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Name:
Nefretiri (meaning beautiful creature or the beautiful companion)
Scripts: Nfrt-jrj (Notice how we had to add vowels)
Pronounced: nef-er-TEER-ee
Other Forms: Nefertari (the most widely used spelling of the name today...meaning she chose how to spell it in the Roman alphabet)

Alias:


Species:
Vampire

Age According to Appearance:
hmmm >16, but <28

Age According to years:
Saw the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt (Around 3100 BC)

Birthday:
I'll figure out the season eventually

Deathday:
>16, but <28 after her birth

Corresponding Historical Ages:
Early Dynastic Period though she was flexible with the changes into Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms

Relationship status:
Single

Nationality:
Ancient Egyptian


Homeland:
Egypt

Current Residence:
Wherever Barton Town is located in Gaia.

Appearance:
Height:
5’2” (which was average in Egypt back then)

Weight:
99 - 121 lbs

Skin Tone
"Her skin reminded him of the color of the chocolate on a Butterfinger, maybe a little lighter"

Physical Build:
That of a woman. Thighs and hips have some voluminousness to them, upper body is a little more lean, breasts are smaller than mine...

Hair texture/length:
Her hair is shaven, but the stubble is black. So this depends on the wig she wears. And as there is a lack on this subject that far back I will go with it as metal tweezers from that period have been discovered so her body could very well be mostly hair free as if waxed.

Hair Color: Black or whatever wig she has on.


Eye color:
Red (originally black)

Face Shape:
heart/inverted triangle I guess

Face Structure
lips are even in size


Education:
Self-taught, but she also learns things through her children

Languages: (will work on this section later)
Whichever she needs to know to get by

Major Areas of Study:
Historically: new ways to torment or frighten people.



Dream(s):

Playlist:
Lana Del Rey’s Once Upon a Dream


Other Skills of Note:



Current Occupation:
Zoo owner and Wild Life conservationist

Current Goals:
For her children to survive and thrive

Goals of her past:
Her home was probably already conquered by the time she met Eydis so at first to get it back, but I don’t picture her ever really getting it back the way she expects


Strengths:
Due to so many cat familiars Nefretiri has cat-like reflexes which make it hard to hit her even if her opponent can run faster than her. Her reflexes are probably more deadly now than in the past thanks to Ma Jianshen who has trained most everyone in that family in some form of martial art. (Which is actually what he was created for in part.)

She is a fast learner and often figures out how to do something merely by observing it. She may also suggest someone to ty to do something a certain way based on what she’s observed. But this could be a vampire trait as many seem to be quick learners. She doesn’t believe in letting any of her abilities go to waste even her weaker magic ones and tries to improve in it. She also imposes this belief on her children.

Weaknesses:
While age makes her wise sometimes she is rash in her decisions when she is angry or bitter. She also doesn’t like it when her children are better than her at certain things even though she does like for them to improve. For example she was a little bitter when she figured out Veni was better at manipulating shadows than she and she eventually conceded that Rosemary is a better tactician (largely due to her telepathy…though my mind suspects Eydis might be a better tactician as well).

Interests:
Even if she likes to dress up more like she did in the past at home, she is interested in somewhat keeping up with modern fashion, enjoys television, movies, going to the theaters for horror movies (those crowds get more than they bargained for...probably caused a few of those heart attacks I've heard about during the 1930s Universal Horror movies), and tinkering (maybe).


Dislikes:
Discrimination and Ignorance that causes it, genocides for sport or for considering oneself a superior race of animals or peoples, the misinterpretation of Darwin that led to morally excusable genocides and discrimination, unfamiliar vampires in her territory


Past Dislikes:
Discrimination and Ignorance, genocide


Personality:

Cruel
Vengeful
Proud
Callous
Malevolent
Calculating
Merciless
Determined
Domineering
Observant
Independent
Distrustful
Territorial
Commanding
Clever
Polite
Hard worker
Resourceful


Personality in the past:
(likely right before her troubles started)

Stubborn
Independent
Commanding
Clever
Fair
Polite
Determined
Proud
Observant
Cautious
Somewhat trustful


Temperament


Alignment:
(current) Lawful evil (well looking at all those descriptions she's mostly lawful with some neutral evil traits, however she will torture for pleasure which is like a chaotic evil.
(past) True Neutral

Lawful Evil Alignment Choice Explanation:
To try and explain her alignment for you to decide what she is I’ll explain some of her habits for in human/vampire view points it can be different.

Nefretiri is the head of her family and sees herself as such. She will listen to the opinions of and suggestions of her family, but in the end what she says goes. Sometimes she sees herself as the absolute ruler of them or at least as mother knows best, but after her long absence she is or will attempt to tone it down and see what happens. Though she is not above tormenting her kids for her own pleasures (some more than others and some she practically leave alone), she won’t tolerate others doing it without her permission. She wants her children to live and enjoy the pleasures that come with their true nature from time to time (which is one way she torments them sometimes unintentionally).

