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Name: Justine Ilisa Baptiste

Race: Vampire

Gender: Female

Age: 492

Date of Birth: October 24, 1516

Physical Description:
-Height: 5’5”
- Hair: Dark brown, nearly black under certain lighting. Cut in sleek layers to enhance high-set cheekbones and delicate features.
- Eyes: Dark whiskey brown
- Build: Leanly muscled – slender, but with enough to curves to be utterly feminine.
- Style: Expensive – Clean & Classic

Distinguishing Marks:
- Scarring: None
- Tattoos: Colorful lotus blossom on the center of her back, butterfly/flower arm band around bicep, one single black star near each inner elbow, butterfly on top of foot, dragon tattoo across the small of her back.

Personality: Justine’s family is her life. The eldest, beside Julien, she saw it as her responsibility to care for her siblings when their parents were no longer able. She is compassionate and caring, with a warmth that can put at ease the coldest of hearts. In spite of her upbringing and her turning, she maintains a realistically optimistic attitude towards life. She understands the gravity of every situation, but strives to see the good in it, the good in people.

Naïve, however, she is not. When spurned, Justine can turn her anger on those that have hurt her or, heaven forbid, her family. Hurt her and you may incur anger, hurt her family and you will see a wrath that seems completely at odd with such a calm, intelligent (seemingly) young woman. Well read and even better educated, Justine’s guidance can be indispensable at times. And though she doesn’t wish to go to war with the humans, or with anyone else unless absolutely no other option arises, she does harbor an iota of hatred for the race….for what they did to Julien. She works daily to squelch this anger, to main her calm and controlled façade for her siblings. To this day she feels responsibility for them, for their well being and puts them first in all aspects of her life.

Personal History: As life did with all the Baptiste children, Justine’s began in an idyllic fashion. She was the second child born to two loving, dedicated parents. She adored her elder brother Julien, worshipped him as younger sisters do for many years. When the rest of her siblings began to arrive she took to them with the same careful adoration that is so common in an elder sister. And when things went to hell, she stepped up to take them under her wing.

The night everything changed in the Baptiste household began like any other. All the children had been home when their father had arrived, raving like a madman. The secret their mother had hoped to take to her grave had been exposed: Juliette and Dimitri were illegitimate. The revelation had undone their father; the man that had been so caring, so loving as he raised them had suddenly become lit with rage. It made no difference to Justine, not an iota…they were still just as much her siblings as they had been the day before. However, not everyone in the house felt the same way.

When her father tossed the twins into the basement, Justine had protested. It was too dark, there was no water, no food, they were just children! But her father would hear none of it – he silenced her with a swift backhand and warned them all to keep their protests to themselves. Unable to help Dimitri and Juliette, she turned her attention to Chloe, to the baby of the family who was probably the most frightened of all. Julien didn’t need her mothering, though it was too natural for her to reign in. And so she kept Chloe close as their world unraveled, kept the young girl as distracted as she could while they waited to see what fresh hell their father would inflict upon them next.

Justine was asleep the night the basement door opened and their stark raving mad father journeyed down into the dark. Though Chloe had fallen asleep beside her, she was alone when she woke to screams from the basement. On her feet in an instant, Justine raced downstairs, beautiful features twisted in concern at what she saw…Chloe crumpled in a heap on the basement flood and Dimitri, bloodied and battered, unleashing his rage upon their father. She tried to stop him, to pull him back, fearful that whatever the outcome of his anger would be one he couldn’t recover from. But he was physically to strong, too driven by hate to be tethered and so she gathered Chloe against her until there was nothing but silence. Their father lay dead on the floor and though Justine felt her heart ache for the man she remembered, she knew he’d died long before Dimitri had ever touched him.

Her focus then became her siblings. As Julien sought out Dimitri and Juliette's birth father, Justine stepped up as their own mother seemed to falter in her duties. She transitioned easily from older sister to mother figure, showering her siblings with more love and compassion than they could have asked for. Chloe seemed especially close to her, the two forging a strong bond that seemed unbreakable.

The new additions to their family seemed to set Justine on edge. Like a mother wolf with raised hackles and bared teeth, she didn’t trust them. She didn’t care for this new woman who wanted to take her place and the two clashed from the start. Knowing that her behavior wasn’t making things any easier, she bit back her anger, drew into herself and let Dimitri lead the family as he saw necessary. She trusted his judgment even if the two didn't always agree. Her siblings wanted a real mother figure and so she let them have it, no matter how much it stung to watch them fall under the sway of these new ‘parents.’ And just when she was sure things were at their worst, Julien fell ill.

When their new ‘mother’ revealed her true reviling colors, Justine was infuriated. How dare she use their family in such a way….feeding her sick, twisted desires with them?! She watched as each of them struggled against these dark new forces in their lives - saw Juliette fight hardest and supported her in that endeavor even as it failed and dragged them both down with their siblings. The obsession their new ‘mother’ seemed to have with Dimitri didn’t sit well with Justine, either. She fumed silently, prideful enough to admit that this affection so easily transferred had wounded her. Justine took time away from the family – to do what no one knows. She would leave late at night and return early in the morning, speaking little of what she’d done or where she’d been, sinking further and further into guilt at her failure to protect her siblings from these latest predators; these vultures that had gifted them an eternity against their wills. But Justine's life didn't pause as she stepped aside during such trying times - if anything, it started anew. There was love to be had for the eldest Baptiste, the first truly passionate affair in her life. Things seemed more perfect than she could have ever imagined; it wasn't until her fiancee vanished the night of her wedding, left her no explanation, no note, nothing, that she realized her luck had not changed after all.

