The Vampire Queen
About Sophia
BASICS
Full Name: Elisabeth Valkyrie Solberg Aliases/Nicknames: Elsa (unused), Sophia Batori Birth date: January 18th, 1503 Place of Birth: Scandinavia Age: 515 | Death at 25 Race: Vampire Occupation: None Home Address: 17841 Bond St. Prized Possessions: While possessions mean little to her, she still holds close to her wedding ring. It sits on a necklace given to her by her twin brother. Pets: None.
PHYSICAL
Eye Color: Deep chocolate brown / red Hair Color, Length, and/or Style: Auburn brown, rests as far down as her mid back. Physical Conditions: None Health: No health concerns after death Marks, Scars, Tattoos: Single piercing in each ear, two small hearts tattooed to the outer side of her wrist. She has a small fist-sized circular scar on her left shoulder-blade from being staked, she often forgets about. Peculiar Physical Traits: She has a few freckles on her face, typically hidden by makeup. Typical fashion style: Keeps up with the latest fashion trends in the area; always looks her best.
INTERESTS
Likes: Socializing, nightlife, protecting her home, big cities, cocktail bars, dancing, quiet days, ruling the coven. Dislikes: Brash and wild, dogs, dirt and filth, television, summers, getting trapped in the council office. Hobbies: Sewing, shopping, clubbing, hunting. Favorite Food: Blood Least Favorite Food: All food. Fears: Becoming close to someone, losing her family, the fall of the coven. Goals: To settle in the new city, recruit and train the Ryker girl, reclaim the coven, take down the Valkyries. Flaws: Cruel, abusive, finicky, spiteful, damaged. Secrets: She still resides in Crescent City, she is a Valkyrie. Strengths: Dedication, experience, social status, convincing, power. Greatest Achievement: Ruling over the vampire coven, building Chicago and the Court of Miracles. Biggest regret: Becoming a vampire, leaving Samuel Lugh.
PERSONALITY
Psychological Conditions: Can be considered narcissistic. Positive Characteristics: Dainty, ambitious, nurturing, sociable, dependable. Negative Characteristics: Pretentious, manipulative, nostalgic, brazen, egotistic, heartbroken. Disposition: A bit negative. On the rare occasion she is nice, she will try to be more optimistic and give hope to whomever she is speaking to. Intelligence: She has a high level of knowledge on a number of subjects, all of which could be useless in this day of age. She has plenty of experience to back with her knowledge. Motivation: Her own interests, her coven’s interest. Mannerisms: Typically calm, reserved, well-kept and poised. Not afraid to put you in your place on the down-low if you start trouble. She’s sneaky and works behind your back. Morals: She tends to have an “every man for himself” mindset but works to do everything she can for her people. Superstitions: None. She lost all beliefs in those years ago. Values: Promises, ignorance of others, family- to an extent. You shouldn’t betray others, but if you do, you will pay. Nervous Habits: grows quiet, seems impeccably calm, becomes generous out of no where, stares intensely. Enraged When: The Valkyries succeed, someone does not follow through on their end. Depressed or Sad When: She thinks of her children. Character’s Soft Spot: Ryder and his family. Race’s Influence on Behavior: Relies and seeks out human blood. She never bothered hunting animals or blood banks.
BIOGRAPHY
The Valkyrie clan originated in a small village in ancient Scandinavian territory. The village was self sustaining; housing farms, woodcutters, and blacksmiths. While they could easily live on their own, most traveled to the city to sell their goods and earn some extra coin for the town. This opened the threat of robbers, thieves, and surprisingly, supernaturals. Demons and goblins who lurk inside and around the city often terrorized the villagers. After a wide-scale attack on villages by vampires, most hired retired or local soldiers and hunters to protect their homes, thus creating the “supernatural hunter” job. The village hired the Valkyries, old soldiers and supernatural hunters to protect the villagers of the monstrous threats.
The Valkyries were said to be descendants of wolves, gracing them with tactics and natural skills for hunting both food and monsters. While the mother and father were both werewolves, this allowed for them to be disguised in the village. No one questioned when the wolves would come fight off demons in the night, and the villagers actually worshiped these canine guardians. The villagers also did not question how the Valkyrie couple did not age and took it as a gift from the gods (or the couple was a title which the family replaced someone to serve the role regularly) to protect them.
