Jeanette Halmi

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Jeanette

### Jeanette Halmi: 1598 - 1607

Jeanette was born of a Hungarian father and a French mother. Noble, but poor. Her parents sent nine-year-old Jeanette to learn courtly manners at the gynaeceum at Castle Csejte from Countess Elizabeth Báthory.

### Jeanette Halmi: 1607 - 1610

As we know, Báthory practiced a dark ritual by bathing in treated blood and partaking in cannibalism. Báthory promised some of her servants in her court that she would share immortality with them if they helped her perform her depraved rituals and fulfill Báthory's sadistic pleasures.

Báthory took an eager interest in Jeanette from early on. She wanted to make Jeanette one of her immortal maids, but Jeanette refused. Báthory had her murder team force Jeanette to watch the killings and made Jeanette her bathmaid. Jeanette was her favorite. Báthory urged Jeanette to join her, or else she would make Jeanette one of her victims.

Jeanette replied: "But I am already your victim. Every day you keep me here, I die. I have died so much. I am not afraid.".

### Jeanette Halmi: 1610 - 1614

The crimes of the Countess became exposed. Báthory's assistants were executed, but Báthory and Jeanette were nobles. Báthory was sentenced to be locked in a room of her own castle. Báthory requested Jeanette serve her in captivity, thus keeping Jeanette as her prisoner.

Jeanette brought Báthory meals and began sprinkling glass dust in dishes she brought to Báthory at every meal. This took years to kill Báthory but perhaps that was Jeanette's intent.

On Báthory's deathbed, Jeanette said to her "You are now my victim, Countess. You died a little each day I fed you. How does it feel knowing your last victim has brought you to this end? Are you afraid?"

Elizabeth Báthory laughed at this, coughing up blood. When Jeanette asked what was so funny, Báthory replied "I knew you were my favorite".

Those last words would haunt Jeanette's nightmares.

### Jeanette Halmi: 1614 - 1625

Freed from Castle Csejte, Jeanette found a zeal for life. Every breath she took was a sweet gift. She tried to make the most of her life, but Báthory still haunted her, tainting her reputation. So Jeanette set out for France, but war swept over the land at the time. Fortune smiled on Jeanette by putting her in the path of an Amazonian warrior called Skandalon. The two became lovers on the road to Paris before Skandalon returned to war.

Jeanette married a wealthy man and enjoyed seven more years of life until Jeanette's husband caught Jeanette in bed with a servant girl. The husband claimed Jeanette was conspiring with that servant girl to murder him and take his wealth. Due to her past affiliation with Báthory, Jeanette did not stand a chance and was sentenced to death.

Jeanette had spent so much of her life a prisoner, she begged for death to be swift. She bribed the executioner with her mother's necklace to make it quick, but the man was drunk. He botched the first swing of his axe and when the crowd loved the spectacle, he made a show of it, much to Jeanette's suffering. As Jeanette cried for death, Death wept with her.

### Jeanette Halmi: 1625 - 1789

Jeanette had spent some months at Death's side as a companion spirit. Death used this time to try to coax Jeanette into accepting her death peacefully but when it was made clear that Jeanette could not do this, Death returned to France and brought Jeanette back from the dead in the middle of the same prison graveyard she had been buried.

After paying a visit to a certain nobleman, a lovely maid, and a drunken jailer, Jeanette sought to make a new life for herself (quite literally). Leaving the trappings of nobility and Paris behind, Jeanette lived among the humble folk, working as a barmaid before selling her talents at a local *maison de tolérance*. When she noticed people around her aging while she kept the appearance of eternal youth, Jeanette uprooted her life and established herself in another part of France. Before long, Jeanette was back in Paris as the madame of her own *maison de tolérance* and the wife of a Comte and owner of a casino. And before Jeanette knew it, she was among nobility once again and became an integral player in political games. Jeanette became the Maîtresse-en-Titre (Chief Mistress) of King Louis XV. She counted Marie Antoinette as a rival for a time, but according to Jeanette, even the Dauphine of France fell victim to her charm.

