In the present day, supernatural creatures have revealed their existance and struggle for acceptance. Supernaturals from all over the world flock to the UK for the basic rights and freedoms all should be allowed. As a result, the British countries have become forerunners in adjusting to a world where creatures of myth live like anybody else, with much of Europe slowly attempting to follow in their footsteps.
[attr="class","basicinfoappnotbold"]She has faint burn/brand-like scars around her neck, arms, wrists, and ankles like they're from shackles.
[attr="class","appcatbig"]PERSONALITY
[attr="class","appdarkminiheading"]LIKES
[attr="class","appdarkminiheading"]DISLIKES
[attr="class","basicinfoappnotbold"]Books Quiet nights in Art Music Dancing The outdoors Hiking Full moons Fighting Crafting
[attr="class","basicinfoappnotbold"]Loud noises Confined spaces Being restrained People in her space uninvited Undeserved arrogance Big open spaces Isolation Fire Feeling weak Losing
[attr="class","basicinfoappnotbold"]RESERVED - Reina doesn't often show the emotions that she feels and tries to keep that pretty close to her chest. She likes to be unreadable sometimes. She also just tends to keep to herself. She doesn't necessarily like it, but it just feels safer to her.
SELF-LOATHING - She has done a lot in her life that she is not proud of. Even the things that she is proud of are tainted. She doesn't like herself and is often just uncomfortable in her own skin as a result. Her kind are known for their pride, but Reina seems to be missing that part of her.
CONFIDENT - While not proud, she does have some confidence in herself - more in her strength and her ability to do better than she has done. She knows herself and though she hates herself, she knows how to be confident in some parts of herself. Where she is not confident, her low self-esteem can be almost crippling for her.
ANTISOCIAL - She likes being around people because it makes her feel normal, but she is not good at being around people. She's awkward and a little uncomfortable around them no matter how much she does want to be around them. Being around people is a comfort but anymore than being an anonymous face in a crowd is difficult for her.
JADED - She has been through a lot and she doesn't see much good in the world or most people anymore. She isn't surprised when things or people turn out to be shitty, it's just par for the course for her.
OVERPROTECTIVE - For people that she cares about, people close to her, and even family, she is incredibly overprotective. She will fight for them and do all that she can to keep them safe - sometimes she will do too much to keep them safe.
[attr="class","basicinfoappnotbold"]Reina remembers very little of her early life. She remembers a man and a woman, a tribe of women, but she was barely of age when she went into forced isolation. Her tribe had been infiltrated by demons, taken over by them. Their leader and her closest had been possessed and no one really noticed until it was too late. Anyone who questioned her was removed, she ruled her tribe with fear and an iron fist. It did breed a very specific kind of loyalty that young valkyries were being brought up under. Even Reina. It was something that had happened long before Reina was born. Those demons were taking young valkyries and offering them in deals as weapons, protectors, bodyguards, whatever the buyer wanted.
Reina was put with other young valkyries for training. They were kept separate aside from sparring matches, otherwise they had one on one training with older instructors. She doesn't really know how long she was there, she barely remembers those days and none of those memories are pleasant. Reina remembers one person very clearly. A demon named Typhon - the person who dealt for her. Typhon was interested in collecting rarities and in a way, Reina was just another rarity in her collection - at least, that's how it started. She was a rarity that could protect many of the others and Typhon herself.
For a while, things were fine, Reina would stay with Typhon and her rarities - both people and things - and she would keep them safe. The two were close, she was the only thing outside of her tribe that she'd ever really known. It was when Reina started to learn what else - who else - there was in the developing world, what else she could have were she not under the thumb of a demon, that things started to get turbulent. She started asking questions, getting curious, asking for more and more freedom. Typhon entertained it until Reina started making it very apparent that she wanted to leave. Permanently. That is when Reina was locked away - kept chained up like a thing more than a person. She was allowed few liberties but for the most part, she was treated like a captive. She doesn't really even know where she was. She was just there for what felt like forever.
She would live in this miserable isolation for centuries with no one but Typhon for company. Eventually, she would get desperate for any kind of freedom and Typhon would offer her an out. She could go if she would find her own replacement and condemn them to her fate. For a long time, she would refuse, but when her restrictions tightened because of what she was trying to do to herself, she broke. Typhon gave Reina 10 years to live on her own, to find someone that could replace her. Reina found another of her kind, a woman that she tricked into suffering and isolation so that she could finally be free. She thought that would be the last she saw of Typhon, but she was wrong.