Elisabeth (Elsa) was born in the middle of the Valkyrie line, a few minutes after her twin, Edmund. They were raised with the idea the family solely hunted for food and happened to protect villages outside the village limits on random occasions. They were not told of their werewolf nature until they reached their late teens in order to protect their reputation in the village. Their parents did not allow them to turn until they were much older due to the slow aging process.
When they became of age, Ed and Elsa became supernatural hunters with their parents and older siblings. They were the only children to remain in the village and protect their home. They enjoyed the simple life as opposed to their older brothers, who left immediately for the city. When they had less work, the twins settled down to a normal village life.
Elsa married another hunter in the city, a man named Peter Solberg. Together they helped the village hunt local wildlife, typically rabbit, elk, and deer. Elsa did her best to keep her supernatural hunting a secret, wishing for Peter to remain ignorant about the monstrous threat. She regularly joined Ed when needed, and the two served as a team of bounty hunters for neighboring villages as well. Elsa trained just as hard as her brother, becoming skilled with a bow and a dagger while Ed favored swords and guns. Elsa was also a great negotiator, convincing other supernaturals to work with them before their demise.
When Elsa was 20 she had her first child; a boy named Roland. She was immediately attached the boy and spent every moment she was not working with him. She gave up game hunting and focused solely on supernatural in order to alternate work shifts with Peter. At this point the twins offered to have Peter help fight supernaturals with them.
Peter died about four year into hunting with the twins, while Elsa was pregnant with their second child. This led to their parents suggesting becoming werewolves sooner rather than later as their tradition followed. Ed turned right away, Elsa waiting until her second child was old enough and not disrupt their life by turning. She stopped hunting during her pregnancy to assist in the healing process from becoming a widow. Ed assisted his sister and moved into her home, and he aided raising her children. While she loved her husband, she enjoyed living closer to her twin once more. She had a daughter who she named Ramona.
While out hunting, Elsa and Ed ran into a new race: vampires. Having little experience with them, they tried their best to eliminate them. Yet their tactics only work on demons and goblins, and they could not kill the vampires as easily. Before the vampire made his escape, Elsa was attacked and bitten. As the poison slowly seeped into her veins, they ran to their parents for help. The Valkyries encountered vampires long before the twins were born, and they knew exactly what their daughter was becoming. They told Ed to kill his twin for the safety of the village and their own lives. Instead, Ed did not believe his sister would become a monster and took her home.
Moments after leaving their parents’ cottage in the woods, the poison was in full force and Elsa turned into a vampire. Expecting her brother to have kindness in the event, she was shocked when Ed turned against her. He knew the legends of vampires, as all in the village did. He was ready to take the vampire down despite the vampire was his beloved twin sister moments ago. She had no chance to show him she was dangerous before he was attacking her. Elsa fled, hiding out in the forest surrounding the city.
After a few days of wandering, Elsa found the local vampire coven that turned her. She followed after a woman named Sofia Báthory, a woman from the east who was said to be the queen of all vampires. Elsa trained under the queen with intention to gain control and return home over joining them. After a year she returned to her old home but was not met with welcomed arms. Ed did everything he could to keep Elsa out, claiming he was only protecting his niece and nephew. Since Elsa wanted her children back, Ed developed the idea that she manipulated or harmed them already. He killed baby Ramona before her eyes, insisting she must have been born a vampire. While he tried to kill Roland as well, Elsa, who was now heartbroken, fled. She would eventually learn that Ed accidentally turned Roland into a werewolf instead of killing him.
Over the next century, Elsa visited her son regularly in the middle of the night. While she watched him age slowly, she wanted to remain present in his life. While she had every chance to kidnap him, she knew he needed her twin to train him. By the turn of the century, Ed was planning to move away from the village, perhaps to a new land altogether. He caught Elsa visiting one night and immediately left with Roland. Elsa did her best to track them, but Ed ran far. Elsa remained full time with the vampire coven, more heartbroken than before. The aided the coven by hunting any supernaturals that crossed them, especially werewolves. While she was a werewolf by birth, she resented the kind for isolating her the moment she needed them.