Slowly it became clear that there was something off about Dimitri’s lover and everyone in the family seemed to sense it. When he discovered her affair, even Justine’s indignation couldn’t keep her from tending to her little brother’s broken heart. Feeling their need for her once more, she stepped up to play mother to them. Her bond with Chloe seemed renewed and she felt closer to each of them as they set off, criss-crossing the globe together, putting more and more distance between themselves and Dimitri’s betrayer.

Eventually it seemed the siblings were content to find their own individual places in the world. Distance alone would never wound their bond and each seemed to have their own desires to fulfill...and now all the time in the world to do so. Julien was the first who spoke of settling - picking Seattle as the place to begin his new life. He was happy, in love and often told Justine of how he wanted nothing more than to have some peace for awhile, some normalcy. He purchased an old apartment building, used some of the family's funds to refurbish the place and open it to human and supernatural alike. Justine had been abroad, living in Provence for the time, enjoying the country of her birth and the rare freedom that came from the time the siblings spent to themselves. But, as always, the need for family, its familiar draw tugged once more at her heartstrings and she finally took Julien up on his offer to call Seattle home.

Julien, for all his passions, wanted nothing more from life than his chance to be happy. It seemed that fate, as it so often did with the Baptistes, interfered with plans of its own. Before the plane carrying his sister ever landed, the eldest Baptiste was dead. Like Dimitri, Justine shouldered her share of guilt for having been so far off when her own blood had needed help. Determined not to let it happen again, she sent for Chloe to come and join her, sent word to her remaining family to draw the circle tight once more.

Julien's death as touted as an accident and no one seemed to know anything more than that. Quickly, the eldest remaining Baptiste became more preoccupied with seeing to her surviving family, content to let her desire for vengeance cool for the time being. Before it had the chance to spark again, Dimitri's anger took over and he left suddenly, ignoring the protests of his sisters. In his absence Justine drew the family circle tighter, kept a close watch over both Chloe and Juliette. Dimitri returned as mysteriously as he'd vanished and clearly something significant had occurred while he was gone. Perhaps more telling than the time he needed to heal from whatever had taken place was the much unwanted presence of the family's sire once again at their brother's side. Ophelia, it seemed, would not be turned away this time.

Justine was understandably angry at her brother for his brash actions, but was unwilling to dump such emotions on him during this trying time; instead she tends as best she can to the family that remains and to herself. When there is time, she will mourn Julien in the manner in which he deserves - but for now her focus must be on life, not loss.

To distract herself, Justine purchased a building downtown, funding a plush renovation of the space and working it into a luxurious wine bar and art gallery. Called 'Chroma', it is frequented by all beings, but especially by her fellow vampires. Of course like many things in Seattle, Chroma is much more than it appears - from within its walls (and namely the basement beneath it), Justine oversees a lucrative ring of forgery artists, a talented crew who see to it that the supernatural population of the city has proper documentation to keep unwanted attention from them.

Residence: Old Town Towers - Management Condo

Birth Location: Angers, France

Blood Family:
Older Brother: Julien Baptiste [deceased]
Younger sisters: Juliette and Chloe Baptiste.
Younger brother: Dimitri Baptiste

Race Weaknesses: Holy, fire, sunlight, decapitation, heart trauma.

Personal Weaknesses: Her family, a little too much compassion at times, guilt over the trauma of her siblings’ youth, Mikkos - her one-time fiancee.

Magical Abilities: Much of Justine’s compassion may stem from the fact that she can heal simply by using the sound of her voice alone. Whether she’s singing, speaking normally or whispering – none of that matters if she’s concentrating on the wounded person she’s focused on. This ability to repair rather than destroy often gives her a different point of view from that of her other siblings.

Race Skills (senses, enhanced speed, ect.): Heightened strength, healing, speed and senses.

Personal Skills and Training: Art history, literature, a few foreign languages. Justine is very much the intellectual. She has also worked with firearms to a proficient degree and certain forms of hand to hand combat so that she can adequately protect her siblings, should the need ever arise again.

Job if Applicable: Owner of the popular wine bar/art gallery, Chroma.
(Chroma also serves as a place for Seattle's supernatural community to procure fake documentation/IDs.)

Characters Greatestjournal Name: savageallure

PB: Lena Headey

Your Name: Erica

Your Email: crowchick [at] gmail [dot] com

Your Messengers:
- AIM: almightyarse
- Yahoo: almighty_arse

PLOT TIES

- Worker Bees: Employees at Chroma, the vamp-friendly wine bar and art gallery in downtown Seattle that Justine owns and operates. Where their loyalty lies is up to you.
PB: Up to you!

- Lending a Shoulder: Someone outside of the Baptiste family whom Justine trusts immensely. This is someone who would never betray her - or if they did, she would never see it coming - and whom she would never betray.
PB: Up to you!

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