Username:
x_Talon_x
Character name:
Jade Faryndar
Gender:
Female
Age:
60
Race:
Dhampir (Half vampire, half human)
Appearance:
Jade
Bio:
"I'm going hunting, love," called Daren, lifting his bow from it's place and hoisting his provisioned rucksack onto his back as his wife rose from her spinning and came to see him off. "I'll be back within the next few days, Allyson, so take care." She kissed him, enfolding him in her arms, and with a smile, let him go, holding open the door. "You, too, dear. I'll be waiting for you when you come home."
Daren walked out with a last kiss on his wife's forehead, and then vanished into the depths of the forest. He disappeared that night and returned a week later, game over his shoulder. It would not have been at all strange, were it not for the fact that he had packed only enough food for three days, and that he was cool to the touch, pale in the face. Fearing that he was ill, Allyson put him to bed, layered in blankets, despite his claims that he wasn't feeling ill at all. And that night, he proved it, multiple times.
Allyson woke just after dawn, and with a tired, but satisfied smile, and rolled over to caress her husband's face, only to find him missing. She never saw him again, and nine months later, she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Not that anyone knew.
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Daren and Allyson were peculiar people, in a way, preferring to live just inside the edge of the forest, rather than in the village with everyone else. They valued their privacy greatly, and so, rather than living in or close to the small farming community, they chose to build their home outside of town. It was for this reason that everyone avoided them and their home, for the forest was a forbidden place to the village-folk. Rumors of strange, murderous creatures living there had long ago made it an unspoken taboo to enter. Daren and Allyson, of course, scoffed at the rumors, and decided that was yet another reason to build their small cottage there, and so they did.
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Jade, Allyson decided to name her, and smiling, she took care of her baby as any other mother would have. She fed her as mothers do, changed her diapers, and went about her daily life as though nothing had changed, with the expection of Daren's absence, however, it wasn't for a few months that she noticed something was wrong with Jade.
She didn't seem to be growing as normal children do--despite being nearly nine months old, she still appeared to be only about a third her actual age. And the trend continued, at six, she only appeared two, at 15, only five. But wasn't the only trait that seemed strange about Jade. She had abnormal physical strength--twice that of a normal child at the particular stage in life. She was pale, and cooler to the touch than a normal human, though not deathly cold as her father had been the night he returned before disappearing into the ether forever. While still in her infantile stage, Jade began to throw up whenever Allyson gave her milk, and she grew fussy whenever Allyson was menstruating or was handling fresh meat. When she grew teeth, her canines were longer than was normal for a human. It was then that she guessed the truth of what happened to Daren, and what the true nature of her daughter was. She was a dhampir.
From then on, Allyson frequently went into town to buy live animals, so that Jade could feed on their lifeblood, and took to breeding large animals, as well. She taught Jade that preying on humans was wrong, and kept her secluded from the village population, often banishing her to the forest so that there was no chance that she accidentally fed from someone.
When Jade turned 33 (though she appeared to be only 11 or 12, and acted that way as well), she finally hit puberty, and then her life was thrown into chaos. Not only was her body beginning to change, her hormones and desires started to go haywire, and the worst of all was her bloodlust. While she had learned to make it almost a whole month without needing blood, when she hit puberty, if she went longer than a week, her bloodlust rose to the point that her instincts for self-preservation began to take over, and though banished to the forest to hunt for animals, she found her path bending instead toward the nearby town, where she began to prey on the weak and homeless, only to find herself back at home afterward, covered in blood and with the tase of iron and stark fear in her mouth.
Her mother, old and withered, did her best to console her daughter during this time, but no longer did she possess the strength to ensure her daughter wouldn't hunt humans. It was on her deathbed that she told Jade to stay in the forest and to avoid humans. The woman-girl listened, and followed her mother's dying wish.
For years, she did her best to stay concealed, deep in the forest, but she ended up terrorizing the villages surrounding the woods in which she lived, often finding herself curled into a bloody ball the morning afterward, and not always in the cover of deep shade. (It was in this manner that she discovered that in the sunlight, she'd burn as any vampire would, but it took longer for her skin to char and turn to ash. Though it was painful, she tested with one fingertip how long she could be in sunlight, watching as her skin turned red with sunburn, then spotty with bloodblisters, which finally burst, and bleeding, became blackened and began to char. It took more than a month for the wound to heal, and even to this day, she still bears a scar on that finger.)
It was on one such day that she resolved to change, for she'd grown weary of living in the forest, alone but for the animals and plants, such as they were. No longer would her bloodlust control her, no longer would she find herself bloodied, naked and sleeping in the dirt under the cover of greenery, a corpse resting beside her. She'd hand-dug too many shallow graves, caused so much grief, and she'd failed her mother, the only person she'd ever known and loved.
Saying this, she stripped the female corpse she'd woken beside, apologizing all the while for killing her and then stealing her clothing, buried the body, and then washed the clothing clean of spilled blood. When they dried, she headed into town, attempting to get used to the smells of the village, to try and tone down the throbbing heartbeats of the people and animals to which she'd become so attuned. The noise was deafening, clashing together in a chaotic symphony of madness, the smells were sickening.
A preacher, noting that she looked both ill and confused, as well as rather disheveled, took her into his home when she confided to him that she had no home anymore, that her mother--her only family--had died, meshing the truth together with whopping lies. And the poor man, "bless his soul", as he constantly said, swallowed the woeful tale whole. Though she felt guilty, she never told him the truth, either.
Eventually, she took a job as a barmaid in a local tavern, feeding off the local livestock at night several times a week to keep her bloodlust in check, then got her own place, where she's resided for the past five years. However, as much as she's tried to hide the fact that she has a vampire-like thirst for blood, rumors have arisen concerning bloody-thirsty creatures which pray on the animals during the night, though no one suspects her as of yet. She's intending to leave and travel to a new town, soon, so that she might remain undiscovered.
Other:
Strengths and Weaknesses:
*2x as strong as normal human, 1/2 as strong as normal vampire
*Burns like normal vampire, but only after 1 hour of exposure to direct sunlight
*Still mortal, but ages at 1/3 rate of normal human, both physically and mentally
*Will die if staked in heart, burned, etc. Also has allergy to silver, garlic, holy water, cannot step onto consecrated grounds without feeling pain, etc.
*Still thirsts for blood, can control thirst by drinking animal blood 2-3 times a week
*More acute senses--sight, hearing, smell
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