Lamia

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Name: Cassiopeia "Cassi" Nikitas 

 Age: 24 Birthday: April 15th 1990

 Apparent Age: Early 20's

 Monster Type: Greek Lamia

 Glamour Item: Garnet Necklace

 Glamour-ed: Early 20's Greek girl with a mane of curly black hair, curvy Hellenistic figure and sparkling blue mischievous eyes. Around 5'6" and 128lbs

 Natural: Her upper body remains the same except for pointed ears, serpent yellow eyes and fangs with a long tongue. Her lower body becomes a long strong powerful tail covered in fine scales like an adder. Around 15'4" long and approx 348 lbs

 Natural Weapons: Tail/Coils, Razor sharp fangs

 Trained Weapons: None

 Grade:  Freshman

 Current Classes: Expressive Arts, History, Human Studies

 Passed Classes: N/A

 Current Points: 173

 Character Major: Elementalism

Weaknesses:

  Of the white berry: Lamia's are descended daughters of the goddess Hectate, but they embody her dark aspects. Because of this a Lamia cannot eat Rowan berries, a traditional berry used in protecting against black magic. If they do ingest them they fall terribly ill and catatonic, or if severe poisoning has occurred a Lamia can die. Thankfully the taste of rowan berries is usually so distinct that ingesting lethal quantities rarely occurs. As a side note Lamia's usually have terrible allergies whenever Rowan trees are in bloom.

  The glint of the moon: Not just for werewolf's the purifying properties of silver are a bane to the Lamia. Weapons made of it refuse to heal without proper attention and those clothed in it are immune to her charms and magicks. Also if bound in silver a Lamia will writhe in pain begging to be released as the touch of silver to a Lamia's skin is incredibly uncomfortable and leaves terrible welts and blisters.

Blessed Bane: A Lamia is a creature of darkness and the night at heart, and as such the blessings of light are an anathema to her. Holy water burns like an acid with intense pain, and they cannot advance upon those who wield a properly blessed holy implement held by those of faith. Interestingly against other followers of Hecate it becomes less of an anger or fear and more of a respect.

Major Skills:

Daughter of Darkness: Like most Lamia's Cassi has great affinity with dark or 'black' magicks. While she can only hex someone right now (Car won't start, blender breaks, bra hook snaps) she is sure to grow in power in the dark arts. 

 Coils of the serpent:   A Lamia is supernaturally strong, able to lift much more than her body size would suggest (about 300 pounds in one hand). But even more impressive is the strength of their coils which can exert tremendous pressure (approx. 900 psi)

 Dictate of Hecate:   A Lamia's voice is one of her most powerful weapons and tools. She can command mortals to follow her and do her bidding with only the most stalwart heroes able to outright resist her charms and whiles. It combines with her beauty to devastating effect, able to ensnare a mortal mind to her command as long as the command does not seem to outrageous at the time (ex. Go kill your king=fail/ "You'll protect me won't you?" in a pathetic voice and then setting it up so the king strikes her in anger and said mortal reacts violently= win). Against other supernatural's it is not nearly as powerful, although her idea's always seem so good at the time and her giving you a compliment does make you feel all warm and fuzzy 

Minor Skills:

 Form of Prey: A Lamia is a limited natural shapeshifter in order to better stalk her chosen prey, man. This appears identical to her glamour form and she can maintain this form indefinitely. While in this form a Lamia looses access to her natural weapons and incredible strength but retains her other abilities. She also loses the ability to inject her venom making it significantly less powerful. Lamia's are also exclusively female, using this form to attract a human male to mate with, and once the deed is done usually promptly devouring them.

 Rival of Hera:  Lamia's are very beautiful, supernaturally so. It doesn't matter if a person would normally find the physical aspect of a Lamia attractive their will always be an aspect of their form they find incredibly attractive. Obviously this works only so-so on other monsters but is particularly devastating to humans attracted to her gender.

 Drip of Ambrosia:  A Lamia's breath, no matter her form, smells deeply of saffron (Pro Tip for Monster Hunters: If the hot chick's breath smells of saffron DO NOT sleep with her). This is because a Lamia's saliva is a potent Dissociative Hallucinogen that causes numbness, arousal and a state of euphoria in humans, and lesser effects in other supernaturals that do not have tolerance to poisons. (In a human, high as hell, in another supernatural, a pleasant buzz). This allows a Lamia to literally bite chunks out of a person. It's important to remember that the toxin is in the saliva itself so she retains this ability in both her forms, although without her fangs she cannot introduce it easily into the bloodstream and therefore the toxin loses much of it's numbing qualities.

History:

Cassiopeia doesn't remember much of her mother. It isn't for lack of trying but more so that Lamia's reproduce like a cuckoo bird, hiding there offspring in a human family that shares enough similar looks and using magic to keep them in their mortal appearance until the proper time. All she knows of her mother is her name, Odessa, and the fact that her mother probably ate the Nikitas' families real daughter. She grew up a rather happy child, although she started as a classic pudgy youth by middle school she had transformed into a quickly developing Greek woman. She always felt different from her classmates and could always get them to do what she wanted (even at a young age her enchanting voice had manifested). By middle school she was one of the most popular girls in her school, but always it felt wrong. She never bonded with any of her classmates, and despite the adoration her looks gave her she always felt, Hungry, for something more, a gnawing emptiness inside her. 
     In 2004 her "parents" surprised her with a trip to the Olympic Games in Athens. The minute she stepped off the planes she felt an awesome power sweep through her, as if judging her worthy, and she felt closer to understanding herself than before, but something still eluded her. At the games she felt she had found it when she had a fling with a young Greek college boy, sneaking away to meet him and otherwise having fun, until one night when she slunk away for another tryst she found the boy on the beach with a young blonde. Anger and rage swept through her like she had never known as she fled towards a nearby sea cliff cave, and in the darkness cried and wept. And the darkness answered her, calling her Granddaughter of the Loins of Odessa, and offered to make her whole and give her a birthright. Cassiopeia agreed and readily drank the cup of venom put before her. Withing mere hours she awoke anew, eyes and senses returned and her mind as it was meant to be. Human beings were her prey, and her first hunt must begin. She went back to the beach once again in human guise but this time by choice and confronted the young man. She doesn't talk about that night, but the only thing the police ever found was his wallet and swim-trunks on the beach.

Personality:

    Cassiopeia is a predator by nature, albeit a very cunning one. She know that while at monster academy she will probably not to indulge in a true hunt, but see's it as an opportunity to further her own knowledge and power regardless. 

Role-play Info:

 Role-play Time: Swing/Graveyard, I am currently -7 GMT

 Role-play Example: (I prefer lit in chat, Skype or notes) Cassi smiled as she walked the halls, shaking her hair free as she effortlessly shifted back into her natural from, letting out a delighted sighing hiss as she felt her luxurious scales glide effortlessly across the ground. She smelled the air with her tongue, "Mmm now where to get a small snack that is deliciousssss" she grinded