[ application | abaxrpg ]
player information.
name: Kerry
are you over 18?: 21
personal lj: boxeddreams
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc: fontcroire @ gmail.com | boxeddreams @ plurk
characters in abax: Helen Magnus & Samantha Carter [ with an app in for Kitty Pryde ]
in character information.
series: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
name: Wilhelmina Harker
sex: Female
age: 58
race: Vampire
height: 5'10
weight: 150
canon point: Post movie
previous cr: N/A
history: Mina's history, including dates and details not given or elaborated on in either Dracula or League of Extraordinary Gentlemen are headcanon. Due to certain conflicts between Dracula and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen there are some elements of Dracula that have had to be ignored (or twisted slightly) in order for them to fit with both canons - as Mina is originally of Dracula and later in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. This will be pointed out in the alternate history section
Mina was born Wilhelmina Murray, the only daughter in a small middle class family in 1841 in London. They lived comfortably and Mina spent the majority of her time with Lucy, her best friend through school. After school, Mina spent much of her time, and many summers, visiting her friend Lucy in Whitby. Mina was a smart girl, different to her peers through her ideas and had a wish to learn more. Mina learned reading, writing and shorthand and, when she was older, extended her skills into more education aspects and trained to be a chemist.
Mina met a young man by the name of Jonathan Harker, a bank clerk, during the early portion of her life. The two began a courtship and, in 1861, they became engaged. It was during a business trip of Jonathan's when things started to change - not only for the pair but also for Mina's friend Lucy, also. After Jonathan travelled to Transylvania on business Lucy began to fall ill. A man by the name of Van Helsing was summoned to care for Lucy, though his efforts were in vain as Lucy eventually died - something which Mina was unaware of due to being in Transylvania caring for Jonathan. It is not until after Mina and Jonathan, who had married in Transylvania, returned to England that they learned of Lucy's demise and then a much worse fate. It is with the help of Van Helsing that Lucy is finally put to rest after being slain, preventing her vampiric self from rising again.
After an offer from Van Helsing Jonathan began working for him as his assistant, with Mina aiding in various clerical matters, though things became problematic when Dracula returned - the man that they learned to be Lucy's killer and a vampire himself. With the aide of Van Helsing again, as well as their friends Morris and Seward, they fought a dangerous battle in their attempt to destroy Dracula. Their battle was successful but yielded several casualties - Jonathan was killed during the fight but Mina had been captured by Dracula. After having been taken under his influence Mina had been bitten, turning herself into the creature that they'd fought. Unfortunately Dracula's death didn't reverse the transformation. Scared for her fate, her friends and what this meant Mina fled - keeping herself hidden, hoping to keep under control the now bestial nature that lay within her.
Mina met a man named Dorian Gray five years later. In the short time that they knew each other they were together as lovers, Mina attracted to the power of Dorian and him to how interesting she was. Though she was unaware of Dorian's uniqueness, his own 'curse' and inability to age, Mina recognised that there was something special - different - about him. Their relationship wasn't to last and, for a reason still unknown to Mina, Dorian cheated on her. This betrayal broke Mina's heart, though that fact wasn't something that she wouldn't ever tell, and caused her to end the relationship.
Mina has taken other lovers since then, though Dorian's betrayal and her wish to protect both herself and others has kept relationships from properly blooming. In the time between then and when Mina would meet Dorian again, Mina spent much of her time working on her research - though she'd accepted what she had become it did not mean that she was happy about it nor enjoyed it, particularly when it came to feeding. Mina's research currently involves examining her own blood, as well as that of others and animals, as well as looking at chemical based alternatives to help with her need to feed. It's her silent research, not reaching out to other minds in fear of being found or for their repulsion, that has kept Mina's existance silent to that of the world - those that knew her would, most likely, think her dead.
It wasn't until the summer of 1899 that Mina would see Dorian again, her role in the League being that of two things - to entice Dorian into joining the League but also for her own special abilities. Mina's role in the League utilised not only her background in chemistry, and slight surgical knowledge, but her vampiric abilities also. Mina, although at first seen as only a distraction and a set back to the mission of the League, provided more than useful for the League - giving cover in a gauntlet as well as being able to quickly and efficiently take down the enemy. Even though it was later revealed that Mina's purpose in the League was so that Dorian would be able to steal her blood, Mina was a crucial part in preventing the power of the League from destroying the world - as well as in stopping Dorian Gray.
alternate history: [ headcanon: ] The book, Dracula, was actually written by Abraham Van Helsing. Given the coverage the events did receive in the media (such as Lucy tempting the children) Van Helsing took up the pseudonym of Bram Stoker, writing the book to bring entertaining light to those events - although his ending was certainly far from the truth, and done so to protect those that were involved. (And Mina fully knows of the book).
