Post by Erin Mordain on Jan 31, 2015 8:11:01 GMT -5
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Character's full name: Erin Mordain (current identity)
Age: 88, born 1918. Appears 20-25, Demigoddess.
Group Species:Unique
Gender:Female
Alignment: Neutral/Gray
Occupation: CEO of Argento Wineries
Features: Red hair, green eyes. Stands at 5'6 and 118lbs. Has a fondness for leather and dark colors, and sports several tattoos.
Please supply a character image if possible:
Model's name: Riley Keough
Personality: Erin is a wildcard as far as personality, depending on her mood of the day. She could be your best friend one day, and then your worst enemy the next should she percieve betrayal or the like. For the most part though she is friendly, having little desire to engage in unnecessary conflict in her technically old age, and keeps her employment with the firm seperate from her personal life. In events of her meeting new people, she will assume whatever facade she deems to be the most beneficial to her blending in, and wears many faces with a practiced ease. To those she feels deserving of such, good, gray or evil, she will give her loyalty, and has little regard for actual morality anymore, choosing to live her life for herself, and not give a damn much about consequence. All that being said, she can still say with honesty that she had never snuffed out the life of anyone's whos own hands did not have blood upon them.
Erin's public facade is more representative of her physical age as opposed to her true age these days, having lived for nearly a century in such a serious world, and in wanting not to arouse suspicion by behaving as if she still lived in the forties. Her dress sense can change on the whim of her mood or a situation she might find herself, meaning that she would wear about anything, though is less likely to be found in clothes Erin would be unable to fight in. She has Persephone's symbols magically branded/tattooed on the backs of her hands, and will often change hair color if it suits her. She is confident but immature as she acts young, though will be more of her true self around those who discover the truth of who and what she is.
In the case of an apocalypse, it would be a definite toss-up as to which side she'd fall upon to anyone who knew her, but it can also be confirmed that Erin (like Spike) enjoys living in this world, and the beer they have.
Likes: Killing those with sin, motorcycles, chocolate and chocolate flavored products, horror and war movies/tv, partying/beer, blades/knives.
Dislikes: Organized Religion/televangelists, the Lucchese crime family, vampires (except Angel, he fascinates her), guns (she finds them too loud to use)
Strengths: Erin is the daughter of Persephone, and has inherited several of her goddess mother's abilities and attributes. Among these are immortality, heightened strength, senses and durability (roughly same as that of a slayer), and the ability to 'shadow-teleport'. She is a skilled street fighter, and a semi-retired assassin, often underestimated due her innocent appearance, which she will not hesitate to use to her advantage.
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Weaknesses: Erin is vulnerable to all the dangers to a normal human. Things such as guns, knives, explosions can kill her, she just doesn't remain dead longer than a few hours. Although she has been fortunate not to have come in contact with any, Erin believes that holy and blessed weapons, such as the Scythe, might be able to end her life despite her believe inescapable destiny to become the vessel of the old one Persephone.*
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History: {Note: Erin was not the birth name of the char, but the latest identity she is using. She changes her name several times in this history.}
The woman currently known as Erin Mordain was born on October 7th, 1918 in Venice Italy, with the birthname of Sofia Argento. She was the daughter of an old world cosa nostra captain named Carlo Argento and the goddess Persephone, as a result of a one night stand between the two. When Sofia was born months later, she was delivered to Argento, who kept her secret from the rest of the family for much of her early life. She was raised by a distant cousin of Argento, baring the same name, and knowing the truth of her paternity at least from very early on.
She grew up happy in one of the small towns outside Naples, a friendly girl who held no ill will to another living soul. She excelled in school and as she grew up it was more and more evident to those around her that she would surely make something of herself even with the neo-oppressive educational restrictions women of the time had.
