Rayne Van Helsing

> I was born with the strength to avenge my mother against vampires. And for three centuries, I was good at it. I have lived 300 years, I may live 300 more, or I may die tomorrow. But I no longer fear death...for I have known it once already. I am reborn and my eyes have been opened to the sacred world and the promise of what is yet to be. There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only becoming. Though the world has changed, our mission remains the same. Though I cannot predict the future, an unknown chapter lies on our horizon. All that is certain is that Darkness is still ahead. But for now, for the first time, I look into the light with new hope.
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> Rayne

**Rayne Van Helsing**, often reffered to as **Rayne** for short and also called **The Daywalker**, is a powerful 300-year-old dhampir. She is the creation of the Original Vampire and the daughter Alexander and Christina Van Helsing. She is the daughter-figure of Joshua, close friends with Sidney, Lilly, and Nigel, and the soul mate and later wife of Mia. Rayne is also an ancestor of Abraham Van Helsing.

Rayne is strong, intelligent, compassionate, empathetic, caring, and friendly but is also stubborn, fowled-mouthed, violent, dangerous, and seductive (when needed). However, being over 300 years old, Rayne's life has been filled with blood, prejudice, hatred, war, suffering, loss, pain and betrayal. But despite this, Rayne's life also has good, light, and happiness in it, as she herself also looks for the best in people.

Born in Rome circa 1715, Rayne witnessed her mother, Christina Van Helsing, being raped and murdered by the powerful vampire lord Kagan when Rayne was 13 years old. After her mother was killed, Christina's old friend and guardian angel, Joshua, took Rayne in and raised her as his own. Joshua brought her to the Order of the Church, a secret organization dedicated to destroying all supernatural evil, and taught her how to control her powers and use them to fight supernatural creatures of evil.

During the years following the awakening of her Dhampir powers, abilities, and bloodlust, despite the help from Joshua, Rayne has constantly battled with her bloodlust, and during the mid 1700's after "falling off the wagon", she widely became known as the Ripper of Vampires due to her inability to control her bloodthirst. However, with help from not just Joshua, but also Mina Harker, Henry Sturges, and other older vampires, Rayne then learned to control her blood-lust.

Since her mothers death, Rayne has been searching for Kagan all across the globe. Along the way, she allies herself with the world's current vampire slayer Mia Salvatore. With her help as well as the help of her watcher Nigel, her sister Lilly, and their human friend Sidney, Rayne eventually found and killed him. Though he has been destroyed, Rayne is still coping with her mothers' death.

Additionally, Rayne is arguably the most famous Dhampir, being known by many supernatural beings throughout the world and having gained a reputation for herself through killing a variety of supernatural creatures, including vampires as well as others, such as other monsters, witches, spirits, deities, and even angels and demons.

Currently, Rayne, along with Mia, Lilly Sidney, and Nigel, is a "*supernatural investigator*", who is thrust into the role of defending ordinary people across the entire world against the dark and evil supernatural forces from beyond. However, oftentimes, throughout the series, outside forces threaten those she loves and what she most desires more than anything else: a normal, human life.

## Personality

A very complex young woman, Rayne is enigmatic, knowledgeable, witty, seductive (when need be), confident in her abilities, empathetic, level-headed, mostly independent, and somewhat dispassionate, rarely showing any sign of anger, alarm, annoyance, surprise, or distress. Due to her upbringing as an assassin, Rayne is also strong-willed, stubborn, foul-mouthed, somewhat tomboyish, tenacious, resourceful, persistent, and enduring.

However, Rayne still has an ever-present dark side that is constantly shown throughout the series. Due to that fact that Rayne was raised to be a powerful vampiric assassin that isn't supposed to show any sign of weakness to her opponents, she can seem stoic, serious, cold, aloof, brooding, detached, and even callous at times, as she seldom smiles, though she is known for possessing a sense of humor. Rayne is also headstrong, stubborn (even to a fault), bloodthirsty, and ruthless, refusing to walk away during suspicious activity or until the task at hand is completed. She kills without much concern, derives pleasure and fun from death and destruction, behaves somewhat sadistically, often decapitating and dismembering her opponents, however she is caring towards the victims and even stated that "*I don't approve of senseless killing.*"

She is also rather cocky and flirtatious, and frequently converses, taunts, and belittles her opponents before killing them. She does care for the human race (she also does prefer to be thought of as half-human, however), and she has been shown to actually care about a few people (her mother, Sidney, Nigel, and even Mia, despite being a slayer, are notable examples). This may stem from already losing her loved ones over the years and her dedication to her job.

Following all that she has seen and done, Rayne once admitted to Mia that she no longer wants to be a hunter or even a Dhampir and would do anything to give it all up if she could.

However, despite Rayne's stony exterior, she is not apathetic, as she tends to become distressed and vengeful when those she cares about are threatened, injured or killed. As far as her loved ones go, Rayne is fiercely protective of them, especially Joshua. She has even been known to have a blind spot when it comes to him. Despite this, she is fiercely protective of him, as seen when she didn't want him toe fight Lucifer out of fear of losing him for good. It is possible that her apathy may be a result of her training as an Assassin, although it is noted in the series that her hatred of vampires goes well beyond that of most others. She has also shown a degree of morality; she makes it clear in the novelizations in particular that she will not drink human blood and takes a degree of care to avoid collateral damage in her fights when forced to engage the enemy in public.

## Physical Appearance

> I ever tell you how super sexy you look in that outfit, Rayne. That leather bodysuit, the long dark coat...even covering up your ankles with those damn heavy, combat boots.
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> Mia to Rayne

Being a Dhampir, as they are more attractive than humans, Rayne is a very beautiful, attractive, and relatively tall young woman, standing 5'5", with light pale complexion and smooth, shoulder length, dark drown hair and hazel eyes. She has a slim, slender frame yet muscular build. When she used her Dhampir powers, her eyes gain an electric blue color. When she visited the Sacred World and her powers were advanced, her eyes became white platinum.

Wardrobe wise, Rayne typically wears a black leather outfit: a bodysuit with a corset, a long duster coat, and heavy, high-heeled, under-knee length, combat boots. Rayne also wears leather gloves. Additionally, she also has gun holsters where she places the firearms she brings with her and there are slits in the rear of her long leather coat that can be used for the swords. Following her resurrection from the Sacred World, Rayne kept the black suit but also wore a long white fur coat.

## Trivia

* Anytime Rayne finds someone who is dead or has been killed, she makes the sign of the cross over her heart. However, when Rayne kills a supernatural creature, she makes the sign and says a prayer of their passing along with "*Requiescat in pace*", which is Latin for "*rest in peace*", which is something she learned form Joshua. This prayer signifies Rayne's consideration for the sanctity of death. She is sworn to only kill those that deserve it. When the deed is done, Rayne never forgets to pray for the peace of her targets, regardless of how unjust they were in life. She does it not only because she shows respect for the dead, but because Joshua always told her to "*never hold hatred for your enemy. Such a thought is poison and can cloud your better judgement. And never become your enemy. Because you are not them.*"
* Rayne often drinks alcohol to help curb her blood cravings.
* Rayne possesses similar characteristics to the marvel hybrid character Blade.
* Surprisingly, Rayne is an excellent cook.
* Rayne's finishing moves in killing, or at the very least, defeating the antagonists all involve turning the opponents' weapons, strength or abilities against them