[ conflict #1: ] Mina being human | A falsehood from the book. Mina was turned by Dracula and his death failed to remove the curse from her, leaving her as a vampire. Her being human? Was written to give the book a pleasant ending.
[ conflict #2: ] Jonathan Harker | Another falsehood from the book. He did die, as she says in the movie. She didn't see it but after the course of hunting Dracula and killing him she looked for Jonathan, finding him dead.
[ conflict #3: ] Mina's chemistry | Mina originally was a school mistress, as in the book. After being turned and pulling from the world Mina turned her mind again to academic pursuits. Given how much time she had (and her intellect - she'd read many books on things that interested her even if she could never work as it) she took to chemistry, hoping to find an answer to her 'problem' there.
[ conflict #4: ] Dracula | Mina believes Dracula dead, given seeing him dead but as she is still a vampire? Part of her wonders whether he truly is dead, as it's believed that killing him reverses the curse. She refuses to think on it, and allows the part of her that thinks him dead to win on that.
[ conflict #5: ] Mina & Jonathan's life | The end of the book, dictating Mina and Jonathan's happy life and their new child was written for the book. With Jonathan dead and Mina a vampire it couldn't have happened.
personality: Mina is a calm and collected individual, though some may see her as cold. Her iron will is what controls and prevents Mina's vampiric nature from showing and being dominant over her life. Mina explains her 'cold' demeanor as her being fearful of where unbridled emotion would lead. She has a sharp wit about her and is able to throw back challenging remarks and sarcasm with ease, something which is a testament to her intellect.
Mina has little patience for annoyances, as was shown with her early encounters with Mr Skinner, and is shown to hold high values and morals - though youth and sweetness aren't traits that Mina holds in a high regard, whereas self-assurity and bad manners are traits that she can't stand. As 'proper' as Mina is for her time there are elements of her that are a contrast to Victorian propriety, not least of all the fact that she is a vampire. Mina is a strong and independent woman, more so since the death of her husband, and has shown that - contrary to her appearance - she does not need a man to look after her. To the contrary, she's an intelligent woman who thinks logically, allowing little to dissuade. When angered, however, this becomes a different story.
Mina's vampiric, almost bestial, nature is a contrast to the woman who is normally presented to you. Her iron will is seen to dissolve and her thoughts - and more precisely her actions - are more aggressive and decisive, logic falling to a more animal will. It is rare that Mina is angered to such an extent, however, and generally irritations, annoyances and even light anger will be reflected back and dealt with by her wit and various caustic remarks. It is only in rare situations that the full force of her anger is seen and usually, when not requiring to feed, Mina only turns to her vampiric nature in a need for defense - or attack if that is the case.
Other than fearing what may become if her vampiric nature is left unchecked, Mina keeps her steel control over herself for another reason - although she may have now come to terms with what she has become, Mina is repulsed by what she is, particularly when it comes to feeding. Mina takes no pleasure in the killing of humans to sustain herself and does so only for necessity. It is her hope that one day she may be able to find an alternate solution. She has tried other methods before, mostly in terms of animal blood, and while they can sustain her they do not do so with as great an intensity. Between lovers, research and being approached to join the League, Mina kept herself mostly hidden - protecting others from herself; she fears seeing and feeling the same repulsion from others that she feels from herself. Mina doesn't relate well to others, a mix of her being a vampire and keeping herself hidden from others. Many things which would concern others - politics or general world views - have little impact upon Mina and her thoughts - she's seen the world change before and knows that she'll see it change many times again.
abilities/powers: Vampire abilities
first person sample: [ video ]
[ It was laughable. Laid out on a slab, placed as if she were dead? In a sense that was true but not in this way. And yet she hadn't been conscious. There'd been no weapon, no hole to mend and yet something had rendered her incapacitated. Something impossible.
Mina moved, sat quicker than should have been possible and was off the table, standing, turning as she studied the room. Her hair fell down her back, the only thing still on her and all that the camera now showed ]
Dorian.