In 1931, Charles 'Lucky' Luciano and several associates engaged in a powerplay for New York and several other large territories, murdering bosses Joseph 'Joe the Boss' Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano to form the American Mafia, uniting the seven original families established stateside. By the end of the following year, Sofia's father had accepted a request to travel to America with a number of others, and brought the entire family, including Sofia with him, to take up the position of an advisor and soldier to one of the heads of the five New York families, having been friends with the boss back in the old country.
It was then at barely 13, that Sofia was introduced to her father's wife and her half siblings Vincente and Angela, and for the years that followed became the target of abuse from them, none of the three pleased with her existance or presence in their lives. She became withdrawn and by her late teens a farcry from the happy young girl she'd once been. Sofia threw herself completely into her education in the hopes of escaping her less than ideal life.
She graduated from college in May 1939, and accepted a proposal from her longtime friend Darius Cincetta. They were married on New Years Day 1940, and less than a week later were on a ship headed for Italy to visit family in the old country, and to celebrate their honeymoon with a bit of sightseeing.
They ended up on a tour of some Roman ruins when the incident occurred. Sofia and Darius had been exploring the temple with a couple of others when structural damage caused a collapse of the floor of the room they were in, sending all plummeting into a hidden sub-floor that had been sealed in ancient times, the debris falling around them and killing all but Sofia and Darius instantly, although the latter was not long for the world either.
But Sofia would be, her blood from cuts sustained leaking into a crevice by what had once been an alter. She remembered the entire world going dark for a moment and then she had been in another place, full of darkness until a woman had appeared before her. Her mother, Persephone. The Goddess of the Underworld explained Sofia's true nature to her, explaining that now that she'd died once, she never would again. At least not naturally, as there was always something that could kill every living creature, mortal or immortal, but that it would be extremely difficult. Persephone told her daughter that she was loved and they would be together in the real world some day, but Sofia would have a long road ahead of her before it would be allowed. Then everything faded completely again.
Sofia had awoken to find herself mostly unharmed, but a fatally wounded Darius lying nearby. She dragged herself over and held her husband as he died. It was not for several hours following this that rescue came, and pulled her to safety. She was a local celebrity for a time, the odd tattoos that had appeared on the back of her hands causing all sorts of a ruckus and she was forced to track down a witch to help her with a glamour to hide them from view.
She remained in Italy after this for nearly six years, not wanting to return to New York to face the renewed hate from her father's family. When World War II hit Italy, she found herself serving as a combat nurse, tending to wounded soldier and civilians alike. She was less than happy with the entire situation however, not agreeing with the Nazis or the Communists that were the main aggressors in her part of the world. By the war's end, it had become evident that she had stopped aging, still looking every day of 22 five years later.
In 1950, Sofia recieved news of her father's murder as a result of conflict amongst the five families, and decided to finally return to America, but with a new identity, the first of several she would use over the following decades. In 1952, she tracked down her father's assassin and returned the favor with the blessing of Don Genovese, killing the man and escaping undetected by way of her shadow-jumping ability.(Teleporting)
Genovese became a sort of father figure to Sofia, now going by Helena Carver, and found use for the bloodlust that began to grow within the eternally twenty-two years old, despite now being well into her thirties. He knew that she was different than she'd been before, when he'd seen her a number of times as a child, and the supernatural was not beyond the power of Genovese's power. While he was not aware of the full extent of what Sofia/Helena was now or what she would become in the future, he saw her potential and so he struck up a deal with her to fund whatever projects or further education she might want to engage into, in exchange for her services and abilities at his beck and call at times of need. Mostly this would be assassinations or thievery deemed to risky or impossible for 'normal' people to accomplish, but from time to time she would also engage in seduction to gain information for him. This continued on for nearly thirty years, until Genovese's death in 1981, by which time she had long since lost track of her killcount in the name of the family, although never taking credit for any of it.
