fragile-looking, particularly because she looks wire-thin, yet completely healthy. Her skin is still nearly snow-pale, but not transluscent, though on occasion camera shots may cause her to appear "sparkly" or come back with an unexplained glare, though she's convinced most people it's just a strange hazard of working with her, and her lips have just the slightest hint of pink to them. Her eyes become a darker color, taking on more of a slate gray with a light blue undertone, and her hair remains the same, minus her frozen crown. Due to her modeling job, she's often seen wearing different kinds of clothing, but you can bet it's probably designer if it's on her body, and she has a tendency to lean towards wearing dresses when she can, and often hides her hands in gloves to keep from accidentally freezing people or things.
Personality: Reine is a hard-to-reach person, she's not unfriendly, but she also isn't very outgoing, either, unless she's doing a shoot or a show. She tries to act like most things don't interest her, even if they do, because she has a hard time believing that she won't hurt other people accidentally...as she's frozen several people and other things solid over the years, both on accident and on purpose. It's lead to her being rather quirky, as well--she refuses to spend time out in the heat unless she absolutely has to, and even then she gets jittery and even faint at times, and she tries not to touch people of let others touch her directly. Most times she feigns being a germophobe, however some people have noticed her inconsistencies, not that they mention them. For them, she a fairly good natured and beautiful model with her handful of quirks. While she isn't the easiest person to befriend, she seems to have grown somewhat close to her security detail...with the exception of one member--Straton Sinclair. Reine is also known to be incredibly opposed to the use of violence in anything, and is really pretty softhearted for a girl made of ice. Part of her reasoning in becoming a model was because she didn't want to become like her mother; the other part was because she wanted to do something good with her life.
History: Reine doesn't like talking about her past. She hates, talking about it, actually, and not without good reason. She was born as the second child of two to a Yuki-onna mother, while she never knew her father. Why, you may ask? Because it's rather likely her mom froze the man to death shortly after the act that created her life...and it wasn't the same man that fathered her older brother, either. Her mother was what most people would call certifiably insane; an inability to control her own powers combined with isolation from others of her kind caused her to go mad, to crave warmth and acceptance she couldn't have...and it led to her accidentally killing a lot of people. Particularly a lot of men. Enough men that it eventually led to her being hunted down by demon hunters and killed to keep the secrecy of mythological creatures in tact, leaving Reine and her older brother, Neige, orphans at ages 10 and 15. Her brother used his own abilities to shift his body of ice into that of a wolf's in order to cope with his grief, leaving Reine mostly to her her own thoughts and rarely allowing his more human form to surface. The two carved out a simple life among the mountains they had grown up on while essentially under "probation" of sorts; if either child began repeating the mistakes of their mother, they would meet the same fate.

And then one day Reine got sick of it. She decided she was tired of living in isolation with no one but her non-speaking brother for company. Instead, the Yuki-onna was determined to become the opposite of her mother--that she would find a way to surround herself with people and be careful not to harm them...a few months later, she walked into a call for models to do clothing advertisements and walked out with a job. From there, Reine's all-around unusual coloring and pretty face made her popular. However popularity has its cons...like lots of public exposure. Her newfound popularity out her in a precarious position, and not too long after she began doing more important shoots, her brother personally went out and hired a human bodyguard for her; a man who simply goes by the name Davide. Davide handled keeping and eye on her for years and brought a few others into guarding Reine, but it was him that Reine took to thinking of as more of a father figure. She's been through several guards for varying reasons, most recently being the tradeoffs that landed both Ashfinger and Straton among her guards... She knows it's because of a recent string of disappearances and murders, however she's also not going to let herself be pulled away from her job easily.
Weapons/Abilities:
Icy Touch-If she isn't careful, things Reine comes into skin contact with (moreso in her normal form rather than her human disguise) are likely to freeze solid, it also results in an odd trick in which she cups her hands to her mouth and exhales, causing snow to form.
Body of Ice-Reine's body is made mainly of ice, and she can and will build upon it with , rapidly freezing water in the air to weaponize her body to give herself claws, ice swords, a shield, ect.
Ice Queen-Not only can Reine manipulate the ice that forms her body and freeze the air around her, ice seems to obey her, bending to her will should she will it to.
Other: She's based off an idea I got from having to analyzing ****inson poetry--a more human appearance for her "Blonde assassin" in her poem "Apparently with no surprise." She's also often seen with a large white wolf...her brother, Neige, follows her everywhere he can to ensure her safety.

