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Name: 'Eris' Julia Iris Stockard

Age: 28

Gender: female

Type: Aspects - Mythology

Appearance:

Eris has long dark brown hair that is naturally wavy. She's got big brown eyes, pale skin, and generally speaking, is a very striking woman. While before the events of the hostile takeover she would have worn anything that suited the occasion, nowadays she wears almost entirely black, and doesn't wear much jewelery anymore. She no longer dresses to attract attention in ways she once did, so most of the clothing in her possession is subdued compared to how she used to be. She also has a prominent scar around her neck from where she was choked in an attempt to murder her.

Personality:

How she used to be: A veritable chameleon, Eris could act the part of just about anything she wanted to. When she wasn't playing a role of some type, she was manipulative, but all encompassing. She was able to make you think she was your new best friend if at all possible, and be shocked at any implication that she'd done something shady behind your back. In fact, she'd go to lengths to make sure it looked like someone else did it. Eris was For Hire. For anything. She was an incredible actress. She'd had the morals of an asp, and could be just as cold blooded. Her specialty? Fucking with people. Turning people's lives on their ear, all for the right price. Recently? That bit her in the ass, and it bit hard. The mob families didn't like her wielding as much power as she did. They didn't like how she could play people, didn't like that they'd probably been played themselves. They didn't like how she had her own place, and was keeping it 'neutral ground'. It was the smaller family that got to her first, staging a hostile take over of her establishment, Babylon. She was meant to be killed and dumped in the river. That didn't quite happen.

Since Her 'Death': Eris is a shadow of who she used to be. She still has a lot of the same skills as she once did, but she no longer has the desire to play the game. She's a lot quieter than usual, withdraws within herself quite often, and tends towards being a loner--even while she has a fear of being alone. She's dealing with a ton of emotions that she never had to before, and with the braindamage she's sustained, she doesn't have the best control over them either. So they hit hard, and sometimes randomly, with little say in it from her. She tries to keep her vulnerability to herself, but does that best by complete avoidance of others.

Constants:

Eris - goddess of discord and strife
Constants: She inspires men to take action. It's not always good action, it goes with whatever their nature dictates, but it's definite action. Which means half the time it can incite chaos around her whether she's trying to stir it up herself or not. They want to be better, they want to get that one up, they want to take for themselves, etc. She inspires competition with it as well, sometimes with enough force that it becomes a consuming drive.

Eris has an absolutely terrible time letting things go. She can't. Things will eat at her, particularly any slights, or any actions taken against her. Any old grudges, they all needle at her, and even if it takes a long time? She'll exact revenge if she at all can--even if it puts her in a bad position to do it.

It's been described in mythology that there was actually two Eris'. While this isn't strictly true--she does have dual aspects that both play into her life and times. There's the most obvious, the negative side, where tension sings around her whether it's directly caused by her or not. Before the attempt on her life, it was a major part of everything about her and Babylon. Set up as neutral ground, crime families and other warring factions in the city would take their meetings there, where everything was wrought with disharmony and tension--it was just taken care of in a more productive fashion than drivebys and molotov cocktails through windows. The flip side? She took extremely good care of those in her employ. In fact, many who worked at Babylon would claim loyalty to Eris if they knew she still lived. She was a force of discord herself with her position in the city, and near everything that went with it. Now, her own life is in a shambles, and she's causing it on much more individual levels--whether she wants to or not.

~Eris~
In her place of origin, Eris is respected and feared. She inspires those around her, though it's chaotic how it comes about, what sorts of things she evokes in any given person. She doesn't have much in the way of control over that, but she does like to know that she's never not going to have some affect on anyone around her. She's awe-worthy to most, a goddess in her right, and people expect her to react accordingly as well. She is above most of the people around her, and is quite well aware of it. There's a jealous streak a mile wide, and while it's never easy to predict what she might object to, when she does it's immediate and generally nasty. She doesn't take well to any slights in her direction, but deals nicely when catered to. Flattery is something that works quite well. If she's taken an interest in one of the lowly mortals, her attention is focused and unpredictable.

City History:

Once upon a time, there was a girl who grew up on the streets of Eidolon City. She learned straight off the bat that everyone wanted something. Everyone. Absolutely. Fucking. Everyone. Which included her family. It was a broken sort of unit, she knows she probably has half siblings out there somewhere but doesn't necessarily know who they are. Some are dead. Both of her parents are by now, her mother knifed in a back alley 'on the way home from work' not that Eris ever bought that weak lie. She was working is what she'd been doing when she had her throat slit. Her father, who was into a whole lot of criminal activity of different sorts used her when he could. That was until she took him out. She waited until it made the most financial sense, and she did it quickly, cleanly, and quietly. With the money she ganked from that, and the money she'd been stockpiling she opened what would one day be her personal empire. Babylon.

She built it up slowly but on her own, (this was also when she started going by Eris properly, instead of her name. she'd been going by it for a long while, but it was official when she signed the papers for the building.), not taking in the elements she didn't want involved and standing on her own principals as she did it. Which caused a hell of a lot of ripples. People didn't necessarily like the way she did things--or, more correctly, the crime families didn't. Other people? They were just fine with it. Babylon became a safer place for those involved in the oldest profession to do their business. People started recognizing it for being a place that wasn't under mob control. It was a place were no bullshit was tolerated, and the only people who got slapped around were being paid for it and paid well--and it was consensual. The first and only time someone tried to get rough with one of Eris' girls in the early days of Babylon, she had the guy beat to hell, dragged outside, and she literally pinned his hand to the wall with a rather sizeable knife. Eris never drew attention where it was undue--but she also wasn't above making an example out of someone. She got a reputation for being no nonsense, but straight forward.

