The Wraith

Real Name: Unknown (assumed to be Samantha)
Super Hero/Villain/Renegade/etc Name: The Wraith
Title: The pale lady, Weeping woman, The Bride, White Blur
Alignment: Chaotic neutral
Age: Unknown (Over 100)
Gender: Female
Race: Human/spirit
Hair: Pale Blonde
Eyes: Bright Blue
Height: 5.6
Weight:100 lbs

Costume Description/Image: When not hunting or in battle the wraith appears to be a slender young Caucasian woman in her early twenties dressed in a long tattered white gown, akin to wedding dresses. The dress sports long, vicious gashes (as if it had been clawed at), exposing most of her legs, which appear bloodied. The Wraith is physically beautiful and anyone unlucky enough to come face to face with her will find her ethereal beauty instantly captivating. Aside from the constant appearance of mourning her features are flawless, the pale ageless face framed by shimmering pale blonde hair and her piercing blue eyes are equally beautiful as they are unsettling. She is always barefoot and the only other thing she wears aside from her dress is an ornate silver necklace, which she is always gazing at and stroking if not distracted or 'hunting' for prey. Anyone who is within a 100 metre radius of the Wraith will notice a cold suffocating chill, one which many eyewitnesses have said has a distinctive rosy scent.

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However when her hunger overtakes her or when she goes into defensive mode she becomes significantly more rabid, her youthful features becoming much more threatening. The most distinctive change is that her fingers elongate into twelve inch long, bloodstained claws capable of shredding skin bone and other substances with ease. She will grow fangs and her eyes will glow a pale red, her pupils transforming into feline eyes.

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Personality: The Wraith is consumed by endless sorrow; all forms of rationality, memory retention, proper speech, and intelligence have drowned in the woman’s constant state of mourning. There is only one thing which has remained from her time with the living and that is the memory of a loved one, many assume this being her deceased husband. When it comes to communication she will rarely speak preferring to whimper, growl or sob. However if she were to ever speak out loud and if she does it would come out in drawling syllables, it would often involve her apologizing to her victims or muttering on about her lover (When role-playing she speaks in third person and through internal monologue).

However there is one other thing that drives the actions of the Wraith and that is her never-ending hunger; this constant craving is only ever properly quenched through the consumption of the purest delicacies...young women. The Wraith is a cunning hunter, acting under the cover of the night she will stalk her prey silently and efficiently. The Wraith manipulates her prey’s better judgement when they approach her, often making them believe she is a woman in distress. Once the victim is in a close enough radius the Wraith will proceed to incapacitate her prey with her terrifying glare, leaving them unconscious(only works on NPC's). The Wraith will then consume her preys soul leaving them but a grey corpse, however if one were to survive her onslaught they will wake up significantly traumatised and paranoid.

The wraith will avoid approaching larger groups, often going out of her way to find more solitary victims. She will stay passive unless threatened and in the cases of superhumans and/or gifted individuals approaching her she’ll become defensive and try to intimidate them with growls and her more feral form. But if the threat persists, she will launch an attack directed at the person who "startled" her at great speed. She is able to incapacitate normal humans instantly whereupon she frenziedly slashes that person with her clawed hands, only stopping when they are reduced to a bloody mess. Despite her petite figure, the Wraith has incredible speed and stamina, enabling her to incapacitate or instantly kill anyone foolish enough to approach her.

The reasoning behind the Wraith's emotional and mental instability is all due to the actions of a being from another plane. It now possesses her, manipulating the woman's overwhelming sadness to its advantage, quenching its thirst for maidens souls all the while promising its vessel that she will one day join her deceased partner, it has completely overridden the woman's very heart and soul and all that remains within her now is the last thing she held onto when she was once human, and that is her immense grief. Due to the actions of this unknown entity the woman now exists between the world of the living and the dead which in turn grants her the supernatural abilities of the creature that controls her.

History:The woman's history is basically unknown, all possible clues to who she once was and where she originated lead to dead ends. The only possible clues that could shed light on her past is the ornate necklace she is constantly gazing at and the rare moments of speech in which she will mutter possibly valuable pieces of info regarding her days with the living. She will sometimes mutter the name 'Samantha' which everyone has coined as her name, her erratic spasms of speech, although insightful are rare and often hard to decipher.

The reasoning behind her constant state of mourning has been debated by 'supernatural' experts over the years. The fact that she wears a wedding dress has led many to believe that the woman is constantly sobbing for the loss of her would-be husband, and that he more than likely perished during or around the time of their wedding; this parallels the Faustian deal the devious entity put forward about her joining her lover one day. Many believe she is incredibly depressed - a symptom that could accompany her loss of sanity or that the spirit which manipulates her has not taken full control. Some believe she knows she is a monster and she is depressed due to this fact and when potentiial victims are close the spirit starts to take over. Another possible reason behind her anguished cries is that it could simply be a hunting tactic used by the spirit, meant to lure unsuspecting victims to her.

Powers:
High speed regeneration - Since she is partially a spirit the Wraith has been granted with an extremely fast healing rate allowing her to recover from practically all wounds. Another aspect of this power is that she is invulnerable to harmful toxins and diseases, since she no longer a normal physical human being, such things have little to no effect on her.

Wrath's aura - An interesting ability that the Wraith uses in conjunction with her attractive exterior to incapacitate prey. The aura takes on the form of a thick white fog with a distinctive rosy smell. The fog covers a 20 feet radius and is used to not only conceal her erratic movements but to also confuse her prey and any possible threat. The fog is not made up of water but something akin to ectoplasm and it is completely under her control.

Claws - Her weapons of choice when her gaze has not unsettled any possible threats. These are 12 inch long bony claws that extend off each finger. They are extremely dense and sharp and due to her regenerative abilities she will continuously hack at something even if one of her claws has snapped off. They are capable of easily peircing the skin and bone of humans and are sharp enough to cause damage to someone with LV 4 durability.

Speed - The Wraith is gifted with extremely potent supernatural speed and instead of running she hovers just above the ground, when moving at this speed she becomes an eerie pale blur.

Power Grid:
STR: 2
SPD: 6
END: 4
INT: 1
EP: 6 (1 - fog, 5 - regeneration)
FS: 2

Power Grid colours: white and red

Roleplay Sample: -

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