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User Name/Nick: Allison
User DW: N/A
E-mail: allisonhodges2@gmail.com
Other Characters: Armitage Hux, Gortys, Betelgeuse
Character Name: Nadja
Series: What We Do In The Shadows
Age: Unknown but presumably somewhere between the ages of 400 to 700 based on the earlier Elizabethan portraits and that she identifies herself as Romani in origin.
From When?: From when the vampiric council sentences her, her husband, and her roommate to die in a well.
Inmate/Warden: Warden! Nadja is a soulless murderer who sucks blood from helpless-
Wait. Warden?
Warden! Nadja is a driven taskmaster who is not too bothered by immoral people, owing something to a dark nature herself. She loves to help stupid little baby mortals who don't know what they're doing to be better than what they are and will shout down even the toughest among them. She's scarily focused, difficult to sway, and has the patience of hundreds of years of having to listen to squabbling around her. Having humans who technically can't die will be a nice change of pace for Nadja, who normally finds humans to be sadly very breakable.
Item: Nadja's item is her mother's pendant.
Arrival: N/A
Abilities/Powers: Nadja is a vampire. She must drink blood to survive and can't eat or drink anything else; she avoids sunlight, garlic, crucifixes, holy water, and churches, and can be killed by a stake through the heart. She cannot go into other people's homes or businesses without invitation.
In exchange, she has super strength, can turn into a bat or a pile of rats at will, hypnotize mortals, can fly in a human form, and can crawl up buildings. She gets around the invitation limitation by directly hypnotizing people into letting her in.
She also has a strange ability to cause mortals to remember their past lives.
Personality: In general, vampires tend to be selfish, violent, and extremely old-fashioned. Nadja is all of these, but she also tends to have undertones of sweetness, even legitimate kindness at times, but can also be the most violent of the three main vampires if pushed into a rage. She has a strong Slavic accent, and uses it very sarcastically.
Nadja in particular adores music. Before she was turned into a vampire, she was a professional throat singer on her island and still regularly throat sings. Her husband Laszlo is an accomplished musician and the two like to play together. However, she hasn't done a particularly good job of keeping up with the times and so her throat singing doesn't gain much traction these days outside of vampire circles.
Nadja has a soft heart for girls being bullied, even human girls, primarily because they remind her of herself as a young girl. She is the only one of the vampires shown turning a human into one of their own kind, and mainly because Jenna was being teased, ignored, and picked on by her LARPing group. She considers it a very dark and special gift to give someone, not a curse to be pitied. Nadja takes Jenna under both metaphorical and literal wing and is a caring and comforting big sister figure for her. She cheers on her baby vampire and can be supportive, even ecstatic, when Jenna first realizes her powers. However, she, like most of the out-of-touch vampires, can be insulting without meaning to or understanding why until it's explained to her.
Nadja is much more superstitious than even other vampires; she fully believes in seances and ghosts and curses, and more often than not is proven right. She doesn't like other people messing around with things they can't understand and is disgusted whenever Laszlo's cursed hat comes into play, having tried to throw it out many times. It will literally keep crawling back.
Nadja likes to have sex a lot, especially but not exclusively with her husband, and both seem accepting about this arrangement to a point; she is at the very least bisexual and possibly pansexual, having taken many men and some women into her bedroom over the centuries. Despite numerous affairs with her spiritual soulmate Gregor, Nadja adores Laszlo and is very supportive of him, even forsaking Gregor to go save her husband after he trapped himself in a cage. She enjoys posing in alluring positions for artists, but does not like to be objectified. She has a hair-trigger temper for very specific subjects (namely things like burning down her village or derogatory comments on her appearance), and while it is possible for her to jump from calm to murderous, she more often than not will react to things with far more wordy sarcasm than her overly murder-eager husband Laszlo (aka Jack the Ripper) or pillaging roommate Nandor the Relentless.
Nadja is comparatively the kindest of the three main vampires. While she is still vicious by nature, she takes effort to remember Guillermo's name once corrected (Laszlo refers to him constantly as "Gizmo" despite being corrected numerous times), has shown genuine respect to most other human people she isn't immediately killing and eating, and is nicer to psychic vampire Colin Robinson than anyone else. She also forces Laszlo into a church in support of Nandor despite them all literally catching on fire as they sit in the pews attending a funeral service for Nandor's relative.
She is notably the least aristocratic of the trio, having been born poor with many brothers and sisters. Nadja tends to feel things on a more emotional level than the others in her home, having periods of intense, mopey sadness whenever her lover Gregor is reincarnated and subsequently murdered. She has a warped but definite sense of playing fair, and if something is agreed upon (like a vampire-werewolf treaty), she will do her best to uphold and honor it. Even if it is stupid. Her room is full of taxidermied animals that have all been killed by either her or her husband based on various slights against her.
