Eris Bijou

Eris Bijou is a ladybug seamstress and vampire born in The Roulette. Though she currently lives in the Green Kingdom of Amaranth, she has actually been all over the country.
Being a Vampire, she used to go around Amaranth, seducing men to then attack and feed on them, but she has since left that life many years ago.
She is currently looking to redeem herself and clean up her name with her job as an outfit designer, but she finds it hard to be successful due to being discriminated against for her vampirism.
==Appearance==
Eris is 157cm tall, she's slightly chubby and has light grey skin, and red eyes with slit pupils, red eye-shadow and red lips.
She has short hair, black on the back and red in front, and has a small ladybug shell on her back, it being black with red spots and pink transparent wings, however, she rarely to never flies unless extremely necessary.
Her arms and legs have a black exoskeleton insectoid look and are hard to the touch and she has two black antennae on her head.
She often wears red and black dresses, most commonly a satin red bubble dress with a black bow on her back, and a black choker decorated with a ruby.
Eris is also always seen holding a black and red parasol which she uses to shield herself from the sunlight. She never goes anywhere without it.
==Personality==
When meeting her, Eris will show herself as kind and warm, though she's often wary of strangers, it doesn't prevent her from always greeting everyone with a mysterious smile on her face.
She's smart and can act flirtatious, as well as being mischievous and sassy at times, but she's also particularly good at hiding her real feelings towards others, making her come across as distant or unfeeling at times.
She has a love for luxury and nice things, and a weakness for handsome gentlemen. She can get bashful but hardly allows for any of it to show through, making it hard to tell whether her feelings are genuine or not.
She can be quick to anger when she feels threatened and will not hesitate to fight for herself if needed. She can be caring and nurturing and is a natural mom friend, but due to being attacked in the past due to her vampirism, she tends to be closed off.
She also has a disdain for superstition, particularly regarding her shell and being considered a mutant ladybug. It's a very sore subject to her and she's quick to shut it down.
==Abilities==
Being a ladybug, Eris has two wings which she can use to fly, but she hardly sees this a necessity and prefers walking instead.
She is also a vampire and when threatened, her instinct will take over and cause her to defend herself either by biting or straight out physically attack someone. These are both rare occasions, however.
==Relationships==
===Florian===
Florian was one of Eris' earliest victims to her vampirism. Eris was often cautious, not wanting to be found but still needing to feed, so she needed to find someone unimportant.
She noticed how the Flower Drimare was always seen by himself, had no close friends to notice his absence and was happy just to have anyone to talk with.
As such, Eris saw him as the perfect prey, figuring no one would notice if he were to go missing. She struck a conversation with him and the two soon began developing a relationship. Eris was flirtatious and Florian was easily seduced by her, although some of her advances did go right over his head.
Building up his trust, the two grew to be close and were in what could be considered to be a romantic relationship. While Florian was taking it way too seriously, not questioning how he knew nothing about who Eris was, he was just glad to have someone who didn't flee at the sight of him. 
Meanwhile, Eris was simply biding her time to finally strike, much as she did with her other victims. The couple eventually got intimate and Eris finally decided to take advantage of her partner's vulnerability and bit him. 
He couldn't do anything against this, and as she fed on his blood, she made plans to flee to another kingdom without a trace. Although having no emotional attachment to Florian or any of her victims, Eris had a hard time killing them directly, instead, leaving them drained enough to slowly die of blood loss.
She knew she was a murderer nonetheless, and as she left the drained Rose Drimare behind to die like many others, she knew she couldn't keep doing this. She had taken yet another life, but also took solace in being able to give the lonely Rose the slightest feeling of love before his death, even if fake and taken all away from him with her betrayal.
He was dead because of her but she knew she couldn't let herself think too hard about it.
Many years had gone by, and Eris had long since abandoned her preying on innocent Drimare. Vampires were slowly becoming accepted in Amaranth, being provided with blood to feed on without having to resort to killing others. And although she had built a negative reputation, she still wanted to move past it, not wishing to be defined by the lives she took.
But of course that her luck wouldn't allow for her to leave her dark past behind. After being invited to a masquerade ball, Eris was met by a dashing Rose man, like no one she had ever met before. As they danced, he revealed himself to be a vampire, as well as the same Rose she left to die.
