Name:
Midnight Amelia Bravo

Age:
537

Sex:
Female

Race:
Unknown

Relationship:
Separated from husband Dakota Bravo

Former titles:
Sleeper agent
Head of the Sleeper organization
Delegate agent
Delegate team leader
Leader of the Northern Delegates

Current titles:
Leader of the Northern Delegates
Chairman of the Sequoia council



Abilities:

Predominant abilities; Shadow manipulation and Charm.
Secondary abilities; Unpredictable and uncontrollable if entered in a state of extreme emotion. Very rare occurrence.

Flaws:

Midnight is a living paradox; she’s emotionally handicapped to the extreme and yet is willing to cut herself and place herself in mortal danger to save anyone, friend or stranger. This being said she doesn’t emotionally connect with new people easily or at all for that matter. She doesn’t turn to others for support even if she’s broken. She doesn’t let others in anymore, doesn’t let anyone see her cry or weaken. Midnight can’t afford to love and more importantly be loved, those people suffer the most. This often comes across as her being a royal bitch but she has to push people away before they get too close, before anyone realizes she’s soft inside and she cares deeply to her core about everyone. She’s lived through so many horrific events she’s hard and cold to pain and suffering of others. Yet at times she appears incredibly compassionate and kind which can be confusing. She also has very little care for her own wellbeing, often working herself to exhaustion or throwing herself into dangerous situation to protect someone. Midnight doesn’t know what the word no means, she doesn’t give up on anything or anyone, and she’s horribly stubborn. Determination should be a good thing, but Midnight takes it to a neurotic level.

Midnight is outwardly a stunning woman, tall, blonde, ivory skin, bright blue eyes, and a perfect body. This total physical package, which hides how ugly and dark she is on the inside. Partly because of her charm ability, she is unnaturally appealing to anyone that crosses her path. People can’t help being attracted to her, a fact she grown to dislike immensely. Her beautiful face is often cold and unflinching when no one is looking, her smile and laugh tend to be superficial. Old habits do die hard, even after the apocalypse so Midnight does still manage her appearance to a degree. She always looks put together, her hair in order and make up on. Her clothes are very toned down, tends to be tank tops and jeans, or athletic clothes and sneakers. She no longer owns a single pair of high heels, and only a couple casual dresses remain in her wardrobe. She does have a guilty wardrobe pleasure, Midnight always, always wears matching underwear. Lingerie is a comfort to her, even if no one sees it, which no one does. Another constant in Midnight’s wardrobe is she always keeps a weapon concealed on her, one can never be too careful. Often she’s seen with her bow, as that’s become her weapon of choice.

Training:

A shorter list is what Midnight hasn’t been trained in. She’s so old and has been with the Delegates for so long, training is second nature. She’s been training since she was a small child with one goal in mind, disable your opponent as quickly as possible by any means necessary. She still trains though she can’t really spar with anyone, she would break them in half without breaking a sweat. She does still teach however, and can often be found in the arena training anyone that wants to improve her skills. She trains humans and immortals so long as they are equally dedicated to learning as she is to training them.


History:

Midnight’s long history is tragic and beautiful, full of sorrow and love. Born into the Delegates the illegitimate daughter of the current leader Byron Alesten and Delegate agent Ann Winter, she was destined for a complicated life. Raised by her mother for a time, she was forged from loss and bloodshed when Byron murdered her mother and took control of his only heir. Midnight began her time at Delegate headquarters by flattening the building in an emotional fit over the loss of her mother. Not an ideal start to say the least. Midnight always had expressed strange traits for a werewolf, especially the destructive force of her emotionally fueled abilities. While physically she resembled a werewolf there was something else lying in slumber inside of her, something Midnight could only tap into under extreme emotional unrest. Midnight always knew she was different, she just didn’t realize how different she was.

Excelling in combat, she was selected to be a member of the new branch of the Delegates, the Sleepers. They were spies, infiltrators, assassins. They worked in the shadows sometimes lying undercover for decades. The Sleeper agents were mentally conditioned to be resistant to trauma, emotion, pain, and empathy. They were subjected to horrific treatment during their training, and the result was perfect killing machines.

