Post by Annabelle Bourbon on May 29, 2008 18:53:31 GMT -5
Name: Annabelle Bourbon
Age: 417 years old
Race: Caucasian
Fantasy Race: Nosferatu
Ethnicity: Ireland
Nationality: French
Economic Class:
Wealthy Aristocracy
Gender Identity:
Female
Sexuality:
Homosexual
Political Belief:
Outspoken monarchist and proponent of social Darwinism.
Religious Belief:
Catholic Kabbalism
Organization:
Belle Drinks Corp. with its popular subsidiary Scarlet Leaf Cola Lmt.
Occupation:
Corporate Shark
Skills:
Business
Antiques
Chemistry
Philosophy
Politics
Agro-engineering
Conversation
Medieval Interrogation ‘Methods’
Marksmanship
Fencing
Occultism
Theology
Classical Literature
Con
Weaknesses:
Silver
Boredom
Arrogance
Bloodlust
Rigid traditionalism
Powers
Superspeed
Regeneration
Mind manipulation
Unearthly strength
Enthrallment
Metamorphosis (Fog/Wolf/Cloud of bats)
Summon Thralls (Vermins/Ghouls)
Weapon
Sharp claws and a lovely handgun in her desk’s drawer. Let’s not forget the riffle in her closet, though, hm?
Appearance:
Annabelle is what one could call a graceful fallen angel. Wavy platinum hair that cascade down to the small of her back, bright, attractive, azure eyes and thin yet impishly pinkish lips are but a few of her traits. Her figure is enviable; she keeps it that way with ease as she knows neither age nor disease. Her visage’s traits are sharp, haughty and sassy, almost like a prize feline. She has a demure though dominant demeanor and an enigmatic smile on her lips at nearly any time of the day or the night. She’s rather expressionless in that way. She is known to wear the attractive yet baroque fashion of her time, however in that she is a crossdresser. She appears almost like a fine dandy of the pre-revolutionary France. Although when on business she will simply wear a plain business suit, complete with matching tie, she is an alluring beauty even then nevertheless. She certainly makes the mystical beauty of her kind work for her. Should she lose her composure however, it is quite possible one may notice the sharpness of her fangs behind her lips or the lethality of her ‘nails’.
Personality:
Annabelle never did anything to relent the reputation as cold, calculating, monsters of her ‘kind’. Thoroughly manipulative and filled with a silent rage against the heavens themselves, she views the modern world as little more than a playground for her to content her desires to her whims into. She is a consummate liar and a merciless corporate head whose greed is the stuff of legend. Still stuck nearly two centuries ago when she was turned into this abomination unto the will of Death, she is unbearably rigid in her traditions and still believes that the rightful rulers of France are none other than her very dynasty, the Bourbon. She has little but contempt for mortal life though she does not say so outright. Her actions however speak volumes on that.
Annabelle is an hedonist with delusions of religious righteousness whose pleasure and morals come before everything else. She sees all who oppose her as mere foolish maggots whom deserve little more than a quick, preferably painful, death. Thoroughly egoistical and selfish to the core she is at heart a vile fiend. Though there is some amount of loneliness inside her heart, she is known to indulge the oldest profession in the world with her ridiculous fortune. Of course, this means she’s a great consumer of antiques and other ‘classical’ pleasures.
story:
Annabelle was born to Archduke Ferdinand in Ireland a little over four-hundred years ago. When she was but of the tender age of fifteen, she and her family found their demise in the proceedings of the Templar’s cult in Ireland. To this day, Annabelle is not quite certain how, but she heard a voice, beguiling her into the darkest path and offering her the essence of immortality, to walk alongside the lonely creature that was hiding at the edge of dream and reality. She accepted and so received an embrace that could never be taken back, losing everything in the process, finding true death, but also being reborn as something new. Something she first saw as abominable, hiding and running away for years, until she accepted her new existence and realised how much clout and power it gave her.
With her slowly awakening powers as a Nosferatu, she who’s Master laid in waiting in a land that could only be seen at the twilight of consciousness, that is dreams, found her way back into her noble lineage as the sole, lost, survivor. The very next year she was married into a powerful noble family of France and changed her name to theirs. From then on, she would live on through her own ‘fake’ progeny, mere golems of mud she created as she waited to ‘die’ and take their place, changing her appearance every time as she lived on through the ages.
Then the revolution took place and she had to go into hiding again, taking with her the fortune of her very own family. In mere decades she built one of the greatest economical empires in the world through subsidies to her private trust fund Belle Investments Inc. With her thorough knowledge of Arabic mysticism she managed to be one of the first to import goods from the exotic lands of India into the Old World. In fact, much of the investments that would go into establishing commercial links with the New World later in the century would be her doing!
She was a great proponent of the industrial revolution and reaped massive profits from being one of the early adopters of mass production. She adopted modern business practices nearly two decades before everyone else further consolidating her financial empire as something to reckon with. Though secretly, she became one of the wealthiest individual on the planet at the turn of the 20th century.
Recent events involving the rise of a new cult as ‘world religion’ and the downfall of nearly all government saw her seizing the opportunity for corporate control of Western Europe. She’s used her vast resources and personal wealth to acquire the entire ‘kingdom’ of France as private property. As soon as she did that, she started working on doing the same with the UKs but the Economic Council got in the way and so she relented. She’s currently working on the Second Restoration of the monarchy in France and appointing herself as Queen. She’s actively recruiting mercenaries and religious fanatics of the catholic persuasion for her personal army while reinforcing her personal guard with corporate assets. She’s keeping the border security of her nation tighter than a virgin’s ass. Further, she’s managed to strike trade contracts with most of the world’s greater corporations ensuring the commercial health of her enterprises. She’s currently producing Red Leaf in massive quantities after having managed to strike negotiation for the precious thing with the Economic Council by using corruption, bribery, trickery, deceit and carefully concealed murder. She puts nearly illegal amounts of the stuff in her drinks, making them unbelievably addictive. Since then, her profits have skyrocketed and her ego with them.
Recent events have, however, brought an end to those dreams of Restoration, seeing as she has been the prey of an hostile takeover of her current territory by a certain Vivien LaFramboise. She's relocated her entire operations in Spain which she's acquired after having consolidated the massive economical loss this caused her while cursing Vivien's name every single moment on the way there. At the moment she's proclaiming the instauration of a new monarchy in Spain with her as first ruler, Queen Annabelle the First of the Bourbon dynasty. Even so, she still has plans for France and will stop at nothing to undermine Vivien LaFramboise in her quest to eradicate her and reclaim what she feels is her birthright. She will stop at nothing to proceed with the Second Restoration. Secretly, she's currently gathering strong intelligence on the inner-workings of LaFramboise's regime and building up an army even larger than before, this time with one sole purpose in mind: Invasion.
An all-out war is unlikely but a shadow war seems imminent at the moment.
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