When Louis XV died, Jeanette decided to leave Paris. She spent some time at a convent in Luciennes but make no mistake - Jeanette was no nun. She still entertained many powerful people and held considerable power at court. But when she saw the French revolution begin, Jeanette took it as a time to change her scenery.

### Jeanette Halmi: 1789 - 1895

Jeanette first came to Ireland. She married a soldier, but would kill him as a mercy when he became deathly ill and was too proud to end his own life. When she threw him from the cliff into the sea, Jeanette broke down to tears and her cries of sorrow attracted the attention of banshees who mistook her for one of their own. The banshees and Jeanette became friends until Jeanette decided it was time for her to leave again.

Like many Irish, Jeanette traveled to the young nation of America. Jeanette originally founded a brothel in Boston but as puritanical forces opposed her, she continually moved west - often with the companionship of Scandal Savage who she had been reacquainted with in Boston.

When the Wild West became increasingly tame, Jeanette left America to take her ill-gotten riches and explore the world and its many pleasures.

### Jeanette Halmi: 1895 - 1987

Jeanette's movements are mostly unknown at this time. She pops up here and there, but even her stories suggest some 'artistic liberties'. One of her stories that seems to be genuine, is Jeanette's presence in Paris at the detonation of the intrinsic bomb. Jeanette claims to have seen the blast. Sensing the deaths of so many at once was overwhelming.

### The Last Victim: 1987 - Present

Until recently, Jeanette ran the Nocturne Casino in Las Vegas. She has since joined the Secret Six, both as a favor to Scandal and as a cure for her becoming increasingly bored of immortality.

### Supplemental Report

* (*Submitted by Four\_Eyes*) Jeanette likes to say she is a banshee. That is a lie. She is a *Vörðr* or a "Warder". Jeanette is aware of the distinction but the lie suits her needs. One of the starkest differences between Warder and Banshee is Jeanette's scream is psychic (not sonic) in nature and causes those who hear it to feel what she felt when she died. Also, Warders are huge sweet tooths.
* **Personal Accounting:** "*The executioner was drunk. I paid him to make it swift with the only jewelry I had left. My mother's necklace. His ax was... imprecise. The first blow cracked the bones in my shoulder. My white dress soaked red with my blood. With each missed killing stroke, the crowd cheered and laughed. For them it was good sport. For me it was pain and terror so deep that I lost everything I was. To kneel, bound at the hands, in my befouled undergarments, and know the butcher wasn't finished. There were three more misses. He stopped after the third blow, for a drink of water, and to pantomime his fatigue for the crowd. Swinging the axe was tiring, you see. That was his excuse. The child I was born, for all the things she had done... she left me as I waited to die. I begged for death to take me but Death was there, waited for me, just as horrified as I.*"
* (*Submitted by Four\_Eyes*) The Warders' purpose is to help Death balance the cosmic order of things. They are often left to pursue their own second chance at life, enjoying immortality until they get their fill, but are also expected to aid Death at her request or intervene when they see cruelty that disturbs the natural balance - but they are left to their own interpreters of this code.

