longish bio oops // tldr version: is a former rebellious teen, with incredible adoptive parents, has 3 jobs, and killed her twin brother and became a vamp within the last month argargarg 

i. The brother and sister duo bounced around homes until at age 10 they were taken in for good by a married couple, the Marshes. Combined they possessed enough patience to last an eternity, which was necessary in raising havoc causing twins. Shay and Royal Marsh did not like to think of what would’ve happened to the twins had they never fallen in love with their rambunctious souls. From day one, the couple was able to communicate with the twins in ways no one else could. Trouble still arose quite often and that was fine, because Dusty and Woods were comfortable approaching their parents with the tough shit. Dusty learned that wasn’t common among her friends, who were often shamed for their wrongdoings by their own flesh and blood. That’s fucked, she remember thinking from that young age.

ii. Woods became an ethereum miner, finding he didn’t mind long hours and dirty work when the pay was damn adequate. Dusty actually finished school, earning degrees in both early childhood development and community work. That’s when life got real busy for the former rebellious teen. First, her mornings were filled with an A.M. kindergarten class at a diverse-species primary school in Obsidian City. Then, not long after, Dusty got involved in helping put on community productions in the Theater District. And lastly (and obviously her favorite), Dusty got to live out the rockstar dream. She’s in an all girl rock band, strumming weekly on the bass and electric guitar. All and all, Dusty’s schedule is packed, hardly any breathing room for herself, let alone time to check in with her brother.

iii. Somewhere along the way, Woods started to distance himself from the family. Dusty, Dusty, Dusty was all his parents chatted about over supper. All of her achievements since she’d grown while he remained the very same. He felt because he’d chosen a life of labor, he was now an unworthy outsider. It led him down a scary path of dealing the ethereum he was mining illegally. Not only could he have been caught by superiors, he was getting himself involved with the shadiest of beings on the island. The expected finally happened. He cut short a promised delivery to a clan of vampires. They threatened him, but the threats fell upon deaf ears, which really was unfortunate. His twin sister received the brunt of it. As a sick twist of fate, before they could celebrate their shared 30th birthday, Dusty was bitten. She was undead, but dead, because she was now a vampire.

iv. That was not the end of Woods’ torture. His sister awoke with a bloodlust like no other. And with no one to stop Dusty from pursuing the natural urges that being a monster entailed, she was led to her twin. Woods was her very first feeding, the feeding that solidified her future as an immortal. He was dead and drained completely by the time Dusty was finished. Her grief, of course, was immeasurable. Without a soul to guide her through transition, Dusty has been struggling and fights the frequent urge to feed from more humans. Nobody can know, or everything changes. Not Shay and Royal, nor her bandmates, or the co-workers at the elementary school. To cover her own tracks, she’s allowed Obsidian City to believe her twin, Woods Marsh, was a drug dealer. A drug dealer who’s disappeared after mixing himself up in an incorrect crowd. The only people looking for him now were their parents.

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connections: Let’s search for the rumored Keys of Ember, a set of five magical and charmed keys once belonging to an elder (and now deceased) fae named Embertine. No key has EVER been found. Until... now. What doth they unlock? Well, the keeper of the keys will have said treasure revealed to them when each one is in their possession.

looking for 1-2 other individuals with their own skillsets and motivations for wanting to find this hidden/rumored treasure

this plot will be “slowburn” and involve heavy, gritty themes at times and require a lil lil dedication b/c i would love to build some island lore with you all!

bio, weeeee ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

i. Elba had spent their upbringing actively working to blend in. 5 foot 11 at thirteen years old didn’t really have an exceeding amount of perks as a girl, not when your school was swarming with bullies. Teachers, strangers, and even friends had the audacity to point out things Elba had never noticed about herself. Still, Elba remained where she had to be, head down, praying it wouldn’t be like this past high school. She never worked to fit in. She had to be ignored.

ii. Except, that didn’t work out as intended. Elba’s werewolf curse triggered one new moon, rather than a full. Inside of her 5th period gym class of humans, no less. Elba’s family belonged to a clan called the Greywind werewolves. Legend says once the next generation’s curse is triggered, the last must lose their powers. So, either Elba’s mother was to lose her werewolf abilities in a spiritual sacrifice done by a local wixen, or Elba would... have to die. Ethereum had made its way cross-country by the way of gossip. Before their daughter could graduate from the hellscape she’d dedicated her life to, they made the move to Obsidian City before the next full moon could approach. Ethereum did nothing for their family. Rather than Elba’s mother accepting the sacrifice she’d promised to make upon learning of her pregnancy eighteen years previous, Lori San Luis murdered her own daughter with claws slashed through her neck. Elba was found in Lower St. Vlad’s days later, with a funeral to follow for the unidentifiable woman on the day of the new moon. Of course her mother had chosen St. Vladimir’s as a dump site, if only to incite more violence between werewolves and vampires while she left town with more power than she could harbor.

iii. Werewolves are moral beings. As in, you cannot cheat death. You absolutely can’t. You cannot! Well, everything Elba had ever learned felt to be a lie when she came to days later, buried inside of soft-to-the-touch velvet. She wailed until someone with exceptional hearing (not underheard of in Obsidian City, she came to learn) could come to her rescue. This rescue mission made headlines and she became known as Dead Girl Walking for some time. Her family was gone, her memories were scrappy, but she was alive and breathing without a single idea of how. The world’s rather apathetic, however, and soon Obsidian City got lost in other tragedies. But she will forever question the how, now nearly a decade later. She’d never forget she was dead, and now was not.

wanted connections below yaaaaayyy ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* trying something new with trying to connect with each species. can totally plot beyond these lil plot points too<3

werewolf: Elba did grow up around werewolves as a child, but that did not make any difference to her understanding of them. perhaps this werewolf or werewolf family or pack assisted Elba on her werewolf journey, helping her through the painful transitions underneath the full moon she'd never experienced. however, an unusual occurrence happened once a year. she turned underneath a new moon, rather than full. they'd never been able to figure out why. Elba is not a part of their pack now, running alongside Fenrik and friends in Bloodhearth instead of Carynthia.

banshee: though harbingers of death, this banshee heard the cries of someone who had apparently risen from the death and cheated it. this banshee led the "rescue mission" in 2012 which saved Elba, who had appeared to have been buried alive in her grave.

human: the human family who housed Elba her first year in Obsidian City. from July 2012-July 2013. they got her on her feet, clothed her and fed her. they assisted in finishing high school, finding her first job, and eventually her first apartment in the city. they might've been the only people not afraid of her at the time. could also be pirates and housed/cared for on a ship.