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Needle Lore
🕑 Added 2023-10-31 19:40:33 +0000 UTCI had wanted to do a more thematic picture for halloween this year, but I just didn't manage to make time u_u
But I am at least delivering on my promise of more Needle. Honestly I had a bunch of things I wanted to add to this but It was also just taking too long, so I'll leave some of it to text...
---- Lore ----
Artificial Vampire: Needle
Age: 21
Age of death: 17
Height: 156 cm
Weight: 70 kg (She has a decent amount of brass in her body)
Needle comes from an alternate earth setting similar to modern life that we know on the surface, but with shadows thick with supernatural horror just below. One such horror is vampires, of which several kinds and cultures exist, but most major governments co-operate with the largest most organized group of them - Afterlight Agency, which has grown to be more of a sort of government than a unified origanization. Agency vampires negotiate the protection of humans from other supernatural entities in return for feeding rights, information control, legal protections, whatever else they can squeaze from their hosts.
Naturally this is a carefully kept secret, and for the most part genuinely beneficial to humans on a population level, if not on an individual one. Still there are those who resent Afterlight and its 'people' convinced that this is nothing more than a large scale protection racket (okay it sort of is) and bristle at the idea of keeping the masses ignorant sheep, sheparded by those who consume them for sustenance.
Needle is the product of one such group -The Steel Masons, an extremist secret society that seek to secure occult power for the benefit of man, and to expose vampires for the parasites that they are.
Needle was created by Dr. Tilly Hornwood, by gradually saturating the flesh of a living human with specially treated vampire blood and various surgical interventions. Dr. Hornwood hoped to instill vampiric power into a living human and do away with their less desirible traits. In this regard Needle is a failure, for while she technically never died during the long and painful process she is certainly not alive now (not conventionally anyway) She does possess some of the common advantages of the undead - regeneration, strength, speed but to a lesser degree than even a young vampire, and still has most of the typical weaknesses flaws one might expect of their kind.
Needle's most unique trait is that anything in which a sufficient portion of her cursed blood flows acts as a part of her body, and she can feel, perceive and control it as if it were a natural extension of herself (After some adjustment). The effect attenuates rapidly if the blood does not make a round trip to her heart, but still last a few minutes in ideal cases. Anything affected by this also enjoys the benefits of her vampiric powers allowing her to integrate with all sorts of attachments - like her injector tail - or various weapons and devices devised by the Steel Masons. Her blood is most effective on dead flesh, including that of vampires, and brass.
I'll leave this here for now since my self-consciousness is getting unbearable and I'm sure I've already made 10000 typos u_u
Some other small facts:
- Needle still needs to drink blood, and will frenzy if she gets too hungry, but she does not feel the Thirst as other vampires do, so she must rely on her wrist gauge and act appopriately when it gets low.
- Most kinds of vampires have wings in this setting, though they can shapeshift them to black cloth that must maintain contact with the body (Hence why vampires are often depicted with capes and cloaks) Needle can do the same, with difficulty. Her Temporal wings suggest the blood used to create her came from a chiropteran knight - a subspecies of vampire who also have that feature, and and exhibit particular affinity for blood magic. Her wings can grow larger to support gliding, but not real flight.
- Her tail is for injecting her blood, not extracting that of others. This can be used to briefly control or confound an enemy, or share her regenerative abilities with someone.... repeated exposure to Needle blood is probably not good for you, and too much at once will kill you.
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V.G.
A rich bounty of lore and detail shots! Thank you for letting us get to know Miss Needle better, really get to the heart of who she is 😉
