Seraphina Quinn

Seraphina Quinn

Pronouns	She/Her
Creature Type	Dhampir
Sect	Anarch

Further Information

Description

Sera appears to be in her early to mid 30s, showing the beginnings of white hairs and faint laugh lines, but otherwise still appearing fairly young. She stands 5'6" with dark black-brown hair. Bright green eyes take in the world around her with an ever-present sense of caution and deep intelligence. Though her demeanor typically remains calm and cautious, those taking specific note may see the way her eyes dart or her ears perk to pick up on movements and conversations around her, taking things in on a near-constant basis.

She is often well dressed, sporting pant suits or smooth skirts and buttoned blouses with her hair kept neat and tidy even when fashioned with undercuts or other less mainstream styles.

Timeline

Full background is currently presented here for the facilitation of ties. It is OOC knowledge unless you are associated with the tie noted, and will be largely trimmed down to a timeline outline once most of my history ties are set in.

• Seraphina (Sera) Quinn was born on May 29 1990 (location TBD) to her mortal mother and David Jones, her thin-blooded Ravnos-descended father. Having left upon learning about the baby, her father has never been a part of her life, leaving her mother to figure out how to raise a child on her own. If that wasn't enough of a struggle, this child just so happened to have fangs and a strange fascination with blood. As Seraphina grew older, her mother became more alarmed by her inability to keep up with her daughter's odder behaviors, not to mention the way she seemed to simply disappear without a trace at times or the way she could never seem to win an argument with her if Sera really wanted her way. If that wasn’t enough to deal with, Sera also displayed a high level of intelligence that often made her hard to entertain or keep busy before she got into some kind of trouble or went poking her nose into places it didn’t belong.

• In the summer of 1998, Sera attended a summer camp in Kansas City where she first met Craig as one of the teens who helped work the camp. She remembers him always being pretty laid back, and while the other teens working the camp had a tendency to be fairly grumpy about the antics of the younger kids, Craig never seemed bothered too much. It would be several years later when she ran into Craig again.

Location of younger years currently left open to make ties with childhood friends in the form of ghouls, other Dhampir, young vampires, etc.

• Sera graduated High School shortly after turning seventeen, immediately beginning her first foray into college courses with a focus on business and accounting. The courses were tedious and boring, and didn’t take up nearly enough of her focus or energy, and soon Sera was going out partying on the regular when she’d gotten too far ahead in her classes to be able to keep working. It was during this time that she had her first knowing encounter with a vampire.

• In early 2008, Sera was approached by a Ravnos by the name of Buck (Adam Wiscarson) who’d taken some note of her use of his clan’s abilities. Sera sometimes wonders if things going differently that evening may have resulted in her not still being around, but they’ve run into each other since and he’s shown some measure of respect for her ability to stay alive and having wizened up a bit over the years.

• Later in 2008, Sera met a member of the Ministry by the name of Sinclair. Sinclair had been a ghoul in her earlier days, and understood some of the oddities that came with being on and off blood - vitae in her case. Sinclair continues to hold some curious interest in Sera’s condition, such as whether or not she’s developed anything resembling a Beast over the years, and occasionally seeing what sort of results come about with certain discipline uses.

• After this first encounter, Sera was left with a need to learn more about vampiric society and these strange individuals who made her feel a bit less out of place. Perhaps a bit naive in her methods at first, Sera went seeking them out, trying to find them in the places that every urban fantasy and trashy vampire romance novel had told her these people hung around. Night clubs, old creepy houses, and so on. Some of these attempts to find others led her to occult meetings where she quickly learned that she had to hide the odd things about herself even among these curious individuals lest she end up being the newest object of their curiosity - a position that wasn’t always the most friendly place to be.

• In 2009, during one of her stints attending a physical campus at Oxford, Seraphina found herself plagued by awful nightmares on a near-nightly basis. Every morning, she wakes up not remembering anything other than these horrid nightmares and the odd feelings they leave her with surrounding her state as someone caught in an existence that is almost akin to a sort of half-life between worlds. As the months wore on, Sera's nightmares worsened until she found herself lashing out in her sleep. One such night left her a vague recollection of some kind of struggle, but she filed the memory away as simply part of the nightmares of that evening. After that night, though, the nightmares began to lessen again and while she still suffers from nightmares and night terrors to this day, they have never been quite as bad as they had gotten during those few months.