Following the funeral of her longtime employer and close friend, Helena/Sofia found New York to have once more soured for her tastes, and decided to once more return to the land of her birth, this time catching a flight to Naples by way of London. With the none-too-minor fortune she had amassed for her work over the past three decades, she bought into a winery partnership and settled in her father's old home. For the next couple decades, she lived a quiet life and no longer involved herself in the affairs of the Mafia, save for minor association and reminiscing on several occassions over the years that she returned stateside to visit what friends she had left, many now deceased or incarcerated, and by the time of her 'official' retirement she herself was now past sixty, although she'd be called crazy to claim such as she still could pass as a teenager on a good day.
At some point in the early 1990's, the former mafia assassin now going by the name of Morgan Kemper, the eighth alias of her collection was approached by a couple members of the law firm that had represented Genovese and his people in the old days, having finally gotten his will pulled from it's forcible governmental sealing they had used as a way to keep his many 'ill-gotten' properties out of the hands of his confidants and successors. Her name had been bestowed upon it a number of residential properties, most in the United States between New York and Los Angeles, and a substanstial addition to her bank accounts on a note from Genovese citing 'For all services rendered, long may the Genovesean guardian live.'
She gave most of it back to Genovese's heirs, keeping only the money and a house on each of the coasts. By 1995, Morgan had returned to the assassin game with a flourish, taking up the contract on her father's murderer, who was now wanted dead for flipping and giving information to the feds. With her partnership in the winery now mostly run with a board of directors that she and Grimaldi had appointed, they were free to mostly live without actually working anymore and still reap the benefits of the company's profits.
From 1995 until 2001, Morgan's latest employment took her all over the world as she took contracts on all types, from mafiosos to fugitives to political figures. Once again though, she tired of it and late in the summer of 2002, Morgan once again changed her name, this time to Erin Mordain. She returned to Italy again, taking a year to lay low and ensure that everything regarding her new identity was flawless before returning to the United States in January of 2004, and she has remained since, moving from city to city and posing as a young heiress and partier.
Now she has come to Sunnydale with intent of purchasing the old vineyard to add to her business, something that might raise some flags to certain people.
RP Sample: (Only Canonical characters need to submit an rp sample.)
How many characters do you already have here? 5, but may drop a couple
Character's full name: Erin Mordain (current identity)
Age: 88, born 1918. Appears 20-25, Demigoddess.
Group Species:Unique
Gender:Female
Alignment: Neutral/Gray
Occupation: CEO of Argento Wineries
Features: Red hair, green eyes. Stands at 5'6 and 118lbs. Has a fondness for leather and dark colors, and sports several tattoos.
Please supply a character image if possible:
Model's name: Riley Keough
Personality: Erin is a wildcard as far as personality, depending on her mood of the day. She could be your best friend one day, and then your worst enemy the next should she percieve betrayal or the like. For the most part though she is friendly, having little desire to engage in unnecessary conflict in her technically old age, and keeps her employment with the firm seperate from her personal life. In events of her meeting new people, she will assume whatever facade she deems to be the most beneficial to her blending in, and wears many faces with a practiced ease. To those she feels deserving of such, good, gray or evil, she will give her loyalty, and has little regard for actual morality anymore, choosing to live her life for herself, and not give a damn much about consequence. All that being said, she can still say with honesty that she had never snuffed out the life of anyone's whos own hands did not have blood upon them.
Erin's public facade is more representative of her physical age as opposed to her true age these days, having lived for nearly a century in such a serious world, and in wanting not to arouse suspicion by behaving as if she still lived in the forties. Her dress sense can change on the whim of her mood or a situation she might find herself, meaning that she would wear about anything, though is less likely to be found in clothes Erin would be unable to fight in. She has Persephone's symbols magically branded/tattooed on the backs of her hands, and will often change hair color if it suits her. She is confident but immature as she acts young, though will be more of her true self around those who discover the truth of who and what she is.
In the case of an apocalypse, it would be a definite toss-up as to which side she'd fall upon to anyone who knew her, but it can also be confirmed that Erin (like Spike) enjoys living in this world, and the beer they have.
