Post by UmbraElf on May 8, 2023 21:40:05 GMT -5
Name: Forest, originally Bronach.
Race: Vampire. “But not a bawbag one.”
Age: Like really freaking old. Ancient. Over 1,000 years old. Looks in her late teens though.
Height: 5”10
Weight: 125-ish
Appearance: imgur.com/a/tgyRQ3E
Abilities:
Telepathy
The power to mentally receive information, transmit information, and/or manipulate information in others’ minds.
It’s a talent that all vampires in her world have in some shape or form.
Mind Reading: Forest can read the minds of others. It is, in some ways, an almost passive ability like hearing or seeing. She can concentrate on thoughts to get a better “listen” or “see” it better, but the thoughts of everyone around her (with some exceptions) are always being projected towards her.
She can also “download”, store, and process thoughts from others this way. IE: If she needed a combination to a lock or to help learn a language. The harder the task is, the longer it takes to absorb and gain. Because of this, she generally uses this for simple things like learning the layout of a building if she’s never been there before and needs to get around fast.
The more intense the thought, the “louder” it seems to Forest. Also people who are particularly intelligent project their thoughts more than say someone of below average intelligence.
She can also use this ability to see beyond just surface thoughts to actual memories, even long “forgotten” to their owner.
Only Absolute Chads can keep her from reading their minds unless the person in question has their own mental immunities and defenses.
Master of Puppets: This is perhaps her “desperation move” when it comes to telepathy. It’s something she hates to do, but will have to as no other choice. Forest can enforce her Will upon others. In this case she turns them into a literal meat puppet that she controls to their movements. Depending on how much effort she needs to exert to do this, or depending on how cornered or pissed off she is when she does, the target can be fully aware of what is going on. Most of the time they are in a comatose state with no memory of what she has done when she relinquishes control.
She may take over the minds of an average human fairly easily, but has even taken over other vampires of a numerable age in certain circumstances.
Mental Hacker: Forest can manipulate other’s short term memories. It’s a valuable power for a vampire to have. She can make them forget she was even there or even craft fake memories. “No, this cute blonde vampire didn’t bite you and drink your blood, causing you to JIZZ IN YOUR PANTS.”
Long Term Memories are something she generally shies away from manipulating. There are many reasons for doing so. One is the potential trauma to the person getting their memories wiped or changed. Two is that long term memories are just more difficult to change. There’s also a good chance that her revision can break or be “erased” at any random time, restoring the actual memory to the person in question.
She can also force people to relive memories as if they’re happening again, bringing up old traumas defensively or wonderful things that had been long lost.
She can also make others see and feel things that aren’t actually there by projecting into their minds. She can manipulate perception, make others see things that aren’t there (making people see chickens randomly is hilarious), or not see things that are there (“What absurdly large gun?”). She can also give suggestions this way as well, to focus on some minor detail, something that actually isn’t there, or to ignore something that is there.
She can also radiate emotional suggestions as well such as calmness, fear, or the comfort of being reunited with an old friend.
She has also been known to throw others’ senses into the wind, giving them experiences such as severe confusion and vertigo at the same time. Which is generally detrimental to someone with keen senses.
Mental Bonding: Forest can form a mental bond with a person. This bond can be temporary or permanent, as it is with friends and family back home. This bond allows the other participant to communicate with her over great distances as well as share thoughts and feelings to her and vice versa.
If Forest does not shield herself, the other party in the bond can witness her thoughts and feelings as easily as she can theirs.
She can choose to share what she is physically and emotionally feeling with the partner as well.
People who have bonds with Forest cannot read each thoughts or communicate that way unless she decides to open up a communication channel. Example: Character A cannot have telepathic communication with Character B just because they both have a bond with Forest.
If the participant is willing, she can create the bond with ease but the recipient can cut off the bond at any time they please.
Telepathic Shield: Forest can hide her thoughts from others and is guarded from mental attack . She can also shield her mental presence from someone else if needed.
