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Strengths/Weaknesses: Excellent at aiming a gun or twirling a sword. Shes also intelligient. BUT, she has a habit of acting before she thinks....shes had to leave cities several times over the past centuries or face having her tongue cut out or worse, her head.
Special Skills/Abilities: Trained to use Sais, is very good at fighting as she's very agile (martial arts). She has a cunning wit. She speaks english and italian. Some french and latin.
Likes/Dislikes: Likes being Right, hates being wrong. Hates cats, likes crows.
Hobbies: Aside from sucking blood and seducing those weaker than she, she thoroughly enjoys reading a good novel and painting.
Fears: She's afraid of dying. Ok so she's already dead in a sense, she's afraid of not existing anymore. Why is she afraid of this? Because she knows her soul is damned. She's afraid of the punishment she will face.
Goals: Deria really just wants to exist. She wishes there was less evil in the world and is ultimately good. She has allies on the dark sides but they don't realize she plays the other side much more loyally. Even though she never voices it, she longs to fall in love again and have that person truly love her. She seeks completion.

Clan: (Vampire only) Ventrue

Tribe: (Lycan only)

Weapon(s) of choice: Her fighting skills, her sais, and her handy 9mm Beretta Pistol. She sometimes has a dagger in her boot or strapped to her thigh.

History: Deria came from a poor background. Her father was a blacksmith named Cosimo LaDane. Her mother was named Adelina. Her mother died when she was 12 and her father remarried to a vile woman named Oriana who hated Deria because of her beauty. Oriana tried many times to kill Deria until finally she changed tactics and went for Cosimo who was the only person Deria really loved. Cosimo met a horrid death in the way of a bullet to the heart. Oriana made it look like an accident, making it seem that Cosimo was just at the wrong place at the wrong time and was robbed. Oriana secured inheriting his small fortune (he was a very good blacksmith, he made enough to support his family and give them a decent living though not enough to be gentry). Once Oriana was in control she made Deria into a servant, giving her enough labor that would be distributed between 5 in an attempt to mar her beauty. When Deria was 16, she ran away. She thought life would be better on the streets than with that horrid black soul of a woman.

She then lived at a tavern, working as a waitress. At the age of 17, she began to sell her body for money. It was here that she met Arturo Morganti. When she was 19, Arturo saved her from a savage customer, and offered her sanctuary at his home. Thinking he just wanted to own her, she agreed. Arturo introduced her into the world of Art, giving her paints and brushes. In all the first months, he never asked her for sexual favors. Deria was confused. Eventually he did begin to romance her, and she began to fall in love with him. To make a long story short, Arturo was her creator. She stayed with him for a few years, but he soon grew tired of her and she went off to live on her own. In the next 495 years, she still had yet to see him again. Deria had created a few playmates of her own over the course of time, but she'd yet to ever meet another who would make her non-beating heart pound like Arturo did.

Deria's life with Arturo was sheltered. She never had to hunt as he brought her food to her. He provided her with money, clothing, food...all the things that that she needed. But one day he told her he was tired of her and wanted to move on to more prospects. Deria was in love with him, expecting to marry him eventually and have children with him. Arturo was first infatuated with her because of her beauty, and then simply amused.

He left her with the clothes on her back and no money in her pocket. With Arturo, she was practically a pampered princess. But after him, she was just a pauper. She had to work in a brothel just to keep herself supported...but after a few years, people started to figure out what she was and she had to leave.

But she did get her revenge on her stepmother. 20 years later she ran into Oriana. How surprised she was to see Deria's face, unaged. That surprise was still on her face when Deria cut her throat. She did not drink her blood. She didn't want it because she thought it would be as rotten as the owner.

For the next 200 or so years when marriage wasn't so complicated, she would make a young man fall in love with her and marry her under an assumed name. When he started to wonder about her 'beauty creams' and her age, she knew her stay was starting to end. She would secure his fortunes to fall to her in his death and would poison him when they went out to eat one night. The poison would take 12 hours to go into effect and would end in a heart attack. There was never any suspicions in her husbands death and after a suitable mourning time, she would take his money and dissapear. She would not surface again until 10 years later in another city and do it again. This is where her money comes from. When just taking a name would no longer fly, she had to stop this scheme or fear getting caught. But she had more than enough money to support her for the years to come since she always married rich gentry.

Her emotions are guarded and she never allows herself to get 'attached' because she fears the heartache. It's a lonely existance for her, but its the only way she knows how to survive. She longs for humanity and envies humans. She can no longer remember what its like to feel the wind blowing against her face. It blows her hair and her clothing, but she cannot feel it. She longs to feel the sunlight warm her cheeks again and to feel the snow freeze her feet. She has mixed feelings. Sometimes she wishes she had never been embraced but then she would have had to live her life in horrible places and probably would have died at a young age. She's somber and wistful about her existance but doesn't want to end it either.

Being her age, she's one of the oldest in her Vampiric society, and is usually revered in a wise and honorable degree. Shes one of the politician's of her group, her rash decision making putting her there. She may think rashly sometimes, but her decisions are hardly wrong. Hardly. But because she lacks experiance with the heart, decisions involving love and the like are usually wrong...which is why she tries not to make them.

She dissapeared for a time, desserting Vincent when he needed her most. She was his sire, a plot planned by Caide but never fully carried out. Its not that she wanted to dessert him, but her heart was sick because of what she did to rip Gabrielle and Vincent apart. She followed Gabrielle, becoming her gaurdian angel from a distance. It was she that gave the narcotics department a tip of a young woman about to kill herself with drugs, so it was she that lead Lucas to Gabrielle. She was pleased when they fell in love. She felt like she had finally done something right.

But she heard that Gabrielle was going back to face her demons in Darfael, being her self-appointed guardian angel, she couldn't let her face them alone. She's always near Gabrielle, ready to fight for her if she needs it. She did something horrible to this girl, she takes it upon herself to make sure nothing else horrible happens to her.

She knew Vincent would survive, he was strong. But Gabrielle...even though she put up tough defenses, Gabrielle was weak. This was apparent by her slow-suicide.

But through all her protections, Deria is always searching for Arturo. She wonders if he's dead or if she will ever forget him. She doesn't know what she would do should she ever meet him again. Would she still have feelings for him or would she want to kill him because of what he put her through all those years ago. Perhaps she only still has any sort of feeling for him out of habit. Or maybe...just maybe she'd find someone else to make her forget him. Only time will tell, and thats something she has a lot of.

Pets: A black crow named Hatan
Job: none
Property: She still has her mansion that she had years ago, its been unlived in for a decade.

Deria was originally created as a character on an RP Forum named Silver Moon City. Then that forum died or something and a couple of players started their own vampires forum called Dark Decadence. Both are still pretty much a ghost town these days.