Midnight was a different person back then, she was a killer, a murderer, a monster. She infiltrated the harem of a Middle Eastern prince to steal information and then eliminate his family and court. There she met someone that changed her world, Amirah, a slave in the prince’s harem. Slowly Amirah broke down Midnight’s walls, Amirah taught Midnight how to feel again and Midnight taught Amirah how to be strong. They grew close so when it came time for Midnight to dispatch the prince and his court, she spared the innocents, including Amirah. This was the first step to Midnight changing from the monster she was into the person she would become.

She stayed with the Sleepers for a time but it became impossible for her to be an effective Sleeper agent with her new found empathy towards others. She was quickly transferred to become a team leader back at Delegate headquarters.

Then she took on Shisou, a macabre and serious vampire child with a similar shadow ability to her own. She trained him, and raised him until the day he became the first member of her team. Grant joined next, a rambunctious fourteen year old that preferred chasing women and sleeping to training. The three were together for years gaining and losing new additions to their team. For one reason or another, no one lasted. Often they couldn’t handle working with one of the boys for one reason or another, occasionally they were killed in the line of duty.

A new program was created by the Delegate leader that changed Midnight’s life forever. To create the perfect assassins Byron created the breeding program to combine the best genetics and abilities of immortals. Midnight was selected and so was a member of her team, Grant, who had a very rare and unique ability. Not long after, they had a daughter named Jessica. They didn’t have long with her though, Byron took the child and entered her into the Sleeper program. To prevent Midnight from trying to reclaim the child, he told her he would kill her team and the child if anyone attempted to recover the baby. Midnight knowing Byron was a man of his word and more than capable of following through with his threat, told Grant the child had died. Secretly Midnight continuously worked to get her back, to gain some form of contact, and to keep her daughter safe but she was unsuccessful on all fronts.

Years passed and Midnight was to meet the final member of her team, Dakota Bravo. He was playful and cheerful yet very serious about his training, the perfect medium between Shisou and Grant. The teen fit in well, and unlike Grant and Shisou who viewed Midnight in the more maternal sense, Koda saw Midnight as a woman. They grew close, closer than they should have. But the sense of respect and duty prevented either from acting or revealing their feelings towards each other. Many years later, Koda was blinded in a training accident and was exiled by Byron and the second in command Aubrey Night. Midnight’s team mourned the loss as they were told he was killed in the training accident. Still they didn’t believe it to be true and in between missions, the three hunted for their missing member. Ten years passed and they did find Koda, in a sleepy town named Springside. There Midnight and Koda finally realized what had been hiding in their hearts for all those years. In Springside the Delegate second in command, Aubrey Night was killed by Midnight during a fight, and it was learned Byron Alesten had been assassinated. The team returned up North and Midnight took her place as the new leader of the Delegates.

The first year up North was marked with many struggles, byzantine laws, plots to overthrow the leader, alliances and trials. Arucan Night, the son of Aubrey Night, was hell bent on revenge for his father’s slaying, he schemed to destroy the leader and reinstate the violent and brutal practices that Midnight had done away with. He kidnapped Koda and forced Midnight to fall in a duel. He gave the defeated leader to an ally named Gabriel. Midnight was clinging to life and as she was fighting for her life, the Delegates were struggling to function. Chaos was happening and the delegates fell apart without Midnight to effectively manage the organization. Midnight wasn’t fairing any better, believed dead by her companions, she was living in Italy as the wife of Gabriel Castel. She had no memory of her former life and Gabe had carefully constructed a past for her. She had a son, Garrett, who was a prodigy in the way of computers and technology. Garrett wasn’t Gabriel’s child however, he was Koda’s. Midnight was unknowingly pregnant going into battle and somehow the child had survived. Gabriel was abusive and sadistic to both Midnight and Garrett but their lives weren’t without any joy. A girl was living with them, Stacy, a girl adopted by Gabe’s family. She was Midnight’s strength when she didn’t have any, and her guiding light when she was lost in the darkness. As the Delegates became unmanageable for Arucan, he recalled Midnight to the Delegates. It was a confusing time for all of them, Midnight came back without a memory, she was alive, and she returned with a child. A battle for power ensued, after a time Gabriel was defeated, Arucan stepped down, and Midnight regained her memory and reunited with her team and Koda. Things seemed to balance out for a time and Midnight devoted her time to rebuilding the Delegates and her new family.

