Lizzi

Lizzi's Profile:

Lizzi's Condition and story:

Lizzi is a 200+ year old vampire. She doesn't remember the exact number. However, she's not like the other vampires of this world; she's technically dead. She has no pulse, no heartbeat, and only breathes out of reflex, whereas other vampires are very much flesh-and-blood, living creatures.

When she was nine years old, she was cornered by a group of anti-vampire loyalists in Calabi. Calabi is a kingdom made up equally of humans, Fey, and vampires. Some humans and Fey in Calabi, however, viewed the vampires as too dangerous due to their power. Lizzi lost control of herself and cast an extremely powerful magical spell that backfired. It killed all of her assailants, but killed herself too, and her pale arms were morphed into obsidian claws.

One of the mages in the employ of the Kingdom of Dumbria's noble house Lovgren was visiting Calabi at the time, comparing notes with some of the Calabian court mages there. He was one of the only surviving witnesses to the incident, being nearby when it happened. He took her body and brought her back to Dumbria under the cover of darkness and began experimenting. Through methods lost to time, he was able to resurrect her with a bastardized version of blood magic, binding her to the Lovgren bloodline.

When she awoke, her skin was porcelain white, she felt no more pain, only fear and horror at what were done to her. For nearly 200 years since then, she's served 5 generations of Lovgrens as their personal servants, unable to defy them but unwilling to do more than the bare minimum their orders require. She frequently finds loopholes to exploit, and this annoys the Lovgrens greatly, but she has proven herself to be nigh-impossible to kill, simply regenerating.

Present-day Circumstances:

Lizzi travels as a member of Jens Lovgren's "Hero's Party". She is frequently seen clinging to the hero as a way to placate (and somewhat patronize) him. She can manipulate blood, anyone's blood, making her terrifyingly powerful, but she will only help the hero in the basest of ways to keep him alive and to follow his specific orders, though she frequently finds "creative interpretations" of his orders that result in her following the words exactly without doing what he intended her to do.

The other members of the Hero's Party avoid her for the most part. Jens sees her as a powerful accessory, a unique oddity, something to show off. Fredrik ignores her outright and despises her for her freakishness, simply giving her orders. Sam feels empathy for her and expresses it in veiled ways that won't draw Jens' ire. He's the only one on her side, but he can't fully voice his support for her without risking his reputation and livelihood.

Lizzi's abilities:

Lizzi can use a variety of extremely powerful abilities, though some require her to consume blood, and drain her energy very quickly. The Hero, wanting to contain her, only allows her to drink on occasion when he needs her abilities to accomplish the task at hand.

Even without blood, she can levitate for short periods of time, her blackened arms are nearly indestructible and she can block most things with them. She is hyper-durable, unable to be killed by most conventional (non-magical) means. Despite this, she is only roughly as strong as a human girl when she hasn't had blood.

When she's had blood to drink, she can move faster than the human eye can perceive, gains immense strength in short bursts, and is terrifyingly powerful with her blood manipulation magic.

Personality:

Like her appearance, Lizzi is frozen in time. She never got over the desire to just live and be a little girl, and it comes out in moments. She typically puts on a mask - convinces herself she's a doll, an emotionless being, but beneath it all, buried deeply, is a girl who just wants to have someone understand and properly care for her. Lizzi has the interiority of a deeply traumatized child that never got to grow up or learn how to process things

However, that's not to say she can't be playful and mischievous; when Jens gives her an order to follow, she'll often follow it in the pettiest, most juvenile, most clever method she can find, rarely giving the expected results.

What she wants all is friends, affection, and a chance to be the little girl she is - she wants to giggle, to play, to experience the life she never got to experience. To be cared for.

Appearance:

Age: 200+ years old (Appears nine perpetually, the age she was when she died)

Species: Vampire (Undead subset)

Place of Birth: Town of Kolako, Kingdom of Calabi

Appearance:

Hair: Lizzi's hair is a long, smooth curtain of straight purple. It often appears she's hiding her eyes behind her trimmed bangs. She wants to cut her hair short, but cannot because Jens says it looks trashy.

Features: Lizzi appears to be a normal 9 year old girl, but starting at her elbows, her hands slowly blacken and transition into obsidian claws in lieu of fingers. There are cracks running through her blackened forearms. They are not overly sharp, but have a wicked appearance that earned her the title "Lizzi, the Blackened" from fans and detractors of the hero's party; she hates the name.

Eyes: Lizzi's eyes are almost impossibly dark, showing no color, her iris being only a shade lighter black than her pupils.

Face: Lizzi's face is a contradiction- she has gentle, doll-like features that are mostly placid - eyes wide, lips slightly parted, small button nose, rounded jaw - but she exudes an aura of intense perception, seeing everything, all of the time.

Complexion: Lizzi is impossibly pale, her porcelain skin and complexion being utterly perfect due to her healing factor as an undead. The one thing it could never heal are her forearms.

Build: Lizzi has a typical build for a nine year old girl, frozen in time when she died. She can no longer eat, gain weight, grow, build muscle, so she's left with the slightly boyish figure of someone who never got to finish developing.

The Hero's Party:

Jens, The Hero (27 years old): Jens is a Dumbrian high noble's son and the heir of house Lovgren. He became known as "The Hero" due to rumors of him having trained himself to hyper-competence at a young age, and more audacious rumors that he defeated a demon lord in a distant country; the only problem is, there's no such thing as a demon lord. No one dares question the rumor; most of his fans believe it, and the dissenters are too afraid of the blowback due to his lineage and deadly party members. While he is talented with a sword, he's intermediate at best and above average at worst.

Jens is tall, has a strong, picturesque build, being vain and focusing on appearance and perception over all else. He wears blue armor with gold trim. He has icy cold blue eyes that were hardened by arrogance and elitism as he gained clout as the hero. He now simply hunts glory, using his skills and those of his party members to seek material wealth and pleasure.

Fredrik (34 years old): Fredrik is an S-Rank adventurer hired by Jens to serve as equal parts enforcer and tank. He wears spotless, crimson armor and, antithetical to his role, hates it being tarnished or chipped. His name and reputation for being invincible matter above all to him, and he's prone to flying into rages when he's injured. He is loyal to money, and Jens, in that order. He's a tall, broad, scarred man with short-cropped red hair and maintains himself impeccably. He is something of a hype-man to Jens. He's stubborn, angry, impulsive, and ultimately pretty stupid without Jens' leash.

Sam (23 years old): Almost nothing is known about Sam. His loyalty is only to the contract, and he's a professional through-and-through with a lot of loss and inner softness he covers with hard work. Inside, he's got a truly kind heart and will do what he can within his parameters to be humane to others. He does not speak or act unless the Hero's life in danger. He is short for a man, around 5 and a half feet tall, thin, and carries no detectable weapons. In reality however, he is a battlemage whose only specialty is summoning weapons to use in physical combat and is extremely proficient at it. He's simply content to follow along and do as he's asked. He has chestnut skin, mint green wild hair, and an overall boyish, androgynous appearance despite being an adult. When he speaks he's polite, quiet, and respectful. He hails from Meryset Desert too, being a Platinum ranked mercenary, their equivalent to an S-rank adventurer in Dumbria.