daimona_discordia

Name: 'Eris' Julia Iris Stockard

Age: 28

Gender: female

Type: Aspect

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:

Eris used to be a manipulative force to be reckoned with. She used to be a tyrant, a queen in the city, and there are still those who believe she's the big bad wolf in female form. She's gotten credit for taking down the O'Malley's, after they tried to take her out. The reputation of Eris is one that bears very little resemblance to who she is now.

Since her brain damage, her entire life has changed. Her world view cracked and altered. It had her feeling things she never did before. It sort of woke up her human side, altering her from a cold hearted bitch to someone a lot more vulnerable. That didn't so much help her situation as complicate it a whole lot. She feels things again, and deeply, and she doesn't have all that great a grasp on her emotions. She often tries to, but it doesn't always work--especially when it comes to Brett.

What's remained in her is a ruthlessness that she can tap into when she needs to. There's still something in her that can coldly do whatever she feels needs doing. And she isn't someone who can be run over. She can have an iron will when she wants to.

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.

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 the O’Malley family decided they wanted it all.

What was supposed to happen was she was supposed to be killed and dumped. What actually happened was she was almost killed, and Brett Trent, who was meant to dump her body, didn't. He caught that she wasn't actually dead yet, and didn't really want to add murder to his list of things he'd done that day. He brought her to a back alley doctor that was happy enough to be paid off for his silence--not that her time with him was all that pleasant. He had designs of taking his 'payment' out of her as well. Brett got called in fairly often to deal with her when she was 'irrational' due to the doc's unwanted advances.

At some point for unknown reasons, the doc went missing. To this day people still aren't sure what happened to him. Eris, however, went home with Brett, since he didn't know what else to do with her at that point. She lived with him for a while, a situation that was odd at best, tense at times, but eventually sort of settled into almost a workable deal. At least, it was working out alright until one night when some of Brett's 'coworkers' from the O'Malleys stopped in. They didn't discover the fact that he was harboring a woman they'd tried to have killed, but it was enough of a wake up call that Eris packed her bags and left while he was out.

From there she went to live above the One More Round, getting a job as a singer there under the stage name 'The Shrouded Angel'. Brett took three days to hunt her down, but he managed. After that, they've had a twisted path that rode the lines of adversaries to a strange sort of co-dependence neither one of them was all that comfortable with and yet couldn't actually get over. Eris found out that Brett wasn't quite what he seemed--he wasn't just a dumb heavy for the O'Malleys. He had been an undercover cop that got screwed over and then framed for the murder of his captain. He'd been stuck for years living a lie there, but unable to get out of it.
One thing Eris never forgot was the fact that Brett had saved her life. And as far as she was concerned, she owed him. She needed to return that favor, even if Brett vehemently spoke against that. For her, it became a bit of an obsession, something she couldn't let go. So, she found a way to clear his name. Unfortunately, it wasn't what Brett wanted, at the end of the day. What they wound up doing was using what they(Brett had a hell of a lot of dirt on them) had to take down the O'Malley family, and eventually the old corrupt city commissioner as well. They moved back in together, opened up an escort service. His role was to be 'bodyguard' while keeping up with all of the possible slips she may make due to her brain damage, hers was just to be Eris.

It might have worked, if Eris was ready to be Eris again. But the truth of the matter was, she didn't have real desires to return to the spotlight. Not after everything she'd been through, and mostly from the fact that since her brain damage, she'd had a pretty full personality shift. She didn't have the disposition required to keep up with it either. She didn't want to play the game. They drew back a little bit, trying to reassess what they were going to do in their future. (And possibly just really coming to terms with the idea that 'they' were actually going to have one)

Then, another storm hit. An old contact at the police department, who had helped them take down the commissioner and who had given them what they needed to clear Brett's name, was stepping up as the new commissioner. He called to get the files back. Eris, finding this fishy, looked through them again, and discovered something. She knew who had ruined Brett's life.
To say she didn't take it all that well would have been understating it. The second she put it together was the second she knew exactly what she was going to do. And regardless of the fact that she knew she would lose Brett out of the deal, she also knew she couldn't let it go. So she set it up. She met up with him, and she poisoned him, letting him know before the lights died in his eyes that he was going down for what he'd done to Brett years ago. A bit of vengeance served cold.

She left the apartment before Brett got home from a dinner date she'd set up for him, leaving to save him the trouble of throwing her out. She left him a note confessing everything, and then went back to the old apartment she'd grown up in. She's waiting for the police to show up. She's waiting for Brett to turn her in. In her opinion, she's at the end of the line, and this is it. Game over.

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. She's actively depressed at this point, having gone through so many ups and downs in a short span of time, finding something she truly wanted and losing it. Or, specifically, him. She's come to terms with the idea that she wanted more with him, that she didn't want to leave him and she misses him terribly, but she also did what she thought she had to do. But it's left her without a next step. She feels like she's at the end of the line, that she's entirely without a new plan. She's waiting for the police to show up and charge her for murder. She's waiting to be more than likely killed before she ever saw trial. She's waiting for the axe to fall. But she's also set herself on this path and won't turn off of it, so it's a highly depressive state of mind to be in.

Brett - As much as she’d hate to admit it, there’s extremely little that’s important to her, but he is. He became a focus for her when she was rebuilding her life, and while she never quite got the hang of that whole rebuilding thing, she did manage to find merit in him. In her mind, she even killed a man in vengeance for what was done to Brett. She’s lost without him, and not just because she can’t manage her medication correctly. He grounds her, and she truly appreciates him as a person. She likes being able to see the tattered remains of the Hero that lives beneath his skin. Ultimately, somewhere deep down she doesn’t believe she deserves him, which has unconsciously played into her lack of caution when it comes to doing things for him, and also her tendency to cut and run. Either way he’s a major manipulation point for her and no one can get under her skin like he can.

Cut And Run - Eris never was someone who turned her back on things before, but since the attempted murder she is. It comes from some underlying idea that she isn’t safe, ever. That really, no matter what she’s always vulnerable in some way. Part of that comes from the fact that she had a bodyguard who was never meant to let anyone get to her and he was up and missing the night she was ‘killed’. Beyond that, the entire ordeal she endured before the lights went out still deeply affect her even beyond the brain damage. There’s emotional scarring in Eris’ head that won’t quite heal, and the response to that is to get away from situations she feels unsafe in, even if she doesn’t realize that’s what the root cause is. It also applies to both feeling in physical danger and emotional.

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:

currently the apartment she grew up in located in the sprawl, though most of her possessions are at an upscale apartment uptown, though she hasn't been there since she left

Career:

ex-madame/owner of Babylon, she’s drifting at the moment, without a job, though technically she's still a business partner with Brett

PB: Rose McGowan

Other Information:

handwriting: pea carrie script