She can also protect multiple targets at once with this ability. However, the more people she shields the more toll it takes on her, weakening her, and she can only shield people within a city block radius from her location.
She can also block one being from influencing a group of people if they are in range.
Telepathic Relay: Forest has the ability to act as a mental relay station for a group of minds, allowing said minds to "speak" to one another through the user.
Remote Telepathic Communication: She has the ability to use telepathy to communicate over great distances. However, it’s easier for her to do so if she has familiarity over the subject in question. (Like if she already has an established bond.)
Inner World: If she chooses, Forest can take a willing participate into her Mindscape. She chooses the location within her mind and both the participant and her can feel, taste, and touch just as if they were in their own bodies.
However, she only does this if she absolutely trusts someone because she is allowing them into her mind and seeing her at her potentially most vulnerable.
And psychic sex is a thing, and feels a lot better than actual physical sex to her.
Telepathic Combat: An ability that Forest picked up when she was alive was that she would read an opponent’s thoughts to see how they would move next in a fight. The more cornered she becomes in a fight, the faster she’ll start to rely on this so she can attempt to turn combat to her favor or to survive against someone who is much stronger than her.
Mental Immunity: Because of her strong telepathic ability and skills, Forest herself is pretty much immune to mind control and mental manipulation. If someone attempts such a thing on her, they would see imposing black crystal walls and hear the caws of a murder of crows growing increasingly louder.
Regeneration: Forest can heal rapidly from any physical injury as long as it isn’t fatal (see weaknesses). Bullet wounds, cuts, and stabbing can heal in mere moments after the damage has dealt. Since being changed by Valerie, she can regenerate whole limbs within hours. Fresh blood can even speedy this process up, making her seem almost invulnerable.
It’s In the Blood: Different supernatural blood can affect Forest in different ways.
Werewolf blood can energize her: intensifying her senses and giving her a slight boost in strength and speed.
Fae blood (or any other highly magical being) has an intoxicating effect on her. It can run the gauntlet from a loss of inhibition and giddiness to an almost aphrodisiac effect.
Blood can also help her heal even faster.
Art of Fighting: Forest has studied unarmed combat for most of her existence. Part of it is because she gets a thrill on trading blows with an equal, but another part is, in her world, a lot of supernaturals don’t really have skill to go along with her supernatural ability. Because of this, and for a love it as well, Forest has mastered multiple forms of martial arts in her lengthy existence.
At this point in time, she’s the one that masters come to learn from if they knew what she had learned over the ages.
Axe To Grind: While Forest is more than proficient at most melee weapons, she is best with an axe. This is a skill that came from when Brónach was alive. She knows how to best use it against other weapons, even when at a disadvantage.
Lilith’s Lineage:
As an elder vampire, she can actually use semen as a limited form of feeding.
The second is that she has a subconscious Lure that she’s not even really aware that she has.
This Lure causes her to appear more attractive and desirable to people who’s “type” she wouldn’t normally be. It also makes her appear far less of a threat than she is, much to her chagrin. It also causes people to notice and approach her that normally wouldn’t as well.
Orgasmic Bite: Part of the Lineage of Lilith. Forest, whenever she bites someone, causes them to orgasm. She cannot stop this and she doesn’t get off while doing it much to her chagrin.
And even people who have been castrated will still feel an orgasmic effect mentally even if they cannot have the physical reaction.
Genre Savvy: Being a giant nerd who reads a lot, watches a lot of TV and movies, and has been around a really long time she generally has a “basic” idea of how things work.
“Never, ever say you have a bad feeling about this.”
Linguist: Through her travels, and with the use of telepathy, Forest can speak a number of languages.
Has trouble speaking and understanding Spanish though.
Pony Car Enthusiast: Due to her love of muscle cars, Forest is an extremely talented driver. She can coax things out of cars that even professional race car drivers (normal mortal ones mind you) would have trouble believing until they saw it. She’s also learned basic upkeep over the years such as oil changes, how to perform a tune-up, tire changing, fuse replacement and maintenance and upkeep.
