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Katazyna deVries

Created on 2008-09-21 08:32:44 (#16637760), last updated 2009-11-01

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Birthdate:	1986-01-17

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Warning: Before you proceed, this journal does contain adult content. The original concept is from the World of Darkness after all and not the World of Fluffy Bunnies.

Name: Katazyna Althea deVries II
Fandom: World of Darkness: Hunter, The Reckoning (OC)
Nicknames: K, Kate, Katja
Creed: Vengeance
Concept: Perfectionist

About Me

We’re not exactly human. Some believe us to be mages. Others think of us as chosen by some higher power. We aren’t quite certain, to be honest. All we know is that we’re hunters, it’s in our blood, and we’re here to protect you.

It, the power, remains dormant until our first contact with the supernatural. I remember the moment so clearly. I was eight and woken from my slumber by footsteps of my twin brother that normally slept just as a peaceful. I didn’t follow him at first, I probably should have, but when I did, I was so shocked by what I found that I quite literally froze in fear.

One of those leeches had latched itself upon my brother. Our sister, its first victim, lied dead upon the ground next to them. Ten years old. Can you imagine it? And it would’ve taken my brother’s life too if not for our father.

Frozen in fear with the realization of what’s truly out there, I was eight years old, and what followed was almost too much to bear. You begin to hear the whispers of the generations passed. You see things. You understand things. You wonder if you’re going crazy, but the truth was, we were just learning what the blood always knew.

And to be honest, I was the lucky one. My brother’s mind was so torn apart by that monster that he forgot just to exist after the countless hours of surgery and blood transfusions. We both shifted, taking on the first step, hearing those voices, and after a while it pushed him over the edge and into the grasp of another one of those damned leeches, but that’s a different story.

Fifteen years passed since that incident. I’ve been trained by the best, and I’m here because apparently, Existential Solutions missed a corner while in their search. Step lightly when crossing my path.

Existential Solutions: Take Back the Night

Existential Solutions is a biotech firm that specializes in hematology and advanced pharmaceuticals. Publicly, it’s as well known as the next medical company with no connections to anything supernatural except for the odd company name and motto: “Bringing you extraordinary.” Their studies are both innovative and progressive. Their chairman of ES’s main branch in Pittsburgh, PA is Isaac deVries, Katazyna’s father.

Underneath the veil, the deVries family are a lineage of hunters dating back dozens of generations. They specialize in the capture, study, and destruction of vampires.

Appearance and Personality

Katazyna is average and generally perceived as harmless. She speaks with a proper, mixed American accent, stands tall with designer, Prada heels (boots, usually), and walks with a posture and grace that defines her upbringing. This might come off as either arrogant or simply cultured, depending on the other’s point of view.

Strengths

deVries Initiation At first, it’s a cacophony. Thousands of voices, memories, assaulted me with no remorse due to age. Normally, this happens in a contained and controlled environment, after we turn eighteen, but I wasn’t quite so lucky. After a while, the voices lesson, you learn control, but there are moments when overwhelms. It comes in the forms of nightmares or waking visions. Multiple births is common amongst my family - so is the psychic bond, and this is just the beginning.

Simply Mortal I have a photographic memory and an extraordinary intelligence. Skill in the crossbow and shotgun are useful, but I prefer the sword or direct combat as taught to me by my father. It’s not to say that I’m fearless or headstrong about entering combat with a leech. I’m actually quite terrified, but knowing what is out there and that we are its last defense is enough to take that chance and hopefully survive.

Oh, and I’m quite good at the piano, singing soprano, and various forms of dance if you’d like the details.

Hunter’s Edge

Of Vengeance . . .

1. Cleave Father’s been known to use this one quite often. He’s a champion boxer, former Olympian for the US, medaled even. Mother was a spectator, but that’s a different story, too. It was the first thing I was taught because against any monster, it doesn’t matter how well we prepare ourselves, we’re still weak physically. Yes, there’s the element of surprise, but no one ever expects real, lethal, even deadly, contact from us.

Katazyna’s weapon of choice are her fists because carrying around her sword just looks strange in modern times. The glow is a dark red and feels like being struck by heated metal.

