Lara Taveres

Lara Tavares is main character is season 1 of the Curse of Europe series. She is introduced as an antagonist in the first episode until close to the end of Season one when she is captured and temporarily brain washed and sides with Abraham and his friends.

### **Early life**

Lara is a 20 year old Hunter from Lisbon. Lara's father was a miner who worked in the desert, while her mother worked in the tourism industry. Her father was killed in a cave in cause by two Kemiya's that were fighting in the area. When she found it out developed a great hatred for Kemiyas. She often spoke out against them, something that often got her into trouble. When she was 14, she ran away from home and arrived in the Southern City state of Valmala. She asked around for someone to train her but she was captured and almost placed into forced prostitution, but was saved by a man who in fact turned her down earlier. She changed his mind, seeing her guts. He trained her in martial arts, hunting, tracking and firearms. He trained her for 4 years before she was free with a power suppressing amulet. She travelled from City to city, discovering her most deadly weapon, was her beauty. She quickly gained a reputation as the Huntress, with confirmed kills as far north as Moscow

### **Personality**

Lara is a determined young lady. She has a deep seated hatred for Kemiyas and does not distinguish between good or bad ones. They are all the same to her. She is kind and compassionate to Kemiya victims mainly but is not entirely heartless to others. She almsot treats those who help her as mere tools, only focusing on the task at hand. She is an expert in many weapons, mainly guns but also melee weapons, even a sword. She is also highly intelligent as shown when she correctly deduces that Abrhaham would go to the Train station in the first episode, or when she hacks hotel records to find bookings of 4 people in Lessia when looking for Abraham and his friends. She even forges a temporary alliance with Michael Eichenberg to find Abraham, showing her resourcefulness but never forgets that he is a Kemiya, even reminding Fabian of that fact. Lara has even shown herself to be a skilled seductress when she almost seduces Abraham, but considering Abraham was seduced two further times later in the series. Lara however is not stupid and knows when she is beaten, such as then the train from Paris is hijacked, or when she's captured by Abraham and the others.

### **Powers and Abilities**

**Destruction:** Lara has the ability to stop at the second of the alchemic process and only destroy the molecular bonds that hold matter together. She can even separate hydrogen and oxygen from water. But she cannot destroy matter itself

**Peak Human Abilities**: Lara has been trained extensively and has peak human, reflexes, speed, agility and incredibly strong will

**Peak Martial arts**: Lara is taught how to hunt supernatural beings. She has been taught advanced hand to hand, how to move when in danger and how to be smart when facing a stronger opponent

**Perceptive Combatants:** Lara does not often charge into a fight half cocked. She has been known to lure targets into traps and fight on their terms, and not their opponents. Even in the midst of battle She is constantly thinking and planning

####  **Equipment**

**Weapons/Ammo**: Most hunters will choose a particular weapon and stick with it. Lara mainly uses guns and long range weapons loaded with caster shells, projectiles immune from magic and can break through alchemical forged metal barriers but not personal pieces. She is capable of using a sword

**Suppressing Amulet**: Lara carries a special amulet that renders magic users near powerless when nearby. This amulet works on Kemiya’s and Witches. Kemiya's will still be able to transmute, but these reactions occur much slower and are not immune to being broken, no matter how much control a Kemiya has. The amulet she carries glows when a magic user is nearby if a hunter cannot spot them. The Amulet can render a Hunter undetectable by a witches locator's spell, undetectable to a Kemiya’s sensing power and even immune to a Vampire’s persuasion (Due to the infusion of Verbena within the amulet)

#### **Weaknesses**

**Mortality**: Lara may have a vast array of weapons and equipment, but she is still mortal and can be injured and even killed by conventional weaponry, melee or long range

**Damaged Hands**: Like Kemiya's, Lara has a destruction Array painted on the palm of one hand. If this circle is damaged or broken, it renders her destruction ability useless

**Distance:** Lara's Amulet only works within a short range (50ft) If a Witch or Kemiya is outside of that range, they will have full access to their spiritual power and can kill Lara from a distance, but this can be a hunters advantage as well