Of course, she can drive a stick shift.
An Ear For Music: A sort of random talent, but because of her love of music, Forest studied up somewhat on music theory and how to play the violin.
PARKOUR WANKERS! Dance Dance Revolution: Forest knows how to parkour. She’s also an accomplished gymnast and knows how to ballet dance. It helped build speed and precision with her martial arts back in the day.
Heightened Senses: All of her senses are heightened: sight, scent, hearing, taste and touch. Sight, scent, and hearing far beyond a human into animal territory to make her a better hunter.
She also has a sixth sense that alerts of her danger and supernatural otherness within her near vicinity.
Because her sense of touch is heightened it makes pain and pleasure that much more intense for her . . .
Weakness:
Wooden Stake Through the Heart: Like most vampires, a wooden stake through the heart would permanently kill Forest, leaving a pile of ashes in their wake.
Beheading: If her head is truly separated from her body, this will kill her. Gunshots to the head can incapacitate her, but unless it’s true decapitation she will heal.
Sunlight. It takes a few minutes for sunlight to completely immolate her.
Fire. She can burn to death/ashes. However, she really doesn’t burn any faster than a human.
Religious Items: She can be repelled by religious items if they have faith behind them. If they do not have faith behind them, they do nothing.
Silver: Silver will bind her and make her unable to escape.
Equipment:
1967 RS Z/28 Camaro: The Forestmobile itself, the infamous muscle car. It still has most of the original factory specs, save for a modern radio so she could better listen to music. V8 Engine and 4 speed manual.
The .44 AutoMag: The semiautomatic version of the .44 Magnum. Clip holds 7 rounds and Forest generally keeps a round chambered, giving her 8 shots before she has to switch magazines. Currently her primary gun because she doesn’t have to reload as often (8 shots vs the Revolver’s 6).
The .44 Magnum Revolver: Forest actually prefers the revolver to the AutoMag because it’s she can have custom bullets made/make for it, it’s more accurate, and it’s actually a bit more powerful than the AutoMag. Plus she just more comfortable with a revolver than the automag.
Wealth: She’d been kicking around for a very long time. She made some good investments and took some good jobs. She still does mercenary work from time to time, but money isn’t a concern for her.
She generally only has one of those guns on her person at one time.
Origin:
A long time ago there was this lost tall blond dude with an axe who shacked up with a Pict clan. He fell in love with one of their priestesses and she reciprocated. She got knocked up.
She died giving birth.
Distraught, this warrior/pirate dude named the surviving Brónach, which meant “Sorrow” and then . . . Died suicide via battle, leaving Brónach orphaned and in the care of her mother’s family.
Things kind of sucked for young Brónach. When puberty was starting to hit, she started to be able to read people’s thoughts. She was crushed to find out that her uncle wished that she had been a boy because that would have been easier to deal with because he already had one daughter.
Almost in defiance of this, Brónach took up her dad’s axe and became one hell of a fighter. She used those mind reading skills to make her virtually unbeatable in the skirmishes that a Scottish barbarian culture used to have way back in the day. She grew up, learning what she could of her dead father and the crow goddess he held in reverence.
Until one night she met a Roman Bastard who’s mind she couldn’t read and who she couldn’t beat back with her axe.
He was a monster, and even though Brónach was a bit of an outcast amongst her people, there were still people she loved and wanted to protect.
Like her cousin and her comrades in arms.
So when this Roman Bastard gave her an ultimatum: come with him and let him make her like him or see her people slaughtered before her, she chose to go with him.
Which really sucked, literally, because the Roman Bastard was a vampire. He made Brónach’s turning as unpleasant as possible because he wanted to see if he could break her. Even though bloodied, beaten, and defiled, Brónach was anything but compliant.
Becoming a vampire intensified her mental abilities to the point that she could shrug off his control over her. So she bashed his head from a rock and ran. She ran to find her father’s people on the island to the south and lived with them for a time. When it became apparent that she wasn’t aging, Brónach left, drifting from place to place, lost, alone and learning to control her abilities and hunger.
