[h1][color=black]The House of Cards Mafia[/color][/h1][hr][hider=Leadership][table][row][cell][h2][b]Phantasia[color=2e2c2c].[/color]Vorpal[/b][/h2][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][center][img]https://imgur.com/NZNHKMK.png[/img]

[b]38 | Phantasia Vorpal | She/her [/b][hr][i][color=ffbafd]"You could call this my hobby."[/color][/i]
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[b]Description:[/b]
[indent]Mystery is a part of her glamor as the leader of the House of Cards Mafia. She is known for her silver tongue and knife arts, but most importantly, she is known to have eyes - mesmerizing pink that change color depending on the Gaze - that none can look at straight on without feeling the power behind them. 

With her headquarters hidden in the mafia-owned Hearts Club Casino, recently reopened, she tries to keep tabs on the paranormal heartbeat of St. Portwell, always looking for the opportunity to come back from the raid the Wolfpack did to her people years back.
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[b]Abstraction:[/B]
[indent]Phantasia Eyes

Phantasia’s eyes can be broken down into facets, and affect living beings and apparitions in similar ways:

Passive Eye Contact - A sudden looking to keep staring, hard to break eye contact except with great will. An immediate boost to the mood of a person, like taking a serotonin pill. There's an immediate elation, a removal of fear, anxiety, and depression. There will be the feeling of safety, and an encouragement to drop one’s guard. There is a debilitating affect, as time is slowly siphoned off in minutes and months. One second of eye contact is equal to one week of lifespan taken. Any eye contact, whether it's a fear or hypnotic gaze, will have the same pull on the lifespan.

Fear Gaze - Eyes turning a shade of black, the target will feel unbearable fear shaking their bones, and chilling them to the core. They will feel that their death is immediate, and unable to think clearly due to the fear, which is palpable. Physical reactions include shaking, dry mouth, tears, weakness in the knees, falling to the knees. Even if eye contact is broken, the effects of fear will last for hours unless Phantasia remedies it with another Gaze. 

Pain Gaze - When her eyes turn a shade of red, the target will immediately feel as if their entire body is being lashed with a whip. The nerve endings will be on fire. Physical reactions include screaming, crying, writhing on the floor, and unable to speak coherent sentences. They only have to see the eyes for a split second, and the effects will last for hours unless Phantasia remedies it with another Gaze.

Forgetful Gaze - Turning a shade of white, Phantasia can make a person forget events for a few hours. if a person has an event playing in their mind, this will be forgotten temporarily. Or, if the person is focusing on Phantasia's gaze, they will forget the hours up to and meeting Phantasia temporarily. 

Hypnotic Gaze - The eyes turn a shade of purple, and become two swirling vortexes that draw the target in. With one look, the target becomes entranced. It becomes difficult to look away, and even if they can, the effects are still inside them: extremely open to suggestions, extremely prone to speaking the truth, and little to no guard up. The effects are like taking a powerful drug that makes a person feel high, on top of the world, and last for many blissful hours.

Devout Gaze - Staring at her blue eyes, a person will feel as though they've taken a mix of morphine, drugs, and psychedelics. They will be over the moon, wholly focused on Phantasia, who they will consider to be special, even their ‘mother’. They will become insanely protective of Phantasia, even at the cost of their own health. Phantasia usually shows theses eyes to those she wants to become her thralls.

Renaissance Gaze - With one look from these golden eyes, the target will feel an immediate rush of inspiration, creativity and endless confidence. They will become their best version of themselves, whatever they could possibly imagine, times by one hundred. They will fight smarter, talk better, and act like a billionaire CEO. The effect lasts a few hours, depending on how much of the creative energies are used. 

Passive Influence - Even without eye contact, Phantasia holds an elusive and mesmerizing presence that intrigues. People who are not on their guard will feel the pull to meet her eyes. Like a desire to quench thirst. It can be as bad as feeling a burn in the throat, the desire to see her eyes. Near painful. It is not debilitating to be in her presence, and does not affect a person's years.

Phantasia must have a target’s eye contact for a fraction of a second for her powers to work. If the target refuses to meet her eyes, they will be safe from her Gazes. Likewise, if she is wearing a blindfold, she can do no harm. Emotional fields dampen her ability to affect, as it is usually a battle of wills for her eyes to work.
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[/cell][/row][row][cell][h2][b]Isabella[color=2e2c2c].[/color]Blackthorn[/b][/h2][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][center][img]https://imgur.com/QzdkzQN.png[/img]

[b]32 | Isabella Blackthorn | She/her [/b][hr][i]"Anything for Mother Cards..."[/i]
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[b]Description:[/b]
[indent]Growing up in a mafia family, her whole life has been centered around the House of Cards. She was there when the old casino burned down, wept with the family at their loses. The holes the attack left allowed her talents to shine forward. She's natural in a crowd, with a voice that commands and an amazing sense of delegation. Catching Phantasia's eye, Isabella went through several loyalty tests before she was given the title of Underboss, working directly below Phantasia and trusted with the darkest secrets of the mafia.

