Shade

==Origin==
What would cause such a lovely woman to become so evil? Was it born within her all along? A little. Coming from the blood of chain devils, it had to be that the spark had always been there, waiting to be fed, nourished, into the hellfire it is now.
Born to a successful adventuring father, Shade had always had high expectations thrust upon her. She was destined to follow in daddy's footsteps, after all. However, when expectations weren't met, or she met with outright failure, she became her worst critic. It started with razors. The pain would offer a release of stress and self-loathing, but no matter how many times she cut herself, those crushing feelings would always come back like waves crashing against a shore. She found more fulfilling pleasure when she was on the job, when she lashed into another being and watched as they writhed in pain. She began to explore this fascination further, and eventually it led her into the twisted, bent embrace of Zon-Kuthon.
The Midnight Lord beckoned to her, and she gladly welcomed him into her life. Following his tenets, inflicting not only greater wounds upon herself, but upon others she met in combat. Her lust for inflicting pain grew at an alarming rate, and she began to seek out other Kuthites to satisfy her urges. It wasn't until she met a cleric of Kuthite that she learned people would even pay her to inflict pain upon them and mutilate their flesh. He taught her the practices of  using inks and metal to pierce and stain the skin, and found ectasy in the way they squirmed beneath her needle.
As her sadistic side flourished, she began to gain a reputation. People feared her, many would avoid even walking upon the same side of the street as her. For fear of her evil growing out of control, a call went out for a hero to smite down Shade. It did not take long before she was faced with a man who wished to bring her miserable existence to an end. However, she would have never thought it'd be her very own father who answered. In a sudden burst of rage, Shade engaged her father and unlocked something deep inside that even she was unaware she possessed. However, it was not enough to ward off the veteran hero, and barely escaped with her life.
On a cold, rainy night she lay on the side of the road, succumbing to her wounds. The pain was delicious, but she did not much like the encroaching darkness that was threatening to engulf her. She knew she would die soon, and with a labored breath, she cried to her God. It was then that a she felt warmth, a bright light filled her vision, and her gaze fell upon Ophelia, her head cradled in the half-faerie dragon's lap.
==Personality==
Shade is currently a broken soul. Betrayed by her own father, and harboring the darkness in her as she recovers from life-threatening wounds, she is aloof and distant for the time being. Who knows what might come to be as she travels with Ophelia to a new, strange land where she knows no one?
====15 Things About Shade====
5 Things Your Character Fears (From Least to Greatest)
*Being buried alive. "The pleasure of starving to death would be so delicious, but it'd also be dreadfully boring."
*Her face being scarred.  "Can't ruin the money maker. Everything else, on the other hand..."
*Falling in love. "Life is just easier when you only have to look out for yourself..."
*Losing her powers. "I've worked too damn hard to obtain this strength, and I'll be damned if anyone tears it away from me."
*Her father. "Fuck him, the horse he rode in on, and the saddle that bore him."
4 Things Your Character Loves Dearly (From Least to Most)
*Shiny body jewelry. "Doll me up, baby."
*Piercing or Tattooing a Body Modification 'Virgin'. "Let me be your first time. I swear I'll be gentle..."
*Dark, moody places. "I feel a poetry slam coming on."
*Her father. "...Shut up."
3 Things Your Character is Embarassed About (From Least to Greatest)
*Her sneezes. "It's not cute!"
*Her glasses. "It's not my fault they make the print so small!"
*Her *clears throat*. "I'm a girl!"
2 Things Your Character is Proud Of (From Least to Greatest)
*Her tattoos. "Look how pretty they are!"
*Surviving the attack from her father. "You didn't kill me, old man."
1 Thing Your Character is Willing to Kill or Die for.
*Power. "I must become stronger than him. How can I master the shadows, when I'm constantly in his? I will kill any who get in my way."
==Appearance==
Dark skin from head to toe, with bright amber eyes and snow-white hair. Standing at 5'7" tall, her body is host to scars and burns in numerous places which she holds no shame in showing off with revealing clothing. To eccentuate these mutilations, she has a plethora of piercings along her body, and the unmistakable tattoo of Zon-Kuthon upon her left bicep. A long, lashing, prehensile spaded tail slithers about behind her, and a pair of stunted, vestigial wings of stretched, scarred flesh.
