Character Sheet

Name: Gillian Clearwater
Alias(es): None
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Breed: N/A
Classification: N/A
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Date & Place of Birth: 27th December, Chatham (Kent, United Kingdom)

Height: 5ft4
Weight: 140lbs
Physical Description: Gillian has a slim but not overly remarkable figure, but with her long dark hair, liquid dark eyes and clear skin, she is definitely attractive.
Distinguishing Marks: None

Ethnic Origin: Mixed, White European.
Parents: Father, Dave, deceased. Mother, Alyeane, in an insane asylum.
Other Family Members, Living or Deceased: Father's grandparents still alive, Mother's grandparents deceased. Sister Mary, 14, dependent.
Friends: None, see history.
Enemies: The Punishers, see history.
Political Beliefs/Affiliations: Socialist/libertarian.
Religious Beliefs: Complicated, see history.

Personality: Wavers between stoic and hysterical. When stoic, she is relentless but avoids people - when hysterical, she is argumentative, always trying to prove her point, paranoid and prone to immense frustration. She's quite smart, intuitive and very, very truthful.
Fears: Despair, having her soul devoured, giving up, being lied to successfully, having her sister get the curse if she dies.
Personal Quote: "I'd tell you what I know, but you wouldn't listen if I did."

Weapon(s): None.
Personal Items/Equipment: Small apartment, cheap car, cheap laptop, mobile phone.
Skills/Powers: Precognition, postcognition (highly limited), demonic awareness, resistance to possession.

CURSE: Whenever Gillian tells the truth, or what she believes to be the truth, all mortal humans believe she is lying and ignore her.

History: Long ago, in ancient times, there was a mortal who was given a rare gift by her immortal lover. She was given the gift of insight, of prophecy. When she spurned the being that had given her her powers and pleaded to be given her freedom, he was so incensed that he cursed her. This is the famed tale of Loxias/Apollo and Cassandra, a fable echoed and repeated in numerous other mythologies.

Whatever the truth of names and ages, it happened for real. The god-like demon cursed his former lover and all her bloodline to never be believed, no matter what they said or did. To achieve this curse, he bound several demons to enact eternal persecution, Mazikin led by a Shedim overlord. Though without physical form, and not permitted to harm their victim, they could torment the females of the bloodline and feed off their emotions with impunity.

The family line petered out here and there, but there still remains a living scion of the prophetess' descent.

When Gillian was seven, she first became aware of the oppressive sense of hostile intent around her family. They were fated to ill-luck, it seemed, and framed besides. When her mother finally went mad and murdered her father, she and her sister were put into a foster home. Unfortunately, that was the same day that she became the new target of the demonic oppression. It was as insidious as it was evil.

No matter how honest she was, no one would believe anything she said. Well, that's not quite true. Self-evident truth she could get away with, but nothing else. Her application for a driver's license was rejected twice, because it was believed somehow that she'd lied on the forms. Everyday life became a constant battle against the curse. She no longer has any friends, as they all ignored her. The only person who could listen to her is her sister, because they share the same mystical bloodline. (Needless to say, Gillian is rather over-protective of her sister.) And at night, her tormentors whisper in her ear, continuing their efforts at driving her mad and to the brink of despair without ever physically harming her.

Gillian, being mostly mortal, cannot see or hear the Punishers (the demonic cabal who maintain the curse upon her), but she is nonetheless acutely aware of them. When she went to visit her mother a couple of years ago in the asylum, her mother told her the story of Cassandra in amidst her ranting and raving. Gillian understood what she was being told.

Last year was hellish for her. At university, she started going out with a guy called Jamie. Strong-willed, intelligent, and cute, he actually seemed at first to be able to resist the suggestions of the Punishers. Then everything began to get weird.

Eventually Gillian worked out that one of the demons had begun to possess him, to wreak havoc and stop her from ever having a chance to be loved. The leader of the Punishers manifested so as to address her, the first time this had ever happened. He told her that if she left the guy she cared about alone, the demons would release his soul. She did so, and he's now dating someone else - having forgotten about her entirely.

Now Gillian and her sister are living in a small apartment together, Gillian trying to put herself through her studies. She doesn't talk to her sister about the curse, but they both know it's there. Gillian believes that her sister will be under the curse next if she breaks and goes insane like her mother, or gets killed - and is determined to avoid that at all costs.