kungfuey | May. 12th, 2018

Scarlett Harker // Scarlett Van Helsing

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Scarlett

"Like in gone with the wind?"
"No, cause of the color of blood. "

INFO
"That's the only way you're going to 'get up on this' Dipshit."

ABOUT SCARLETT
"How'd you get so ah, kungfuey?"

STATISTICS
NAME Scarlet Harker aka Van Helsing
AGE 33
DOB September 22, 1986
HEIGHT 5'6" BUILD Athletic
HAIR Dark Brown
EYES Brown

ABILITIES & SKILLS
RAPID CELLULAR REGENERATION

It allows her to heal from any injury near instantaneously.

REVERSION

Scarlett's bite and blood are capable of reverting vampires back into humans and rendering them immune to being turned again.

ENHANCED SENSES

All Scarlett's senses are similar to that of a Vampire, including her ability to see in the dark.

INCREASED STRENGTH

Scarlett is stronger than an average human.

FERAL POISONING

Unlike normal vampires, ferals have a negative reaction to not only Scarlett's blood but her bite, it kills them almost instantly.

RESSURECTION

It is believed that if Scarlett were to die, she would go into a hibernation death like state where her heart stops, she's dead but her blood continues to flow.

COMBAT

Scarlett has had extensive training in combat and and weapons since childhood.

SURVIVAL SKILLS

Scarlett has had extensive training in hunting, trap-making and other forms of survival skills since childhood.

FIRST IMPRESSION
Scarlett is slow to trust and suspicious of everyone she encounters. As a result, it greatly depends on how you first see her as to which sort of impression she'll make.

Introduce yourself to her and Scarlett's closed off body language and sharp, scrutinizing eyes don't leave you with the impression that she's looking to make friends. She'll make no secret of the fact that she's sizing you up as she fires often too personal questions at you. With her arms folded across her chest, the scowl that hardens her features and the Katana she almost always wears strapped to her back, you're left with the impression that she's considering the best ways to take you out if she doesn't like one of your answers.

Be introduced to Scarlett, particularly by Vanessa and Scarlett is a little easier to take. You still get the impression that she's sizing you up, but that's more out of habit than necessity. She does come across as guarded and is certainly ready with a sarcastic barb but she's fairly quick to warm up after a few minutes and can even seem sociable.

The best impression that Scarlett can make is when she doesn't know that you're watching her. When she relaxes she can show her playful side and you may even catch one of those rare smiles lighting up her face. She probably seems like the kind of person you want to be friends with unless of course, you happen to catch her in action.

When facing an opponent, Scarlett is in her element. All her worries and the strain slips from her features and she seems to thrive in a fight. It's almost disturbing how at ease she can be when wielding a sword or making quips at an enemy. It manages to be both the most intense and yet relaxed you'll ever see her; as if she's doing exactly what she was born to do.

ABILITY NERFING

Enhanced Hearing: Scarlett has the ability to hear things humans can't. Can be greatly strengthened through the drinking of blood. I.E Scarlett could hear Axel's heart beating while she was 50 feet away and he was buried underground. After consuming blood, Vanessa could hear his heart beating while they were a mile away in a car.

Enhanced Strength: Stronger than a human and can be made stronger through the drinking of blood. - One of 'The Sisters' says that she's strong, even for a Van Helsing, when fighting her.

Enhanced Sight/Night Vision: She can see in the dark and appears to be able to see clearly at greater distances than the average human.

Nerfing: No Night Vision.

Rapid Cellular Regeneration: It allows her to heal from any injury near instantaneously.

Nerfing: She still heals faster than the average person but not near fatal wounds instantly. Cuts and scrapes are instant healing. Penetrating wounds or severe illness will take far longer for her to recover.

Reversion (Vampire-to-Human): Scarlett's bite and blood are capable of reverting vampires back into humans and rendering them immune to being turned again. Restored vampires blood tastes revolting to Vampires.

Note: While there is no nerfing in play, I'm happy to have some in between on this for Vampires that are not from the Van Helsing world. IE. A bite from her will revert them for several hours. Her blood will revert them for several days. Alternatively, we can go with Perma-cure.