Until one night years and years later, standing on the bow of a ship shaped like a monster, was someone who offered to actually teach her how to be a vampire. She spent years with them, learning from the jovial warrior vampire as she found somewhat of a family with him and the men and women he traveled with.
During their travels, she renamed herself Forest, putting Brónach at rest.
Eventually, she parted ways with the Vikings.
Forest eventually became one of the most sought after mercenaries for the supernatural until she built up enough wealth and reputation to strike out on her own, where she eventually earned the title Law Unto Herself given to her by a vampire bard with a serious crush. Of course, she made plenty of friends and enemies on her rise of power. Had her heart broken by an unusual Faerie that she loved but he didn't love her as much in return. Found her beloved cousin reborn several times, befriended one Lady Wynn Noreen Umbra of the Unseelie court and became godmother to her "abomination" son.
Flash forward to modern times where Forest is a bit of a vampire vigilante with a good deal of money and freedom due to her hard work, saving, and when the stock market became a thing, good investing. These things gave Forest the luxury to do things that most vampires would never due to fear of the Vampiric Council and the Circle.
Likes: Edgy makeup. Gothic clothing. Fruit! Orange juice. Oranges. Citrus. Good heavy metal. 80’s horror and action movies. Bruce Campbell. The Evil Dead series. Really porny paranormal romance novels. Pop culture. Comic books. Mythology. Pony Cars. Crows. Ruggedly handsome men who are taller than her, super bonus if they’re also redheads. Fingernail polish. Kids. Electric Blankets. The Morrigan. The color purple/violet. Lavender (the plant). Leather dusters and steel toed boots.
Dislikes: When strangers touch her without permission. That Roman Bastard. CGI laden movies with bad plots. Most modern music. Cloying sweets. People who mistake over use of body spray as an alternative to bathing. Being told she can’t do something because she’s a girl or some other reason. Being judged by what she is instead of who she is. Being cold. Jukeboxes that don’t have Iron Maiden or any heavy metal on them. Being alone.
Race: Vampire. “But not a bawbag one.”
Age: Like really freaking old. Ancient. Over 1,000 years old. Looks in her late teens though.
Height: 5”10
Weight: 125-ish
Appearance: imgur.com/a/tgyRQ3E
Abilities:
Telepathy
The power to mentally receive information, transmit information, and/or manipulate information in others’ minds.
It’s a talent that all vampires in her world have in some shape or form.
Mind Reading: Forest can read the minds of others. It is, in some ways, an almost passive ability like hearing or seeing. She can concentrate on thoughts to get a better “listen” or “see” it better, but the thoughts of everyone around her (with some exceptions) are always being projected towards her.
She can also “download”, store, and process thoughts from others this way. IE: If she needed a combination to a lock or to help learn a language. The harder the task is, the longer it takes to absorb and gain. Because of this, she generally uses this for simple things like learning the layout of a building if she’s never been there before and needs to get around fast.
The more intense the thought, the “louder” it seems to Forest. Also people who are particularly intelligent project their thoughts more than say someone of below average intelligence.
She can also use this ability to see beyond just surface thoughts to actual memories, even long “forgotten” to their owner.
Only Absolute Chads can keep her from reading their minds unless the person in question has their own mental immunities and defenses.
Master of Puppets: This is perhaps her “desperation move” when it comes to telepathy. It’s something she hates to do, but will have to as no other choice. Forest can enforce her Will upon others. In this case she turns them into a literal meat puppet that she controls to their movements. Depending on how much effort she needs to exert to do this, or depending on how cornered or pissed off she is when she does, the target can be fully aware of what is going on. Most of the time they are in a comatose state with no memory of what she has done when she relinquishes control.
She may take over the minds of an average human fairly easily, but has even taken over other vampires of a numerable age in certain circumstances.
Mental Hacker: Forest can manipulate other’s short term memories. It’s a valuable power for a vampire to have. She can make them forget she was even there or even craft fake memories. “No, this cute blonde vampire didn’t bite you and drink your blood, causing you to JIZZ IN YOUR PANTS.”
