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Name: Eulalia Salucci Door: Door pass (Dominant) Canon: Original Canon Point: A few weeks after her 26th birthday Age: 26 Appearance: young lady, you’re scaring me. History: WORLD INFORMATION In Eula’s world, angels and demons are real and their influence on humans has been storied over the years. Some angels and demons will ‘rub off’ their powers onto humans, either after a particularly strong interaction with one directly, or when a person or family has had a particularly longstanding relationship with an entity of some sort. Powers from demons are more common than those from angels, as demons are more likely to interact with (or even live among) humans. In the case of humans becoming imbued with powers, it’s not that the entity chooses to give them a power, but rather that there’s an unintentional transfer. Demons may try to persuade humans to make deals with them in exchange for the human’s soul, and there are ancient arcane rituals that brave humans can try, to bind a demon to them instead. In this case the demon is marked with a brand of some sort, and is magically compelled to do as the human commands. This is incredibly rare: a lot of humans don’t survive the process because mistakes are easy to make and absolutely lethal. Most bindings of this type end for the demon when a contract is fulfilled or when the human dies; as rare as bindings are, it’s rarer still that a human will actually let a demon go. HISTORY Eula is the only child of Angelo Salucci, currently an extremely powerful criminal based in New York who has operated as the Don of the Salucci crime family since Eula was 9 years old. The Saluccis have a reputation for violence and a history of inter-familial bloodshed, though since Angelo killed his father and took over as Don, he’s made them significantly more formidable. Their main criminal interests are racketeering, gambling, and distribution of illegal drugs and firearms. The family’s legitimate front started out with restaurants, but they currently also own several five-star hotels throughout New York, with expanded franchises in Miami and Las Vegas. Eula’s father is regarded as unscrupulously violent, cruel, cold-blooded, not to be crossed under any circumstances, and more or less effectively untouchable thanks both to his own supernatural reality-warping powers and to the unwavering loyalty of a powerful demon named Alastor, who has protected the Saluccis for over two hundred years, and is the reason for both Angelo and Eula’s supernatural abilities. Eula’s parents were young and a little stupid when they married, and against the advice of both of their families, Angelo married Victoria Perrone when they were both only 22. About a month after they got married, they both agreed they were incompatible and decided to start seeing other people, but not to get divorced so as not to prove anyone right. Shortly after this decision was made, Victoria found out she was pregnant, and Eula was born a few months later. Eula’s parents’ conviction to stay together to spite everyone lasted four years, until Victoria finally had enough of Angelo and filed for divorce. The circumstances of Eula’s conception were muddy enough that when Eula was a child, Angelo stalwartly refused to accept that he was her father, even though she grew up looking more and more like him every day. Both before and after the divorce, his presence in her life was largely at a minimum, but his unreachability made him infinitely preferable to her mother, who was the only one really disciplining her. Victoria was always intensely focused on her career and sometimes Eula was pushed aside for work; many days in her childhood were spent alone as she tried to find ways to amuse herself. Eula was a menace at the private Catholic all-girls school she attended; she was regularly being held back in detention for picking on the other kids and even the teachers, and operated a pretty successful illicit substance racket (mostly tame things like cigarettes and sugary alcohol) which she took over after ousting the girls who had previously been running it. Throughout her childhood, she became more determined to develop a real relationship with her father, who in her eyes could do absolutely no wrong, even though he continued to brush her off as someone else’s kid and none of his responsibility. Eula also had a solid relationship with her father’s younger brother Ludovico, who was a much more pleasant person than her hyper-violent, insecure and volatile father. Ludo was the black sheep of the family, but also his father’s favourite son, and resentment on Angelo’s part eventually led to Angelo killing his brother in cold blood when Eula was 7. Angelo’s reality-warping abilities allowed him to erase Ludo from everyone’s memories and so avoid repercussions for having killed him; he wiped Eula’s memories of him too, but over the years some memories began to seep through the cracks thanks to a small amount of natural resistance to her father’s abilities. As a child she would often tell her mother about Ludo, but her memories were fuzzy enough that her mother, who couldn’t remember him at all, passed him off as an imaginary friend. Angelo eventually came around to the idea that he was her father when Eula was about ten, and when he took over as Don of the family he also made some efforts to bridge the gap between himself and his daughter, with the intent to keep her in the family business. Through her teenage years, Eula doted on her father after finally receiving his attention, and drifted significantly from her mother. She and her father really began to bond when Eula, aged 10, discovered that she was also imbued with supernatural abilities. In the middle of a fight at school, Eula pushed a girl with enough strength to send her flying halfway across the playground. It went unexplained at the time, but Alastor recognised it for what it was. Angelo, whose powers had revealed themselves in similar circumstances, became intensely fond of