Nadja has lived long enough to understand it's better to get along with humans and fly under the radar with the whole vampire thing, and has allowed camera crews to come into her home to film all of them for a documentary. It's not typically something seen in 'The Old Country' where vampires are far more indiscriminate in who they snack on, but Nadja does her absolute best to protect her people, be they humans or vampires.
Barge Reactions: Nadja has lived for so long that a new change of pace or environment, even in space, will only be met with a surprised but enthusiastic praising for humans who have finally made it beyond the stars. She, like most vampires, are slow to adopt technology because none of it seems to last long enough to get used to it, but willing to eventually learn, so anything new or odd is likely to be filed among Betamax and 8-Track portion of her brain.
Two interesting things of note: Nadja will definitely be on the hunt for a familiar - a type of human slave to vampire whims - and she may also eventually latch onto someone on the ship under the assumption that they are Gregor, her reincarnated lover. May put out an OOC note asking for a potential person to both of these.
Path to Redemption: N/A
Deal: Nadja would like the Admiral to help her, her husband, and her roommate out of the well before the sun rises and kills them all, please and thank you.
History: Stupid bloody pigshit
Sample Journal Entry: Link!
Sample RP:
That stupid bloody chicken is looking at her. Shitting all over the deck. And no one is here to make it go away; no familiar, no Laszlo, not even a camera crewman to hypnotize into wringing its neck.
Nadja taps her fingertips against her face, propped up by her hand. She could kill it. Do chickens come back? Would anyone care if this one died? She doesn't know the rules of this place yet, and for all she knew this could be someone's beloved pet. Humans have odd choices in animals. She approves of dogs, and tolerates cats when not in her bat form, but chickens are stupid, noisy animals more so than every other stupid, noisy species she could care to name.
"Hello? Chicken?" She calls to it to lure it over, trying to think of good chicken traits to stop her from doing something she may regret. The thing is, she's a little bit bored and has not found anyone she is willing to take to bed yet, and there is no inmate waiting for her. Only this chicken.
Who is not listening to her.
Fuck it, fine. Nadja stands up, walks over, and with a final rip, rends the chicken in two.
And plops back down, unsatisfied and irritated with herself for losing her temper.
Special Notes: Be strong, sweet little ones.
User DW: N/A
E-mail: allisonhodges2@gmail.com
Other Characters: Armitage Hux, Gortys, Betelgeuse
Character Name: Nadja
Series: What We Do In The Shadows
Age: Unknown but presumably somewhere between the ages of 400 to 700 based on the earlier Elizabethan portraits and that she identifies herself as Romani in origin.
From When?: From when the vampiric council sentences her, her husband, and her roommate to die in a well.
Inmate/Warden: Warden! Nadja is a soulless murderer who sucks blood from helpless-
Wait. Warden?
Warden! Nadja is a driven taskmaster who is not too bothered by immoral people, owing something to a dark nature herself. She loves to help stupid little baby mortals who don't know what they're doing to be better than what they are and will shout down even the toughest among them. She's scarily focused, difficult to sway, and has the patience of hundreds of years of having to listen to squabbling around her. Having humans who technically can't die will be a nice change of pace for Nadja, who normally finds humans to be sadly very breakable.
Item: Nadja's item is her mother's pendant.
Arrival: N/A
Abilities/Powers: Nadja is a vampire. She must drink blood to survive and can't eat or drink anything else; she avoids sunlight, garlic, crucifixes, holy water, and churches, and can be killed by a stake through the heart. She cannot go into other people's homes or businesses without invitation.
In exchange, she has super strength, can turn into a bat or a pile of rats at will, hypnotize mortals, can fly in a human form, and can crawl up buildings. She gets around the invitation limitation by directly hypnotizing people into letting her in.
She also has a strange ability to cause mortals to remember their past lives.
Personality: In general, vampires tend to be selfish, violent, and extremely old-fashioned. Nadja is all of these, but she also tends to have undertones of sweetness, even legitimate kindness at times, but can also be the most violent of the three main vampires if pushed into a rage. She has a strong Slavic accent, and uses it very sarcastically.
Nadja in particular adores music. Before she was turned into a vampire, she was a professional throat singer on her island and still regularly throat sings. Her husband Laszlo is an accomplished musician and the two like to play together. However, she hasn't done a particularly good job of keeping up with the times and so her throat singing doesn't gain much traction these days outside of vampire circles.
