Holland Marlow

## Psychopomp

Holland is the hybrid daughter of a Banshee and a reaper, which makes her the only one of her kind as well as the formidable daughter of Death and Hayley Marlow. She is the granddaughter of Maeve Mors, one of the first Banshees of her generational lineage. Holland triggered her Banshee trait after her mothers death giving birth to her. And her Reaper side after a car wreck that killed her friends. As a result, this caused her to reap her first souls, making her a complete hybrid of two species.

## Origin

Holland Marlow was born January 4th, 1993 in New Orleans. Holland is the daughter of The Angel of Death, otherwise known as one of the Four Horsemen, and Hayley Marlow, who was the daughter of Laura Mors, was raised by her great grandmother Maeve Mors, a Banshee. Laura abandoned Hayley at a young age. After her father quit his job, her grandmother was forced to support her. Her father turned to drugs and substance abuse, which caused a large decline in his health and eventually, he died due to cancer. Hayley then stayed with her grandmother and she adopted her. Once Hayley had become a teenager her mother came back into her life. They started to build a bond together. Though, one day she and her mother suffered a horrible car wreck. Laura was ejected from the passengers seat, and crashed through the window. This in fact had killed her. Hayley hadn't seen what happened as she was unconscious upon impact, forced into a coma. After waking in the hospital, Hayley found out what had happened. It had been shy over two months.

During her time of mourning her mothers death, she came home to find that her grandmother had been involuntary hospitalized. After Laura's death, her grandmothers Banshee trait had been triggered, causing her to began to lose her mind through triggered premonitions of death. Her grandmother had been locked in a mental ward, and Hayley attempted visiting her regularly, but she couldn't suffer the turmoil of seeing her grandmother in that state. Left with no where to turn to, Hayley had been on the streets until she had been taken in by a coven. They taught Hayley how to practice witchcraft, and although she had no magical gifts, she relied on her faith, crystals and protective talismans. Her coven had offered a sacrificial ritual in order to gain power, and give Hayley power as well. They had killed several young orphaned virgin women, all of the same ages and opened a gateway in an attempt to summon a Deity, but instead summoned Death. Her coven had told Death they had an offering for him. And that they would present him with the death of several young orphaned virgins in turn for him to give them power. They betrayed her Hayley, offering her as the final sacrifice for him. Though instead, Death rejected their offer, and instantaneously killed Hayley's coven, and cursed Hayley with his offspring, to die during childbirth, an act to restore the balance of the Natural Order.

Days into her pregnancy, her mother would journal things about her father. The man she met, whom she hadn't known was Death. But she referred to him as the worst thing imaginable. Unlike any normal pregnancy, her pregnancy progressed over the course of a few weeks. Hayley had reached out for help, contacting someone in the expertise of such Supernatural situations, in Mystic Falls, Virginia. She found Isobela Sinclair II, who she explained her situation to. Though, Isobela informed her there was nothing she could do other than ease her pain; meaning, she would die no matter what. Hayley feared what the baby in her could've been, but she asked Isobela to care for her, and take her in after she was gone and to not inform her in details of her parents lives. And to ensure she hadn't turned out like her father, and become a possible threat to the world. Isobela reluctantly agreed to her terms.

Hayley had gone into labor not even days later, and gave birth to Holland. And as expected, this had killed her, instantly triggering Holland's generational lineage Banshee trait at birth. Isobela had buried Hayley respectfully, and had taken Holland in, raising her in the Sinclair Academy, secretly known as the Sinclair School for the Supernatural. Holland grew up at the school, learning of her abilities and being trained by Isobela and several other teachers there and learning studies and such much like a regular school environment.

Holland was a social butterfly, as she was popular, and well liked and not only for being one of the many rare species at the school. She was overall a very nice person to most people she encountered. She was close friends with Jocelyn, Isobela's daughter and her close relative, Lara. Once a new student, who had been related to Jocelyn and Lara joined the school, Faith Miller, Holland had taken an instant dislike towards her. The two would often but heads, until Holland dissociated herself from Faith for some time. She found it hard to be around Jocelynce and Lara, as Faith would typically be lingering, until she just all together stopped talking to them regularly. A distance grew between them.