Straton

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Name: Straton Sinclair
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Race: Human, Demon hunter
Affiliation: Pro-secrecy, however he also wants to get rid of every single non-human in existence
Appearance: For being such an unpleasant person to be around most of the time, Straton actually isn't very bad looking. His lean body reaches a height of 5" 9' and he tends to give off an air of being ready to take on anything at any time. His chocolate-colored hair is a bit long and shaggy, yet it doesn't seem to bother him in the slightest. His hazel eyes are sharp and unfriendly, though you might catch them looking upon things with other emotions if he's no aware anyone is looking at him; he likes hiding them behind a pair of wraparound sunglasses so it's harder for people to tell where he's really looking, though he's not afraid to go without them. Unlike Davide, Straton doesn't have an official looking guard uniform. Instead, he opts to wear a close-fitting black long sleeved shirt under a black zip-up running jacket and normal jeans. Under the jacket, he hides an array of knives slipped into a single strap that goes from one shoulder and attaches to a belt at the waist of his jeans. While he's often seen reaching over his shoulder when he gets angry, it's a nervous habit--he hasn't been allowed to carry a gun since the incident that landed him his assignment with Reine. A rigid sliver bracelet covered in a vine pattern stays around his left hand wrist while his right ear sports several iron earrings. He's known for producing all kinds of strange pouches from pockets inside his jacket.
Personality: Straton is one of those people whose life goal is apparently to make a huge jerk of himself and tick off everyone around him. He's not the slightest bit friendly, and hates authority, yet willingly obeys it, only to complain later. He despises mythological creatures and wouldn't love anything more than the ability to see every single one of their kind extinct. He's got a mental comeback for almost everything, but hardly ever opens his mouth unless he's spoken to first, so don't ask his opinion on anything unless you really want it. He more than willing to resort to violence as an answer to anything and everything, which landed him him with a job as part of Reine Gisela's security detail in order to make sure she wasn't a threat to anyone and no one was a threat to exposing her true identity. He hates his current assignment with a passion and simply deals with it by acting most of the time as if Reine doesn't exist; he barely looks at her or speaks to her, giving everyone else the impression that he hates her moreso than he hates his job. He's pretty antisocial around others, and has a relatively short fuse.
History: Straton was born the middle child of a large family of extremist Demon Hunters. While his family imparted their strict mindset on how the mythological creatures of the world should be eliminated, most of his family members also complied to the rules set down by a larger Demon Hunter organization...what they didn't teach Straton, however, was to put a cap on the family beliefs to carry out his assignments. They didn't teach him to ask questions, either. He was always reported for overstepping his bounds, falsely punishing mythological creatures, starting anything he could with them. Where Straton Sinclair went, death and destruction in varying forms seemed to follow. Eventually his record caught up with him, however, and an incident in which he killed a werewolf without clear reason got him his last warning: If Straton stepped even slightly out of bounds once more, he was done. He would be removed from the ranks of Demon Hunters. With that said, they took away his gun and bow privileges to remove the temptation of shooting anything innocent and handed him his next assignment: playing bodyguard for a Yuki-onna girl who worked as a model. What he just thought was going to be a rather simple yet annoying job dealing with a spoiled brat mythological creature has since turned into a nightmare, as there is another mythological creature acting as a guard as well as the fact he may now actually have to protect the kind of creature he hates most with all these disappearances and murders going around.
Weapons/Abilities:
True Sight-If he tries, Straton can see through the disguises of non-humans--it's run through his family for generations.
Trained Killer- Straton was raised to kill demons, and as such, he can (and here will have to) rely on his hand and knife skills in a fight; he keeps an array of knives in various metals on a kind of belt that goes from his shoulder to his pants belt. He can use a gun or crossbow, but he doesn't have one or the other right now--he lost his gun privileges after the incident that had the Demon hunters shipping him off to guard Reine.
Hidden Arsenal- Straton uses pockets inside his jacket to hide various pouches, the two seen most often contain iron and silver "shavings", but no one knows everything he's hiding in that jacket of his.
Other: N/A

