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HERENames:
Alice Lillia Vivaldi (female)
Solomon Joseph Richards(male)
Ages:
Alice is 147 years old but appears to be 24, Solomon is 149 but appears to be 26
Race:
Both are from England. Alice was adopted by a Russian family. After the incident, Alice and Solomon's skin became more pale, so they appear to be Caucasian
Outfits:
Alice is seen with a black ribbon/bow in her hair
unless she is wielding a weapon. She is seen wearing dresses or a top and skirt, and heels or flats, never sandals, sneakers, or tennis shoes. Solomon is seen wearing tuxedos or suits, and shoes to compliment. They are both always formally dressed.
Hair:
Both have white/silver hair. Alice's hair is to her midsection, Solomon's is above his shoulders
Eyes:
Both have blue eyes
Orientation:
Both are heterosexual (straight)
Relationship:
They are in love (without admitting it) but are quite distant from each other
Occupation:
Solomon used to be a paleontologist, and Alice used to help him with his work. Now they hunt and kill mythical creatures that were thought to not exist...great improvement
Talents:
They both have great fighting skills, they both love to cook, they both play piano, Alice can play violin, Alice can speak Russian and English, Solomon can speak Japanese and English
Powers:
Alice:--Controlling Wind
--Healing
(she can heal others, while weakening herself, but she can only heal herself to an extent because of her limited use of energy)
Solomon:--Controlling Water
--Reading Minds, Emotions, Pasts, etc
Weapons:
Alice: Uses the black mercury itself as a weapon. It can become any form and any size, due to it's quickly multiplying molecular structure. It is black no matter what form. It can liquefy, and solidify at her will, due to the fact that it is a part of her and she can control it.
Solomon: He unfortunately doesn't contain enough black mercury to conceive a weapon. So he uses a uses a silver, thick-metal katana that he learned to use during the time Alice was being trained by the Russians. He also learned the Japanese language while training in the Japanese fighting style.
Short Bio:
Alice's father left her family before she was born, and her stepfather left them when she was six. Alice and her mother moved to Ukraine and her mother died in a house fire. Alice was adopted by a Russian family and was later trained by them to fight with and without weapons. When she learned they had trained her to kill people, she ran away back to England and sneaked onto a ship to America. On the ship she met Solomon and they fell in love (without telling each other).
Solomon belonged to a quite wealthy family in England (unlike Alice). Nothing traumatizing or tragic things happened to him or his family (unlike Alice), although they never spent much time with him so in his perspective they were more like caretakers than parents. When he grew older, he was informed that due to his family's wealth he didn't have to get a job, but he did anyways to get away from his uncaring family and he became a paleontologist. He heard that North America was a good place to dig up bones so he took the next ship there. On that ship, he met Alice and they fell in love and lived in America together. Detailed Story:
147 years ago in England, 1863, Alice was born. It was just her, her mother, and her step-father. Her biological father left after he found out Alice's mother was pregnant. Her step-father was British; Alice was given his last name, Vivaldi. When Alice was six, her step-father left them, and she and her mother moved to Ukraine to forget about him. Only two months later, their was a thunderstorm and lightning had struck the field and it lit up in flames. By the time they woke up the house had already caught fire they ran downstairs to the door, but the roof collapsed and only Alice could fit through a small opening formed by the beams. Her mother told her to run for help, and she did. When she got back it was too late and her mother was gone; she still blames herself for what happened. She was later adopted by a Russian family when she was seven years old. When she was eight, they started to train her to fight. When she was ten, she was trained using weapons. Then when she was sixteen she was able to master any weapon, and beat any opponent. By the time she was eighteen they sent her on her first mission, to murder someone. She wouldn't do it, and she ran away. She kept a low profile at least until she got back to England, and after two years, she did. She knew she couldn't stay long though, so she boarded the next ship to who-knows-where, hoping they couldn't find her. Some time along her voyage, she nonchalantly came out of hiding on the ship, and ran into someone who was very professionally dressed...like everyone else. He asked if she needed more appropriate clothing and she followed him to his room. He gave her a dress and she asked if his wife would be okay with her wearing it. He replied saying he didn't have a wife anymore, and Alice, thinking his wife had died, said
"I'm so sorry". He said,
"Don't be, she thought sleeping with someone else was more important than this trip with me". Alice tried to get rid of the awkward atmosphere and asked why he was on this trip, and he said they could talk about it over dinner and went to the dining room. After Alice got dressed, she met him downstairs in the dining hall, and he told her about himself saying
