Character Name: Moira Byrne
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Alias: "Bitter Raven"
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Apparent Age: 22
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Origin: London, England - 1792
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Race: Vampire
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Height: 5'7
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Weight: 115 lbs.
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Gender: Female
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Physical Description:
Fair skinned and thin, muscular due to her constant movement and healthy thanks to her voracious appetite. Black hair that shines purple in the light like the raven her surname translates to. Her eyes have no color and remain black like the birds', void of compassion or emotion for others besides her clan members.
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Known Relatives: Dead and gone.
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Religion: None. If there was any God, then the horrible things that happen to innocent people should not be allowed to go unpunished.
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Skills:
To fight with swords and blades, learned from Tora, to maximize her damage potential. Although she excels at this, Moira prefers to get close and personal to watch the blood spray before her eyes.
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Abilities:
Super senses: Ability to hear, smell, and see much better than an average human thanks to her vampire body.
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Alignment: Neutral-borderline evil.
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Personality: Detests humans no matter how good they are, Moira has never been able to shake off what happened in her human life. Now that she's a vampire she enjoys tormenting others because she has the power to do so. Believing it is her 'karmic right' to do unto others what she had endured for every second of her life. Even other vampires aren't spared her wicked tongue and besides Tora and Aisu, Moira refuses to form relationships with other beings unless she sees some personal gain. In this way she is a very calculating person and comes up with many schemes to get two things: Blood and money.
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Powers:
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Esoteric Shadow: Because of her traumatic, human life and, instead of turning into a vengeful spirit, her soul absorbed dark energy from the hate that would've turned her into a ghoul. It is the ability to control shadows and to make them become solid. It has many sub-skills.
Shadow Stalk: A much faster way of traveling than by vampiric speed, this ability lets her turn into a two-dimensional shadow and flit from place to place in a blink.
Nightmare: If enough negative energy accumulates in her heart, Moira can summon any sort of illusion or being from her own mind to torment others. Being as spiteful as she is, it is one of her favorite abilities.
Dusk Guard: A defensive ability that calls a dusky fog to hinder an opponent's visibility.
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Restrictions:
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The most notable restriction is that it is possible that one day the evil part of her entity will completely consume her. How this will happen is uncertain, whether the darkness takes hold of her body and turns her into a true monster or she goes into a rage that forces Tora to end her life.
Unlike the other two vampires, she doesn't feel sick when approaching or crossing running water or standing under the sunlight. In the same way, she gets no benefit from moonlight and in a way becomes less attractive than the others; since her physical features aren't emphasized.
When holy water is doused on her, Moira is traceable to the human eye, however her Shadow Stalk counters this. In order to counter back, light must be focused and shined upon her to bring her back to the physical realm.
Having been created in the 1800s, she is well over 500 years old and has built a resistance to sunlight. However she must stay in the shade. Prolonged exposure to the sun will burn her skin like a human's as though touched by fire. It will heal, but extremely weakens her and makes it easier to kill.
Just like Tora, wood from the Ash tree will harm her. Its significance is marked by her mother's death; hanging under the ash tree in their small backyard garden. Beheading by a pure or blessed blade with the hilt of ash wood, staked through the heart by it, or burned and stabbed by this sort of blade will kill her.
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Weapons and Precious Items: Only what she steals on occasion or pickpockets from her victims or 'lovers'. Of the three, Moira possesses the most in terms of financial merit.
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Phobias: Nothing. She believes she is very powerful and stands up to anything in her path.
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Illnesses: Egotism, Vampirism.
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Sexual Preferences: Either. Never for romantic reasons, however.
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Occupation: The thief and mastermind of the group when it comes to strategic planning of attack.
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History: When she was born, she died. For every day and every breath she lived, Moira was ignored, hated, and abused. Her mother was a lady of the evening seduced by her father's romantic notion to have her live with him. The father had hopped onto the Industrial Revolution train with everyone else and tried to own a factory. Just when his business went under their child was born. With no other choice, her mother returned to her work on the streets until she gave up on life with her abusive husband and miserable daughter; killing herself at the age of twenty seven. When she was five years old, Moira was sent to work in another factory. Every penny she earned went into her father's drinking and gambling habits until he accrued a ridiculous amount of debt. She was fourteen when he forced her to become a member of the oldest profession. More often than not, Moira found herself staying at her 'benefactor's' home than her own; likely a nobleman visiting London for the season that was bewitched by her dark beauty. Having an allure that so few poor women possessed.
At the young age of twenty two, she was raped and mortally wounded and left in an alleyway. Bleeding profusely from the neck, the knife barely missing her jugular, the girl cried in silence with her last few breaths. Drawn by the smell of tainted young blood, the vampiress Tora appeared. No words were exchanged between them, she only saw the eyes of a vampire that weren't so different from her own before blacking out. It was probably the smoothest transformation one could go through; turning from human to vampire. Afterwards, Moira easily attacked and killed her murderer but the bloodlust had only just begun.
Under Tora's wing and protection, the two survived in western Europe for quite some time. Battling other vampires who attacked for no reason or defending their turf. When they reached Sweden, another vampire appeared in need and Tora allowed her to join them. There was no jealousy in Moira, surprisingly, only the doting love of a sister; one who found delight in teasing her relentlessly. When the first World War occurred, she found paradise among the dead and suffering. It took all of Tora's mastery over her to drag Moira from the battlefield and onto a ship to America. There, they hardly remained because of all the people and heat and sun, moving quickly up north into Canada where they now reside. At times, taking trips to Alaska and enjoying the wild scenery around them. In the wild is the only time she finds peace in herself, embracing nature and respecting it as she had never been able to in her life.
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Status: Undead.