Pia

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Name: Pia Montverde
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Race: Human; Demon Tamer
Affiliation: Undecided
Appearance:
Pia *Not drawn by me, but by SevenOClockBacon on dA, who she was adopted from and Pia again *Drawn by me.
Pia's fashion sense is a little bit...behind on the times, however it hasn't stopped her from being the kind of girl you want to run up and hug. One of the things most people notice about Pia immediately is her hair--it is LONG, falling in almost mahogany-colored semi-waves to her ankles, and almost exactly matches her expressive, childlike eyes in color. She can almost always be found with a long, off white hood covering her top of her head and falling down to her ankles with her hair. She can almost always be found in matching dresses, particularly the dress pictured, sporting long off-white sleeves and ruffles and an almost overcoat-ish layer with an empire waist in varying shades of dark pinks over it, which she wears with a matching pair of boots that go to her knees. She also carries with her a staff...which really doesn't look like more than a very tree branch shaped similarly to a shepherd's crook.
Personality: The first thing most people think about upon meeting Pia is that she must not get out much. While not entirely true, she has spent most of her life either in the small village or in total obscurity, hunting down demons by herself, and then eventually with Aneislys by her side. Due to this, she is incredibly friendly and often comes off as naive. Really, she's seen quite a bit of nastiness in her life, but chooses to remain on the bright side of things, even when some of the nastier things come back to haunt her. She also is solidly determined to help anyone she can and tries not to judge on appearance, two ideals stressed by her mother throughout Pia's life. What little she knows about the modern world, she has learned from her fire demon, Conleth, who she has known practically since birth and trusts with her life. She seems to be under the impression that there is a little good in everyone, no matter what they've done or how evil they seem, something she has picked up from spending her life around people and relatively kind or at least tame demons, which may be why she's so patient with Aneislys and doesn't care much about what he is or what he did in the past. Much like with Conleth, she trusts Anei with her life, though she tends to avoid the kind of joking and occasional rough-housing she does with Conleth, opting more to spend her time with him trying to fix the damage done to him before she rescued him.
History: Pia was born and raised in a little village tucked away in the mountains...somewhere. Really, it's hard to be specific since her people have lived there for centuries, somewhat oblivious to the outside world that's skipped over them due to their ability to access alternate dimensions and play with space in ways a normal human isn't. Unless you know how to "get there", you likely aren't going to find it, and in leaving the village, you're likely to end up wherever the spatial influencing around the village dumps you...which could theoretically be anywhere, though it likes Europe. This village is what Pia's demon-taming people call home and rarely leave unless they're going off to find demons to tame. As is their custom, her father went left the village shortly before his daughter's birth to both find and a tame a demon to become his child's first "tamed" demon and her protector. The demon he tamed was a fire demon named Conleth, and while her father didn't much care for any demon, this one in particular was probably the best he could have found to give to his daughter.

Pia was raised by both her parents and Conleth, who took to the girl he was given to in a manner most demons did not--he became a figure in her life similar to a second mother almost immediately. He was always with her, always close, always teaching and encouraging or taking care of her. As a child, Pia never feared fire or light, and often clung to Conleth as much as her mother. As she grew, the two learned and worked together to allow Pia to grow as a demon tamer. Their stronger bond and easy reliance on each other allowed Pia to pass the test given to all the village children once their teachers, those who trained them) believed them skilled enough to earn the actual title of demon tamer and right to leave the village at 15. Determined to both see the outside world Conleth referenced so much and do good for the people of the world, Pia left the village and never looked back. She found she enjoyed traveling and information collecting, as well as the oddities of the rest of the world. Along her travels, she collected many demons, however she only bonded well with a few of them, as well as a water spirit. In the end, she wound up with a team of six demons she uses regularly to aid her in seeking out troublesome demons and helping her "catch" them--Conleth (whom you already know about), Tiam (a younger but quite capable female noble demon who bears a few draconic features when she fights, along with the ability to manipulate wind, who joined Pia in order to ditch the "illusions of grandeur" her parents had for her), Rin (a darkness-manipulating demon girl who doesn't seem to "like" the others around her, but doesn't appear to hate them, either), Meredith (a kindhearted water spirit who specializes in healing), Harland (a mischievous demon Pia really only keeps around for his skill at picking locks and getting open things he probably shouldn't, his sly, joking attitude doesn't sit well with the others), and Brant (a younger crow demon Pia found injured some time ago and had Meredith heal, his loyalty lies with Pia now, and she only uses his help when she needs a message delivered quickly--he's often found hanging close to or on Tiam otherwise). This group of demons has become like a second family to her for the most part, and she often treats them as such, making sure they are alright after fights against other demons and joking around with them in their occasional downtime.

