Constance Maynard

Name: Constance Maynard

(Played by Jami JoAnne Russell.)

Date & Place of birth: 10th March, 1408, in a small village in England about 20 miles inland, located somewhere between London and Bath. (Village technically no longer exists.)

Pronouns: She/Her

Orientation: Pansexual & Polyamorous

Species: Vampire

History: Constance was born to a wealthy merchant named John Maynard. Even at a young age she showed a desire to protect others, at 4 years old she jumped into a pond to try and rescue a bag of kittens a man was going to drown - but Constance couldn't swim. A servant saved both her and the kittens and Constance's mother decided her daughter needed to learn how to swim.

Constance's mother died in childbirth when Constance was eight years old. She had contracted rubella while pregnant and while she survived it, it left both her and the son she carried too weak to survive. Constance's father would not remarry until years later when Constance bullied him into marrying a young widow with three sons.

Everyone in her village knew Constance was a protector. No one could harm another without her showing up to tell them the error of their ways. She ran more than one priest out of her village for doing very ungodly things. When she was young she determined to not marry anyone who was only after her father's money. She managed until she was 44 years old to keep herself out of a marriage bed and never took a lover either.

One night she saw two strangers in the local tavern while celebrating the betrothal she had bullied her father into. A man and what she assumed was his servant girl. The man was being very cruel to the servant whom Constance found instinctively she couldn't refer to with feminine pronouns. She went over and began to chide and make fun of the man, eventually accidently-on-purpose spilling her drink on his crotch after making several jokes about his lack of manhood. This caused the servant to laugh.

What Constance didn't know is this was actually a vampire and his progeny. He would order his progeny to kill Constance. However, when the progeny appeared in her room, he couldn't stop himself from revealing that while he may have been born a woman, his "heart, mind, and soul was that of a man." (At the time there were no terms for people who were transgender, nonbinary, genderfluid, etc, they all fell under the umbrella term of hermaphrodite. But yes, Constance's sire was what we would now know today as a transman.) But his sire was forcing him to dress and act as a woman. When Constance showed compassion and heartache for the vampire he ended up turning her instead, but had to abandon her to protect both his and her life from his sire.

Constance would hang onto mortality long enough to be see her father wed. Then she allowed herself to die. From the first moment she rose from the grave she was able to walk in the sun. Religious objects and garlic do her no harm. Her powers include mind reading, super speed, and super strength.

As a vampire Constance has continued to try and protect others, only eating humans who do evil deeds. This has earned her respect amongst vampire hunters. (It doesn't hurt either that she saved the children of a vampire hunter from a serial killer later in life.)

In 1694 Constance would give birth to twins that were fathered by the vampire hunter, Fergal Murphy, though she was unaware she was carrying twins. Fergal and his twin sister, the blood sorceress Ciara Murphy, had plotted to use Constance to bring two Dhampire (half vampire, half human) children into the world, a boy for Fergal to raise as a vampire hunter, a daughter for Ciara to raise as a blood sorceress. He performed a crude C-section on Constance when she couldn't deliver the usual way due to her vampire healing factor, then set fire to the room and left Constance to die. This happened in an abandoned house in Venice and Constance was able to punch her way through the floor into the flooded basement below. She would spend years trying to find Fergal again to no avail. His betrayal of her left her no longer believing in true love nor soulmates and from that night forth she would only do one night stands.

At one point when she was a little over 400 years old she would encounter and have a fight with the infamous Alexander La Mont. This was their one and only meeting. She had just killed a man who presented a pious front to the world, but was a regular Albert Fish in private. She assumes La Mont had an interest in the handsome but evil young man and that's why they fought. La Mont is the only vampire she's ever lost a fight to and she still wonders why he left her alive. Just for the laughs, maybe?

Constance's long life in the meantime has included her becoming the pirate Captain Jessica Dread of the Oleander Dagger for ten years in the 1700s. A ship crewed only by supernatural beings (demi-gods, vampires, a Siren, a poltergeist, and even Mothman though he didn't go by that name at the time, along with other supernatural beings) who's main target was any ships participating in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. While she knew she couldn't stop it all, she could rescue some people from being sold into slavery.

In the later part of the 1800s she was known as U.S. Marshal Matilda "Mat" Dillon.

For about 6 months in the 1960s she was known as Elenore Rigby - until the Beatles song came out.

On September 8th, 1976, she would drink some iffy blood and get banned for life from Studio 54 after trying to strip to an Abba song.

In 2019 she was ordered to appear in the Toronto Court where the king there would introduce her to her nine times great granddaughter, who was then cursed to only be known as Vampire Fangirl.

In 2021 Constance did something she never thought she'd ever do before - she found herself swearing loyalty to another vampire. A young one named Jack Townson, King Of the Degenerates. The reason why? He was the first vampire who made her granddaughter smile a real smile since the disappearance of one of her lovers. To Constance, anyone who could get her granddaughter to smile like that was worth swearing loyalty to.