Long Term Memories are something she generally shies away from manipulating. There are many reasons for doing so. One is the potential trauma to the person getting their memories wiped or changed. Two is that long term memories are just more difficult to change. There’s also a good chance that her revision can break or be “erased” at any random time, restoring the actual memory to the person in question.
She can also force people to relive memories as if they’re happening again, bringing up old traumas defensively or wonderful things that had been long lost.
She can also make others see and feel things that aren’t actually there by projecting into their minds. She can manipulate perception, make others see things that aren’t there (making people see chickens randomly is hilarious), or not see things that are there (“What absurdly large gun?”). She can also give suggestions this way as well, to focus on some minor detail, something that actually isn’t there, or to ignore something that is there.
She can also radiate emotional suggestions as well such as calmness, fear, or the comfort of being reunited with an old friend.
She has also been known to throw others’ senses into the wind, giving them experiences such as severe confusion and vertigo at the same time. Which is generally detrimental to someone with keen senses.
Mental Bonding: Forest can form a mental bond with a person. This bond can be temporary or permanent, as it is with friends and family back home. This bond allows the other participant to communicate with her over great distances as well as share thoughts and feelings to her and vice versa.
If Forest does not shield herself, the other party in the bond can witness her thoughts and feelings as easily as she can theirs.
She can choose to share what she is physically and emotionally feeling with the partner as well.
People who have bonds with Forest cannot read each thoughts or communicate that way unless she decides to open up a communication channel. Example: Character A cannot have telepathic communication with Character B just because they both have a bond with Forest.
If the participant is willing, she can create the bond with ease but the recipient can cut off the bond at any time they please.
Telepathic Shield: Forest can hide her thoughts from others and is guarded from mental attack . She can also shield her mental presence from someone else if needed.
She can also protect multiple targets at once with this ability. However, the more people she shields the more toll it takes on her, weakening her, and she can only shield people within a city block radius from her location.
She can also block one being from influencing a group of people if they are in range.
Telepathic Relay: Forest has the ability to act as a mental relay station for a group of minds, allowing said minds to "speak" to one another through the user.
Remote Telepathic Communication: She has the ability to use telepathy to communicate over great distances. However, it’s easier for her to do so if she has familiarity over the subject in question. (Like if she already has an established bond.)
Inner World: If she chooses, Forest can take a willing participate into her Mindscape. She chooses the location within her mind and both the participant and her can feel, taste, and touch just as if they were in their own bodies.
However, she only does this if she absolutely trusts someone because she is allowing them into her mind and seeing her at her potentially most vulnerable.
And psychic sex is a thing, and feels a lot better than actual physical sex to her.
Telepathic Combat: An ability that Forest picked up when she was alive was that she would read an opponent’s thoughts to see how they would move next in a fight. The more cornered she becomes in a fight, the faster she’ll start to rely on this so she can attempt to turn combat to her favor or to survive against someone who is much stronger than her.
Mental Immunity: Because of her strong telepathic ability and skills, Forest herself is pretty much immune to mind control and mental manipulation. If someone attempts such a thing on her, they would see imposing black crystal walls and hear the caws of a murder of crows growing increasingly louder.
Regeneration: Forest can heal rapidly from any physical injury as long as it isn’t fatal (see weaknesses). Bullet wounds, cuts, and stabbing can heal in mere moments after the damage has dealt. Since being changed by Valerie, she can regenerate whole limbs within hours. Fresh blood can even speedy this process up, making her seem almost invulnerable.
It’s In the Blood: Different supernatural blood can affect Forest in different ways.
Werewolf blood can energize her: intensifying her senses and giving her a slight boost in strength and speed.
Fae blood (or any other highly magical being) has an intoxicating effect on her. It can run the gauntlet from a loss of inhibition and giddiness to an almost aphrodisiac effect.
Blood can also help her heal even faster.
