| Sharna Hikari | Knight Bloodline Inheritor | Vampire | Hunter |
"Stumbled upon me by accident? That's all right, we can sit down, have a nice chat. I like good conversation. Provided I'm not working a job, then you're getting in my way which is generally not a good idea. If your 'stumbling upon' me was intentional that tends to mean one of two things: You have a job for me to do or you've come to kill me. If it's the former I'm all ears. The latter I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. Death never could keep a grip on me."
[ Indie oc, not linked to any fandom. Formerly notinitfortheglory ]
RULES & OOC –––––
IMPORTANT: If you cannot/will not rp with Sharna then no, you aren't writing with my boys. I am tired of female muses being ignored and m/m relationships being used to satisfy a fetish.
1. My name is Shay. You are more than welcome to address me by it. I am 23 years old.
2. NSFW material will occur here (Sex, gore, violence ect) as well as triggering material. Smut will be placed under a read more, any nsfw images that may be reblogged will be tagged as such, triggers will also be tagged but I am human and therefore sometimes forgetful. I apologise in advance if I unintentionally cause someone distress. Also if there is something you wish for me to tag, do not hesitate to tell me!
3. Please when following keep in mind Sharna’s species and profession. Blood, violence and gore are likely to be abundant. And in threads at least, it will slip my mind to tag it.
4. On smut: I will not write it with minors. Yes, I'm aware we've probably all written it before we should've, that's besides the point. Fade to black or otherwise implied sexual activity will go in its place.
5. Whilst I don’t have much in the way of content that upsets/distress/bothers me in any way, I would be grateful if anyone I followed tagged posts concerning animal cruelty, especially or just specifically graphic images. I work/study around animals, some of which come from owners/collections that have mistreated them. It’s harrowing in that environment, I like to take a break from it.
6. I live in England and as such run on GMT… However my sleeping pattern is very inconsistent and as I am currently out of college for personal reasons, I could be on at any time at all.
7. I am painfully shy and sometimes struggle to approach the people who have followed me, I’ll probably get there eventually but if I don’t please, please, please do not hesitate to hop into my ask if you wish to plot or else communicate.
8.I'm pretty much always lurking somewhere. If you need to reach me links are below. If I'm not on any of them I'll likely be on Skype, which you are free to ask for off anonymous.
9. As a note: I suffer from depression, anxiety and C-PTSD, I am currently having therapy and take medication to deal with my mental health. For any days where I am not in the most pleasant of moods because of them, or have no desire to do anything at all on here, I apologise.
10. I can post a few ooc posts some days (And also very few at other times.). I like to communicate ooc, it makes it easier for me to rp with people if I feel I can approach the muns. If this bothers you then by all means blacklist my ooc tag.
11. I am open to rping with everyone, regardless of fandom (Or lack thereof). All I ask is that you have a decent amount of information available for your character, whether a bio on your blog or a link to an external information source. However please do keep in mind that whilst I am open to rping with anyone, I cannot rp with everyone. Writing styles don't always match, nor characters flow well together and I'd rather not stress myself by having far too many replies to do.
12. Please, no godmodding. My character is my character and yours is yours.
13. I am somewhat forgetful. I’ll draft a reply and may not remember to get to it, or spot a response on my activity page and forget to add it to my drafts. I am also a rather slow replier. I do not mind a little reminder that I have not replied for a while, but do not badger me for a response.
14. Do not be passive-aggressive towards me. I had a partner do this to me and a friend and it was distressing and infuriating. Please, if you have an issue with me just come to me.
15. This blog is multiverse and multiship. (But see this post for notes on shipping: X~) Never force a ship on me. Planned out and agreed to one-sided ships are fine. But please do not harrass me and my muse if I've told you I'm uncomfortable.
15.1. That being said, there is ONE exception to the multiship rule. Setka is single-ship exclusive with Vlad. I will not be romantically shipping him with others, sorry.
