SA-Su'en

  

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 Name: Su'en

Species: Vetala

Age: 89

Height/Weight: 5'2 | 110lb

Gender: Female (changes depending on what body she inhabits, but was originally female)

Occupation: Guest

Abilities:
Possession: Vetala are able to possess corpses in order to move around freely during the day when their powers wane. Whatever corpse Su possesses will stop decaying and she can freely leave the body to feed at night. An added asset to this ability is that she can see the past of the corpse she chooses to inhabit, able to see how they lived and behaved in life. She cannot possess living people.

Insight: Vetala have extrodinary insight into human nature and thus are great manipulators of people. This knowledge also grants Su the ability to blend in with other humans.

Telepathy: Being a demon, Su can communicate through her thoughts, though this is mostly to cause trouble for humans. She cannot read minds and is only able to send 'imgaes' as well as influencing the thoughts of the heart. The drawbacks are that she cannot control the thoughts of the person she is communicating with, merely using suggestions. Those who are strong of heart and mind could easily ignore her 'voice'. Thus, she only really uses her telepathy as a means to communicate.

Clawed wings: Despite them being very thin and tattered, Su's wings are not meant for flight but for scaling walls, trees and other terrains. The tips of her wings sprout a single claw that lifts her up like stilts in order to carry her over obstacles and even as a means of offence. Her wings are an impressive 2 meters in lengths.

Weaknesses: Mantras, especially funeral prayers, have the potential of dispelling her from her current body as well as cause her intense discomfort and if funeral rites can be performed on her original body, then she will be sent into the afterlife for good. Her powers are weakest during the day, which makes her most vulnerable then. Vetalas are bound to one place, such as cemetaries/abandoned grouns/carnal grounds, if they do not inhabit a human body as a means of transportation.

Personality:
Impish - Su is a bit of a trouble-maker in the sense that she likes to see adults getting flustered. She's a shameless tease, able to ask baffling questions with a guise of innocense, just to see a reaction. Doodling on peoples' faces is a regular hobby of hers also. 

Playful - It's rare to not see her being energetic and asking people to play with her. Demonic nature aside, Su is a child through and through, unable to help seeking attention from adults. It pleases her to no end if somebody spoils her with conversation or games. 

Sensitive - Things that may remind her of her death or the childhood she was robbed of can easily bring her to tears. This can turn into an intense jealousy, which she pretty much harbours towards anyone with parents who loved them and had had a fulfilling childhood. Being embittered usually causes her to run from whatever triggered her mood or curl up on the spot.

Unforgiving - Beyond her childish outter shell is Su's morbid sense of justice. She holds grudges towards whoever she deams is 'a bad person', which usually include criminals, those who hurt others for their own gains, those who do not appreciate what they have etc. Those who fall under her judgement will gain her eternal hatred and in her eyes, death and suffering is the only sentence they deserve. 

Childish - On a whole, Su's extreme ways of thinking are like that of a child's, since children cannot really see the inbetweens of two sides such as 'good' and 'evil'. A lot of her own understandings are immature and easily proven wrong at times. Luckily, she is not unsupportive in learning how to think outside of her black-and-white way of thought with the help of others and their input.

Maternal - Su sometimes displays a strange maternal behaviour towards other children or somebody in need of comfort. Even she is unsure whether this is just her demonic nature's way of tricking would-be-prey into lowering their guard, but it's an urge she rarely denies when somebody is willing to rely on her for a bit...

History:
<sub>Su'en can only vaguely recall her life before becoming a vetala. Before she became 'Su'en', she was 'Sue', the daughter of a businessman from England. At the age of nine, her father took her with him on a trip to India. Her mother was quite sickly, thus unable to accompany them. The sun-kissed country full of colour and animals Sue had never heard of echanted her. With her father busy at meetings regarding stocks and trade, amongst other grown-up things she didn't understand, Sue couldn't help but feel a bit lonely...