Reina spent a long time after stealing someone else's freedom learning to live with it and the guilt that came with it. It took her a long time to get comfortable with it. When she finally did start feeling like herself - whatever that meant for her - she met someone named Caleb. He was a simple man, but he was kind and strong and Reina found herself very taken with him. It took them a while to fall together and she hid all of her past from him because she didn't want it to taint this. She just wanted to leave it behind.
It wouldn't stay there for long. When the couple decided to have a child, they would learn that Reina was infertile. Despite the numerous doctors' appointments, specialists who claimed to know more of her kind, and just about anything else they could think of, they started looking into surrogates. Reina realized that something more sinister was going on when surrogate after surrogate fell through or couldn't carry pregnancies to term. It was something that was putting a strain on their relationship, something that was threatening to drive them apart. So, Reina did the one thing she did not want to do out of desperation once again. She went to Typhon.
She offered to give her the ability to bear children in exchange for her. Typhon wanted her most cherished possession to come home and she'd set so many things into motion to ensure that she did. Reina begged that she at least give her the lifespan of her partner - a human in his early thirties - and then she'd come 'home' to Typhon. She thought she'd be happy for a little while, at least, that she might have happy memories to hold on to when she went back to the only home she'd ever known. It wasn't the case. Her secrets, her deal, all of it came to light when their daughter, Kara, was just two. Caleb left her and took their daughter. She's four now and Reina sees her every other weekend. Her partner will barely speak to her and she still has decades before she goes home. Typhon keeps offering her an out early, but she won't take it.
Something in her is determined to end Typhon, but she fears for her daughter - for what might happen to her should Reina fail. For now, she is trying to settle into something normal while she tries to solve a problem that is ticking closer to her every day. Or learning how to accept the inevitable.
[attr="class","appcatbig"]POWERS
[attr="class","appdarkminiheading"]SPECIES:
[attr="class","basicinfoappnotbold"]VALKYRIE
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[attr="class","basicinfoappnotbold"]» Power activation --// The true power, the strongest power of the Valkyrie is not readily made available to them at all times. These creatures operate at about fifty percent of their power in normal settings, putting them at the same level as a 'roided out Hulk Hogan. The rest of their power is only revealed in their true form because their human form cannot bear the wear and tear. They will not activate this power unless they absolutely have to. They are a proud race and prefer not to have to pull out the big guns to beat someone else.
» Inhuman Strength, Agility, and Stamina --// These creatures are very physically strong, fast, and able to carry on for hours, even more so in their true form. It's about 50% in the human form. They are still peak humans as far as much of this is concerned. .
» Adrenaline Driven Healing --// They have a regenerative healing that only seems to work when they are in the heat of battle or any other situation where their adrenaline may be pumping. More severe injuries take precedence over the minor ones. This tends to only activate when the true form of a Valkyrie is needed.
» Masters of War --// They are remarkable warriors and though they can be beaten, it is not easy to defeat them. Valkyrie are very, very reluctant to get seriously involved in the wars of other races. They might jump in for a few battles, but they work very hard not to truly invest in the causes of mortals. They know they will be exploited, treated as weapons rather than people, so they tend to avoid it all together. This has become increasingly difficult as they integrate more and more into human society.
» Flight --// They're very skilled flyers and are incredibly fast in the air. They very much need their wings to fly, however.
» Shifting --// They can shift freely, though like unicorns, dragons, and phoenixes they may be a bit reluctant to reveal what they are to anyone. They are able to partially shift and allow their wings to be shown with their human form.
» Rallying Cry --// They can call out in such a way that all Valkyrie within about a ten mile radius can hear them and can answer the call. These cries do not have to be answered and often times aren't unless the Valkyrie are just itching to jump into whatever is going on or it is one of their own tribe.
» Forging and Crafting Affinity --// They are extremely gifted weapon and armor smiths and a weapon crafted by a Valkyrie is one of the best you can get your hands on. The metal they use is unknown, but there are few better at this than the Valkyrie.
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Last Edit: Apr 21, 2022 12:31:25 GMT -6 by REAPERPOOL