Eris was nervous but played it cool, even as Florian, all in between loving confessions, threatened to kill her to get his revenge on her betrayal, she kept a cool head, yet still finding herself swayed by him.
Whether his threats were serious or just an odd attempt at flirting, Eris knew she could wrap him around her finger. As much as he wanted to believe he was the one in control, she knew he wouldn't do it. She knew he was still in love with her.
Later on, they got intimate, and predictably, he failed to follow through with his promise of revenge and killing her. While Eris simply laughed at this, she couldn't help but to feel fascinated by his situation. She didn't really have any other vampire friends, and knowing Florian was a vampire who she turned, made it all the more endearing.
Finding out he was a royal assassin did make her feel concerned about his previous threats, as such, she intended to stay on his good side. Despite this, the two seem to have managed to form a strong bond
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Finds him hella hot, but also pities him for whatever weird issues he seems to have with himself.
===Clover===
She is a bit intimidated by the King of Clubs and would rather keep her distance
Although Florian refuses to confide in her, Eris feels like there's something really wrong going on with the two of them
===Dove===
Eris is polite but she knows Dove doesn't like her
===Tyler===
Celebrities born in Amaranth are quite hard to come by, but Eris is a fan! :)
==Backstory==
Eris was born in The Roulette as part of a rich family. In the city of gambling, luck was extremely valued and ladybugs were rumoured to radiate a lucky aura, as such, members of Eris' family were paid to accompany casino goers, who hoped that the ladybugs' lucky aura would rub off on them, causing their games to be more successful.
However, Eris was born with an odd mutation. Rather than being born with a red shell with black spots, her colours were inverted, with a black shell and red spots instead.
As she grew up, Eris' mutation was thought to be bringing misfortune to the family, and once word got out that the there was a mutated ladybug around, the clients began to disperse, feeling like the prestigious business was tainted by misfortune with having an unlucky ladybug around.
Eris was too young to understand why she was being shunned, and her family never her allowed to go out without them, keeping her hidden from others. So, to pass the time, Eris kept herself busy with sewing, eventually realizing that her messed up spots and shell were the problem. Even when she swore to hide her shell with outfits of her own making, not allow herself to be seen by anyone, stay as safe as possible, her family simply refused to budge.
But the business just wasn't as successful as it had been in the past, and they knew it would stay like that for as long as Eris was around. Whether by their clients' paranoia or by the supposed aura of misfortune that followed her, her family decided that in order for the business to get back on its feet, she had to leave.
As such, Eris, a teen at the time, was taken by her mother, as the two moved out of The Roulette, and all the way into the Yellow Kingdom of Amaranth. Insect Drimare weren't the most accepted race in most regions but her mother knew that the Yellow Kingdom would be the safest for the two of them.
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*i guess the mom was older already or smth, but she passed away from either illness or something like that
*turns out Eris is really unlucky
Currently a draft, throwing some points here until I feel like writing the full thing!
*had boyfriend/husband
*got bit by someone and turned into a vampire
*tried to keep it a secret and starved herself not to scare her partner
*eventually was super starved and weak and her instinct caused her to go and attack and kill her partner to feed on him
*she was devastated and had to accept her life as a vampire now
*wanted to fill the void that her dead partner left, so she eventually got with other men
* they didn't satisfy her and some even pissed her off so after a while, she resorted to gaining their trust to then attack and feed on them, draining them (She fed on small animals and stuff before to keep herself fed)
*She had bigger aspirations than this, and after Vampires slowly began to become more accepted in Amaranth, and they could be provided with food without having to hunt and attack the population, she took this as an opportunity to clean up her name
*she had an interest in fashion designing and modelling, but as she wasn't lucky with the latter, she stuck to designing outfits, keeping a small boutique in the Green Kingdom
* Although she is good at what she does, her reputation of being a vampire still kept others hesitant and she hasn't been able to be as successful as she wished
==Trivia==
*Eris was inspired on Rarity from My Little Pony and Tomie from Junji Ito's manga
*In her first design, Eris was actually intended to be a Regular Drimare, however, I decided to make her an Insect so she'd be thematically connected to Florian. 
**She was at some point going to be a mosquito rather than a ladybug, due to her vampire theme and mosquitos being known to drink blood.
***The Ladybug was picked instead due to better-fitting the red colour scheme as well as making her look classier
*Eris is named after the Greek goddess of strife and discord, as a reference to the chaos she brought to Florian's life.
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