Nightmare Nurse

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

**Asa's relatives:**
Azazel (Father)
Abaddon (Mother, Deceased/Reincarnated)
Anung Un Rama (Paternal Half-Brother)
Naamah (Paternal Half-Sister)
Grigori of the Golden Gaze (Paternal Infernal Siblings)
Abnegazar, Neron, Nebiros, Satanus, and Rath (Maternal Half-Brothers)
Infernus and Ghast (Maternal Half-Sisters)
Brigette Bruttenholm (Paternal Niece)
TJ Bruttenholm (Paternal Nephew)

### Asa: Prehistory - 2016

 File:Nightmare Nurse Symbol.png  The demoness known as Asa is born of an affair between two of the Fallen Princes of Hell's Triumvirate during a chance encounter while the pair were both conducting business on Earth. Abandoned by her father before birth, Asa abandoned her mother in turn shortly after Abaddon returned to Hell. For whatever reason, Asa returned to Earth, finding humans to be fascinating creatures.
Born as an amorphous mist of bloodied vapor and bits of viscera with a set of menacing yellow eyes and fang fIlled mouth, Asa found it difficult to take her own less menacing form and manifesting in her neutral form was just as challenging. This made her time on Earth difficult as she continually found herself fading away and waking up back in the infernal clouds of the Void several years later.

Forced to work in Hell as a torturer to earn passage back to Earth, Asa became familiar with human anatomy (or a human soul's approximation of such). After a few cycles of returning to Earth, being pulled back to Earth, torturing to buy her way back, and so forth; Asa ventured into the Dreaming to seek out a way to merge her manifestation with a willing host from the Corinthian and other nightmares.

Even with one she mastered this technique, it only delayed the inevitable. While Asa was immortal, her host would continue to age (partially due to being incompatible with long term exposure to the entropic nature of Asa's essence). This was less than ideal as it meant Asa was forced to find her new host quickly or find herself struggling to get back to Earth.

Though she was initially only interested in humans to better understand how they were put together (in hopes she could make her own body), Asa twisted her expertise into a trade to allow her to fit into society — after centuries of tending to the sick and wounded, Asa had became a healer of remarkable renown. Having made a deal with Death of the Endless, Asa scored an interdimensional clinic of her own.

### Alice Winters: 1972 - 2016

Alice Winters is the daughter of Brandon Winters, an Englishman of noble lineage and some peculiar practices, and his wife Renee — a famed stage actress. She had an older sister Delores, who had her mother's natural charisma and starlet quality beauty. Alice was not her sister. She was mousy and meek, preferring to keep to herself with a good book rather than perform for any sort of audience.

When Alice was thirteen, Delores left home to go to America to seek fame and fortune. Fame would come soon enough, but fortune came even quicker as Delores seduced an American businessman enamored with the up-and-coming starlet. Just days before her fifteenth birthday, Alice's mother would die in London's big blue boom while rehearsing a much-anticipated production. It was weeks before Alice would learn that her sister did not die in the similar explosion in Los Angeles, but at that point, Alice had dedicated herself around the clock to the relief efforts in London — acting as a medic and nurse's assistant to those injured in the chaos — just to keep her mind from collapsing under the weight of the grief of her mother's death. But Alice had to accept reality at some point and accept the tragedy.

After several suicide attempts and years of therapy, Alice finished nursing school and found herself employed as a nurse at Ravenscar Asylum. It was there that she met Chas Chandler and John Constantine. The two men, and other surviving members from Muccus Membrane, were the victims of an exorcism gone wrong. Unlike most of staff at Ravenscar, Alice believed Chas and the band were suffering from the same sort of trauma and grief that Alice had overcome. With Alice's help, the band would all recover to various degrees, and when Chas left Ravenscar, Alice resigned to go with him — having fallen in love with him. Though what followed was anything but a happy marriage (often because Chas' friendship with John), the two did love each other and found great joy in what their union had given them: Trish.

