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Name: Simone

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Height: 5ft 4 inches tall. Weight: 114LB.

Race: Created werewolf hunter with chiropteran features.

Additional notes: Simone appears to be human other then her slightly pointy ears. Simone is capable of shape shifting into a bat like creature while retaining such hums traits as the ability to speak, ability to reason, walk upright and specific to each individual hunter, eye colour. Simone has waist length silver coloured hair and carmine coloured eyes.

Sexuality: Undetermined

Origins: An alternate earth. Setting: Late 20th century equivalent.)

Mental Afflictions: Simone suffers from the following. Adjustment disorder, psychogenic fugue, Brief Reactive Psychosis episode, Nightmare disorder, Oneirophrenia, Parasomnias and, to date, one full psychotic breakdown and Psychosis. Additional notes below.

Adjustment disorder (AD) is a psychological response to an identifiable stressor or group of stressors that cause(s) significant emotional or behavioral symptom(s) that does not meet criteria for anxiety disorder, PTSD, or acute stress disorder... This is different from anxiety disorder, which lacks the presence of a stressor, post-traumatic stress disorder and acute stress disorder, which usually are associated with a more intense stressor(s). Its common characteristics include the following.... mild depressive symptoms, anxiety, traumatic stress symptoms or a combination of the three

Brief Reactive Psychosis..., referred to in the DSM IV-TR as "Brief Psychotic Disorder with marked stressor(s)", is the psychiatric term for a psychosis which can be triggered by an extremely stressful event in a patient’s life... Brief Reactive Psychosis is characterized by delusions, hallucinations, catatonic symptoms, and strange speech, but the symptoms last for a short period (one day to one month) after which the individual returns to normal.

Nightmare disorder, also known as 'dream anxiety disorder', is a disorder characterized by frequent nightmares. The nightmares, which often portray the individual in a situation that jeopardizes their life or personal safety, usually occur during the second half of the sleeping process, called the REM stage.

Oneirophrenia is a hallucinatory, dream-like state caused by several conditions such as prolonged sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, or drug(s) (such as ibogaine)... From the Greek words "ὄνειρο" (oneiro, "dream") and "φρενός" (phrenos, "mind"). It has some of the characteristics associated with schizophrenia, such as a confusional state and clouding of consciousness, but without presenting the dissociative symptoms which are typical of this disorder. Persons affected by oneirophrenia have a feeling of dream-like unreality which, in its extreme form, may progress to delusions and hallucinations. Therefore, it is considered a schizophrenia-like acute form of psychosis which remits in about 60% of cases within a period of two years. It is estimated that 50% or more of schizophrenic patients present Oneirophrenia at least once.

Parasomnias are a category of sleep disorders involving abnormal/ unnatural movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and dreams that occur while falling asleep, sleeping, between sleep stages, or during arousal from sleep. Most Parasomnias are dissociated sleep states which are partial arousals during the transitions between wakefulness and NREM sleep, or wakefulness and REM sleep.

Psychosis (from the Ancient Greek ψυχή "psyche", meaning mind/soul, and -ωσις "-osis", meaning abnormal condition) is a abnormal condition of the mind, and "loss of contact with reality". People suffering from psychosis are described as psychotic. Psychosis is given to the more severe form(s) of psychiatric disorder, during which hallucinations and delusions and impaired insight may occur. Simone began suffering more psychotic episodes following two severe head injuries just prior to arriving at St Osmond’s.

Personality: Simone is a generally a quiet person who does not engage in conversation(s). Despite the outward appearance(s), Simone is not unfriendly, more so she has never been called upon, asked, or thought to speak much beyond what was asked of her, and needed in her former life... During her imprisonment, a little more of her persona emerged, showing Simone to be friendly, if she felt drawn to someone, although still not an overly talkative creature. Simone also showed flashes of a quiet, but fierce anger. Simone is a determined being, highly intelligent, confident in her abilities but also keenly aware of her weaknesses.

Abilities: Simone posses eyesight, hearing, sense of smell, dexterity, stamina, quickness, regeneration, and strength equal to, or in excess of werewolves, and equal, possibly, with those traits in a vampire. Simone is capable of flight when she shifts forms. Simone is not immune to death, as she can be killed by another of equal or higher abilities, if she suffers enough brain traumas, her head is cut off, or she goes long enough with lycan blood or a synthetic substitute. Simone is able to eat and or drink normal foods and beverages, and can taste them, but they do not provide her with nourishment they do they do in humans.

