_______________________________________________ Carmen Santos _______________________________________________ June 17, 1994 | 26 | Puerto-Rican _______________________________________________ Single | She/Her | Bisexual _______________________________________________ "Lily"| Footsoldier/Dealer _______________________________________________ Physical Profile ___________________________________
Basics: • Height | 5'2"
• Weight | 117
• Build | Banana-bodyshape, slim, well-built.
• Hair Color | Brown & Light-Blue.
• Eye Color | Brown
Physical Profile ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔
Usually jamming to music is Carmen Santos, or as she demands everyone calls her "Lily". She always has some kind of smile or something else on her face. The girl's really child-like, energetic, and can't ever seem to stand still (which is why she probably didn't join the army!). She's a sight that you'll remember because of her vaguely punk style. It's her dreads that are vaguely dyed a dark-blue color and all of her piercings. Other than that her sense of fashion is pretty modern and hip-hop-inspired like most other girls her age. Usually wearing leggings, shorts, and Lily seems to be that rare breed of Floridian that can wear jeans and jackets in eighty-degree weather (Seriously what the fuck is up with that?). If she didn't have the dreads and boobs she feels like people would think she's a stud.
Now, in case you haven't realized it yet; but Lily is Hispanic. She's Puerto-Rican and her skin is a somewhat light-brown color. She has a bit of Dominican and/or African-American (Well, more than Puerto-Ricans normally have) in her blood. Her ass isn't huge so she dispels this. Because of her nature as a wild-cat, more or less, she has a lot of different scars and stuff. Nothing dramatic... she got cut a lot and they healed in a nasty way. Otherwise, she's pretty clear.
The girl got tatted up seemingly the very second that she hit eighteen. So up her right arm, she has a sleeve of flowers. in her attempt to live up the name "Lily". Around her left boob, she has a floral wreathe and on a dare, she got a tattoo on her upper thigh of flowers that goes onto her butt cheek. Not a whole lot of people see these tattoos. She's even got a tramp stamp.
Psychological Profile ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔
Wild: Lily isn't exactly the most subtle human being in the book. Think of the spiciest pepper in the world, and she's even spicier than that. She's very sassy, hot-blooded, and outspoken and especially doesn't like taking other people's crap. Lily is usually cracking a joke of some sort.
Gadfly: The other facet of Lily's personality is that she looooves prodding people in order to get some sort of rise out of them.
Honeypot: Lily's a former stripper baby, she's good at putting on facades for desperate and horny people for whatever present need.
Criminal-Past ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔
Carmen was just a regular Lil' gal that was born n' raised in Neon Miami. Little Havana to be a bit more specific, which was mostly Cubans but it had a fair share of fellow Puerto-Ricans. Imaginably, Carmen didn't have the best upbringing given that Neon Miami fucking sucks. So she kind of grew up hanging around other hoodlums and she had a bit of root in some of the lower gangs (so low they couldn't even get a color) given that her father was a gangbanger. He claimed that he wanted a better life for Lily, but all that happened was that he got himself killed and she was left fatherless. Her mother got roped up with a member of the Caras Rojas, and that guy was a creep... and eventually tried to pimp Carmen out. That didn't sit well with Carmen at all... so eventually, she just split.
She spent the next little while couch-surfing, going from place to place. Eventually, she got roped up in being a stripper by one of her friends. She talked Carmen into it, telling her that she was pretty enough for it. Of course, the strip club she picked was a dirty, seedy, strip club that wasn't exactly safe. At all. It was inhabited by Caras Rojas and while she didn't like them, they had big bills and Carmen liked that. It was chill at first, but the Red Faces started getting a little rowdy. The kind of rowdy that people like the Lips didn't like, and a little gang war broke out between the Lips and the Caras Rojas.... and in the crossfire, two of Carmen's friends were killed.
It was disastrous... and it was why Carmen decided to bring an end to the Lips and the Caras Rojas. By naturally joining one of the other rival gangs and worked towards bringing them down. Carmen adopted the street name, Lily, after her time as a stripper and joined the Royals. This was when they were just a lowly street gang that didn't even have a color... and though a combination of gang banging, trading, and claiming territory, they eventually earned themselves a color.
Since then, Lily has been a loyal member of the Royals... even though they keep passing her up for promotions.
Arrest & Sentencing Information ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔
Crimnal Offense | Notes
Assault | Several incidents: convenience store owners, beach goers, rival strippers, parents out at the park, rival gang members.
Vandalism | Carmen has destroyed sereval convenience stores.
Public Urination | No comment.
