#and paid respects to Aunt Sybil

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Character Bio: Sybil Alcorn

This is a long one so I’ll spare everyone and put it under the line

Full Name: Sybil Elizabeth Alcorn

Reason or meaning of name: Elizabeth was her grandmother’s name. Sybil is just from her time period

Nickname: Poppet (distastefully)

How'd they get it?: Simon is a cruel and sick son of a bitch

Age: 141 - she still holds the form of a young woman in her mid teens; roughly 16 to 17 years of age

Date of Birth: May 15th, 1870

Zodiac: Taurus

Species: Human/Vampire

Gender: Female

Sexual Orientation: Straight

Nationality: British

Hometown: Mayfair

Current Residence: A rather large mansion hidden along Britain’s countryside; need a large building to house 200+ vampires

Occupation: Countess/Coven Ambassador

For how long?: She was countess of her family’s estate for four or five years until she “died”, she became the Ambassador for her coven a decade or so after she joined

Do they like his/her job?: She loves being a diplomatic leader for her coven, her late status gave her an enjoyment of politics.

Salary: She doesn’t get paid for what she does and she has no care or need for money, seeing everyone live in peace with each other is enough

Abilities

If they had an element, what would it be?: She would probably be Air, despite her natural Earth element being a Taurus provides

Can they use it?: No?

What animal best represents them?: Sybil would probably be a Ragdoll Cat; something posh looking, a pamper cat - she’s above you and she knows it and flaunts it.

Hand-to-Hand capability: Pffffft. Sybil can’t fight worth a damn. She has Fenris for that.

Weapons training: She knows how to fence

When did they start learning?: When she was first taken into the Coven

Who taught them?: Rodrich - her caretaker and Mentor

Physical strength: She’s still a youngling by vampire standards, so she is stupid strong; she can control her strength but doesn’t really pay attention when she’s emotional (i.e angry or upset)

Speed: Insanely fast, obviously

Planning: She’s not a brilliant tactician but she does well enough

Powers: Inhuman strength and speed, night vision, “vampiric seduction”

Family

Any significant ancestors?: Not really

Grandparents (describe relationship): She didn’t really know them all that well, they passed before she was born

Aunts/Uncles (describe relationship): Her parents never had siblings

Parents (describe relationship): She didn’t go anywhere without her mother and father, she loved them so dearly and would do anything for them.

Are they still together?: They loved each other to the bitter end, they were buried together.

Does the family have a specific set of values?: Do what makes you happy and live prosperously.

What would their family be described like by another person?: Sybil’s mother and father did everything they could to keep their daughter happy. They were a very loving and joy-filled family.

Have they ever had any pets?: Sybil had a pet bird once

What happened to them?: Like all things, it died

Relationships

Are they a virgin?: Due to the fact that she is a VERY old fashioned young woman, she was saving herself for marriage, as she was supposed to. However, being turned into a vampire and forced into hiding will definitely ruin any and all hopes of said marriage.

How did they lose it?: She fell in love with her protector/body guard, Fenris, and decided that she wouldn’t want to risk losing the opportunity of experiencing physical love a second and final time.

Have they ever cheated on a partner?: Good Lord, no

Has a partner ever cheated on them?: Does her dying and her fiance moving on count as cheating?

How did they react?: Obviously she was very heartbroken that she had lost the man she loved

Who was their first crush?: Earl Winston Blair

First love?: Winston. She had eyes for no other at the time.

Have they ever been married?: She was supposed to be.

Divorced?: Technically no

How many times have they been married/divorced?: 0 times

Are they in any kind of romantic relationship?: Oh very much so

How serious/relaxed is it?: She is fully committed to Fenris and loves him with every fiber of her being.

Describe the relationship with their current partner: Her relationship with Fenris is physical as well as emotional. They experience coitus a lot, but it isn’t just that; Fenris cares for and loves Sybil deeply and is always there for her when she needs him. Her life is stressful and he is her anchor.

How did they meet?: Mentor (Rodrich) hired Fenris to keep guard over Sybil due to her diplomatic duties to the Coven. Their meeting was a little awkward at first, but they grew to like each other.

Who made the first move?: Fenris did

How does your character truly feel about their partner?: Sybil would do anything and everything for Fenris. He is her sun and stars.

When did they realize this?: After spending so much time with him and getting to know him, she couldn’t help but be drawn to him.

Who is your characters closest friend?: Rodrich

How did they meet?: When she was first brought to the Coven, someone had to be put in charge to teach her to cope with her Turning. Rodrich was more than happy to oblige.

