Apokalipse

The Badlands

Sunshine

|SUNSHINE|

Name:

Sunshine Dockery

Age:

Eighteen

Gender:

Female

Affiliation:

Inner Circle (not officially, but she is privy to information)

Job

Stripper, Courtesan

Strengths:

|Seductive|Manipulative|Secretive|Flexible|Sly|Strategic|

Weaknesses:

|Disloyal|Insecure|Loose Morals|Pessimistic|Lack of Strength|Depressed|

History:

If you asked her, Sunshine wouldn’t be able to tell you much about her parents. When she was around the age of two, they died – how? No clue. All she knows is somehow landing in the hands of Mrs. Dockery – Mrs. Dockery won’t tell her how, of course. On occasion, Sunshine asks if she knows her parents, and Mrs. Dockery always vehemently denies it. Out of confusion, Sunshine then proceeds with the typical “then how do you know they are dead?” And Mrs. Dockery answers with such a certainty that Sunshine stops asking. Mrs. Dockery was always secretive, she lived on the outskirts of the Outer Circle in squander and owned a small store of paraphernalia that was mostly useless. Though Mrs. Dockery had always told Sunshine to live an honest living, Sunshine knew by the age of seven they wouldn’t be able to survive off of the store alone, so she took to stealing and placing it in the store’s cashier – until Mrs. Dockery caught her and gave her a lecture.

Around the age of fifteen, Sunshine began to rebel against Mrs. Dockery lenient yet-still constricting rule and so she took to riding motorcycles of Inner Circle spoiled bad boys and making out with leather-clad girls on patios.

It was when she was sixteen that she met Aaron Jacobs. At that point, it became a wild ride for Sunshine. Wild rides at night with her cheek pressed against a leather back, the whiff of wood and spice, hair whipping into her eyes – it was intoxicating. She followed him like a lost puppy and he showered her with his rough affection, caressing her cheek with a calloused hand. He never wanted her out of his sight and he was protective of her, like a warm shield she could hide behind forever. Until he saw talking to Bucky, the eighteen year old boy down the street, and dragged her to an alley and yelled and threatened her until his voice was hoarse. Sunshine didn’t take any heed to it, just figured it was jealousy flaring, and so she bid her time, only bothering to talk to others when he wasn’t around. It worked, for awhile, and she ignored the warning signs, allowing him to dictate her life, blind with a love that had no love in it. When it was her seventeenth birthday, her friends threw a party for her in a basement and she arrived in a cute, but rather short, black dress. However, when Aaron saw her, his eyes ran red and he dragged her into a closet and slapped her across the face before forcefully kissing her, all the while questioning her integrity and calling her names that women should never be called. This emotional and physical relationship went on for several months, Sunshine too scared to leave him, believing no one else would love her if he left. One particular day, Sunshine ran to Mrs. Dockery’s house after a particularly brutal beating over a broken plate and Mrs. Dockery held her close to her breast, whispering comforting words. With Mrs. Dockery behind her, Sunshine stopped seeing Aaron – she never told him, afraid he would hurt her, but she began avoiding him and always stayed in a public space.

After she turned eighteen, Sunshine figured it was time to get a job and she managed to get one as a stripper/courtesan at The Golden Hour, a popular stripper club for the wealthy. Here, Sunshine quickly became a favorite and often found out Inner Circle secrets.

I'll Be Miles Away [Apokalipse & dee]

Sure! I won't be able to tonight though, but I'll get it to tomorrow when I get home.

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Name:

Henrik Björkman

Age:

Seventeen

Year:

Third

Gender:

Male

Species:

Huldrekarl

In Depth Physical Description:

Henrik has wide blue eyes, pale skin, and an angular face shape. He is around 6’2”, but is more gawky than strong and has a little bit of muscle, but not a lot. There are brown dirt smudges covering his arms and legs as well as his abdomen – he has little moss on him, but there are slight patches of green growing on his shoulder blades. His dark brown hair is usually cut short enough that it does not fall in front of his face. While his twin sister has a silent commanding presence and walk, he is known for a more demanding arrogance that manifests itself in his sure-footed strut. He likes to wear hoodies and jeans when casually lounging, but usually dons band tees with a leather jacket pulled over it.

