But ya'll thought I was done with NPCs [@Punished GN] forced my hand with this one (he really didn't), a former coven member who refused to go back [hider=definitely not a Vanburen][table][row][cell][h2][b]Trisha[color=2e2c2c].[/color]Vanburen[/b][/h2][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][center][img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fa/2a/83/fa2a832adad000ef333a9cae31d07fad.jpg[/img] [b]24 | Patricia Malaya Vanburen | She/Her [/b][hr][i]"Fuck everyone else, what have they ever done for me?"[/i][/center][/cell][cell] [b]Description:[/b] [indent]One of James Vanburen’s many children, Trisha got what she viewed as a shitty hand in life. Growing up she had to live in the shadow of a myriad of much brighter, nicer and more talented siblings - with a distant father, and a strict mother who only cared about her grades. She was taught that the cause of all her problems was James and the woman he’d cheated on her mother with, building her resentment from a young age. She spent most of her time in St Portwell, with the occasional month in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her mom. This time lessened as she got older and was unable to live up to her mum’s high expectations, struggling in school. When she was thirteen she snuck into James’ large artifact collection, and accidentally released one of the apparitions sealed there. It adjoined with her and was her first introduction to magic. Thankfully, it wasn’t as malevolent as many of the others within James’ collection. Then, to make her whole life even worse, she was nearly killed by the Stygian Snake and ended up fighting it with the Sycamore Tree Coven. Trisha was… better with the coven than she was with her family. She was able to be herself without the pressure or shadow of her siblings, and she actually managed to make friends. In a way, like many others, she saw it as a replacement family - and a place she sort of belonged to. But she was still one of the many high tempers in the coven, someone who easily held grudges and got into arguments, and helped push it towards being disbanded. It hurt when it ended, and she explosively cut all ties. Since, Trisha moved on - finishing highschool and going to a lower tier college for mathematics. She just recently graduated (having taken a year out when James died) and moved back to St Portwell, where she’s been living aimlessly after barely passing her degree and refusing to move to one she would’ve done better at. Trisha is living off doing small coding jobs on the side (something she has actual talent for), what little inheritance she got and her father’s - no, older brother’s- money. When Auri reached out for the coven to rejoin, Trisha replied very succinctly - “fuck off.” After all, there’s a shit ton of money in her family, so a security team hired for her by Ezra will protect her a whole lot better than the rest of the coven…[/indent] [b]Abstraction:[/B] Adjoined - [i]The Queen[/i] [indent]Trisha has access to part of the abstraction of the Queen, an apparition spawned from the strong leadership of queen bees, and the interconnected hive and communication between bees. The abstraction comes in two parts - the ability to manipulate her own pheromones and affect humans with them, and summoning a swarm of bees. Trisha can primarily use two types of pheromones on humans: sex pheromones and alarm pheromones. The sex pheromones allow her to appear more attractive to another person, and are specifically targeted towards one person. They make them more likely to listen to her, want to be with her, ect. The alarm pheromones work in a radius and have two modes - fight or flight. Flight will make those caught by them have the overwhelming urge to flee, whereas fight will make them more aggressive or defensive. This can help in a fight by removing any fear they might have, or alerting others to danger. Emotional fields dampen the effects of both. Trisha can also call a specific swarm of bees - they are paranormal in that they live much longer lives than normal bees (and thus survive without an actual queen bee), but are otherwise normal. They view her as their queen and will obey her “commands”, via pheromones. Trisha has to keep this group of bees alive, though, and has essentially become a pseudo-beekeeper for her paranormal hive. They can be called from near any distance, but will take the time normal bees would take to get there. [/indent] [/cell][/row][/table][/hider]