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Character Full Name: Katherine Smythe

Family/birth order: Smythe, youngest

Face Claim: Zoey Deutch

Race: Lamia Vampire

Alignment: lawful evil

Loyalty: NWG, higher-class families

Social Class: Higher

Age: 20 (appearance) 23 (total)

Birthday: April 16, 1996

Star-sign: Aries

Gender/pronouns: She/Her

Sexuality: Bisexual

Ships: Katherine/Chemistry

Anti-Ships: Katherine/Forced Chemistry

Hometown: New Orleans, LA

Head Canons: 

Like her older brother, Katherine grew up in the life of power and wealth. As the younger sibling, Katherine was always given attention, and was groomed in to being one of the strongest believers of the NWG politics. As someone of a lawful evil nature, Kat has no care for those lower than her, and has no problem hurting them for her own gain.

Growing up, Kat became an extremely observant person and developed a strong skill for manipulation. She can often be seen using her skills on her prey. Despite her dedication to the NWG, Kat enjoys partying and can be frequently seen at night clubs. Her master of manipulation has made her a powerful vampire amongst her peers.

Character Full Name: Penelope Eloise Pierce Crane

Family/birth order: Pierce/ Oldest

Face Claim: Candice King

Race: Made Vampire

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Loyalty: No loyalty

Social Class: Middle Class

Age: 22 (appearance) 24 (Total)

Birthday: October 21st

Star-sign: Libra

Gender/pronouns: She/Her

Sexuality: Lesbian

Ships: Penny/Happiness, Penny/Women

Anti-Ships: Penny/Men

Hometown: Lafayette, Louisiana

Head Canons:

Penelope Eloise Crane was born Penelope Eloise Pierce to a family of witches, something she wouldn’t find out until well after her formative years. At the ripe age of two weeks old she was adopted by Eleanor and Stephen Crane, wonderful humans who were tasked with the responsibility of raising Penny as normal as possible, but Penelope never made that easy on them. She was constantly drawn to the occult and the underground subculture she constantly found herself in. No matter what her parents tried it was like Penelope had a calling and she wasn’t going to ignore it.

When she was eighteen Penelope’s birth parents prepared to send her off to university, but not before telling her the truth about her birth right and subsequent adoption. She didn’t really flinch at the notion that she might be a witch, in fact, the concept excited her. She moved to New Orelans with dreams of getting a degree and finding some kind of biological connection. She was only a few months into her Junior year when she was attacked one night walking back to campus from the French Quarter. When she woke up she found that she had killed her roommate in her haze and after disposing of the body she kind of disappeared into the wind, unable to cope with the sudden loss of her human life.

Character Full Name:Samuel "Sam" Evans

Family/birth order: Evans, oldest Face Claim: Chord Overstreet

Race: Shape Shifter (Black dog)

Alignment: chaotic good

Loyalty: Evans Family

Social Class: Lower

Age: 20

Birthday: May 15th 

Star-sign: Taurus

Gender/pronouns: He/Him

Sexuality: Bisexual

Ships: Hevans, Sam/Chemistry

Anti-Ships: Sam/forced, 

Hometown: NOLA

Head Canons: 

Sam grew up in a fairly big family that was also lower class, he learned early on in life how to be resourceful, being the oldest he also was given a level of responsibility in taking care of his siblings, more than once he ended up giving his food to one of them so they wouldn’t feel hungry. He started working at the age of ten to attempt to bring in extra money and now he currently works at Cafe Beignet.

Sam loves wandering the streets at night in his shifted form, he easily stayed out of sight of most people and those who did notice hi usually didn’t do much, though with how dangerous the streets have gotten lately he hasn’t felt comfortable enough to do that. He misses it a lot though.

Sam wants things to change probably more than anything, growing up with his family and barely making it by and then also being treated like less than by most of the nightworld bothered him a lot. He doesn’t think there should be a “superior” race but he’s ready to fight for the shifters to be treated equally.