16. I do have one major peeve: Please, for the love of all that’s holy, DO NOT have your muse provoke Sharna if you are not prepared to deal with the repercussions. It’s happened often enough that I have to put this here. Sharna has a short temper and violent streak. She is volatile and may not react or may completely flip. She is a killer, she is not human and she can and will attempt to harm a person if they spark her anger. If you’re fine with this occurring then by all means: Let your muse poke at her, I welcome it. But if not they do not have this happen because I will have no choice but to not reply to the thread.
17. Also please note Sharna suffers with a mental illness: Paranoid Personality Disorder. Specifically of the Insular and Malignant variates. This means she may react in extremes in situations that trigger her paranoia. This may be distressing to some people, as may be the mental illness in itself (As I am aware mental illness is a sensitive topic for many people, myself included.) I have researched this condition thoroughly and continue to do so, and hope I portray it respectfully.
18. On that, please be aware that if on a ‘bad day’ or if something unexpectedly triggers her PPD, if she feels threatened Sharna will react with violence. She is practically always armed in some way. And even if she isn’t… Well, you can imagine her teeth are rather lethal. There is an alternative to violence should something stir reactions held from her childhood, she will just completely shut down, leaving her very vulnerable.
19. Due to the fact Sharna exists within a world I have built up, other characters of mine do pop up here and can be interacted with if you should wish (And sometimes due to plots, they will be the only ones around should Sharna be out of commission.), details on them can be found under ‘The Others’ on my sidebar.
20. As some of those characters are male and interested in men I would like to point out I will not rp mpreg. I attempted to in the past and simply found I was too uncomfortable with it. So sorry I will not be rping it. If a m/m ship should arise and get to the point where children are considered, they will have to be gained through adoption or via using a surrogate.
21. I recommend taking a gander at my verses page, you do not have to, but sometimes I elect to play different versions of my muse depending on whom I am interacting with or when the whim strikes. In particular, I use my human!verses quite often. (Especially with characters from universes were the supernatural is simply myth and folklore (Unless a person would like to stick with a vamped-up Shar.))
22. Reblog karma is not something I uphold. If I reblog a meme and you wish to reblog it but don’t want to send anything/ can’t think of anything to send/ it’s not something applicable to our muses, go right ahead. And if I want to reblog a meme from you but it's something that would not work between our muses, I'll likely send something in for another meme when one is reblogged.
22. Please cut your posts! This isn't just an irritance for me but it honestly makes my dash glitch on occasion. If your replies are trailing so long it's a mile of block quotes followed by barely-readable text, I will have to unfollow.
24. Mun is an absolute nerd of the oology and palaeontology variety. I try to keep my geek outs to my person but sometimes they slip in here, sorry!.
Background image credit for main theme here.Other blogs:
I did have numerous other rp blogs but they're all inactive, with most charaters moved here as side-muses since they're all part of the same universe.
IMPORTANT!
Please, please do not take my icons unless they have been uploaded in icon dump posts. I spend a lot of time making them. However if you ask me if you can use an icon not in any of those posts, then I may be willing to allow you to. Likewise if you ask me to make you icons, I am more than happy to do so if I have the time/material.
That said not every icon here is mine. If they aren't, they've come from icon posts on Tumblr or hollow-art. Do check those out because you'll likely find the resources you want.
Thank you for reading. ~ Shay
THE VAMPIRESS
"I am not what I am." - William Shakespeare (Iago, 'The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice' Act I, Scene I.)
Name: Sharna Adrienne Hikari
Known As: An incredible number of aliases. Her real name is a seldom given thing, and if it is given it it usually only her given/first name. She took a liking to be called 'Live Wire' a homage to her volatile temper and alert nature. (The giver of this name did not know that she was almost literally a 'live wire', although the name is also fitting given her abilities). She often adopts the forename 'Lyssa' too, tribute to the Greek spirit of mad rage; once more poking a joke at the temper she's well aware she has. A specific name she often adopts is Alexandria Woodgrove.
