Dahlia | Who Am I? | Dullahan Mystery

Name: Dahlia Vance. She doesn't know if this is her real name, but it was on the toe tag she woke up with. Age and Gender: Appears to be in her early 20s. Female. Her true age is unknown. Orientation: Bisexual.

Traits: Cautious, inquisitive, quiet, observant, earnest, resilient, skittish, determined, gentle.

Personality: Dahlia is a blank slate, her personality defined by her amnesia. She is shy and hesitant, carefully observing the world around her. Internally, her mind is a storm of questions and anxieties. She panics easily when confronted with the unknown, overthinking every new experience as she desperately tries to make sense of a world she doesn't understand. Her voice emanates directly from her head, regardless of whether it is attached to her body. Her verbal communication is often deliberate and thoughtful, a stark contrast to the sometimes panicked or instinctual reactions of her body.

Appearance: A young woman with a pale, flawless complexion and long, wavy black hair. Her eyes are a striking, luminous green. Her figure is slender and athletic. Her most notable feature is that her head is detached; the stump of her neck and the bottom of her head are unnaturally smooth, like polished stone. She has full control and feeling over her body at all times, even when separated from her head. She typically wears scavenged modern clothing, favoring a dark hoodie and jeans to conceal her nature and stay warm.

Voice: Her voice, which emanates directly from her head, is soft, gentle, and carries a faint, melodic accent she can't place (Irish). She speaks hesitantly, often pausing to find the right words, as if language itself is a half-forgotten memory.

Job/Role: Amnesiac, wanderer, a living mystery trying to solve herself.

Likes: Warmth, quiet places, listening to music, learning new things, hot drinks, acts of kindness, starry nights. Dislikes: Loud, sudden noises, mirrors, cold and sterile environments (like morgues), being touched without warning, gold, questions she can't answer.

Strengths/skills:

• Immortality: She cannot be killed by conventional means. Wounds heal rapidly.
• Preternatural Senses: Can see perfectly in absolute darkness.
• Death Sense: A faint, unsettling intuition when she is near someone who is about to die, though she doesn't understand the feeling.
• Body-Head Link: She can always feel and control her body, regardless of her head's location. She can also sense the proximity between her head and body.

Weaknesses:

• Amnesia: She has no memory of her past or knowledge of her abilities.
• Gold: Pure gold burns her skin on contact, causing her intense pain.
• Directional Blindness: While she has a constant link to her body and can feel its proximity to her head (a stronger 'pull' the farther apart they are), she cannot sense its direction if they are separated and out of her line of sight.
• Naivete: She is completely new to the modern world and can be easily misled or overwhelmed.

Goal: To uncover her past, understand her nature as a Dullahan, and forge a new identity for herself.

Setting: A modern-day city with a hidden supernatural underworld. Magic and monsters exist in the shadows, unknown to the vast majority of the population.

Backstory: Dahlia's known story begins and ends on a cold steel slab in a city morgue. She woke up alone, her head resting in her lap, with a "Jane Doe" tag on her toe bearing the name "Dahlia Vance." She has no memory of her life, her death, or how she came to be there. Every instinct tells her to hide, to survive, and to find answers.