2. Trail My favorite way to hunt isn’t in large crowds or in group battles. I prefer finding the target, initiating the contact, and following them home. There are stories that this is one of the ways the bloodsuckers tend to prey on their food - get close, invite them back, kill, discard the body. Well, next time they might think twice about bringing home dinner.

With eye contact and a single touch, a connection is temporarily made with the supernatural and causes a trail to stretch in-between him and Katazyna. The trail cannot be felt, touched, or noticed by the supernatural and fades after Katazyna stops it.

3. Smoulder The most recent of gifts - by concentrating for a moment on the shadows around me, I can create a protective shell that nearly eliminates almost any perceptions of the enemy. "Taking back the night" in its true form. I'm still figuring out how to produce it. Most of the time it is out of fear of being hurt by those fangs again and transforming it into strength.

Smoke surrounds Katazyna and her target. Some of it appears from her but most of it is from the shadows around them. This dense smoke smoulders any perceptions of the enemy, making it difficult to see, sense heat, smell, or hear.
Of Innocence . . .

1. Hide Out of my cousins and siblings, I was always the underestimated one. There was a time when my father believed that I wasn’t worth his time or effort to train because I wasn’t the male, yet I kept our secret from my brother even at eight years of age. Often times, because of how I look and act, this occurs with the supernatural world as well. Both figure it out at some point.

Probably one of the stranger edges in RP, Katazyna becomes quite literally unnoticed by supernatural creatures. Such powers of the sight might work in finding her if the creature is older or more disciplined.

Of Judgment . . .

1. Discern Not every monster is a blatant, glowing thing that screams, “Hey! I’m a vampire!”, but after I learned this skill, I figured out how to lift that veil from over my eyes fully and see the world as it truly is. I wasn’t afraid at first. In fact, I was more pissed off than anything because I recognized what my best friends were and, more importantly, what my brother was becoming.

Katazyna can see in the dark and perceive through tricks of masquerading the person or other forms of hiding. Her eyesight is perfect. Seeing ghosts still creeps her out, but there’s that, too.

2. Burden An addition to my hunting method. You might believe that I’m innocent, worthless, and your pawn, but I can stop you. I will stop you. Trevor was said to have some supernatural speed due to being a bloodsucker, but my father’s will was stronger.

With eye contact, Katazyna can quite literally immobilize a supernatural creature. This doesn’t work on humans, or those possessed, but it does work on the bound (ghouls). Katazyna isn’t nearly as strong as she’d like to think, either, so not every creature is as easily suspended as she’d like to think.

Weaknesses

Marking (WoD: Ghoul / Blood Bond), turning, or any alteration of the natural state causes any deVries to become physically and supernaturally inept to the Edges - hence being recognized widespread as being tainted. The visions simply become warped nightmares. Any deVries that happens to see a supernatural with a Brand wouldn’t recognize it as such. Instead, it comes out as an uncomfortable sensation.

Because of the initiation, there are moments when Katazyna does not seem all there. Commonly called disassociation, there are brief moments when she no longer properly perceives reality, drifting into the network that binds the family together. While this has never occurred when in danger, probably because of being alert then, it does have its timing.

Katazyna’s views of the supernatural world are a little obscured, obviously. She only knows what was told by her family. Partially due to her imbuing and creed, Katazyna is obsessed with vampires, and there are no shades of grey, or even white, when it comes to their kind. All of them are black - evil, callous corruptive creatures that need to be destroyed - the younger ones just don’t get it yet, and redemption is a joke.

To further the above, Katazyna is territorial when it comes to her family. It’s downright creepy the level of what she will do to protect other deVries. This often times becomes a problem, as supernatural creatures that realized this have used her family members as pawns to get at the hunter, so that is why she is staying far from most of them.

So You Know . . .
I am not Katazyna deVries or Leighton Meester. This journal is so very fake and for non-profit, writing purposes. The abilities, called edges, follow the Edges portrayed in White Wolf’s “Hunter: The Reckoning”, but since she doesn’t play in any specific venue, there were some liberties taken to make the dot/roll system work in RP. (Plus it helps that the Time of Judgment never occurred).

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