- Name
- Morrigan Anastasia Black
- Age
- Physically 30, Chronologically 185
- Gender
- Cis Female - she/her
- Species
- Vampire
- Occupation
- Conservation Scientist/Supernatural Bounty Hunter
- Appearance
- A tall, voluptuous woman of mixed heritage with long raven black hair and piercing red eyes, wears an eye patch over her right eye
- Personality
- A self-martyring, lonely gunwoman with a penchant for efficient violence
- Abilities
- Dracula-esque Vampiric abilities, a demon-possessed gun and eye
- Situation
- She's not hurting for money but is nowhere as wealthy as her age might suggest
Appearance
- Gallery Link
- https://toyhou.se/14704465.morrigan-blake/gallery
- Height
- 6'2"
- Body
- Tall and leggy with ample curves, dark skin, and many subtle scars across her body.
- Face
- Sharp cheekbones and a slightly longer than average nose. The upper right portion of her face gives way to shadowy mist, usually covered by an eye patch.
- Eyes
- Her left eye is a deep, blood moon red-orange. Her right eye is a bottomless black pit with a pinprick of angry red light inside.
- Hair
- Raven blue-black wavy locks that when unbraided falls to her knees.
- Clothes
- She dresses very much like a modern day cowgirl, wearing rugged but fashionable clothes.
Personality
Shockingly for a vampire, Morrigan remains staunchly religious despite her inability to engage with her faith in traditional ways. Over the years she has fund workarounds that satisfy her spiritual needs. She sees her mission from her coven as a righteous one, ordained as much by the heavenly Father and the spirits of the earth as the vampires who sired her. Her faith bleeds into everything that she does, including her pact with the demon in her eye, justifying that she wasn't bound for heaven anyway and so keeping him from corrupting a soul with a chance at salvation is a mercy she can provide to the world. Part of her evolution as a woman of faith, Morrigan has adapted a lot of her mother's people's traditional beliefs and connection to the earth, which has led to her modern love for nature and her dedication to protecting the planet.
The devil in Morrigan's eye has had an influence on her over the decades that they've been together. He whispers to her, both ridiculing and goading her towards her worst instincts. She has largely learned to tune him out, but in moments of weakness or emotional distress the demon's influence becomes much more greatly felt. With him guiding her, Morrigan is sadistic and cruel in ways that revolt her. Her pact with the demon is a constant source of weariness for Morrigan, a cause for her to isolate herself from others and deny herself pleasure on the grounds of repenting for her connection to it.
Morrigan's morality is still skewed by the injustices that she suffered in her human lifetime, as well as the concessions that she's had to make in her time as a vampire. She views individual people as having moral worth, but simultaneously as expendable. Almost anyone can be sacrificed if the need is great enough and there aren't any good options to both save their life and achieve the outcome that needs to happen. But the most expendable person in the world, in Morrigan's eyes, is herself. She would gladly throw herself into a wood chipper if it meant someone else would be spared hardship, and it's only her connection to the lord of iron and smoke that prevents her from doing so time and time again.
Abilities
- Ability Format
- Standard Traits
- Advantages
- ++ Animal Form (Crow)
+ Apex Speed
+ Apex Strength
+ Apex Regeneration
+ Elemental Form (Smoke)
+ Enhanced Senses (Sight, Smell)
+ Enhanced Senses (Hearing, Taste)
+ Mesmer
+ Wall climbing
+ Silent Movement
- Disadvantages
- - Arithmomania
- Aversion(Consecrated Ground)
- Aversion(Running Water)
- Aversion (Religious Iconography)
- Elemental Weakness(Fire)
- Elemental weakness(Holy)
- Invitation Required
- Weakness(Silver)
- Sensitivity(Religious Iconography)
- Core Advantage
- Vogmollath, Lord of Iron and Smoke - A powerful demon from the depths of Hell, cut in half and sealed into a revolver and Morrigan's right eye. Bullets fired from the gun count as both holy and profane and if Morrigan removes her eyepatch she can track even the fastest of creatures to improve her chances of hitting them with a shot. Morrigan always knows where the gun is, so that if it is stolen she can go retrieve it.
