Gianna

> "I've been looking after a comatose alpha for six months, cut me some slack!"
>
> Gianna to  Conri

* Human
* Wolf Form

**Gianna** is an Immortal Werewolf, and is certified in midwifery. She was born in 1849, in Kentucky as the daughter of a slave and her owner, the latter of whom, was the carrier of her werewolf gene, passing it onto her, which she didn't activate until after she was freed from her master, and moved to Vermont, where she was found and turned by Conri Tlanta in the summer of 1881. In the years following her transformation, Gianna went into nursing and during the World Wars, she participated in the nurse programs for woman healing hurt soldiers, using her healing blood to make them better, before taking care of Conri's pack for the rest of the wars. She was turned at 32.

**Gianna** is a member of the **Barnes Family**, her slave mother's unknown family, and a member of **Conri's Bloodline**. She is also a member of the **Hale Pack**, who does not live at the pack house.

## History

Gianna was born into a slave family in 1849. Her mother was a slave on a Kentucky plantation, and was not given a name by her previous owner, before she was sold to the man that would become Gianna's father. She was favored by her owner for two years, during which time she got pregnant with Gianna, and since her owner was not married, he took care of her when she was pregnant, and made sure she had a healthy birth, before sending her back to the other slaves, and later found a wife. Gianna had two half-siblings by the time she was ten years old, and her owner allowed her to be named when she was eleven.

Growing older, Gianna worked in clothes making and with women in her owner's house after he married and had children, who shared some of her characteristics, like her nose and body shape, and she was allowed to learn to read, but not write, as she was only slightly lighter than the other slaves' skin tone, due to her owner's Caucasian genes dominating her slave mother's African American ones. Gianna was freed from her owner when she was 16, in 1865, when slavery was abolished permanently in the United States, and fled to Vermont, where her mother and one of her friends she grew up with on the plantation went with her.

In the years that followed, Gianna went to college and learned how to read and write, and got into nursing. When she was traveling to New York, to pursue her nursing degree, she was ambushed by a man in 1879, who tried to kill her because she was black, intending to rape her first. Gianna's werewolf instincts saved her, but she ended up killing her assailant and for the next three years, was forced to turn on the full moon, but wanted to figure out why she was like that. She found her answer in her own scent, and realized that her owner had saddled her with the genetic torture, and vowed to take revenge on him and his entire family for it.

Every full moon, Gianna would transform and travel to one member of her owner's family and kill only one person, narrowing down the family tree, until in 1881, only her former owner and his immediate family were left. This was also the year that Gianna was turned immortal, and contracted scarlet fever, having early symptoms while meeting Conri Tlanta at a train station. He would turn out to be her sire, and gave her a vial of his own blood, smelling the werewolf on her and compelling her to only drink the blood when she was on the verge of death, and they parted ways. Gianna took the train to her home in Vermont, but on the way home, she was attacked by a demon, and managed to drink the blood before the demon overpowered her and slit her throat, starting the transformation.

After waking up immortal, Gianna had her new reality explained to her by Conri, and took one last act of revenge on her owner's family after learning control over her instincts, and killed him in broad daylight. That was her last serious kill, and she later finished her nursing degree in New York, and lived with Conri in his mansion until she graduated and went to take care of her mother until she died in 1904, when Gianna took control of her owner's family fortune, and took his last name, Barnes.

During both World Wars, Gianna was a nurse to humans, and a caretaker of Conri's home for the supernatural creatures staying there. She healed many humans with her blood, but since she was not her sire, and could not turn humans, if they died, it was permanent, but at least she could heal them the best she could. After the wars, Gianna spent many years enjoying herself, and did moderate service under different names in Vietnam, before taking up midwifery in Long Island, and ended up being Conri's birthing partner for his son. In the present day, Gianna is a healer and traveling midwife, who constantly checks in on her allies, including Conri's mother, and her hunters.