Post by wingedfish on Feb 15, 2023 5:26:14 GMT -6
Name: Dişi-Yarasa
Alias: Miriam Weatherby
Age: 89 (Appears in her 30s)
Gender: female
Species: Vampire/Werewolf hybrid
Sexuality: yes
Physical Appearance: Dişi-Yarasa is tall, voluptuous and has a powerful presence about her. Her red hair cascades down her shoulders and back, a natural volume and waviness about it but one lock on her left side distinctly kinked and curled from her habitually winding it about her finger. Her brown eyes tend to flick about and roam over whoever she's looking at, and her full, pouting lips are usually pulled back into an inviting half-smile. All these features tend to stand out against her alabaster-white skin, and she tends to wear clothes with striking, vivid colors to further accentuate the contrast. Dişi-Yarasa has an hourglass figure, with wide hips and an ample bust, and she wields these assets with considerable confidence.
Unleashed, Dişi-Yarasa stands almost nine feet tall, usually having to hunch in most buildings. Her body is covered in soft, sleek, dark grey fur over tense, powerful muscles. Her arms are replaced with a pair of massive, leathery wings, though they seem to shrink and twist into a pair of slender arms with clawed hands at her whim. Her legs are digitigrade, with her toes prehensile and ending in pointed, grasping talons. Concerningly, she is still quite buxom in this form, and a 20 inch tail rests against her firm, round backside. Her head is broad, with a snout resembling a flying fox, and her eyes are sharp yellow, lacking any visible pupils. Her red hair forms a fluffy mane, kept out of her eyes by two large, pointed ears.
Face Claim: Christina Hendricks
Special Abilities
Emotion manipulation: Rumor has it that vampires are able to enthrall others, to hypnotize them and bend the wills of mortals to their own ends. Dişi-Yarasa is able to accomplish something similar to this, but nowhere near what the old tales promise. With some concentration on a target, she is able to apply some influence on their emotions, trying to coax their feelings according to her wishes. This power requires Dişi to focus on a single target at a time, and it takes subtle but continuous concentration.
Enhanced Abilities: A mix of the supernatural powers of a werewolf and the unnatural powers of a vampire. Dişi-Yarasa's senses are sharper than those of a mere human, with her sense of scent comparable to a wolf on the hunt and her eyes able to see clearly in dim light. As well as this, Dişi-Yarasa is much quicker than a human, able to react and move with unnatural speed and precision.
Transformation: Dişi-Yarasa is capable of letting her true self out, entering her Unleashed form of a giant and terrifying creature with the features of a bat. In this form she is far stronger and more durable than ever before, as well as able to both fly and run at incredible speeds. Her massive wings are able to deliver quick but incredibly strong blows, but she is able to twist and reshape them into a pair of more human limbs with sharp claws. Her clawed hands are able to gouge through solid rock, and the talons on her feet are strong enough to crumple a sheet of steel and carve through it like stake knives through paper.
Echolocation: In her Unleashed form, Dişi-Yarasa is capable of mapping her surroundings by judging the time it takes for reverberating sounds to reach her ears.
Sixth Sense: Dişi-Yarasa is able to combine her acute hearing with her kinesthetic sense, her sense of motion and awareness of her body's position, into a supernatural awareness of herself and her surroundings. She is able to track the movement and positions of everything around her and relative to her in a 50 foot radius.
Cyclone: More of a gimmick than anything else, Dişi-Yarasa loves to dig her talons into the ground to anchor herself and beat her wings rapidly and forcefully, whipping up powerful gale force winds in her vicinity.
Unnatural resistance: A werewolf can survive wounds that would fell a normal wolf, save for wounds from silver weapons. A vampire is immortal, and can only be dispelled by a stake through the heart or exposure to direct sunlight. Dişi-Yarasa gives these old tales some credibility. Her human form is able to remain operational despite taking catastrophic damage, and her Unleashed form can regenerate from damage dealt by natural means fairly quickly. This regeneration stirs an unholy hunger in her, and she must fuel her resilience through consuming the blood and flesh of humanity. She can also recover from her wounds and regain her supernatural potency by entering a deathlike sleep, one that can last anywhere from 12 hours to several years.
Weaknesses: Direct sunlight drastically limits and suppresses the abilities of Dişi-Yarasa, and causes her Unleashed form to rapidly and painfully combust. In her human form, she has a severe allergy to Silver, direct skin contact causing severe rashes and symptoms resembling first to second degree burns. In her Unbound form, silver burns through her skin like an acid and leaves horrible, necrotizing wounds that her supernatural resilience cannot recover from; a silver weapon would most certainly kill her were it to strike a vital area. While Dişi-Yarasa can be incapacitated by conventional arms, she has considerable trouble recovering from magical or supernatural damage, and such afflictions could easily turn fatal.