[ It came out more of a growl. She'd killed him, she knew that. They'd ended that and she was ignoring the less than sensible part of her that was asking if that had even been real. Which, for it not to have been, was impossible. As was dying without there being anything to have killed her ]
Show yourself.
[ Whether that referred in general or to Dorian? Unknown, or perhaps it could have been both ]
or alternately a past thread? | or two?
third person sample: "We've all been hiding in some form or another."
The offer to go with Nemo, to travel on the Nautilus and see many of the things that she'd hidden from was tempting, even tantilising. Her life had been solitary for years, since Jonathan had died. She'd taken lovers but had never stayed anywhere, or with anyone, for too long; the need to hide and protect herself too urgent.
"I'd like to see somewhere that doesn't know of the war." The war that almost was, the chaos and destruction that they'd almost let out. As much as her sadness over Mr Quatermain's death was Mina felt her betrayal over Dorian was stronger in her heart, burning more fiercely; he may have betrayed them all but for her... for Mina it was personal.
"So you're nothing more than an enticement." His words were burned into her mind as much as his touch was on her skin. She remembered him from years past, how he felt, smelled and she remembered him all over again from the days just gone. In the end it had to be her - Mina had to be the one to show him how much it all hurt, his acts, his betrayal; she had to be the one who killed him. With as much as a necessity it had been it had still hurt, breaking her heart again. Mina may have tried to put him from her mind, put old feelings past to focus but when it came down to it everything she felt returned.
The light touch on her arm was what Mina back from her thoughts, the young Mr Sawyer checking that she was alright, repeating what had just been said for her benefit.
"Three days? That should provide me with enough time to tie together my affairs." As well as enough time to gather any items that she would need. They'd placed no time on their stay on the Nautilus, Mina supposed it was until they wished to part their separate ways. She could only wonder on what they would see, and what lay in store as the turn of the century came. They'd almost brought the world into destruction and now... now Mina felt like there was still more to do to undo that.
case no: 15-24-82
name: Kerry
are you over 18?: 21
personal lj: boxeddreams
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc: fontcroire @ gmail.com | boxeddreams @ plurk
characters in abax: Helen Magnus & Samantha Carter [ with an app in for Kitty Pryde ]
in character information.
series: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
name: Wilhelmina Harker
sex: Female
age: 58
race: Vampire
height: 5'10
weight: 150
canon point: Post movie
previous cr: N/A
history: Mina's history, including dates and details not given or elaborated on in either Dracula or League of Extraordinary Gentlemen are headcanon. Due to certain conflicts between Dracula and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen there are some elements of Dracula that have had to be ignored (or twisted slightly) in order for them to fit with both canons - as Mina is originally of Dracula and later in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. This will be pointed out in the alternate history section
Mina was born Wilhelmina Murray, the only daughter in a small middle class family in 1841 in London. They lived comfortably and Mina spent the majority of her time with Lucy, her best friend through school. After school, Mina spent much of her time, and many summers, visiting her friend Lucy in Whitby. Mina was a smart girl, different to her peers through her ideas and had a wish to learn more. Mina learned reading, writing and shorthand and, when she was older, extended her skills into more education aspects and trained to be a chemist.
Mina met a young man by the name of Jonathan Harker, a bank clerk, during the early portion of her life. The two began a courtship and, in 1861, they became engaged. It was during a business trip of Jonathan's when things started to change - not only for the pair but also for Mina's friend Lucy, also. After Jonathan travelled to Transylvania on business Lucy began to fall ill. A man by the name of Van Helsing was summoned to care for Lucy, though his efforts were in vain as Lucy eventually died - something which Mina was unaware of due to being in Transylvania caring for Jonathan. It is not until after Mina and Jonathan, who had married in Transylvania, returned to England that they learned of Lucy's demise and then a much worse fate. It is with the help of Van Helsing that Lucy is finally put to rest after being slain, preventing her vampiric self from rising again.
After an offer from Van Helsing Jonathan began working for him as his assistant, with Mina aiding in various clerical matters, though things became problematic when Dracula returned - the man that they learned to be Lucy's killer and a vampire himself. With the aide of Van Helsing again, as well as their friends Morris and Seward, they fought a dangerous battle in their attempt to destroy Dracula. Their battle was successful but yielded several casualties - Jonathan was killed during the fight but Mina had been captured by Dracula. After having been taken under his influence Mina had been bitten, turning herself into the creature that they'd fought. Unfortunately Dracula's death didn't reverse the transformation. Scared for her fate, her friends and what this meant Mina fled - keeping herself hidden, hoping to keep under control the now bestial nature that lay within her.