Into her early teen years, Holland had began to become rebellious, as she craved for a taste of freedom and living on the wild side. One night, she had snook out after curfew and invited four other students out for a Jocelynride, even though they were permitted not to leave the school and associate with the locals. Holland hadn't been thinking as someone who had been rational, nor were the others. She had only focused on having fun, which caused something horrible to occur. She began to pass several red lights, and drive faster. They began to approach a heavy duty semi-truck very fast, and she attempted to slow down, but it had been too late. They crashed into the semi-truck, and the vehicle had flipped over seven times off the side of the road and down a cliff. As the car came to a stop, three of the students inside were dead upon impact. A car cruising by had witnessed the accident and called for help. Once the ambulance arrived, they had rescued Holland and the other student, who had been in critical condition. They rushed the two to the hospital, but the other student had been dead upon arrival.

These deaths had triggered her Reaper side instantly. At the hospital, Holland had found herself near the students body, as if she had appeared there out of no where. When she touched the students body, she had found herself transferring his soul to the Underworld. She hadn't know what had been happening, and in fact was very afraid. After this happened, she had found herself near the car accident where the other three students had died. She knew this had been her fault, and she had broken down into a fit of tears.

After she gathered herself, she noticed that her surroundings were not moving. Something that appeared very strange to her. She began to think to herself what she had done for the other student. And in doing so, she touched the others and began to transfer their souls as well. After this had been done, Holland found herself back into her body, in the emergency room where she faded in and out of consciousness. When Holland had waken, she was surrounded by Isobela and two other teachers. She was feeling better than she had before she arrived, and as she began to remove bandages they found that her wounds had healed. Isobela then called in reinforcements to compel the hospital from ever seeing Holland that night, and that there were only four victims in the car crash. They then covered the new story, compelling the police, investigators and paramedics at the scene of the crash as well.

Once they arrived home that night, it seemed students had already known what happened; but they didn't know the full story. It had been assumed that Holland killed those four students. She explained to Isobela what had happened, and she was disappointed in Holland and permitted her from leaving the school at all, and punishing her as well. After this had all occurred, Holland had told Jocelyn and Lara the true story of what happened, and they promised not to tell anyone else, as the rumors couldn't have been worse than what she did.

Two years had passed since the incident, and Holland had moved on from what happened, although she would always carry it with her, due to the things she experienced on that night. But, since the incident she was no longer her old self. No longer the social butterfly she had formerly been. Instead she was socially distanced. Holland struggled to forge meaningful connections with other people and make friends with the other students ever since what happened, not only because of that night but because of her now one-of-a-kind supernatural classification as a Psychopomp and her constant personal surroundings of Death.

* Season One
* Season Two

As of the new school year, Holland shares a bedroom with a new student Amara Wilkins. After a visit to the cemetery returned to school. This is where she and Lara spoke for the first time, getting to know one another, as well as another student, Nabu. After this, they return to their dorms for bed. The next morning, Holland is up early and greets Amara as she wakes. She goes to the bathroom to ready herself, then returns to her room where she struggles to find something decent to wear.
After going downstairs, Holland meets with several other students; Amara, Nabu, Darius, Faith, Jocelyn, and Damien. They all go into town where they find trouble in the cemetery. Amara parts from the group. Holland summons a spirit as a joke, things get serious as the spirit attempts to attack Jocelyn, but Holland banishes said spirit and apologizes for the scare. The entire thing had been witnessed by a young male they figured had been a townie. In an attempt to take away his memories, Holland finds herself stopped at the sight of large claws. This reveals that he had been a Supernatural creature. As Holland argues with Damien and Faith, Jocelyn storms off to find the young male. Once they find him, they attempt to help him.

But once he reveals that something is coming their way, Holland telepathically convinces Jocelyn to seal him inside of the building they found him in, and they all walk outside. Holland gets into an argument with Faith and threatens her, before then walking off on her own.

