I saw "cursed librarian," and my brain ran with it... Kind of :) [hider= Possessed Librarian] Character Name: Blythe Cordova Concept: Possessed Librarian Background: All her life, Blythe was a practical woman. She had a practical job at a practical institution, complete with organization and research. She loved her wife despite her proliclivities for more occult hobbies, but then, no one was without some fault. Her job, her wife, and their life together was as perfect as two very different people in love could make it. And then, Blythe Cordova's wife was murdered in a string of attacks against women who practiced witchcraft. Revenge is not a practical thing. It does not improve the life of the avenger nor does it bring back the dead. And yet, for all Blythe’s unflabable practicality, revenge consumed her after her wife’s death. When local law enforcement failed, she turned to a string of unsuccessful private detectives, then her own frustrating investigation. Nothing turned up a more than a whisper of her wife’s killers, and the news was rife with the bodies of new victims. Her reason for turning to the occult was logical: it was the only thing left. Her wife’s herbal remedies and household charms held nothing for her but the ache of tender memory. Blythe needed something darker to suit her purpose. She searched for it in strange, old books and stranger internet forums, sifting through improbable, baseless claims with all the skill of a research librarian. Eventually, she did find power, and it's name was Kolratheth. The process of summoning and entering a contract with the demon was not difficult. A little blood, an invitation to house it in her mind and keep it regularly fed, and she had what she needed to find and destroy her wife’s killers. Blythe keeps a secret hope tucked in the corners of her mind where Kolratheth will not see: that the Sunday Group will one day help rid her of her dark passenger. For now, though revenge keeps them both content. Physical Description: A curvy woman in her mid-thirties of Latin American and causcasian decent. She has long, black hair and wide brown eyes so dark they appear black. Blythe is careful and immaculate in her dress and appearance, and appears most often in stylish business wear. She is middling in height with high cheekbones, an aristocratic nose, and pouting lips. Powers and Skills: Curses and Contracts: the basics of any self-respecting demon’s repertoire. Binding, limited only by the caster’s imagination, and ranging wildly from deadly to painful to irascibly irritating. They stick best when you really mean it. SinAmp™: like volume nobs, only for sinful desires and negative emotions. The less guarded the mind, the easier to toy with. Oops! My Demon is Showing: It happens to all of us now and again. Your anger gets the better of you or adrenaline sweeps you away in a tense moment, and next thing you know, your fingernails look like claws and your mouth has gone too wide and too full of needle teeth. [/hider]