Hope C. Fidelis
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| ART BY LUIS ROYO!!!! The Darkness of Hope is only eclipsed by her devotion to her family | |
| Hope Constance Fidelis | |
| Player: @Josephina | |
| Origin: | Natural |
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| Archetype: | Brute |
| Threat Level: | unknown |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | As above |
| Known Aliases: | "Hope" |
| Species: | Vampire of the Greek darkness |
| Age: | 903 years physically 16 |
| Height: | 5'4" |
| Weight: | 110 lbs |
| Eye Color: | Black or silver |
| Hair Color: | Black |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | French |
| Occupation: | International Antiquity dealer |
| Place of Birth: | Lusignat Domeyrot, France |
| Base of Operations: | Nerva Archipelago |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | Husband Alexander Fidelis 4 children unknown names |
| Known Powers | |
| Lesser mind manipulation and telepathy, intermediate physical energy manipulation in herself and others. Soul stealing and Devouring, Invulnerability to most energies and damage other then Psi | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Fast healing, Ability to feed off of the blood of others | |
| Equipment | |
| Nothing more then the cloths on her back | |
| Uses her intellect and spies to assess her enemies before conflict arises | |
Player's Note:
THIS STORY MAY BE TOO GRAPHIC FOR YOUNG INDIVIDUALS!!
This character is from a story I have been working on for many years her beliefs are not my own. There is more story then I can possibly include on this page, but what has been included is the main details of her life.
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Katerzina Jonquet's Army
Hope was born in a small village in 1105 AD. At the age of 14 the village had been taken, and burned in one night when an odd army that only traveled by night was slowly sweeping the land. Hope watched as her family was killed and fed upon by vampire like armored men. One man with dark skin and white eyes grabbed Hope by the arm and drug her into the night away from the slaughter taking her to a tent not far from the village. Once inside the black tent she met a beautiful red haired woman dressed in black armor the woman looked Hope over grabbing her by the chin and inspecting her much like some one would who as buying a horse and nodded to the dark skinned man.
From this point on Hope became the womans lady in waiting. Guarding her through the day when she slept in her coffin and being fed from by night as the armies moved across France. Two years the armies crept through the small villages of France and Germany hiding in the woods from the eyes of those that would see the monster Katerzina was building. She was building the armies to protect humanity from its impending doom she would tell Hope and that this was for the best. Hope hated her, in the armies she saw the faces of villagers she once knew but they were no longer the people she remembered but blood thirsty beasts. Katerzina summoned demons and created things with magic that horrified Hope. The one thing that kept her sane was a beautiful caged man Katerzina kept in her tent. He was always sickly and whispered to Hope of how sad it was to see the woman he loved enslaved by the dreaded red head blood sucker. After time Hope fell in love with the caged man and found a way to release him from his bonds.
When the beautiful man was released he showed his true from as a horned demonic blood sucker. Grabbing Hope he draining her dry then feeding her his own blood so he could keep her for himself. After killing Hope he destroyed the army that Katerzina had created making the forests float with the ash of the dead. When he got to Katerzina he stuck a piece of wood through her heart and took her and Hope south. As they traveled south Hope found out the true reason Katerzina was the way she was and why she had kept the man caged. The man's name was Alexander and he had killed Katerzina's family and kept her prisoner for 20 years before she finally caged Alex. Hope had let the monster free and when he was free she saw the true horrors of his brutality. Every night he would torture Hope and Katerzina over and over until day break then hide them away again. Once they reached Rome Alex took them under the building that would later become the Sistine chapel, then put Katerzina in a large stone coffin putting her into a torpor once again and sealing her away for all time.
An Eternity of Darkness
Hope was restricted the the night and restricted to Alex's insane pursuit of perfection. He kept Hope close not even letting her think of escaping or betraying him. She followed his every wim hoping to lesson the torture he deemed so needed. Even doing everything perfect though he would find a reason that she needed to be cut open and hung from a meat hook for several hours. After many years of this Alex ran into a young woman that did not show the 'faults' as he called them. He told Hope that even if she was embraced the demonic traits that all his children developed would never show. So Hope and Alex pursued the 'key' as Alex called her for many years. Neava Zealand, aka the 'key', evaded capture finally her, and her husband began to hunt down Alexander and Hope. Alexander and Hope fled Europe using the Norse ships to transport them to the Americas. Once in the Americas they traveled south down the coast reaching where Paragon would one day stand. Victor encased Neava in a sleeping spell that only he could undo and hid her deep within a cave for him to come back for her when Alex was dead. In the battle between Alexander and Victor both where nearly killed in fact Hope drug Alex's body away and left Victor in the depths of the caves beneath Paragon. After about 200 years of Hope fending for herself in the wilds of America Alex awoke and him and Hope investigated the ruins in the caves that the Circle of thorns had left. They gathered magic and power and when the English settled in the Americas Hope and Alex made a new life hiding behind the masks of normal humans for many years never finding Neava in Victors hiding place.