Like Eris incited the Trojan war, Our dear Julia incited a sharp rift in the balance between the crime families in the city. She had territory of her own that was considered neutral--a single establishment, Babylon. She built it up from the ground up, and specifically wanted it to be a place that was an Elysium from everything. Both families were welcome there, they even occasionally used it as a meeting ground. However, eventually that wasn't good enough, and due to her nature as an Aspect, the weaker crime family in the city meant to take it over. They set it up, and for the moment, it's worked. It no longer belongs to Eris, and she's been left in ruin herself in more ways than one.

What was supposed to happen was she was supposed to be killed and dumped. What actually happened was she was almost killed, and the man who was meant to dump her body didn't. He caught that she wasn't actually dead yet, and couldn't bring himself to drop her in the river where she'd surely drown and finish off that dying thing. He brought her to a doctor that was happy enough to be paid off for his silence. He helped take care of her as well, off and on. When the doc up and disappeared, there wasn't much else for her to do but go stay with Brett, which was an interesting situation, even if she she was aware he wasn't necessarily pleased with it. Recently, she took it upon herself to remedy the situation, for reasons of her own, and moved to a loft above One More Round.

Special Skills and Abilities:

acting, manipulation/psychology, decent shot, singing

Weaknesses:

Eris is one big ball of issues. So many are still popping up, still presenting themselves that she has trouble keeping up. One is that she used to be a cold blooded manipulative bitch--but whatever wires were fried in her head when she nearly died...it's changed her on a fundamental level. It gave her more of an awareness of emotion, at least her own. It's more that she's got them now and doesn't have any real idea how to deal with any of them. She just suddenly, randomly has to deal, and with her grip on everything loose and sloppy at best, that makes even some of the more simple relationships with people very difficult for her to deal with.

Due to what happened to her in her life, she's developed a pretty extreme paranoia. She'd never had it before, so it's new for her, and she hates it. She's not supposed to be worrying about everyone being after her, she's the one who's supposed to be the predator here. She built herself to be the predator. But then the fall came, and she found out there were bigger ones around yet. She flat out doesn't know when things turned. She doesn't know exactly where the spies were within her own house--she has to find that out for herself if she can. She doesn't know when it started or how it came to where it did. Basically? She didn't see it coming, and that's never going to stop bothering her. Changes have been made to Eris's entire outlook on life, and she still doesn't know where that leaves her. She was used to being on top of everything, and now she doesn't know if she is, and while she wants to be, she knows that her world has changed. She just isn't quite sure the full extent of that, so she's gotten a little more introspective than she ever had been in her life.

She's still working out who she's going to be now. Her sense of identity has completely crashed, so she doesn't have any kind of real idea who she is as a person anymore. Not really. She's floating, so far, pretty much only working on the continual knowledge that she isn't who she once was, and she would never fit back into the world she left(but she may want to or have to). It makes her doubt her motivations a lot, she has trust issues with herself, not just other people. She's starting to think of herself as someone new. That 'Eris' has died, but whoever the 'new' person is, she just doesn't know.

Brain Damage - Due to having been dead a short time after the attempted murder (it succeeded a little), Eris has some effects of brain damage that she's dealing with now. One of which is occasional migraines. They tend to hit her with little to no warning, and she hasn't figured out at all if there's any cause whatsoever, or if she's just going to be plagued with random debilitating headaches for the rest of her life. They have varying durations, which means she doesn't know how long she's going to be out of commission either. If one hits, often times she has to try and find a dark, quiet place immediately, and lie down until it's over. Painkillers do nothing for these.

Eris' emotions are out of whack as well. Where before she was always in tight control of them, she occasionally has times where she slips, and doesn't necessarily understand why. Sometimes, according to her, they're at least mildly inappropriate as well. This is something she's been worked on with, but no one's quite sure if it'll continue to happen or if she'll regain control at a later date. She just knows that now, during especially emotional times, she has a lot of trouble keeping hold of herself or keeping reactions in line.

Sometimes if there are a lot of distractions around her, Eris now has trouble concentrating. She never used to have issues, but now, for instance, if there's a radio on in the background and she can hear it, she will sometimes lose the thread of a conversation. Also, if there's something majorly distracting that happens quickly, it'll confuse her. It might take her a minute to put together what happened at all, or she'll entirely lose where she was/what she was doing.

Eris' memory is not what it used to be. Not in the slightest, really. Things before le death happened, she's got normal recall on. She's missing little bits, but not any huge amounts. Now though, she has problems with short term memory. It's not that she'll forget people or places, but she'll forget where things are. She'll forget to take her medication--or if she's taken it already. She'll forget how to get back and forth to the store. If she's trying to organize things, often times, she'll miss if she's already counted something, and she'll repeat it.

Eris has to take medication now for the rest of her life. She doesn't know what a lot of them are, and she needs to take them twice a day. With her memory issues, she has been known to short or over dose herself, by accident.

Eris isn't necessarily actively suicidal, but she might not put in that much effort to stop herself dying either.

Strengths:

Once she's decided something, Eris is very difficult to get to back down. And if she thinks it's important for whatever reason, then it might be impossible, even if it puts her in detrimental situations.

Family or Connections:

Brett Trent(the man who opted NOT to throw her mostly-dead self in the river), the man who killed her, the shady ass doctor man who went missing, the owner of the One More Round, her old bodyguard at Babylon, her second in command at Babylon

Residence:

lives in a loft above One More Round

Career:

ex-madame/owner of Babylon, current guest singer at One More Round, goes by 'the shadowed angel' and never has full light on her as she performs to conceal her identity

PB: Rose McGowan

Other Information:

handwriting: pea carrie script