FACECLAIM: CANDICE PATTON AGE: 180 SPECIES: SUCCUBUS OCCUPATION: Owner of Synful Desires ARRIVED: 1975
Syndra was born in 1839 to a poor family but what she didnât know was that her father wasnât her biological father. Her mother had slept with an incubus without her father knowing. However it was obvious as she was growing up that she looked nothing like her father and by the time she was 10 he had grown to resent her and her mother. He threw them out of his house and got the whole small town to shun them as well. Â From there her mother tried to go home but her father had heard of the scandal and had sided with the husband. Syndra and her mother were officially homeless and poor. It didnât help that Syndra was a little odd and people could tell. They tried to stay in boarding houses as Syndra grew up but she freaked others out and they had to keep moving.
She was lucky enough that at 17, she met a boy who didnât care about her weirdness and wanted to marry her. Syndra and Thomas were married within the year and she truly fell in love with him, the last time she fell in love actually. But while it seemed like an idyllic marriage for the time, what she didnât know was that her succubus nature had been awakened and she was literally sucking the life force out of her husband. He was lucky enough to make it to 37 before he died because of Syndra. It was with his death that Syndra was able to meet her true father as she discovered what she really was. He taught her how to survive and that sex isnât meant for pleasure, itâs just a way to survive that itâs basically food. Syndra took his words to heart.
In 1870, Syndra opened her first brothel as a way of getting food and making money. She wasnât going to fall in love again, it was just a trap. So making her business all about sex meant that she could just see it as a way to make money, not something personal. She owned her brother until 1912 when the prosecution of her girls and her got to be too much. Which put her in a bit of a bind because there was no way she was going to work the streets. However the break out of the Great War gave her an idea. She was going to join the Nurse corps and go overseas, what soldier that hadnât seen an attractive female for at least a few months wouldnât want her attention. Plus they were most likely going to die anyways. She kept this up during the whole war and came back to America and opened her first strip club. Sure it wasnât the same as men coming just for sex but that didnât mean she wasnât able to tempt men with more.
She kept this club open during prohibition despite the raids done on it, she only closed it once World War II broke out and Syndra once again joined the Nurse Corps and went overseas, she never had any guilt over taking the life force of others for her own anymore but it was easier to find willing men during the war, actually in the war than at home. The ones left behind just werenât as satisfying to her, it was like having oatmeal to a steak dinner. Plus she never felt guilty about using these men, why would she? Their life force was what she needed to survive, no one saw a shark eating other fish as something wrong.
In 1975, Syndra moved to Shadow Falls and opened another strip club, Synful Desires. Moving to Shadow Falls had been a spur of the moment decision that she hadnât come to regret yet. Sure she had come out as a succubus but that didnât seem to stop people from wanting to be with her. Plus with the other supernaturals in town, she had others who could someone understand what it was like not being human.
Syndra is a confident and cunning women who knows what she wants and gets it or she makes it so that she gets it. She understands people and knows how to get under their skin. Due to her lifestyle, Syndra looks down upon humans and sees them as slaves to their base desires and not worthy of her respect or time. She sees herself above others because of her nature, she donât fall for her base desires, Sex is a business not a desire. She may need it to survive but thatâs all it is, a way to survive. Â