Personality:

Henrik is very unlike his sister and is almost the complete opposite of the Huldra ideals. He is impulsive and puts on an arrogant air, though he is rather insecure when it comes to his own species. When he questions the system, he does so loudly and publicly, allowing everyone to know his thoughts. He is reliant on his sister for emotional comfort and has no direction in life, almost always aimlessly following her around. Henrik wears his heart on his sleeve, plainly, for everyone to see and shamelessly doesn’t hide it – unless in front of his mother, Ragna. He possesses an inferiority complex and is a hardworker, always trying his best, but typically fails at such things. Unlike his sister, he refuses to leave his life in fate’s hands and is more adaptable than Helena. While Helena is a rock, he is the ocean waves, changing with the wind and listening to the moon’s calling. Even though he is much different than his sister, they both possess loose morals and do whatever they like whenever they like.

Hobbies:

-Yo-Yoing
-Candle Making
-Wood work

Extra:

Is very close to twin sister, Helena

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The Badlands

Sunshine

|SUNSHINE|

Name:

Sunshine Dockery

Age:

Eighteen

Gender:

Female

Affiliation:

Inner Circle (not officially, but she is privy to information)

Job

Stripper, Courtesan

Strengths:

|Seductive|Manipulative|Secretive|Flexible|Sly|Strategic|

Weaknesses:

|Disloyal|Insecure|Loose Morals|Pessimistic|Lack of Strength|

History:

If you asked her, Sunshine wouldn’t be able to tell you much about her parents. When she was around the age of two, they died – how? No clue. All she knows is somehow landing in the hands of Mrs. Dockery – Mrs. Dockery won’t tell her how, of course. On occasion, Sunshine asks if she knows her parents, and Mrs. Dockery always vehemently denies it. Out of confusion, Sunshine then proceeds with the typical “then how do you know they are dead?” And Mrs. Dockery answers with such a certainty that Sunshine stops asking. Mrs. Dockery was always secretive, she lived on the outskirts of the Outer Circle in squander and owned a small store of paraphernalia that was mostly useless. Though Mrs. Dockery had always told Sunshine to live an honest living, Sunshine knew by the age of seven they wouldn’t be able to survive off of the store alone, so she took to stealing and placing it in the store’s cashier – until Mrs. Dockery caught her and gave her a lecture.

Around the age of fifteen, Sunshine began to rebel against Mrs. Dockery lenient yet-still constricting rule and so she took to riding motorcycles of Inner Circle spoiled bad boys and making out with leather-clad girls on patios.

It was when she was sixteen that she met Aaron Jacobs. At that point, it became a wild ride for Sunshine. Wild rides at night with her cheek pressed against a leather back, the whiff of wood and spice, hair whipping into her eyes – it was intoxicating. She followed him like a lost puppy and he showered her with his rough affection, caressing her cheek with a calloused hand. He never wanted her out of his sight and he was protective of her, like a warm shield she could hide behind forever. Until he saw talking to Bucky, the eighteen year old boy down the street, and dragged her to an alley and yelled and threatened her until his voice was hoarse. Sunshine didn’t take any heed to it, just figured it was jealousy flaring, and so she bid her time, only bothering to talk to others when he wasn’t around. It worked, for awhile, and she ignored the warning signs, allowing him to dictate her life, blind with a love that had no love in it. When it was her seventeenth birthday, her friends threw a party for her in a basement and she arrived in a cute, but rather short, black dress. However, when Aaron saw her, his eyes ran red and he dragged her into a closet and slapped her across the face before forcefully kissing her, all the while questioning her integrity and calling her names that women should never be called. This emotional and physical relationship went on for several months, Sunshine too scared to leave him, believing no one else would love her if he left. One particular day, Sunshine ran to Mrs. Dockery’s house after a particularly brutal beating over a broken plate and Mrs. Dockery held her close to her breast, whispering comforting words. With Mrs. Dockery behind her, Sunshine stopped seeing Aaron – she never told him, afraid he would hurt her, but she began avoiding him and always stayed in a public space.

After she turned eighteen, Sunshine figured it was time to get a job and she managed to get one as a stripper/courtesan at The Golden Hour, a popular stripper club for the wealthy. Here, Sunshine quickly became a favorite and often found out Inner Circle secrets.