She is very distrustful to outsiders and will send them out of her land in terror or have them killed after torture. She moved to the ‘newer’ world to get away from them and have to deal with them less. She tolerates other vampires if their disappearance will cause them to be missed. Now that they are more numbersome and have come to the light of the public (that one line of cockroach vampires) she will tolerate them, but she sees them as ants individually unless they actually come close to her in power or age.

She typically follows human law in public, but in the shadows she will kill and possibly torment them in the process as they are her food. She will do this in a matter to not get caught by the humans and land herself in trouble in the eyes of the public. Like any humans with pets she can grow to favor some over others. She has no qualms with using vampires as a food source either and has been known to torment nonrelatives. Sometimes she’ll allow these vampire victims go for the sake of spreading rumors to keep them away. She is fairly practical with the way she eats humans if one thinks about it. She typically will feed on fear over blood. In doing so she isn’t competing with her children for food. They feed on the blood and she feeds on the terror, which leaves more blood for them. Unlike Rosemary who doesn’t intentionally severely torment the average person, Nefretiri is less selective and will go after whomever catches her fancy (if they’re disappearance wouldn’t result in too much attention).

Nefretiri does have her own moral code and laws which she follows. She typically does not lie. She is loyal to those she deems worthy of it. Her allies need not fear for their lives if they do not cross her or become unworthy of it. She will go out of her way to help them if in by doing so it isn’t disadvantageous to her children. An example in the case of Cian and his daughter, when she said she’d offer xenia she would carry it out but she would be merely tolerating them. They were relatively safe from her unless they did something that she thought insulting or against her or she realized they came from a family she couldn’t stand. For the first and second she’d probably kill them outright or torment them till they wished for death or she grew bored of it and then kill them depending on what they did, the latter she’d send them on their way to hold her promise of safety. Now that she knows they are Eydis’s children they’re actually better off as she’s even less likely to test her aura on them too much, insults would be dealt with less harshly (however if Cian was hostile towards her she’d deal with it most severely), and she’s not just tolerating them anymore. She now wants to play host for more than her children’s sake.

True Neutral Alignment Choice Explanation:
When Nefretiri lived in Egypt she didn't mind vampires visiting or settling from other lands as long as they didn't bother or oppose her. She did after all live in a major part of the world for people coming and going. Thus she never killed any of her kind unless they harmed her status quo. Nefretiri rarely lied then as she maintains now.

She enjoyed the laws which gave her more freedoms than women of other cultures...until Egypt was conquered and the belief was pressed about the lowliness of women. While in her glory years many native humans knew about her and some held her at a god like status for what she was. She very well could have believed this to some extent back then as Pharaohs were saw as gods. This resulted in her having several human followers whom she treated well and would sometimes bring into her family. Thus when she tormented someone it was a convict and thus rarely harmed innocent people. Otherwise she only did so when she was hungry, but her position allowed her to live comfortably.


Mentality:
Observant, perceiving, proud, bitter

Humor:
Smart, sarcastic, gallows, and somewhat sadistic when she is the cause of the suffering


Family:
Veni
Rosemary
Ma Jianshen
Dan
Daisy
And others whom are never named/mentioned


History:

As a vampire Nefretiri always had a dark aura and slightly ominous voice, but she rarely needed to use them and when she did it was for feeding purposes. She once enjoyed the company of others: visiting vampires and humans alike. She enjoyed watching people progress over time...until...

Phobias and fears:
Past:
Somewhat recent past: *coughyoungerblackmncough*
Current:

Non-Vampire Abilities:
painting magic symbols (possibly runes) on her skin for protection, a spell that completely destroys evidence (victim's body. maybe learned from Eydis XP), other minor magic things she's picked up...

Vampire Abilities:
Fear Aura, possibly pain aura, and potentially a lesser shadow puppeteer. The fear aura allows her to easily figure out another's anxieties. Enhanced catlike reflexes. Chilling voice that she can use to manipulate ones emotions. Fast earth diver.

With her ominous voice and aura combined she is able to place dread and uneasiness in a normally calm and levelheaded person. The downside of this skill is that she practiced/used it so much she no longer knows how to fully stop doing it as it is second nature to her. Even while toning it down she has to be careful to not slip into her habits. She is able to use these to better convey her negative emotions (like instances of rage, bitterness, helplessness, despair, etc) in her story telling and invoke them in her audience to have them know how she felt. She will do some of this (esp the stronger emotions) without intending to while normally speaking.


Matriarch Vampire Abilities:
Knows the general location of children with a mere thought (as we have multidimensions/worlds this is limited to worlds one has been on)
Can sense when child dies or is in distress
Can sense a child's well being by touching them (this works sometimes on nonchildren)

Familiars:
All members of the subfamily panthera except black panthers and some
Felinae such as those in the genus Acinonyx (cheetah) and Puma (cougars/mountain lions). Basically the large cats

Special Notes:Things like crosses don't bother her much depending