Nadja has a soft heart for girls being bullied, even human girls, primarily because they remind her of herself as a young girl. She is the only one of the vampires shown turning a human into one of their own kind, and mainly because Jenna was being teased, ignored, and picked on by her LARPing group. She considers it a very dark and special gift to give someone, not a curse to be pitied. Nadja takes Jenna under both metaphorical and literal wing and is a caring and comforting big sister figure for her. She cheers on her baby vampire and can be supportive, even ecstatic, when Jenna first realizes her powers. However, she, like most of the out-of-touch vampires, can be insulting without meaning to or understanding why until it's explained to her.
Nadja is much more superstitious than even other vampires; she fully believes in seances and ghosts and curses, and more often than not is proven right. She doesn't like other people messing around with things they can't understand and is disgusted whenever Laszlo's cursed hat comes into play, having tried to throw it out many times. It will literally keep crawling back.
Nadja likes to have sex a lot, especially but not exclusively with her husband, and both seem accepting about this arrangement to a point; she is at the very least bisexual and possibly pansexual, having taken many men and some women into her bedroom over the centuries. Despite numerous affairs with her spiritual soulmate Gregor, Nadja adores Laszlo and is very supportive of him, even forsaking Gregor to go save her husband after he trapped himself in a cage. She enjoys posing in alluring positions for artists, but does not like to be objectified. She has a hair-trigger temper for very specific subjects (namely things like burning down her village or derogatory comments on her appearance), and while it is possible for her to jump from calm to murderous, she more often than not will react to things with far more wordy sarcasm than her overly murder-eager husband Laszlo (aka Jack the Ripper) or pillaging roommate Nandor the Relentless.
Nadja is comparatively the kindest of the three main vampires. While she is still vicious by nature, she takes effort to remember Guillermo's name once corrected (Laszlo refers to him constantly as "Gizmo" despite being corrected numerous times), has shown genuine respect to most other human people she isn't immediately killing and eating, and is nicer to psychic vampire Colin Robinson than anyone else. She also forces Laszlo into a church in support of Nandor despite them all literally catching on fire as they sit in the pews attending a funeral service for Nandor's relative.
She is notably the least aristocratic of the trio, having been born poor with many brothers and sisters. Nadja tends to feel things on a more emotional level than the others in her home, having periods of intense, mopey sadness whenever her lover Gregor is reincarnated and subsequently murdered. She has a warped but definite sense of playing fair, and if something is agreed upon (like a vampire-werewolf treaty), she will do her best to uphold and honor it. Even if it is stupid. Her room is full of taxidermied animals that have all been killed by either her or her husband based on various slights against her.
Nadja has lived long enough to understand it's better to get along with humans and fly under the radar with the whole vampire thing, and has allowed camera crews to come into her home to film all of them for a documentary. It's not typically something seen in 'The Old Country' where vampires are far more indiscriminate in who they snack on, but Nadja does her absolute best to protect her people, be they humans or vampires.
Barge Reactions: Nadja has lived for so long that a new change of pace or environment, even in space, will only be met with a surprised but enthusiastic praising for humans who have finally made it beyond the stars. She, like most vampires, are slow to adopt technology because none of it seems to last long enough to get used to it, but willing to eventually learn, so anything new or odd is likely to be filed among Betamax and 8-Track portion of her brain.
Two interesting things of note: Nadja will definitely be on the hunt for a familiar - a type of human slave to vampire whims - and she may also eventually latch onto someone on the ship under the assumption that they are Gregor, her reincarnated lover. May put out an OOC note asking for a potential person to both of these.
Path to Redemption: N/A
Deal: Nadja would like the Admiral to help her, her husband, and her roommate out of the well before the sun rises and kills them all, please and thank you.
History: Stupid bloody pigshit
Sample Journal Entry: Link!
Sample RP:
That stupid bloody chicken is looking at her. Shitting all over the deck. And no one is here to make it go away; no familiar, no Laszlo, not even a camera crewman to hypnotize into wringing its neck.
Nadja taps her fingertips against her face, propped up by her hand. She could kill it. Do chickens come back? Would anyone care if this one died? She doesn't know the rules of this place yet, and for all she knew this could be someone's beloved pet. Humans have odd choices in animals. She approves of dogs, and tolerates cats when not in her bat form, but chickens are stupid, noisy animals more so than every other stupid, noisy species she could care to name.
"Hello? Chicken?" She calls to it to lure it over, trying to think of good chicken traits to stop her from doing something she may regret. The thing is, she's a little bit bored and has not found anyone she is willing to take to bed yet, and there is no inmate waiting for her. Only this chicken.
Who is not listening to her.
Fuck it, fine. Nadja stands up, walks over, and with a final rip, rends the chicken in two.
And plops back down, unsatisfied and irritated with herself for losing her temper.
Special Notes: Be strong, sweet little ones.
