⇓in character⇓

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: She loves it and will often be the one to initiate it first.

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: You can try but she's pretty tough overall. While she's able to take superficial cuts and bleed, it's hard to wound her for good. Let's talk if the thread heads towards her losing a limb or eye or something of that nature.

ROMANCE/FLIRTING: This is Lurine's default mode. She will happily flirt with anyone. Still, she's very ethical about her standards, and will leave someone alone if they truly make it clear they don't want attention.

SEXUAL CONTENT: Go for it. I'm up for playing scenes out or fading to black, whatever is your preference.

PSYCHIC ABILITIES: Go right ahead. She's hella old and it might take a while to sort through five millenniums worth of memories.

MAGIC/POWERS: Let's talk about this one. Lurine is fairly resistant to some forms of magic in her canon.

MEDICAL INFORMATION: She's perfectly healthy and in her human form resembles a woman vaguely in her mid-to-late twenties. She always will so long as she continues to drain people of their life force.

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS OR TRIGGERS: Speciesim. Rape. Greek gods.

⇓out of character⇓

BACKTAGGING: I'm fine with backtagging into infinity, so long as tags come once every couple of weeks. I'm rather busy myself juggling college classes and work. If they dwindle down to one a month or less, I will likely drop the thread.

FOURTH WALLING: Lurine is canonically the lamia of Greek mythology, a B-movie star, and usual tabloid fodder in her own canon. Feel free for your character to recognize her as any of those or to make a reference to a film she's starred in. (We'll just assume its a human doppelganger of herself somewhere in the multiverse for more normal canons.) That being said, don't puncture the fact she's from a fictional book series.

THREADHOPPING: I'm fine with it as long as everyone involved is communicating.

CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR, BUT CAN STILL PLAY: Eye trauma, explicit suicide content (i.e. someone actually kills themselves in the thread.)

CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR AND THAT I CAN'T PLAY: N/A.

ANYTHING ELSE: I'm based in PST and try to get to tags at least twice a week. If it's ever been a little too long, just give me a poke, and I'll try to get at least a reply out at some point during the day.

OOC Info
Name: Shade
Age: 29
Contact: Light_shade/Lightshade#4738
Current Characters: Ivar Ragnarsson ragnarsson


IC Info

Name: Lurine Hollister
Canon: Agent of Hel
Age: Unknown, well over 5,000+ years old. Looks to be vaguely in her late-20s.
Appearance: Human form. Lamia form.
Canon Point: At the end of the second book.
Background: cw: brief mention of rape

Lurine Hollister is the current alias of a snake-like monster that has been around for over 2,000 years. She is a lamia, or possibly the lamia, since no others are ever introduced in the series. Her history up until the 20th century is quite vague. It's known that she was born in ancient Greece and had a bad habit of killing her lovers when she was done with them.

By the 20th century, sources of magic that sustained the supernatural world began to dry up. Only gods and goddesses with enough power to still form a working underworld were able to give them the power they needed not to die or fade away. Several of the old gods immigrated to America, among them the goddess Hel. In the 30s, she claimed an abandoned lumber town in the dunes of Pemkowet, a small town on the edge of Lake Michigan, as her domain. Supernatural beings like fairies, werewolves, and nymphs flocked to the area. Lurine arrived at some point after that and made the area a semi-permanent residence, liking the easy access to lakes, rivers, and swimming pools all within easy reach.

She was living in a trailer park by the early 90s and took a shine to a new mother who'd accidentally summoned an incubus demon with a Ouija board who had raped her, which resulted in her giving birth to a half-demon little girl she named Daisy. Lurine had never seen a mother with a supernatural child love them wholeheartedly without any disgust or rejection. It warmed Lurine's heart and she pledged to always help and watch over the pair.

Getting a little bored with her current lifestyle, Lurine went off to Hollywood, and quickly became a B-list movie star, appearing in trashy horror films, and the occasional serious role to prove she actually knew how to act. Deciding that she'd gotten enough attention, she returned to Pemkowet, and pulled an Anna Nicole Smith by marrying a millionaire in his eighties. He mysteriously died within a month, but hey, she made she he went out with a smile on his face.