Time passed rather slowly for Hope dwelling in the night with her constant master making her life a living hell. Alexander put her in charge of training his new children and Hope unleashed the same ferocity into them that Alex had to her. When Alex was distracted by a young woman in New York in the late 1800's Hope was beyond pleased but when she saw the womans face she was reminded of the betrayal of Katerzina many years before and she fell into a deep despair over what she had become. Hope refused to train Katerzina as she did with all of Alex's other children and for this she was shunned and parts of her soul was removed making her weak and powerless to him. She was made to fight Josephina over and over as her punishment and the young girls for looking like the long lost Katerzina that Alex so dearly loved. When Josephina was finished with her training and became Alex's favorite diversion Hope was happy to sink into the darkness of the coven hiding from Alex's view when ever she could.
Josephina disappeared after many years and Hope was once again in Alex's attentions. She hated Jo for doing what she could not, and she hated her more for leaving her with the monster that was their Sire.
Becoming the Queen of the Line
With the pain of Josephina betraying him Alexander became more insane and harsh. Many times he would but Hope Apart and then sow her back together repeatedly through the coarse of a night. He knew what to do to hurt her, what to say how to cut, and how to burn. She was utterly lost in the pain that Was Alex. Lucky for her Alexander found a mortal mutant bride that could bare him biological children. With these children Hope found some respite with the Birth of Alex's first two children named Alexander Fidelis and Artemis Fidelis. The twins brought Alex some sanity but not enough to stop his brutal punishment and mind games as he tried to hunt down Jo still. With the mutant genes the two children possessed they grew extremely fast they reached maturity at the age of a year. Their intellect was the only thing that passed up the extremely fast physical growth. After some time of Hope hating Fidelis as most called him Alex's son she began to realize that Fidelis was nothing like his father. He held the power of his father and some of his fathers features, but he was calm quiet and seeming almost kind at times.
Hope was surprised by Fidelis when he began sending her poems, and showing her kindness that she had not experienced for hundreds of years. For a long time she thought it was a trick and then as her mind and soul craved so deeply for the love she gave in and fell for him as well. Of course the relationship was quiet, and hidden but when Hope became pregnant with Fidelis's child and Alex found out it was either Fidelis loose Hope and his child to the insanity of his father or he acted and killed the man that he was supposed to replace one day. It just so happened that Alex found out not long after he killed Josephina's husband so Fidelis allied with Josephina and made a plan to kill his father. Hope did not know the plan or what happened, but when she went to see if her love was still alive Alex was dead along with his daughter Artemis. Fidelis was stabbed mutilated, and half dead so Jo carried him off and helped him heal from the fight.
This left Hope and Fidelis to lead Alex's coven they became the new leaders of Alex's line. Fidelis was the enforcer and Hope was the eyes and ears keeping all the family around the world under check. Hope has had 4 children with Fidelis to this date the girls and one boy. She and her husband continue to rule over the family with an iron fist making sure Alex's chaos isn't born again.
After Alex's death the trinity of chaos that supplied Alex's line with eternal life began to search for a new representative in the world they threatened to kill off the pure vampires of the line unless they bent to the darkness and the desire of the Trinity. Hope refusing enslavement lost her soul to the trinity and with it she lost her gift of immortality. Her husband not wanting to loose her fed her from his own soul and blood. For many years she could not leave his side or she would fade from life. After time passed she learned to feed off of the souls of others to survive ,and by doing this she was able to leave Fidelis's side. With Hopes independence he was once again able to hold his full power, but with the time both Hope and Fidelis were weakened the trinity found a new representative and gained power in the shadows of the world again.
Personality
Hope has a very hard domineering personality. She learned to be hard and aggressive to others in order to preserve her mental well being. Her sharp tongue and wit was the by product of hours of being hung by her ribs off of a meat hook and left to contemplate the pain of it all. Most of her kin under Alex's care went insane or became suicidal. For Hope it was about opening more power and more hatred. She gained strength from every torture session learning to utterly shut off pain and turning off emotion. That is not to say she did not fear her torture, pain, and death it is that she would not let others see it. She was and always has been about controlling your enemies through fear. She used to kill her victims through sheer fear before she even touched them and she took great satisfaction in this at one time. Now she has softened with finding love and loosing the power that Nox gave her she is allowed to love and with this love comes a softness. She often is found to have a distaste for the torture she once loved to give. She still believes that humanity will destroy its self but she fights to keep the darkness and Chaos of hell from consuming the world there for keeping Alex's dream for eternal night and blood only a distant possibility. Hope and her husband are not above ruling over humanity in order to save it, but she will only start this if humanity is in dire straights.
Fidelity Shipping and Receiving
Fidelity shipping and receiving is a front business for the movement and monitoring of magical articles through out the world. Hope and Fidelis have taken a great interest in powerful magical items and hiding them in their home or destroying them if they become too powerful. It also allows a front for the family movements connecting all the Alexander descendants as business associates in the cooperation.