Skills & Equipment ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔
Skills:
Dancing | Carmen is a very skilled dancer of the sensual variety.
Fist Fighting | Growing up in the poorer areas of Miami and being involved in several... altercations, has hardened Lily and you don't want to cross her.
Shooting | Lily isn't a crack shot, but she can at the very least hit the broad side of a barn... on a good day.
Equipment:
The Big Boy Lily Santos pistol of choice is a revolver that she picked up off some dead guy that she has been using ever since. It's an eight round revolver and can definitely put a hole in somebody. |
Her Car A car that Carmen won in a street race with a rival gang and pimped out with Neon lights and shit. It's her racing car and loud as shit when she turns it on. |
Y E M O J A, G O D D E S S O F T H E O C E A N Y E M O J A, G O D D E S S O F T H E O C E A N
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𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗦 Heidi Thomas 𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 26 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗥 Social Worker (Moonlights as a stripper)
𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬
𝑮𝑶𝑶𝑫
Caring/Motherly
Kind
Protective
𝑩𝑨𝑫
Tempermental
Self-Important
Condenscending
𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦
To protect women where ever and who ever they are... she has latched herself onto a particular group of strippers in Seattle. However, she feels limited without the full extent of her power and wishes to break the seal that limits her power so she can preform her task.
𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦
Futher failure in her duty to protect mortal women. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗬 Yemoja 𝗗𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗜𝗡 Goddess of The Ocean 𝗣𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗢𝗡 Yoruba
𝗠𝗬𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗬
The patron saint of the ocean (particularly the Ogun River) and protector of women, Yemoja was a decorated deity in the Yoruba patreon. She was one of the primordial entities tasked by Olofi, the supreme being, to assist in preparing the world for the arrival of mankind. And the task that she took initiative in was creating the waterways and the oceans, most importantly the sacred Ogun River. After it's creation her next task was to watch over the mortal women under the Yoruban patreon's care and it was not a task that Yemoja faltered in for not even a second. Mothers had births without a hitch, infertility was cured, and not a child was harmed under her care. However, at the end of the day, anyone who called the Ogun River home was under her protection. While she never had biological children of her own, she raised young Gods without parents, including Shango.
𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬
When she lost her power, the golden age of women and the Ogun River was over. Women and children everywhere began to suffer and Yemoja was powerless to do not a thing about it. It was horrifying that they were the ones being punished for the actions of fools. Yemoja held her tongue as she was forced to leave her homeland and going from place to place... and felt powerless as no Goddess like herself should ever bring herself to be at the mercy of humans. They're too powerful and wise... but it was that damn colossus that meant that she couldn't do anything about it.
Yemoja took the name Heidi Thomas in a bid to appear somewhat American. And she, recently, had to settle in Seattle (Geddit?) and tried to do something to help out fellow women. This is why she became a social worker... and she felt disappointed that she had to watch the ocean fall to ruin but with big companies dumping waste, she couldn't do a thing about it as a human. Though Yemoja was a pretty damn good at her job, she didn't get paid a whole lot and Seattle was expensive as shit. So it wasn't working so she ended up taking a side gig as a stripper at a local strip joint... even though she ended up taking a motherly role, much to the other strippers dismay.
S H A N G O, G O D O F F I R E & L I G N T N I N G S H A N G O, G O D O F F I R E & L I G N T N I N G
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𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗦 James Shango. 𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 34 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗥 Currently Shango is homeless. He earns money by playing drums on the busy streets of Seattle.
𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬
𝑮𝑶𝑶𝑫
Honorable/Magnanimous.
Courageous.
here
𝑩𝑨𝑫
Has a temper/Is easily provoked.
Glutton
Arrogant
𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦
Shango ain't got no big ambitions or grand goals anywhere. Shango's immortal, and he knows that, so he's just biding his time for the next big thing to jump off. So, he'll just entertain the mortals, have a bit of sex here and there, and eventually, he'll get his powers back.
𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦
Shango ultimately fears that this is the status quo that he'll have to abide by. He's refused to truly integrate with the humans as an act of rebellion against the Colossus and the foolishness of the other Gods to be sheep when they're, well, Gods. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗬 Shango 𝗗𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗜𝗡 God of Fire & Lightning 𝗣𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗢𝗡 Yuruban Panteon
𝗠𝗬𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗬
Less like a God and more like a force of Nature, Shango is the God of fire and lightning. One of the seven African powers and the adopted son of Yemoja, Shango was the most powerful and mighty of their pantheon. Because nothing is more fearsome and great than lightning. With Shango's ax at his side, he protected his followers with mighty bolts of lightning that punished the wicked. To Yemoja's protector of women, Shango was more of a mentor to men. His mission was to uphold the ideals of men and masculinity - strength, virtue, honor, justice, and loyalty - and make sure that they make Africa glorious. Though, Shango was known as a party boy; a womanizer that loved to eat as much food was set in front of him.
𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬
It was actually believed that Shango died right before the Colossus was built. His mighty palace in the center of Yoruba crashed with a mighty bolt of lightning and Shango disappeared. However, he survived by ascending to heaven, and then he returned once the seal on the Yoruban pantheon went up. Ever since the Colossus went up, Shango's been... around. He isn't exactly fond of the whole working a nine to five type deal to make a living, he's a king! If he doesn't have it all handed to him... then, well, he'll be fine with nothing. He usually hangs around the Gods, usually appearing at complete random on sidewalks in Seattle, playing the drums. He didn't originally do it for money but since so many mortals are so willing to throw their money away he might as well give it to Charity, the people who need it. Shango's been mostly couch surfing and womanizing his way from place to place. Hoping for the day the Gods return to power.
Social Worker ⫻ Claudette has a master's degree in social work from the University of Chicago! She knows a lot about her subject and can act as the therapist for the Coven in case shit goes south.
Bilingual ⫻ As a native of Montreal Claudette is fluent in French-Canadian and she can also fluently speak English.
Artist ⫻ Claudette dabbles in art from time to time, she can sketch and paint pretty well but she uses her artistic talent for making seals.
Sealing ⫻ Claudette knows how to seal Apparitions and has sealed several before.
Appearance ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ "I will keep on running."
Claudette is definitely somebody you couldn't miss even if you weren't looking for her. She's tall, slim, and has a poofy afro of natural hair on top of her head. The girl also has some various masculine features about her which could throw the first person who looks at her into doubt. For starters the girl is six feet tall even and that's tall even for male standards, and her body is slim and straight. Distinctly lacking in any type of curves - her chests and behind are concave, her waist isn't that slim, and her shoulders are somewhat broad. Claudette's face is the most feminine part of her it seems, but her jaw is somewhat square and boyish. This isn't a point of contention, but it's something that Claudette embraces with open arms as apart of her identity as being gender-fluid. The girl isn't that muscular but she definitely tries to keep in the best shape possible in order be her best. Though after what happened, she has been doing a lot more running and doesn't exactly keep on top of things like her makeup and her other features.
Claudette is African-American and proud, she's a mixture of several different African-Nations which results in her skin being a very distinct, dark-brown and would-be-black-if-few-shades-darker skin tone. Claudette's lips are large and glossy and her hair is afro-textured. The girl dresses in modern fashion with jeans, sweaters, and other such name brands such as Nike and some designer brands, but she seems to dress to cover as much of her body as possible. This is because she's hiding many scars from beasts and other creatures. They are hideous and they're all over her body from monster attacks that she survived. She carries around a strange book, however. There is not an inch of her body that's tattooed, pierced, or otherwise marked.
The girl also speaks with a slight French/Canadian accent.
Psychology ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ "I got to do anything to break the curse."
MAIN GOAL ⫻ Break the Curse so the Apparitions can leave her alone and she can live her life. That life is in the life of a social worker. Maybe getting revenge against the bitch that cursed her in the first place.
WHAT THEY WANT OUT OF THE COVEN ⫻ Claudette wants to use the Coven to find some way to get out of the Curse. However, she's wondering if she should dabble a bit in the supernatural.
PHILOSOPHY ⫻ Claudette takes a page from Albert Einstein and says that her life philosophy at its basis is to create satisfaction for herself and other people and to create something from nothing. This means that the only way she'll be happy is by learning and finding out about herself, and her past that she didn't know. Not just for the sake of it, because it's something that she's passionate about.
SECRETS ⫻ Well, Claudette doesn't go around announcing that she's being hunted by demons, that's for sure.
SEXUALITY ⫻ Claudette is a lesbian but she has a harder time getting attached to people because of her last relationship going... a little wrong.
FEARS ⫻ The Apparitions that hunt her want her body and she has nary a clue about what they're going to do to her once they catch her. Some have expressed some very... perverted interest in her but they say that they primarily want her body. And she doesn't want to see what'll happen afterward. Because of this, Claudette is deathly afraid of the Occult and doesn't want to dabble in it. She only uses her abstraction as a means to an end but afterward, she desires getting rid of it.