Mina met a man named Dorian Gray five years later. In the short time that they knew each other they were together as lovers, Mina attracted to the power of Dorian and him to how interesting she was. Though she was unaware of Dorian's uniqueness, his own 'curse' and inability to age, Mina recognised that there was something special - different - about him. Their relationship wasn't to last and, for a reason still unknown to Mina, Dorian cheated on her. This betrayal broke Mina's heart, though that fact wasn't something that she wouldn't ever tell, and caused her to end the relationship.
Mina has taken other lovers since then, though Dorian's betrayal and her wish to protect both herself and others has kept relationships from properly blooming. In the time between then and when Mina would meet Dorian again, Mina spent much of her time working on her research - though she'd accepted what she had become it did not mean that she was happy about it nor enjoyed it, particularly when it came to feeding. Mina's research currently involves examining her own blood, as well as that of others and animals, as well as looking at chemical based alternatives to help with her need to feed. It's her silent research, not reaching out to other minds in fear of being found or for their repulsion, that has kept Mina's existance silent to that of the world - those that knew her would, most likely, think her dead.
It wasn't until the summer of 1899 that Mina would see Dorian again, her role in the League being that of two things - to entice Dorian into joining the League but also for her own special abilities. Mina's role in the League utilised not only her background in chemistry, and slight surgical knowledge, but her vampiric abilities also. Mina, although at first seen as only a distraction and a set back to the mission of the League, provided more than useful for the League - giving cover in a gauntlet as well as being able to quickly and efficiently take down the enemy. Even though it was later revealed that Mina's purpose in the League was so that Dorian would be able to steal her blood, Mina was a crucial part in preventing the power of the League from destroying the world - as well as in stopping Dorian Gray.
alternate history: [ headcanon: ] The book, Dracula, was actually written by Abraham Van Helsing. Given the coverage the events did receive in the media (such as Lucy tempting the children) Van Helsing took up the pseudonym of Bram Stoker, writing the book to bring entertaining light to those events - although his ending was certainly far from the truth, and done so to protect those that were involved. (And Mina fully knows of the book).
[ conflict #1: ] Mina being human | A falsehood from the book. Mina was turned by Dracula and his death failed to remove the curse from her, leaving her as a vampire. Her being human? Was written to give the book a pleasant ending.
[ conflict #2: ] Jonathan Harker | Another falsehood from the book. He did die, as she says in the movie. She didn't see it but after the course of hunting Dracula and killing him she looked for Jonathan, finding him dead.
[ conflict #3: ] Mina's chemistry | Mina originally was a school mistress, as in the book. After being turned and pulling from the world Mina turned her mind again to academic pursuits. Given how much time she had (and her intellect - she'd read many books on things that interested her even if she could never work as it) she took to chemistry, hoping to find an answer to her 'problem' there.
[ conflict #4: ] Dracula | Mina believes Dracula dead, given seeing him dead but as she is still a vampire? Part of her wonders whether he truly is dead, as it's believed that killing him reverses the curse. She refuses to think on it, and allows the part of her that thinks him dead to win on that.
[ conflict #5: ] Mina & Jonathan's life | The end of the book, dictating Mina and Jonathan's happy life and their new child was written for the book. With Jonathan dead and Mina a vampire it couldn't have happened.
personality: Mina is a calm and collected individual, though some may see her as cold. Her iron will is what controls and prevents Mina's vampiric nature from showing and being dominant over her life. Mina explains her 'cold' demeanor as her being fearful of where unbridled emotion would lead. She has a sharp wit about her and is able to throw back challenging remarks and sarcasm with ease, something which is a testament to her intellect.
Mina has little patience for annoyances, as was shown with her early encounters with Mr Skinner, and is shown to hold high values and morals - though youth and sweetness aren't traits that Mina holds in a high regard, whereas self-assurity and bad manners are traits that she can't stand. As 'proper' as Mina is for her time there are elements of her that are a contrast to Victorian propriety, not least of all the fact that she is a vampire. Mina is a strong and independent woman, more so since the death of her husband, and has shown that - contrary to her appearance - she does not need a man to look after her. To the contrary, she's an intelligent woman who thinks logically, allowing little to dissuade. When angered, however, this becomes a different story.