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PERSONALITY
"Sorry, I couldn’t really hear what he was saying cause he has a spear made of bone in his chest."

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PERSONALITY TYPE STRENGTHS Fearless, Calculating, Fierce
WEAKNESSES Standoffish, Abrasive, Suspicious
NEUTRAL Sarcastic, Cool Under Pressure, Focused

An event known by the world as 'The Rising' may well have thrown the majority of the world into chaos, but for Scarlett Harker, this was the first time in her life when she ever felt like she belonged. Raised by the people she believed to be her parents, Scarlett knew of the existence of Vampires long before the volcanic ash brought them out of the shadows. She'd been training to fight them for as long as she could remember, fighting and killing her first one when she was fifteen.

For two decades, Scarlett was an outsider. She was the weird girl whose family were known to locals as "The Doomsdays'. Her attempt at dating ended in her pulling a knife on a boy who dared to make fun of her and the torment and isolation she experienced finally culminated in her father faking their deaths so the two could live completely off the grid, after a Vampire tracked them down and tried to kill Scarlett.

The Rising found Scarlett her place in the world as if every bad thing that happened to her, actually had a purpose. There's an edge of arrogance about her because of it, an attitude of 'jokes on you' for all the people who mocked and tormented her growing up but she's probably earned the right to that feeling of superiority. She lost everything, any semblance of normalcy, even her (adopted) father to his own hand because of the life she'd lived Pre-Rising. The Rising may not have taken back the pain of the last 20 years, but at least it wasn't all in vain.

Scarlett appears almost unaffected by the violence and chaos that the world has been thrown into. She maintains an easy going nature, resorting to quips in times of extreme danger and even at the point of facing certain death, she never panics. Whether she's pulling out a grenade to show she'll take her attacker with her, or taunting a Vampire who could easily kill her right before cutting off his hand, Scarlett is almost always the picture of cool, calm and collected.

She can, however, be downright abrasive to deal with, rubbing people the wrong way with her sarcastic remarks and tendency to do things her own way. She's been alone for a long time, even before The Rising. Scarlett isn't accustomed to relying on others and is still trying to learn that following her fight instinct isn't always the best choice. She hasn't learned how to share, scolding Axel for 'touching her shit' and isn't very good at compromising, though she at least appears to be learning the longer she's around people.

She claims to enjoy her lone wolf existence and yet admits when we first see her that she'd been searching for Vanessa, following the stories she'd heard of the woman who had been taking on Vampires as she had. As much as Scarlett knows how to function on her own, and even tries to keep those around her from getting too close, she is still human. The fear she won't admit to feeling, and survival instincts might see her go it alone but it's natural for her to seek the company of others, especially after a life of isolation and now living in a world that's overrun by Vampires.

She's perhaps more calculating than she might appear to be, as comments she's made throughout the series might suggest. Scarlett has always had her finger on the pulse of all that's going on in the world of the Vampires. She knows exactly who the key players are, and the details of events she wasn't present for. Clearly, she's been forced into social interactions in the past to know as much as she does, but she's still managed to do so without getting on the radar of those key players, which in and of itself shows her cunning and her ability to plan and gather information.

Despite being hardened by life, Scarlett doesn't keep all of her emotions behind a figurative - and at times literal - mask. We see the tears that form when the life she thought she knew was shattered when she discovered that her parents were not her parents and that Vanessa was in fact, her twin sister. Her face will often betray the vulnerability she tries to hide with her words and actions. While she can be emotionally constipated, something we see when she's talking about the deaths of her (adopted) parents, dealing with Axel and even her real mother, she's not so hard that she's incapable of feeling, and in turn, showing real emotion.

While one might expect a level of social awkwardness, given her unusual upbringing, Scarlett at least appears to be able to fit in with those around her. She is certainly standoffish at first, meeting all people with a scowl and closed off body language but she can adapt fairly quickly to any situation, even learning how to trust people the longer she spends with them. It's still fair to say that Scarlett has gotten more than some of her adopted father's intensity and paranoia. The only person she seems to trust (almost) immediately is Vanessa, whom, despite the hostility between them for the first five minutes, Scarlett very quickly falls into a relationship with, as if the bond formed in childhood had never gone away, even if the memories have faded.