"I'm going to America to study bones; I'm a paleontologist". Then he asked
"So why are you here, stowaway?" and Alice replied, telling him everything she had been through. He looked a little stunned, but then he told her everything would be okay and asked if she would like to help him with his work. Alice agreed she would and when they got off of the ship they worked and lived together. She thought he wanted her to live there only because she had nowhere else to go, and not because he liked her (even though she knew she liked him), so they were never really close. One day, they heard about a good site where people were finding lots of dinosaur remains, so they went to check it out. After a long morning of digging, they headed back for a lunch break, but Alice said she would keep digging because she had just eaten. As she was digging, she uncovered just enough dirt for oil to seep through the ground. Within seconds it went from leaking to pouring out of the ground. It started to flow in the air and went into her skin like needles and into her blood stream. She started screaming as the oil was replacing her blood. Solomon started running back when he saw much blood pouring out of her where the oil entered her body. He ran down and wondered what the hell was going on and by the time he was down there, all the oil was gone and she was unconscious. He thought she was dead, but he didn't know that she was just out of energy because this "oil" had consumed it all. He kissed her for what he thought was the first and last time, and some of the "oil" went into him, just not enough to make him unconscious. Alice then woke up and told him what happened and they went to the hospital. The doctor said he didn't know how the "oil" got into her (he assumed she drowned in it but she said otherwise), but he couldn't get it out because he would drain to much blood. They were afraid he would put her in a mental hospital if she said what truly happened, so they kept to themselves. Three years later, Alice sailed to another country to study some fossils with Solomon, but they took a wrong course and crashed into some rocks near an island. They swam to the island and their were a lot of strange and dangerous creatures there. They were attacked and Alice was almost clawed to death. When she came to near-death, the blood (or "oil" seeing as it had replaced most of her blood) she had lost had started moving and became a sword-shape, then it solidified into a sword and Alice's mind forced her to use it on the creature. After she killed it she was so scared she couldn't think, and she was taken over by some kind of "wanting" force within her. She killed everything on the island, including the surviving passengers of the shipwreck, and almost Solomon; but once she realized it was him she dropped the weapon and it liquefied and went into her skin, then she screamed from the pain and passed out. When she awoke she was home and she didn't have a single scratch on her. Solomon talked with her about what happened because she couldn't remember, and Solomon hugged her and told her he knew she didn't do it on purpose. She asked him what exactly she did and he explained that she killed those people and almost him. They both decided they needed to talk to someone who would believe them and help them. They visited an old woman that lived deep in a swamp near their home. They didn't know exactly what kind of voodoo, witchcraft, or whatnot she was into, but they've heard she is wise in subjects that others don't even believe are true. They told her about the "oil" incident and the weird creatures they saw at the island, but not about Alice's massacre. She said that the "oil" they were talking about was actually one of the first elements created on Earth, black mercury. It wasn't poisonous like silver mercury though. She also said that since it was one of the first elements, and can take control of things. She mentioned it was ancient and actually started to become extinct because of what it does. She explained that the black mercury takes possession of the nearest living creature, and feeds off of it's energy. Alice told her about what she did to the creatures and the people and how the mercury had become a weapon when she was close to death. The old woman said
"The mercury doesn't want to control just anybody, it wants the strongest creature. It believes the strongest creature has the most energy. It's goal isn't really to control someone, it only does because it believes it's necessary to control it so the creature can survive and so the mercury can survive. When it controls a human like you, you are weak enough for it to take your energy, but strong enough to not let it control you. One reason why you were controlled, is because you weren't focusing on not letting it control you, you were focusing on living because it's your natural instinct to do so. Another reason is because sometimes people are too weak to control the mercury and it controls you while letting you have your own thoughts and wants. It lets you normally think how you want to, because it knows that if anyone knows how to defend you, it's you; and by defending yourself you are defending the mercury. The only time it will control you completely, without letting you decide what you want to do, is when you can't defend yourself. But the downside to that, is that normally you would be the one letting the mercury know when to stop, but now that you aren't in control, you can't stop. Although, if you are instantly drained of some of the mercury, then it will lose focus and become confused, it will need to let you take control so it can gain back the lost mercury into your body and when it recuperates it will realize everything is fine and you can take control back. But most likely you will become unconscious afterward from using all your body's energy. The mercury takes control because it thinks that the energy from what you kill is transferred to you. So everything I just explained about your killing-spree is saying that when you're not in control at all, the mercury is using it's plan b". So then she explained
