Name: Delilah Aurora Hastens.
Nicknames: Dee, Deedee, Lilah, Lil, D.
Birthday: December 21st, 1993.
Place of Birth: Falls Church, Virginia.
Current Town: Falls Church, Virginia.
Occupation: Shop Owner/Freelance Photographer/Heir to Hell.
Faceclaim: Shelley Hennig.
Landon Sandell (Step-Father).
Esmeralda Rae Hastens (Twin Sister).
Adeline Avalina Petrova-Hastens (Eldest Sister).
Phoebe Hazel Hastens (Elder Sister, †).
Blair Elena Hastens (Elder Sister).
Jade Zoe Hastens (Younger Sister).
Sophia Gemma Hastens (Younger Sister).
Roxanne Chloe Hastens (Younger Sister).
Kyle Scott Hastens (Eldest Brother, †).
Matthew Zander Hastens (Elder Brother).
Gillian Sandell (Half-Sister).
Mark Sandell Half-Brother, Twin of Maia).
Maia Sandell (Half-Sister, Twin of Mark).
Veronica Claw (Non-Biological Aunt).
Octavia Hastens (Aunt, †).
Friends:
Theresa “Tessa” Romaro (Best Friend).
Birthmark: Sun-shaped mark on right shoulder.
Main Powers: Telepathy, telekinesis, materialization, elemental powers, flying, prediction of birth within family, aura reading, ability to see spirits, possession, resurrection, healing, regeneration, superhuman strength, speed, agility, dexterity, enhance senses, self-regeneration, shapeshifting into coyote, spell casting, immortality, ability to kill others with a thought, empathy.
Main Weaknesses: Demon blades are harmful but not lethal to Delilah. This will delay her regenerative capabilities for a certain amount of time depending on the grade of the wound. Demon blades are blades made from an onyx stone and enchanted with magic that is lethal or extremely dangerous to demons, because Delilah has a far more demon dominant nature, she too is vulnerable to these. Mort daggers are lethal to all death gods. If struck through the heart with one of these blades, Delilah would die. Mort daggers were five daggers created by Lucifer and hid all over the world meant for the original five death gods that original were born into existence, since Delilah is the child of one of the children of those death gods, she too is vulnerable to them.
Species Features: Leathery wings with horned apexes, similar to a bats, wings slits and when out of control of her powers, black eyes.
Diet: In order to maintain and keep up her extensive set of powers, Delilah must drink blood. This blood can be the blood of any other species. Without a consistent diet of blood, it takes far more energy to wield her powers.
Delilah is a free spirit. She’s always been the type to go with the flow and adapt to the situation as its come, never quite planning ahead or calculating every movement. She has never been one for following an exact plan to the t, and has always found a way of making things her own and finding a way to do things that suits her personality. She is a strong believer in free will, and despite the fact she’s not an overly blunt type of person, she does openly and frequently say she thinks fate is ridiculous. This ideology is a big part of why she rebukes her destiny. Delilah has always encouraged others to follow the path they feel is right for them, and has tried to do this herself in whatever way she can. Her prophecy and the weight of it has always been a motivator for her to rebel against having her life planned or things like fate. Deep down in her subconscious, she doesn’t entirely believe that she can avoid her fate, and it terrifies her – so she uses her stubborn determination in being a free spirit to compensate for the fear she doesn’t want to give into. Delilah is a warm and compassionate. She is someone who likes to take care of others, but also knows when it’s time to take care of herself as well. Though she can be rather self-sacrificing, and in cases where it comes down to her own comfort and the lives of others, she will choose the lives of other over herself, which is why she often locks herself up before she can lose control entirely. She is a very loving, bubbly and outgoing person. Because she’s the type suited for so many things, she tends to be able to find common ground with just about anyway. It always made for her to be a more popular person among others, especially in school. Despite being viewed as popular, she’s also rather down to earth. She isn’t cocky or conceited, but instead tends to be more confident in herself, yet drawing the line before such confidence can lead to something like her being as narcissistic as her parents. She’s very energetic, and tends to be good at multi-tasking. She always likes to have several things going on at the one time to keep her high-speed mind busy. Delilah is adventurous and curious about the world. She likes to explore new things, whether it be trying new foods, exploring a new place or studying about cultures and practices, or picking up a new hobby. She’s always been a bit all over the place in where she belongs, as she’s found pieces of herself in so many things. It was why she didn’t end up going to university or college like her sisters, because she didn’t feel as if she could simply restrict herself to one things. She’s very perceptive, and she can pick up things rather quickly. She’s usually quick to figure a person out and understand them, and while she’s not blunt at calling people out on the things like her sister Esme is, she does often trying to nudge them in the direction that will help them the most with the knowledge she picks up on through her perceptive nature. Despite her joyous affect, Delilah carries a heavy weight of guilt. She knows she’s always been the favorite of her mother, and she feels an intense amount of guilt for the way that her siblings were treated by her mother in comparison to her. She feels bad that they had to deal with more emotional distance than she did, especially for how Esmeralda was treated in comparison to her. She tries not to let it show, but she often tries to make up for it by being extremely active in her siblings lives, not wanting them to feel alone. Delilah may be optimistic and hopeful, but she’s not completely dazing with her head in the clouds. She’s more than capable of facing the facts, and is perceptive enough to figure out when something simply isn’t going to happen. As an example, while she believes in epic loves and believes her parents had one, she also know they simply don’t belong together. Delilah has a sort of dry wit and a sarcastic humor, though she does make some jokes, a lot of which are at her own expense. When she’s especially nervous, she makes jokes to ease the tension and avoid having to deal with the strong emotions. She’s a very trusting person, and believes everyone has a heart, and that they deserve a second chance if even a small part of them wants remorse. She’s the type to have faith in people when others may have given up on them.