She's somebody who is surprisingly open about her past, as we see not only when she spills her history to Vanessa, but again later with Axel. The Rising seems to have given her permission to live out in the open, Scarlett happy to share all the secrets she's been keeping for 20 years. She tends to stick to the facts, however, shrugging off the more emotional aspects of her experiences. While it might suggest that she's unaffected by them, Scarlett will at times let something slip, a small comment about the high price that came with being prepared for The Rising. She is clearly damaged by her past but hasn't been broken by it because, at her core, she is a survivor, somebody who will either overcome or adapt to the most extreme of situations.

PERSONAL MORAL CODES

While hardly what you'd call a cold-blooded murderer, Scarlett is completely at ease with the concept of violence and death. She lives by the rule of kill or be killed and while we mostly see that applied to Vampires in the series, she's been shown to have little trouble with pointing a gun at a human and doesn't at all seem fazed when they end up dead (even if not by her hand).

Until encountering Vanessa and the others, her world had been very black and white; if they're a vampire, she kills them. The only time she's ever shown restraint, was when Vanessa was willing to kill her in order to protect Axel (before he was restored), though it didn't stop Scarlett from running him through with a Katana.

While you wouldn't go so far as to say that she has a death wish, Scarlett will sacrifice her own life for the greater good, or at least her own version of that. She tells Vanessa not to allow Dimitri to have the key (that will release The Elder) when he said he'd kill Scarlett if Vanessa didn't give it to him and was happy to blow herself up if it meant taking Vanessa down with her when they first encountered each other.

She has no problem stealing from others to better help her own position, immediately planning to take weapons and ammunition from the smalltown cops they encountered who invited them for a meal and a shower, before knowing they weren't to be trusted. She won't kill to steal, though, otherwise, she would have done so as soon as they arrived at the compound and she didn't take all that they had, just enough to boost their own supplies.

Scarlett appears to be perfectly at ease, living her life in the grey area. She's somebody who aims for the good but won't lose any sleep over the death of somebody she feels deserves it, even if there are alternatives. She's been surviving the last three years, longer than that if we're being honest and Scarlett has learned to put herself first. She is changing, though, looking out for those she's traveling with as well so she's at least capable of evolving but she'll probably always be somebody who puts her own wants ahead of the desires of others if it means a better chance at survival.

INSECURITIES & PERSONAL DEMONS

Scarlett has a tendency to keep people at arm's length due to her long history of abandonment; Adopted Mother died of cancer, Adopted Father killed himself, Real Mother gave her away and then shortly after reuniting with her, died. Even her twin sister, Vanessa was torn away from her at the age of five and the two of them only got to reunite for one day, before Vanessa is taken by the men in the helicopter. Anyone Scarlett has ever cared about has left her (whether by choice or not) at some point and while she appears to form superficial relationships, even romantic entanglements, she always seems to keep things casual as if it will stop her from getting too attached for when they inevitably leave her too.

Most of her life, Scarlett has struggled with being an outsider and never feeling like she belongs anywhere. Her upbringing forced her to be a loner before The Rising and while she acknowledges that the 'Vampire Apocalypse' meant that she finally knew her place in the world, she's continued to go it alone for the last few years. She can work with others but tends to call the shots as she's usually the most experienced person in the room.

There is a recklessness in Scarlett that shows itself from time to time, usually when she's been backed into a corner. In times of fight or flight, she defaults to fight, even when the smart option is to run. It takes others to pull her back from the edge and get her to focus on the bigger picture. She can listen to reason, there are merely times when she needs somebody around to be that voice. One can assume that if she were on her own, she would take bigger and more unnecessary risks.

The why behind it has yet to be revealed, but Scarlett really doesn't like being trapped. She's okay with confined spaces until she feels like there's literally no way out and the cool and calm exterior she seems to maintain in other high-pressure situations starts to melt away.