"If there is enough mercury in you, it will start eating away at you as it gets hungry for more and more energy. After there is no more of you left, it eats itself entirely; and that's how it's becoming extinct, along with the creatures it consumes". Alice was a bit shaken, and she asked her if she knew what the animals on the island were. The woman responded, saying
"The creatures you saw were creatures that others choose to believe don't exist. Examples of these commonly misunderstood creatures are the asrai, nymph, krusnik, naga/nagini, manticore, etc. The creature you most likely saw was the commonly known werewolf." Alice explained that what attacked her didn't look anything like what she thought a werewolf would look like. The woman explained
"Well that's probably because the story has been tossed around so many times, that no one knows what it really looks like anymore. Sometimes people even mistake these creatures attributes for what they truly are. They also have misconceptions of these creatures' looks because these creatures existed long ago, and the one's that consumed the mercury that couldn't control it "evolved" faster. The more they killed when they were in control of the mercury, the stronger they became, and they were able to fight off the mercury's consumption at times. But the more they killed under the control of the mercury, the more rapidly they changed. The reason for this is because the mercury wanted more and more energy and power, so the mercury thought if the creature was more evolved that it was more powerful and had more energy. For humans, it is a simpler process to understand. As a human, you most likely wouldn't kill another human, only an animal. Since the mercury knows humans are more evolved than animals, it thinks humans contain more energy than animals. The mercury also thinks that when you kill the animals, you are obtaining their energy, and the energy is what the mercury wants. So if you obtain the animals energy when you kill them, and humans supposedly have more energy than animals, the mercury will want you to kill and take the energy from humans. Some of the humans from long ago that had to endure the possession of the mercury were shunned from society, and had to eat what they killed. Then they became more evolved and killed humans, and since they ate their victims, they ate the humans too; which then lead to drinking their blood and we have the commonly heard of creature, the vampire. But the vampires too became more evolved and drank the blood of other vampires, therefore becoming krusniks. The cycle just goes on and on unless you are powerful enough to take control of the mercury...or unless everything possessed by the mercury is consumed entirely." Now Alice was really scared, she didn't want to become a vampire let alone eat the animals she's slain. She didn't want to be erased from the human world or be erased from the world completely. She didn't want to lose so much control she becomes crazy, and she didn't want to except that she has no choice. Solomon was there to reassure her though, and he had a plan. They would kill all the evil creatures the woman told them about, and collect information from the good ones. Then Alice might be strong enough to fight off the mercury's consumption. Alice didn't like this idea, because she didn't like to kill anything, but she accepted that it was the only way she could survive; and they could rid the world of these evil beings in the process. As they left, the woman gave them a book that had a list and biography of the creatures that might have been taken over by the mercury, and they were to hunt them down and either kill them, or gather information from them. The book also had maps of where ancient caves and forest caverns and other places where these creatures might be hiding. After a while of fighting these creatures, Alice had lost control more frequently; so frequently that it now seemed like she had gained a second personality all it's own. Her normal personality was innocent, caring, and loving toward Solomon. Her other personality was merciless, murderous, and thought of Solomon as someone who just got in the way of her desire, which was power (aka, energy). Because of this second personality, her relationship with Solomon became distant, and she can tell he is very hurt by her. She truly hates herself for what she did to her mother, and now how she's tearing apart the heart of the man she loves. She always has to fake a smile around others, because she's worried they will hate her like she feels Solomon will. She understands that Solomon is trying to help her with the situation, but she doesn't think that he understands how much she really does care about him. Alice and Solomon are growing more apart, and there might be no chances left to save their lives, or their love.