Character Full Name: Aubrey James Weston

Family/birth order: Weston, youngest

Face Claim: Thomas Doherty

Race: Shapeshifter, grizzly bear

Alignment: Chaotic good

Loyalty: Shapeshifter rebellion

Social Class: Middle

Age: 20

Birthday: May 10

Star-sign: Taurus

Gender/pronouns: he/him

Sexuality: Gay

Ships: Aubrey/chemistry

Anti-Ships: Aubrey/forced

Hometown: New Orleans

Head Canons:

Aubrey has never cared about the rules. The end justifies the means, always, and if blood needs to be spilt for shapeshifters to finally take their place in the sun, then so be it. Aubrey’s happy to take the first swipe. He’s good at heart, and what he wants in the end is justice and goodness for everyone, but doing things the right way hasn’t gotten shapeshifters anywhere. Other measures are necessary now. The system needs to be torn down and destroyed, there’s nothing in it worth saving.

He works at Cafe Beignet in his spare time because baking calms him down, but sometimes it’s not enough and he really just needs to get out of his skin and hurt something before he hurts himself, and that’s usually when he reverts to his bear form, lets his instincts take him and hunts whatever he’s meant to hunt.

TW: violence, torture, amputation. When he was nine, a couple malevolent witches and vampires got a hold of his mother, Isla Weston, leading her into a trap with an illusion of Aubrey and his older brother Brody in danger, and then snared her while she was in her animal form, that of a fox They cursed her to always carry a hint of silver in her blood and sawed off one of her paws for good measure, a crippling injury that nearly killed her. Despite surviving the attack, and adapting to life without one of her arms, the blood curse makes her violently ill some days, and Aubrey has never quite gotten over what happened to her or the fact that the perpetrators never paid for it.

Aubrey’s just always so angry. He wants justice. He wants freedom. He wants the vampires and witches to pay. He was nearly part of the July 4th group until he had to drop out last minute to take his mom to the doctor after she suffered a bad shift in her illness. He still maintains a human murder spree was never part of the plan.

Character Full Name: Santana Diabla Lopez

Family/birth order: Lopez // oldest

Face Claim: Sofia Carson

Race: Shapeshifter (Black Panther)

Alignment: Neutral Evil

Loyalty: no loyalty

Social Class: Lower

Age: twenty-two

Birthday: 13th November

Star-sign: Scorpio

Gender/pronouns: cis-female // she/her

Sexuality: homoromantic // bisexual

Ships: basically Santana x everyone (but she’ll only romance the ladies)

Anti-Ships: no chemistry, forced, abusive

Hometown: New Orleans, Louisiana 

Head Canons: 

- Santana is anything but blind. She’s never been oblivious to her sister’s lack of assertiveness. While she’s always hard on her sister, it’s because she loves her and want to help her to grow thicker skin. If anyone were to lay a hand on her little sister’s head, Santana would break it immediately. Unfortunately she hasn’t always been able to protect Sofia and she beats herself up about it a lot.

- Always a little confused about her sexuality, it wasn’t until like a year ago that she came to terms with the fact that she preferred girls. Santana would spend a fun night with just about anyone that has a nice body or that she has sexual tension with, but she never fell in love. For a long time she just accepted that commitment wasn’t her thing, but in reality it was because Santana only felt emotional attraction towards girls. Since then Santana has grown more comfortable in her sexuality, but her extended family doesn’t exactly feel the same.

- After Sofia’s kidnapping, the Lopez family promised to keep their mouths shut in the community. While Santana doesn’t have full-fledged opinions on what’s going on, she definitely is angry with the way her family would just submit like that. The most fiery of her family members, Santana is pushing more and more to be seen and heard. She may not know the extent of what her little sister experienced and what the consequences of breaking her family’s silence, but Santana hates nothing more than to take a backseat and do or say nothing.