REPUTATION ⫻ Claudette is an outsider to Tampa and even if she wasn't; she'd probably be a nobody. What is notable however is that she seems to have a reputation for chaos following her where ever she goes.
FLAWS ⫻ Claudette is jumpy, prone to panic, and more importantly, she's undergone plenty of trauma from the fact that she was being hunted by monsters for the last while. She's obsessed with breaking the curse and will go to any length to do so, even if it means giving up her metaphorical humanity. Because of the fact that the curse was shunted onto Claudette by somebody, she trusted and even loved; she has a harder time trusting people. More importantly of all, she hates betrayal.
Backstory ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ "I'll never let myself get betrayed again."
As a kid, Claudette was a bit weird.
She grew up in Montreal, Canada in one of the many impoverished areas, but her parents tried to give everything for her. Working day and night so she'd have food in her mouth and a roof over her head. This was perfect for the girl as she went to school but felt much discrimination because of her race. The girl was an outcast and she didn't have too much family to go to. However, she was still a very compassionate and kind girl growing up that desired to help people and socialize. Mainly she had a soft spot for the other children that were in the same boat as her and were being abused or were having a hard home life. The girl was very studious as a youth and pursued learning whenever she could - even though the people who looked down on her and even her friends said that wasn't for her. They expected her to act like some loud-mouthed ghetto thug-like in the movies but Claudette that wasn't for her. She wanted to find her own sense of identity, and learn as much as she can. The girl looked online to other black people for advice and other ways to express her culture. Though Claudette found herself spending plenty of time online for her social interactions, her parents found it concerning but it was better than nothing.
The girl had a heavy presence in social media gaining experiences from other people and more. Though it kinda involved her arguing against idiots online to her agitation. However, browsing the internet is how Claudette felt something for females - every time she saw a girl suggestively posing or dressed risque it elicited feelings that she didn't get from looking at similar pictures from men. Claudette kept this to herself, obviously. For years the girl had a crisis with her gender identity as she didn't know exactly what she was or what she wanted to be. Mainly caused by her attraction to females that her parents previously instilled was boyish. In addition, there was the fact that growth spurt she had was colossal and many made fun of her for being boyish. Every time her parents got a hint of this they told her that she needed to get away from the computer talking to weirdos. This only made Claudette sigh.
After graduating high school, however, Claudette decided to leave Montreal for America as she wanted to travel the world along with helping people. Claudette applied to many different schools including Harvard and Yale; she had the GPA to back it up so why not... but she, unfortunately, couldn't get in, and they also didn't have the degree that she was looking for. Eventually, she expanded her horizons to trying to apply to every school out there until she managed to get into the University of Chicago's Social Worker program. That was where Claudette was free to explore herself as a woman and become her true self and she finally came to the realization that she wasn't into guys like that. Instead, she was into women and she eventually openly expressed her sexuality on social media and beyond. And she settled on being a woman except with some genderfluidity. Claudette moved on through classes and eventually she graduated from the University of Chicago after attaining her degree in Social Work and a Minor in ASL.
And mountains of debt from her student loans!
Ultimately, Claudette chose to settle down in New York and become a social worker. The girl was able to get a pretty high paying job with her master's degree and so on she lived a high life in New York. Even though her apartment was tiny and cheap, she has frequented the art scene and attended many festivals. In the meantime, she has dated girls on and off but she hadn't found the right one until she ran into a girl at the bar. Her name was Maxine Carter and they were the perfect match as both of them were studious and compassionate women - but Claudette felt like Maxine was only into her because she was "exotic". Still, Maxine was her only real girlfriend and after a few months, they finally went through with it...
... But, Claudette woke up tied to a bed and naked. Covered in symbols and pentagrams.
That was when Maxine dropped the bomb on her: she never loved Claudette and she was only playing her. Maxine told Claudette that there was a curse on her that attracted monsters and all sorts of nastiness - all because one of her ancestors was a magician and had some unfulfilled pacts. But the curse could be passed onto another female through a ritual and so Maxine set up a trap and Claudette fell for it. Afterward, Maxine left her and Claudette screamed until someone called the police and they came to free her. Claudette told them that Maxine was some kind of satanist and tried to sacrifice her to a demon and fled - which put the police on her tale.
Claudette went home, defeated, and tried to sleep it off... that was when a shadowy being approached her. He told her that she was marked for sacrifice and then attacked her. She screamed and thrashed as she tried to haul ass and eventually caught the attention of the police... who came and saw nothing. The shadowy being was gone and Claudette was in the corner in the fetal position shivering. Talking crazy and the police took her in for questioning and she kept speaking about a mysterious attacking. They were about to throw her into the slammer when the thing attacked her again... except it wasn't alone. They ravaged the police station and Claudette had to haul ass to get away from them.
