Name: Madeline “Mad Maddie” Hollinghurst
Race: Vampire
Age: 91 (Approx.)
Appearance: Maddie’s face is lean and slender, with a small cluster of freckles gathered around her slim nose. Her eyes are a reddish maroon, and her eyebrows have been finely plucked. She has a sharp chin, broad forehead, and a wiry neck. Maddie has raven hair that flows down past her shoulders. She has a skinny build, with faint curves, and a surprising amount of muscle for someone with such delicate features. Her body is fairly toned, with a hint of softness.
Personality:In life Maddie was unhinged, maniacal, and otherwise sick in the head. In Death, Maddie’s madness has only increased in severity. A volatile young Vampress with an aptitude for violence, Miss Hollinghurst is an amoral individual, possessing a complete disregard for the rights and feelings of others. Impulsive and aggressive, Madeline has a long history of behavioural problems, vicious outbreaks, and sadistic tendencies.
Bio: Maddie was born in Liverpool, England, initially being raised by a family that were troubled in both the psychological and financial sense. Madeline’s father was a dockworker who put in multiple shifts, before spending all of the day’s earnings on drugs and booze, and then going home and beating his mother and his baby girl. When he was particularly irate, daddy Hollinghurst would lock young Maddie in her room for days on end, accompanied by several fresh bruises and scars for good measure.
The young girl grew up without friends or siblings, and spent her leisurely time catching rats and birds in traps that she’d set up about the family’s home, before breaking their necks once she’d claimed her bloody prizes.
The start of the Second World War saw Madeline evacuated to Devon, where she was taken in by the eccentric Doctor and Mrs Blackwood. The radical change in lifestyle took some adjusting to, but Madeline quickly became very fond of the pair, liking them a great deal more than her birth parents. The Blackwood’s tutored young Maddie, and she soon fell in love with the vast expanse of books that were available in their homes library, after the Doctor had taught her how to read and write.
Despite finding life more enjoyable, Maddie continued her old hobby of capturing and torturing animals, up until one fateful evening where Doctor Blackwood caught the young girl in the act. Fearful of how he might react, Madeline was rather surprised to the find that her foster father was not so much horrified by what he found as he was fascinated, taking an even greater interest in young Madeline. The Doctor begun to develop a physiological profile of Madeline, based off of both behavioural observations and interview sessions he held with her, diagnosing her with several different personality disorders, as well a plethora of psychopathic tendencies. Rather than try putting her in therapy or giving her medication, Doctor Blackwood instead encouraged her to take her urges out animals, in an attempt to placate the “darkness” inside her, and make her less of a threat to other humans.
Taking a fondness to his adopted daughter, Doctor Blackwood begun to pay for Madeline to be tutored in several extra-curricular activities, buying her lessons in everything from art, literature, and ballet, to fencing, marksmanship, and martial arts. While she really took a shining to the combat based activities, Madeline still immensely enjoyed the less-aggressive classes.
Madeline spent the duration of the war under the Blackwood’s tutelage-growing especially close to the good Doctor, as they bonded over their butchering of woodland animals-and grew to become a rather intellectual and competent young woman, becoming somewhat forwards thinking for someone with such an arsenal of mental defects.
During the course of the war Madeline’s birth farther was conscripted into the army, ending up being killed by friendly fire, while her mother died during the Liverpool Blitz. With no parents to return to, Maddie remained with the Blackwood’s, living out her idealistic lifestyle within Devon.
Unfortunately, even in paradise the sunsets.
One of Doctor Blackwood’s former patients, Edgar Burgan, broke into the Blackwood estate in the dead of night, slipping into their mansion without being detected. Unhinged and completely unstable, Edgar butchered the Doctor and his wife in their sleep, only missing Maddie because she was in the basement fiddling with her rat traps.
Upon discovering the bodies of her dead foster parents, Maddie slipped into a state of complete physiological madness, breaking down to the point where she was no longer functional. With no one else to care for her, Madeline was dumped in the young person’s ward of the Arthur Derrington Private Clinic and Asylum, being confined to an enclosed cell, without access to the outside world, which only served to worsen her already damaged state.
Madeline spent many years within asylum, during which she attracted the attention of one Archibald Walden; a rather well composed but completely insane vampire, masquerading as a doctor within the facility.
Archibald pulled Madeline from her cell, and dumped her back in his small woodland cottage. Madeline’s vampric sire was fond of hunting townsfolk through the woods at night, before bringing them back to his abode and then draining them of blood and using his surgical skills to create twisted artworks out of their bodies. Thankful for Maddie’s company, Archibald imparted his talents onto the young girl over the years, continuing the Blackwood’s tutelage, whilst also imparting his medical talents onto her. However, as is the nature of psychopaths, Madeline eventually grew bored of the doctor, and it wasn’t long before he found himself on his own dissecting table.
After a fair few decades of stomping around England, brining terror wherever she went, Madeline eventually made her way over to the American West Coast; specifically the city of Santa Somabra.
Living in the vast tunnel network beneath the city for some time, Madeline befriended an undead named Diego Treviño, and together they formed a gang that would come to be known as the Snatchers. Madeline and her thugs would kidnap high-profile characters from the surface world, and Diego would then masquerade as a stealthily bounty hunter, ‘rescuing’ the individual back for their relatives, for a hefty fee of course. The Snatchers only existed for three years, but within that time they grew to become one of the most prominent crews in all of Santa Somabra, and Madeline and Diego grew to become immensely wealthy.
One evening, the snatchers were pulling a con where Madeline kidnapped the then mayor of Santa Somabra, before dragging him down to the tunnel network for safe keeping, when Diego double-crossed her, tipping off the SSPD as to her whereabouts. A swat team stormed Madeline’s hiding place, rescuing the mayor, and the vampress barely managed to get out alive.
On that day the Snatchers split into two gangs: The Reapers –lead by Madeline- and the Rotfaces –lead by Diego-.
The bad blood between the factions has only turned even sourer over the years, as both groups take every opportunity to undermine the other.
Utilizing her vast wealth, Madeline began buying up as many street-level goons as she could, before leading a mass takeover on the turf of the Hanged men; the gang who controlled the Runez market in Santa Somabra.
After a series of bloody skirmishes, the Reapers soon had control over all of the Hanged men’s territory. As a symbol of her victory, Madeline ripped the still-beating heart from the chest of the Hanged men’s leader, before eating it infront of what remained of his old crew.
Fast-forwards a few years or so, and the Reapers are one of the major contenders in Santa Somabra. Part of their proficiency comes from the fact that all of the money which Madeline makes she pours back into her gang, building them into a terrifyingly powerful faction. Madeline rules largely through fear, as both rival gangs and her own men have witnessed far too many times what she is capable of in order to get her way.
Other: Given her unhinged mental state, a few of the Reapers question Madeline as the choice of leader, however they are too terrified to speak out against her.
Having become infamous for her complete lack of morality, and her sadistic tendencies, Madeline Hollinghurst is generally regarded as one of the most monstrous characters in Santa Somabra.