When talk of the new English colonies reached their ears, the Queen Báthory knew they needed to move west. The coven grew over the last century to fit into a city, so it was time to move on. Sofia offered Elsa a portion of the coven and told her the plan. Her birth name was not Sofia Báthory, but it served as a title for their pack. She wanted Elsa to take on the name as well and serve as queen for her coven, representing the Vampire Queen’s coven in the new land. Without something to hold her back, Elsa accepted and moved to the colonies in time for the Revolutionary War.
Now calling herself Sophia Batori, she met a local to help the coven move and adjust, Zachariah Carswell. The coven joined an order which trained fledgling to secretly fight in the war. It was a fascinating task which Sophia put a great deal of effort into. Sophia’s influence spilled over, allowing her to gain control of yet another army of vampires. She enjoyed the fame and leadership more than she probably should have. She seemed to be finding the life she truly desired.
Around 1830 Sophia moved her coven west, spreading out her influences the best she could. They settled in the up-and-coming city of Chicago, serving as one of the first supernatural clans to settle in the area. One night when she felt low from the memories of her past, she met an angel named Samuel Lugh. He took her in and helped her cope, and in time they fell in love. Together the two of them influenced the development of the Court of Miracles, and naturally stretched her powers as far as they could go. She instantly took a position in the Court’s High Council, wanting to rise to the top and rule over more than the vampires. She saw the city and the council as her new child and did all she could to help it grow. As time went on, Sophia put her influences where ever she could. They helped build up the city, gathered armies to fight in the Civil War, and saw further developments in the Court of Miracles.
By the turn of the century, the vampires were a powerful race. They were wealthy due to the ability to rob their food source. Their powers of protection exceeded everyone’s expectations. Sophia continued to have her own army of fledgling; those willing to sacrifice themselves to protect the Court. The local werewolf pack, who refused to join the Court, was under her rule as well. Her men hunted humans who stalked the supernatural community while she led an elite team to hunt supernaturals on the side. It was through this service Sophia’s life took another drastic turn when a new pack moved to Chicago. Edmund’s pack.
Under the new alias and modernized look, Edmund had no idea the vampire queen was his twin sister. And she wanted to keep it that way. She planned a revenge plot against her brother, refusing to see him succeed while he lived in Chicago. However, Edmund had his own plan up his sleeve. Never trusting vampires from the start, Edmund and his pack exposed Sophia for enslaving the werewolves, hunting other supernaturals, and continuously killing humans for blood. The High Council responded by stripping Sophia of her authority and control over the Court’s defenses and appointed Edmund in her place.
Livid from the setback, Sophia stopped at nothing to take Edmund down. Her plan morphed into something more sinister and personal with the birth of his daughter, who he also named Ramona. Sophia’s primary goal became killing Edmund’s children, especially the daughter. An eye for an eye in her mind. Without her previous resources, Sophia took time building up a plan and attack. She waited until the girl was old enough before she made her move, which resulted in killing one of the boys instead. While it was not the original plan, it caused Edmund and his wife to leave the city. The battle was now between Sophia and his eldest son, Ryder.
Sophia spent years fighting against Ryder, neither one aware they were directly related to each other. In time Sophia learned the truth about Ryder, but was threatened by Edmund to never expose the truth. Sophia slowly built her plan around the youngest daughter once more; if anything, she would be satisfied with that kill. The case against her was once again brought forth to the council, this time clearly obvious she intended to take out the Valkyrie family. The council turned against her once more, and Samuel banned Sophia from the city. In her anger she had one final attack; kill Ryder’s baby mama and her ex servant as well as kidnap her two grandsons. When the plan backfired, she allowed Ryder to win by faking her own death. Without the queen caring over the coven, vampires ran wild through the city. The Court of Miracles and a larger portion of Chicago was destroyed, causing any survivors to flee west.
Sophia stayed low for many years. She had no interest in bothering her brother or his family, at least not after losing her city, coven, and the love of her life. About a century passed before she was found and began socializing once more with a small coven of older vampires. It was through them she learned about a talented vampire; a witch by birth who continued to have full control of her powers even in death. Sophia wanted this power for her own, aiming to use the girl as a new front for the vampire queen role. After learning of the downfall of the Valkyries, she was more inclined to move to Crescent City. Now that her son is gone, she wants to protect her grandchildren despite knowing it would be an unwanted relationship.
