Name: Mircalla von Karnstein. That said, she goes by any anagram she feels inclined to at the time. At the moment she's going by Carmilla. Door: Door pass, dominant on the TDM found here. Canon: Carmilla Webseries Canon Point: Just before the end of S1, where she stabs Mommy Dearest with the sword that kills the user. Age: 340. Died when she was 18 but has been successfully pretending to be a third year in university for decades. Appearance: Admired for her looks even at a young age, Carmilla has dark black-brown hair that she usually wears curled, dark eyes and fairly pale skin. She is almost always seen wearing dark clothes, darker eyeliner and she has an extreme fondness for black nail polish, too. She is slim and slight and not particularly muscular, and on top of that she barely clears 5'3. That said, she has confidence and presence that often makes her seem taller. History: ❝ Posterity doesn't care. I should know. I live in it. ❞Personality: NEGATIVE TRAITS.
1. — SELFISHNESS. Carmilla is an incredibly selfish creature. She shows this in all sorts of ways, banal ones like stealing her roommates' pillow and snacks, and making out with other girls on Laura's bed because it's closer to the door and therefore faster and easier. It's also exemplified in darker ways, like her refusal to help stop her mother because she doesn't want to put herself at risk or agreeing to stay out of her mother's plot when Lilita tells her she can keep Laura if she behaves. Carmilla usually makes choices on how they affect her and what she gets out of them. If it doesn't serve her or what she wants, she's not interested.
2. — CALLOUS. She's not a particularly nice girl, to most people. She openly mocks all of Laura's friends, calling them insulting things like dimwits and making fun of their habits. Carmilla whistles the X-Files theme song in the midst of a girl retelling a recent traumatic event, and even mocks that trauma to Laura after they leave. She is openly hostile when she's in a bad mood and will use excessive force on humans when she's angry (knocking Kirch over, choking Danny), and doesn't seem particularly cowed by the reality her actions upset and hurt others.
3. — DETACHED. After living for so long, Carmilla has become incredibly detached from humanity. She presents as someone that does not care when people get hurt or die. She tells Laura frequently that she's not interested in her missing roommate. Later on, she also states she does not care to help them fight back against her mother. This is more or less a means of self-preservation. She has a flat affect and is hard to inspire interest in, and she avoids responsibility as well as getting engaged in causes outside of herself. She avoids getting close to people and pushes them away actively because she would rather not be in the position of caring about someone.
POSITIVE TRAITS.
1. — PROTECTIVE. While it takes a great deal for Carmilla to form attachments, when she does? Oh boy. She's willing to sacrifice others to protect them, whether they like it or not. Like, say, the five girls her mother intended to sacrifice, if she got to keep Laura. She's willing to do anything to protect who she cares about, in fact, whether they like it or not. In fact, she even chose fought her mother and used even intentionally wielded a magic sword that could kill anything at the cost of the life of the user to protect Laura. Which means she was willing to give up a 300 year old life, something she's guarded rather zealously, for the person she wanted to protect. While she will go to the ends of the earth for those that she cares about, it is rather difficult to earn her loyalty. Powers and Abilities: — VAMPIRISM. Carmilla is an old vampire, and that affords her some of the usual vampire skills. Super strength, super speed, super reflexes, you know the drill. she heals quickly if she's well fed, and the fed in this instance is blood (though she does still enjoy food, chocolate especially). She is more resistant to damage and is stated that she will survive most anything unless she loses her heart or her head. she has no weakness to garlic or sunlight, like some vampires, though she is burned by genuine holy water, as in properly blessed. She does not need to be invited in to enter a residence.
— SUGGESTION. For those particularly feeble of mind, Carmilla is able to persuade them towards her wishes. For example, she convinced someone she attacked that he didn't need to be upset about it, and then he wasn't. It requires the low hypnotic voice and eye contact, and it doesn't always work. She doesn't seem to use it much, and only on less-than-intelligent individuals, so it's likely it isn't effective on stronger willed people. I don't intend to use this much since Carmilla used it like twice in canon, it's clearly not her usual thing. She usually just does the bad bullshit and lets people be mad about it. That said, if it ever did come up, it'd only be with explicit permission!
— DREAM INFLUENCE. Anyone who sleeps around her is prone to having nightmares. Carmilla has no real control over this, and it doesn't even indicate she has foul intent, it just happens. It seems to be something sprung from the original book. The dreams are usually about drowning in blood or giant cat monsters. ANYWAY,
— CAT MONSTER. Speaking of cat monsters, she can turn into a cat monster. Think panther. Big enough to drag jocks across the quad in her jaws. This is apparently from the original novella, so, that's something.
— TELEPORTATION. She can poof around in black smoke. Range is not clearly stated canonically, but this sort of ability can be prickly, so I'm cool with any nerfs if needed!
— PYROKINESIS. She usually uses this to light candles to mood light her brooding, but she also set a huge leather book on fire.
— PSIONIC SCREAM. Vampires of a certain age in Carmilla's canon have the ability to let out a psionic scream, which disorients or knocks out others. That said, she's young enough that she has no control over this ability and more or less it hurts people's ears when she is especially upset.
— NON-VAMPIRE STUFF. She is an old vampire, and especially well read. She is familiar with many languages, many of them dead, and some of them not. She's lived through a lot and knows a lot of history. Inventory: — Sword of Hastur (magic sword stated to be able to kill anything, but at the cost of killing the user) — Sumerian Book of Light Gods — Laura's Pillow Samples: TDM, and for some text prompts here she is on a texting meme. |
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