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✦ the hidden one ✦

✥ NAME & DEVICE USERNAME: Miss Vanessa Ives & Amunet ✘ headless ragdoll
✥ CANON: Penny Dreadful
✥ ONE-LINE PITCH: She carries a sadness that exhausts her will to live like a leech on her heart but she's basically fine.
✥ ALIVE/DEAD: Undead
✥ ARC OF ARRIVAL: Arc IV: Serthica
✥ INVENTORY:

✘ 60k-ish in coinage
✘ tarot cards
✘ a bracelet made from droid parts
✘ a sewing kit
✘ some hedgewitch things from the apothecary
✘ a voucher for access to citadel crime lords across Akhuras
✘ a knife that lets her spy through any reflection for 10 seconds a day
✘ two black mirror shards
✘ a shapeshifting cloak
✘ heart in a box
✘ demon dog (argos)

✦ abilities & skills ✦

✦ limitations ✦
✥ PHYSICAL VIOLENCE LIMITS: Beat the crap out of her, but discuss before death.
✥ OPEN TO MANIPULATION: Show her a little love and it's amazing what you can get her to do.
✥ MIND CONTROL & PSYCHIC ATTACKS: Would need near-god levels of power.
✥ PRESENCE | VIBES: Ash and venom. Ancient. Haunted. Caution. Isolation. Drowning. DEATH. A banshee's shriek—muffled.

✦ opt-in ✦
1. Do you want to interact with Vanessa's clairvoyance? She can:

✦ sense something hidden about your character
✧✧ especially so if they are supernatural/magical in any way
✦ have a vision involving your character
✧✧ experience a memory
✧✧ divine past/present/future knowledge
✦ act as a medium
✧✧ receive psychic/spiritual messages
✧✧ temporary possession (circumstantial)
✧✧ speak for those who can't be heard or understood (spirits, sentient beings, etc.)
✦ astral projection
✧✧ travel into a dream or memory
✧✧ travel into 'alternate' spaces (within the game's limits)
✧✧ send a psychic vision

2. Do you want your character to notice Vanessa's power? If they are able to, they can sense:

✦ her emotions (thoughts are guarded)
✦ the darkness within her (infinite void)
✦ that she isn't human
✦ that she's demonic/vampiric/undead
✦ that she's a 'goddess'
✧✧ technically a mother to the gods: one of the Ogdoad, or Infinite, if recognized
✦ her level of power, which can be felt from miles off
✧✧ prophetic doom (bad omen; the end is nigh)
✧✧ a witch described it as so horrible that she 'wanted to scream and bolt the door, curl up in my little bed and sleep and sleep'

3. Do you play a vampire, demon, or anything perceived as a 'monster'? They can have unique resonance with her:

✦ they may understand her as the 'mother of evil'
✧✧ they may be drawn to her
✧✧ they may wish to call her 'mother'
✧✧ they may be soothed and/or terrified
✧✧ they may be easily riled into aggression against others
✧✧ they may feel subservient or overly respectful

✦ opt-out ✦
✥ CONTENT WARNING: Due to Vanessa's background, triggering content may come up or be recollected, such as: murder, dubcon, extreme violence and gore, drug use, self-harm, suicide attempts and suicidal ideation, torture, sexual assault, serious emotional and mental disorders, mental hospital-related trauma, religion, possession, and creatures like spiders, snakes and scorpions. When in a state of possession, Vanessa can become vulgar, violent, aggressively sexual, and overly graphic in every way. Let me know if you want to opt-out of anything or avoid her altogether.

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SKILLS

Perceptive (Sherlockian)
Poker face
Knows French, some Latin, and other archaic languages.
Excellent semantic memory
Marksmanship
Taxidermy
Tarot
Herbalism
Occultism/Witchcraft

THE ARTS

Clairvoyance — divine past, present, and future. acting as a medium for spirits and demons. perceiving supernatural / otherworldly entities, especially darkness/demons. sensing things about someone, something, or even a space with strong energy. reading minds by experiencing their memories.
Astral Projection — she can walk 'between' worlds as it were, and project herself to communicate with others psychically, even if they aren't in the physical realm.
Compulsion — compels with her eyes and/or voice. soothe and mesmerize an individual, even monsters and demons who have gone completely feral. can break another's compulsion if she's aware of it.
Blood Magic — defensive totems to protect a space from her enemies, summoning creatures undead or alive (with verbis diablo), enhancing magic spells.
Verbis Diablo — words of the devil. casts spells for illusions, bedevilment, possession, protection, banishment, psychic attacks, psychic control, death, and various other curses and hexes from the 'poetry of death' book.

MOTHER OF EVIL

Demon Goddess — enhanced vampire strength, speed, and senses.
(empowered blood can be desirable for other vampires.)
(if a human drinks her blood, they will become a loyal 'familiar' with a very subtle psychic link. the effects are faint.)
Presence — power over vampires and demons.
(terrifying and/or desirable as 'mother' to vampires/demons.)
(can soothe or rile beasts and monsters.)
(prey animals may want to flee in terror.)
Spells — verbis diablo isn't required for most spellcasting (but it adds spice).
Summoning — cobras and scorpions (manifestations). undead creatures.
Glamour — look more human. disappear into camouflage.
Portal — travel through mirrors.

general

Arc IV: Serthica

Arc V: Alem

Arc VI: Yancai

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