Why do they get along so well?: Rodrich is her adopted father, she looks up to him for guidance. He is very patient with her and finds it adorable when she flaunts her status around.

Describe relationship with any other significant friends: She has no other friends, she’s very secluded from the rest of the Coven.

Favorites

Favorite foods: Turkish Delights, she used to eat them a lot growing up

Least favorite food: She hates the fact that she has to drink blood, and blood capsules are even worse.

Favorite colors: Purples and blue

Least favorite color: Brown

Music: Orchestral

Literature: Fiction and occult

Smell: Rain and sweet pea flowers

Feeling: Emotional feeling? She likes being happy, obviously. Touch feeling? Velvet.

Season: Fall

Pets: She loves birds

Place: Any type of park, garden or library

Favorite sport(s): She doesn’t really like sports

Favorite Sayings: “Nothing ventured, nothing gained”

Possession this character values most: Her engagement ring from Winston

Why is it so important to them?: It is the last thing from her past she was able to keep

Physical Characteristics

Height: 5’4”

Weight: 128 lbs

Body build: Relatively curvy with “birthing hips”

Eye Color: Silver-Blue

Glasses or contact lenses?: Glasses

Hair Color: Black

Type of hair: Somewhat straight with faint waves at the end of her hair

Hairstyle: She always dresses her hair in something fancy - force of habit

Complexion and skin tone: Fair skin complexion with pale tone (due to status and lack of body heat)

Any particular blemishes?: No

Shape of Face: Heart shaped

Scent: Faint powdered perfume with hints of jasmine and rosemary

Voice: An octave above low but below high, sort of in the middle kind of wave length

Mannerisms: Confident and intelligent.

Health: For a vampire, she’s very healthy

Style: (Elegant, shabby etc.) She was a Victorian era Countess and likes to keep the style and trend, so she dresses very fancily

How do they walk?: Very straight. Her posture while walking is very proper, she keeps her head held high.

What are their Nervous Tics: Sybil rubs her hands and chews on her lip, sometimes she plays with the skirt of her dress

Usual Body Posture: Very straight and primp and proper.

Do they have any disabilities?: No

Speech patterns: Formal

Preferred Clothing:

Underwear: Corsets and bloomers

Shirts: No

Pants: No

Skirts: Eh?

Jackets: Does a shaw count?

Shoes: Heels

Accessories: Her parasol if she had to go out in the sun, God forbid

Formal wear: Always, always, always wearing one of her dresses. She is never dressed casually.

Sleeping wear: A simple night dress

Swimming wear:

Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes

Did they go to school?: Private tutors

Where?: At home

What did they learn?: Math, literature, social and economical studies, politics to a degree

Did they complete the curriculum?: It was required that she did

What were their grades like?: Above passing

Native language: English

Do they know any other languages?: She knows some Russian but not a lot, Rodrich usually translates for her when she meets other Covens

How smart are they?: She has a very high IQ and she needed to be smarter than a whip growing up.

What is their strengths?: She is a powerful negotiator

Weaknesses?: Mental weaknesses? She doesn’t handle peer pressure well; she gets flustered in tense situations. Physical, she is completely paralyzed if a wooden stake is driven through her heart.

Manner of Writing: Very formal

Any Mental Illnesses?: Slight PTSD from when she was Turned

How does your Character see themselves?: She sees herself as a fragment of who she was. She’s a monster, a victim. She wishes that she would die sometimes; but other times, she’s happy she was changed because she would not have met Fenris or Rodrich.

How does your Character believe they are perceived by others?: She wants to be perceived as a woman of standing, someone to be respected.

How self-confident is your character?: She is very confident in herself and what she does, she keeps her head high at all times.

What makes their self-confidence waver?: Anytime she’s near Simon, she feels weak and vulnerable, like she’s placed again in the dark cell he kept her in when he Turned her.

What would embarrass your character the most?: Being talked down to and humiliated. It would embarrass her to the point it would make her incredibly angry.

How does your character feel about love: She believes it is one of the most powerful things on earth.

About crime: Anyone who believes they are above the law or feels they should break it for their own purposes should be punished to the full extent.

Politics?: Loves politics

People of a different sexuality?: She is very hesitant to the idea due to the way it is viewed when she was human, but she’s not going to go out of her way to tell them to conform. If what they do makes them happy, then she is happy as well.

Different nationality/race?: She is very welcoming to other nationalities and races, she loves learning about new people and cultures.

How does your character show affection/love?: She is a sap. She likes to try and woo with flowers and gifts as well as poetry. Old fashioned, as I’ve said.

