Buffy Update

Wrote this in a brief email to Ryan about one of my characters in our current Buffy the Vampire Slayer game. Sascha is one of the new crop of Slayers who came up after the Buffy series ended and has been assigned to Pleasant Hills, WA, a sleepy little rich-man's town in the woods outside of Seattle. It also happens to have its very own Hellmouth.



Description:
Sascha Romanov stands at just over 5 feet tall. An athletically-framed girl with nice curves and a classically beautiful face, she seems to have gone to some pains to portray a more urban image. The front and ends of her shoulder length black hair have been dyed purple in the front to match her violet eyes and she usually wears lipstick to match. She has some of the dusky features of a southern Russian heritage, but is somewhat paler than it would normally be, an aftereffect of a Slayer's nocturnal lifestyle.

Clothing tends towards leather and lace, catholic schoolgirl outfits, and other things that show off without being totally goth. She likes showing off her midriff and legs, and has both a pierced bellybutton as well as a tatoo with symbols on her lower back.



History:
Sascha grew up in Seattle, the child of a Russian couple that came into some money here in the states. She had a good relationship with her family, but was especially close with her older brother, who she saw as a protector and a best friend rolled up into one. She was constantly at his side when she could be. She was given privilege in everything, and early on showed quite a talented singing voice. She began singing lessons when she was seven, and was gaining some local notoriety in those circles for being young and talented.

This all changed when she was thirteen years old. Her brother disappeared without a trace on the way home from his job one night. No trace of him was ever found, and no suspects were ever named. It was as if he disappeared into thin air. This affected Sascha profoundly.her fear of rejection and feelings of loss and abandonment put up walls in her that she wasn't able to take down again, and she lost any interest she had in singing. She fell into the wrong crowd, committing crimes and distancing herself from her family, and everyone who knew her knew of her horrible temper. This didn't change much when she was Chosen.

It happened one summer day in Seattle. Unbeknownst to her, far to the south, it was the same day a small town in California was blown off the map. It was also the day when many girls across the planet found themselves inexplicably faster, stronger and tougher than any human had a right to be.

She started using this strength a little too blatantly, and was pretty easy to spot for those who were watching for signs of this new crop of Slayers.
She was contacted. She refused. Twice. The Watcher's council gave her one more chance before a wetworks team was dispatched, and the watcher used the one chink in her armor.her brother. If she embraced her "destiny" she might be able to prevent disappearances like that from happening to others. She might even eventually be able to find out what happened to him, whether it was a mugging or a kidnapping, or something else.

She traveled to England for what the new Council affectionately termed "Boot Camp". She trained with other Slayers in duty, in history, in the various known vampires and demons. Through it all she was ever the rebel.she had a quick temper and was too prone to violence too quicklly. In the year she was there she was almost dismissed on four separate occasions for insubordination. Finally they had two choices: kick her out, or put her on active duty. She was rather tersely informed one day that she was to begin her assignment the next week. It was in a small town outside of her home city of Seattle in a community called Pleasant Hills. Apparently a Hellmouth was known to be in this town (though the location was still a mystery). They needed her to patrol this area and keep things under control, as well as find the Hellmouth's location.

It remains to be seen whether they were trying to get rid of her, or they actually expect her to live long enough to do this..



Personality:
Sascha is secretly scared out of her wits. Her brother’s disappearance proved to her how unfair the world was and she was angry as hell. She stopped believing in people that day. Then she is recruited by the council and realized things were even worse than she could have ever imagined. Vampires, demons, werewolves, monsters…they are all trying to take out humanity, and quite often the Slayer is the only one expected to do anything about it.

She also read between the lines. She knows a Slayer doesn’t typically live more than a handful of years after becoming one, and knows a target has been painted on her back. To her, the only thing a Slayer is really good at is dying, and she really doesn’t want to die.

So she feels like the world has shafted her in a big way, and isn’t shy about showing that in her attitude. She doesn’t trust her watcher yet, she doesn’t trust her friends, and would be too afraid to let them in anyways for fear they’d hate her or disappear on her.

Deep down she really just wants to feel safe. She wants to sing and laugh and have fun. For the most part, she is capable of doing this on the surface, but a lot of it is bravado and not enough is actual confidence.