Name: Lycoris
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Faction: Unaligned
Race: Half Vampire(/Human) +some other unusual and unknown apparent heritage.
Physical Description:
Lycoris is pale skinned, with long fine black hair left loose, and notably red eyes. She has a highly lithe build, standing at 5’6” (167cm) and weighing a fairly light 110lb (50kg), with a modest/average bust, though which looks a little larger on her due to her generally slim figure. She sports pronounced canines coming from her vampric heritage, which while a little smaller than most full vampires fangs, are plenty sharp enough to do harm to bare flesh. Her slight frame also belies her true strength, bolstered by her vampric side, making her quite capable of matching a well toned large male. She mainly wears lightweight and practical clothing, and often a large light cloak and hood to protect her from the sun, but also enjoys looking good and more feminine garments if possible. Sometimes when caught in shadow, the light can seem to play tricks around her, as if a subtle inky aura was enveloping her, or her even seeming to sink and blend into the darkness itself.
[Add] Went and drew a pic of her. Loosely based on the style used in Teeu's pic.
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Special abilities/skills:
Shadow Form: Lycoris possesses a unique and unexplained affinity to darkness, beyond any normal vampires mere nocturnal nature. Her body can blend into and seemingly become darkness. She doesn’t understand her nature, but using it comes naturally to her. She can use it for small things such as to make her harder to see whilst in the dark, or subtly manipulate and distort and stretch very local shadows, one trick involving “wearing” the shadows. Her more noteworthy tricks include...
Shadow Step: Ability to travel short distances at high speed by passing into and between sufficiently dark shadows. Entering one shadow and emerging from another. Bright light sources between separate shadows make travel more difficult to impossible, though physical objects such as walls are of no consequence. The shadow must also be sufficiently large enough to cover the majority of her body. Whilst "within" shadow step Lycoris senses are limited to a vague view of light and shadow with no sound, scent, touch, colour or distinct shapes. The biggest limitation of this technique is that it cannot include any item beyond herself. Any possessions such as weapons, clothes and supplies would fall to the ground and be left sitting in the shadow. Spare regarding the ability below, she is unable to remain within shadow step for more than a second or two.
Regen & Dark Sleep: Lycoris’ vampire resilience mixed with her mysterious shadow like nature has granted her perhaps most unusual and significant ability. Any wounds she takes seal up and heal at a surprising rate. When ever she takes a severe or mortal wound, enough to bring her to unconsciousness through weakness, her body instead collapses into a strange inky black mist that quickly disperses. Depending on the severity of the wound she will eventually reform nearby, typically taking anywhere between an hour and a day. Any light source will impede her rate of regeneration, and sunlight will stop it entirely, if not burning her further first.
Vampire Traits: As a half vampire Lycoris is both able to drink blood as a sustenance and also possesses the thirsting instinct for it, though to a slightly lesser degree. She does not however require it, and can readily survive on normal human foods. The instinctual urge for blood remains regardless though, with no amount of normal food sating the feeling that she has not fed for days. Due to the awkward matter of feeding on blood without gaining to much unwanted attention at any one place or time, Lycoris tends to get blood fairly infrequently. As such she tends to go without more often and for longer periods than she’d like, but such is necessary to avoid the wrath of professional vampire hunters. When the opportunity arises, fresh blood is something she revels in.
She does not possess a full vampires ability to fly, but is capable of considerable agility and pulling off leaps far beyond what her strength alone could achieve. Like wise she largely lacks the vampires talent for reading thoughts, but is still mildly sensitive to such things and has come to use the limited sense to help detect those nearby.
Weaknesses: Lycoris is vulnerable to sunlight. She suffers less from it, but still must make an effort to protect herself from it and avoid prolonged exposure. Particularly intense sunlight can still cause her burn where touched, but in most conditions light clothing including a hood is enough to keep her safe.
Like any other vampire, silver and holy magics are harmful to her. Again to a lesser extent, but still enough to make her want to avoid such things. She also intensely hates the smell and taste of garlic, but it doesn't actually effect her in any real way.
General Skills: Lycoris is skilled with short/light blades, typically favouring single edged weapons, as well as being adept in hand to hand combat and wrestling. She shows an impressive level of dexterity and hand to eye co-ordination in most things she does, and favours a highly mobile, if occasionally reckless, combat style.
Backstory:
One of the stranger and more dubious figures residing in Eebinland, Lycoris is a wanderer of unclear motives and origins. Self raised alone on the city streets in one of the harsher districts of the capital, no one knows the identity or potential whereabouts of her parents. Her unique affinity with darkness came to her at a very early age, visibly setting her aside from the common lowlife, and also providing the edge she needed to survive amongst them. Both her vampire heritage which became more apparent with age, and her disconcerting shadowy nature earned her more than her fair share of prejudice, with even the other street urchins shunning her. Regardless she thrived, and learnt to loosely live with and off the local gangs, picking up a variety of experience either doing errands for or fighting with them.
Of the small reputation she has gained across the kingdom, most of what is known about her is speculation and rumour, with odd sightings and stories coming from the full breadth of the country. She is known by some to work as a freelance mercenary and agent for those wishing and willing to hire her skills. Many reports of theft, violence, and even some murders are put to her name, but never with any proof and often little real reason to pin her to the crime. Some local law enforcement authorities maintain bounties on her, and/or standing orders for her arrest, but the extreme difficulty in merely catching the rogue woman means that all but the newest bounty hunters on the scene are well aware that the bounties are not worth trying to collect on. Lycoris makes no attempt to deny nor ever confirms the allegations, but does take a certain level of care not to earn enough attention to warrant a more enticing bounty or more focused efforts from the law.
Lycoris has a perhaps somewhat twisted but overall very relaxed world view. The jobs and opportunities she takes on are often as much for her amusement or mere curiosity as they are for the money. Possessions and coin cannot be shadow stepped, and large amounts of such are tiresome to carry about everywhere. She has little intention of settling down anywhere just yet, and so sees little point in hoarding treasures that cannot be easily moved.