Natalia Cosmos

◈Nat {by friends}

◈Nadia {by her parents}

**Natalia Cosmos** is a popular girl known for her kindness and compassion as well as her work in the school newspaper, track team, theatre, and volunteer work.

## Overview

### Appearance

Talia is a girl small in stature, standing at 5'4", and has an athletic build. She is known to be a pretty girl, her warm brown eyes and charming smile being the main features that everyone seems to notice. She is a natural brunette, her hair straight in texture and falling just below her shoulders. Talia often wears her hair down on most days, though she pulls it up when working out and tends to curl it when she is attending a formal event.

### Personality

Natalia is a sweet girl, known well in Beacon Hills as a helpful and affectionate girl. Despite only being seventeen, Natalia is as ambitious as teenagers come, always working volunteering and doing things that will help her improve as a person as well as help those around her. She seems to have endless energy and countless hours in the day, always busying herself and seemingly never sitting still.On top of being an AP student, Talia is also the editor of the school newspaper, a senior member of the track team, and a loyal member of the school's theatre program. She is intelligent and motivated and she uses both skills to help not only herself but others as well. Despite her success in many areas, Talia is incredibly hard on herself. Nothing but perfection is good for Talia and she is often impatient when it comes to working at skills, always wanting to be naturally good at things which is highly unrealistic. Talia dislikes waiting and prefers to jump straight into things which makes having to work at things and wait for results difficult for her.

Socially, Talia is outgoing and kind. She's known for seeing both the good and bad in people, making her an excellent judge of character. Talia is the kind of girl that everyone knows, or knows of. She can make friends in a room full of strangers and always seems to know what they are thinking and feeling. Even if Talia doesn't like someone, she treats them with the upmost respect and kindness, even if she has been wronged by them. Some people view this as weakness or stupidity, showing compassion to those who hurt you. But to Talia, that trait makes her strong. She knows that the strongest thing someone can do is to forgive and to be kind. She is a loyal friend and is always around to help, listen, and cheer up her friends. Talia loves making other people happy, even if she is in a dark place. She is selfless and will do anything for those she loves.

While many people see Talia's kindness and ambition as the girl being stuck up or as a goody-two-shoes, she is far from it. Talia is not someone to make angry as she has no problem confronting people, calling them out, or putting people in their place. Nothing phases Talia and she always seems calm, even in the most tense or stressful situations. She is both mentally and physically strong, due to her nephilim blood, and knows she can do serious damage, though she refrains and knows when to back off.

### History

The Cosmos family has had many names over the years, changing once every generation or so to avoid being discovered and consequently hunted. Natalia's bloodline can be traced back to long before biblical times to a small group of pure nephilims in Greece. At first, the family hid their nephilim biology, using their skills to become powerful protectors, valiant leaders, and vicious warriors. At the height of her family's power, the Cosmos family was one of the most powerful families to ever have existed, their power secretly influencing politics, wars, and general life. As history progressed, they became known for hunting the supernatural, a skill that many nephilim possess. Unlike many other nephilim bloodlines, Talia's was known to be peaceful and strong even despite their power, often being called on by rulers and citizens alike for help and protection.

The family would not remain as strong as they originally were. After angels and demons fell to the earth, nephilims across the globe were forced into hiding. They were hunted by many, rewards on their heads often high. Nephilims were abominations, worse disgraces than the demons or other supernatural scum that crawled the planet. Those who used magic hunted nephilims and exploited the nephilim weakness to black and blood magic, killing them and using their blood for their own magic. The family that had once been powerful were reduced to nothing, being chased from hiding spot to hiding spot to survive, hundreds of them being slaughtered as they did so, the rest scattering. An empire of powerful nephilims became reduced to a mere eighty two nephilims, eventually chased out of Europe and across the boarders to the Americas.

For many years, the Cosmos family lived under the false pretense that they would be safe in North and South America. But as colonization took place and the creatures that had hunted them made their way over, they were forced to spread out yet again in small family units of just parents and their few children across North and South America. They were forbid from seeing one another out of fear of being murdered. Their hunters stopped at nothing, even killing their young, sick, and elderly.

It was decided by the elders of the family that no more pure nephilims would be birthed, it was far too dangerous. Instead, nephilims were forced to marry and bred with humans to water down the bloodline, creating a line of near-mortal nephilims. eventually, nephilim powers were gone in the descendants of the elders, the blood watered down and mostly human. They always knew who they were, at least part nephilim, but never had the power to use any of their skills.

Talia's mother, a near-mortal nephilim by the name of Ana Louise, was one of the first people to be born with any control over nephilim powers, albeit weak and rare. The attempt to breed out the nephilim had failed. A new plan was put into action: the family would hunt near-mortal nephilims, both of their blood as well as other families, and kill them if they showed proficiency in their powers. Ana Louise hid her powers, moving out at sixteen to live her own life. It was then that she met Talia's father, a half-nephilim by the name of John. They both knew of the other's nephilim blood and they knew that if they were to ever have a child, the child would be a full nephilim.

