Ultraviolet

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=== Season 4: ===
Ultraviolet is a cybervampire from the future/past/present/it's complicated and one half of Spectrum with her girlfriend Infrared. 
=== Season 3: ===
Carmilla is your soft butch vampire prince boyfriend. She's outgoing, 
cheerful, and quite comfortable with her undeath. She likes videogames.
== Appearance ==
Carmilla has grey skin, slightly darker grey hair with white streaks in a pompadour-esque hairstyle. Pointy ears with gold studs. 
Eyes that are black when recently fed/not angry - a deep red glow appears in the pupils that grows to overtake the irises when hungry or angry. When in vampiric rage, the glow takes over the sclera as well. 
She's average height. When not heroing/sleeping she wears casual clothes, flannels and jeans, combat boots, floral buttonups, hoodies - has snapbacks just to protect her skin.
=== Season 4 ===
After returning from her time travels with Ellen, Carmilla looks somewhat more mature, though she is still just as short. She now has slightly rougher hair and has gold-plated implants in various parts of her body - cheekbones, sternum, lower back, lower arms, thighs. These are an adapted form of 23rd century shipshield, made to protect spacefaring vessels from radiation, debris and gunfire. 
She has forsaken her stereotypical vampire's costume for a simple spacesuit of the same design as worn by her girlfriend, though she wears hers with the buttons undone and sleeves rolled up. 
When active, the implants project a barely-noticeable field of violet hexagons over her body to protect it.
=== Season 3 ===
When out as a hero, she wears an almost comically stereotypical vampire outfit. Loose-sleeved white shirt with a silk red vest, a short black cape with a high collar, etc. Her fingertips extend into powerful claws that are deep red, almost as if permanently bloodstained. 
== Powers ==
Undeath has lent Carmilla an unholy strength, allowing her to throw cars, lift boulders, and rip through metal with her claws. At the same time, she's invulnerable to most forms of damage or things that would kill a human - but vulnerable to those that would kill a vampire. Other than garlic. That one's a misconception. 
Some true vampires have the ability to shift into various other forms - bats, cats, hounds or clouds of smoke are common - but Carmilla hasn't mastered this yet; the only form she can take is that of a small fruit bat with glowing red eyes and a little cravat. 
During early season 4, Tay discovered various other vampiric abilities, including the power to shift into a shadowy form and to extend her claws like spears. Though she has mastered the latter, the former is still hard for her to access. 
After her travels through time she acquired an invisibility cloak and a spaceship's shielding systems. 
== Background ==
=== Pre-Death ===
Katayoun was born in 2001 in Berlin to a family of second-generation Iranian immigrants, as the youngest of three siblings. Her childhood was fairly ordinary until her diagnosis at age 5 with a rare autoimmune disorder. 
The diagnosis coloured the rest of her life, disrupting her friendships and school with frequent stays at the hospital, switchings of doctors and various experimental treatments. At one point her face was used in a countrywide ad campaign to raise money for cure research - huge portraits of people with the condition and the text 'I will be dead within the year, but you can help prevent others from following me' (in German, obviously).
Two months before her death, her family died in a car crash on their way home from bringing her to the hospital. Tay had nothing left. Her treatment was not going well, and she was expected to die within the year.
Her physician at this new hospital, Dr. Lucretia Edelgard, offered her one last option: Undeath.
=== Post-Death ===
Dr. Edelgard was a member of the Noctis Adrasteia, one of Europe's oldest vampire clans. She turned Katayoun, inducting her into the clan as a True Vampire - one of the few. It seemed like a pretty good deal at first. A second chance at (un)life. But they expected things of her, and Tay grew increasingly uncomfortable with the actions and demeanor of her new family... and without her parents and siblings around, what was there keeping her in Berlin, really? 
She wandered over to the train station at night and broke into a shipping container, going into hibernation behind some boxes. The train took her to the Netherlands, where the container was put on a boat and ended up in Halcyon. 
=== Unlife in Halcyon ===
During the year-and-a-half she's spent in Halcyon, Carmilla (as she now calls herself) has mostly been hibernating. As it turns out, vampires need a regular diet - who would have thought - and she's had more trouble than expected gaining access to a regular supply of blood without actually biting anyone. The hibernation slows it down. 
When awake, she raids blood banks at night, plays MOBAs like Guilds and Guardians during the day, and occasionally going out to perform heroics.
She met Ellen Drummond during one of her missions with the Big Team, and the two got close, eventually dating and even deciding to leave for Ellen's native 1992 together.
=== 1992 + Space + Time ===
Ellen and Tay spent almost two years of their time away from present-day Halcyon. After a year in 1992, they took the timebike and made some trips, ending up on various planets and various times. They eventually returned, though accidentally, to 2020, where the timebike's time-travel function broke.
== Relationships ==
=== Family ===
Tay's parents, Katayoun (Kat) and Ahmad Avesta, died along with her younger brother Sanjar and younger sister Farideh in a car crash on their way home from the hospital.
=== Friends ===
Stefan
Stefan was Tay's best friend during her life in Berlin. The two met in kindergarten and kept in contact even when Tay was unable to go to school due to her illness.
He was killed by a ravenous and newly vampiric Tay in 2017.
Atlanta
Tay considers Atlanta her best friend, and somewhat aggressively so, somewhat even being a little overbearing. She just thinks Atlanta's neat, and can do no wrong, even though she has done wrong, but that's fine. 
Ernest
Ernest is Tay's second best friend. She feels more at ease around him, and greatly enjoyed living with him for the last few weeks of her time in 2020.
Boon
Tay is a little unsure of whether she is Boon's friend, or just her girlfriend's friend. Whatever, she's cool.
=== Significant Others ===
Ellen "Infrared" Drummond
To Tay, Ellen is her family, and her home. She will not leave.
== Additional Scenes ==
These are ordered by date of publishing, but the dates behind them show when they happened in-universe.
* Ellen and Tay's Excellent Conversation (9/7/2019)
* Ellen and Tay's Bonus Journey (12/17/2019 - 01/02/2020)
* Time to Say Goodbye (3/17/2020)
* Ellen and Tay Face The Music (3/18/2020)
* Ellen and Tay Settle Down (8/23/1992 - 7/18/1993)
* If it squeaks like a bat, it might still be your friend (5/12/2020)
* Ellen and Tay Ship Out (2/12/2345 | 2/21/2255 | 6/02/2087 | 7/19/1993 | 1/11/2012 | 1/14/2012)
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