Likes: Killing those with sin, motorcycles, chocolate and chocolate flavored products, horror and war movies/tv, partying/beer, blades/knives.
Dislikes: Organized Religion/televangelists, the Lucchese crime family, vampires (except Angel, he fascinates her), guns (she finds them too loud to use)
Strengths: Erin is the daughter of Persephone, and has inherited several of her goddess mother's abilities and attributes. Among these are immortality, heightened strength, senses and durability (roughly same as that of a slayer), and the ability to 'shadow-teleport'. She is a skilled street fighter, and a semi-retired assassin, often underestimated due her innocent appearance, which she will not hesitate to use to her advantage.
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Weaknesses: Erin is vulnerable to all the dangers to a normal human. Things such as guns, knives, explosions can kill her, she just doesn't remain dead longer than a few hours. Although she has been fortunate not to have come in contact with any, Erin believes that holy and blessed weapons, such as the Scythe, might be able to end her life despite her believe inescapable destiny to become the vessel of the old one Persephone.*
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History: {Note: Erin was not the birth name of the char, but the latest identity she is using. She changes her name several times in this history.}
The woman currently known as Erin Mordain was born on October 7th, 1918 in Venice Italy, with the birthname of Sofia Argento. She was the daughter of an old world cosa nostra captain named Carlo Argento and the goddess Persephone, as a result of a one night stand between the two. When Sofia was born months later, she was delivered to Argento, who kept her secret from the rest of the family for much of her early life. She was raised by a distant cousin of Argento, baring the same name, and knowing the truth of her paternity at least from very early on.
She grew up happy in one of the small towns outside Naples, a friendly girl who held no ill will to another living soul. She excelled in school and as she grew up it was more and more evident to those around her that she would surely make something of herself even with the neo-oppressive educational restrictions women of the time had.
In 1931, Charles 'Lucky' Luciano and several associates engaged in a powerplay for New York and several other large territories, murdering bosses Joseph 'Joe the Boss' Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano to form the American Mafia, uniting the seven original families established stateside. By the end of the following year, Sofia's father had accepted a request to travel to America with a number of others, and brought the entire family, including Sofia with him, to take up the position of an advisor and soldier to one of the heads of the five New York families, having been friends with the boss back in the old country.
It was then at barely 13, that Sofia was introduced to her father's wife and her half siblings Vincente and Angela, and for the years that followed became the target of abuse from them, none of the three pleased with her existance or presence in their lives. She became withdrawn and by her late teens a farcry from the happy young girl she'd once been. Sofia threw herself completely into her education in the hopes of escaping her less than ideal life.
She graduated from college in May 1939, and accepted a proposal from her longtime friend Darius Cincetta. They were married on New Years Day 1940, and less than a week later were on a ship headed for Italy to visit family in the old country, and to celebrate their honeymoon with a bit of sightseeing.
They ended up on a tour of some Roman ruins when the incident occurred. Sofia and Darius had been exploring the temple with a couple of others when structural damage caused a collapse of the floor of the room they were in, sending all plummeting into a hidden sub-floor that had been sealed in ancient times, the debris falling around them and killing all but Sofia and Darius instantly, although the latter was not long for the world either.
But Sofia would be, her blood from cuts sustained leaking into a crevice by what had once been an alter. She remembered the entire world going dark for a moment and then she had been in another place, full of darkness until a woman had appeared before her. Her mother, Persephone. The Goddess of the Underworld explained Sofia's true nature to her, explaining that now that she'd died once, she never would again. At least not naturally, as there was always something that could kill every living creature, mortal or immortal, but that it would be extremely difficult. Persephone told her daughter that she was loved and they would be together in the real world some day, but Sofia would have a long road ahead of her before it would be allowed. Then everything faded completely again.
Sofia had awoken to find herself mostly unharmed, but a fatally wounded Darius lying nearby. She dragged herself over and held her husband as he died. It was not for several hours following this that rescue came, and pulled her to safety. She was a local celebrity for a time, the odd tattoos that had appeared on the back of her hands causing all sorts of a ruckus and she was forced to track down a witch to help her with a glamour to hide them from view.