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==Theme Song==
thumb|right|670pxEyes wide shut but they knowBuried alive by the lies in their soulTheir stride of a blind man's strollWell for whom does the next bell tollI'm too many years in the zoneToo many years to have built what I ownAnd many dumb fool try to take what I've grownBut these roots go deep and you can't blood a stoneSo if you want to push, I'm a shoveIf you want to spar we can do it no glovesAnd if you're gonna run at me you better do it hardCuz I fear no fall, no brawl, no scarsI'm two pounds shy of a bombI'm one shade short of alarmI'm too past wrath that I'm calmGot two last laughs in my palmsI'm three degrees west of a hurricaneFour wheel drive with a ball 'n chainMy five foot seven is irrelevantI'm 6-6-6 if you threaten my developmentNow see a wise man learns from your mistakesAnd lets the blunders of his brother serve to fill his plateSo best be on your way before the tidal wave breaksCuz you don't want to come to meet the Reaper that awaits
You don't want to say no more than a mime, you can't affordAnd you don't want to let this turn into lines of mine and yoursAnd you don't want to press your luck, better back up and withdrawCuz trust me when I tell you, you don't want that tooth 'n clawAnd you don't want to see inside the mind of a savage kindAnd you don't want that recognition of "oh, there goes that guy"But if you do decide that you are gonna play that hand and tryJust think before you act because your actions don't rewind
A man with a grudge and a caseA man with intent on his faceAnd if a man walks into placeLet it be known I won't hesitateThis a long time coming like a comet passGot 'em all fired up from the rocket blastAnd if I fall on my sword turn my bones to ashLet it clog up the sand in that hourglassWe in the title fight, blow for a blowAnd you can reap the benefits of what I have to sowCuz I'm about that worth of which you don't appear to knowSo you can take the scene while I take over the show
It's a long way down when your head is in the cloudsAnd all around the sirens playDon't get in my wayDon't tell me I should bowCuz I'm no clownAnd this is not a gameDon't get in my way​​​​​​​
You don't want to say no more than a mime, you can't affordAnd you don't want to let this turn into lines of mine and yoursAnd you don't want to press your luck, better back up and withdrawCuz trust me when I tell you, you don't want that tooth 'n clawAnd you don't want to see inside the mind of a savage kindAnd you don't want that recognition of "oh, there goes that guy"But if you do decide that you are gonna play that hand and tryJust think before you act because your actions don't rewind
Poisoned by the snakes in the grassHoaxed by the rats out the mazeThey should have never poked the lion as he passCuz now it's two hawks in a cageThis a tale of a cautionary kindThis a story of that Icarus designThis a message from the hanged man's twineThis when mother nature rips apart the fault linesAnd this the type of thing that make a grown man cryWhen feeble of the spine crumble underneath the grindWhen blessings of the meek lead to lessons of the blindWhen Heaven shows its teeth and the planets are alignedSo amusing the feeling as they race offGot 'em musing from the pressure as I chase offShould have thought it through before he turned to face offNow this fool sounding like he gone and turned his bass offThis an ace called, cut the game shortYou don't want to have an escalation of the maimed sortAnd you don't want to feel the flame that burns prideNow you know the reason why those sleeping dogs lie​​​​​​​
Long way down when you're head is in the cloudsAnd all around the sirens playDon't get in my wayDon't tell me I should bowCuz I'm no clownAnd this is not a gameDon't get in my way
You don't want to say no more than a mime, you can't affordAnd you don't want to let this turn into lines of mine and yoursAnd you don't want to press your luck, better back up and withdrawCuz trust me when I tell you, you don't want that tooth 'n clawAnd you don't want to see inside the mind of a savage kindAnd you don't want that recognition of "oh, there goes that guy"But if you do decide that you are gonna play that hand and tryJust think before you act because your actions don't rewind​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
They sicker than a wicked man's whipVictims of they hype and of the sycophant's lipAnd underneath the money and the power is the tipOf something very dangerous and it's strengthening its gripAnd I don't have to tell 'em that they turning pale with albinismI am not their keepers but I keep my own moraleAnd isn't everything we do just a matter of decisionSo if life is just a prison then I'm breaking out this minute​​​​​​​
This an epidemic of the vultures in the playpenWeasels with a smile and a guile that leaves 'em vacantBusinessman sticking up the layman out the gate andThieves wearing suits but they can never fool the vagrantsAnd con man bringing 'em treasures of fool's goldCEO's grinning from swindling stocks coldPoliticians trading their morals for blindfoldsAnd cowards step aside as the criminal mind holdsWelcome to the jungle where deception is the codeBrother fighting brother as their avarice corrodesSee that evil, speak that evil, be that evil boldYou are not your own and love's a memory of oldOne nation under fraud - the anthem you applaudWell let this serve to warn, I won't enable or rewardAnd let the flies swarm, let the noble die strongThis is my scorn, new day, new dawn​​​​​​​
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