Abree Van Helsing || Romanian Vampire/Hunter (WIP)

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✧Driven
✧Strong willed
✧Intellectual

Negatives (At Least 3):

✦Vengeful
✦Regretful
✦Tired


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Parents: Tobias and Sorine Van Helsing (Both Deceased)
Siblings: N/A
Other Family: Abraham Van Helsing (Son, Deceased), Coraline Van Helsing (Daughter, Deceased)
Important Others: Jezebel Paulson (Ex-Lover, Deceased), Gordon Oliver (Ex-Lover, Sireling, Unknown), Zach Moore (Sireling, Unknown), Carey Thompson (Assistant)
History:

The skewing of Dr. Van Helsing's tale has gotten worse and worse over the years since it was first told - to begin with, it was a woman - not a man who held the title of the legendary vampire hunter. And to add on to that; they weren't even truly a doctor, women were unable to hold such titles in her time... That's not to say that Helsing wasn't a medical genius for her time, however. Raised by a pair of hunters, one of them being a classic medicine man, Abree was trained to fight the threats that targeted mortals the moment she could walk and comprehend what she was doing. Her life was invariably harsh from the get-go - firmly saying that her first kill was when she was five years old and put an arrow through the head of a Skinwalker, before they had even changed.

From there, she showed great promise both physically and mentally for the era she lived in. She sought out all she could learn and applied it to her life whilst she traveled Europe; saving people, hunting things. She did this for a few years until she met a man named Henry and made an attempt to settle down - she had two children with him before he passed away, and it fell upon Abree to teach her children how to survive the harsh world in which they lived. With Coraline and Abraham at her side, Abree took up hunting once more, until Abraham came of age, of course, and Coraline found love from a man and settled in Asia. With her children out in the world, Abree attempted once more to settle down. Life, however, had other plans

Tales began to come from Western Europe about vampires who were drawing in quite a bit of power. Reluctantly, Abree prepared to travel to Romania in order to help Abraham and other hunters handle the situation - only to arrive to find Abraham had died at the hands of one of the creature. Full of rage, she began hunting for the one that had done it to him, trailing leads all over Europe, Asia, the Philipines - anywhere she could reach where vampires were present, one was sure to hear tales of the vampire slayer who rolled into town and decimated them all, and the name "Van Helsing" became one to be feared in the supernatural world.

Finally she traced Abraham's killer back to Romania, to a man known as Dracula. She had to fight through many Romanian Vampires to reach him, but he eventually ended up in a confrontation with the Alpha after over two years of fighting that inevitably ended wit Dracula turning Abree, and then sealing her within the walls of his castle to mummify. She didn't stay there, however. Roughly a century after Dracula himself had met the same fate as her, Helsing was exhumed by a Witch named Jezebel. Scared and confused by waking up hundreds of years later in the state she was in, she spent years living with Jezebel in a remote area until she effectively had a grasp on her self control and her abilities. This time spent with Jezebel, despite originally traumatic, proved to be therapeutic for Abree's condition, living with the witch in a mountain pass for a long time. They eventually formed a relationship and feelings for one another - but those were quickly doused when Abree learned that the entire time, Jezebel herself had been using Abree so she could have access to the vampires blood for powerful black magic spells. Though Jezebel admitted having true feelings for Abree, the vampire wouldn't have it and tried to leave - only for an argument to spark that led to Abree throwing Jezebel against a wall and knocking a torch loose, which fell and shattered a oil lantern and sparked a large fire.

Abree tried to save Jezebel, but could not. Even after the flames died down hours later... the body she found was barely recognizable as the person she'd been with. Charred from an explosion caused by the fire finding her potion cabinet.

The vampire hunter began to explore the world again. She searched for Dracula at first, but the search became fruitless fast when his trail went old following a trip to France. So, instead she turned her focus to other areas - namely, curing her unwanted condition. She began hunting again, examining the anatomy of many different creatures after she killed them - other vampires species in particular. She dissected them, examined how their bodies and abilities functioned. She stopped her experimentation when the first World War rolled around, and when that happened - Abree quickly threw herself into assisting to war effort. At the very least she could use her extensive knowledge to help people, and she would have plenty of access to blood, and it would let her interact with the human race again - because she'd been lacking in that for a very, very long time.

She was put into a British hospice as a Nurse, where she would tend to wounded soldiers. This is where she met Gordon Oliver, a British soldier who had lost his sight to an explosion. He was a married man, but he was a charming flirt, cutting through Abree's walled-off personality and rusty social skills like a hot knife to butter, and before she knew it she and Gordon were having a quiet... moderately taboo relationship, all things considered. She couldn't help herself, Gordon understood her better than anyone she'd met in centuries - and he was honest, unlike Jezebel.

Gordon was in processing to be shipped out of the hospice when it was suddenly attacked by enemy troops. Seeing her co-workers, patients and friends dying... Abree couldn't sit idly by and she entered a rage unlike any other she'd felt before, putting the full extent of her powers to use as she ripped through a platoon of troops that had no idea what hit them. Her rage was only quelled when, during the fighting, a bullet tore through Gordon's neck. He was dying.

Desperate to save him, Abree grabbed him and fled the scene at high speed, stopping in a bunker just in time for fighting to start on the surface. With explosions going off and people dying above them, Abree reluctantly turned Gordon into a Romanian Vampire. They didn't leave until the fighting stopped, and when it ended - Gordon knew he couldn't return to the world of humans for a time. Abree took him and traveled south to Australia, where they lived in a remote shack while Abree helped him cope. As time passed, Gordon began to resent Abree for turning him, but he didn't want to, once he had enough of a grasp on himself where he admitted to Abree that he simply couldn't be with her any longer and left her with a parting kiss.

The vampire hunters went back to what she did best following Gordon's departure; hunting. She endeavored to find some kind of cure once more - one she could use, and then find Gordon again and cure him of the curse she'd so selfishly passed on to him. Doing her best to not interact with other supernatural creatures or hunters, Abree traveled the world again and, once more, began examining the other types of vampire that filled the various areas of the world. She would hunt them, capture them and then dissect them - it was through this she saw the variety of connections that laid between each vampire subspecies and what exactly defined being a "Vampire" was despite their drastic differences in subspecies. With this knowledge, she began tinkering with the idea of a cure for her particular bloodline of Vampires - useful mainly to her, as no other Romanian Vampires, barring Gordon, had been seen since a great purge had been conducted of the race between her and various other parties who clearly wished to wipe them off the face of the Earth.

Time kept moving on, and before Abree knew it - it was the 1990's. She ended up befriending a hunter named Zach Moore, who sought out Abree for her knowledge for a case related to an Aztec Vampire. She worked with Zach for about a week before the Aztec Vampire in question attacked Abree's home in it's lizard form. Abree was forced to reveal her true nature to rip the Aztec apart, but her now-friend was injured in the conflict. She gave him a choice when she saw the severity of Zach's wounds - she could turn him, or he would die - there was no in between.




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