Basic Information
Name:Seraphine Campbell
Age:32
Gender:Female
Appearance: At 5’6 Seraphine isn’t particularly tall, but frequently wears heels that add another four inches to her height, an illusion that is only heightened by her willowy build. It could be said that she plays at being high society, but the truth is that she does a great deal more than play at it. She wears makeup, not a great deal, just enough to highlight and enhance her own natural beauty.
Seraphine employs an expensive personal trainer, and they make sure that she maintains her slim, attractive figure. She’s not overly busty, but has certainly been gifted with aesthetically appealing curves, maintained and tightened by the ruthless attentions of her personal trainer. This consistent regimen ensures that she is strong and fit, but not as muscular as someone with a particular interest in fitness would be.
Seraphine is wealthy, and she isn’t afraid to flaunt it, always wearing expensive designer clothes and even more expensive jewellery. A flair for the dramatic means that given the opportunity she will wear expensive gowns and dresses, frequently clothed in evening dress even for fairly mundane tasks. It is an opulent show of wealth when some of her outfits cost in excess of a month’s salary.
Skills/Talents:Is fluent in nine additional languages including French, ASL, Russian and Japanese.
Taekwondo – Black belt
Photography
Law
Proficient Pistol Marksmanship
Observant
Brief Backstory:Seraphine was not raised as a high society lady, or even as Seraphine. Sophie Jones was about as common as they come, her father was wealthy, but as a man who had worked his way up from the bottom, he wasn’t exactly welcome among the old guard of the wealthy. You could think that such prejudices were long since forgotten, but in the upper echelons of society there are still those who hold onto old and outdated sensibilities.
Her father was proud of his heritage, and refused to blend in with the circles he now moved among, still wearing old battered jeans and helping the hands on the ancestral family ranch. Sophie hated it, hated being looked down on and bullied by her fellow students at her private school, at home she had to carry out chores on the ranch, which would have been fine if it didn’t include mucking out the horses and throwing hay, giving her a more masculine physique than most teenage girls are comfortable with, particularly amongst peers who are spoiled rotten by their families from birth, not raised in a working household. She always wanted to escape that life, to be something more.
When her powers manifested things only became more complicated, they changed for the worse. Though it came with advantages, people were frightened of metahumans, and Sophie became even more ostracised than she already was, even her father, who had always been an honest, hard-working man, was ashamed of his daughter’s freakish nature. His daughter, his hard-working, honest daughter, was registered with nest, chipped, tagged, and suddenly an embarrassment.
Sophie ran away, she stole twenty thousand dollars from her father and left town, left the county, the state. She changed her name, acquired a whole new identity, and set about transforming her life. Anyone else might have struggled, even most metahumans would have struggled in that position, but Seraphine’s ability gave her the unique ability to be in two places, or more, at once.
A year spent working long hours every day helped her lose the puppy fat, and a lack of proper nutrition ensured that her once chunky physique slimmed down a little more rapidly than was really healthy. It didn’t take long though, before she realised the power her new appearance gave her. At her age, she looked old enough to be within the consenting age, but was ruthless enough tot ake advantage of the fact that she wasn’t, and extorted money from the men foolish enough to fall for her feminine wiles. Of course, it eventually meant she had to move on, and before long she found herself in Louisiana. Attractive, and clearly already in the habit of using her sex and beauty to take advantage of men, she was picked up by a pimp, and put to work in the city’s thriving sex industry.
Her abilities made her much more valuable than the man was capable of dealing with however, and she was soon ‘taken off his hands’ by one of the city’s crime bosses. She was lucrative, and swiftly became a high class, in demand escort. She was ambitious though, she was happy to use men to get ahead, but she wanted to be the one who called the shots, who ran the business, so she began moving her way to the top. Seduction; bribery, blackmail, they were all tools of the trade, and she learned to use them swiftly and with ruthless efficiency. She rarely resorted to violence, never had the taste for it, but had the money and ambition to buy the services of people who would.
She made enough to buy her way out, bought her independence from the families, and made enough friends that they wouldn’t try and take her back by force. Especially not when one of them was a potent meta, a man of unknown origins who now acts as her bodyguard.
Power Information
Power Class: Other
Power:Seraphine has the potent gift of self-duplication, the ability to generate complete clones of herself. These clones share a limited empathic link, but are otherwise capable of acting and thinking independently, though the fact that they are the same person allows them to act with an uncanny unity of purpose at times. These clones are identical in virtually every way, impossible to tell apart for any but an extremely potent telepath.
This power is the secret to Seraphine’s success each clone, though tethered to the Prime, is capable of living an independent life, of learning and acquiring skills. Though there is no telepathic link between the Prime and the clone, upon reabsorption Seraphine Prime can absorb all of their memories, knowledge and skills. The clones otherwise can function independently.
Limits:Though Seraphine can produce a number of clones, she is limited to a maximum of twelve, and she maintains three in various countries around the world, limiting her to being able to produce nine clones in her immediate vicinity.
Weaknesses/Drawbacks:Reabsorbing a clone can have some adverse effects for some time after the fact. These can include personality defects, wild mood swings and occasional periods of exhaustion. These effects are magnified the longer the clone has been independent, a few days has little to no effect, while a few weeks or even months can have a much more difficult effect. After reabsorbing the clone that had become qualified as a lawyer Seraphine had to excuse herself from business for more than a month, the strain of absorbing a five year old personality made her almost irrational at times.
Though the clones can operate independently while Seraphine sleeps, forced unconsciousness for the Prime, through drugs or trauma, will force unconsciousness across the entire network, and trauma applied to them can be felt by the Prime, though she cannot use it to locate her clone, merely to experience (unwillingly) the pain the duplicate is experiencing. This empathy even extends to death, the clones can die, and they will experience death in exactly the same way as any other, and the reverberation of that experience can cause incredible psychological pain for Seraphine Prime.
The final limitation is simple, Seraphine is the Prime, the centre of the network, if she dies, so does every other Seraphine, like puppets with their strings cut.
Relationships
Family: Alan Jones - Father
Sharon Jones - Mother
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Other
- Seraphine is an information broker, it keeps her alive, and keeps her in a position of influence. Know the right things and you can make people dance to your tune. She’ll buy and sell information, but you have to have something worth trading for. If you want to know something in New Rivière City, then Seraphine is your girl.
- Seraphine is independently wealthy now, and runs the biggest and most exclusive underground bordello in New Rivière City, with clients that include the proprietors of a number of the city’s casinos, a deputy Police Commissioner, a high ranking member of NEST, and three Judges, of course, they are clients with guaranteed confidentiality, but it allows the illegal operation some degree of respectability and security.
- Despite her past as a high class escort Seraphine is a virgin, her ability to be a walking orgy all on her own has meant that she’s never actually been in that position, producing clones and then reabsorbing them after the fact. It seems strange, but Seraphine is saving herself for marriage, not that she’s shown any interest in anyone thus far.