*Delilah has two very different sides. When her powers overwhelm her, and she is practically possessed by the sheer darkness of them, she is cold and ruthless. Her darker-self delights in chaos and destruction, in death and pain of others. There is almost no traces of her lighter, warm self during these times, although that part of her is conscious enough for her to have memories of these times. Her dark-self is similar to her in the fact she acts on whims and impulses. Only her whims and impulses are consumed by a malicious nature in this case. Dark Delilah is extreme sadistic, deriving pleasure and amusement from the pain and suffering of others.
From the beginning of her pregnancy, Adelya knew that something was different. It had not been like her other pregnancies in any sense. She wasn’t sure what it was, but there was something. As the pregnancy developed, she found her own health declining rapidly. She grew weaker and weaker the longer she was pregnant. Finally, Brett took Adelya to a shaman healer. Upon seeing her, the shaman was struck, and with a deeper, more magical search, he realized that the children Adelya carried had a far greater purpose than even their lineage would suggest. He informed them there had been a prophecy, long foretold within both the Hell and Heaven realms, that one day the time would come for new heirs to rise to take over Heaven and Hell. The heirs would be twin girls, with the first born being destined for darkness, meant to be future Heir to Hell, and the second born being destined for light, meant to rule Heaven. At first, neither was willing to believe it, but eventually came to terms with what their daughters were meant for. In preparation, they did as much research as they possibly could on the prophecy, something Adelya had a great deal of time to do with all the time spent on bedrest.
Adelya’s health continued to rapidly decrease. Near her seventh month of pregnancy, it was evident that she would not survive carrying the children to term. Even her vampire nature would not be enough to save her and her children. Two weeks into her third trimester, she discovered she was bleeding. Both she and Brett knew they had to save the children, so an emergency c-section was performed, which is where it all went wrong. The procedure was complicated because of her vampire nature, but alongside of that, the twins were not born in the natural order intended. Esmeralda, in line with the prophecy was intended to be heir to Hell, and was meant to be born first, however, because of the c-section, Delilah was born first, and despite the way fate was meant to swing, she was to be the Heir to Hell. Esmeralda was removed second, taking place as the Heir to Heaven.
Delilah and her sisters were two sides of the same coin. Delilah had been an easy, happy and content baby. She’d been the one everyone got to hold and coddle. Whereas her sister had been a difficult baby. Delilah had been bright, charming as a child, she drew people in naturally. Her aunts and uncles, her parents and siblings, family friends, they all gravitated towards her. People were just drawn to her. Even with her dark destiny, she possessed such light it was hard for people not to pay attention. She was her mother’s favorite, and that was saying something considering the woman had been cold to the majority of her children. She always felt a little guilty – even as a small child – watching Esme being ignored. It was a weight on her conscience from an early age.
Despite many favoring her, she didn’t have an easy childhood. No child in the Hastens household was lucky enough to come out unscathed by the things that happened within the walls. For as long as she could remember, her parents were almost always fighting. They weren’t squabbling like normal couples, every single fight seemed to be all or nothing with the two of them. They were either completely icing each other out or screaming and roaring at each other enough to make the very foundation of the family manor quake. In the middle of all of that was the kids. It weighed especially on arguments, because her mother would always come to her after a fight. When she didn’t want to share a bed with her father, her mother would come into her room and sleep in Delilah’s bed, often relying on Delilah as somewhat of a clutch and seeking for her to comfort her. It wasn’t easy, and while Delilah now as an adult recognized her mother’s dependence on her wasn’t healthy, she still loved her.
