Mother Theresa

*If you ever need to cheat death or work with demons, you might find*
yourself directed toward this strange young woman. If the cause or the
price is right, she can come up with the goods... just don't ask how she
 does it.

Before the winter of 1998, Theresa Jones was a walking stereotype, a
congressman's image of a welfare queen. She was 18 with a gaggle of
four children, all under 5 years old. She also had a nasty crack habit.
 When she hit bottom, Theresa was letting her dealer pimp out her
children. The arrangement eventually drove her over the edge.

By 1999, it all became clear: her existence was an ugly, half-assed
walking death; true beauty and power lay in the pure moments, of living
or dying. Before long, she'd purified each of her four children, and
felt the mounting rush of cosmic approval. Every person who ever abused
 her kids (including one of the Bad Man's debtors) spontaneously
suffocated that night. Slow glowing with veto power over death itself,
Theresa's life took a turn for the even-more-strange. The Dealership
(see PoMoMa, pg. 157) initiated very cautious negotiations, and made a
number of very unusual concessions. In exchange for the first
resurrection, Theresa settled for intelligence, education, and five
hundred thousand dirty dollars. Second time around, she demanded depth,
 class, and more US treasury bonds than she can count.

She kept busy doing some freelance Thaumophage busting for a New York
cliomancer, for which she gained an upscale persona (the interracial
love child of an obscure Kennedy cousin), and enough of a "bad ass" rep
in the underground to keep everyone off her ass. If you believe the
rumors flying around, the mysterious Mother Theresa: can't be killed
unless she wants to die; brought down the True Order of Saint-Germain
'cause they were being racist assholes; boosted the Freak to Godwalker
status by adding "the living dead" to its list of mystical ambiguities;
caused 9/11 because rich white guys wouldn't accept a mulatto girl with
money... you get the picture.

For the last three years, she's been getting pregnant and exploring her
options. She sacrifices her infant at birth, hanging it with its
umbilical cord (the fetish she keeps) before it can take its first
breath. She does love these children, which has made the sacrifices
quite potent. Not even the Bad Man knows the exact nature or extent of
her abilities, or how she consistently generates so much serious mojo.
The uncertainty about her potential reach makes most cabals think twice
about letting her actually meet any of their members. Dying can make
people pretty desperate, but most attempts to contact Mother Theresa are
 still reminiscent of Cold War spy antics.

Absent a worthy cause, she sells her magicks (resurrection, age/disease
prevention, demon dealing, etc.) for material and immaterial gain.
After one of the Jersey mafia families whacked her cliomantic contact,
she's been keeping very quiet about all things magickal, and maintains a
 very tight cover. A couple of her socialite acquaintances have heard
that she has suffered a string of tragic stillbirths, but that's about
all that can be tracked to her new identity.

**Mother Theresa, Upwardly Mobile Baby Killer**

**Personality:** (Virgo) Theresa is now quite the intellectual, and
has acquired a habit for dropping literary references. Her usual
solution to things that bother her is to write a check to the charity
and avoid it in her life.
.  **Obsession:** Milestones in cycle of life -- birth, the peak life, and the moment of death. (Magick: Thanatomancy)
.  **Wound Points:** 40

**Passions**

**Rage Stimulus:** Pedophiles. People who get off on kids should spend the rest of their lives getting anally raped in prison. **Fear Stimulus:** (Self) Being Alone with Children Under 5 Years Old. Theresa knows she is a horrible mother. After killing seven of
her own children, she simply does not trust herself around them.
.  **Noble Stimulus:** Hardcore Drug Addicts. They remind her of her old life.

**Stats**

**Body:** 40 (Slight)
.  **Speed:** 35 (Distracted)
.  **Mind:** 77 (Over Your Head)
.  **Soul:** 88 (Needlessly Reflective)

**Skills**

**Body Skills:** Keep Running (General Athletics) 33%, Street Fighting (Struggle) 22%, Unconventional Good Looks 15%, Miraculous Recovery 40%
.  **Speed Skills:** Duck and Cover 35%, Drive 20%, Initiative 28%
.  **Mind Skills:** Great Books (General Education) 60%, Conceal 25%, Notice 30%, Street Smarts 22%, Paradigm: Addict 30%
.  **Soul Skills:** Old Money Class (Charm) 60%, Live Double Life (Lie) 55%, **Magick: Thanatomancy 70%**, Exploit Reputation 15%

**Miraculous Recovery:** One of her past magicks has made Theresa
overflow with vibrant life. She heals very quickly and completely
without scars; it's too soon to really tell if she still ages. For
example: resisting infections, diseases, colds and the like is just a
minor check. On a significant check, a weak success might doubles the
rate of convalescence, or a strong success triples the normal recovery
rate for the day. A major Miraculous Recovery check might let Theresa:
avoid a miscarriage after a brutal beating; ignore the amount of time
that has past between an injury and medical treatment; or be revived
from should-be-fatal damage up to an hour after reaching 0 wound points.
 (She can attempt a magickal self-healing in this period, assuming she
has a minor charge and makes a successful Thanatomancy check).

**Paradigm: Addict (Self/Helplessness):** Theresa can rationalize a
wide range of behavior to herself, if the payoff is big enough.
However, the allure of the rush can seem like a compulsion instead of a
choice.

**Madness Meters**

**Violence:** 7 hard / 1 failed
.  **Unnatural:** 6 hard / 1 failed
.  **Helplessness:** 4 hard / 2 failed
.  **Isolation:** 1 hard / 0 failed
.  **Self:** 4 hard / 2 failed

**Note:** When Theresa reaches 9 hard Self notches, she will no
longer be able to gain Major charges from sacrificing her children. At
GM's discretion, Theresa may have a major charge in her, or possibly a
number of significant charges, and a hundreds of minor charges, though
she doesn't necessarily carry around all her fetishes.

**Possessions:** Theresa Kennedy wears tailored clothes and Allure Homme (by
 Chanel). She carries a platinum card, at least a solid grand in cash,
and a number of fetishes/ accessories (a couple of bracelets made from
tiny vertebrae, plus a number of feathered hats, broaches, and hair
ties). If she's expecting trouble, Mother Theresa wears a bullet proof
vest under loose, practical clothes, but keeps the perfume.

**Abominable Infants**

Although Theresa hasn't realized it yet, one of the stable unnatural
phenomenon produced by sacrificing her newborns to raise the dead has
been to create undead zombie babies (as Thanatomancy Spell *The Binding*, but with a 9 month delay).

The abomination tracks down and haunts whoever received its stolen
chance at life. At first it just wants to ask the target "Why?" but the
 worse the reaction it gets (and who reacts well to a soulless undead
baby dragging its umbilical cord into your life), the larger the grudge
it holds against the person living its rightful life. The first of the
infants, which has been shot and cremated so far, is now actively
working against its target's interests.

Unlike normal zombies, these undead babies cannot be permanently
destroyed until the target dies. If damaged, the baby will steal 1
wound point per month from the target of the spell until it has its full
 9 wound points back. If destroyed, they will reappear after 9 months.
 These abominations count as proxies for use in Tilt rituals, so it
might be safest to catch it in a jar and bury them somewhere safe.

**Abominable Infants (Minor)**

**Body:** 9 (8 Pounds and 6 Ounces of Horror)
**Speed:** 70 (Unholy Ball of Energy)
**Mind:** Varies (Same as Target)
**Soul:** 0 (Stolen by Target)

Abominable infants can manifest any one minor unnatural phenomenon to
manifest in their presence each day, and one significant unnatural
phenomenon each week.

**Copyright Menzoa, posted on the official UA website on July 18, 2002**