Biodata

Dec 13, 2008 11:52

Diva, Chiropteran queen.


Vital Statistics

Age: 150 - 170 years old, though she appears to be perpetually 16 or 17
Eye color: Deep, vibrant blue; they glow when she uses her powers
Hair color: Bluish-black
Haibane feather: Black


Powers and abilities

Diva is a queen Chiropteran, a bipedal, bat-like creature that feeds on blood. Chiropterans are remarkably strong, sturdy, fast, and agile. They can heal almost instantaneously from any injury that is non-lethal or untainted with the blood of a rival queen, so long as their heads remain intact. Being a high-level Chiropteran, Diva can make small, subtle changes to her body - she can lengthen or shorten her hair at will, alter the shape of her eyes and face or modulate her voice to match that of whoever she’s fed on. She can telepathically communicate with other Chiropterans and locate those whose blood she shares (i.e. another Chiropteran or a family member of her victim). Her eyes glow an electric blue when she’s using her active abilities.

The strength of Diva’s abilities depends on how well fed she is. She can use all her powers if she feeds properly, but will weaken if she’s hungry or has lost a lot of blood. Since childbirth had sapped her blood of its potency, Diva can no longer turn people into Chiropterans.

Diva has a beautiful singing voice that both humans and Chiropterans can hear, but only Chiropterans instinctually respond to. This is what her voice sounds like. She seems to prefer children as mating partners.


Personality

Despite her age, Diva is child-like in the some of the worst ways possible. She’s malicious, sly, petty, impulsive, impatient and very self-centered. Her idea of entertainment usually involves aimless destruction, violence and copious amounts of blood. Especially when she’s hungry.

Diva is a creature of id. She takes what she wants, when she wants it, how she wants it; anything that is not related is none of her concern. If she doesn’t get her way, she becomes vicious and destructive towards anything unfortunate enough to be within striking range. She has a very limited and underdeveloped sense of right and wrong, so human morality had never been an issue for her.

What most people don’t realize is that Diva’s very, very lonely. She’s always in search of love, freedom and belonging - a family of her own - even though she may not fully understand what those are.


History

Diva and her twin sister Saya hatched in the early-to-late 1800’s, some time after the mummified corpse of an unknown creature was found and dissected for analysis. They were made to live on a reserve for exotic animals called The Zoo, and raised separately in an experiment - Saya was treated as a normal human girl and a ward of The Zoo’s owner, while Diva was locked up in a tower and isolated from the rest of the world. It was there that Diva slowly came to hate Saya and the humans, and when Saya had unlocked her prison in a gesture of friendship, Diva ran amok and killed every human she could find.

Diva and her Chevalier - high-level Chiropterans dedicated to their queen - would appear every few decades now and then, but it wasn’t until almost two centuries later when they truly began to wreak havoc upon the world. The leader of her Chevalier, a former researcher named Amschel, wanted to repopulate the world with Chiropterans, whom he believed were the superior species. Though Diva went along with this plan, all she wanted was to sing and have a family. To accomplish this she drained, then later raped and killed Saya’s adoptive younger brother-turned-Chevalier Riku and bore twin baby girls. During their duel, the sisters each impaled the other with blood-coated swords in an attempt to “end it all”. Unfortunately, Diva’s blood had lost its more dangerous properties and was no longer lethal to her sister, whereas Saya’s blood was still fully potent.

Diva had just enough time to say good-bye to her un-hatched daughters before she crystallized and shattered.

Additional comments: Diva received minimal human education, so her handwriting is loose and messy and her spelling will be off here and there. Once she regains her memory she’ll be signing all her journal entries with an “autograph”, which is actually little more than a loop with a squiggly tail and a dot at the end.
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