#zebelon

Antanasia: YES. Her ability to get away with serial murder is actually a major plot point of Unquiet Bones. Antanasia is a necromancer who has been convinced her powers work on essentially a tit-for-tat basis, meaning that for every person she resurrects, someone else has to be that missing death. She has been getting away with this for years on the basis of living in an analogue to a medieval city where the concept of a serial killer is not really known or understood. Given that the city she lives in is near-constantly expanding and overcrowded, and she specifically targets "undesirables" who live in the slums, she's been getting away with it for quite a while.

Lucia: NO. The polar opposite of Antanasia, her inability to get away with murder is a plot point. To be fair, she was like... seven, and it wasn't exactly intentional. Lucia was brutally bullied as a child for her (unrecognised because, again, medieval times) autism. Unfortunately, an autistic meltdown combined with untrained magical powers ends... explosively. As several tormentors find out to their detriment. Lucia's solution to this was to hide in her house's pigeon loft. She was quickly found, very nearly had extemely bad things happen to her, and was saved and sent to the College of Constellations to be trained as a magus. Given her intensely negative experiences at the CoC, it's... debatable whether this was really salvation.

Damian: Has never tried to kill anyone, but theoretically could get away with it by virtue of being King of Haelgavaard, and his life being sacred (at least until he sires an heir to continue his royal bloodline): his servants and intimates (namely, his sworn knight Sir Beladon) would go to extreme lengths to save him from consequences, and likely believe that anyone he killed was "lesser" than Damian, and so his continued life and happiness and security was worth more than any other person's life. Fortunately, despite his many and legitimate stressors and frustrations, Damian is not the murdering kind.

Varnius: YES. Kind of. Like Antanasia, Varnius is a priest of Ysa-Munda, the goddess of death, and also like Antanasia, he has a body count. Unlike Antanasia, all of Varnius's "victims" were willing and... not really victims at all. Varnius operates a hospice some miles outside of Haelgavaard and unofficially offers euthanasia to patients who experience intense suffering: physical and mental. By the time Unquiet Bones opens, Varnius has helped many patients find peace but is still conflicted -- he believes in his heart he is doing the right thing, but his actions directly contravene the doctrine of Ysa-Munda, which states let no mortal hasten or delay the hour [of death]. He has a lot of secondary trauma that he has no real way to process, which is driving him further and further towards caregiver burnout and an accompanying decline in safeguarding when it comes to making sure his patients are sure about ending their lives.

Other OCs:

Madeleine: YES. Madeleine is an OC I've used in a wiiiiiide variety of stories at this point. In her OG incarnation in You'll Be Free (If You Truly Wish To Be), she's never put to the test, but in numerous other stories she can and has gotten away with murder, usually on behalf (or in vengeance of) someone else, and often with the help of her right-hand woman, Siobhan, whose past is both shady and blood-soaked. Madeleine is not inherently bloodthirsty by any means, but she is fiercely devoted to those she loves, and if killing is the only way to protect or avenge her loved one, she will plan and execute it both brutally and exquisitely.