Species: Vampire/ 'Cold One' (Or whatever a person prefers to call them.) and not strictly a species, but a member of the Knight Bloodline
Birthday: October 25th
Age: 30, Although, she physically appears 20.
Birth Place: Carlisle, Cumbria. (Simply put: England.) However Bowness-On-Windermere was her hometown.
Current Residence: Portland, Maine, The United States. Or 'The Manor'. It alternates.(Verse Dependant)
Parents: Ebony Knight (Mother, deceased.) and Shiro Hikari (Father, deceased.) Raised by her Godfather Norio Hikari.
Siblings: Salem Hikari (Twin Brother)
Maker: Theo
Progeny: N/A
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 110 lb (Underweight for her stature, and it does implicate her in several ways, but her kind carry far more power than their build would have most believe.)
Occupation: Hunter, first and foremost. When money is tight she will extend to taking average, human targets. Providing they meet certain specifications.
Personality: A complicated thing, Sharna's true personality tends to be hard to pin down given her habit of putting on an act. She is a compulsive liar - a talented one at that - and most lies she gives tend to be as believable as the true save to a select few who either know her better or are simply excellent at distinguishing true from false. Sharna is distrustul in the extreme, it is partially down to the mental condition she suffers from (PPD), and partially down to her job and lifestyle. Someone like herself can't afford to simply trust anyone, and she's learned not to. She herself is also a difficult creature to place trust in although her generally friendly and polite persona would suggest otherwise, of course. To the few who can trust her and whom she trusts in return she is deeply loyal. Her temper is fierce and not something lightly reckoned with, though true outburts are more difficult ot obtain, she is quick to irritate and snap at the source of her frustration. When her anger is truly flared, she can be incredibly violent, something her usually grinning exterior would not suggest. Sharna is a vengeful being and does not forget those who cross her or her loved ones. Her pride can be a vice too, prde is the thing that stops her admitting she truly needs help, it prevents her from backing down when feeling overwhelmed, despite how generally cautious she tends to be, coupled with her stubbornness sometimes she does not quit when she truly should. Her profession and constant research have left her highly analytical, with a keen eye for deciphering people, places and things, and has also left her with a habit of people watching too, but she does not seem to care if it bothers others.
As noted above, she is deeply loyal to those she loves - however few there are - and would stop at nothing to keep them safe. On top of this, she would never harm a child, nor an animal. Her more negative behaviours are solely aimed at other adults. This can perhaps be put down to the warped sense of justice she has, a desire to 'properly' punish those that have caused harm (Or continue to.) and get away with it or get off too lightly. Her job is to kill monsters after all, and she sees them amongst every sentient species.
A note on her Paranoia: it is something she is very susceptible to, given she suffers from PPD. It fuels her distrust, adds to her tendency to lie and general makes her reactions to certain stimuli unpredictable. On most occasion she will not believe anything is wrong with her - as most suffers of PPD do not - but there are occasions where she will acknowledge her behaviour and reactions are not what they would be if everything about her mind was neurotypical.
Biography: Born in North Western England to Shiro Hikari— a hunter, and Ebony Knight, Sharna's father was left to raise his infant daughter alone when Ebony's life was claimed by the eclampsia she had been fighting throughout her pregnancy. Sharna recalls little from her earlier days, as is the case with young children, but what she remembers is usually positive. Right up until she was three years old.
What exactly occurred that day, Sharna cannot say. All she remembers is being told to hide by her father, taking his jacket to make herself feel safe before ducking under her bed. She waited and waited, but her father did not come for her. Instead another man did. He was kind and gentle, but something about his presence terrified the young girl until she took his hand. It was warm, inhumanely so, as if a furnace burned away inside of him and bled through his skin pleasantly. From him, Sharna learned her father had died, something the man was sorry he had not arrived in time to stop, but he had saved her, and would continue to watch over her. His name was Raziel, and he was a Celestial. Why such a creature would be watching over her, Sharna has still yet to figure out, but his presence is always something she is grateful for, no matter how much she denies.
