Name: Leone Kennedy Occupation: Avenging Angel / Mercenary Age: 42 / 53 (January 24) Sexuality: Lesbian Pronouns: She/Her Species: Vampire Clan/Pack/Coven: Kanemaru Hometown: Boston, Massachusetts Relationship Status: Married (Death Didn’t Part Them) Personality Traits: Resourceful, charismatic, maternal, ruthless, unbothered
Biography: (tw: child murder)
Memories of the before are muddled. Too sharp and bright against the walls that have been erected in her mind. There are flashes of laughter, the glimpse of a smile, twin voices giggling out in glee. Leone watches impassively as the images float by in her mind's eye, ignoring the muted twinge that she has become so familiar with. There are meaningless names attached to the faces, no emotions stirred other than a mild annoyance at their persistence. But like everything else, that too fades away and Leone presses onward.
July 2014 - Boston
She stares at the now-blank screen of her phone, hating how she is already familiar with the sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach. In the other room, she can hear her daughters chattering excitedly together as they plan their outfits for their birthday dinner. Thirteen years old, officially teenagers. It was a big deal and Aurelia knew that.
Leone knows that the U.S. marines don't give a rat's ass that their daughters are expecting their mother home for their shared birthday festivities, something that hasn't happened in years because of her wife's tours. The girls had been nine then, and both were adamant that this one was the start of their young adult lives. She hadn't wanted to get their hopes up, and made Aurelia swear left and right that she would be back by then before she began to plan. Now they're one day out and Aurelia isn't coming back until the day is over. It's not her fault. She doesn't control the airlines or the weather, but it doesn't break the pattern she's created so far.
There is no time to be furious, not now, not when she has to break the news to her babies. Leone's poker face is abysmal however, and they see it written all over her face when they tumble into the kitchen. Dessa's scowl mirrors that of her Aurelia's, and Leone would laugh if the situation wasn't what it was. Tiana's eyes are already filling with tears, and she quickly sweeps both of her daughters into a bear hug, kissing them both firmly on top of their heads. "We'll still have fun ourselves," she declares. "And we'll take plenty of pictures to make your mother jealous of what she's missing." She prods at their sides until they are both smiling once more, but the enthusiasm is dimmed.
Her sister is the one who suggests that she take that night off, promising to watch the girls while Leone spoiled herself with a nice dinner and a glass of wine at the bar, before going back to the dutiful expectations of a wife and mother. She lets herself relax in a way she hasn't since before she had had the girls. When a woman offers to buy her a drink, she should say no, should pull out the wedding ring that is burning a hole in her pocket, but instead she smiles and acquiesces. The stranger is charming and polite, and Leone doesn't remember the last time she felt like someone had seen her like this. Like someone to be desired rather than someone who knew when the next dentist appointment was. They talk until last call, and she doesn't want this night to end.
She willingly invites the devil into her home and marriage bed, while her daughters sleep in the next room and her wife is on a return flight home. Leone's last moments as a human are one of betraying her oaths in the most unforgivable way. Her voice is stolen from her when she opens her eyes and sees the black-red gaze of a monster, telling her to be quiet so she doesn't wake her children. Her screams are silent as the vampire bites into her throat and drains her dry. She is ravenous when she awakes an hour later, paler than she has ever been, but the woman is gone, making Leone wonder whether she had ever been there at all. She is halfway to the kitchen when she smells the blood, and her feet move before she can stop herself.
She learns that night that her daughters have roughly 0.8 gallons of blood each. Dessa's head has been torn clean off her body while she had crushed Tiana's tiny arms as she fed. By the time her bloodlust subsided, her babies had been broken beyond repair, their final birthday gift from the woman who bore them. There wasn't a conscious decision to turn it all off, and she hadn't even known that was an option. It was simply her mind's instinct to protect her from the horror she had brought upon herself. She feels nothing when her wife returns to the bloodbath in their home, impassive despite Aurelia's grief and horror. Leone doesn't know if it's hatred or fear in the other woman's eyes as she leaves the ashes of her old life behind.
A decade is nothing to a vampire. The years pass in a blur of blood and chaos as Leone runs away from anything that could stir emotions in her dead heart. She learns to thrive among the most ruthless of her peers, unbothered by those pesky feelings that seem to rule the rest of them. Everything she has learned about being a vampire has been trial by fire, and she has emerged like a phoenix.
Port Leiry becomes something like a new home base, though she is constantly moving in and out of the city on a whim. She builds a network of eyes and ears, not seeking money or power, but identifying monsters who would hurt the most vulnerable. Then Leone tracks them down and shows them the face of a true monster.
Behind her lies a trail of bloody breadcrumbs, and they all lead back to Port Leiry.
Plot Ideas
Show Her Around - Leone has been ‘living’ in Port Leiry for almost ten years at this point, but she hasn’t spent any significant amount of time in the city since her work takes her all over the world. She’s a vampire who has been operating without her humanity for over ten years, and frankly isn’t even aware that it’s a switch that exists. She’s here for a good time AND a long time.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished - Leone has spent the last ten or so years roaming about the world and enacting a sort of justice that she believes to be delivered, particularly towards those who would wrong children. However, she is brutal and savage in her actions and has almost certainly left behind witnesses, perhaps even the children she saved.
Connections
The Hunter (Aurelia Kennedy) - Port Leiry was meant to be a pit stop on the way to Canada but when she heard rumors of someone who sounded like her wife, she knew the game was afoot.