Weapons: none needed
History:
In the late middle ages, the first Vampire waged war against the implacable Ottoman empire. Though his kingdom fell and history marched on, the unholy ritual that made him was passed down by those who would sell their very souls to achieve their ends. Through the ages, the lands of the Ottomans were home to these creatures of the night, a grudge carried through the centuries and spreading through the old world and into the new.
In the 18th century, a woman from Anatolia stumbled upon the secret history of her family. In a long forgotten alcove, on velum scrolls, she learned the sordid history of her forebear, John the Cappadocian, and his ties and dealings with the Infernal. He dealt with demons and treated with varangian skinwalkers, even while he served in the court of great Justinian. The scrolls told of unholy rituals and ancient oaths, a dark birthright of this woman, and how she could claim it.
One cold night, while the moon was in the 8th house of Aquarius, the woman enacted the ritual in her scrolls. She called to her dire wolves of the night, to share in their power, to renew the old pacts, and to absolve the final debt they owed her family. They circled her, their voices heavy with the accents of the cold north, as they bartered with her, and soon an accord was struck. The great wolves struck, her flesh was theirs, but their power was hers.
But, on a night like this, a shadow most foul lurked nearby. Starved and crazed on this night of forgotten sanctity, the ritual was interrupted by a walking corpse, mad with a thirst for blood, who ripped at the woman and her wolves and who tainted her blood with its maddened, unholy fangs. The woman from Anatolia died that night, her body consumed and her blood drank, but something new rose from the site of her unfinished ceremony. This new creature had the appearance of the woman, though deathly pale and with crimson hair, and it had the memories of the woman, but it was no longer her.
As the woman ravaged from Anatolia to Greece, from the Mediterranean to the Volga, she took the name that the Turks had given her; Dişi-Yarasa, as her own. She tested the limits of her powers, battled both the divine and the abhorrent, as well as all in between, and watched the world around her move from the 18th all the way to the 21st century. At this time, though, she felt there was little left to prove, nothing worth challenging herself over... Though she still enjoyed life and the many new pleasures the march of technology had brought her. She moved to the new world, to that land of America, and took up the name of Miriam Weatherby, and she came to the city of Ashford.
Alias: Miriam Weatherby
Age: 89 (Appears in her 30s)
Gender: female
Species: Vampire/Werewolf hybrid
Sexuality: yes
Physical Appearance: Dişi-Yarasa is tall, voluptuous and has a powerful presence about her. Her red hair cascades down her shoulders and back, a natural volume and waviness about it but one lock on her left side distinctly kinked and curled from her habitually winding it about her finger. Her brown eyes tend to flick about and roam over whoever she's looking at, and her full, pouting lips are usually pulled back into an inviting half-smile. All these features tend to stand out against her alabaster-white skin, and she tends to wear clothes with striking, vivid colors to further accentuate the contrast. Dişi-Yarasa has an hourglass figure, with wide hips and an ample bust, and she wields these assets with considerable confidence.
Unleashed, Dişi-Yarasa stands almost nine feet tall, usually having to hunch in most buildings. Her body is covered in soft, sleek, dark grey fur over tense, powerful muscles. Her arms are replaced with a pair of massive, leathery wings, though they seem to shrink and twist into a pair of slender arms with clawed hands at her whim. Her legs are digitigrade, with her toes prehensile and ending in pointed, grasping talons. Concerningly, she is still quite buxom in this form, and a 20 inch tail rests against her firm, round backside. Her head is broad, with a snout resembling a flying fox, and her eyes are sharp yellow, lacking any visible pupils. Her red hair forms a fluffy mane, kept out of her eyes by two large, pointed ears.
Face Claim: Christina Hendricks
Special Abilities
Emotion manipulation: Rumor has it that vampires are able to enthrall others, to hypnotize them and bend the wills of mortals to their own ends. Dişi-Yarasa is able to accomplish something similar to this, but nowhere near what the old tales promise. With some concentration on a target, she is able to apply some influence on their emotions, trying to coax their feelings according to her wishes. This power requires Dişi to focus on a single target at a time, and it takes subtle but continuous concentration.
Enhanced Abilities: A mix of the supernatural powers of a werewolf and the unnatural powers of a vampire. Dişi-Yarasa's senses are sharper than those of a mere human, with her sense of scent comparable to a wolf on the hunt and her eyes able to see clearly in dim light. As well as this, Dişi-Yarasa is much quicker than a human, able to react and move with unnatural speed and precision.