Now extremely wealthy, Lurine did what any monster with a giant sea serpent form would do: she bought a secluded mansion on the edge of town that came with a private beach on part of the lake, an enormous swimming pool, and a very discreet butler. Now she could lounge around in her true form as much as she wanted without attracting too much attention. She still kept an eye on Daisy, who she affectionately referred to as her goddaughter.

When a boy from the extremely religious and racist town Appledoorn drowned in the river at the beginning of summertime in the first book, Daisy has trouble getting the river nymphs and naiads to talk. She goes to Lurine, who immediately takes charge of the lower class supernatural sea deities, and orders them to talk. She also appears when Daisy goes to a bar full of ghouls, a class of supernatural creatures that feed off of emotion. She makes it known Daisy is under her protection and anyone who threatens the half-demon will be answering to her.

She then accompanies Daisy using a necklace which disguises her appearance when she goes to a college another town over. The trail of the drowned boy leads to a frat house, and after getting the guys drunk, they find out one of the guys has been bragging about raping a mermaid. The trail then turns to finding the missing mermaid before it's too late.

Daisy gets kidnapped by the ghouls holding the mermaid hostage, intent on using her as a source of emotion to feed off of since the mermaid Rosie is almost tapped out. Lurine finds out and shows why you don't mess with a lamia: she crushes one ghoul easily into pieces and threatens to keep a sociopathic human being alive as she slowly tortures him to death, saying she'll keep his heart pumping blood to his brain so it doesn't end for days. She finds out that the mermaid comes from the Russian seas and uses her considerable wealth to transport her back there, personally accompanying her to ensure everything is done right.

As autumn and the second book begins, a satyr comes to town in heat. Unfortunately, this results in an all-out orgy at a local gay club. Since this is a bit beyond Daisy's wheelhouse to deal with, she calls up Lurine, who has experience with satyrs going to back to the olden days. She takes the satyr home and they have sex for quite a few days until he's no longer in heat. She then employees him as a pool-boy.

She counsels Daisy a little bit as her love life turns into a rather complicated quadrangle. Towards the end of the book, when the dead start to rise, she makes her way into town for the Halloween parade. When the angry spirit causing it all possesses a homemade suit of armor, she ends up transforming into her lamia form and battling it. She sustains a few injuries, though nothing life-threatening. When the police start to show up, she transforms back, and disappears back into the crowd to avoid questions.

Personality: Lurine, at first glance, comes across as one of those shallow, calculating blondes only interested in sex and money. While this does accurately describe a small portion of Lurine's personality, it's also a deliberate image she seeks to cultivate in this lifetime. Being a monster that is really, really old, she adopts different personas each time she decides to reinvent herself, or gets bored with her current lifestyle. This time around, she's the small-town girl from a trailer park who hit it big starring in B movies and then pulled a gold digger move by marrying a wealthy man in his eighties. The reason she went for this rather flashy route is that Lurine loves attention. She wants to be noticed by people at all times, and since mortals no longer tremble at the sight of a giant sea monster, being a tabloid-fodder movie star is the next best thing. She's very vain and it shows. She's always decked out in the best clothes, high heels, and sunglasses. She even sleeps in a designer dressing gown.

Underneath the designer clothes and high heels, Lurine is rather warmhearted for a monster that used to lure men deliberately to their doom. She honestly cares about her town, including both the humans and supernatural creatures that inhabit it. This is best seen in her relationship with Daisy, the half-demon girl Lurine's known her whole life. Lurine had never seen a mother who had gone through a traumatizing experience like that and decide to love the child that resulted with her whole heart, Daisy's mother not hesitating or caring once that Daisy wasn't fully human. It touched her deeply and she became extremely protective of the pair. She pledges to do whatever she can to keep Daisy, who unfortunately ends up in hot water a lot, always safe. This isn't just an empty promise. Multiple times throughout the series, when Daisy is in trouble, Lurine is the big gun brought in to help save her.

However, there's a darker side to Lurine. She's got the mentality of a monster and that doesn't always equate to black and white human thinking. She's killed many people for small and petty reasons over the years, though that has calmed down now that the supernatural world keeps a lower profile than a couple millennia ago. Still, she killed her current husband quite deliberately, though not cruelly, just so she could inherit his money. She doesn't have much of a temper, but get on her bad side, and she will kill you by the inches.