History: Simone did not have what could be considered a normal home, or a normal birth. She was one of a group of creatures created to deal with a problem caused by the world’s governments as a result of earlier secret experiments involving werewolves.. Unknown to Simone and the vast majority of the Earth’s population, the governments of, North Korea Mexico, China, Russia, Italy, France, The United States, Spain, England, Japan, Germany and Canada, had been conducting experiments in efforts to develop expendable soldier(s) for, among the possibilities, waging war, homeland defense, missions that could normally cost human lives; such as missions to kill terrorists or missions to kill government leaders.

Simone’s first memories were of a large four sided room, devoid of any colours save white and filled with many strange, complex looking pieces of what, she would learn later, were scientific and medical equipment used to monitor and measure blood pressure, heart rate, breathing, growth rates, the removal of waste and intravenous feeding tubes, and others. Simone would see the stark white tiles, and floors, see and hear, over her head, the soft ever present humming from the banks of harsh florescent lighting. She would see, for the first of many, many times, the scientists responsible for her and others creation(s), chief amongst them a tall, slender blonde haired, green eyed woman named Jean Silverstein.

Along with her friend and colleague, Dr. Adelaide M Goldsmith, Dr. Silverstein overseen the London branch of the United Kingdom’s research program, in a massive; four story building called The Solomon Facility, where, several years prior, by chance an unusual patient had been admitted, numbered patient #23. Patient #23 was sent to The Solomon Facility after reportedly changing into a wolf like humanoid creature while at a nearby general hospital and killing or seriously injuring a number of the other patients, staff, doctors and security personnel, before escaping, although briefly, before, reportedly, turning itself in to police. Once at TSF, Patient #23 catapulted the genetics lab’s progress to unheard of heights...

Like on most Earth’s, the Earth which was home to Simone had always had its faire share of rumors and legends of werewolves, vampires, Puca, demons, angels, and so forth, but the truth being told, most people didn’t believe the old tales and who had seen a vampire, werewolf or other such creatures...? Then there was the real truth, such beings did exist, although for whatever reason(s), not in large quantities. It was one of these; a werewolf; that had bitten Patient #23, it was discovered, and so a new arc of genetic research was began first in the UK; then throughout the world as other developed countries took note.

Sometime after, Patient #23 escaped, The Solomon Facility, but was captured a few days later. A few days after it was recaptured, Patient #23 disappeared. Left behind were test results, videos, doctor’s notes and most importantly, its DNA… Using this DNA, the British government began trying to create a ‘manageable’ werewolf/lycan. Phase one began: The building of more genetic research labs and training of more genetic specialist. Phase two: Employment of teams to hunt down animal test subjects, specifically any, and all wolves. Gene splicing and manipulation began in earnest three months after Patient #23 vanished.

That was Phase three. In Phase four: Subjects who survived the genetic/DNA alterations phase were retested for basic intelligence and reasoning, and checked for mental defects. Many subjects failed their intelligence tests and or went insane, although after one year, with no government restrictions on ethical treatment in the labs, research had progressed forward at a astounding rate. It was in the late summer of the second year, when things started to go terribly wrong as a significant number of werewolves, originals and created, escaped facilities around the globe, and started attacking people in rural and urban areas.

Though the world government’s attempted to implement and enforce a full media blackout of what was happening, rumors began to spread via internet blogs, chat rooms, and word of mouth. A reporter might break a story, only to retract it later or vanish in some cases. As the attacks escalated, the world government’s redoubled their research while keeping the public at large in the dark to the true nature of the attacks, reporting through media outlets that the attacks were a worldwide pandemic of a new strain of rabies... One year later, as April became May; Simone opened her eyes and took her first conscious breaths.

Simone was a part of a whole new breed of creatures, being created to hunt down and kill werewolves, and anything else which scientist now knew could exist, which could possess strength, power, agility, stamina and regenerative attributes akin to a lycans. Throughout the world, massive amounts of money had been poured into the newest research, not only from governments’, but from unknown, shadowy donors, whom remained anonymous to all but a select few in the highest levels of governments... Simone, and others like her, were given lycan’s blood too drink and told they needed this to survive, although that was not the entire truth... but one of many they were told to ensure their continuing cooperation.