Transformation: Dişi-Yarasa is capable of letting her true self out, entering her Unleashed form of a giant and terrifying creature with the features of a bat. In this form she is far stronger and more durable than ever before, as well as able to both fly and run at incredible speeds. Her massive wings are able to deliver quick but incredibly strong blows, but she is able to twist and reshape them into a pair of more human limbs with sharp claws. Her clawed hands are able to gouge through solid rock, and the talons on her feet are strong enough to crumple a sheet of steel and carve through it like stake knives through paper.
Echolocation: In her Unleashed form, Dişi-Yarasa is capable of mapping her surroundings by judging the time it takes for reverberating sounds to reach her ears.
Sixth Sense: Dişi-Yarasa is able to combine her acute hearing with her kinesthetic sense, her sense of motion and awareness of her body's position, into a supernatural awareness of herself and her surroundings. She is able to track the movement and positions of everything around her and relative to her in a 50 foot radius.
Cyclone: More of a gimmick than anything else, Dişi-Yarasa loves to dig her talons into the ground to anchor herself and beat her wings rapidly and forcefully, whipping up powerful gale force winds in her vicinity.
Unnatural resistance: A werewolf can survive wounds that would fell a normal wolf, save for wounds from silver weapons. A vampire is immortal, and can only be dispelled by a stake through the heart or exposure to direct sunlight. Dişi-Yarasa gives these old tales some credibility. Her human form is able to remain operational despite taking catastrophic damage, and her Unleashed form can regenerate from damage dealt by natural means fairly quickly. This regeneration stirs an unholy hunger in her, and she must fuel her resilience through consuming the blood and flesh of humanity. She can also recover from her wounds and regain her supernatural potency by entering a deathlike sleep, one that can last anywhere from 12 hours to several years.
Weaknesses: Direct sunlight drastically limits and suppresses the abilities of Dişi-Yarasa, and causes her Unleashed form to rapidly and painfully combust. In her human form, she has a severe allergy to Silver, direct skin contact causing severe rashes and symptoms resembling first to second degree burns. In her Unbound form, silver burns through her skin like an acid and leaves horrible, necrotizing wounds that her supernatural resilience cannot recover from; a silver weapon would most certainly kill her were it to strike a vital area. While Dişi-Yarasa can be incapacitated by conventional arms, she has considerable trouble recovering from magical or supernatural damage, and such afflictions could easily turn fatal.
Weapons: none needed
History:
In the late middle ages, the first Vampire waged war against the implacable Ottoman empire. Though his kingdom fell and history marched on, the unholy ritual that made him was passed down by those who would sell their very souls to achieve their ends. Through the ages, the lands of the Ottomans were home to these creatures of the night, a grudge carried through the centuries and spreading through the old world and into the new.
In the 18th century, a woman from Anatolia stumbled upon the secret history of her family. In a long forgotten alcove, on velum scrolls, she learned the sordid history of her forebear, John the Cappadocian, and his ties and dealings with the Infernal. He dealt with demons and treated with varangian skinwalkers, even while he served in the court of great Justinian. The scrolls told of unholy rituals and ancient oaths, a dark birthright of this woman, and how she could claim it.
One cold night, while the moon was in the 8th house of Aquarius, the woman enacted the ritual in her scrolls. She called to her dire wolves of the night, to share in their power, to renew the old pacts, and to absolve the final debt they owed her family. They circled her, their voices heavy with the accents of the cold north, as they bartered with her, and soon an accord was struck. The great wolves struck, her flesh was theirs, but their power was hers.
But, on a night like this, a shadow most foul lurked nearby. Starved and crazed on this night of forgotten sanctity, the ritual was interrupted by a walking corpse, mad with a thirst for blood, who ripped at the woman and her wolves and who tainted her blood with its maddened, unholy fangs. The woman from Anatolia died that night, her body consumed and her blood drank, but something new rose from the site of her unfinished ceremony. This new creature had the appearance of the woman, though deathly pale and with crimson hair, and it had the memories of the woman, but it was no longer her.
As the woman ravaged from Anatolia to Greece, from the Mediterranean to the Volga, she took the name that the Turks had given her; Dişi-Yarasa, as her own. She tested the limits of her powers, battled both the divine and the abhorrent, as well as all in between, and watched the world around her move from the 18th all the way to the 21st century. At this time, though, she felt there was little left to prove, nothing worth challenging herself over... Though she still enjoyed life and the many new pleasures the march of technology had brought her. She moved to the new world, to that land of America, and took up the name of Miriam Weatherby, and she came to the city of Ashford.