The Badlands

If it's not too late, I'd like to join! ^_^

I'll Be Miles Away [Apokalipse & dee]

Okay ^_^ if you want, I can start, but I don't know if there is anything specific you wanted to start out with.

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I'll have her twin brother up tomorrow ^_^

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Name:

Helena Byörkman

Age:

Seventeen

Year:

Third

Gender:

Female

Species:

Huldra

In Depth Physical Description:

Helena is a 5’7” brunette with crystal, wide blue eyes and a pale beauty-marked face. She has the high cheekbones, pert nose, and semi-full lips of a Huldra and her skin is soft to the touch. However, underneath her exterior, she has a flesh-colored tail that swings by her feet and has a tendency to wrap around her ankles, topped with a tuft of chocolate brown hairs and a single brown spot. On her back, her silky white skin distorts into rotten brown bark that encases a large, gaping abyss on her back.
Her body is rather plain, but she dresses it well with either leather and jeans or cotton and skirts, depending on her feeling. Her style flip-flops on the verge of badassery and Southern teenage church-goer. When she walks, she holds a suppressive air with her shoulders relaxed and her legs staggering, yet she holds her chin up in an air of authority. She has been known to vaguely smile at the queerest things, a smile that is almost imperceptible except for the slight twitch of her lips. Other times, she laughs loudly with a hiccup and dimpled cheeks. When she talks, it is of the lilting sort and is brief, telling what she needs to tell.

Personality:

Helena has always been considered the poster-child for a perfect Huldra. Her emotions are always in check, she never gets attached, and her independence is extraordinary so. When she says she will get something done, she will, and she speaks little, never letting others see into her thoughts. In all of the sense of the words, she is one of the Hidden Folk. Every fleeting thought is a secret and every secret is a fleeting thought, she is scholarly and studious and always questions authority when she needs to. Her heart is steel and unbreakable, hard and almost impenetrable. She thinks before she acts. However, Helena’s pessimism halts her ability to change. She is a seventeen year old girl, stuck forever as time passes by. She neither adapts nor relents, but is a stubborn rock being eroded by wind. Helena hardly learns from past mistakes and often lets her life rest in fate’s hands. She is brazen to the point of stupidity, but cowardly to the point of idiocy. Her morals are a point stuck in the middle of a compass, unable to do the right thing, but never the wrong thing either – she just sits, and thinks, and dawdles, until her choice is annulled. She is not carefree, but rather, careless, and is often prone to profound philosophical thoughts that usually questions the point of living. Helena survives, but she does not thrive. Yet, no one else can see it.

Hobbies:

-Studying
-Embroidery
-Cloud watching

Familiar:

Alf the Miniature Pig

Extra:

She is very close to her twin brother

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The Hidden Folk

Physical Description

The Huldra, or Hidden Folk, can look just like any normal human. Typically, the Huldra are female, but there have been known to be a male every once in a while – for every thirty females, there is one male born. They have no specific height set – though the average for women is 5’6” and the average for men is 6’2” – and they have no specific weight. They can have brown hair, or blonde; blue eyes, or green. However, they typically have features considered ideal: full lips, narrow face, pert nose, and high cheekbones. Physically, they always have a strong attractive appeal to others, whether it is by a magical residue that makes them seem more desirable or by a simple favor in evolution. Some believe that the Huldrefolk’s appearance is always adapting to social standards to allure their victims. Many report that their skin feels silky, like a soft branch freshly stripped of bark.

However, the Huldra have a few defining features that can lead others to identify them, though these identifications are usually hidden. All female Huldra possess a tail alike to a cow’s that swings around their ankles; Huldra have learned how to hide it beneath their clothes. Be cautioned if you see a Huldra’s tail – never tell them that their tail is hanging out, or even mention their tail, as they become extremely volatile upon the mention of it. Another significant identification is the gaping hole in their back. The hole is completely black, like an abyss, and is surrounded by rough bark that slowly smoothes into skin. Male Huldra do not have either of these features, but instead possess moss growing around their body as well as permanent smudges of dirt.