Simone proved to be among the best and brightest of the werewolf hunters. Simone never questioned her orders or why she was created. She was content to hunt down and kill the threat to herself and her country, while never pondering her link to those she killed or why she, someone who was stronger, faster, more agile, and as smart if not smarter then most humans had to serve them and kill creatures they could not. This was until one December night when Simone and the other three hunters she was traveling with were ambushed by werewolves. The other three hunters died, but Simone survived, though seriously injured.

The alpha female, and leader of the werewolf pack, against the objections of many in her group, kept Simone alive and cared for Simone'svarious injuries. Simone would have fought and killed as many of her captors as she could and then returned to The Solomon Facility, but her injuries and being restrained prevented Simone from doing so. During this period, Simone began suffering sleep and a number of other mantel issues, later diagnosed with, among others, Adjustment disorder, Parasomnias, and a rare disorder, psychogenic fugue.

Angry, confused, and beginning to show the initial, occasional signs of her various mental illnesses, Simone was kept a captive as the group of werewolves moved from Liverpool, to Birmingham, to York, and Manchester England... During this time, Simone learned that not everything she had been told about her enemies was truth. Simone also was made aware of the link that she, her present captors, and many previous escapees shared, that being Patient #23. Simone was quite skeptical, why should she believe anything she was being told by the people who had almost killed her, and who continued to hold her as a prisoner.

Simone’s injuries healed, and she continued to wait and plot for the right time for escape, although she would later reflect on the opportunities missed and the reasons why she had allowed them to pass by... They were reasons Simone would never speak of once she was returned to The Solomon Facility... A part of Simone had subconsciously began listening and believe what she was told, primarily by the group’s leader... a werewolf named Claes, who Simone began to slowly develop feelings for, despite Simone denying it, until a few days after the group had left England, and traveled to their main hideout in northern Scotland.

During a chance encounter with another group of hunters near Glasgow Scotland, Simone was rescued and returned to The Solomon Facility. After being examined, she was found to have suffered a severe head injury, though this did not explain Simone’s mental issues, neither did it explain the Nightmare disorder, Oneirophrenia, and Parasomnias... After she was deemed unfit for further use, Simone was scheduled to be euthanized with a cocktail of drugs designed especially for she and others like her. Death was set for Christmas Eve. Simone accepted her pending death, so she thought; until she lay awaiting her injections.

At that moment, Simone had her first, Brief Reactive Psychosis episode... followed shortly by a full blown psychotic breakdown, during which she attempted to escape the Solomon Facility, killing Dr. Goldsmith and Dr. Silverstein, along with a assistant as she ran from the room. Although badly re-injured, Simone managed to make it to the facility’s front gates, injuring and killing a number of staff members, and several recovering hunters, previously injured in missions, along the way, before being shot in the head by a high powered rifle, wielded by one of The Solomon Facility’s elite snipers, on their payroll for such occasions.

Simone’s life was spared though by two separate events. The bullet miraculously failed in its mission to drive itself through her brain and instead made a full circuit of Simone’s skull before exiting. The second factor, and more mysterious of the two, was a order received moments after the shooting from a unknown source(s) in London, ordering Simone’s life be spared and including orders and directions on how to transport her to a hospital called St Osmond’s. After being stabilized, Simone was sent to St Osmond’s, along with all the files containing her species abilities and weaknesses, and a brief listing of her mental illnesses.

Simone would spend two weeks after arriving at St Osmond’s in its infirmary, in a medically comma... The day she awake, briefly, Simone was moved to a room in St Osmond’s shifter wing. Simone would spend the next week recovering her strength, and asking members of the staff who brought her food to her, where she was and what had happened. As with all patients past, present and future at St Osmond’s, Simone was told nothing. Simone found this annoying, but somehow expected. She had never been told anything whoever was in charge thought she did not need to know. So what was she to do now, Simone wondered.

Fears:

Trypanophobia: The extreme fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles. A result of the euthanasia attempt Simone escaped from prior to being shot, and, in a coma, being delivered to St Osmond’s. As with all Simone's conditions, this is recent.

Claustrophobia: The fear of having no escape and being closed in small spaces or rooms. In Simone’s case, places with curved edges and or small, glass enclosed spaces/areas.

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