It was then that a man approached her, whom she recognised as someone her father had met with a few times. He introduced himself as a colleague of Sue's father and said he can take her out to see the markets. Sue was apprehensive at first, since her father never said it was ok. But after fanciful talk of the beautiful flowers, delicious food and beads they sold at the market, Sue was under his spell. 
She never had a chance to regret taking the man's hand.

When she awaoke next, she was in a barren field out of town, her body was as dark as midnight, her hands were claws with nails like obsidian. A pair of tattered, boney wings sprouted from her back and she had fangs protruding from her grey lips. Confusion soon turned into sorrow as she came to terms with her new state of being. Suddenly, she possessed knowledge and powers she couldn't possibly have possessed. She knew what she was...and it slowly dawned upon her that she had died. By her feet was freshly dug-up dirt, where her mortal body had been hastily buried in a shallow grave. With the moon as her only witness, she swore revenge. And as she had hoped, her murderer was foolish enough to come back and check on where he had disposed of her body. She set upon the man like a beat, cursing him for taking away her life, taking her from her family.

Even though he tore the man and devoured him, the newly born vetala was soon overcame with despair. If only she hadn't gone with the man...If only. She couldn't return to her original body and ended up haunting a nearby cemetery. Refusing to take another life, she would only feed on newly buried corpses instead. When food grew scarce, she would simply move to another cemetery by possessing the freshest corpse on the premises. 

This went on for many decades and with the passing time, whether out of longing or boredom, the demon would possess the body of a child who had either died from illness or an accident, in order to play with other children from nearby towns. She soon befriended an orphaned girl and followed her back to the orphanage. The girl named the little vetala 'Su'en' and Su found a little bit of joy she thought was lost to her for good.However, she never counted on a couple from overseas to want to adopt her. She did figure that it was a chance to finally leave this country behind and initially agreed to travel to England with her new parents after the adoption was approved. But, after only a week spent as a newly adopted child, Su'en ran away. She had been suppressing her hunger for too long and feared she might attack those around her. It was back to haunting graveyards for a while until a new arrival to the cemetery held her interest...

A young girl of no older than 12 or 13 with stunning red hair and emerald eyes. Su'en was struck by how pretty she was and took possession of the body as soon as night fell. She saw how the girl's memories and saw how she had died when a burglar panicked and smothered her with a pillow upon entering her room. Her hatred for child-killers was instantly reignited and she set about finding the criminal. From the girl's memory, Su also saw that the bulgar was also an electrician who had come to her house twice before. The man had also mentioned he was also a neighbour who lived in an apartment down the street.

Su'en almost felt bad for how she relished in the fear in the man's eyes when she knocked on his door. The man stumbled back without shutting the door and Su simply repeated what she had to the man who stole her life. Whilst she sat in the apartment with the man's remains beside her, she heard something drop through the letterbox. Curiosity got the better of her and she discovered it was an invitation...Yet again, whether it was boredom or something more personal, Su'en set out for Japan when night came again.</sub>

Reason for accepting: 
Out of intrigue and perhaps in search of a new purpose for herself.

Roleplay Example [compulsory]:

_{Look how thoughtful I am, Su’en thought, lapping at her spindly liquid like a crooked cat. Her orb-like eyes glances over to her current body, laying peacefully on the ground by the front door of the apartment. What a pretty girl she had been and well-loved by her parents. Even in death, she is dressed in a sweet little sailor-uniform, looking like a sleeping doll as she lay there. Su’en did not want to dirty this precious new body with the blood of its murderer…Speaking of whom, the man did not taste very good. Feeling a little irritated, the vetala huffed, clawing a circle into the floorboard at her coal coloured feet.} 

_{What a contrast she was from the little girl’s body she had come to inhabit. Now, in her true form, Su’en looked like a creature made from shadows, bat’s wings, bones, soot and purple veins. Oh how she couldn’t wait to return to the pristine body she had chosen…The body of a girl who was both beautiful and loved.}