Aurelia Darchell

Arnau Darchell (brother) †

Heloise Darchell (sister)

Dillon Darchell (brother)

Vitrea Darchell (sister)

Helaine Augustin (maternal aunt)

Maximillian Augustin (maternal uncle)

Jerard Darchell (paternal uncle)

Naithen Delfien (cousin)

Louis Augustin (cousin)

Charlotte Augustin (cousin)

Theron Aeter (adoptive father)

**Catieness Royale Aurelia Helaine Therese Darchell** is a member of The Pack and a Catieness of Valentull. As niece of Empress Helaine, by 1584 she is third in line to the Imperial throne.

## **Biography**

### ***Early life***

Aurelia was born on the 9th of Intimum, 1568, to Catenarch Victor and Royal Catenarchess Marie of Valentull, in the Grand Palace of Darchant.

She was the youngest of five siblings; Heir Catien Arnau, Catieness Heloise, twins Catien Dillon and Catieness Vitrea, and then herself.

Most of her siblings treated her with disinterest like her parents, or blatant disrespect. But her eldest brother, Arnau, was never mean to her; this made him her favourite sibling.

Her aunt, the Empress Helaine, was always fond of Aurelia and treater her "much nicer" than her parents did. Equally, Helaine's children, Aurelia's cousins, were like Arnau and kind to Aurelia. This all made Aurelia prefer staying in Rianne than at home, even if it wasn't often at all. Aurelia would eventually find that part of the reason her aunt didn't was also secretly a mutant, albeit far less powerful than Aurelia. Helaine saw Aurelia to be much like the daughter she'd lost,

### ***The assassination***

In late 1577, Aurelia and Arnau travelled to the capital city, Rianne, to visit their Empress-aunt. Originally, all five children and Royal Catenarchess Marie were supposed to travel to Rianne, but the twins fell ill and Marie decided to the trip could not go ahead.

Catien Arnau, aware it would be rude to the Empress for the entire visit to be cancelled, suggested that he go to Rianne alone, which his parents agreed to. Aurelia begged her brother to let her go too, and so the two of them travelled to Rianne without the rest of the family -- though accompanied by a horde of courtiers and servants, including Aurelia's governess at the time, Madame Istelle.

The two siblings had enjoyed their time in Rianne, and Aurelia was incredibly upset to eventually have to go back home. But they had to return for the celebration of Aurelia's ninth birthday, something which Aurelia didn't particularly want to attend in the first place.

Just less than a day out from Darchant, Aurelia and Arnau's carriage was stopped in the middle of a snowy forest,

Aurelia would later find out that her and Arnau’s carriage had been separated from the rest of the group only a short way from their intended stop for the evening, a small town called Dirilton.

The mercenaries were good at what they did, and nobody had even noticed that the carriage was missing until the party had reached the town. People said they must have had a mutant with them, to fool everyone like that. Others said that the guards must have simply been incompetent. But once they’d realised the Catien Heir, his sister, and their carriage was missing, search parties made of the staff and a few helpful villagers had been sent out.

One of the search parties -- which included Luc, a friend of her governess -- found Aurelia some hours after the attack, just before sunset. They found her scared and alone in the carriage, and surrounded by dead and dying men -- her brother included. Two of the guards were not dead when they were found, and were brought back to Dirilton with Aurelia, but did not survive the rest of the night.

Aurelia was the sole survivor of the attack.

### ***After the assassination***

*"Just the mutant."*
―Aurelia, repeating the assassin's words to herself.
The morning after the assassination, Aurelia woke up in the mayor of Dirilton's house, next to her governess.

As Istelle left to speak with the kitchen staff, Aurelia heard her parents enter the mayor's house.

Aurelia's position in the family worsened, and she slowly became all too aware that her parents would have traded her life for her dead brother's in a heartbeat. Where before the assassination, her parents had made some effort

In Marrosium 1581, when Aurelia was twelve,

An assassin

Guards rushed into the room at Aurelia's screams, only to find a broken window and Aurelia bunched up on the floor, muttering that *"the snow is red" --* the same words she repeated after seeing her brother's corpse in the woods. Aurelia had thrown the assassin out the window with her abilities, killing him.

Upon investigation, it was found that the assassin was hired and sympathetic to an anti-empire group

### ***Joining the Pack***

*"[I want] to make you an offer. To put it simply, your abilities are wasted while you’re locked up in the Palace. You could be using them to help mutants like yourself -- and more importantly, to get revenge for your brother."*
―Jace, offering a place in the Pack to Aurelia.
By fourteen, Aurelia was

She still tried to please her parents as best she could, but to no avail. Her unchecked and uncared for emotions often led to her having outbursts of her powers, which had only grown bigger and more powerful as she grew up.

After one such outburst at dinner, she was trying to clean up after herself, muttering how she was *"just the mutant"*, in one of the assassin's words. when a servant came in the room and reminded Aurelia it was the servants' jobs to clean -- even when Aurelia insisted that it was all her fault.

She found Jace -- whom, at first, she mentally called "The Phantom" due to his mask and his ability to disappear -- awaiting in her room. Aurelia threatened to kill him, then call the guards on him, but was easily convinced to do otherwise and hear what *"the Phantom"* had to say. He gave her an offer: escape the confines of her life as catieness, and in doing so, get revenge on those who had killed her brother.

She accepted.

Jace stayed true to his word, and helped Aurelia find out who exactly had killed her brother; men hired by the Organisation. He was already well aware of precisely who had carried out the assassination, but knew Aurelia needed to see the evidence for herself so that she would be properly motivated to fight against the Organisation.

The two of them tracked down one member of the mercenary group, who had returned to Darchant. Aurelia

She killed the man. Jace watched on, and made no effort to stop Aurelia. He later assured her that even if they hadn't found all the assassins (or "tools", as he called them) destroying the Organisation, those who had chosen to have her brother killed, would be the true vengance.

### ***The "disastrous party"***

and held everyone and everything in the room

Movement resumed once she'd escaped.

### ***Living in the Old Factory***

After running away from home, Aurelia

with Jace and now Corinne.

During her time at the Old Factory, Corinne revealed that Nate and Aurelia were cousins before promptly leaving the pair in shock. Aurelia and Nate quickly followed after her, and made her tell them what exactly she had meant by that. Corinne explained that Nate and Aurelia were first cousins -- much to their and the Pack members present's shock -- and that Nate was the illegitimate son of a catien. Aurelia quickly worked out that his father must be her uncle Jerard, meaning Nate, after 22 years, had finally learnt who his father was. The two then tried to come to grips with their new blood relation.

### ***Getting Corinne out the city***

Aurelia was severely injured

Allowing Kaspar to get captured.

### ***Defeated***

Bastien had given a spare room in his house to Aurelia

## **Personality**

Aurelia is very much a product of her court upbringing and parents' neglect.

## **Skills and abilities**

Aurelia's mutation gives her telekinesis, the ability to move things with her mind. When consciously trying, she struggles with objects heavier than she could carry with her own arms, and can't lift anything heavier than her own bodyweight. However, her emotional outbursts tend to be much stronger and able to move more and much heavier obects.

An ability she didn't completely realise she had until a near-death experience at the hands of the Organisation.

## **Trivia**

* Aurelia's name is pronounced *"ohr-ell-ee-ahh / hell-ay-n / theh-reez / dar-chell"*
* She is bi

## **Gallery**

some doodles of AureliaAurelia's outfit designsthe first drawing of Aurelia, which started APoC