RELATIONSHIPS
Parents: She was raised by both mother and father, who were a team of hunters and werewolves. She grew up very close to her father and trained under him in the family business. She lost contact with her father long ago. Siblings: She has three older brothers, two younger brothers, and a sister. She was not particularly close to any of them and lost contact with most of them when she became of age. Occasionally an older brother would return for a hunting mission if needed, but they would be on their way and not contact them. She does not know what has become of any of them now. The sibling who she was closest to was her twin brother, Edmund. The two remained in their home village and took on hunting jobs. She blames him for not protecting her and leading her to become a vampire due to the hatred he felt for her afterwards. Despite being his twin sister, Edmund could only see her as a dangerous vampire who had to be taken down. She sought revenge on all wolves, especially her family, for her brother making attempts on her life and kidnapping and killing her children for becoming a vampire. She received her revenge by attempting to kill his wife and daughter many years later but ultimately killed one of his sons. He hunted after her for years and destroyed her coven and position in the Court of Miracles in Chicago during the 1990′s. She prefers to hide from him now and has one neutral contact with him after Ryder’s death. Children: She had two children before her death; Roland and Ramona. She was close to both children, Ryder a bit more due to his older age. She did all she could to love and protect them despite her job and losing their father. She died when Roland was about 5, Ramona 1. When she returned home a year or so later for her children, Edmund fought back and killed Ramona while turning Roland into a werewolf. For decades she remained close by, keeping tabs on her son and visiting him in the middle of the night. At one point during the early 1600′s, Edmund caught on and hid the boy, which caused her to lose him for good. She met her son later, but was unaware it was the same boy. She kept up the front of Sophia Batori and became Ryder’s enemy for a majority of their time in Chicago. When she learned the truth, Edmund made her swear never to tell the news, for not even his wife knew the truth. Being a woman of her word, and believing Edmund would try to kill the boy, she never told him. Now she regrets it after he passed and is mortified for her behavior towards him. She has three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren from Ryder’s line. Friends: The only friend she is still in contact with is Vivian Bellamy-Boyle. Neutral affiliates are Sadie Taylor, Owen Cole, Nora Cade, Lucas Weston, and Roxanne Cade-Ryker. Clan/Coven: Previous vampire coven leader. Although she still holds the title of queen, most of this coven does not know she is in town or alive. She is slowly telling who she chooses she is around. Love Interests: While she was a human, she was in love and married to a man named Peter Solberg. He died on a hunting mission while the children were young. Still heartbroken from the loss, it took her many centuries to replace him. In the town of what would soon become Chicago, she met Samuel Lugh, an angel walking on Earth. While it took time to open up to him, she became reliant on his company and care. She helped him build Chicago and the Court of Miracles while their friendship grew. He quickly fell in love with her, and in time she loved him as well. He was the only one she fully opened up to before the Valkyries returned into her life. She tried dealing with her past on her own, which got her in trouble and drove the two apart. She lost him for good during the downfall of the Court of Miracles, when she would stop at nothing to see her brother fall. She regrets how she treated Samuel and longs for him back. She is still single to this day. Enemies: Her greatest enemy is her twin brother, Edmund. She also dubs the Valkyrie line and all werewolves her enemy. Time Mostly Spent With: Herself, Vivian. View of Others: Sophia often asks as though she is higher than many of the people around her. At times, she may be. She is not as polite and welcoming as one would expect of a Council leader. View on Self: Although Sophia may act as if she is very focused on herself, she has many internal struggles and pains from her past. She is not always proud of herself. Viewed by Others: Most people do not favor or trust Sophia for good reason. Many refuse to give her the chance to show she is capable of kindness, be it due to her actions or her vampire nature. Hero: None.
EXTRA
Physical Abilities: She has above average strength, tracking, and speed, which comes with the vampirism. Mental Abilities: She is capable of learning new skills faster than the average human. Magical Abilities: Aside from an immortal life, she has the ability to heal quickly. Special Talents: None, other than being a raging bitch. Headcanons: Train Raylin to take over the coven, since that bitch is freaking gifted. -Try to get closer to Logan, Landon, and Rylie.