Mina's vampiric, almost bestial, nature is a contrast to the woman who is normally presented to you. Her iron will is seen to dissolve and her thoughts - and more precisely her actions - are more aggressive and decisive, logic falling to a more animal will. It is rare that Mina is angered to such an extent, however, and generally irritations, annoyances and even light anger will be reflected back and dealt with by her wit and various caustic remarks. It is only in rare situations that the full force of her anger is seen and usually, when not requiring to feed, Mina only turns to her vampiric nature in a need for defense - or attack if that is the case.
Other than fearing what may become if her vampiric nature is left unchecked, Mina keeps her steel control over herself for another reason - although she may have now come to terms with what she has become, Mina is repulsed by what she is, particularly when it comes to feeding. Mina takes no pleasure in the killing of humans to sustain herself and does so only for necessity. It is her hope that one day she may be able to find an alternate solution. She has tried other methods before, mostly in terms of animal blood, and while they can sustain her they do not do so with as great an intensity. Between lovers, research and being approached to join the League, Mina kept herself mostly hidden - protecting others from herself; she fears seeing and feeling the same repulsion from others that she feels from herself. Mina doesn't relate well to others, a mix of her being a vampire and keeping herself hidden from others. Many things which would concern others - politics or general world views - have little impact upon Mina and her thoughts - she's seen the world change before and knows that she'll see it change many times again.
abilities/powers: Vampire abilities
- enhanced strength
enhanced speed
flight
summoning of bats (and sensing of bats/vampires)
accelerated healing
invulnerability to permanent harm
"longevity"
- chemistry (Mina is a trained and able chemist)
fighting (Mina is capable of fighting (hand to hand combat or with the use of knives) and has shown skill in using a sword)
first person sample: [ video ]
[ It was laughable. Laid out on a slab, placed as if she were dead? In a sense that was true but not in this way. And yet she hadn't been conscious. There'd been no weapon, no hole to mend and yet something had rendered her incapacitated. Something impossible.
Mina moved, sat quicker than should have been possible and was off the table, standing, turning as she studied the room. Her hair fell down her back, the only thing still on her and all that the camera now showed ]
Dorian.
[ It came out more of a growl. She'd killed him, she knew that. They'd ended that and she was ignoring the less than sensible part of her that was asking if that had even been real. Which, for it not to have been, was impossible. As was dying without there being anything to have killed her ]
Show yourself.
[ Whether that referred in general or to Dorian? Unknown, or perhaps it could have been both ]
or alternately a past thread? | or two?
third person sample: "We've all been hiding in some form or another."
The offer to go with Nemo, to travel on the Nautilus and see many of the things that she'd hidden from was tempting, even tantilising. Her life had been solitary for years, since Jonathan had died. She'd taken lovers but had never stayed anywhere, or with anyone, for too long; the need to hide and protect herself too urgent.
"I'd like to see somewhere that doesn't know of the war." The war that almost was, the chaos and destruction that they'd almost let out. As much as her sadness over Mr Quatermain's death was Mina felt her betrayal over Dorian was stronger in her heart, burning more fiercely; he may have betrayed them all but for her... for Mina it was personal.
"So you're nothing more than an enticement." His words were burned into her mind as much as his touch was on her skin. She remembered him from years past, how he felt, smelled and she remembered him all over again from the days just gone. In the end it had to be her - Mina had to be the one to show him how much it all hurt, his acts, his betrayal; she had to be the one who killed him. With as much as a necessity it had been it had still hurt, breaking her heart again. Mina may have tried to put him from her mind, put old feelings past to focus but when it came down to it everything she felt returned.
The light touch on her arm was what Mina back from her thoughts, the young Mr Sawyer checking that she was alright, repeating what had just been said for her benefit.
"Three days? That should provide me with enough time to tie together my affairs." As well as enough time to gather any items that she would need. They'd placed no time on their stay on the Nautilus, Mina supposed it was until they wished to part their separate ways. She could only wonder on what they would see, and what lay in store as the turn of the century came. They'd almost brought the world into destruction and now... now Mina felt like there was still more to do to undo that.
case no: 15-24-82