Name: McKayla Rae
Race: Shifter
Clan: Lakshme
Symbol: Snake
Gender: Female
Abilities: The Lakshme family believe the snake is their patron animal. They are one of the strongest shifting families alive and are the only family that can take on human forms as well as animals, shedding their old skin like a snake if they wish. The Lakshme family believed that they started off as normal Shifters and evolved into something more when the human threat grew where others of their kind did not. This gives them a bit of a superiority complex. In order to take on the form of another human, McKayla has to have hair and something personal of theirs that contains great meaning to the person in question. She also have to have an intimate knowledge of the person, for this reason Kayla tends to be extremely perceptive and good at reading people... getting in their heads. Her kind can only hold the form so long as they have those things in their possession and on their person... they cannot take on the form at will without them.

History: Kayla is the last of her family line, her family was wiped out by Skinwalkers. Kayla can take on the form of another human and it is like looking in a mirror, she becomes a doppleganger to a living person.... but a Skinwalker steals the person's existence, their identity and actually walks about in their skin. Skinwalkers were once shifters who became dopplegangers and killed the one they mimiced to retain the form. A skinwalker can become anyone they've been before at will because they claimed the person's existence. Shifting into another being is addictive, holding a form too long can cause you to become stuck. There is a theory that this is what happened to werewolves. Their ancestors preferred the form of wolves so much that they lost the ability to transform into anything else and because of the addiction running in their blood the moon forces the change. So, for this reason Kayla does not shift into another person unless there is a need... the more you do it the closer you are to becoming addicted and becoming a Skinwalker.

Name: Marrock Jean-Louis

Race: Werewolf (loupgarou)

Gender: Male

Abilities:

Heightened Senses, accelerated Healing, enhanced agility, enhanced strength.

Pain Transference: Werewolves can absorb and alleviate pain from other people/creatures and can "heal" in some cases.

Memory Transference: Werewolves can transfer (give or take) memories by inserting claws into nape of an individual's neck. This ability can establish mind-to-mind communication and, with practice, allow for memory manipulation or erasure.



Personality: Marrock wasn't always a werewolf. He was once a young man with a caring heart the bite didn't change his physical mannerisms. He became cold and closed off, it began as a want to keep those around him safe but morphed as time went on. Marrock is aware that he good looking and often uses that to his advantage to ease the blood lust he often feels. Despite this awareness, he is not as vain as one might think. He can often be a gentleman as he finds that it is easier to woo girls in that way than it is too be an ass.

Marrock rarely stays one partner for any length of time. He says it is because he doesn't want to get bored but it roots down to his want to avoid hurting someone he actually has an attachment to. He is a lone wolf without a pack but he isn't interested in following someone. He likes being in charge of himself and isn't one to follow orders or listen to authority.

Marrock has a bit of a bad boy reputation with his leather jacket and the fact that he wholly believes that rules were just made to be broken.

Name: Daria Fae
Gender: Female
Race: Dhampir
Age: 17/18
Ward: None?
Element: Unknown
Abilities: Dhampir ones? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯



Background: Grew up as a human till her mother died. Mother's sister didn't want to finish raising her teenage niece. The Aunt contacted Daria's Moroi father who threw her into the academy. Daria is pretty much thrown in having no idea what she is, who her father is -other then a condescending fuck-, or what the academy is outside of the very short description she was given but didn't listen to as she considered jumping out of the car onto a busy highway to get away from the 'pale fuck' that says he's her father.

(I guess this'll do for now?)

Name: Gunner Marks
Gender: Male
Race: Dhampir
Age: 39
Ward: Dylan Alexandra Melikova



Personality: Calm, cool, collected. Doesn't really know how to have fun. He's very wrapped up in the duties of being a guardian.
Background: Gunner mother has turned Strigoi when he was very young. Had it not been for his uncle, a guardian, it was highly likely that Gunner would be dead. Due to this, he takes his job very seriously. He doesn't see glory in killing Strigoi like some of his classmates do. Although he wishes to protect Moroi from the fearsome beasts of the night, he is tormented by the images of his mother. His uncle had been unable to kill her and in the end, she ran off with him. All Gunner knows is that she is still alive.

After graduation, Gunner learnt the truth of his family's fate and fell victim to it himself. A force to be reckoned with like none before him, Gunner lives with the guilt of the damage that he created and the countless families that he destroyed like those that had taken his own from him. He works to make up for his, working as the Ward of one of the Moroi children, who happens to be his daughter as well. He protects her to ensure she never again meets the danger he created... Although, she is also the daughter of his beloved, Anna.... So, there was no way that he was ever going to keep her sheltered completely.

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Name: Serena Abatangelo
Gender: Female
Race: Dhampir
Age: 38
Ward: Sebastian Lazar



Personality: Serena is quiet and tends to keep more to herself. This is mainly due to fear of people figuring out what Moroi men did and what she allowed them to do her. She is shaky and tends to be a little jumpy, although, some of this might very well be from the withdrawal that she is now going through.

Background: Born and raised in a Dhampir commune, Serena had a... difficult childhood. Her mother was young when she had her, Serena was clearly a mistake. Her mother was a blood whore, through and through, and Serena could never really get over that. Although, that could have been due to the fact that from a young age her mother allowed her Moroi father to drink from her. Well, maybe she didn't let him but she surely didn't stop him either. Nor did she stop anyone else. Realizing her own addiction and seeing the women around her, who had practically come dependent one the endorphins from Moroi bites, Serena decided it was time to leave.

Although she attended a school not far from the commune year-round, Serena applied to St. Vladimir's. She felt as though this was the one way to escape the only future she saw for herself. She still bears the scars from her years at the commune and hides them under her long brown hair. Now, she intends to keep her secret while training to be a guardian as an escape... For now.

Serena's final year of school was a bit strange, including running away from home in Italy, making new friends, dying, being brought back from death by her spirit wielding Moroi boyfriend, being confronted by her father, going manic addict on her friends, and actually managing to graduate as one of the top students of her class. Despite offers, Serena decided to stay with Sebastian, which wasn't a hard decision to make. Their life over the last few years had been good. Serena was less antsy about her past, even managed to take down a few Strigoi without dying. Although, sometimes it was hard to tell who the Guardian was, with how protective Sebastian got. Ultimately, he had been the best thing to happen to her.

She now wears her hair in a ponytail from time to time that often worries those who do not know about what all she has been through. Mainly Sebastian's family, with whom they have cut all ties, except for his sister. However, she likes the thought that her weakest moments lie with her strongest, the molnija marks that show how many Strigoi she's killed and are tattooed to a small piece of unscarred skin at the back of her neck, spilling out onto her upper back.