From here, Sharna was taken into the care of Norio Hikari, an American cousin of her father's. Whilst Norio had apparently presented himself well to Shiro, he was anything but the kind man he had appeared to be. He was cold at best and cruel at worse. A hunter himself, Norio was an entirely different breed to his cousin. He was brutal in his methods, merciless and relentless; he indoctrinated Sharna from the time she came to be in his care, teaching her 'monsters' were objectively bad and needed to be extinguished and it was there job to do so. He began training her from a much too young age, teaching her how to exorcise, fight and kill any non-human that may come her way. Failure was not tolerated, disobedience was dealt with harshly. Abuse was the norm for Sharna, however carefully she tread around her godfather, he was a physically and verbally violent man with a quick temper. And for all she had an angelic guardian, Sharna seemed to have been left to endure most of these assaults, rarely would Raziel appear and when he did it was often only after Norio had grown bored of his assault.
Sharna learned how to keep her godfather happy in her early teen years— kill, and kill well. At fourteen she brought her first inhuman, a werewolf. The sight and shock of what she had done made the young girl vomit, but the praise it earned from godfather made her feel valued, happy, and so she quickly took to her lifestyle in the hopes of earning his approval and affection, it meant the man had her right under his thumb, willing to follow his every order.
This control slowly began to fade when at eighteen years of age, Sharna met Liam Garcia. He was five years her senior, and a soldier. The attraction was immediate on her part when she saved both him and his sister, it came more slowly for him, though the young woman eventually managed to secure a date. From their their relationship picked up rapidly, and Liam helped her break free of the abusive hold her godfather had on her, whilst being careful to ease her into a more normal life ot at least easing her into a more normal life outside of her hunting.
It was a year later, when disposing of a body that Sharna met Theo. An incredibly old vampire, he 'rescued' her from a younger member of his species that had managed to catch her off guard. He took an alarming interest in the young woman, for multiple reasons he usually keeps private. But whatever they were, he quickly became obsessed, stalking and tracking her for a year. Until he apparently couldn't help himself any longer and just a few days after her twentieth birthday, Theo attacked Sharna after she returned to her motel room after a hunt, bringing her near death via strangulation being force-feeding her his blood. He watched with glee as Sharna writhed in agony as the transition from human to vampire began. Since then Theo has always tried to maintain some sick, deluded claim over her, jealousy and possessiveness driving him to murder Liam a few years later. Their relationship is unhealthy, and Sharna is terrified of her Maker, though she is reluctant to admit it.
Vampirism brought with it benefits, however difficult the adjustment was for someone brought up to hate 'monsters'. It made Sharna stronger, faster, more agile, and gave her the ability to heal quickly amongst others things. They were advantageous to a hunter, and whilst the bloodlust is still hard to tame for a vampire of her age, Sharna utilised the skills her species brought from the moment she learned to use them— although sometimes she will still forget her strength outside of combat.
Her life continued as it always had once she had her vampirism largely under control, spending most of her time hunting or doing research for a potential job. However, at around the age of twenty-six the immortal began to notice she could do things normally beyond the capabilities of vampires. It first manifested as static shocks when there was no place she could have received them, tingling beneath her skin on the odd occasion, and unintentionally frying the wiring in her old television. The ability she would soon learn to be called electrokinesis. These powers she currently manages to keep hidden. This came from her mother's bloodline; whom whilst human were not entirely 'normal'. Sharna would later learn that these abilities stemmed from a deal made with one of the Greek Gods of Death: Thánatos. What the deal entailed, Sharna does not fully know, only that the firtborn is promised to Death as a 'servant' of sorts, and that she is the 'final game piece' as she is the last to be been and given her premature death before she could procreate, the last to ever come about, and this infuriates her to no end. She has no intention of being a personal puppet of death, even if that's all every other creature is to him. But it's so much more so with her bloodline, she just had the unfortunate luck of being born (and then dying when she did.). She believes this to be the reason Raziel had been watching over her (albeit rather poorly.)— to keep her out of Thanatos' grip for whatever reason. Whether she is right or wrong in that assumption remains to be seen, the archangel still hangs around, but does not always come when needed.