Does peace ever last for a Delegate though? History says no. The Ex, a merciless group of vampire elitists, schemed to use technology to create the perfect assassins by reanimating corpses and endowing them with immortal abilities. Midnight’s daughter revealed herself to be living under the guise of Stacy. Grant took it hard, finding that his daughter was alive, but Midnight knew exactly what she had to do. After Stacy’s final mission, Midnight used her authority to dissolve the Sleepers for good and put an end to their practices. Amirah came to headquarters to live, and to help defeat the Ex. The group had reanimated Gabriel but they found they couldn’t control him. At this point Midnight was pregnant with twins, Jace and Selene. Gabriel used his ability to fake Midnight and Stacy’s deaths, which caused Koda to become grief stricken once again and attempt to take his life. This action tainted his and Garrett’s relationship forever. Gabriel turned his sights on his creators and destroyed them, but by the time he had returned to claim his prizes, Midnight and Stacy had escaped and were already plotting how to kill the monster. Garrett was the unlikely hero, he developed a device that sped atoms to the point where they collided and imploded on themselves. Midnight delivered her children safely, but was quickly called on to defeat Gabriel’s threat. She used the device and barely cleared the explosion herself. All associated with Midnight’s kidnapping, the Ex plot, and Gabriel’s sick plans were sentenced and executed. Then there was peace for a time…

For 18 years it was quiet as the Delegates rebuilt themselves and the chaotic world. Many settled down and had children, got married or paired up. It seemed the world had turned a new leaf, but as the running trend, things suddenly went to hell in a hand basket. This time the assault wasn’t from an enemy they could fight directly. The Delegates were pulled into an alternate timeline and they struggled to regain control of a world where the Ex had won in the war 18 years ago. They overcame their enemies and then turned their sights on getting home, which through many struggles they overcame.

This wasn’t going to be their last skirmish with magic and the spirit world. The Delegates had never been magically inclined and nor did they involve themselves with magic, gods and demons, but fate would see that they would be. Byron with the help of the goddess Eris broke into the mortal plane and attempted to use Midnight’s unique gifts to cleanse the world and make it possible for gods to walk this realm again. It was then that Byron revealed what Midnight was, a weapon designed by the higher immortals to keep balance and ensure no group, god, demon, mortal, or immortal gained an advantage in the world. The gods could not inhabit the physical plane, so they needed someone that could to do their bidding. It had happened many times in history and many immortals were given the powers of a patron deity. Midnight was only unique because so many deities donated abilities, it made Midnight powerful but also dangerous if her abilities were unlocked for the wrong reasons or by the wrong person. Midnight’s abilities would naturally unlock when the gods felt she was mature and strong enough to control them. Byron and Eris didn’t have time for that so they used what they knew to unlock the abilities, emotional instability. They killed Garrett, and the severing of ties between a mother and her child was enough to unlock a portion of her abilities. Enslaving Midnight they used her to begin their cleansing. The Delegates couldn’t let that happen so with heavy hearts they set out to stop their leader at all costs. They succeeded and broke the control over Midnight, who then turned on Byron and Eris and sent them back to the spirit world they belonged in.

The Delegates built a new headquarters and picked up the pieces but the family suffered with the death of Garrett. Suddenly though he came back from the dead, which perplexed everyone. They didn’t know that be had made a deal with the demon Leviathan to be resurrected. A deal that sealed his fate. That deal is what gave Leviathan permission to turn Garrett into a monster, and to steal his soul on a whim. By making a deal with a demon, you trade your soul, which can be collected at any time and they can do what they will with your body. This is how the Specters came into being, Leviathan removed Garrett’s soul and twisted his body to serve the demon’s purposes. Before all that though it seemed like many things were returning to normal, a few missions here and there, a few crisis averted.

Then Michael attacked headquarters with the help of a Djinn under his control and the reckoning began, followed by the blight. The remainder of Midnight’s children were trapped in the floating city, Garrett and Mia were killed at her hand, and her grief stricken husband left her. The world once again was plunged into chaos and disorder. The Specters have a larger populous than humans and immortals combined, nuclear fallout has made many places inhabitable, many oceans and rivers have been poisoned, and billions have died. The floating city remains in the sky protected by a barrier, and the Specters remain on the surface hunting anything with a pulse. Midnight and the Delegates built a city in the massive redwood trees of California to give shelter to those that have survived. Even if it appears the world has ended, the Delegates will not stop trying to protect and rebuild it, to make sure there’s a future worth living. Before the ruled the North, and now she rules Sequoia.