- Elaborating on this – Santana has no loyalty because she only believes in loyalty to herself and the ones closest to her. She doesn’t like the idea of someone having power over her or her loved ones - which are few in number - therefore she is just prepared to come for literally anybody she disagrees with, no matter what side they’re on.

Extra facts:

- She is left-handed.

- You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette is her favorite song. She also loves anything by Amy Winehouse.

- She refers to her alter ego as ‘Snixx’ or ‘Auntie Snixx’. 

Character Full Name:  Piper Evelyn Puckerman

Family/birth order: Puckerman, youngest

Face Claim: Maia Mitchell

Race: Human, Old Soul

Alignment: Neutral Good

Loyalty: None

Social Class: Middle

Age: 20

Birthday: July 8th 

Star-sign: Caner

Gender/pronouns: Female/ She/Her

Sexuality: Bisexual

Ships: chemistry, giper 

Anti-Ships: nochemistry

Hometown: New Orleans, Louisiana

Head Canons:

From the moment Piper was born she was always compassionate. She loved everyone and everything around her. Although along with that she had always been more on the shy side and more comfortable with her nose in a book. But that doesn’t stop her from being able to make friends whens he wants to or has to. When she can find some common ground with someone she can click with them instantly. 

She is originally from a small town a little outside of the city of New Orleans but decided to go to college in the city. Something about the town or someone there has made her feel a strong connection to the city. She is a history major and is deciding to do a semester of online classes to immerse herself in the world around her. 

Little does Piper know that there is a reason she has always been connected to history. That reason being that she is an old soul, one of her first reincarnations being during the late 1800s. 1870 to be specific, then various years after that. Even though Piper does not have any recollection of these past lives she has gotten close to figuring it out in every lifetime she had. Although the closer she gets to finding out her past, the more danger she puts herself in. 

In each of her lives she seems to go through a similar cycle and have a similar persona. She has always been kind, patient and naive. Always having hope for the people and world around her, which could come from experiencing such a variety of people in each life time. She always has a goal of ddoing something related to history, like a teacher, working at a museum, or archaeology. And unfortunately she always runs into the same fate of never making it after her 21st birthday. 

Character Full Name: Gabriel Tommy Cohen-Chang

Family/birth order: Choen-Chang, and Oldest.

Face Claim:  Tommy Martinez

Race: lamia vampire

Alignment: chaotic neutral.

Loyalty: Loyalty to his family and to the NWG.

Social Class: Higher.

Age:  23 (appearance) 150 (actual age)

Birthday: February 14th

Star-sign:   Aquarius

Gender/pronouns: Cismale, he/him

Sexuality:  Bisexual

Ships:  Chemistry

Anti-Ships:  No Chemistry, Forced.

Hometown:  Los Angeles, California

Head Canons:

Gabriel Rodriguez was born into a higher-end family in Venezuela. When he was about five, his family was killed by a vampire hunter and made him fled to South Korea, in hopes that he had some kind of family there. Once he arrived to the orphanage, he was about nine years old and told that he was left when his family headed to America. Thanks to his powers, they believed him and added him to the system.

One day, Gabriel was playing in the yard when he had heard his name being called and he came running into the office where they often would have the parents in to talk about the kids. The family and the Director was surprised to see him there, when he was playing, but she introduced him to the Cohen-Changs, knowing that they shared the same ability as him. After a few weeks of paperwork, Gabe became a Cohen-Chang and started his journey to America. At first he didn’t like the sun in LA, but over time he grew to love it. Gabe knew what the sun could do to his powers and to him personally, so he didn’t stop the aging process until he went to Oregon for business school. Then he transferred to MIT to finish his degree and continued there to get his masters.

Gabe has been in NOLA for about five years ever since he graduated from MIT with his masters and owns the club, Black Iris, a club named after one of his few mistresses that he had while vacationing in Europe. He’s really proud of how the club had turned out.