Cressida Vespers

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## Career

### Occupation

Witch • career criminal

**Cressida Vespers** is a pagan witch who was born during the Festival of Litha at the peak of the midsummer solstice. Considering herself a bit of a loner, she lives far from any city or village in the darkest woods, usually keeping her face buried in a book containing various black magic incantations. She is a bookish and wise spellcaster who understands the deepest mechanisms of magic, particularly black magic.

As a very traditional pagan witch, Cressida is very wicked and dark, with a villainous and gothic aura to her. She possesses a love for all things creepy, dark, and gothic — tarantulas, black widow spiders, black cats, the poems of Edgar Allen Poe, as well as gothic rock and gothic metal bands (i.e. Motionless in White, Evanescence, Black Veil Brides, and Cradle of Filth). She also enjoys listening to other musical styles, including pagan metal, symphonic black metal, horror punk, pagan folk, pagan rock, occult rock, doom metal, dark pop, dark wave, and dark ambient. Furthermore, she also adores Halloween, true scary stories, creepypastas, and horror media (movies, stories, and novels).

She is not above working with other villainous persons such as Zvereva Alenka in return for monetary gain, simultaneously using her allies to help her work towards her own goals whether they are fully aware of it or not. Cressida is very cold and calculating, with a very creative, innovative, and poetic method to her madness. She is as equally lonely as she is intelligent, however.

## History

### Early life

As previously mentioned, Cressida Vespers, originally named Raluca Olaru, was born during the festival of Litha at the peak of the 1974 midsummer solstice (on June 21) to her pagan Wicca parents living in an uncharted mountain village somewhere in Transylvania, Romania. She was born to Wicca parents, who raised her from a young age to learn their tribe's traditions. By her early teenage years, her father had passed away, and she fell under the tutoring of her mother for the next four years until her mother also suddenly fell ill and passed on.

At the age of seventeen years, she declared her own independence from adults' authority and decided she was an adult as far as she was concerned. She packed up all of her household's important belongings, and, in the middle of the night, burned down her own house to fake her own death so that she could leave her village uninterrupted.

Miles from her birth village, Raluca built her own private shack and spent the next eleven years honing her black magical skills to become the most powerful witch ever born. Assuming a new name, Cressida Vespers, she became a thing of legend to the surrounding Transylvanian villagers due to her sheer power with black magic.

### Later life and meeting Zvereva

Growing tired of living her life as a loner, Cressida began her new life as a "witch for hire" in the mid-to-late 1990s, offering up her extensive powers and knowledge of black magic to anyone willing to pay. In this time, she earned anywhere between $2,600 to $500,000 per hiring to use her magical abilities for various tasks such as assassinations, grand theft, and other felonies.

Though she had already earned nearly $2.5 million from her life of hired crime, her biggest break came when Zvereva Alenka approached her in 2003 with a huge opportunity. She would assist the crime lord and millionaire with freeing Maggie, Poodles Galore, Russian Blue, William the Kid, and Napoleon LeRoach from their life SPY Jail sentences in return for a payment of $5 million split with a 50% down payment and the rest after if she is successful.

The prison break proved successful, and by herself, Cressida freed all five of the targets Zvereva requested she breaks out of SPY Jail. After receiving the $5 million payment, Cressida was told she was relieved of her duties, but the witch chose to become a permanent employee of Zvereva.

## Trivia

* She was born on June 21, 1974, during the festival of Litha set during the midsummer solstice.
* She is a pagan Transylvania witch who practices powerful black magic and hired hand for various criminals.
* She has been an open lesbian ever since the age of seventeen, after the sudden death of her mother, but she has yet to find somebody she is romantically interested in.