The Huldrefolk are not very fast, but are extremely flexible and inhumanely strong. A single female Huldra can wield the strength of ten men while a male Huldra can display the strength of five. The male Huldrefolk are seen as the weaker ones amongst the Huldra and are treated as second-class citizens.

Culture

The Huldrefolk have many practices, but they overall value independency. They do not care if a Huldra does bad or does good; they do not care about another Huldra’s morals, but instead they judge each other based on their independency. Complete loyalty is considered idiotic and optimistic: they preach others to be freethinkers and to question the system. However, at the same time, they wish for solitude and so they encourage the questioning of the system internally.

The Huldra are known for the hedonistic tendencies and often indulge in things that religious humans might consider sinful. Female Huldra often take many human male “companions” and are known to sleep around, but it is a general rule of the thumb to never invite these concubines into the family. It is considered disgraceful for a Huldra to actually fall in love with a male, be it human or not, and so Huldra are indirectly taught to be emotionless when it comes to such true affection. Humans are always kept in the dark about the Huldra and are often used without their knowing. Much of the supernatural world is kept in the dark about the Huldra considering the Huldrefolk’s emphasis on secrecy – but not necessarily trust. Huldrafolk rather solve it in-house than to air out their laundry and so much is not known outside of their society.

The Hidden Folk are quite hot blooded, but the rudest thing to ever do to a Huldra is point out her tail. The Huldra consider their tail to be a privacy not to show others and those that see it cause Huldra to be embarrassed and fly into a blind rage. It is almost an instinct – the best way to tell a Huldra her tail is showing is to say that her pocket is inside out, or her petticoat is showing – anything that indicates her tail but does not directly mention it.

Not much is known of their origins, though there is a belief that an old human woman once had 100 children, but she never cleaned them. Then, one day, God told her he would come and visit and so the old woman washed half of her children and hid the other half away. When God found out about her treachery, he cursed all of her children to always have to stay hidden.

It is of debate whether the aforementioned God is of the Christian faith or not, so many Huldra do not practice in religion since they do not know who to accredit their creation to.

Hierarchy

The Hidden Folk live in a matriarchy and many generations of female Huldra can live in one house. However, around the age of fourteen, male Huldra are casted out of the house to find a mate. The Huldra do not live in packs or covens, but instead they live in families of women. Direct descendents live with their ancestors until they wish to leave and create their own family, which might never happen since Huldra do not like the idea of being strapped down. The oldest is always the matriarch and, when she dies, the oldest after her reigns – there are no battles for power as Huldra do not like political feuds. Men are incapable of reigning.

Typically, a female Huldra has multiple concubines, but they never live with the Huldra and are kept unaware of their status as a concubine. This takes human males out of the equation; but male Huldra are usually never taken as concubines or husbands since female Huldra do not want any accidental inbreeding to occur. Male Huldra are often ignored by the others, but in rare cases, matriarchs will consider raising a male Huldra to full growth if she believes him to be worthy.

Health Information

While vampires feed on blood, the Huldrefolk have a specific diet that often leads others to see them as promiscuous. The Huldrefolk feed on hormones from humans and supernatural – the easiest to access for them is the sex hormones and so Huldrefolk tend to scam unsuspecting humans into bed in order to siphon hormones from them. Huldrefolk usually feed on testosterone, cortisol, estradiol, estrogen, progesterone, oxytocin, and vasopressin; though, in rare cases, Huldrefolk have been known to feed on adrenaline as well.

Many speculate that the reason the Huldrefolk are so protective of their tail is because the hairs have magical alchemical properties which have led the Hidden Folk to be hunted down repeatedly in the past. It is a law not to hunt a Huldra, but many poachers still do. However, the reason Huldrefolk are so protective of their tail is because if it is cut at the base, they die immediately. They cannot live without their tails and so they hide it.

The Huldrefolk stop showing outward aging around the age of twenty and will never look a day over for the rest of their life. Even so, their insides slowly age until they deteriorate and die. The longest Huldra lifespan was 300 years old, but the typical life range is 250.
On rare occasions, a Huldra may find herself in love – usually with a mortal who she had tried to seduce but had been seduced herself – and wish to marry. Unfortunately, if a Huldra ever marries, her tail will disappear and she will slowly die, unable to walk or move from bed. More often than not, a married Huldra will become delirious and insane upon her last days.