### Nightmare Nurse: 2016 - Present

Alice's love for Trish to a deal with the demonic nurse John summoned to care for Trish when his and Chas's old enemy put the innocent girl into a mysterious coma.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Infernal-Human Gestalt Physiolgy:** The Nightmare Nurse is a fusion of a human woman and a demonic entity.
	+ ***Biomancy:*** Though she prefers to use mundane medical practices when she can, Asa has access to significant magic specializing in the manipulation of biology. With a wave of her hand, she mends cuts and scrapes. Snapping her fingers, she can make a cough or a stuffed nose vanish (just the symptoms — even she can't cure the common cold). The Nightmare Nurse is also master of many healing rituals.
	+ ***Enhanced Physicality:*** Asa's essence amplifies the physcial body of her human host. Asa/Alice is much stronger, faster, durable, and sturdy than her body would suggest. She can throw grown men one-handed with ease or shrug off multiple bullets. There has also been some 'improvements' made to her host's body (notably an upgrade to Alice's modest bosom and shedding of post-pregnancy pounds that Alice had never quite lost after giving birth to her daughter). This body can also recover from injuries that would certainly be fatal to humans - mending the most severe wounds in just a few hours (if she doesn't use her magic to make even shorter work of it).
	+ ***Immortality:*** Asa has no fear of time or disease. If her host is destroyed or she is exorcized, Asa may be forced back to Hell. While her previous hosts would find their bodies destroyed by Asa's infernal energies, it appears that Alice has a high threshold for entropic essence — possibly a trait from her father.
	+ ***Supernatural Senses:*** As an ephemeral being herself, Asa can see, hear, and interact with unmanifested ethereal and astral beings in reality. She can also read auras, see through illusions and detect the use of magic in her presence with ease.
	+ ***Telepathy (Limited):*** With a simple touch, the Nurse can read or control her patients' minds. She can command them to be calm, go to sleep, or even compel them to not feel pain for a short time. When she combs through their minds, the Nurse can only read thoughts tied to her patients' injury or ailment. She can force a different command or search for other kinds of thoughts or memories, but doing such would require much more intesive focus and effort.
* **The Ripper's Bag:** Once belonging to a serial killer that plagued London, this cursed surgeon's purse was gifted to Asa by John Constantine to play off some of his significant debts to her. Asa enriched the curse of the bag, making it an ideal container for her assortment of medically-minded mystical intruments.
* **The Trauma Ward:** The Nurse has a magical clinic appropiately found in a pocket dimension that is tangetially located near Death's door in the Dreaming. Those who know the right incantation or are lucky enough, may find themselves walking down the halls of the Trauma Ward as they approach the Light at the End. For the right price, they might be able to convince the Nurse to make a house call to wherever their body may be.
* **Wraps of Binding:** Usually found wrapped around her arms, the Nightmare Nurse has some enchanted bandages that are quasi-sentient artifacts that recognize the nurse as their master. These nigh-indestructible bandages can levitate on their own and constrict enemies or tend to the injuries of the Nurse or her patients. The mystical connection shared between the wraps and the Nurse allows her to channel her powers through the wraps as though they were an extension of her body, regardless of distance.

### Weaknesses

* **Alice:** John Constantine stole a potion from Asa (which Queen Hippolyta gave her) and tricked her into a deal to perpetually save his friend's life. This was not the first time that John had upset Asa, but when that friend's daughter was sick, Asa put her foot down. Refusing to do anything until John and Chas settled their debts, Chas' wife Alice decided to volunteer to replace Asa's aging host. After the two became one, Asa found herself attached to Alice's loved ones, tending them free of charge.
* **Vice — Greed:** While she can almost always save lives regardless of injury or illness, the Nurse doesn't work for free and she's almost certainly out-of-network.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Occult:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Weaponry:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Expertise:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Range:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Strategy:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
	+ **TOTAL:** 120
	+ **RANKING:** High Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Alice Chandler

* Alice Chandler took care of Chas Chandler when he was committed to Ravenscar Secure Facility. When he was released, he and Alice moved to London and began dating while Chas studied to pass the strenuous tests to become a London taxi cab driver. Later they married and had a daughter Trish.
* Alice and Chas constantly argued about his friend John Constantine.

### Notes

* Nightmare Nurse is a composite character of Renee Chandler, Alice Winters and Asa.
* In the comics Chas' wife is called Renee and his daughter is called Geraldine. Trish Chandler is his granddaughter.

## Network Files

Network Files Nightmare Nurse.jpgNetwork Files: Nightmare Nurse

## Links and References

* Appearances of Nightmare Nurse

1. ↑ Network Files: Nightmare Nurse
2. ↑ Network Files: Nick Necro
3. ↑ Network Files: Chas Chandler