Kate Devos
Character Bio
Name
Born Katerina, known today as Kate Devos
Player
Aysande (GM)
Vampire or doll
Vampire, Coven leader
Age
around 400 years old
Claimed
Thomas Barnes
Orientation
Straight
Hair
Red, pin-straight, long to her waist
Eyes
Blue
Height
5’4
Appearance
Kate has a healthy height/ weight ratio without being overly skinny. Her body is filled in all the right places and sometimes perhaps a bit generously so. She has freckles that cover her pale skin over her shoulder, throat, all along her arms to the back of her hand.
Personality
She is a calm, level-headed and generally hard to anger. She is very strict when it comes to the rules, and does not hesitate to punish those who break them. She is sociable, but a bit jaded sometimes. She’s seen some horrible things through the year, and there isn’t much done by mankind that really surprise her kind or unkind. While she is definitely dominant, Kate is not a cruel person. She has little tolerance for fools and particularly hates repeating herself, but she’ll be taking a particularly good care of her doll, having been there before herself.
Ability
Telepathy, both ways. She can project and read thoughts, images and even sensations to a point.
Ons & Offs
[1]Aysande’s O&O
History
Born during the witch hunt in the area north of Amsterdam, in the country called today Netherlands. Kate has grown up in a poor household with for only sibling her identical twin. She lived in a small village, at the end of nowhere, with the superstitious countryfolk. For most of her childhood, she was oblivious to the problem of her parents or those of the outside world. Conflicts that might happen at the time were only distant troubles that did not concern them.
Even though the small dairy farm she lived on was remote, Kate never felt lonely. She had the company of her twin sister. She spent every waking hour with her and it wasn’t unusual for one of them to finish the sentence begun by the other. There were so many things to do on the farm, so many places were an adventurous girl could get in trouble… and Kate found it more often than not. The hay stack in the clean barn was her favorite spot. The voice of wisdom that was her more responsible sister was often ignored.
Eventually, it lead to the ultimate trouble. Kate dragged her twin sister to a ball. The lure had been so simple; there would be a small orchestra there and the man playing the violin was known to them to be particularly handsome… He was also a vampire. Kate did not grasp her mistake until it was too late. The girls were pulled apart, and both died that night to be reborn before dawn and cursed never to see the sun again. After the shock, the rage and the grief, Kate finally opened her mind to the new possibility.
With no need to sleep, she began to study past knowing the basics of reading, writing and counting. She became quite versed in languages, learning them very quickly. Of course, being able to cheat and seek the answer in her teacher’s mind did help her have good scores, but she did enjoy pursuing intellectual goals. Mathematics and logic proved to be her bane and she gave it up pretty quickly. While she loved the music played flawlessly by her sister, Kate never sought to learn to play an instrument herself. She preferred to learn to dance.
Kate was quick to leave the coven who had turned her. She didn’t agree with some of their practices and left to live on her own for a while. It proved to be far harder than she had anticipated, with territories claimed by the different European covens, and the wars the humans waged over the exact same topic. She never lost touch with her sister, exchanging letters and sometimes arranging meetings so that they could spend some time together.
It was during one of these meetings that Kate told her sister about her decision to cross the ocean. She’d feed on the rats on board to avoid suspicion, but she was moving to one of the British colonies. Her English was fluent and she had hopes that the new territories did not have established covens already. With all of her money, and a lie about a skin condition that made her skin over-sensitive to the sun, Kate embarked upon a ship without her sister... one of those things her sister did not think was a grand idea and fought with Kate over it.
Finding a new place to call home in the north of the state of Vermont, Kate used all of her riches to build a decent, small house for herself and make a decent living out of sewing, a skill she had learned while she explored Europe. Again, living far away from the main population, Kate had isolated herself from the people and their conflicts, seeking the crowds only when she had need for sustenance. Eventually, her sister came from Europe to say with her. The coven grew and the doll system was put into place so that no one in the nearby village would think of sorcery. The age of witch hunting was long gone, people would always fear what they did not understand.
As the resources were pooled together, the mansion was built. It was done so keeping in mind that the coven would grow, allowing for several people to stay and enjoy the privacy that the remote location provided. Kate found herself a leader of her people, being the first there and have grown in wisdom since her mortal years. She is not the eldest of the vampires out there, but she is considered to be a mature vampire with a little over four centuries.
As the years passed, Kate grew more and more jaded, more and more lonely. The doll system was perfect for her in term of keeping her fed, but left her cold at a personal level. The red head needed a deeper connection that some more lucky vampire managed to find among the dolls. Only, it went further than that: she wanted the man to want her free of chains and of coven influences. It was dumb luck that led her to find such a man.
Going out to a local bar in hopes to find some solace in the brief embrace of an oblivious mortal, her thoughts connected with those of a man in the room. He was thinking of the many different ways he could take her and while they spoke quite briefly, Kate slipped a thought among his fantasies. Acting upon it, he led her into the washroom where they did something that was quite out of character for the both of them. Somehow, each trapped in their own life and loneliness, they connected. After a brief but efficient bit of fun in the washroom.
It is after the fact that Kate learned Tom was a police officer. Unknown to her at the time, he was in fact looking for vampires, in hopes to save his boy. After an exchange of phone numbers and a promise to meet the next day after sun down, they parted. Outside the bar, Kate met with a vampire she had banished from her territory. As she executed the trespasser in a way that could not be mistaken for anything else than a vampire killing another vampire, Tom saw them and knew he had fund what he was looking for.
Their date the next day had Kate more lively than she had been in a long time. The sun just couldn't go down early enough for her to go join Tom in the park near the bar. Tom waited for her, aware of what she was and Kate caught it in his thoughts. They spoke of his boy, of her nature, of everything even though she knew that with each piece of information she was giving him, she condemned him to become a doll. It crushed her, but she was coven leader, she had to lead by example... which she didn't do.
After instructing Tom about how to give the child her blood, Kate gave him a sample and let him go. The risks were huge, but there had been no thoughts of deception in his mind. Things didn't go as planned however. Tom did not call as he promised, he did not answer to her texts either. She assumed the worse, and that now that his boy was cured he was so happy with him that the vampire who had saved him did not matter anymore and had no place in their lives. This, even though he had promised to come and introduce the boy to her.
On the last day of June, Kate had put her papers in order. The business that permitted the coven to work as it had was to be passed on to Kate's twin and by the morning, she would be ready to greet the sun and die watching the first dawn in four century. As the sun set, however, Kate received a much awaited phone call. It was Tom. He was in Marshboro, alone.
Kate learned that Tom's boy had refused the one thing that could save his life and decided to let go of the fight to keep alive. Alone in the world, Tom had left his job, sold his home and packed everything he owned in the car to come and join Kate. Learning the truth in that same spot where she had explained to Tom what she was a little more than a week ago, she embraced Tom and brought him into the coven as her doll.