Art of Fighting: Forest has studied unarmed combat for most of her existence. Part of it is because she gets a thrill on trading blows with an equal, but another part is, in her world, a lot of supernaturals don’t really have skill to go along with her supernatural ability. Because of this, and for a love it as well, Forest has mastered multiple forms of martial arts in her lengthy existence.
At this point in time, she’s the one that masters come to learn from if they knew what she had learned over the ages.
Axe To Grind: While Forest is more than proficient at most melee weapons, she is best with an axe. This is a skill that came from when Brónach was alive. She knows how to best use it against other weapons, even when at a disadvantage.
Lilith’s Lineage:
As an elder vampire, she can actually use semen as a limited form of feeding.
The second is that she has a subconscious Lure that she’s not even really aware that she has.
This Lure causes her to appear more attractive and desirable to people who’s “type” she wouldn’t normally be. It also makes her appear far less of a threat than she is, much to her chagrin. It also causes people to notice and approach her that normally wouldn’t as well.
Orgasmic Bite: Part of the Lineage of Lilith. Forest, whenever she bites someone, causes them to orgasm. She cannot stop this and she doesn’t get off while doing it much to her chagrin.
And even people who have been castrated will still feel an orgasmic effect mentally even if they cannot have the physical reaction.
Genre Savvy: Being a giant nerd who reads a lot, watches a lot of TV and movies, and has been around a really long time she generally has a “basic” idea of how things work.
“Never, ever say you have a bad feeling about this.”
Linguist: Through her travels, and with the use of telepathy, Forest can speak a number of languages.
Has trouble speaking and understanding Spanish though.
Pony Car Enthusiast: Due to her love of muscle cars, Forest is an extremely talented driver. She can coax things out of cars that even professional race car drivers (normal mortal ones mind you) would have trouble believing until they saw it. She’s also learned basic upkeep over the years such as oil changes, how to perform a tune-up, tire changing, fuse replacement and maintenance and upkeep.
Of course, she can drive a stick shift.
An Ear For Music: A sort of random talent, but because of her love of music, Forest studied up somewhat on music theory and how to play the violin.
PARKOUR WANKERS! Dance Dance Revolution: Forest knows how to parkour. She’s also an accomplished gymnast and knows how to ballet dance. It helped build speed and precision with her martial arts back in the day.
Heightened Senses: All of her senses are heightened: sight, scent, hearing, taste and touch. Sight, scent, and hearing far beyond a human into animal territory to make her a better hunter.
She also has a sixth sense that alerts of her danger and supernatural otherness within her near vicinity.
Because her sense of touch is heightened it makes pain and pleasure that much more intense for her . . .
Weakness:
Wooden Stake Through the Heart: Like most vampires, a wooden stake through the heart would permanently kill Forest, leaving a pile of ashes in their wake.
Beheading: If her head is truly separated from her body, this will kill her. Gunshots to the head can incapacitate her, but unless it’s true decapitation she will heal.
Sunlight. It takes a few minutes for sunlight to completely immolate her.
Fire. She can burn to death/ashes. However, she really doesn’t burn any faster than a human.
Religious Items: She can be repelled by religious items if they have faith behind them. If they do not have faith behind them, they do nothing.
Silver: Silver will bind her and make her unable to escape.
Equipment:
1967 RS Z/28 Camaro: The Forestmobile itself, the infamous muscle car. It still has most of the original factory specs, save for a modern radio so she could better listen to music. V8 Engine and 4 speed manual.
The .44 AutoMag: The semiautomatic version of the .44 Magnum. Clip holds 7 rounds and Forest generally keeps a round chambered, giving her 8 shots before she has to switch magazines. Currently her primary gun because she doesn’t have to reload as often (8 shots vs the Revolver’s 6).
The .44 Magnum Revolver: Forest actually prefers the revolver to the AutoMag because it’s she can have custom bullets made/make for it, it’s more accurate, and it’s actually a bit more powerful than the AutoMag. Plus she just more comfortable with a revolver than the automag.