Eula and helped her hone her powers throughout her teenage years, finding more uses for them, directing them more specifically than just letting them unleash as a torrent of nonspecific, untargeted rage. He promised her that there would be a space for her in the family business, but wanted her to go to college first. She majored in theology and minored in actuarial science (applying mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk, for use in fields like finance and insurance). At college Eula developed a reputation as something of a wild child, but she rode on the coattails of her father’s reputation a few times to make sure she didn’t get kicked out before she graduated. She’d never been a particularly good student at school, but in college she excelled, despite an abysmal attendance record. At college, Eula generally opted for casual, no-commitments relationships with men and women, including a brief, secretive stint with one of her professors which trailled off when Eula got bored. Her longest term 'relationship' was with a fellow student named Moses, who was for all intents and purposes her boyfriend for a while; she's very fond of him, and he's the closest she's ever come to a genuine deep connection, but after graduation they both mutually agreed to go their separate ways – Moses to travel, and Eula to go home to her father and the family business. After graduating, Eula was folded into the family business as a capo in charge of a small number of soldiers. As something of a twenty-sixth birthday present, she was promoted to a caporegime and has a seat at the table in family meetings, where she’s getting first-hand experience of running a criminal empire. Her father intends to install her as his underboss, a position currently held by Alastor. Eventually, when her father retires, Eula will become Don of the family. Personality: + Charismatic: Eula’s funny, kind of effortlessly so, and most of the time she’ll have some stupid quip or pointed comment ready on the tip of her tongue. She’s witty, charismatic and verbose, rarely stumbling over her words when she talks, and is outspoken enough that it’s hard to come out on top when you’re arguing or debating with her. The jokes are a front to cover for the fact that she has trouble getting close to people: she often overshares as a defence mechanism, but plays these moments off as ironic humour, which either unsettles people enough into backing off, or comes across like she’s just lying. She’s been given enough opportunities through sheer nepotism that despite having a lot of responsibilities in the family business, she’s still quite unprofessional. Despite (or perhaps because of) this, she’s a natural leader, naturally suited to making decisions, whether positive or negative. She will do the hard thing if it needs to be done, and she can even make you like her for doing it. – Volatile: Like her father, Eula is stubborn and volatile, with a viciously short temper that snaps often and results in an explosion of either anger or pure violence. Her father’s influence in her life means that she’s been taught to work with these bouts of anger rather than against them, meaning she has very little control over her temper and will snap over seemingly inconsequential things. She’s also incredibly touchy, and takes things – especially comments about her, her father, or her family – extremely personally, stubbornly holding onto grudges and vendettas long after any reasonable person would have buried the hatchet. – Stubborn: Eula is inclined to patience and biding her time until she gets what she wants, where her father is more inclined to take what he wants by force. However, her trust issues make it difficult for her to want to take advice from others, which is something she knows she should work on, but doesn’t really want to. She’s made it this far without having to change her ways, after all. All this to say, she’s stubborn as a mule: if she wants something, she will get it, no matter how long it takes or how much effort she has to put in. She will hold onto grudges far longer than anyone else might expect possible. It’s hard to secure real trust from her, and one single betrayal will ruin that trust forever. She does not forgive, and she certainly does not forget. Her stubbornness sometimes makes her a target, because she finds it difficult to put aside personal grievances for the sake of a better outcome, and does not mind being disliked if she feels she has to be. – Commitment-phobic: With most people, Eula is a huge commitment-phobe. She’s flaky, reluctant to develop deep relationships, and keeps almost everyone she knows at a distance. As a result, she doesn’t really have friends, and finds it difficult to talk seriously to others: most of the people she knows are either casual acquaintances, sycophantic hangers-on, or people she actively doesn’t get along with. She’s ‘popular’, but somewhat materialistically so, and it makes her fairly isolated. Her friendships and relationships are fairly surface-level – she's good at hiding that fact, and most people tend to think they know her better than they actually do, but the truth of it is that people don't get close to her because she doesn't let them. Powers and Abilities: Hyperkinetic exertion. Eula is able to store up kinetic energy she receives from moving or being impacted, and can unleash it as a large amount of energy with a comparatively small touch, for example she could knock a hole through a wall just by prodding it. She has a reasonable level of control over her ability, thanks to training from her father, but in high-stress environments she's often prone to forgetting her own strength. In terms of nerfing for the game environment, I'll say that she can't store more energy than that which would be necessary to push a stationary bus 20 feet away from her. She won't be able to topple any buildings or generally do any game-breaking damage. Inventory: A fancy switchblade knife she usually keeps in her boot Samples: TDM toplevel / TDM thread |
