New York Hunter's Group --- Carpe Noctem

[R00ka]

Name: Zuna (no last name known)

Aliases: Pira, Gypsy

Race: Human – she is part of a very old gypsy clan

Age: she is 22 but people often think that she is either a lot younger (around 16) or a lot older (in her late 20s) and she plays a lot with that.

Eyes: Deep grey-green, tend to change color according to her mood. When she is in the dark the pupil takes a slit shape, like that of a cat’s eye.

Hair: Very curly (almost freezy), it reaches her waist and the color is somewhat indeterminate between dark and dirty blond, with strange coppery highlights. She wears a beret most of the time.

Height: 1m60

Weight: 65 kg

Physical Description: Zuna is a rather short young lady and she has very feminine features. Not your skinny type, not a fat one either. As a gypsy, she likes to wear very bright colors and her favourite tones are those that remind of the fire element as well as more earthy hues (orange, red, brown and green most of the time).
A weird thing that some notice about her is that she always carries an old used shoulder bag with her. And that it’s not safe trying to touch it.
Some might label her as very attractive, while others will just think she is plain and has no fashion taste. She doesn’t seem to care since she knows that there is a very strange aura about her and that many can be disturbed by it.



Hunter Type: Zuna is your typical Caster Hunter. She has not been raised specifically to become a Hunter, but at least she received the ancestral knowledge of her clan in order to become a protector to her people. She will not go unprepared in the heat of the battle and tends to plan her actions a long time in advance. She does not actually think that all of the other races are necessarily evil… Therefore she has already faced a lot of opposition in the hunter world.

Weapons: Since Zuna is not exactly the fighting type, she does not equip with tons of amazing weapons.
She sticks to the essential: a set of wooden sticks in case of surprise attacks, and her silver dagger. The dagger is very precious to her and at first glance, anyone could tell it is a very old artefact, covered in symbols from her clan. She always keeps it in a leather cloth attached to her belt and however tiny the weapon might look, when she has to, she knows how to wield it. She hates guns because they make a lot of noise and smell bad, which is hard to stand for her sensitive senses (see special abilities).

Special Accessory: Zuna can hardly resist her taste for the bling-bling. Whether it is about earrings or bracelets, she wears a lot of very heavy golden accessories. This would almost make the small golden locket she wears around her neck look insignificant. That would be a mistake. The locket holds a powerful protection charm that allows her to hypnotize her enemies… However, the locket’s power varies according to Zuna’s strength at the moment she uses it and it also varies a lot considering her enemy’s own strength. A useful tool indeed, but nothing she can rely on as she is right now.

Skills and abilities: If Zuna can do fairly good in a close combat fight against any low-ranked vampire, her main skills and abilities are obviously not that of a fighter and she would not last long if left alone against any decently skilled enemy.
She has received the knowledge of her people, a knowledge based on the natural elements. She knows a lot about healing plants and is a very good healer in general. Since she has been taught the traditional witchcraft, she also knows how to throw some attacks (she seems to specialize in fire attacks) though she still has to learn a lot, her attacks being merely a delay to her enemies, and no real danger. On another hand, she has already mastered pretty well the protective type spells and is often used to protect civilians or injured hunters.
As for some more specific abilities, the people of her clan, living in very close to nature, are known (and despised by sedentary people) because of their “animal like abilities”. Unfortunately for Zuna, nothing really fancy here compared to the amazingly enhanced senses of a vampire or of a lycan… But she has still more accurate hearing and seeing than regular humans. Her night vision is especially good.
She has spent a lot of time studying and is actually trying to improve a new skill of hers: hacking. Even if she grew up in a gypsy camp in the middle of a plain in Central Europe, she has left her simple life a long time ago and merged in the modern world and she has recently found herself highly interested in the possibilities computers offer.

Enemy Race: Vampires. More precisely, one vampire, the one who slaughtered her whole clan and stole a precious object that she is trying to retrieve ever since. She has been chasing him down for 6 years already.
Strangely enough, she is very lycan-friendly. Her tribe used to live close to a pretty pacifist lycan clan and she grew up personally knowing many lycans. She believes in the possibility of a truce between their races. Maybe the fact that her people was considered “animal like” enhanced her affinities with that race. During her travels, however, she learned the hard way that all lycans are not human-friendly, and almost lost her life in the process.

Personality: Zuna is by all means a very nice young woman. She has a strange charm that either appeases or irritates people. She always wears a smile, but it’s sometimes hard to tell what that smile hides. She enjoys infiltrating, as a gypsy, she has been living with music. It is easy for her to pass for a singer and infiltrate bars and night clubs.
Even if she truly feels better researching and working on improving her witchcraft, if needed, she will never run away from a fight. She has embraced her destiny as a hunter, but if one pays attention, they will be able to notice the sparkle of nostalgia for a time when life was easier in her eyes. This is maybe the reason why, even with her friendly attitude, she always keeps distance from others.

Bio: Zuna has been chosen as a child to become the protector of her clan. Separated from the others, she has been taught witchcraft and other ancestral secrets all her life long. She was living a very happy life, finding it quite rewarding to be so useful to her people and to being so loved in return.
That was until a vampire came and slaughtered as many of her people as he could. With the help of the Sorcerer of her clan, she managed to create a barrier that would protect the survivors and rid them of the Vampire. It was too late though and almost everyone was dead. Devoured by the feeling she had failed, she started chasing the vampire in order to get revenge and also to take back a precious item he stole from her people.
She was 16 and it was the start of her journey. All along her way, she taught herself as much as she could (including reading and writing, two things she had never known before). As a nomadic person, she never stays long in the same place, and while learning as much as possible about the Vampire she chases, she has learned a lot in general and has become quite a knowledgeable one.
She has also started reflecting on her own role, her name meaning “Sun” in Romani (the language of the gypsies), she started wondering if there wasn’t more to her mission as a protector than what the old Sorcerer of her tribe had told her. Along her travels, she has made herself known among a few hunters brotherhoods and, even if she has still to prove her value, she is already known is the European Hunters community.
The tracks of the vampire she is chasing however lead her to New York, and she is now ready to enter her new scene of action, leaving the Old World for the first time.