Both girls moved out of their childhood homes at the mere age of fifteen to work as maids for the prestigious, though somewhat macabre, Coret family in the nearby forest of Glimmerbrook. In that mansion they worked for years, slowly climbing the ladder from house- to parlourmaids. Until a tragic accident ended their mortal lives mere days before their twentieth birthdays.
…was it really a tragic accident, though? Rumours began to spread around town soon after the Blackwell sisters' deaths and the people of Glimmerbrook turned against the girls’ employers. The Corets’ taste for the supernatural surely had something to do with the disappearance of these two healthy young maids, most rumours claimed. Guesses as to what had happened ranged from murder to illegal experiments using arcane knowledge.
When more and more people began to disappear, and even the Corets themselves disappeared without a trace, people still blamed the family. The Blackwell twins were long forgotten by then, lost in endless waves of rumour about many a tragedy.
The sisters themselves don’t think the event leading up to their deaths, nor any that followed it, was much of a tragedy at all. Only they know the truth about what happened that one unfortunate night, and they’ll carry the taste of this sweet secret with them for eternity.
Edith loves people. Not so much socializing with them like her sister, but observing them mostly. She especially finds joy in watching unsuspecting souls as she lurks around in a tree in her bat form. In her circles, she is known to follow her “special” victims around for quite some time before finally, after what can stretch to years, striking. They don’t know her, yet she knows them like the back of her hand; it’s one of the things she finds most exhilarating.
Edith has, and always had, a great sense of ambition. As a little girl she dreamt of marrying an influential man. Not because she aspired to marry a man per se, but for the wealth and status that would follow. She dreamt not of having children or a happy marriage, but of power and a beautiful mansion filled with servants. Servants she held power over. When she became a housemaid, Edith didn't aim to be a housemaid. She envisioned herself as a housekeeper one day, if she hadn’t found herself a powerful spouse by then, and accepted that she'd have to start from the bottom of the ladder.
Turning immortal was, from the very start, something of a blessing to Edith. A blessing by the Devil, that is, because she didn’t expect a God of some kind to grant her, out of everyone it could be granted to, such powers. She saw her chance, with her newfound strenght, the ability to transform at will, and a way to cleanly kill anyone who prevented her from reaching the top.
Knowing these facts, it surely is of no surprise that Edith has found herself as the new mistress of the Coret mansion. How she managed to get such a position? One can only guess...
