Sarsurcio

# Sarsucio

## Biography

Anastasia Helterfere was a private investigator. Sent one day by an anonymous letter to inquire into suspected experimentations at a mental hospital, she did just that. Pretending to be a new caseworker, she soon fell in love with one of the nurses she was friends with. The head doctor caught on to what she was doing there, and asked his girlfriend—the nurse she had developed a crush on—to pretend to love her back and set a trap. Luring her into a empty patient room under the guise of being alone, orderlies and the doctor immediately came in, injecting her with a sedative. She had an older sister and parents who would not talk to her because she came out to them as a lesbian during a time it was quite stigmatizing to do so.

Going into there, no one knew she was there. She was correct about the experimentation, turning the patients into half-bug, half-creature hybrids. Unfortunately for her, they kept her. They erased all record of her employment, forging documents with her signatures as a patient. They kept her correct name. They poked and prodded her. She begged she wouldn’t tell if they would just let her go. Then the day came when the doctor injected the corner of her right eye with one of his new serums: strain SARS-UR-cI0. It was meant to mutate her into someone with superhuman strength. Instead, it poisoned her. Blinded and killed immediately, she woke up on the cold, hard, stone floor, with the Warden standing over her. Forgetting her name, she goes off what she sees—the empty vile with the serum label. Sarsurcio…

At night, she would go ballistic, some demonic force taking over. Locked in a cell on a block alone, banging on the cell door lasts until sunrise. During the days, she would roam the site, exploring the space. The guards would keep her in line, handing  about beatings whenever they saw fit. They also used her as their plaything, with the Warden and her Sergeant in on it as well. Ironic, since they are both women who love women, something Sercio was demonized for in her lifetime. Except this time, she didn’t want it.

Days passed one after another in the hellscape, until one day, Death and the Morbid sisters came. A reaper named Death came to play poker with the warden, sergeant, and some guards. She drank herself into a stupor, forgetting to tell her two employees where to find her. The twins roamed the site, eventually running into Sercio. They find Death, and ask to take her with them. The Sergeant enters the cellblock in a jealous fit, shooting Sarsurcio in the heart. In a rage, one of the Morbid twins kills her, and they take Sercio with them after resurrecting her. She stays with them for months, going on adventures and missions in different realms. She even meets Simone, the member of a traveling circus troupe of the undead. They fall in love, cautiously, due to both their dark pasts. She finally seems to have a family, a purpose, a partner to care about her. That’s when the bounty hunters come looking for her.

Since she was killed twice and came back twice, she’s what they call a “halfling” in the underground. One wealthy man puts a bounty on her, wanting her as a servant. Halflings are considered rare, but often looked at as low-life creatures. She gets taken one night, dragged to a cave where the bounty hunters stay. The bounty hunters that are after her hunt anyone for a price, while some have some sort of moral background in which they won’t go for children or other souls who are particularly harmed. In order to “break her in,” Vanth, the body guard who captured her, ties her to a stone slab lying on her stomach, removed her top, and whips her with a cat’o’nine tails until Sercio passes out and she loses count. Eventually the twins find the cave and Robin Morbid takes Vanth out, while her sister Raven Carrie’s an unconscious Sercio to their home. The wounds fade and form scars on her back, adding to her belief she’s nothing but an ugly monster.

The bounty on her head still active, other hunters make passes to come for her, much to the annoyance of the Morbid sisters who were better off and less bothered when she wasn’t around. So when the night comes she’s wandering outside for a walk and gets stabbed in the chest by a hunter, they don’t come looking for her when she’s taken again. Simone wonders where her love has gone, but doesn’t have the resources to find her. Brought back to the hellscape she once resided in, the same doctors who ended her life heal her just enough so she can resume living there once more—but not before wiping her memory of every moment when she left with the twins. A hollow shell of who she was and with more scars she cannot recall getting, she resumes her habits at the prison she is kept in, no longer fighting back when attacked, or having any hope of being saved from that place.

That is, until Lady Death pays her a visit.