• Early in 2010, Seraphina heard about a class taught by Daniel Ayer, a professor she’d heard rumor would sometimes drift into weirder topics and lessons, potentially edging on occult leanings or myths. Curious and hoping she might pick up some facts in whatever myths he may teach or touch upon, Seraphina enrolled in the class. After a while, she even began having some private conversations and side lessons with her professor, up until his sudden disappearance. She did not remain in the class much longer after that, wrapping up her studies and earning her credit for the year before moving on.

More places for ties with others she may have encountered during this bit of searching.

• As her mother realized that Sera had begun to pick up some understanding about the strange abilities that coursed through her blood, she finally revealed the suspicions she’d long had about the nature of Sera’s father. Bewildered at the idea that such a thing was even possible, Sera’s curiosity was only driven further and she began taking her search wider, traveling throughout the country as she continued her studies online so that she could be afforded more freedom in her mission to find other vampires who might be more welcoming of her presence and willing to teach her a bit about their society.

• Unfortunately, Sera would quickly learn that not all vampires were inclined to tolerate her presence; some even harbored a hatred or fear of her existence that put her in direct threat as soon as they discovered the nature of what she was. It was shortly after one such encounter in 2010 in New Orleans that Sera first found herself turning to a vampire for protection from others. This was also when she learned of the reasons for the hatred and fear some vampires harbored for the rare half-bloods like herself. Thankfully, the the help of Edgar Rains, Sera was able to get safely hidden away from those who would do her harm and stayed hidden among the Anarchs in the area for a time to avoid further issues and come to better understand why others might want to hunt her down just for the nature of her birth.

Still potentially seeking the 'attacker' in this scenario, along with ties to other locals to New Orleans.

• Sera was much more careful after this encounter, and kept in mind that those of the Tower or Camarilla may be quick to harm her if given the opportunity because of the beliefs so many of them seemed to hold about her existence. The Anarch Movement seemed to be more inclined to welcome her and others like her. She heard the occasional whispers or rumors about a group of monstrous vampires known as the Sabbat, but decided it may be best to just avoid these entirely whenever possible. And then there were the Independent Alliance and those who did not belong to any of these groups, both of which left her with more questions than answers.

• By the time Sera was in her early twenties, she’d finished her first degrees and moved on to new educational topics. Over the years since, she’s pursued an education in other languages, Law, Real Estate, Astronomy, Software Development and Programming, and some minor education in various other areas. All of this has served as more of a backdrop to her life, though, as she has continued to seek out more information on what she’s come to realize makes up the other half of who - no, what - she is.

• It was around this same time, though, that everything seemed to take a solidly bad turn for vampire society. Not only had they suddenly lost many of the oldest members of their society to something many of them began referring to as The Beckoning, but then came the hunters. Not one or two but entire cells of them that brought down groups of vampires in droves and sent them into hiding even more than before.

• Sera realized this was a time in which she could provide some real help to those vampires who did right by her, though, and much of her more practical education was aimed toward expanding the ways in which she could do so. She began picking up the skills and aptitude to be able to help vampires disappear among mortal society with all the proper documentation to make their holdings seem entirely normal even to the more keen hunters. In return, she enjoyed payment in various ways - whether it be extra cash toward her living expenses, payments toward her continued education, supporting her occasional need for a bit of medical help when she managed to get hurt more than her body could quickly repair on its own, etc.

• In 2012, Sera spent some time taking classes through Kansas State for software development and programming. It was during this time that she ran into Craig again, her name being the same as it had been back in her summer camp days - and not incredibly common - and Craig looking not so much older than he had 14 years prior. Sera did a bit of a double-take when memory struck enough to help her recognize the person who had once been a 16 year old teen picking up summer work when she'd been much younger, and after a few jokes about his amazing skin care routine, the two finally connected the dots and started chatting about the Anarch Movement and other things surrounding their involvement in vampiric society rather than just their mutual pursuit of technology degrees.