She remained in Italy after this for nearly six years, not wanting to return to New York to face the renewed hate from her father's family. When World War II hit Italy, she found herself serving as a combat nurse, tending to wounded soldier and civilians alike. She was less than happy with the entire situation however, not agreeing with the Nazis or the Communists that were the main aggressors in her part of the world. By the war's end, it had become evident that she had stopped aging, still looking every day of 22 five years later.
In 1950, Sofia recieved news of her father's murder as a result of conflict amongst the five families, and decided to finally return to America, but with a new identity, the first of several she would use over the following decades. In 1952, she tracked down her father's assassin and returned the favor with the blessing of Don Genovese, killing the man and escaping undetected by way of her shadow-jumping ability.(Teleporting)
Genovese became a sort of father figure to Sofia, now going by Helena Carver, and found use for the bloodlust that began to grow within the eternally twenty-two years old, despite now being well into her thirties. He knew that she was different than she'd been before, when he'd seen her a number of times as a child, and the supernatural was not beyond the power of Genovese's power. While he was not aware of the full extent of what Sofia/Helena was now or what she would become in the future, he saw her potential and so he struck up a deal with her to fund whatever projects or further education she might want to engage into, in exchange for her services and abilities at his beck and call at times of need. Mostly this would be assassinations or thievery deemed to risky or impossible for 'normal' people to accomplish, but from time to time she would also engage in seduction to gain information for him. This continued on for nearly thirty years, until Genovese's death in 1981, by which time she had long since lost track of her killcount in the name of the family, although never taking credit for any of it.
Following the funeral of her longtime employer and close friend, Helena/Sofia found New York to have once more soured for her tastes, and decided to once more return to the land of her birth, this time catching a flight to Naples by way of London. With the none-too-minor fortune she had amassed for her work over the past three decades, she bought into a winery partnership and settled in her father's old home. For the next couple decades, she lived a quiet life and no longer involved herself in the affairs of the Mafia, save for minor association and reminiscing on several occassions over the years that she returned stateside to visit what friends she had left, many now deceased or incarcerated, and by the time of her 'official' retirement she herself was now past sixty, although she'd be called crazy to claim such as she still could pass as a teenager on a good day.
At some point in the early 1990's, the former mafia assassin now going by the name of Morgan Kemper, the eighth alias of her collection was approached by a couple members of the law firm that had represented Genovese and his people in the old days, having finally gotten his will pulled from it's forcible governmental sealing they had used as a way to keep his many 'ill-gotten' properties out of the hands of his confidants and successors. Her name had been bestowed upon it a number of residential properties, most in the United States between New York and Los Angeles, and a substanstial addition to her bank accounts on a note from Genovese citing 'For all services rendered, long may the Genovesean guardian live.'
She gave most of it back to Genovese's heirs, keeping only the money and a house on each of the coasts. By 1995, Morgan had returned to the assassin game with a flourish, taking up the contract on her father's murderer, who was now wanted dead for flipping and giving information to the feds. With her partnership in the winery now mostly run with a board of directors that she and Grimaldi had appointed, they were free to mostly live without actually working anymore and still reap the benefits of the company's profits.
From 1995 until 2001, Morgan's latest employment took her all over the world as she took contracts on all types, from mafiosos to fugitives to political figures. Once again though, she tired of it and late in the summer of 2002, Morgan once again changed her name, this time to Erin Mordain. She returned to Italy again, taking a year to lay low and ensure that everything regarding her new identity was flawless before returning to the United States in January of 2004, and she has remained since, moving from city to city and posing as a young heiress and partier.
Now she has come to Sunnydale with intent of purchasing the old vineyard to add to her business, something that might raise some flags to certain people.
RP Sample: (Only Canonical characters need to submit an rp sample.)
