Player Name: Ashley
Player Contact: fiendishfanfares
Character(s) In-Game: n/a

Character Name: Hope Mikaelson
Age: 17
Canon: Legacies (TVD-Verse)

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Death: At the end of 1x2, Hope fights a dragon one-on-one, using a death spell to try and destroy it. In canon, she survives this encounter, but for the sake of this game, the spell affects both the dragon and herself, and she dies in the process of defeating it.

What are your plans for this character in-game? I'm not entirely sure yet. She's an orphan and she doesn't entirely 'belong' in the place she's called her home for years now, so I'd like for her to begin to feel like she belongs somewhere after some time in the setting. Being able to be herself without anyone knowing her past/family/baggage will be helpful as well. She'll be interested and curious to figure out more about where she's ended up, so I expect her to be involved in any mod-created plots.

What aspects of this game and/or its setting are you most interested in having this character engage with? I'm most interested in the horror and survival aspects, though I'm excited for her to do some exploring as well. I've picked this character specifically because she doesn't like to sit on the sidelines.

How does your character generally get along with other people? She's completely capable of being in social situations and working together with other people. However, because of her issues with abandonment, she pushes people away who try to get too close because she doesn't want to have to lose anyone again. She'd rather be alone than hurt in the future. She also tends to be incredibly wary of people and is more likely to think that someone is lying to her than telling her the truth.

That said, she's a damaged orphan who just needs someone to be persistent enough to prove that they care. Deep down, she really wants friendship and love, she just needs to get past the fear of letting people in.

What is your character's mental state upon entering the game? Not...great. After two years of grieving her parents, Hope still hasn't completely healed. She also just finally trusted someone, shared a piece of herself with them, and they turned around and betrayed her trust. She's lonely and extremely angry, and she tends to resort to violence when those emotions overwhelm her.

Skills/Abilities:

As the first of her kind, a tribrid of three different supernatural species, Hope has inherited the strengths of the witch, the werewolf, and the vampire. The extent of her powers isn't completely known, but there are quite a few that have remained consistent with the other supernatural creatures in canon that she descends from.

-Enhanced speed and strength

-Ability to shift into a werewolf at will

-Hope has the ability to use magic, which comprises of many different abilities, such as barrier spells, elemental spells, death spells, illusion spells, cloaking spells, linking spells, unlocking, mimicry, silencing, telekinesis, the ability to induce pain, etc. There's literally a spell for basically anything you can think of, though some take more time, preparation and materials than others. More info here.

-In canon, her death would result in her transitioning into a full vampire.

-Healing Blood: her blood both heals herself from nearly any wound, as well as healing others when consumed. If the person ingesting her blood dies within 24 hours, they'll also transition into a vampire. Her blood can also cure a vampire bitten by a werewolf.

-She can also share memories and enter people's dreams through touch and concentration.

-Hope is an avid artist and painter; she's familiar with many mediums including pencil, oils, watercolors, etc.


Flaws/Weaknesses:

-As a firstborn Mikaelson witch, her power is immense but very unstable. Hope has learned a great deal of control over the years but her emotional state can affect how volatile her magic becomes. She can also have a hard time containing it at times as there is "a lot going on inside of her." This also leads to her often being unable to sleep, especially around the full moon.

-As a werewolf, Hope also suffers from moments of severe aggression which can result in violence. This is a bit of a vicious cycle in regards to her unstable magical ability.

-Hope suffers from intense survivor's guilt after the deaths of both of her parents and her uncle. She also has severe abandonment issues as well. As she says in canon "people I care about have a tendency to die on me."


Personality:

Most people would hear about Hope Mikaelson and assume she's a monster. Just the name Mikaelson strikes terror into the hearts of the entire supernatural community that she was born into, and her life has been what most would call a nightmare. She carried the power of a witch even as a very young child, saw her father brutally murder an entire group of people in front of her, and was possessed by a great evil, all before she would have been out of elementary school.

No child lives through that unscathed, and yet Hope managed to hang onto a heart that cared about other people and wanted to be good.

To make matters worse, she was separated physically from her family in order to protect her. She grew up loved but also in a great deal of isolation; even when she moved to the Salvatore School for supernatural kids, she had to hide behind her mother's last name in an attempt to keep her from being found.

Hope grew up very angry and emotionally turbulent, and while this is somewhat normal for a teenager, her emotional outbursts resulted in dangerous situations for the people around her, as things would spontaneously combust around her. All she ever wanted was for her family to be able to be together, and in the end? Her parents both died to keep her alive and safe and Hope was orphaned at 15. Hope blames herself for the deaths of her parents; her mother Hayley was killed after she was kidnapped from a sleep and cloaking spell that her own daughter put on her to make her father come back into town, and her father committed suicide, along with her uncle, to rid the world of the Hollow after removing its power from Hope's body and placing it in his own.

Ever since then, Hope has become something of a loner and a hermit. She hides in her room while the other kids at her school party. She pushes away everyone and basically refuses to meet friends or get close to anyone for fear of being a danger to them. As she puts it, "Everyone I care about seems to die on me." Instead, she focuses on her studies, and her closest relationship is with Alaric Saltzman, her teacher and fight trainer, who has watched her grow up since she was about seven years old, though that's more because of Alaric's refusal to leave her be.

While she says that she stays away from people because she's a danger to them, the reason she closes herself off so much is to protect herself. She would rather be lonely than go through the kind of grief she's already enduring, having lost so much in such a short time. She doesn't believe there will be peace in her life, and so she accepts her isolation as necessary.

Hope is a troubled girl who carries grief and pain with her everywhere, so she tries to keep busy as best she can. She helps Alaric with supernatural cases, as she's best equipped to deal with most situations given her tribrid nature. She's had to learn control long before most of her teenage counterparts, though her fiery temper can sometimes get the best of her. She stubborn in a way that only a Mikaelson can be; if she sets her mind on something, there's almost nothing you can do to change her mind. She's also extremely vengeful; if you cross her, she will come after you with a terrifying fierceness, and she has the strength, cunning and ability to back it up.

Those that can find a way to crack through her exterior and earn her trust and friendship will find one of the most loyal friends they could encounter. She will fight and die for those she cares about most, much like her parents did when she was growing up. She's willing to sacrifice plenty to get what she wants and to keep her loved ones safe.

Now she just needs to find some so that her life doesn't feel so dire.


Items:
Parchment with a death spell written on it
Supernatural Knife (one of three locks binding a powerful creature in her canon)
Clothes on her back
Cell phone

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