Months after setting out on her own and accumulating several of her main demons, Pia was in Ireland investigating rumors of a run-down and abandoned castle in a heavily wooded area that was once a town where it was rumored some kind of lingering spirit or demon had been screaming for hundreds of years. Without being able to pin down a solid story, she went to investigate the place to find out what was screaming for herself. The events that followed would scar her for the rest of her life.
Weapons/Abilities:
Pia herself isn't much of a fighter, but more of a commander, summoning the demons she has locked away and eventually tamed to do various things for her, and uses a certain group of six demons more than she uses any others (Conleth, Tiam, Rin, Meredith, Harland, and Brant). She does this using an ability that has been passed through the generation of her people which allows them access different dimensional pockets and sometimes even entirely different dimensions that become bound to their will and accessed by the staffs they carry. Pia uses her ability to store both demons and travel supplies; it's use is often noted by what appears to be a heat shimmer in the air preceeding the exit of whatever she has called upon.
Other:

Anei

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Name: Aneislys, often shortened to Anei
Age: He thinks it's somewhere between 400 and 500 years old, but he really isn't too sure. Having around 300 years of your life spent with a succubus mauling you can ruin your memory.
Gender: Male
Race: Gancanagh-A male race of Fae that do not look much different from humans and are known for seducing women, however give the phrase "love kills" an entirely new meaning. It is thought that Gancanagh produce a toxin in their skin which causes the women they seduce to quite literally become addicted to them--or more specifically, their touch. As such, most Gancanagh victims die from withdrawal or for reasons related specifically to the Fae.
Affiliation: His only loyalty is to Pia Montverde, and probably will remain to Pia until the day she dies.
Appearance: The one of the two that obviously isn't Pia. *Drawn by me!
For a Fae, Anei looks surprisingly similar to humans, the only things about him that tend to stand out are his snowy white hair, which is always pulled back into a short and uneven ponytail that would otherwise reach just below his shoulders, and his eyes, which are a kind of red-gold often found in the coloring of leaves in places that actually have an autumn. Otherwise, he's slightly taller than Pia and incredibly thin, having managed to not gain back weight he probably should have after Pia and her demons rescued him about four years ago. He covers layer after layer of scars on his body in the same manner he hides his skin from contact with people; he wears multiple layers of very simplistic clothing, favoring darkly colored long sleeve shirts under a plain brown leather jacket with a higher turned up collar that is enchanted to mend damage to itself over time, along with closer fitting jeans that go over boots, and covers his hands with black leather gloves. He also carries two swords slung over his back, the hilts appearing just over his left shoulder--a silver blade and a crystal-edged steel blade he is incredibly careful about using--it often stays hidden away in a crystal-lined sheath, its hilt wrapped in a thick layer of cloth. When glamored, his pair of sword look like a round...poster container. Kind of. XD
Personality: The first thing one might notice about Anei is that where Pia tends to be open and friendly towards everyone, he is more reserved, content to do nothing more than stand beside Pia while she talks and simply listen as opposed to actually joining in most of the time. He seems to have problems with most physical contact, shying away when strangers reach out to him and rarely reaching out to others, no matter how helpful it would be, Pia being the only exception. Anei is incredibly shy, unsure of what to expect of most people, and is rarely at ease among both other Fae and most demon summoners, warlocks in particular, though his unease around them pales in comparison to the sheer amount of terror and hate he feels towards most kinds of seduction demons (namely succubi) and demons with illusory powers. He also fears using his own natural power as a Gancanagh to an extreme level and seeks to cover as much of his skin as he possibly can without looking too odd.

However, despite his fear of most physical contact and avoidance of contact with most women, he is incredibly close to Pia. She is about the only person he trusts, and he would do almost anything for her, including act as a living shield for her if he had to. This is partly because he feels indebted to her, partly as his way of trying to remove personal guilt towards the lives of women that he ruined, partly because of her own kindness towards him upon their first meeting, and also partly because he fears becoming his old self and ending up spending a possible eternity in pain for it again. He also tends to fall back on her for reassurance and has a decent relationship with several of her demons--most notably Conleth and Meredith.
History: Anei was born
Weapons/Abilities: As a Fae, Anei is immortal in the sense that age will not kill him, and it is unlikely that his physical appearance will change even as he ages on--however he does have the same weakness to iron that all Fae do, and enough exposure to it, being severely injured by it can and will kill him. He has better base senses than a human, and is also a bit stronger, though his true strength lies in his speed and reflexes, as well as his ridiculously high pain threshold. As a Gancanagh, it is possible for Anei to have women become addicted to him thanks to a toxin in his skin--and its use will often lead to the death of a woman he has touched with his bare skin due to withdrawal. It is an ability he tries to avoid using as much as possible. He carries a pair of swords slung across his back; one is silver and one is steel, and he isn't afraid to use them or years of hand-to-hand training he's had, though his first priority is keeping Pia safe.
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