She was eight years old when her father left for the first time. While she had not been as nearly as close to him as she had been with her mother, and more than often she had her mother whispering in her ear telling her horrible things about her father, his leaving still hurt immensely. For her, his leaving hitting her had been more to do with the fact she hadn’t been close to him. She mourned for the fact that with him gone, she wouldn’t get a real chance to know who he was, or what sort of relationship they could have had.
Her father’s flighty tendencies carried on well into her teen years. It became so normal she wasn’t so swayed by it, though there was still the slightest bit of sting when he did leave, even if she wasn’t quick to accept it, she acknowledged it enough so that it didn’t entirely weigh her down. She didn’t let her stop from trusting people and letting them in. Even in her human school, she was friends with most people, and didn’t leave herself closed off. In fact, it motivated her more than anything to know people so she wasn’t left with so many questions if they did leave like her father did. She was often in the center of a crowd, always around people. Whether it was her siblings at home, or her friends in public, she was always around people.
At thirteen years of age, another curve was thrown into her life. This was because at thirteen, her mother told both her and her sister about the prophecy that had been set for the two of them. About their destinies. She’d always known she wasn’t exactly like her siblings, that she was a little more powerful, and that her power had favored a particular subset of skills, but she never would have guessed it. Much like her sister, she didn’t fully believe it at first. However, unlike her sister, who denied it by simply pretending it wasn’t real, she learned everything she possibly could about it.
Her spare time became consumed with research about her supposed prophecy, about the Hell dimension that she was supposed to take over. She looked at books and scrolls and spoke to people who knew what it was like. The more she learned, the more she was terrified by it. By the time she was fourteen, she was so scared she ended up having a massive panic attack. In the process, she lost control of her powers and they possessed her. And for the first time she remembered it. Her mother found her before she could do major damage, and got help from her Uncle in subduing her. After she awoke, back to herself once more, her mother explained to her why she’d chosen to tell them when she did.
Her mother told her that ever since she’d been small, she’d had similar blackouts, mostly when she’d gotten out of control. They used different things like amulets and charms to keep her in check, and had Zander wipe her memories of them. She’d done all this to hide it from both Delilah and her siblings. However, right before her thirteenth birthday, it became apparent that more magic was needed to weaken her own powers, and so her mother had hoped by telling her about her destiny, she might gain a further control over it. Delilah was given back her memories of the previous blackouts, and found herself faced with a whole new world.
Over the years, she worked her hardest to keep her darker self in check. She did a lot of work in learning about charmed objects and talismans – eventually even studying with some witches to learn how to make them herself. It was in this time that she ended up finding a great deal of peace in her witch magic. She liked using it, finding it to be something that both allowed her to channel out some of the weight of her powers and to let her focus on something that wasn’t her demon side.
While she battled her dark side, Esme seemed to be battling her own. It was painful for her to see her suffer, and a lot of the time she blamed herself for it. She felt as if maybe she hadn’t always been picked first, maybe Esme would have more people and wouldn’t have resorted to living the way she did. Between her own guilt and concern for Esme, she ended up pushing her too much, trying to get her to get help too often. Esme ended up pushing her away, something that hurt Delilah a great deal, but she gave her space afterwards to sort herself out.
Delilah didn’t follow the path that many of her other siblings had followed. While they had all gone off to college and university, she chose not to. At first, she wanted to, but when the time had come for her to make a decision about which program she wanted to enter, she couldn’t decide. She felt as if a piece of her could fit in all the programs, and couldn’t pick simply one. So instead of spending years doing every single one she could, she decided to go on her journey.
She spent four years traveling around the world, visiting place after place and seeing all sorts of different countries and cultures. During her travels, she would often take photos, and keep an individual album for each place she visited, sometimes more depending on where she stayed. For a long time, that was her passion. She liked belonging everywhere and nowhere at the same time. But soon, traveling no longer suited what she needed, and she decided it was time to return to her home town.
Delilah moved back to Falls Church and decided to open up an occult store, a place where she could celebrate her appreciation for the witch part of herself. It took some time, but she eventually set up everything for the shop and had a successful grand opening. Along the way, when Esme reached out again, she found herself being grateful to have her sister in her life once more. However, as in her twenty second and twenty third year, she noticed her powers getting even stronger, more out of control. She knew she would start losing control to her darker side more often if she wasn’t careful, and so she went to her Uncle for help. She had him help her build an enchanted prison type chamber for her to go to before her dark magic took over.
Present day, more than often Delilah can be found at her shop, whether she’s selling merchandise or doing a lesson on something, with Esmeralda or Adeline, or somewhere off in a nature rich place where she can take her pictures.
