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Name: Carlee Age: Over 21 Contact: PM journal. Timezone: EST Other Character(s): N/A |
Name: Santánico Pandemonium, aka Kisa (unsure of what she'll decide to go by in game, since at her canonpoint she isn't even sure) Door: Door pass (submissive) Canon: From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series Canon Point: From the very end of season two, episode eight (The Last Temptation of Richard Gecko), specifically as she's viewing Richard making a deal with her former captor to trade her for his position. Age: Over a thousand. Appearance: Mid-twenties. (Normal; culebra) History: Wiki (CW for sexual abuse, imprisonment, slavery, human trafficking, self-harm, and manipulation). Personality: POSITIVE TRAITS - PASSIONATE: She is someone who has been hardened by the circumstances in her life and finds it difficult to care or trust people, but when she cares for someone, she cares deeply. She also has a desire to see the best in someone, which has ended up backfiring on her twice that we've seen (once with Carlos and more recently with Richie), and she throws herself fully into whatever task she's performing, be it dancing to lure in customers, playing a role in a cover story, or defending someone. - LOYAL: Kisa's word is her bond, and if she makes a promise she will do whatever she can to keep it. Whether or not that ends up being possible, she is always sincere about her intentions in the moment, especially if she's swearing to protect someone and especially if they've done something to protect her. - ADAPTABLE: For someone who spent over five centuries plotting an escape, Kisa is remarkably good at rolling with the punches when plans go awry. Part of this comes with having lived for as long as she has, but she's also the one who keeps her cool when Carlos shows up and throws a wrench in her and Richie's plan to infiltrate the Twister and uses the illusion to mask herself from him and work with him until they find out where the shipment of people is going. NEGATIVE TRAITS - VENGEFUL: Kisa's main motivation throughout the series, aligned with escape, is revenge on the people who turned and abused her for over a thousand years. This quest for vengeance leads to her manipulating and abusing people herself, something she doesn't enjoy doing but sees as necessary in order to finally escape. Being so motivated by something so harmful, both to herself and to others, leads to her not knowing what to do when she finally does escape the Twister and kill Malvado, and with a lot of time to reflect on the bad that she's done. - DESPERATE: I mentioned this earlier: Kisa has a deep desire to see the best in someone (this doesn't necessarily mean she sees the good in someone, but more that she sees qualities they may not recognize in themselves) and this has blinded her to the reality of that person and backfired on her at least twice. Carlos and Richard are both people she trusted and loved who ended up turning on her because of their desire for power (Richard straight up tells her he wants to take over Malvado's empire after they kill him when she's expressed desire to end it all with his death), but she still believes in them because she needs to believe in them. She needs to believe in something in order to have the courage and patience in order to go through with her plan. - MANIPULATIVE: I also mentioned before that Kisa throws herself into any task and has done a lot of things that are harmful to others in order to obtain her freedom. She knew what buttons to push with Richard and how to draw him in, and to keep Carlos from catching on to her ultimate plan of escape she used his affection for her to throw him off of her plan. While I don't think she enjoys doing any of the things she's done to survive and escape, she will do it without hesitation or remorse. Powers and Abilities: Culebras in From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series possess a greater amount of strength than humans (meaning she's able to throw men twice her size around) and each possesses an ability that's unique to them (in her case, a pair of retractable wings). Unlike the movie, culebras in the series are not vulnerable to crosses, prayers, holy water, or any other religious paraphernalia fashioned into weapons. They survive on blood (typically human, but they can also survive on animal blood), but are capable of eating and drinking human food and drink. Since blood is the conduit of the soul, a culebra biting someone means they'll acquire certain skills and knowledge that that person possessed (this is confirmed in season three); it's unclear whether or not this means they'll acquire the memories or see the thoughts of that person but I'm going with no, since there's another very specific way that they do that (namely, making a cut on their hand and that person's and exchanging blood with them). Killing someone will also allow a culebra to temporarily take on the appearance of that person; this will fool culebras as well as humans. They are vulnerable to the sunlight (though the degree of vulnerability seems to depend on how severe the writers need it to be at any given moment), and immolate when impaled in the heart unless their venom glands have been removed. Biting a human and injecting them with venom will turn them, but culebras can feed without doing this. Injecting someone (culebra or human) with venom by biting them will also enable the biter to control that person. When turned, all afflictions you suffered as a human are healed (Richie's gunshot wounds and vision are healed and corrected once Kisa turns him in season one) and although typically fatal wounds will be healed from, human blood will help speed up the healing process (they will also heal from wounds inflicted from Xibalban weapons, but these will cause them more damage and take longer to heal from; again, feeding on human blood will help speed up this process). Finally, since culebras are a snake-based type of vampire, they are vulnerable to the cold (this is displayed several times in season two with Kisa, most notably when Carlos takes her hostage and chains her up in a freezer and when they use a refrigerated truck to hide her presence from Malvado when infiltrating Jackknife Jed's). They also take on a serpentine appearance when fully transformed and are capable of only letting certain parts of it show (ie they can just show just their eyes and teeth or just their eyes); in addition to this there are some culebras (the lords and likely Kisa herself) who have an actual snake living within them; eviscerating them and killing the snake will kill them. As far as nerfs go, I'm open to suggestion. There's always the lessened strength, and I think another thing that would work would be being unable to acquire skills or knowledge from anyone when she feeds from them or view anyone's memories when she attempts to perform that ritual and being unable to assume the appearance of someone once she's killed them by feeding on them (I'm unsure why she'd do either in game anyway, but it's a limitation). I also thought that her psychic capabilities could be limited to a certain radius, or if it would make things more comfortable for those in game, I am comfortable with eliminating them altogether. Inventory: - a hooded coat (it's winter and she's part reptile, girl will not be having a good time) - a bottle of blood - a bag to contain said bottle of blood and a spare outfit Samples: One; two. |
