Celeste Murphy

Name: Celeste Murphy (Deceased)

(Played by Jami JoAnne Russell.)

DOB: 14th August, 1889 (place unknown but raised in Ireland)

Orientation: Unknown

Pronouns: She/Her

Species: A mix of human, vampire, and Fae (Red Cap to be exact).

History: Celeste was born to Caledonia Murphy, the stolen daughter of Constance Maynard and Fergal Murphy, raised by her aunt, Ciara Murphy, Fergal's twin sister. Those who practice her particular brand of blood magic can only become parents one of three ways, adoption (usually they adopted the children of blood relatives who did not practice blood magic), making a deal with one of the Fae, or winning The Game. Caledonia chose to make a deal with the fae - in particular a Red Cap who had somehow found himself stuck in Whitechapel in 1888. (Caledonia already had one adopted child, Rupert Lichenberg, who's parents she manipulated to get together, then arranged for his father to become a werewolf and slaughter everyone except his pregnant wife, who died herself not long after giving birth to Rupert.) The Red Cap would go down in history known as Jack The Ripper. It wouldn't be until years later that Celeste would find out this Red Cap was also her father. For all she knew she had been created solely by magic and Caledonia was her only biological parent.

The Game is a dangerous ritual that can be played either long or short. Either way it involves tormenting a blood relative (even just a distantly related cousin) for years until arranging for their death at the hands of another. All that trauma built up in their blood gives the player of The Game immense power and a one time chance to have a biological child.

Caledonia was a cruel woman to Celeste, only showing a loving side when Rupert was around. Celeste looked far too much like Constance whom Caledonia hated even though she knew Constance didn't even know of her existence. Her goal was to ultimately see Rupert and Celeste marry and have a child of their own as both of Rupert's family lines (Litchenberg and Fuchs) had been powerful in magic themselves even though he parents didn't practice it. Rupert would choose the short version of The Game and chose to torture his father, Boris, his only living blood relative. Unbeknownst to Rupert it turned out Boris knew Constance, who realized what was happening and killed Rupert, causing him to lose The Game and become A Voice In The Dark. (An afterlife for those who practiced that particular brand of blood magic and lost The Game. They can see the real world, even talk to those in it, but they cannot be seen or touch anything. All they can do is talk and offer advice.)

This would cause Celeste to go mad with grief and vow revenge on Constance. Her revenge took the long form of The Game, in which the goal is to create generational trauma, ending with one final blood relative who's the product of all this trauma to suffer the most before dying. Celeste would choose to manipulate various later generations of the vampire hunting side of the Murphy family, eventually arranging for the birth of Claire Donovan and would arrange for Claire to end up cursed for years to only be known as Vampire Fangirl.

After Claire's curse was broken Celeste would align herself with the vampire Aiden Pierce, hoping to manipulate him into killing Claire after torturing her for awhile. But she would instead end up being killed herself by Jack Townson, losing The Game. She would never have the child she so craved to have, never know love, and become nothing more than A Voice In The Dark. It was in this afterlife she would find out that the purpose of it was to spend time learning and healing, eventually becoming ready to be reincarnated.