She's got long dark tresse, dresses similar to ‘Mother Cards’ (Phantasia), and always has a pistol pocketed in a shoulder holster under her overcoat. She uses her abstraction devoutly, being one of the best spies that Phantasia has. She has discovered mutiny secrets that she has squashed several times over, riding the family of moles and less-than-faithful members.

She has lost a few months off her life from staring at Phantasia's eyes on occasion through the years. Phantasia doesn't consider Isabella a thrall.
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[b]Abstraction:[/B]
[indent]Mind Suggestion

Anyone who lays eyes on Isabella will be a target for her abstraction, where she can suggest she is something else in their mind. For example, if she is sneaking around and wants to be unnoticed, she can appear as a chair or a dropped pen to a walking security guard. However, the security cameras will see Isabella for who she is.
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[/cell][/row][row][cell][h2][b]Valencia[color=2e2c2c].[/color]Vorpal[/b][/h2][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][center][img]https://imgur.com/XM38Bt7.jpeg[/img]

[b]30 | Valencia Vorpal | She/her [/b][hr][i]"Mother is the only one worth following."[/i]
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[b]Description:[/b]
[indent]The adopted daughter of Phantasia Vorpal after the former tried to kill the latter for a purse snatch. Valencia grew up on the streets, falling in and out of thug rings, in and out of prison, and she has a history of armed robbery and assault under her name.

With sharp eyes, and a cruel fist, she began to dominate her tasks and lackeys within the Family, until Phantasia took her under her wing and shaped her education, grooming Valencia to become the new consigliere. Now Valencia acts on behalf of the boss, especially when it comes to negotiations or shaking down folk. She has a special torture method that is derived from her abstraction.
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[b]Abstraction:[/B]
[indent]Summoning Knives (Adept)

The ability to summon any type of sharp blade from alternate realities. She can feel out weights of blades, thereby dictating how large or small of a blade she wants to summon. Once summoned, the blades telekinetically float around her, and move to strike a target at a mere thought from her. She is currently limited to summoning 10 small knives, or 3 large blades. The larger the summon, the more taxing it is to pull through. The longer she moves the blades with her mind, the heavier they become.

Her channeler is a silver ring on her thumb.[/indent]
[/cell][/row][/table][/hider][hider=Others][table][row][cell][h2][b]William[color=2e2c2c].[/color]Roosevelt[/b][/h2][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][center][img]https://imgur.com/daUs0yf.jpeg[/img]

[b]63 | William Roosevelt | He/him [/b][hr][i]"Yes, Madame Cards?"[/i]
[@Estylwen][/center][/cell][cell]
[b]Description:[/b]
[indent] Mr. Roosevelt is a retired made man of the House of Cards, having served in the mafia his whole life. Now that age has taken him, he serves as the trusted bartender of Miss Vorpal's owned hideaway, The Apothecary, a half-hidden speakeasy at 2321 Ash Ave. [/indent]

[b]Abstraction:[/B]
[indent]Truth Sense - Mr. Roosevelt has the uncanny ability to detect if a person is telling the truth by how the words [i]feel[/i]. He is also able to tell if there is a half-truth at play, exposing lies and the with-holding of information. 

If a person knows they are lying, he will catch them. However, if they wholly believe they are speaking the truth, even if what they say is a lie, he won't detect it.[/indent]
[/cell][/row][row][cell][h2][b]Bruno[color=2e2c2c].[/color]Arno[/b][/h2][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][center][img]https://imgur.com/ptyds7F.jpeg[/img]

[b]48 | Bruno Arno | He/him [/b][hr][i]"Outta my way, bitch."[/i]
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[b]Description:[/b]
[indent]An “evil” man. He's gone through five wives, and is on to his sixth. He's planned all their untimely deaths after forcing and coaxing them to take life insurance. He's been enjoying a life of bliss, gambling his free money away and living it up at the Hearts Club Casino. He treats everyone around him as below him, with an inflated ego that's all ‘me, me, me’ and ‘to hell with you’. A nightmare to his wives during the entire time they are together. If he had a dime for everybody of bad karma he's collected over the years, he'd have doubled his fortune. [/indent]

[b]Abstraction:[/B]
[indent]Not applicable. Yet.[/indent]
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