WELCOME TO HEXMORE, STEPH (32/GMT). HEXMORE WAS FOUNDED BY WITCHES, BUT IS NOW HOME TO, MARIANA AURELIUS (ELLA PURNELL). SHE IS A 500+ OLD, VAMPIRE. BORN IN PARIS, FRANCE. THEY HAVE RESIDED IN HEXMORE FOR BRIEF VISITS OVER THE YEARS WHERE THEY WORK AS WHATEVER SHE FEELS LIKE. THEY CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE AFFILIATED WITH HER PROGENIES AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF HAZEL MORA HAS LEFT HER ROLLING HER EYES AT MORTALS AND THEIR DRAMA.
Name: Mariana Rose Aurelius
Nickname: Mari, Ana
Hometown: Paris, France
Age: 500+ (mortal age about 25)
Gender: Cis woman
Pronouns: She/her
Species: Ella Purnell
Character Occupation: Anything she pleases
Affiliation: Her vampire offspring
Length of stay in Hexmore: Visits over the years
Bio:
Mariana affectionately known as Mari was born in Paris, France in the 16th century and she is over 500 years old. Though she does not remember her exact age, she believes she was in her mid twenties on her last day as a human. She was the daughter of a wealthy businessman who owned property and land across the country. Mari was a proper and educated young woman and as the only girl of four siblings, given everything she wanted. She had servants by her side every second of the day, but this also meant she lived a sheltered life and had little experience of anything outside of her small world. As a girl, she was known to be kindhearted, though at times she could be a little spoiled. Her father was constantly climbing the social ladder and marrying off his only daughter to a well-known lord presented the perfect opportunity. As soon as Mariana came of age, she was sent away to be married.
She rather liked the freedom at first, she was a teenage girl, running a household without her father and brothers controlling her. Her husband was a man in his twenties and kinder than many men she had met. Though she knew very little of her marital duties and it was not an experience she enjoyed greatly. However, she excelled at other parts of being a wife. She loved running a home and showing an interest in her husband’s work. She loved learning new things and finding out about the world. And as she aged, she began finding out about herself and her sexuality. She felt herself growing an attachment to a maid, and found herself thinking about her skin, her touch. It made her feel things she had never felt for her husband. The once naive young lady soon realised she had fallen for this woman.
Mariana began to have an affair with her maid. it was easy to hide. She was simply spending time with a woman to any outsiders. She enjoyed her life, the parties and noble life with her husband, the stability he provided her. She did not care about his mistress, she had her own.
The years went by and one night, a walk ended her human life. She has no idea who attacked her. Her last human memory was feeling the sharp pain in her neck and her blood leaving her body. She woke alone and confused… and hungry. A hunger that she had never felt before. She could not return home, she did not know what had happened but she knew she wasn’t the same. She wanted blood. The first few months of her life were hard and she killed to survive. She had no one to guide her, but Mari had always been smart and resourceful and she was determined to learn control. She fled to England and started a new part of her life. No one would control her; but her.
She stayed in England for a little while, studying, learning, having fun and using her beauty and powers to manipulate mortals. And often… killing them. She had lost part of herself when she’d died and it took her some time to regain some humanity. Though on returning to France, she was hit with the pain of her family and lover being dead. She had lost track of time in her immortal life and just how many decades had gone by.
It would’ve been so easy for her to kill to fill that hole but instead, a young man named Alden who worked in a simple bakery became her saving grace, he stopped her from going off the deep end. He had her attention, he amused her. She found herself watching him and soon paid women to fetch her baked goods. Though eventually, she began to visit the bakery herself and before she even realised what she was doing, she was hunting him. She wanted him. She had already decided that she was going to take Alden as her first companion, she was not going to be like the person who had turned and left her. She was going to travel the world with this man. And one night she carried out her plan, she killed and turned him.
Alden was her first and for a while her only progeny. He adored her and she found she loved that admiration, he looked at her in a way no other man had. He did not want from her what many men did. She filled their life with nice things and parties and dragged him along for all of her games. It was nice to not be so alone in this long afterlife. She loved him and that bond has never faltered. As time went by, she found herself wanting more. Alden had worked out so well. She turned men and women, taking their affection, playing with them, being their only source of pleasure and teaching them to feed with her. When she became tired of them or they began to defy her, she would leave them or worse. She had no use for a progeny that couldn’t and wouldn’t love and respect her.
She lived this way for centuries, though she always came back to her Alden. Though in the early 1920s, the boy found a fondness for a dancer in a silly little town named Hexmore. She hated the girl, beautiful and alive… and she wasn’t. And she hated that the human girl had Alden’s attention. She threatened to turn her and after one final fight, Alden left… after centuries together, Mari was alone. Part of her wanted to kill the girl… but she knew if she did that, she’d have no chance of getting Alden back.
Mariana is elegant and educated, she knows what she’s doing and she always has a plan. Or at least she pretends to. She often acts like humans as inferiors, she doesn’t want anyone to be her weakness. She does things because she can. Without Alden, she found herself turning others again and she kept a particular progeny around. A young man who would do anything for blood and Mariana loved that. She could control him, play games with him and she liked that he could be ruthless with his hunger. But when he turned against her, she wasn’t surprised…she was disappointed. He’d been so much fun and she’d wished he’d stayed that way longer. But before she could kill him he fled and she swore if she ever saw him again… she would.
Though the person Mari really craved was Alden, dependable charming Alden. When Alden had turned his own progeny, a girl that Mariana had seen as a game. A girl that reminded her of her… long dead love. She was fiercely jealous of the girl, Alden was her progeny and she would not share him. But now Mariana is alone, many of her progeny long gone or dead and she’s found herself returning to Hexmore. She knows Alden has a fondness for the town and she’s heard of some interesting things happening in the small town.