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Felicity "Flick" Van Brunt 29 Harford Pack Hometown: Sleepy Hollow, New York
A wealthy New York heiress recently relocated to Port Leiry after the tragic death of her father and the crumbling of his Pack's stranglehold on financial and political power on the East Coast, Flick Van Brunt is enjoying her newly emancipated life while helping best friend Avi Hassim prepare for a power struggle against a rival wolf pack and looking out for a wolf whose old pack's destruction she feels tangentially responsible for.
Full Bio and Connects under the cut!
With its roots in the foundational period of America, Varcolac is a storied power in the werewolf community of the East Coast of the United States, a vertiable organized syndicate of political and criminal power tracing its lines back to the Van Brunt family of Washington Irving’s old lore; the Headless Horseman was a legend carefully created and curated to hide the family’s bloodstained history. Jacob Van Brunt, the current pater familia, has ruled the pack as Alpha since the death of his father in the 1990s, where he continued to amass connections, wealth, and power for his family by using the curse of Lycanthropy as a brutal threat through which to exercise his pull with politicians, CEOs, and various other high-level movers and shakers in the upper echelons of society. —
Flick is born in the middle of her brother Casper (33), and sister Zoë (26), and thus is relegated to the middle-child status of her parents’ attention. She isn’t the family heir, like Casper, and thus is below her father’s attention, but she’s also not the adorable new baby, like Zoë, and thus escapes a lot of her mother’s attention as well. This leads Flick to attention-seeking behavior, constantly trying to seek attention and approval throughout her childhood - but again, she’s the middle child, not that important in the grand scheme - and it’s for this reason that her father ships her off to another pack to be rid of her - some arranged coupling with another pack. Here she meets her future mate - fire-haired werewolf named Artemis, part of a pack that couldn’t be further from Varcolac’s nature - they’re young, though, barely aware of what love is, but Felicity finds herself charmed and enamored by Artemis, and a fixation grows that the young girl doesn’t know how to describe. Their friendship starts to deepen, and just as Felicity starts to think about the future, here, her father sends for her, and plucks her out of the Ryan pack without ceremony, before they can even share their first turn together. —
Flick doesn’t remember how long it is after she’d last heard from Artemis that the Ryan pack was completely destroyed by Hunters, but she does remember how long it takes for her to decide she’ll never forgive her father - with all his power and pull, he could have done something with whatever forewarning he’d had. In the heat of her adolescence, Flick moves from classical forms of attention seeking (fencing, archery, fashion, modeling) when trophies and accolades do nothing to earn approval, and into the more destructive forms (sex, drugs, and partying). If she can’t be a source of pride, then she can be a source of embarassment. Sometime in all this, her parents’ frequent vacations to the Pacific Northwest city of Port Leiry introduce her to the strange supernatural nexus that exists in that city, and it’s here she meets Avinash Hassim, a fellow werewolf scion burdened by the yoke of being too rich, too sexy, and too bored by the standard day-in-day-out of their lives. They keep in touch, using every chance they can to visit, and become fast friends. —
Flick’s nightlife evolves when she finds a hobby in honey-pots. The thrill of the kill feels so much better when it’s something that deserves it. She begins luring creeps and abusers into a little web, and thrills when they wake up in secluded basements on the full moon, delights in the way they beg and plead while white fur sprouts from her skin and her blue eyes turn a horrible, monstrous yellow. The fear and regret all taste better when its somebody begging for the chance they refused to give others. The murder’s it’s own drug - one she shares with her closes werewolf friends. At some point, however, it spills over into her family life, and Flick feasts on somebody her father deems important. It’s in private, when a hunter finds her, and nearly manages to take her out, but Flick wins out, and takes her first life with human hands instead of fang and claw. She traces the hunter’s information back to her father, and it’s with mutually assured destruction that she voluntarily exiles herself to Port Leiry - to the family’s summer mansion and with a hefty stipend to assure her father that, so long as he stays away, she’ll stay quiet - about everything, the politicians, the murder, the werewolf of it all. She hooks back up with Avi almost immediately, and -perhaps most surprisingly, Artemis Ryan - but the Arte she finds isn’t the Arte she was taken from years ago - it’s somebody with horror etched into their face and hurt shaking their shoulders. It tears open old wounds in Flick, and she resolves to help Arte, to dig deep and find whats under years of tarnish and trauma. —