Sharna has plenty more to worry about, a woman like herself is never short of enemies, a lifetime of killing tends to put a person on a lot of hit lists themselves. She likes to think what she is doing is 'right'. She still deals with monsters— some of them just happen to be human. She still saves lives— some of them just happen to be supernaturals. It's a twisted sense of justice, and a thankless job. But she's not doing it for the glory or some sense of heroism. It simply has to be done, and if no one else is willing to do it, she might as well do so whilst trying to achieve her goal of having a family and avoiding being death's bitch.
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ABILITIES AND WEAKNESSES
Sharna possesses abilities that the rest of her species do:
- Superhuman strength
- Superhuman speed, agility and reflexes.
- Enhanced senses, it makes her kind excellent trackers and hunters.
- Immortality and advanced regenerative abilities
- Hypnotic abilities, commonly known as 'glamouring' or 'compulsion'
- Vampires have the ability to have a 'clarity' of mind beyond humans. Meaning memories that would usually be fuzzy to them (Like early childhood ones.) are more vivid to them. It also allows them to recall things very quickly.
- Magical knowledge, althought rarely put into use beyond curse and hex breaking.
- Night Vision: Vampire sight is well attuned to the dark. They can see in colour like several other species (Such as several types of bats, aye-ayes ect.)
- Supernatural allure: Manifests in different ways in vampires, but all serve to make them 'attrative' to humans. With Sharna, her 'pull' is in her voice.
Enzyme Production: Vampires can produce a unique enzyme than when passed from their saliva into a victim's bloodstream when bitten, nullifies the pain of bite an instead makes it pleasurable.
Her 'heritage' also means she has abilities unique to herself:
- ELECTROKINESIS/Quintekinesis: This is cellular, she doesn't need a external electrical source to utilise it, although she still can manipulate electrical energy via that means.
- Dream manipulation/walking
- Resurrected: Whilst Sharna can be killed, her family's contract with Death means that within a short span of time (A day to two weeks.) she will be revived, body resotred to how it was before being fatally injured.
Weaknesses
- Dead Blood is highly toxic to vampires
- Strong sunlight- she does not ‘burn up’ but, it weakens her and she burns fairly easily.
- Vampire Blood: Vampires find the sharing of their blood highly intimate, but it can drive them into a frenzy of either bloodlust or euphoria if consumed too often.
- A strong Telepath or Psychic can undo her glamouring and force her out of a person's mind if she 'dream walks.'
- Her own temper can be used against her, as her usually rather rational mind becomes completely irrational.
- Decapitation/Beheading- This kills her species outright and is one of few ways of actually killing them
- Various means of dampening electrokinesis. (Such as inhibitor collars.)
- The bite of a Werewolf can be somewhat lethal; it leaves her kind feverish, aching and can comatose them. Their blood is toxic to them too.
- The 'touch' of an Angel can kill them; this does not mean they will die simply if an Angel lays a hand on them, but if the celestial being channels its 'light' throughout itself then they can disintegrate a Vampire.
- Photokinesis (Manipulation of light energy.); given their weakness to sunlight and the fact this skill utilises light in many forms it can be used to severely burn them.
- A blade of Heaven can be used to kill them without decapitation.
- Heat: Like all vampires she has difficulty coping with powerful warmth.
- Fire. A vampire can be burned to death.
- Water: Only applies when her electrokinesis is in its active mode. As the electricity Sharna generates in her body is negative, meaning exposure to water makes her 'short circuit'.
- Siren blood can be used in a similar fashion as human 'date rape' drugs.