### Key Affiliations

* **Secret Six:** Jeanette is a member of this elite group of mercenaries, having been recruited in 2015 and remaining with the team since that time.
* **Scandal Savage:** Jeanette is a former lover of Scandal, having an intimate relationship with the Amazon in 17th century France before Jeanette's mortal death.
* **Death:** As a Warder, Jeanette has been granted power and a renewed life as a supernatural being. Jeanette is mostly left to her own devices, but may be tasked with performing duties for the Endless at her request.
* **Deadshot:** Jeanette has a casual romantic relationship with this mercenary and assassin, particularly when Lawton is working with the Secret Six.
* **Black Alice:** Jeanette sees her as a surrogate little sister.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Warder Physiology:** A *Vörðr* is known by many names: *draugr, reaper, Harbingers of Death, and psychopomps*; but they refer to themselves as "Warders". A Warder is a revenant supernatural being endowed with power and new life by Death of the Endless. Usually they were once mortals whose life was so consumed by death, or their death was so tragic, that their spirit would likely not pass on to the afterlife peacefully. Sensing this, Death chooses to make these departed souls into her chosen sentinels. Death gives the Warder their power, but while most have some common abilities, other abilities seem to derive from the individuals' personality, life experience, age, mortal occupation, and the esoteric properties of their soul. As such, no two Warders have identical abilities.
	+ ***Accelerated, Regenerative Healing:*** Warders are neither living nor dead, but their corporeal form heals from damage at incredible rates - often wounds heal before your eyes. Missing limbs recover in days.
	+ ***Enhanced Resilience:*** Warders can take a lot of damage before becoming impaired. Bullets usually mean little to them, more than an annoyance.
	+ ***Enhanced Strength:*** Warders usually possess immense strength. This particular Warder is estimated to have Class II Enhanced Strength.
	+ ***Immortality:*** Warders are immune to aging and the ravages of time.
	+ ***Sensitivity to Death:*** Warders can sense areas stained with death.
	+ ***Supernatural Senses:*** Warders can interact with ghosts.
	+ ***Warder Form Transformation:*** Most Warders can transform into a form that reveals their supernatural nature. Usually they appear with pale white skin and essence clouds drifting off their quasi-incorporeal state.
		- ***Flight:*** In this transformed state, Jeanette can defy gravity. She usually travels around 40 to 50 MPH, but can reach speeds faster than sound.
		- ***Limited Intangibility:*** In this quasi-incorporeal state, Jeanette's form is in constant flux. With practice, she can assert which form she wants to take in any given moment as fits her needs, but she cannot remain in one state too long without causing her great discomfort.
		- ***Sympathetic Psychic Death Wail:*** Jeanette lived with banshees in Ireland for a time and developed this technique based on the banshees' own cry. Jeanette's scream is uncomfortable to hear, causing damage to the ears of those too close. However, its true damage is subjected psychically as those whose will is weaker than Jeanette's are forced to relive Jeanette's final moments of her mortal life.
* **Master Martial Artist:** Jeanette is a student of martial arts, building her own style based on the lessons she has been taught by her many friends and acquaintances.
* **Master Seductress & Larcenist:** Jeanette is a very attractive immortal pleasure-seeker who is more than comfortable using sex of all manner (except bondage) to her advantage.

### Weaknesses

* **Electromagnetic & Magical Interference:** Certain types of electromagnetic or magical interference can impair or propel Warders.
* **Insatiable Sweet Tooth:** All warders are known to have insatiable sweet tooths.
* **Use of 'Death Wail' Weakens Her:** In Jeanette's case, her prolonged use of her 'Death Wail' can weaken her.
* **Confinement:** Jeanette is prone to panic attacks whenever confined or imprisoned.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 5 - Master / Remarkable
* **Occult:** 5 - Master / Remarkable
* **Weaponry:** 4 - Expert / Enhanced
* **Expertise:** 4 - Expert / Enhanced
* **Range:** 4 - Expert / Enhanced
* **Strategy:** 4 - Expert / Enhanced
	+ **TOTAL:** 70
	+ **RANKING:** Moderate Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Notes

* Her incognito portrait is based on her appearance in *Secret Six, Vol. 3*.
* Her birth date is a nod to her first appearance: *Secret Six, Vol. 3 #3* in January, 2009.
* In the comics she is an actual banshee.
* Her running a casino is a nod to *Secret Six, Vol. 3*.

## Gallery

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## Network Files

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## Links and References

* Appearances of Jeanette Halmi

1. ↑ Network Files: Jeanette Halmi 1
2. ↑ Network Files: Jeanette Halmi 2