Faith then follows her and threatens her before attempting to attack her. But her attack was halted, only to be countered by Faith flipping Holland onto the ground. After recovery, Holland warns that she doesn't want to fight her. Faith leaves her with her warning, then returns to the school.

Holland returns to the school shortly after and finds that her friends are in trouble, being attacked by gremlins. All the while this is occurring, Joyce is panicking as she thinks of a way to try protecting her friends, as Nabu, Amara and Damien listen to Holland and Faith bickering. He then finds a few words of his own to say to Faith, as does Nabu.

Joyce puts up a protective barrier around the group, as Holland gives her an incantation to use against the gremlins. Joyce teleports outside of the barrier and uses her incantation, imploding the gremlins, but this doesn't do much.

The young male from before had escaped from the building, despite Joyce's efforts of putting up a barrier to seal him inside. He then attempts to help the group, informing them the creatures feed off of negativity, which directly pointed to Holland and Faith. The two then reconcile for the time being to defeat the creatures.

Afterward, Holland finds Amara and apologizes for how she had been acting. Amara admits she understands. The two go into the kitchen for a snack, where Faith, Damien, and Nabu join them. Holland then puts Amara on the spot for her disappearance from the group. Amara explains her situation; she had found herself in ruins near the cemetery, some of which were familiar. Joyce finds the group and informs them that the young male from before had been enrolled in the school. They all felt sketchy about his arrival, and the suspicious arrival of creatures they never dealt with before as well, believing the two to be linked together. It had turned out Faith also left her purse at the cemetery as well. They then planned to go to the cemetery the next day to find her purse.
## Powers Abilities & Weaknesses

### Powers

Holland Marlow is the Harbinger of Death, with a powerful Banshee/Reaper Hybrid trait. While naturally still human, the full intensity of her abilities only unlock after she dies, and trigger the full capacity of her Psychopomp traits. Much like her grandmother she is capable of projecting powerful soundwaves from her vocal cords. Holland has an immensely powerful sonic ability that allows her to perceive sound. These sounds, she is able to discern accurately, though it is unknown exactly how. Holland is a woman with the ability to access the supernatural and is a Harbinger of Death. She experiences premonitions of one's impending death. Her predictions appear to her as causal factors of near or affirmative death experiences. These predictions are not set in stone and do not always come true. Holland was born into a lineage of human women in appearance until accessing their Banshee trait. But as a Hybrid, she can access both her Banshee and Reaper trait at will with control. She is practically human with access to the supernatural, allowing the aforementioned mystical forces to flow through her so the Banshee and Reaper can utilize the powers these forces create. If she were to die, she would complete a full transition and become a full Hybrid.

Due to her advanced connection to the supernatural as a Hybrid, she possesses other abilities. She was born with the Banshee trait and her Reaper trait was only half activated after an accidental car wreck that she caused. She inherited her banshee trait from her paternal grandmother, Maeve Mors, who in turn received hers through a longer generational line, and her Reaper trait through her father, Death. Though she has supernatural abilities, she is not actually a supernatural being as in the manner of other species, she is not controlled by the supernatural. She is instead able to access and manipulate the preternatural forces to her will. Due to this, she is immune to general supernatural phenomena. Holland, due to being able to access the supernatural, has a multitude of psychic abilities that work in tandem with her premonitions, particularly clairvoyance, telepathy, and astral projection. She also has low heartbeats per minute and her body runs corpse-cold.

**Harbinger of Death:** *Holland will get visions, sometimes by wailing, ultimately leading her to dead bodies. She also has connections to other harbingers of Death. As a Hybrid, these abilities are greatly advanced.*

* **Chronokinesis:** Through her trait*, she is capable of stopping time, by slowing it down to a halt sometimes when reaping a soul.*
	+ **Cosmic Awareness:** *Holland has an incredible amount of knowledge of the universe, she knows when a person is supposed to be born and die. She also understands many concepts, including the limits of power.*
	+ **Perception Altering:** *She is capable of altering human perception to make herself appear any way she wishes. This is usually done as a means of easier communication with the deceased, as their true form can be frightening.*
	+ **Soul Awareness:** *She is an expert at tracking down souls, intuitively knowing when a person is supposed to die.*
* **True Seeing:** *She can see through invisibility and concealment. Through her sight, those invisible would appear as shadowed figures.*