Midnight always was a second rate mother, often putting the wellbeing of the world ahead of her responsibilities as a parent. In her mind she was building a better world for her children to grow up in and that was the most important thing she could do for them, she didn’t realize it caused her to neglect her children and put them second. With Will and Stacy gone in the floating palace, she had to take care of their two children, Brady and Katherine. Midnight tried desperately to make up for the mistakes of the past, in a way she felt that her failings as a mother lead Garrett to his fate, so she tried to be the best grandmother to the children she could be. Annita was also left behind when Amirah, Arucan, and then Aubrey were trapped in the floating kingdom. Midnight raised the child no different than she had Katherine and Brady, not as one of her own children, but as a member of her family, in Midnight's line of thinking, all the children were family in a way. Hari, and Kat were also children she considered family, and she played a heavy role in helping Kora, and Reith, raise the children. The last child to be added to their little swarm was Claire's son, Chris, an active, fussy, vocal and tough little devil; even as a child he was a trouble maker that could talk his way out of or into anything, kid was smooth. Katherine, Brady, Annita, Hari, Chris and Kat were all raised together by the four women, each compensating for another’s weaknesses and using each other’s strengths. The result was actually quite impressive given the state of the world, the children were relatively normal and happy. Not one of the women had all the traits that made a good mother, but together they covered most of the bases and effectively parented the children. This form of community based parenting became the standard in Sequoia, with so many children without parents or family, it was the only way they would be able to raise well-adjusted children. It worked very well and it was one of the pillars of the great city.

Personality:

Midnight has a strange personality. Outwardly she appears her normal self, laughing when things are comical, smiling when encountering happiness, frowning when faced with sadness. Yet she keeps most people at arm’s length to protect herself and to protect them. So many people that have loved Midnight have died or faced horrific fates. Midnight remembers each and every one of them and their memories weigh on her like the weight of a thousand worlds. She thinks about them often, getting lost is distant memories, and seeing them in the shadows. They haunt her, when she dreams and when she’s awake. Midnight questions her own sanity often, fearing that her mind is just as broken as her heart.

Though Midnight pushes people away from her for their own protection, she often can’t fight her caring nature. She has a deep soft spot for children, and often watches over them from a distance. The people that already held a place in her heart Midnight holds on to for dear life. Feeling like she failed her own children, Midnight refused to let her weaknesses destroy the people closest to her. They are the only ones she is emotionally close to and shows affection or love to. The children, the remaining Delegates, and a sparse few others are the only ones Midnight lets in at all. To them she was open and honest, kind and loving, compassionate and affectionate, many of the things she felt like she didn’t give enough to her own husband or children. Midnight knows she can never make up for her mistakes, never go back and make it better, but she can at least not make the same mistakes twice.

Midnight is fiercely protective of her family and close friends. Though it can seem that Midnight gives the children license to go out on their own, live their own lives, and make their own mistakes, Midnight is always watching from the shadows to ensure they are safe. She doesn’t do this to shield them from growing up or making their own mistakes, only there to make sure those mistakes or choices won’t cost them their lives. Neither herself, Kora, or Reith would survive anything happening to the children and Midnight is the best suited to keep an eye on the kids from the shadows so they don’t feel like they are being watched like children or are untrusted. In fact Midnight spends a lot of time watching people from a distance and doesn’t often interact with people outside of her circle.

Midnight is unpredictable at times, and always stubborn as a mule. She is determined and driven. Midnight doesn’t give up and would rather die fighting for something that mattered to her than let something that mattered to her slip away.

Midnight is also calculating and patient, she has a lot of foresight and intuition. This makes managing the city from the background relatively easy for her. No one goes hungry, no one lacks for shelter or clothes, medical attention, or proper care. The city is completely self-sufficient, and all of its inhabitants are treated fairly and equally. Management always had been one of Midnight’s strong suits, and it has truly shown in the set up and management of the city.

All around Midnight doesn’t seem like all that bad of a person, but she still thinks of herself as a monster. She carries a great deal of shame, guilt, and pain around every moment of every day and she is unwilling to let anyone see it. Though she tries so hard to keep it all under the surface, it occasionally finds its way out which can cause her to disappear for days, sometimes even weeks while she combats her inner demons and finds a small degree of release. Midnight once considered herself balanced, now she would say she is unhinged. But in this world, who isn’t?