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[thelamia]

OOC Details

Player: Shade
Age: 30+
Pronouns: She/her
Contact: Light_shade or .lightshade on Discord!
Permissions: Here!
Writing Samples: TDM top-level and with Edward Nygma

Introducing Your Character

Character Name: Lurine Hollister. True name unknown, quite possible Lamia.
Character Age: 5,000+, she's said to have been around since the Bronze Age
Character Species: Lamia
Character Canon: Agent of Hel book series
CRAU: No.
Canon Point: Halfway through Book 3, Poison Fruit, where Persephone announces her intentions to take over the town.

Per the Setting

Three Items: One swimsuit, one outfit with a dress and a pair of heels, and one picture of her from home with her and her goddaughter Daisy in it.
Grounding Item: A necklace with the L done in the Ancient Greek alphabet system. It reminds her of both her long past and the infinite future she has to look forward to.
Canon Abilities & Skills: - Immortality. Lurine always looks vaguely somewhere in her mid to late twenties and doesn't age so long as she regularly sucks the life force out of someone about once a decade.
- 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.
- Recognition of the supernatural. She can recognize when another being is supernatural by sight alone. This doesn't tell her what kind of creature barring any physical markers, so she can't tell if the person she's looking at is a demon, vampire, ghoul, etc. unless they flat-out tell her. Likewise, other creatures can tell the same, that's she's not human but not what she is.
-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.

Glitched Abilities: Rather than reliably transform into her snake form, Lurine will also end up with just about any other form you can think of at the worst moments. It might range from humorous, turning into a rhinoceros monster, to a bird woman with fiery phoenixlike wings, to pure body horror with hundreds of fingers sprouting all over her skin. Whatever seems good for the scene will happen.

To keep from metagaming too much, her ability to tell supernatural creatures (with the exception of player permission) is also going to be on the fritz. If she intentionally tries to tell, the other person's face will glitch out in her own vision and she'll get a massive headache looking at them.

Mental Evaluation

General Morals: While Lurine can be sweet, affable, and fun to be around she's definitely not human and this shows in how she views mortals. While she has her favorites and is nice to them, this doesn't hold for humanity as a whole. She generally has no qualms with hurting people if it gives her what she wants. Whether that's paired up with noble intentions like protecting her goddaughter Daisy or simply because she wants to torture someone is up to how much she likes a person. There's several points where she nearly does something brutal and wicked in the series, only being talked out of it because Daisy asks her nicely not to.
Relationship to Trauma: The main trauma Lurine has gone through is outliving everyone over the course of her very long life. She's old even for a supernatural creature in her setting, with only the gods said to be older. That means she's got very few peers that are her own age, at least on the mortal plane. It can make her feel very lonely and isolated. She can go into "ice queen" mode if not too careful and instead has learned to take more of a zen attitude about how nothing is eternal. Though she's lost many people, she carries their memories within her, and honors them by never forgetting even years after their bones are dust. As for the trauma she's inflicted on people, well, she's sucked the life force out of many, many people over the course of millenniums and broken others to pieces simply because she could. The way she views death means she doesn't see inflicting it on people as any big thing despite how horrific it might be for their loved ones or other onlookers.
Points of Confusion: Being so old, Lurine is going to have trouble literally remembering what year she comes from. Everything is going to blend together in a big mushy fog at first and 800 will seem nearly the same as 1800 or 1980. She'll remember the faces of those she has cared about but their names will be harder for her to grasp, always on the tip of her tongue but never quite able to be figured out.
Effects from Daisy: Since Lurine is already a mythical figure, there's going to be some hesitation on her part as she figures out if Daisy is telling the truth. This will only be compounded by her points of confusion stated above. But Lurine is pretty smart and wise being so old, so eventually she'll get a better grasp on feeling Daisy is full of shit after she's been in the game long enough.