**Energy Projection:** *She can project powerful translucent waves of energy that destroys things in her path.*

**Immortality:** *She can not die by natural causes or age.*

**Warping:** *Holland can move vastly, traveling across the ground typically without singular movement, though trails of shadow like figures lead behind her. She can even appear to someone simultaneously by will when accessing her transition.*

**Wind Manipulation:** *Her arrival can cause sudden gusts of wind.*

**Killing Touch:** *She can kill humans by touching them, if it's their time.*

**Clairaudience:** *Her ears are naturally tuned to levels of the universe that only she can hear. This gives her an ability to discern details of a person's death (or impending death) through the sounds she can perceive which no one else can. These sounds can include voices (such as whispering or screaming), gunshots, electricity, buzzing, growling, fighting, etc.*

* **Enhanced Hearing:** *While she does not have a sense of hearing that is as heightened as a Vampire, Werewolf or other species, she does seem to possess hearing that is slightly more powerful than her human counterparts, having a sensitivity to certain loud noises and an ability to hear normal sounds that the average human have difficulty picking up.*
	+ **Tremor Sense:** *Holland automatically hears anyone, as her ears are supernaturally tuned, meaning she can hear their heartbeat.*

**Divination:** *Holland is often mistaken for and compared to psychic, due in part to her ability to use various forms of divination as a tool to gain information about the death and danger she is foretelling. There are a wide variety of means through which she can use divination, many of which also involve the use of her other powers, such as clairaudience.*

* **Sound Divination:** *Using her power of clairaudience, she can divine for information by using sound vibrations to trigger her ability to perceive supernatural energy.*
* **Psychometry:** *She has the ability to discern information about a person's death by making physical contact with a person or with an object belonging to the person in question. The absence of any kind of divination can also give her some idea of what is going on.*
* **Automatic Writing:** *She is sometimes able to gain information by going into a trance-like state and freely writing or typing without conscious thought or awareness. This automatically happens when she is astral projecting to reap a soul through controlling time. She sometimes has conversations she doesn't remember.*

**Telepathy:** *She is shown to be capable of telepathy.*

**Banshee Wail:** *Holland can produce a high-pitched scream of an inhuman amplitude that causes her intended victims to bash their own heads in to relieve themselves of the pain. She is capable of shattering glass and causing blood vessels to burst. Babies can be rendered deaf through exposure to the banshee scream. Her cries can be heard when someone is about to die. The distinctly inhuman scream or the wail of a banshee can be heard for miles, which makes it a handy weapon. The banshee’s wail can stun anyone with fear; it can overwhelm listeners with deafening noise, stun them with tight-focus low-frequency sonic blasts (effective even against shielded ears).*

*She can control the exact effect and direction of the scream on those nearby, and have the same effect with just a yell or inaudibly high shriek. The scream will shatter any nearby glass and can damage eardrums. A banshee scream while physically touching an individual can even rupture lungs. Banshees are compelled to wail when they sense an impending death and find it painful and difficult to hold in. It is still advised that a banshee screams once in a while, as the longer they go without doing so, the more destructive and harder to control it’ll become the next time around. Banshees may feel unwell if a lot of time has elapsed.*

*The banshee scream is her most valuable trait. She will scream involuntarily when she is experiencing a premonition of death, or she can eventually learn how to scream at will. Her scream can be heard by anyone, but only heard louder by another banshee, supernatural species, or those with a supernatural sense of hearing. Her voice can be used to harm a supernatural being with a preternatural sense of hearing more than any other species. A banshee can use their scream like a lever over their abilities and hearing. The scream is used to drown out all other surrounding sounds so a banshee can focus on what only they can hear. Once a banshee is powerful enough, the scream can become so dangerous that without control, it could kill everyone nearby and even the banshee herself. When Banshees sense upcoming death they scream as a warning. However, they are sometimes mistaken as causing death to occur.*

* **Hypnotic Voice:** *Holland has the ability to hypnotize other beings with her voice, putting them in a trance-like state and influencing their thoughts and actions.*

