Vodou Child
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Vodou Child | |
| Vodou Child | |
| Player: Nefensis | |
| Origin: | magic |
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| Archetype: | defender (darkness/darkness) |
| Security Level: | ' |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Chloe Belmont |
| Known Aliases: | Vodou |
| Species: | human infected |
| Age: | 75+ |
| Height: | 5'4" |
| Weight: | light |
| Eye Color: | black |
| Hair Color: | black |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | French |
| Occupation: | Archivist |
| Place of Birth: | France |
| Base of Operations: | Boston |
| Marital Status: | lover (Zane) |
| Known Relatives: | A grand daughter |
| Known Powers | |
| flight, control of darkness | |
| Known Abilities | |
| ' | |
| Equipment | |
| none | |
| Blood is life | |
Contents |
Background
Pre infection life, childhood
Chloe was born a few years after the first world war, in France. Her family was very poor and decided to move to America in hope of a better life for her and her parents. She was five years old when they embarked on the large boat that got them across the Ocean, her mother died on board while giving birth to a younger brother, her health failed because of the lack of medication or doctor on the boat. Alone, her father had to face the new world with two young child and alone, alas he felt the world was not worth living without his wife and started drinking. The youngest child was left on the parvis of a Bostonian church and Chloe refusing to remain with her brother, followed her father around until she dropped from exhaustion and he abandoned her.
She was found later that night in an alley. A man she later would call Father took the orphan and brought her home. He was rich and lived alone. He cared for her as would a loving father, seeing the child as joy in his life. The lonely man turned out to be infected with the vampiric virus. For a few years he took care of her, treating her with all the care in the world. The man showered her with gifts and care but one day as she turned 13, he realized that he had fallen in love with his young daughter. Rage of his tainted love made him lose control and he turned on her. Bite her and drained her to the brink of death from her vitae. He had enough sense to stop himself and to save her fragile life, fed her his own blood and she became infected, herself becoming what is now known as a vampire.
New life
Chloe awoke from the brink of death with new eyes to the world, literally. The transformation was not easy on her small body. The pain she suffered twisted her features into a shapeless mass. Lips and nose lacking, only a thin line marks her mouth. Her eyes becoming dark pools of ink where no pupil can be seen. A strange sadness forever painted on her face, akin to a porcelain doll that would be missing her colors. She could no longer travel out in the public eye and she missed the sun sorely, her father promising a thousand time how she would grow strong to it's effects with time and a bit of magic. At the time she believed him only because her mind was still of a child, but as years went by, her body would remain young and grow only very slightly in proportions as her mind grew mature.
One morning her father missed out on curfew and she grew anxious, and as more nights without a trace of him went by, fear took her. She went alone into the night of Boston, looking for him everywhere during the hours of darkness. A venitian mask covering her features she tried as well to remain incognito but soon she had to retrace her steps and go home. She would never see her father again, and never learned of his fate.
Lonely
Time went on, years even. The fortune her father had gathered had long ran out and the home where she lived had became the prey of industrials in the 50's. Unable to show up at a auction, she had to move out, and moved in bellow into the sewers. Time went by slowly there, as the world changed outside, she found out about all these changes through different medias. Newspapers at first, then a radio that she stole and soon enough, a television. Her hole in the sewers had became a vault of information. She created the Shrek Net, an internet forum for recluse and other creature of night that wished to remain anonymous when the world wide web made it's first baby steps and information became part of history. Traveling faster than light speed and reaching out as far as the end of the planet and soon the universe. Chloe felt lonely and small in this big world that grew around her. She had to come out.
The sun, again
A ring rolled into the sewers, a spider diamond mounted on a silver ring. The jewel was among a pile of garbage, but something was not quite right about it. Her sixth sense told her such. Ring in hand, veil covering her features, she stepped out of the sewers for the first time in years. To untrained eyes she seemed like a homely child, a pretty stern dress and a simple chubby face. Magic of course, her tainted blood allowed her to manipulate the shadows around her, shape them into illusion that allowed her to retain some kind of humanity. Zane the mad came into game. He knew the ring and it's ex owner, another tainted who greeted the sun with arms wide open. Unlife could be so cruel.
Zane saw this in her, poor Vodou and her pet rat. The young man took her under his wing and soon loved her for whom she was, only wincing a little to her kisses. Himself was tainted but it was his mind who became twisted in the embrace. He would often leave for long period of times but always came back to her, for he could not go long without her presence. In his madness he saw a great white OM and this entity told him to be off and cleanse the unclean. Chloe had no idea what it meant but dared not question, as long as he came back to her. She had her own things to consider. Chloe enjoyed a bit more freedom as magic made it's way into the world of humans, mutant and technology helping her to fit in a bit more among others. Her father had not lie to her in this matter, she could now bare the sun on her skin and flight in her wings.
Cleanse the unclean? Sure why not!