Flick’s assimilation into Port Leiry is slow at first, she makes new acquaintances and meets old friends (human and otherwise), but it all comes to a head when another hunter finds her, this time boldly proclaiming that she’s here to settle the score between Felicity and her father - she’s nearly killed by a silver knife, left to die in a burning mansion, but her loyal assistant gives his life to save hers, dragging her into the underground of the old house, and it’s Arte Ryan who pulls a naked Flick from the smouldering wreck. Arte takes her to the witch Chamomile Greensmith, who manages to save Flick’s life, and she goes underground for a few weeks while she recovers. She lets her father believe she’s dead for a time, holes up under false names in penthouse suites drinking the pain and fear under the table - she sticks around Arte, and Chamomile, and their friend Skylar, tries to figure out who she is, what she wants. It’s Avi who convinces her that she needs to break old ties if she’s ever going to move forward, and the two of them take a trip to her old stomping ground in New York. They visit Felicity’s father, unannounced, and when he’s dead on the ground, the two wolves dispose of the evidence in the way that wolves do. Avi uses his connections to point the spotlight of who and why elsewhere, and they return to Port Leiry, Felicity casting off Varcolac’s shadow and raising the Harford flag. —
With Varcolac reeling from its loss, Flick is swift, letting her father’s old enemies know he’s not around to control them anymore, and this keeps her newly ascended brother on the back foot, scrambling to hold onto the pack’s power while she ransacks the family’s funds, securing her frozen trust fund, ensuring her place in he will, and outmaneuvering her brother. She keeps tabs on both of them, as she’s sure Casper’s eyes are falling squarely on her, too, despite her and Avi’s distraction, but Felicity dares him to come for her, because she still has ammo, and he doesn’t want this fight. She returns to Port Leiry and makes a new debut at the Conclave, a political gathering of supernatural beings, centered in Port Leiry to discuss its recent development of sunlight charms for vampires, and finalizes the reconstruction of her home overtop the bones of the old one. With this, Felicity Van Brunt, of the Westchester Van Brunts, is now a Port Leiry local, here to start over, but for real. Whether that means putting things back together or forging new ground, or a bit of both, well, she’ll figure it out. It’s a refresh, what could it cost, ten dollars?
Character: Within Werewolf circles, or even wider supernatural nets, Felicity is fun loving, exuberant, boisterous, and powerful - she has been a werewolf her whole life, and has no real qualms with the fact that, sometimes, people are going to get hurt around her. But she also realizes that if you're careful and you do things right, it doesn't have to be somebody who doesn't have it coming. When she is interacting with humans, she may become a little more coy, a little more mysterious, but it's largely just for the protection of somebody who obviously doesn't know what they're getting into.
With Hunters, she's a bit more savage, a bit more prone to anger or aggressive behavior - she's only had a handful of run-ins with them, but much like everything she's practical - if she knows he's being hunted, she'll gladly hunt back, and has no qualms with taking a life to protect her own or those of people she cares about. Character inspirations:
Val Mortimer - Sawkill Girls Ginger Fitzgerald - Ginger Snaps Cassandra - Promising Young Woman Jennifer Check - Jennifer's Body Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is the inspiration for the Van Brunt family
wanted connections/plot hooks:
The Family: Jacob Van Brunt - Deceased (56) Former Patriarch of the Varcolac pack. Dispatched by Avi and Flick at the Hudson River Harboryards shortly after the new year. Helena Van Brunt - 49 [suggested FC: Vanessa Kirby] The Pack’s matriarch, newly widowed Helen has receded in the wake of her husband’s death. Casper Van Brunt - (33) [Suggested FC: Thomas Mann] Flick’s older brother. As scheming and duplicitous as their father, and groomed from birth to be the Alpha of their pack, he has access to their father’s network of connections, but in the wake of Jacob’s death, many of those connections are taking advantage of the moment to shake the yoke of the Van Brunt family’s control. Zoë Van Brunt - (28) [Suggested FC: Jenna Burgess] The youngest sibling, Zoë largely got whatever she wanted, and was content to stay out of the family’s political maneuvers and petty squabbles. Educated in an exclusive all-girls boarding school in Europe, she has the capacity for ruthlessness inherent that all of her family seems to, but she masks this in a sugary sweet demeanor, so long as she gets her way. — The Assistant: OPEN Flick grew up with Rodger, a man who was her attendant from the time she was a baby up to his death this past winter. Rodger’s death leaves an important spot open in Flick’s entourage - a trustworthy human willing to be loyal and take care of a werewolf - including the messes one leaves behind. Salary negotiable. Benefits included. Inquire within.