She's also quite cocky and overconfident most of the time. There's very few weapons, at least mortal ones, that can harm her, and even members of the supernatural community that are otherwise tough find taking on the lamia usually more than they can handle. This can cause her to be reckless or take unnecessary risks when she otherwise shouldn't.

Finally, Lurine has quite the sex drive. She's bisexual and one of her default modes when she interacts with people is to start flirting with them, whether she means it or not. More often, she doesn't really mean it, it's all a game, but she'll keep it going if someone responds in turn. Part of this is because her power set is based around sex, with a kiss that can paralyze a victim with ecstasy, and coils that can provide their own form of xenomorphic pleasure if one is into that sort of thing. Her sex drive is quite high and she tends to get bored easily with her partners. She's quite confident in the way she looks and won't hesitate to wear a low-cut dress, plop down into someone's lap, and start chatting away if she thinks they're cute. This part of her personality tends to always be "on", even if she doesn't really mean it. She's described as waking up in the middle of the night sounding like she's trying to seduce someone, when really she's just sleepy and trying to wake up.

Weaknesses/Temptations: Lurine is first and foremost a hedonist. She wants a good time, all the attention on her, sex, and generally treats life as if it is one big party. What Lurine wants, Lurine gets, whether that is seducing someone for sex or squishing them into itty-bitty pieces because they pissed her off. Her morality isn't quite the same as a human being's and she honestly doesn't care about something she sees as being as base as murder is these days.

Sins: -Murder. Lurine has killed. A lot. She's really old and there's a long trail of bodies behind her, none of which she feels bad about.
-Greed. Lurine loves the finer things in life: a nice house, designer clothes, and adoring worshipers or fans. She'll do whatever it takes to keep her life comfortable.
-Vanity. Lurine is a beautiful woman, both in her human and monster forms. She knows this and has no qualms about strutting around naked to show off her good looks.
-Rage. Do not piss this woman off. She has threatened to keep a sociopath alive by the mere inches, letting the blood flow to their brain and heart to keep them alive indefinitely while she tortures them, a threat which rattled them when no one else could.
-Lust. Lurine likes sex and lots of it. Quite a few of her powers revolve around seducing someone and keeping them in ecstasy while she sucks out their life force.
- Morality. Lurine's moral compass doesn't point directly North compared to a human being's. She'll gladly seduce an old man, have sex with him until he literally dies, and then inherit all his money purely because she wanted to.
- Sucking the life force out of human beings. It's implied in the books that Lurine regularly has to do this to people to keep her immortality. She's done in it quite a bit over the centuries.

Powers/Abilities: - Immortality. Lurine always looks vaguely somewhere in her mid to late twenties and doesn't age.
- Shapeshifting. She can go from her blonde human form to one where everything below her hips is that of a giant snake-like sea monster. It's never said just how long it is, but the word sea monster should be enough to give a rough estimate. She's so large it's nearly impossible for her to get drunk, since the weight still remains after a fashion in her human form.
- Snake form. In her monstrous form, she's got immense strength in her coils, able to break a grown man all at once or piece by piece just with them. On the other hand, she can also be extremely gentle, curling her coils around someone, and carrying them with her through or above the water without even a bruise.
- Top ranking sea creature. She's at the top of the food chain over naiads, sea nymphs, merpeople, and any other supernatural denizens of the deep. If she says jump, they ask how high.
-Hypnotizing song. Usually used in conjunction with a ritual to greet the sun, she and other mer-creatures have a powerful song. If a human hears this, they long to be with her, no matter what the cost. It's shown in the books that her goddaughter Daisy flat out just starts walking into the icy depths of Lake Michigan in the dead of winter when she gets hypnotized and Lurine's out on the lake. The spell passes in about ten minutes, but a person needs to be restrained until that happens.
- Sex abilities. She's got a paralyzing kiss that can freeze a person completely and makes them feel almost like they've had an entire sexual experience just from that brief contact. She also can sort of...sex someone to death if she wants to. Bedding a lamia is no joke, and combining her sex drive with the above kissing ability, she can easily kill someone (usually intentionally) during sex. She also can suck out the life force of someone upon occasion to keep herself looking youthful. Other supernatural creatures seem to be immune to this as she easily has sex with a satyr whose penis is unnaturally long and large in comparison to a human's.

Items: -Six designer outfits including clothes, shoes, sunglasses, and purses.

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