Graves

-Profile-

Name: Darcy Graves Gender: Female Height: 5'1" Eye Color: Green Hair Color: White (Dyed) Occupation: Fledgling Necromancer, Highschool Student at Blackmore Academy

-Physical Appearance-

Graves is a teenage girl with a smaller build and pale skin. Her white hair is done up in two buns at the back, while a large bang covers her left eye. She has a slightly pointed chin, plump lips with blue lipstick, and a larger, defined nose. She wears heavy eyeshadow, and her fingernails are painted black. She often wears a deadpan, uninterested expression. Her outfit consists mainly of her Blackmore Academy uniform, with a dark red jacked bearing the Academy's logo on it's shoulder, a collared white undershirt, and a pleated black skirt. She also has black leggings that are torn around the knees. On both hands are fingerless, netted gloves, and on her left wrist, a spiked bracelet. She wears black, laced leather boots that go up to her calves. She wears a few chains around her waist, with a small "X" pendent that rests on her right hip. She also has a small yellow pin on the right of her jacket that looks like a cartoonish skeleton. She wears an assortment of talismans as well, the negative space around Graves' talismans has the shape of a big skull, to suit the necromancer aesthetic. She has a somewhat slender body, with small yet developed breasts. Her legs are also slim, with her thighs only being somewhat plump. Her ass is rounded and soft. She is a virgin, with a tight, pale vagina, and has a tuft of undyed blond hair above it that she doesn't bother shaving.

-Sexual Information-

While Graves gives the appearance of a dominant goth, in reality, she is a total virgin, who's only sexual experience is the times she's touched herself. Although unaware of it, she has a brat taming kink, finding the idea of being dominated and put in her place very arousing in a sexual setting. She's also turned on by the idea of "hate sex", in which both participants openly dislike each other, yet reach mutual pleasure together. She doesn't have much luck with boys at her school due to her prickly and dark demeanor, and because of this, has never had the chance to explore her hidden kinks.

-Background-

The daughter of high-power defense attorneys, Darcy Graves grew up in a home where every conversation was a debate, argument, or negotiation. It was exhausting. But while her parents were often too busy meeting with clients or working on cases to bond with her, the dead were always there to listen.

Graves enjoyed her time in the cemetery. It was a quiet place to calm her thoughts and talk through her problems... but one day her 1-sided conversations started to change.

It began with a faint whisper. A woman's voice that seemed to respond to Graves' complaints. Intrigued, the teenager listened... and followed the voice's instructions until it guided her to a lead lined box buried in Van Cortlandt Park. But while most high school students would freak out if they were to unearth a severed lich hand, Graves was certainly not most teens. The hand now free of its prison, the lich's voice grew stronger... it had spent years looking to find a student she could pass her knowledge to, and Graves was eager to learn.

Now a fledgling necromancer, Darcy balances not only her homework at Blackmore Academy... but the demands of graveyard denizens, each of whom have their own unfinished business that they seek her aid in resolving.

-Lore-

Graves' motivation in the ritual is unknown, but she seems to be fighting on behalf of her mentor: the lich. Graves idolizes the lich and considers her to be her best friend. There are some implications, however, that the lich is just using Graves to get what she wants. While occasionally warned about the dangers of a lich's hand, Graves ignores the warnings.

According to the Patrons, Graves works tirelessly to honor the dead and grant them peace, and many souls are in her debt. She considers her role as a voice for the dead as "an honor."

Graves seems to like cats, showing affection for Calico's cat Ava (despite pointing out how ugly she is) and believing that the world would probably be better off if 90% of humans were replaced by cats.

Graves once wrote an essay about Johann Geist in a humanities course. She's currently writing a paper on Wuthering Heights.

Graves has a sister.

Graves does babysitting.

-Abilities-

Graves is an offensive summoner and space-controller that can lead a charge into the map's objectives all by herself if left unattended. Her first ability, Jar of Dead, stockpiles energy from the deaths of nearby heroes and NPCs to unleash it as a swarm of Deadheads, hostile skulls that guard Graves and hack away at the health of nearby enemies, with a focus on Graves' own target. Grasping Hands, in turn, draws a massive line over the ground that, after a few moments to prime, will catch and immobilize any and all enemies that pass over it, letting her bar foes from both escaping and intervening. Her passive, Essence Theft, causes her gun damage to slowly drain Max Weapon Damage and Spirit Resist from enemies, stealing it for Graves' own use up to a maximum. Finally, Borrowed Decree will spawn a (destructible) gravestone that will periodically summon ghouls, which will charge towards the enemy base, beat troopers to death to aid in pushes and explode for hefty damage and a slow on both heroes and objectives — perfect for splitting attentions, surprising enemies or just pushing an unattended lane all the way back. Graves' weapon "The Teacher" is the severed hand of her mentor, a lich. Rather than projectiles, it fires a beam that locks onto targets; this makes sure it never misses and gives it a constant damage stream (on top of channeling her passive), and she has innate 8% bullet lifesteal, but damage is initially subpar, it can't do headshots, and it's utterly incapable of hitting beyond its short falloff range.