* **Terrakinesis:** *Holland's voice is able to level terrain or cause tremors.*

**Enhanced Agility:** *Holland has inhuman agility, reflexes, and speed.*

**Invulnerability:** *Holland cannot be killed by conventional methods.*

**Super Strength:** *Holland has augmented physical strength and stamina.*

**Telekinesis:** *Holland is able to fling objects or people with her mind.*

**Flight:** *Holland can also move around by floating through the air. She can propel herself up in the air and hover. She could also leap great distances. She can even glide quicker than human feet can walk.*

**Electromagnetic Interference:** *Her presence can cause lights to flicker.*

**Intangibility:** *She can render herself intangible.*

**Shapeshifting:** *Holland is able to transform into animals such as a crow, owl, hare and weasel.*

**Immunity:** *Holland has accelerated healing and immunity to supernatural phenomena, sound-based abilities as well as magic: spells, the use of rituals, symbols, action, gestures, language, etc., or any way of exploiting supernatural forces to varying degrees.*

**Hellhound Connection:** *At least some Banshees appear to have a similar connection with Hellhounds, who are also harbingers of death and who share some of the powers that Banshees have, such premonitions and being drawn to recently deceased bodies. They can locate each other in emergency situations, along with being able to communicate important messages to each other regarding an impending death. Their connection is so strong that even when death or their vessel dies, they can sense one another.*

* Hybrid

**Once**

### Abilities

*Holland is a psychopomp who engages in intensive regular exercise, combat training, yoga, and martial arts and has such agility and swiftness thanks to her years of training. Holland has great reflexes, balance, and coordination and is possibly above the normal human level.*

**Hand-to-Hand Combat & Martial Arts:** *She is trained in hand-to-hand combat by taking martial arts classes. She has practiced in various forms of unarmed combat, she knows various styles of martial arts from around the world.*

* Aikido

* Boxing

* Capoeira

* Dragon Style Kung Fu

* Jujitsu

* Krav Maga

* Savate

**Multilingual:** *In addition to English, she is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Romanian, Czech, German, Ancient Greek, Japanese, Latin, and Russian. She can also naturally mimic accents.*

**Genius Intelligence:** *She is remarkably smart.*

**Singing:** *She can sing at a 7-octave range. Including being able to real the whistle registry.*

### Weaknesses

**Spiritual Cinder Dagger:** *An ancient rare weapon forged of pure melted gold, cold iron, Ancinael Tree sap (toxic/possibly extinct), made into a pointed weapon, and covered in Erbium Oxide can hurt her. Even simply being slashed with it can harm her.*

**Enhanced Senses:** *Because she possess enhanced senses of hearing, she can also be harmed by extremely loud or high-pitched noises*

**Mortality:** *She shares some of the same weakness of mortality. And can still be hurt like humans, even though she is able to heal.*

**Psychological Turmoil:** *Being the first of her kind she is susceptible to the psychological turmoil as a result of the trauma involved with constantly being surrounded by death, whether it is having premonitions of a death or stumbling upon the body of someone who has been brutally murdered. Since the supernatural world is still a secret to the majority of humans, she can be mistaken for being mentally ill, since she can see and hear things that very few people can and often behave strangely as a result of the passive aspects of her powers.*

**Death's Scythe:** *She can be struck down with Death's scythe.*

**Grim Reaper Scythe:** *The only known thing that can surely, kill Holland is her Scythe.*

## Paraphernalia

### Equipment

**Hayley's Talisman:** *Holland wears her mothers talisman, as it's the only thing she has that remains of her, besides pictures.*

### Transportation

**Red Toyoto Sienna:** *Her car was destroyed in a car crash. She had car insurance that covered half the total, from money through her mothers death.*

### Weapons

**Scythe:** *A weapon owned by only her, as the Grim Reaper, capable of killing/reaping any being in existence, including Reapers.*

**Soundless Sword:** *The sword is made of rare metal from the Arctic regions that repel sound through and for its user.*

**Long, sharp shafted Blades & Daggers:** *She carries these on her all the time.*