How does your character handle grief?: She was always taught to bottle her grief because expressing it wasn’t ladylike. So she usually hides away in her room for a couple hours until she’s calmed down.

What are they like when they cry?: Sybil tries very hard not to cry, but when she does, she’s a mess. She shakes and holds her head and rocks back and forth.

What can make them cry?: Being told she can’t keep living in the past. Not much really upsets her anymore except for this fact. She knows she can’t regain what is lost so she tries to keep hold of what she has (i.e her style, ways of thinking), and when Fenris or Rodrich tells her she has to move on, it breaks her heart.

How does your character handle physical pain?: Being undead, most if not all of her nerves are pretty much dead. She has no pain sensory anymore because she has no need to feel it.

Emotional pain?: She doesn’t handle emotional pain well at all. If she isn’t breaking things, she’s a sobbing mess in her room.

Is your character typically a leader or a follower?: She’s a leader

Are they 'big picture' or 'little details'?: Big picture

What kind of energy level does your character typically display?: She has a lot of energy when she’s awake, she likes to go out and do things while she has the time.

Describe their sense of humor: “What’s a meme?” She has very ‘grandma’ style humor

Hobbies: She reads

Talents: She is a skilled pianist and horse rider

Extremely unskilled at: Learning new trends

If any, what musical instruments can they play?: Piano and harp

Emotional Characteristics

How does character relate to others?: She doesn’t really relate to anyone she knows, but she does feel empathetic sometimes.

How does the character deal with anger?: Not well at all.

With sadness?: Even worse

With conflict?: She tries to defuse the situation as well as she can, and 9 times out of 10 she succeeds

With change?: She can’t deal with change and thusly refuses to

With loss?: She shuts down for a while

What does your character want out of life?: Happiness, mostly. She wants everything that was robbed from her when she was Turned; a loving husband and family and a fulfilled life.

What would your character like to change in his/her life?: Not being a vampire

What motivates your character?: Sybil is motivated by the fact that she is the sole reason her Coven hasn’t been destroyed by other Covens. Keeping everyone at peace is a damn good motivator to get up in the evening.

What frightens your character?: Simon does. Being a vampire, she knows she’s scarier than any boogieman that could be conjured up. But Simon makes her chest hurt, her unnatural breathing stop, and her barely beating heart freeze.

Are they afraid of the Dark?: No, not since she was a little girl

Death?: She’s already dead, technically, so no. In fact, if it were readily available, she would welcome it.

What makes your character happy?: Fenris, horse riding, reading, star gazing.

Sad?: Some of her memories of Winston

Angry?: Being told what to do; she is a grown woman by now, she should be treated as one.

Aroused?: Sometimes, when Fenris is frustrated, he gets this rumble in his chest; this low kind of growling sound. She could listen to it for hours and never once tell him to stop.

Annoyed?: She gets annoyed when Fenris tries to introduce her to present time things like clubs and dubstep and casual dresswear.

Guilty?: She feels guilty about how Winston was told she passed. It was said in her obituary that she was killed by an opium addict for her coin. But she knew if he discovered how she really died, he would be disgusted with her, and she wanted him to keep fond memories of her.

Is your character judgmental of others?: No, not really. She doesn’t really judge people by their looks or actions, she was raised better.

Is your character generous or stingy?: She is incredibly generous.

Is your character generally polite or rude?: Overly polite

Optimistic or Pessimistic?: Eh? It varies. But she’s mainly optimistic about things.

Introvert or Extrovert?: Introvert

Daredevil or Cautious?: Cautious

Logical or Emotional?: Mostly logical

Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat?: Methodical and neat

Would they rather be working or relaxing?: Working

How do they feel about animals?: She loves all kinds of animals, if she could, she would own a petting zoo.

They are most at ease when: Fenris is around, she feels safer with him.

Ill at ease when: A Coven negotiation is starting to take a turn or Simon is skulking about

What is their best quality?: Her smile; Fenris has said that she lights up a room with her smile (this, in turn, makes her blush and smack him lightly)

What is their biggest flaw?: Sometimes she relies too heavily on Rodrich or Fenris for guidance and/or support.

Spiritual Characteristics

Do they consider themselves religious?: Once upon a time

What religion?: Christianity

What God(s)/Goddess(s) do they believe in?: God

Why do they believe as they do?: Her parents raised her Christian

How prominent is this in their life?: It isn’t very prominent anymore, if at all

How far would they go in the name of their beliefs?: Not very far

How strictly do they follow the rules of their religion?: She used to be a devout Christian; she would always go to church and pray, etc.

Are there any things they do specifically they aren't suppose to?: Does being “Satan’s Whore” count?