Darcy Dunraven

Darcy Dunraven is the Winter Child and the main character of Impact Winter. She is an Overlord and her animal form is a White Lioness with Red Eyes. Darcy is the Queen reborn.

## Appearance

Darcy is a beautiful young woman with naturally red hair along with the red eyes and pale complexion typical of Vampires.

## Personality

As a human, Darcy was a stubborn, hot-headed and militant woman who struggled with the weight of her responsibilities and her need to keep Hope, the only family she had left, safe, as she watched her mother die immediately following the comet impact. Darcy once encountered Rook while in the field, and the experience shook her to the core, making her painfully aware of the reality of her own helplessness in the face of true power. She lived with the constant anxiety that one day, the alarm might ring for the last time. This caused her to become very overprotective and militant, seeing the world in black and white.

After she turned. She hated herself and was initially unwilling to take a human life for sustenance, but after she almost killed Felix while in a starving delirium she began reluctantly feeding on humans when she had to. She gradually began accepting her new nature and the nuances of reality, of right and wrong. She was more willing to kill humans for food, especially liking to target those who deserve it.

## Story

Darcy was the oldest daughter of a widow, with a younger sister named Hope. After the comet hit, Darcy's mother was killed and Darcy was taken to the Locryn Castle Bunker with her sister by her stepfather Jepson Belgrave. Darcy met Felix Molloy shortly afterward and became close friends with him. Over the years, Darcy would train in combat and survival under her former MI6 stepfather and begin actively participating in patrols and supply runs, having many run ins with vampires and collecting a map of battle scars. On one of these supply runs, Darcy saw the Overlord Rook. This experience left her deeply shaken and made her acutely aware of her own vulnerability in the face of such beings, how fragile her facade of safety and her confidence in her strength really is. How, should an Overlord decide to pay a visit to Locryn castle and murder everyone inside, there will be nothing she can do to stop it.

### Season 1

When Penelope Chambers and Anton Devere arrived and were revealed as Vampires, Darcy killed Anton when he threatened Hope's life. She was also very suspicious of Penelope who was being kept as a prisoner and staunchly disapproved of Hope's friendship with Penelope, going as far as to torture Penelope and make it very clear that she would kill her if she so much as bared her fangs at Hope.

After Hope ran away with Jory, Laurel and Eric, Darcy, along with Bash and Zana tracked her to the Cathedral Ruins. Bash and Zana were killed by Rook, and then Rook got hold of Darcy and drained her. Rook then offered her the choice of falling peacefully into the long dark sleep or throwing away her mortal shackles to be reborn and learn the true meaning of freedom. Darcy chose rebirth. Rook gave her his blood and buried her in the ground, where she underwent her change and was reborn into an Anointed One.

Darcy was awoken by Whisper who explained to her that she is now a Vampire. Confused and in denial, Darcy ran into the forest, stunned at her newfound speed and stamina until she chanced upon a stag, using her power to call it over to her and feed upon it. Afterward, Darcy was hit all at once with the realization that she could never show her face in front of her loved ones ever again. She was horrified of her choice and ashamed of herself, refusing to feed on anything other than wild game and ignoring Rook and Whisper, and doing her best to ignore the fact that the animals were doing little to stave off the gnawing hunger building within her.

Eventually, while on a hunt, she heard Felix, blacking out and coming back to her senses with her teeth inside Felix's neck. Due to her starvation, she had temporarily been forced to succumb to instinct and used her power to lure Felix into an abandoned gas station where she attacked him. After realizing what she had done, she immediately forced herself to stop, doing her best to stop the bleeding and using her power to mimic Felix's voice in order to call over Jepson and Hope to help Felix, before running away in shame and fear. Realizing that if she didn't keep her hunger under control she would end up hurting the people she cares about, she elected to begin feeding on humans when necessary, starting with Jory, who was in captivity below the manor.

Later, Kallistrata appeared at Rook's manor looking for Penelope Chambers. Darcy tried to hide her knowledge of Penelope being at Locryn Castle as she knew that Hope would most likely get in her way and end up hurt or worse, but she failed. After travelling to the radio station in hope of warning her sister and the others about the threat, she appeared, destroying the generator and using her powers to psychically forbid Darcy from leaving the radio station. She was freed by Whisper, asking her to warn Locryn Castle before immediately going after Kallistrata. She managed to stake her in the heart with a broken broomstick, but she wasn't aware that Overlords can only be immobilized by stakes of Silver.

Caught off guard, Kallistrata took out such a stake and stabbed her with it, burying her in the Earth and immobilizing her. She panicked, unable to free herself, before she was freed by Rook. The two then went to find Kallistrata and Darcy was able to kill her with a single bite.

## Powers and Skills

Combat

Swordsmanship

Shrouding

Flight