- Core Disadvantage
- Morrigan must consume blood to sustain herself, and gains no nutritional value from normal food. If she go too long without feeding, she will grow weaker and weaker as well as more feral. Failing to feed past a certain point will cause Morrigan to fall comatose and enter a state of permanent hibernation which can only be roused by being fed blood. Will not die as a result of being starved.
- Bonus
- Bonus: Animal Form (Crow)
- Nerfs and Flavor
- In direct sunlight, she is weakened to baseline human levels when it comes to senses, abilities, and attributes. She is also unable to change forms in direct sunlight. If she is in her animal form, she must stay that way until she is able to get out of direct sunlight.
Current Situation
- Occupation
- On paper, and in her day to day life, Morrigan is an environmental conservation scientist. She moonlights as a bounty hunter, tracking down and dealing with rogue supernatural elements; particularly rogue members of the bloodline she's part of.
- Housing
- She's currently living out of a hotel on her coven's dime.
- Wealth
- Not wealthy, but comfortable.
History
- Date of Birth
- July 22, 1839
- Place of Birth
- Texas
- The older of two daughters born to a pair of settlers seeking a better life in the American frontier.
- Her father's death forced the girls' mother into sex work to continue taking care of them.
- As soon as she was old enough to work, Morrigan took a job at a saloon.
- A customer at the saloon assaulted Morrigan one evening, leading to her stabbing him to death in a panic.
- Her mother took the blame for the death, urging her daughters to run as the townspeople took the excuse to try her as a murderer.
- Morrigan found herself adept at using her youth and beauty to lull outlaws into a false sense of security, killing them for their bounties to keep her and her sister fed.
- Over the years her sister developed a penchant for witchcraft, which Morrigan forced her to hide as they traveled further westward to try and find a place they could call home.
- In her thirties, their luck ran out and Morrigan's sister was discovered and arrested as a witch. Forced to run as their home burned, Morrigan never learned her sister's fate.
- She was met however, nearly dead by a man who seemed in the same boat as her. They struck up a deal: she would let him feed on her blood, and he would give her the power to avenge her family.
- Morrigan's first act as a vampire was to wipe out the men who had taken her sister. Her savagery kept her from being able to demand answers as to what they had done to her.
- Alone and bereft of joy, Morrigan spent the next thirty years of her now eternal life mindlessly serving her sire - content in essentially being a tool.
- Eventually though, Morrigan began to heal. She found love and a new purpose in her life in the arms of a nun who had forsaken her oaths to better serve God.
- Her sire's jealousy and fear pushed him to kill her new paramour, and Morrigan retaliated in kind by taking his life.
- Her coven was not far behind, only taking a decade to track Morrigan down. She was tried and acquitted of her crime against her sire, and was embraced with open arms into the coven.
- As time moved on and Morrigan started coming into her own, she turned back to the faith she'd long ago abandoned.
- She studied to catch up to the scientific knowledge of the day and took an interest in wildlife conservation and ecology. This would form a basis for her passions throughout the ages.
- An event that she and her coven refer to only as 'the Ravening' led to the loss of Morrigan's eye and her bondage to the demon Vogmollath.
- She took the honored position of enforcing the secrecy and rules of her coven, using the cursed gun she now carried to facilitate this.
- Most recently, word of a punished coven member's escape reached the leadership of the coven, and they have dispatched Morrigan to Polaris Pass to find and kill the traitor.
Additional Information
- Art Credits
- Character design and art purchased from gnysy on Toyhouse. Additional art commissioned from BonefydSkeleton on ToyHouse and NEUMOND on YCH Commishes.
- Anything Else
- From the same vampire bloodline as Sophie Smith, with Theia's permission.