Wealth: She’d been kicking around for a very long time. She made some good investments and took some good jobs. She still does mercenary work from time to time, but money isn’t a concern for her.
She generally only has one of those guns on her person at one time.
Origin:
A long time ago there was this lost tall blond dude with an axe who shacked up with a Pict clan. He fell in love with one of their priestesses and she reciprocated. She got knocked up.
She died giving birth.
Distraught, this warrior/pirate dude named the surviving Brónach, which meant “Sorrow” and then . . . Died suicide via battle, leaving Brónach orphaned and in the care of her mother’s family.
Things kind of sucked for young Brónach. When puberty was starting to hit, she started to be able to read people’s thoughts. She was crushed to find out that her uncle wished that she had been a boy because that would have been easier to deal with because he already had one daughter.
Almost in defiance of this, Brónach took up her dad’s axe and became one hell of a fighter. She used those mind reading skills to make her virtually unbeatable in the skirmishes that a Scottish barbarian culture used to have way back in the day. She grew up, learning what she could of her dead father and the crow goddess he held in reverence.
Until one night she met a Roman Bastard who’s mind she couldn’t read and who she couldn’t beat back with her axe.
He was a monster, and even though Brónach was a bit of an outcast amongst her people, there were still people she loved and wanted to protect.
Like her cousin and her comrades in arms.
So when this Roman Bastard gave her an ultimatum: come with him and let him make her like him or see her people slaughtered before her, she chose to go with him.
Which really sucked, literally, because the Roman Bastard was a vampire. He made Brónach’s turning as unpleasant as possible because he wanted to see if he could break her. Even though bloodied, beaten, and defiled, Brónach was anything but compliant.
Becoming a vampire intensified her mental abilities to the point that she could shrug off his control over her. So she bashed his head from a rock and ran. She ran to find her father’s people on the island to the south and lived with them for a time. When it became apparent that she wasn’t aging, Brónach left, drifting from place to place, lost, alone and learning to control her abilities and hunger.
Until one night years and years later, standing on the bow of a ship shaped like a monster, was someone who offered to actually teach her how to be a vampire. She spent years with them, learning from the jovial warrior vampire as she found somewhat of a family with him and the men and women he traveled with.
During their travels, she renamed herself Forest, putting Brónach at rest.
Eventually, she parted ways with the Vikings.
Forest eventually became one of the most sought after mercenaries for the supernatural until she built up enough wealth and reputation to strike out on her own, where she eventually earned the title Law Unto Herself given to her by a vampire bard with a serious crush. Of course, she made plenty of friends and enemies on her rise of power. Had her heart broken by an unusual Faerie that she loved but he didn't love her as much in return. Found her beloved cousin reborn several times, befriended one Lady Wynn Noreen Umbra of the Unseelie court and became godmother to her "abomination" son.
Flash forward to modern times where Forest is a bit of a vampire vigilante with a good deal of money and freedom due to her hard work, saving, and when the stock market became a thing, good investing. These things gave Forest the luxury to do things that most vampires would never due to fear of the Vampiric Council and the Circle.
Likes: Edgy makeup. Gothic clothing. Fruit! Orange juice. Oranges. Citrus. Good heavy metal. 80’s horror and action movies. Bruce Campbell. The Evil Dead series. Really porny paranormal romance novels. Pop culture. Comic books. Mythology. Pony Cars. Crows. Ruggedly handsome men who are taller than her, super bonus if they’re also redheads. Fingernail polish. Kids. Electric Blankets. The Morrigan. The color purple/violet. Lavender (the plant). Leather dusters and steel toed boots.
Dislikes: When strangers touch her without permission. That Roman Bastard. CGI laden movies with bad plots. Most modern music. Cloying sweets. People who mistake over use of body spray as an alternative to bathing. Being told she can’t do something because she’s a girl or some other reason. Being judged by what she is instead of who she is. Being cold. Jukeboxes that don’t have Iron Maiden or any heavy metal on them. Being alone.