They attacked her endlessly at complete random... telling her that they wanted her body, but would have their fun with her first. It felt like a game to Claudette as she was terrorized for a while and they always let her getaway. Claudette went on the run, going from place to place, but they'd always follow her and cause chaos. Though, this wouldn't go unnoticed as she got the attention of a girl named Kimberly Walton. This girl introduced herself as a Ghost Hunter and supernatural expert... who effortlessly ran off one of the attacks with merely a camera. Claudette was informed of the world unknown: the hidden world of the supernatural and why they were attacking her. Kimberly explained that she was an Afflicted and would help her break the curse no matter the cost. Most importantly Kimberly taught her the art of sealing an apparition inside of an object and what would happen if she touched it.
In their attempts to test sealing Claudette sealed her main tormented into a book. He introduced himself as the Witch's Darkness and said that he was the servant of powerful Witch ages ago that made a deal with him and many others: a deal that went unfulfilled so now whoever has her curse has to deal with them. This was strange, but Claudette learned that Kimberly was filming their exploits and putting it live. She felt like she was absolutely betrayed by Kimberly and took the book and just left. She definitely didn't want to be objectified like the girl was making her.
More importantly of which, Claudette wanted to test this ability - and she convinced the Witch's Darkness to give her his power. She used her sealing techniques and her new Abstraction to combat the Apparitions after her and eventually got them off of her. However, more began to come and she went to darker, more depraved, corners in order to break the curse as the curse wears down on her sanity. She heard about a Coven in Florida that she knew was going to help her...
Abstraction ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ "Darkness is a force... I now force the forces."
TYPE ⫻ Aberration (Agent)
ABSTRACTION ⫻ The Witch's Darkness, Claudette can produce a smoky black darkness-like substance that absorbs the energy out of whatever enters it.
ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ The Darkness was the Witch's favorite Apparition and her most loyal servant. Mainly because of his ability to interfere with other Extra-Normal abilities and formed an almost literal dark-spot in reality. The Darkness has formed a new pact with Claudette and allows her to use his powers long as she frees him by the end. The Darkness's power is creating a strange, smoky, black substance that drains the energy out of all it comes in contact with. Heat, sound, kinetic, electricity, it all goes dead as it's drained and then scattered all over the multiverse harmlessly. This isn't an instant process as it requires a few moments to fully disappear, but provided it stays in the darkness it'll die out. This allows her to lessen attacks from fire, electricity, and even projectiles as the darkness eventually cause them to lose momentum and then fall. If she uses her darkness on an area for a while it'll eventually chill as all heat will be gone. Most notably of all it deafens sound and she uses this aspect the most as she wraps the darkness around herself to mask her footsteps. The Witch's Darkness can be freely controlled by Claudette and she can create large amounts of it - enough to blanket several city blocks. The Darkness blocks out light and acts as a near-perfect smokescreen.
AURA SENSING ⫻ Notably, Claudette doesn't have an aura-sensing ability of her own, but she has the ability to negate another aura sensing by wrapping it inside of her darkness. No being will be able to utilize their aura reading as long as the darkness is around them.
LIMITS ⫻ Now, Claudette cannot directly use her ability on other Extra-Normal beings. So for example; she can eat the heat from a pyromancer but there's nothing stopping him from going up and punching her in the face. The ability does nothing to stop direct physical abilities at all. The Witch's Darkness ability to eat energy isn't instant and depending on how much energy it'll take more time. She could stop a rock thrown at her but she'll definitely do nothing against bullets as they go too fast and will cut through the darkness. At best it'll only dampen attacks and certain other feats. Great feats of power like massive fireballs can actually destroy the Darkness as it'll be far too much power for it to handle. In addition, the more darkness that Claudette creates, the less effective it'll generally be at sapping energy. If she creates a ball of darkness the size of marble it can pretty much instantly sap energy from whatever it touches. Though it can't sap energy from what it doesn't touch.
WEAKNESSES ⫻ Claudette's darkness affects her as well as the environment. She cannot see through the darkness and it'll absorb the heat out of her body if she's in it as well. It'll sap some of her heat just from creating it and it has the nasty habit of sending her cellphone's charge to a different universe. There's also the fact that Claudette is cursed and being hunted by Apparitions and other nasty beings that want her soul, body, and everything else she has. She has learned how to beat them back but this isn't a good thing.
Other ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ "I have no choice but to work with these maniacs and monsters."
