Welcome back to my special campfire circle, where we take a deeper look to the characters of the Blanc Millenium.
This time we will give the spotlight to Vaelmina Thestorious, the night predator of the team
Vaelmina, or Val for short, is a bit of a complicated character, when I was thinking about the kind of "theme" I was going to give her, I wanted something like an "emo-like" character with a small dose of old-school rogue kind of thing, kind of like an assassin but with a few extra powers that would allow her to stand out in the crowd.
When it comes to her personality, she's always very serious about everything, but she can be friendly from time to time... as long as everything that needs to be done is done, just like Quimmie she despises M.E.S.S. but most of all she despises and downright hates her ex-husband for his betreyal. She is also a little selfish, after learning and making the ways of the vampires her life and laws, she will pretty much examine any situations within those said ways, even if she knows that doing so could very well be the worst mistake one could ever make, for example if challenged by someone to a duel, she must accept no matter what the concequences may be even if it means having to fight in broad daylight. Now before you ask if that is going to kill her, the answer is no. Vaelmina is probably the strongest vampire in this entire universe, she has ways to withstand the damaging effects of sunlight, like her "Shadow Blessing" which will cloak her in her own shadow and power up her abilities to the double, but no matter what she does, she can't completely nullify the damage she takes from sunlight, she can only minimize it.
As I imagined how Vaelmina should look like, I wanted her to look like someone who prefers a more stealthy way of confrontation instead of going head on against someone, this way of thinking led me to this image I found on pinterest (unfortunately I was unable to recover the name of the artist, I'm terribly sorry)
now, in order to get closer to the true appearance I imagined for Vaelmina, add a more pale skin, change the clothes colouring pattern to red and black, the cloak colour pattern to dark purple and finally imagine her holding a pair of these rapiers (uploaded by ASlyRogue ant deviantart.com, image name: Vapiric Rapier)
Last but not least, let's talk about her abilities. We've already covered what her Shadow Blessing does to her, but as we saw in the first chapter, Val is able to bestow the blessing on someone else with different effects, it all comes down to whether the one she bestows her blessing is a creature of light or a creature of shadow/darkness. Creatures of shadow/darkness are affected by the Shadow Blessing in a very similar way to Vaelmina herself, the only difference being that the power boost they get is smaller than the one she gets. Creatures of light however, are paying a small price if they choose to utilize the Shadow Blessing, since the magic used to create the blessing represent their opposite nature, their bodies will attempt to reject the blessing, thus causing physical pain and physical vulnerability to the user as well as minimizing the duration of the blessing itself, but the power boost is still applied. Furthermore, Val's weapons of choice are, as we saw earlier, rapiers which she uses in combination along with her physical agility, she has deep knowledge about weak spots of pretty much every creature in existance, with the only exception being anything that lacks a physical form, such as a ghost. When she was a rebel leader, she was leading along with her husband and, unlike Quimmie, they had their fair share of victories and defeats against M.E.S.S., losing the war only when her husband revealed their hideout location to M.E.S.S. which brought the result of her being the only surviving rebel, but now she's once again loose and she's itching for a proper rematch
"it doesn't matter if you serve the light or darkness, it doesn't matter if your heart is beating or it's dead like mine, what matters is being sure you're doing the right thing"
-as told by Vaelmina Thestorious
Have a nice day