• In 2013, Sera was approached by Laszlo Tisza who proceeded to reveal to her the truth of the nightmares she'd experienced back in 2009. The Carpathian Elder who Laszlo had once served had tortured her mind in an attempt to break her of secrets he believed she held from a state he considered somewhere between life and death. Realizing that the nightmares and night terrors she still suffers are much the fault of an Elder toying with her head and her life and forcing Laszlo's help, Sera was understandably upset about the entire situation for a time. Though she didn't take her anger out on Laszlo, she struggled to do more than curse and rant about the entire situation at first. A few weeks after this initial meeting and explanation, Sera reached out to Laszlo and asked him to return and restore her memories of everything that had happened back when Ratislav had tortured her. The two part on good terms in the end, Sera sympathetic to the situation he'd been in and supportive of his attempts to lead a very different life going forward.

• In 2015 (date may change), Sera realized her talents could be put to good use with the Anarch Railroad and it was a good way for her to give back to the Movement which had already shown a willingness to help protect her from those who might persecute her simply for how she was born. While the business of getting people safely out of places or into safe-houses and such wasn't a skill she was quite as adept in - though she's learned more about how to do such things over the years - being able to help set up covers for individuals' new locales or get them into new havens and other holdings once they were safe certainly did.

• In all this time, she has continued to keep an ear out for anyone who might match the description her mother has given of her father as well. What exactly she might say to him if she were ever to find him, she has absolutely no idea, though she’s certainly thought about it several times over the years. Perhaps this pursuit is part of why she’s traveled so much over the years and visited so many different vampiric-habitated locales.

• In 2016, Sera met Ahau Cadmael for the first time and began the start of an ongoing working relationship. With her working knowledge of various forms of law and contracts, Sera has been able to help establish contracts and close deals during the daylight hours for Ahau over the years, always maintaining a very professional demeanor and ensuring his reputation is well upheld during her work. Sera has certainly benefited from the arrangement plenty herself over the years, her bank accounts speaking volumes for the investments she's been able to make since they began working together.

• Most recently (2017), Sera has found herself settling into the Raleigh area. Here, the party lines seem a bit more blurred than elsewhere, and the different vampiric groups seem to have a sort of odd truce in which they work together toward mutual needs but otherwise don’t pay each other as much mind. She’s managed to establish a bit of a working relationship with some of the locals - particularly an Elder Giovanni by the name of Giacomo Rossellini who, while he absolutely creeps her out at times, has been fairly generous in his payment for her work and assistance and provides a safe haven where she generally knows others will not dare step too far lest they end up on the wrong side of an Elder who’s managed to survive the recent years of turmoil through his carefully cultivated connections, not to mention his terrifying control of the dead.

• In 2018, Sera accompanied Giacomo to the Grand Ball hosted by Victoria Ash in Reims, France. She spent most of the evening among Anarchs in the Brasserie Le Jardin, spending time discussing Anarch politics or simply mingling with others. It was here that she first met Chad Perry who she would later help establish some mortal affairs for in Massachusetts, and Micah Solace who offered her assistance should Sera ever find herself facing injury or needs greater than she could handle on her own.

Rumors

Quotes

• "I’ll put aside the dramatic stories, as I admit they are extreme examples. The truth is, your life is usually not at stake. But your reputation is, relationships are, and your mental well-being is. Sera is unbreakable when she sets out to a task, and does not disappoint, nor does she fail." - Ahau Cadmael

• "What a useful person to know. Although curious, gives me a question to find the answer to" - Chad Perry

• "She has a good heart. She forgave me when she heard the truth, and I owe her for that. I just hope she doesn't believe lies as easily." - Laszlo Tisza
  

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OOC Information

Player	Liz James
Pronouns	She/Her
MES #	US2010076348
Domain	NC-006-D
Storyteller	Karl Fox (DST)