The risk was taken and on January 14th, 2003, Natalia was born, a crime that her mother would most certainly have been killed by her family for. Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately, they would never get the chance. The difficulty of birthing a full nephilim and only being a near-mortal nephilim herself killed Ana Louise during her birth, leaving Natalia with her father.

Even as an infant, Talia's power could be felt. She reeked of full nephilim blood, blood that was rare and incredibly powerful. Be it by her own family's hand or by the hand of someone who wanted her blood, John was certain he daughter would be killed. He worked hard to cover their tracks as they fled, eventually losing the various hunters and settling down in the small, inconspicuous town of Beacon Hills when Talia was just two months old.

When Talia was four, she began to discover her powers. John's plan had been to never tell Talia the truth, to allow her to grow up and believe that she was a simple human. But Talia knew he was lying, she could feel it every time he promised her she was like the other kids. Eventually, John broke and told her about her real species. Thus her training began, John teaching her everything he knew about nephilim powers in the hope that Talia would be able to hide it. And hide it she did.

The rest of her childhood and life into her teen years were normal, outside of the training that occurred in the forest under the cover of nightfall. Talia decided that the best distraction from her nephilim being would be to be known for anything but. She worked hard in school, winning academic awards. She became a talented athlete without the help of her naturally enhanced speed and endurance from being a nephilim and joined theatre groups in school. She spent weekends volunteering, practicing, or studying. Despite her confidence, Talia has grown up in fear. If she were to ever be discovered, if she were to encounter another supernatural being, the likelihood is that she would be killed. Nephilims are hated by other species and are hunted, though nephilims are difficult to kill and tend to be more powerful than other creatures. She would never admit her fear, or the feelings of isolation she felt growing up and still feels to this day. Instead, Talia has hid and not a soul outside of her father knows that she is a nephilim, or of her true power.

## Powers & Weaknesses

### Powers

**Omnilingualism** ◈ Talia has the ability to understand, speak, write, and read any language, past and present including code languages.

**Empathy** ◈ Nephilims have high levels of empathy. Talia can feel what those around her feel, sometimes even understanding their thoughts. Talia’s empathy is draining and occasionally physically painful so she avoids using it when she can. However, if an emotion is strong enough, Talia may not be able to resist it.

**Superhuman strength, speed, agility, and endurance** ◈ Nephilims have human abilities with angelic power. Talia is stronger and faster than most others, including some other creatures, but she is considerably more agile and fast than strong and endurance. This also makes Talia an incredible fighter.

**Perspicuity** ◈ Nephilims have the natural ability to resist any and all mind control tactics including reading of thoughts, illusions, and energy-draining abilities.

**Healing factor** ◈ Biologically, nephilims are built to be able to survive harsh physical conditions and injuries due to their historical purpose for fighting the rogue supernatural. Over time, Talia’s familial ability to self-heal has begun to slow down, resulting in severe injuries healing much slower than their ancestors but significantly faster than others. She is nearly immune to all toxins and poisons, including common alcohol and drugs. She is also immune to human illnesses such as the flu, cancer, the common cold, and other illnesses/diseases.

**Sacred Blood** ◈ Nephilim blood is rare and incredibly powerful. Although it is intoxicating to vampires and other blood-drinking creatures, consuming nephilim blood can cause the consumer to burn from the inside out. Historically, infusing nephilim blood with a deceased individual could bring them back to life. However, throughout her family’s breeding, that ability has dwindled. Now, Talia’s blood can help heal severely injured or sick individuals at great cost to herself, often draining her for days and making her susceptible to damage. She does have the ability to bring a singular individual back from the dead but, in doing so, killing herself as all of her blood would be needed to save them.

### Weaknesses

**Mortality** ◈ While nephilims are incredibly strong, they are also mortal. They are very hard, nearly impossible, to kill due to their healing factors and top physical condition, but that does not mean they cannot be killed or severely injured. Nephilims also eventually die of old age. Angels can easily injure a nephilim and are one of the few creatures that can kill a nephilim with near ease.

**Disgraced & hunted** ◈ Nephilims are typically hated by other biblical creatures, including both angels and demons. They cannot be affected by positive effects from angelic species such as healing or blessings, they can only be hurt by their powers. They are also common targets for hunting, especially by other supernatural creatures due to their powerful blood and their general hatred by many other species.

**Magic** ◈ The magic used by witches can damage nephilims. Black magic and blood magic are especially pontent, commonly used to trap, injure, and drain nephilims. Mind control magic still does not work due to the nephilim’s natural ability to resist it (perspicuity) but most other magic works. witches also tend to hunt or injure nephilims to acquire their blood, an incredibly powerful tool in spellcasting and potion making.

**Angelic wrath** ◈ If a nephilim is made furious enough, they may black out and not realize what they are doing. Angelic wrath increases their strength, speed, and makes them nearly untouchable but renders the nephilim weakened and often unconscious for days or weeks after or, in rare cases, killing them outright.