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APPEARANCE
"What's with Samurai Jane over there?"

LOOK BOOK

Standing at 5'6" with a relatively slight, albeit athletic build, one wouldn't expect Scarlett to cut an intimidating figure. With her penchant for all black and the Katana (and often other weapons) that are always worn in plain view, it's as much her appearance as it is that way she carries herself that makes some people give her a wide berth.

Rarely if ever, seen in a dress, Scarlett favors anything that's practical in a fight: Form-fitting garments that can't be grabbed or get snagged on something as she traverses more difficult terrain. Denim and leather can make an appearance in her wardrobe if she's not in work-mode, but dressing up isn't something that anyone in her world has had to worry about for the last three years, and nothing that has concerned Scarlett since she went into hiding at age fifteen.

One might consider her face to be pretty if not for the hard expression she often wears. Her olive skin and golden brown eyes could be described as exotic but Scarlett seems to downplay her features rather than accentuate them. She keeps her dark hair fairly short, falling just below her ears in a choppy cut that hints she perhaps does it herself.

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HISTORY
"You could say I took the term mispent youth to another level."

FAMILY TREE
ADOPTIVE MOTHER Ella Harker †
ADOPTIVE FATHER Charles Harker †
BIRTH MOTHER Abigail Van Helsing †
BIRTH FATHER Unknown

SISTER Vanessa Van Helsing

NEICE Dylan Van Helsing †

TIMELINE
1986

Vanessa and Scarlett Van Helsing are born.

1991

Scarlett and Vanessa are sent away. Scarlett is taken in by a couple. Vanessa goes into the Foster Care system.

2001

Scarlett's Father fakes their deaths and they go into hiding.

2015

The Rising. Vampires make their presence known to the world. Millions die.

2018

Scarlett and Vanessa reunite for the first time since their separation.

For first five years of her life, Scarlett and her twin sister Vanessa were kept in a facility where they were studied by scientists who knew of the existence of Vampires. Fearing that the very people she worked on would begin to do dangerous tests on the girls, their mother, Abigail, sent them away to live with trusted family friends. While Scarlett ended up with the Harkers', the sisters were somehow separated and Vanessa ended up in the Foster Care system.

Scarlett is trained by her adoptive parents in Hunting, Killing, Combat, Weapons & Trap-making. She is raised with the awareness of the existence of Vampires and is told she needs to learn all of these things in order to protect herself.

Scarlett's adoptive mother, Ella Harker, dies of cancer. She tries to tell Scarlett the truth about her birth on her deathbed but is stopped by her husband and Ella dies without Scarlett ever knowing the truth.

At age fifteen, Scarlett encounters her first Vampire, who has come to town looking for The Harker duo. Ella's father, Charles, forces her to fight and kill the Vampire.

At Charles' insistence, Scarlett and her father burn down their family home, staging their own deaths. Everyone, including Scarlett's birth mother, believes that Scarlett is truly dead. The pair goes into hiding where Scarlett continues to be raised to face a potential Vampire Apocalypse.

At some point between faking their deaths and The Rising, Scarlett's adoptive father takes his own life. Scarlett believes it was because he'd lost faith that The Rising would ever truly happen.

A massive volcanic eruption causes the sky to be heavily polluted by ash, all but completely blocking out the sun and triggering what is referred to now as The Rising. No longer hindered by the sun, Vampires emerged from the shadows and began killing humans on the streets in the middle of the day.

Scarlett would spend the next three years, traveling alone across North America and killing Vampires wherever she found them. In this time she managed to learn a great deal about the Vampire Hierarchy and the various going ons between humans and Vampires.

Plagued by dreams about a Red Door, and hearing word of a woman who apparently has the ability to not only rival her for Vampire Kills, but can supposedly cure Vampires, Scarlett goes in search of Vanessa Van Helsing, the Twin Sister she doesn't remember having.

Scarlett enters the series in Season 2 and we meet her properly for the first time in the episode; 'Wakey Wakey'.

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“I’m not a goddamn Vampire!”